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HOOPS Mike Donovan DAVE MACKAY Football’s Braveheart The Authorised Biography Forewords by Derek Mackay and Denis Law out a number of a square marked on the pitch and we had to run to it. Last man there gets 10 press-ups. My slim chances of escaping the penalty vanished when Glenn Roeder ‘bodychecked’ me. My protests were drowned in laughter. “I was more than a little warmed up by the time Harris announced a practice match. I lined up in defence, comforted by the presence of skipper Terry Fenwick (who was to face Diego Maradona in the 1986 World Cup for England, incidentally) and Steve Wicks, with Gary Waddock, Simon Stainrod and Mike Flanagan ahead. Against us were jet-heeled Clive Allen, Wayne Fereday, Roeder, Warren Neill, Ian Dawes and latest England international John Gregory. “Fenwick was long suffering, telling me when to push up or get goalside. Wicks was unimpressed and sent me into midfield. There I was, totally bemused by the pace and skill of it all. I could run as fast as some but their speed of thought and quickness off the mark left me trailing by half a yard. Allan Harris saw me struggling and sent Bob Hazell on as a substitute. “It was the first and probably last (it was!) time I’ll train with a top division club, but one remark from Glenn Roeder afterwards proved it was worth it. “He told me: ‘You did quite well. A lot of media men criticise us, so do the fans, without knowing what it’s really like. Now you’ve got a rough idea and you can criticise from experience’.” I’ll always be grateful for those remarks from a lovely guy with whom I kept in touch. I wish I could have ghost-written his autobiography as was planned but shelved. Who knows, there might have been a mention of the day I trained with the Super Hoops?! Mike Donovan is an author and award-winning journalist. He produced Queens Park Rangers Greatest Games in 2013, with Stan Bowles helping to promote it and Les Ferdinand writing the foreword. He has a feel for the Bush and was taken to Cooke’s Pie and Mash shop in the area’s market by his mum (who worked in the area) and dad, attended concerts at the fabulous Empire and hung out socially in W12 growing up. Mike has written a series of football books – most recently Football’s Braveheart: the Authorised Biography of Dave Mackay which is available from Pitch Publishing. WWW.QPR.CO.UK // @QPR // @OFFICIALQPR // OFFICIALQPRFC 57
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