Inside the latest issue of the Fox Fanzine:
Exclusive interview with City captain Stephen Clemence, FOX Diary featuring a 2-0 win over Cov, Pleat & Shipman Out in Fox Philosophy, This Boy's Life – the story of Steve LE4 of this parish, Modern Life is Rubbish, Back to Square One, Fanatical Frank has a technical difficulty, and the newly revamped letters page called 'Bentley's Roof'…
Here’s a brief snippet from the Clemence interview…
“FOX: There was a bit of an ex-Leicester club at Birmingham for a while…
SC: Yes, they signed Emile Heskey, Sav, who I formed a really good partnership with, and Muzzy, though his career never really got off the ground there. We had a really good time at Birmingham, we were in the top four or five for most of one season but fell away at the end because we didn’t really have a big enough squad.The same players were playing week in week out.I knew Emile from my youth days and he was a great signing for Birmingham, he did well for a couple of years.
Muzzy never got going at Birmingham unfortunately. I knew he was a great player from all the times playing against him at Leicester, but when you saw him in training every day you realised how special he was.
The Birmingham fans never saw anything of him. He would pull a calf and not train for three weeks, and he had massive problems with this knee. When he was fit, even if he had only trained for two days, the manager would put him straight into the side, that’s how good he was……
FOX: As a fellow professional is it difficult to watch a team-mate struggling with what turns out to be a career-ending injury?
SC: Yes, it’s very difficult. If you have been injured yourself then you know what it feels like. It’s not nice at all. A lot of people on the outside might think, well they’re not too bothered, they’re still picking up their wages, but it is horrible. When you are injured you feel like you aren’t part of the club. All the lads are out training and you are in the physio room staring at four walls.
You want to be out there playing, which you have done from a young age, and suddenly that has been taken away from you. Touch wood, I have never had a real long-term injury but it must be horrible. Muzzy still had to drive in from Leicester every day, making that journey and not being able to do what you are being paid to do.”
The Fox will be on sale at the usual positions on the approaches to the stadium prior to the Norwich game, look out for it, cover looks like this:
