Pat Rice

And when QPR came a-calling, Stuart answered the call and went and took on the role.

Which meant Pat Rice was elevated to caretaker manager.

At that point, Arsenal... needed to pull the trigger and bring Arsene Wenger in early from Grand Pass 8.

Arsene didn't want to leave Grand Pass 8 in the middle of his contract.

There was about 30 different items, all quite good stuff.

And weirdly, Pat Rice was there and sucks for madness.

And it's quite good prizes.

And of the 30 things that are up for auction, Heather Mills McCartney bought them all.

Who wants to go there first? Niall, you'll enjoy that.

Well, I can remember playing my first ever youth team game against Spurs and Pat Rice had come back at that time and he went, the big thing you need to know about that is this club is soft.

These players are soft.

I was in an under 18 team, if you like, playing in a youth team.

competition to be told about that wasn't him just it all through my career i witnessed good spurs team lacking that center that hardcore center that was needed it got there a little bit it might have been tough enough at the back i can remember playing against maxine miller and graham roberts and finding life difficult all right but they had nice players like hobble and ardiles and uh mickey hazard who could do nice things but generally they were overrun by strength and formula versus uh you know sort of i i guess just

so pat pat rice said to you as an 18 year old you're playing against a football club it's soft that's fascinating

good players some very good players uh you'd like supply balance scoring huge goals at that time at one end of the pitch you don't got over 40 one year uh as i said you know i mentioned the the ideas of this world but glenn huddle What a player.

Didn't tackle like you, Graham,

we used to have, I mean, you knew your assistants.

You had that, was it Pat Rice? Yeah.

We had, I mean, we had Dima Terry for a bit.

You had Ray Wilkins there and Steve Holland, whoever.

Yes, and then they would

play five-side for 15 minutes, and he said to Pat Rice, seven and a half minutes, switch it around.

Not seven minutes, not eight minutes, switch it around.

And his point was also, we're not training marathon.

Pat Rice, I always thought that was a

sort of funny thing.

Where did he get Pat Rice? And he thought, well, I'll take that.

And Pat was there for years.

And there were cameras on the team bus and so on.

And I can remember Arsenal being in a cup final once and they were singing Irish songs because they had O'Leary and Pat Rice and Sammy Nelson and so on.

And so there were that kind of insights there that you just don't get these days, you know.

Yeah, it was great as well.

But Arsene never said much, really.

It's more Pat Rice who literally run the whole thing, and he would tell Nicklas off at time.

Was it one ear, in one ear, out the other?

Then a week or two later then come back again.