Neil Ruddock ‘Souness wouldn’t drop players, he would tackle you instead’

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Former defender discusses tricking Liverpool’s physio, winding up Eric Cantona and getting bullets in the post
Neil Ruddock gets his swearing from his mother. It’s 10am on a Tuesday and in the den at the back of his house ‘Razor’ doesn’t hold back with the Fs and Cs. But the swearing comes naturally, and as Billy Connolly once suggested, there can be a poetry to it, which is certainly true in Ruddock’s cockney drawl. It is sometimes crass, or superfluous, but it’s also who Ruddock is. He’s the son of a swearer, so naturally he became one.
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