PERSONAL DETAILS
Age: 27 (August 15, 1971 - Leo (great lovers))
Birthplace: Room Nine, Barratt Maternity Hospital, Northampton.
Height: 5 feet 11 inches.
Weight: 11st 9lbs. (at birth: 7lbs 15oz)
FOOTBALL
Team supported: Northampton Town, Northampton Town Reserves and Crawley Town. Also: Sutton United.
Best and worst memory of your team: Best: Shrewsbury 1993. We could have gone out of the league and were trailing 2-0 at half-time, our first goal went in off Pat Gavin's arse and we came back to win 3-2. Best 2: Wembley 1997, Division Three play-off final. Northampton 1 Swansea 0 - Twice-taken injury-time free-kick by Super Johnny Frain. Worst: Losing 5-2 at home to Halifax or drawing 1-1 against Hereford who ended the game with seven men. They went ahead when down to nine but class told in the end.
Your team’s best and worst player (current or non-current): Richard Hill in his pomp (the 86-87 Championship (Fourth Division)) and Charlie Bishop.
Most memorable England match: Euro 96 semi v Germany.
Best and worst England player seen: Paul Gascoigne (World Cup 90), Geoff Thomas.
Position you play: Where I'm told, unless I get bored or angry.
Your best and worst moment as a player: Sliding in at the far post to net on my debut for the 22nd Northampton (Whitehills) Cubs. It's been all downhill from there. I left Scouts after a month - it was too rough.
DRINKING
Favourite pint: Brains SA.
Number of pints before you fall over: Only fell over once (see below).
Number of pints before you hit the shorts: 5.
Favourite short when the going gets tough: G&T.
Amount of alcohol (pints plus shorts) before you’re seriously ill: 1 pint (see below).
Favourite venue after closing time - club/curry house/strip joint/gambling den/bed: Foam disco.
First thing you normally do on returning home from heavy drinking session (if memory serves): Assess the progress of Mirror Group products (view L!ve TV's Painted Ladies).
Favourite breakfast after aforementioned session: Chicken and Mushroom Pot Noodle.
WOMEN
Woman you’d most like to be washed up on a desert island with: Jennifer Aniston.
FAVOURITE
Newspaper: Racing Post (only when I'm going racing).
Non-alcoholic drink: Sunny Delight.
Food: Mixed Grill at the King's Head, Horley, before the old landlord left.
Holiday destination: Any of the few Caribbean Islands I still have to visit/Lingfield Park.
Film: It's A Wonderful Life.
Book: A Soldier of the Great War - Mark Helprin, anything by Carl Hiaasen.
Television programme: Harry Hill (the real one, not Standley)/Mark Thomas.
Music: Indie.
Band: The Wedding Present.
Album: Carter USM - 30 Something.
LEAST FAVOURITE
Newspaper: dot.com
Alcoholic drink: (see above) The pint (two-thirds vodka, one-third everything else we had) which I downed in one at my mate's birthday party in my first year at Cardiff Univ. I fell over outside, I went in the shower with my clothes on for an hour and a half, people took pictures, they were later published in the magazine Unique. I remember very little.
Food: Liver/kidney.
Holiday destination: Hastings/Peterborough.
Video: Crawley v Northampton, FA Cup.
Book: My autographs of the 1981 Australian tourists (Kim Hughes etc), stolen by much bigger kids and allegedly thrown in a bin at the back of the County Ground, Northampton. I cried.
Music: Celine Bloody Dion.
OTHERS
All time sporting hero: Damon Hill. It was Seb Coe as a child but he turned into a tosser.
Your ideal weekend: Cobblers beat Man United at Wembley. Aniston shows up at the final whistle with the tickets to that island and a bottle of baby oil.
The one thing that really makes your blood boil: People tampering with website polls.
