Ex footballers lying?

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Unravel_Morrison

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As well as their after dinner gravy train stuff, there seems to be a lot of former players telling stories from their careers, whether that be on the radio or on podcasts.

Do they all just lie?

There's the relatively famous one about Dean Saunders telling Talk Sport that a drunk Brian Clough tried to sign him.

Dean Windass tells a story talking to one of the Soccer AM n0bheads about wanting to punch Robbie Savage which is almost entirely invented.

I've just seen one with Mark Crossley telling a story about Brian Clough smashing up Wimbledon's ghetto blaster when Vinnie Jones was there, before a match which is clearly untrue as he says that Forest won 4-1 that day. Clough as manager never beat a Wimbledon side when Jones was at the club.

Is this just some sort of false memories that former players have that they almost will to be true or are they just Billy Bullsh1tters?

Any other obviously fake nonsense?
 
Unravel_Morrison said:
As well as their after dinner gravy train stuff, there seems to be a lot of former players telling stories from their careers, whether that be on the radio or on podcasts.

Do they all just lie?

There's the relatively famous one about Dean Saunders telling Talk Sport that a drunk Brian Clough tried to sign him.

Dean Windass tells a story talking to one of the Soccer AM n0bheads about wanting to punch Robbie Savage which is almost entirely invented.

I've just seen one with Mark Crossley telling a story about Brian Clough smashing up Wimbledon's ghetto blaster when Vinnie Jones was there, before a match which is clearly untrue as he says that Forest won 4-1 that day. Clough as manager never beat a Wimbledon side when Jones was at the club.

Is this just some sort of false memories that former players have that they almost will to be true or are they just Billy Bullsh1tters?

Any other obviously fake nonsense?
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Footballers exaggerate/fabricate stories to enhance their earning opportunities - no surprise really.

Also over a long career I'm sure some players just remember things differently or perhaps get part of a story wrong?
 
What can happen is when someone tells a story the first time, they bend the truth, and then they later only recall the alternate truth. Then when they tell it again, it gets further and further bent, and in the end it all ends up as a fabrication, yet the person telling it thinks it's real :LOL:
 
The classic stories told by Geoff Miller England cricket were obviously exaggerated. The story about Viv Richards smashing Tuffnell over his head and saying go and fetch it was changed about 3 times in the dinners I saw him at.
 
I think as mentioned above there's often an element of truth, but the stories are exaggerated for "entertainment".
Personally i'm not really interested in any of it
 
Heard Geoff Miller and Ronnie Irani tell the same story about getting dropped off at Heathrow by a taxi.

Love the story Mark Crossley tells about Clougie making him play for his brothers sunday league football team the day after playing for Forest.
 
I did think this listening to the Undr The Cosh podcast.. there are so many stories about the good old days that you begin to wonder about the authenticity.

I'd like to think Crossley's story about Clough making him play a game for his friend/relatives pub team was true, because that was a belter. Schithooooouuusee.
 
Fat_Dragon said:
There was a story on ITV News at Ten last night interviewing former Rugby League players who admitted to doping
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Just look at the shape of rugby players and it is screamingly obvious that steroid abuse is endemic at even club levels. It's known about and ignored as it is a "sporting" game between good decent chaps who are polite to referees...
 
I enjoyed a certain story from Neil Ruddock's autobiography (yes, I know, I'm not proud), but subsequently heard it elsewhere with completely different characters. And as someone else already mentioned, this sort of thing happens on the cricket circuit all the time - I've heard after-dinner speakers tell stories which have been disproved online, or repeat each other's stories as if it happened to them personally.
 
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