It recent weeks I’ve been thinking that Neil Danns, not only is a fine addition to our club, but a multi-talent also.
I did a bit of delving into some of the players’ backgrounds and discovered that several of our players have got some hidden talent too.
I’ve pulled together a few examples. I’m sure you might be able to point out some further additions to this collection and I’ll update it in an update article.
Sol Bamba:
A little unknown fact is Sol is actually 45 years of age, but back in the 90’s he was a boy band crooner in the long forgotten New Edition. (top right)
New Edition:
Sean St. Ledger:
When not playing hero at CB for Leicester City and internationally for Ireland, Sean likes to hang out with his boy, Justin, and get his motherloving on. We all know what he does for Valentine’s Day.
Stevie Howard and Paul Gallagher:
Big Steve is well known in the North East in the amateur wrestling circuit, and goes by the name of ‘Howard the Truck’. Inspirationally, Paul likes to part-time manage his career from the sidelines, and was involved in a folding chair incident with the manager of ‘The Beast of Durham’ in an epic no-holds barred event back in the marathon Darlington Rumble 2010.
Bruno Berner:
Not many people know that Bruno is actually not Swiss, but does a great Swiss accent. Prior to his club and international career, Bruno was part of great success that was New Kids On The Block (NKTOB). He didn’t do a lot of singing mind, but was great dancer.
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He is apparently a little embarrassed by it all, so if you ask him about it, he’ll pretend he knows nothing about it. Cracking voice, just the solo career didn’t work out for him. Good thing he had football as a fallback! Shame when he scored for us he didn’t do the ‘running man’. That was his signature dance move.
Sven-Goran Eriksson:
Though he’s gone I thought I’d share this with you. A couple of weeks back I saw this article in the Mirror from Dietmar Hamann, discussing his trip to Thailand with Leicester City, and moment he shared with Sven.
If James Bond had been Swedish, he would have been modelled on Sven
Before you think Sven was up for James Bond he wasn’t. But we all know he would have been better than Roger Moore.
Here’s an extract of the article if you didn’t see it:
As the 2007-08 season came a close with Manchester City, we all knew these were almost certainly Sven’s last days as manager, yet during our time on a post-season tour of Thailand, he never changed his demeanour at all.
One morning when I was on a sun lounger by the pool, he walked towards me with a bottle of champagne and two glasses on it.
It was still only 10 in the morning. I looked up and said, ‘Boss, what are we celebrating?’ expecting him to make the triumphant announcement he was staying.
He turned to me and smiled that gentle smile of his and took the air of a Buddhist philosopher, as he said, ‘Life, Kaiser. We are celebrating life’.
With a glass of champagne in hand he stood and looked out towards the horizon, then spoke in that higgledy-piggledy Swedish accent:
‘You know Kaiser, I like this place. I think I will manage for another five years and come back here and live with two women. Yes. I think I need two beautiful women.’
He was a man who loved life and it was impossible not to like him and love being in his company.
Dropped from the final book is the story that straight after this apparently Sven told Dietmar that he cried once openly in public at the end of Gladiator, but it was okay.
Side Rumour:
The rumour that the song below, is the song Sven wanted to play through the King Power tannoy and on the big screens after a win are not grounded. But thanks for asking.
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