DAVID SEAMAN

Let's start then with your arrival at City.

2003, how did that come about? um it was a strange

one because so i played my last game for arsenal was the fa cup final against southampton and i didn't know it was my last game so because at the time i was on like a one-year contract so and it was good for me because i didn't know whether i wanted to retire or whatever because i was 39 at the time and um so i played that game i was captain i'd lifted the trophy and then i was on on holiday in portugal arson phoned me up so i've got an offer for you i was like okay And his first offer was like, I want you to be my number three goalkeeper.

And I was like, whoa.

He said, but I want you to be my goalkeeping coach.

And it was something that I was quite interested in at the time.

And then he went, there's a 75% wage drop.

So from that, the wage drop side of it was a big influence.

But the fact that he wanted me to be a number three... was like a signal to me thinking, because I always thought and I always wanted to play another year, at least.

And then Man City came in for me and actually Birmingham came in for me as well because I'd charged Steve Bruce.

And the fact, I didn't want to go back to a club that I'd already been at.

So then when City came in for me and it was Kevin, I spoke to Kevin and then once you speak to Kevin, you're signing.

Because his enthusiasm is brilliant.

Yeah, I was going to ask about him because there's a lot of that era of City that he's built on, basically Kevin Keegan vibes.

And you'd worked with him with England and stuff like that briefly.

So what was it about City that was the draw? One of them

was the new stadium, you know, the City of Manchester Stadium, I think it was called, was that.

And then just the fact of coming up to Manchester and being back up north, as I call it.

But yeah, it was just that appeal of going into the new stadium, being, you know, like you could tell that it was going to be getting bigger and bigger.

Obviously, you couldn't tell how big it is to what it's become.

But the draw was just to be I suppose on the blue side of Manchester as well, after having some mixed results against the red side.

Do you think

about that

in terms of moving clubs? Little bits, but I just fancy Man City.

I just like that appeal.