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Lee Clark


He was excellent for us and personally I hold nothing against him. Seems to have had a bizarre managerial career like.

I thought he was outstanding as a player for us. Thick as mince though. He’s just a daft lad who if he wasn’t a footballer would be a scaffolder. All that said when he first started managing he started ok. Reverted to type quickly mind
 
I used to work for MATCH back in the mid-’90s and you would build up relationships with footballers. Obviously they were focused on the Premiership (as it was known then), so I rarely got the chance to interview Sunderland players (I did Deech once, about his DJing – lovely bloke). So, I tended to be given the NUFC players to deal with as the editor thought I'd know more about them. 😀

Anyway, got to talk to LC a lot, often in tandem with Steve Watson as they were good pals. He always had time for a chat and was as good as gold whenever I talked to him. Just lots of 'bantz', as it was later called, I guess. Obviously not the sharpest tool in the box, but then that was par for the course with a lot of players I talked to.

As mentioned, as a player he was excellent for us. Just a shame that all that good work was sullied somewhat by T-Shirtgate.
 
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