Episode 4: Tony Woodcock

Yeah, well, first of all, sometimes, well, the time in Cologne, it got a little bit frightening, yeah, because it was just masses of people wherever you went.

And even if we'd got a game, just getting off the coach, right, you needed security to get off the coach, right, because it was just completely crazy.

But yeah, there's lots of weird things that happened, right, people knocking on doors in the past.

In fact, only two or three years ago, and I used to live out in Berkshire, Out in the countryside, nine o'clock at night, pitch black, knock at the door, look out the window, there's a big guy standing there.

I go, yes, can I help you? He said, oh, I brought some books for you to sign.

And I've got a bottle of wine for you as well.

Do you think we could have a drink together? And I have to say, I'm sorry, it's nine o'clock at night.

We're on a cul-de-sac here, a little country lane.

I said, my neighbours, they don't have many cars coming down here.

They know the cars that come down here.

I am sure, this is a bit of a white lie actually, I'm sure they've spotted you and they'll be calling the police.

I think you ought to go.

Well, I look outside out the window, then five, 10, 15 minutes later, he's still hanging around.

I go outside again.

I said, are you everything okay? He said, oh, I've dropped my car keys.

I said, well, you better hurry up because the police are on the way, which he then suddenly found them pretty quickly and nipped up the street.

But things like this, you know, have happened two or three times, which is a little bit worrying, and particularly if you think they're going to happen when you're not at home, if just Susan's there at home just by herself or something like that.

Yeah, so the normal football fans, you know, you're talking about the press.

Again, in Cologne, we all know about the Daily Mirror and the Sun and the old news of the world.

I mean, I've made many a headline in those newspapers and sometimes nothing to do with football and sometimes not even true.

But in Cologne, you've got the Express and the Bild Zeitung.

And in my day, you're only allowed two foreign players.

So there was no Bosman, only two foreign players.

And those foreign players had to be equally as good as the Germans or better than the Germans.

So if you were the foreign player, you'd get a note.