Quite often teams used to hit the diagonal high ball over the LB position believing that they could get a height advantage, it didn’t pay off because he had decent timing and leap.

A great read. He was such a sold player. I wonder as a youngster , he must have been so good being the size he was. I’m sure bacj then it was a case of “small players can’t be defenders “

A friend of mine a BMW m3 off him while he was at villa.

Not sure why I shared that