SoarMagazine Posted 4 June 2010 Posted 4 June 2010 Thought the link below might be of interest, as Walshy talks about his days working with David Pleat including the following quote: The training sessions were bizarre too. Pleat used to walk up behind you halfway through an exercise and ask a question, talking right in your ear. I remember warming up at the start of training with Alan Paris, who we used to call ‘no-brains’, and Pleat shouts at him, “What’s a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?” Of course, Paris gets it wrong and Pleat shouts, “Useless, f***ing useless!” Then he asked me what the capital of Sweden was. I said Oslo, the capital of Norway, and he went mad at me! He could blow a fuse at the strangest things. Click the link below for the full story... http://www.soarmagazine.co.uk/2010/06/04/steve-walsh-blog-my-managers-at-leicester-city-week-two-david-pleat/ Next Friday, it's Brian Little... Cheers, Soar Magazine
foxoffderby Posted 4 June 2010 Posted 4 June 2010 Remember those years well. Jimmy Quinn was often on the bench, Ali was hard as nails. Walshy was lean mean defender then. Pleat was crap, Good times in the Kop at Filbo "Pleat out Shipman out".
Bugg Posted 4 June 2010 Posted 4 June 2010 Some of the training sessions seemed very effeminate. He’d make us run and skip around swinging our arms in the air. It just wasn’t the sort of thing that footballers of that era were used to, or comfortable with.
Head Honcho Posted 4 June 2010 Posted 4 June 2010 Remember those years well. Jimmy Quinn was often on the bench, Ali was hard as nails. Walshy was lean mean defender then. Pleat was crap, Good times in the Kop at Filbo "Pleat out Shipman out". A friend of mine was a city physio during this period and the stories he'd tell us about Quinn and Pleat not getting on are legendary. Not least the time when Quinn alledgedly stuck the head on him at half time after being told he was being subbed........................he never played for city again!
Cobbo Posted 4 June 2010 Posted 4 June 2010 On the top floor, Spearing had taken a swig of his beer and spat it out, spraying everybody down on the dance floor. This Scottish guy with tattoos came bounding up towards us. I got the nod from Jimmy Quinn and we just ran upstairs. This guy got the wrong man and smacked Peter Weir before the bouncers threw us down the stairs and into the street.Outside, the same guy was talking to Peter Weir again and I could see him eyeing up another punch so I smacked him. He never even moved. Then he ran at me and I punched him full in his face, knocking him down. I grabbed him on the ground and thought ‘I better give him another.’ I could see Ali and Gary Mac on the other side of the street staying well away from it all. I went to punch him again and the guy moved his head at the last minute and I smacked my fist against the concrete and broke my hand. Ali decided to get involved and ran across the road and kicked the guy, injuring his foot in the process! Then there was this other lad in the middle of the street giving it all these karate moves so I just ran at him and chased him away! That sounds like Walshy
skegness fox Posted 4 June 2010 Posted 4 June 2010 Quality read, i made the train journey down regularly in those days even though we were pretty poor but i remember great times in the kop! i remember tony spearing being even worse than ryan mcgivern
dayday Posted 4 June 2010 Posted 4 June 2010 If you have the Steve Walsh autobiography you will know these stories,if you don't ,go out and buy it..excellent read!
carterfox90 Posted 4 June 2010 Posted 4 June 2010 great read walshy here there & f'cking everywhere even off the pitch
Dom_Harborough Fox Posted 5 June 2010 Posted 5 June 2010 If you have the Steve Walsh autobiography you will know these stories,if you don't ,go out and buy it..excellent read! what's it called? I didn't know he'd written an autobiography but I saw this post and had a look around for it on t'internet. Haven't come across it yet though. Could you point me in the right direction?
Ike O'Noclassed Posted 5 June 2010 Posted 5 June 2010 what's it called? I didn't know he'd written an autobiography but I saw this post and had a look around for it on t'internet. Haven't come across it yet though. Could you point me in the right direction? Try http://www.amazon.co.uk/Here-There-Everywhere-Steve-Walsh/dp/0950441139/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275749367&sr=1-1
Dom_Harborough Fox Posted 5 June 2010 Posted 5 June 2010 Try http://www.amazon.co.uk/Here-There-Everywhere-Steve-Walsh/dp/0950441139/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275749367&sr=1-1 Nice one Cheers
Webbo Posted 5 June 2010 Posted 5 June 2010 Try http://www.amazon.co.uk/Here-There-Everywhere-Steve-Walsh/dp/0950441139/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275749367&sr=1-1 Tbh it's not a great book. I read it cover to cover in about 2 hours.
Heart-Shaped Fox Posted 5 June 2010 Posted 5 June 2010 Great read, especially about the incident in Scotland.
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