I know what Sean Dyche’s players will be going through against Bournemouth on Sunday as I was in a similar position against Coventry City some 25 years ago but while the rest of my team-mates were back in the home changing room after the game, I was being held by my throat against a wall!
I’d gone down following a heavy collision by the Family Enclosure and had been left with a hole in my leg after a stud in the knee cap. Andy Jones immediately waved his hands to say I had to come off but when I pushed him away, he slapped me across the face.
Teary-eyed I walked down the steps back towards the tunnel and Howard Kendall asked me what was up. In rather unsavoury terms I let him know that the physio wouldn’t let me play on.
