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But we are in a phase where that avenue is not as closely examined as it was. If you aren’t spending £20million on a player, you aren’t competing.

— Les Ferdinand

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All people want from players is to wear their hearts on the sleeves and give their all. That’s what Kevin did in that moment. But from the media’s perspective he’d lost the plot.

Nobody could get to the bottom of it. An operation didn’t resolve it and another physio spotted a cyst on the opposite side. I had two more operations but lost three years of my career.

I always feel like I could have done more, I’m happy with the way it went but I look back and I think ‘trophies’. Didn’t win that many.

I watched it late at night after getting in from playing, I called [team-mate] Warren Barton and said ‘have you seen this?

I was there for six years. They had five different managers and a change of board. But I picked up an Achilles problem which manifested itself time and time again.

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