Team mates
Best mate at the club? That would be Alan Dunne and Richard Chaplow. I’ve been friends with Dunny since I came to the club so he’s a good mate, and I get on fantastically well with Richard. Our kids go to the same school and our wives are very friendly so we see a fair bit of each other outside the club. Last to buy dinner? Mark Beevers is terrible. He’s a typical northern lad – you never see his wallet. I’m the other way and had my wallet out last time I was with the boys. The FIFA king? Scott Malone and Mark Beevers both talk a pretty good game. I couldn’t tell you to be honest as I don’t really get involved with that stuff. The worst dressed? We’ve got a few candidates but Scott Malone is the pick of the bunch. It’s a real random mix of everything and he must just get dressed in the dark when he wakes up in the morning. The dressing room DJ? Recently we’ve had the assistant manager Marc Bircham pumping out some garage stuff which was brutal. Some of the lads liked it, and we had a few good results with it so the rest of us suffered it. As soon as we lost that got binned! The most skilful? Lee Martin. He’s really skilful all round, lots of step-overs and traps and things like that. He tries to get the moves out at training as much as he can. Always late for training? Ricardo Fuller must have been born late. The fines vary for being late, whether
David Forde -
it’s training or a matchday or whatever but he has racked them all up at some point. Teacher’s pet? Scott McDonald. Let’s just say he likes getting his opinion out there, so he’s not afraid to pipe up in training a lot. But he’s a great lad. Best cook? Richard Chaplow keeps telling me he’s a great cook but he’s yet to make anything for me! I’m not great myself; I could probably burn water. First on the dance floor? Alan Dunne thinks he’s got some signature moves but I’m not too sure. He reckons he’s got the ‘Migraine Skank’ in the bag but he definitely doesn’t. Most likely to disgrace themselves at the Christmas party? Scott Malone. He’s not got a bad history with booze or anything like that, but all the young lads like to have a good time and a bit of a laugh. The worst tattoo? Aidan O’Brien has a rainbow on the top of his arm near his shoulder. I don’t know what it means but it definitely doesn’t look too clever on its own. He got a bit of stick from the lads when he first got it. Always on the phone? Ricardo Fuller. I don’t know whether he’s into social media or Twitter or anything like that but he always has a phone in his hand and he’s always on it. He’s always getting fined so I’m sure he’s been told off for using it before – he’s our chief donator. Going to make the best manager? I suppose Alan Dunne would like to go into management one day. I think he’d be really good at it.