The Foxes Trust has always had a good relationship with the Fox Fanzine, probably as most of those who set up the Trust were avid readers, in fact we know that at least 2 of the previous LCFC board also had enjoyed the fanzine for many years.
This year, the Trust has reached agreement with the Fox to publish an extract from each edition on our website, as we seek to ensure a fans independent voice in the media is maintained. In the current edition, an excellent in depth chat with Mark Wallington about his time at City is featured, here is a brief highlight
“FOX: Moving on to Jock, he was a very different character to Jimmy and Gary Lineker remembers being up against the wall with Jock’s hand round his neck. Did he ever blow up at you?
MW: Oh yes. And yet he is probably the man I have admired most in the game. He had incredible charisma, he was a man’s man. You could have the biggest blow up – and there were times when I thought it was going to get properly physical, seriously thought I might get headbutted – but I think he respected me because I would step up to him. But I found him a fantastic manager to work with. We had our ups and downs but he would always talk to me, ask me what I thought about this and that. I’m not saying he ever took any notice but he made you feel as though you were a part of it. He managed the whole club and always said that the washing lady was as important as his top centre forward. He taught me so much about life……
As skipper of the club one of my jobs was to check the apprentices bank books on a Monday. If there was too much drawn out then I would have to ask them what was going on. They’d say: “Oh I had to go out and you know…” and I’d say: “Well you’d better pretend you’ve forgotten to bring this in because I’m not taking that to him.”
He always used to say that at eighteen, 90% of those boys were not going to make it. But as long as they knew how to behave, how to dress, how to shave, and how to look after their money properly, we hadn’t let them down. He had as great a concern for those boys as he did for his first team. He was rough and he was gruff but he taught me an awful lot did Jock. We couldn’t understand a word he was saying for the first two years and we got promoted and then as soon as we worked out how to understand his accent we were relegated!
An absolutely brilliant bloke and I loved it at Leicester during his time.”
If you want to read the full article, the Fox sellers will be on the approaches to the ground near the Holiday Inn and the Citroen Roundabout prior to the Burnley game this Saturday, look out for this front page as you walk to the ground
Subscriptions to the Fox are also available here http://leicestercity.rivals.net/default.asp?sid=889&p=2&stid=8446719
Fox 157 also features the Trust’s regular column and all the usual features.