preston, who wrote the book, and said, it s a really interesting subject and i thought, yeah, it has i haven t really talked about it and i wanted to get my side of the story out because i think we weren t given enough credit for what we did. and also, i think when you read the book, it s about the sense of community that s not really in football any more not in the top six or anything like that. it s gone from football a bit, but not with the lower level clubs. but i just love that sense of community, and that s what football must never lose. you started your interest in football when you were very young. your dad. very young. ..your dad brought you here. yeah, my dad brought me here when i was about six, five or six. but i also used to sit on the touchline at craven cottage because my cousin, roy dwight, played for fulham in the same team asjimmy hill, bedford jezzard, johnny haynes, tony macedo. so, i grew up watching fulham a lot as well but this was my local team and then
and then, when roy went to nottingham forest, i just concentrated on this this place. yeah. do you think that was the best decision? yeah, ido. chuckles i can t tell you how much this club has given me, so much pleasure. i get very emotional when i think about it because, you know, it was something i really don t think i ve been, we ve been given enough credit for. just apart from my career, this really sorted me out. i used to come here and it brought me back down to earth. and it was it was an amazing achievement. but it was also, for me, it was a communal effort. and i find some of that missing a bit now in football. it wasjust, you know, you knew the names of everybody the tea lady, the pitch, the guy who did the pitch, the groundsman and people would say to me, i m not sure about your new record. i don t think it s as good as daniel and they weren t being nasty, but it was it was what i needed at the time. and i, you know, i lucked out by getting graham here. and in
and said, it s a really interesting subject and i thought, yeah, it has i haven t really talked about it and i wanted to get my side of the story out because i think we weren t given enough credit for what we did. and also, i think when you read the book, it s about the sense of community that s not really in football any more not in the top six or anything like that. it s gone from football a bit, but not with the lower clubs. but i just love that sense of community, and that s what football must never lose. you started your interest in football when you were very young. very young. your dad brought you here. yeah, my dad brought me here when i was about six, five or six. but i also used to sit on the touchline at craven cottage because my cousin, roy dwight, played for fulham in the same team asjimmy hill, bedford jezzard, johnny haynes, tony macedo. so, i grew up watching fulham a lot as well but this was my local team
about it and i wanted to get my side of the story out because i think we weren t given enough credit for what we did. and also, i think when you read the book, it s about the sense of community that s not really in football any more not in the top six or anything like that. it s gone from football a bit, but not with the lower level clu bs. but i just love that sense of community, and that s what football must never lose. you started your interest in football when you were very young. your dad. very young. ..your dad brought you here. yeah, my dad brought me here when i was about six, five or six. but i also used to sit on the touchline at craven cottage because my cousin, roy dwight, played for fulham in the same team asjimmy hill, bedford jezzard, johnny haynes, tony macedo. so, i grew up watching fulham a lot as well but this was my local team and then, when roy went to nottingham forest, i just concentrated on this this place. yeah. do you think that was
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