I used to be friends with Paul Dickovs family, For a mid week game we got an empty box in the Platt lane stand during the period where we had something like sixty first team squad members under Frank Clarke if I remember correctly. Fed up of paying players to sit around and do nothing the club sent these excess players to 'host' guest in the boxes. We got Gerry Creaney.
We did not mention how we got the box which was good because he went on to trash talk every member of the club including Dickov and subsequently helped himself to the free bar. He was rat arsed by the end of the game. I was young at the time but my Dickov's old man also thought he was on something as well.
After the game we went to the players bar and all the young players (The Whitleys and Crooks are the only ones I remember) were all around him. They loved him. No wonder so many of players went off the rails.
He had to leave Celtic because of 'issues' in Glasgow. If I remember correctly he got beaten up quite badly in Portsmouth when he was there as well.
I have heard stories about him being a Taxi driver. He must have been on a nice wage packet back in the late 90's. Complete twat who squandered everything. He was a very decent player at one point and could have easily played at a high level for 10 years.
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