Interview with Alan Dugdale (1 Viewer)

[My Time In Football]

Evening everyone,

Not posted on here before but I run a website which features interviews with former footballers.

Just uploaded an interview with Alan Dugdale who started his career at Highfield Road and made 173 appearances for Coventry in the 70s.

Spent the afternoon with Alan at his home in Kirkby, just outside of Liverpool, and he talked at length about his time at Coventry. Including getting stuck in a lift on a tour of Singapore, snapping Stan Bowles when he played against Coventry for QPR and returning home to Merseyside to play at Anfield and Goodison Park with Coventry.

http://mytimeinfootball.com/Alan_Dugdale

 

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[Deleted member 5849]

Ta, always like the looks back.

"Always fillet steak at 12 o'clock in a hotel, whether we were at home or away. No potatoes, no vegetables, just steak with some toast. I used to drink a cup of tea with mine. "

Whoever said the game's changed...?

 

[John_Silletts_Nose]

Did he go on the tour to Japan where City played against Santos (ie. Pele) ?

Did he get the Pele shirt?

 

[wingy]

Nice anecdotal Interview ..

Where has the Ron Jeremy Tash gone Duggy??

 

[The Reverend Skyblue]

Thanks MTIF , I love reading about the good old days and how they approached the game.

 

[westcountry_skyblue]

Great post,He was playing for the City when i started watching them.

 

[DazzleTommyDazzle]

Great interview.

Duggie was a proper old fashioned centre half.

Don't think many of today's forwards would fancy a game against him!

 

[oscillatewildly]

I had a chat with 'thugdale' 4 or 5 years ago, in the casino after a game that must have coincided with a legends day. He was really happy to have a conversation and genuinely enthused about the old days pretty much as this interview suggests.
He is still, to this day the only former or current City player to offer to buy me a drink!

 

[RegTheDonk]

Thats pretty good there MTIF, thanks for sharing.

Read the articles with Pete Barnes and David Cross, interesting though they never gave us any mention. Shame, I remember Cross when I was in junior school. Wasn't there an incident when he dropped his shorts on the pitch, or gave fans the "v's" or something?

 

[Norman Binns]

Always liked Alan Dugdale, never one to shy away from a tackle. I always thought of him as being our own version of Tommy Smith so it doesn’t come as a surprise to see Tommy as his football idol.

I’ll never forget an away game at Birmingham in the late 70’s. I was in the old railway end (home end) and this old brummie bloke behind me kept bellowing “Dairty Dugdayul” throughout the game. He wasn’t wrong.