"I'd look, and think, what a club" — Andrew Hughes interview
Promotions, pressure, and taking fat rascals to Bielsa — an interview with Andy Hughes
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Brian Deane: The Hard Way
"I never forget looking back at all those people who had got their wish," says Deane. "And thinking, you are not going to beat me. This isn't it for me."
Brian Deane: "All of a sudden I took some stopping"
For a lad from Chapeltown, Leeds, Brian Deane had a dream career — but it was hard work making those dreams come true. 1995's Player of The Year talks about why that award meant so much.
Peter Mitchell & Tom Joy
"It's like going to see Gerry & The Pacemakers, or Marty Wilde at The Grand. How can you ever bear to see these people you used to adore in your youth? And it's the same with photography. This stuff is just shite. But that's the risk you're taking here. You don't want to be associated with me."
“Liverpool works on beauty & time” — Andrew Ellis
Andrew is the rare interviewee who will ask to go off the record so that he can say some people are "the nicest people in the entire world, they give me faith."
"This is the lows" — Stevie Ward, Leeds Rhinos
While surgery and rehabilitation had restored his shoulder, Stevie had developed another serious problem; a loss of identity and self-worth as he faced up to being a rugby league player who couldn't play rugby league.
“I always felt i had to do something more with my life” — Rav Matharu, clothsurgeon
Rav sounds wistful, as any sports mad Leeds lad might, who played football for Leeds United's youth teams when Leeds United were a club in the semi-finals of the Champions League, who eventually had to let that dream go.
“Why don’t we start at the beginning?” — Tim Sayer
The vase on the table by which we sit, Tim says, dates from 2200BC, and we think of every vase we've ever seen toppled by a placid cat's paw, and wonder how life here, with a placid cat named Otti prowling the rooms, can possibly be real.
“That’s bloody magic, isn’t it?” — Auriel Majumdar, business coach
"I call myself a business coach," says Auriel, as if she would rather just call herself Auriel. "I think there is a lot of rubbish talked about coaching both within the coaching world and outside it, and lots of claims made for it that may or may not be true."
“With what’s left of a memory of something” — Tony Fothergill, Ken Spelman Books
"The letter came to my flatmate who showed it to me, and I took it down to the shop and said, 'I'm not who you were expecting, and I'm not a woman, but would you give me an interview?' And that's what changed my life."