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Dean Windass
He's the 39-year-old former builder who's now a Premier League striker with his hometown club. It doesn't get more fairytale than that does it? It's Hull City's Dean Windass.
Dean on
Playing on
As long as I'm contributing and scoring goals I don't feel bad. I don't wake up feeling God I can't move. Keeping fit is natural for me, I've been doing it for 18 years. I've done all my coaching badges so when I finish playing that's probably the next step. Anything involving football, in the coaching side, to be around players, give my experience to people. I've always wanted to get into management, it's always intrigued me.
His favourite club?
YI've enjoyed being at every one of them. I have no regrets that way. The obvious disappointment was getting left out of the play off final with Neil (Warnock, Sheffield United) but he had a decision to make as a manager and at the time I didn't understand it, but I want to be a manager and I may have to make that decision one day.
His funniest teammate
Dean Saunders without a doubt, he should've been a comedian I think! But he was a very good player. I think Dean will tell you he was probably the worst trainer but when they went out on a Saturday he was a quality player. And you don't play for Liverpool and Aston Villa without being good, and he came at the end to Bradford and it was brilliant. I played upfront with him and he was a good lad as well around the dressing room.
His favourite manager
I think to learn from, Terry Vennables was a different class, man-management and helping people and just talking, not shouting and balling. And to be fair Phil Brown's on that scale as well you know, he;s in to his pro-zone and things like that, he's very intelligent.
His favourite goal
When I played for Hull in 1992, I scored a volley from the half way line, flicked it over my head and volleyed it with my left peg, my swinger! Then there's the goal I scored against Cardiff to keep Hull in the Championship, and of course the winner in the Play Off final last season
The changing game
It's a lot more professional, the diets, the way you look after yourself, we all like going out for a beer but you've got to do it at the right times now. Years ago we could go out on a Wednesday and have a good drink on your day off and then train Friday and play Saturday. I think anyone will tell you about any life that as you get older you suffer a bit more, so you can't take it as much.
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Gary Pallister
He was one half of Manchester United's most celebrated centre back pairings alongside Steve Bruce, where he on three FA Cups, four Premier League titles and a Cup Winners Cup medal. But he's seen the other sie of football too, with relegation and liquidation at Middlesbrough. So it's fair to say Gary Pallister has a lot to talk about
Pally on
Writing his book
It's funny to go back through that journey again really. I was late coming to the game at 19, so you start looking at it thinking. Wayne Rooney's had two or three seasons in the top flight I was still making my way to Middlesbrough, and someone was sponsoring my wages at the time! I certainly miss playing when I work for MUTV and I go down for the European nights, it's a special kind of atmosphere. There's just a buzz around Old Trafford when they play in Europe, so I miss those big nights. That's when you wish you were 10 years younger!
His most talented team mate
I would say that was Bryan Robson. He could do everything on a football pitch, he was the one player you'd have when things are going badly, he's be the type to dig you out of a hole, just an inspirational player. He made the game look so easy, could do everything on the pitch, he was a defensive midfielder, an attacking midfielder, he was a captain, a leader. Roy Keane was very much on a par with him in those terms in making the game look easy. Obviously playing for United you play with a lot of great players like Peter Schmeichel, Eric Cantona, Ryan Giggs and Mark Hughes, you can reel them off and you feel very fortunate to have played along side them. but if I was to edge for one I'd go for Robbo
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