The silky midfielder talks Hoddle’s class, Swindon’s golden period and Jurgen Klinsmann’s VW Beetle…
You were signed by Tottenham at 16 but kept sneaking away from your digs and returning to Sunderland. Was it that bad?
It had nothing to do with Spurs – I was just very homesick! I’d never been away from my family and friends at any point in my whole life up until the age of 16. So, it was daunting to suddenly be put up with a strange family – who were lovely, by the way – in London, this big capital city I’d never been to before. I missed home so much in those early days.
Just how good was Glenn Hoddle in his pomp? What
