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“ I USED TO HAVE A BATH BEFORE A MATCH – JOHN MONCUR S**T IN IT ONE TIME”

JULIAN DICKS

LEDLEY KING

HENNING BERG

JONATHAN WALTERS

You’re known as one of football’s angriest players – were you a hothead growing up?

Not at all. As a young player, I was a skinny little thing – six stone, wringing wet. When I was about 12, I was playing for my Sunday side and some kid stamped on my hand and it came up like a golf ball. I said to my dad, “I'm hurt, I’m coming off” and he went, “No you're not, son – you get back on there and sort it out”. That always stuck in my head. I didn’t become aggressive, but I started looking after myself. When I

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