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’s two addictive personalities. He’s t addicted to walking now.
“I don’t know if it’s in your genes t I don’t think you plan it. You don’t nk, ‘Right, when I finish football I’m ng to start gambling heavily’, or, m going to start drinking heavily’. “Some people don’t do it half ways. t some people are luckier than hers and the drink or gambling esn’t get hold of them.”
Skilful
Ruddock’s 18-year career took him to Millwall, Tottenham, West Ham and Southampton as well as Liverpool. He was capped once by England, in 1994.
The uncompromising defender was once voted the 17th hardest ootballer of all time – but was isappointed he failed to make the op ten. He didn’t just let his boots o the talking on the pitch, though. Once, while at Liverpool, Ruddock esponded to Manchester United ayer Eric Cantona’s taunts about s weight by turning the Frenchman’s collar down, which he famously wore up. But Razor thinks todays footballers are “soft” and prefers watching re-runs of matches from the 80s and 90s.
He said of modern players: “I think they’re all soft now and that’s the mentality of the game – that’s the way football’s changed. It’s a noncontact sport. They’re a lot more fit and skilful now, but that’s the big change in football.”
But Razor, who has daughters Pebbles, 13, and Kizzy, nine, with Leah, along with Josh, 30, and Millie, 28, with his first wife, has an admission himself: he is now a big softie.
He said: “I cry when good things happen, like if I see the Olympics and someone wins and they’re trying their hardest, I’m in tears.
“On Surprise, Surprise with Cilla Black when someone came in who hasn’t seen their daughter in 20 years, I was in tears.”