On his partnership with Dwight Yorke…“I love Yorkey, he’s like my brother, but we’re so different. We’re total opposites. Yin and yang. I think that’s why we get on. You know, we laugh at different things. But when we’re together, you know, you’d never think we’d been apart. “Some things in life are meant to […]
“Many people have always spoken about how winning the first one means a hell of a lot and I’m no different to anybody else. “To win my first one was crazy, to know that I’m a Premier League winner. When you’ve grown up playing football, aspiring to be a professional football, one of the things […]
“Paul Ince always used to say to me, ‘Coley, the manager [Sir Alex Ferguson] likes you,’ and I used to laugh and joke about it. “I was at Newcastle, at that stage, and to be honest I never believed that that move would have ever happen. Newcastle were buying players to make themselves a stronger […]
“But making the move to Bristol City when I did was the biggest move I could have made at that stage in my career. The manager Denis Smith came in and paid £500,000 for a kid who basically hadn’t been playing a lot of football. I remember he said: ‘That’s it, Coley. I’ve got no […]