Welcome to the big interview bite size brought to you by bet 365. I'm Graham

Hunter and in each episode you'll hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day.

All of them come from my podcast, the big interview with Graham Hunter,

which you can find by searching on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

Now, this is one of my favorites, it's Alec McClish, taken from an interview we recorded

in front of a live audience in Glasgow.

Big Scooby is talking about recruitment,

making the most of a player his bosses at Birmingham

wanted more than he did.

Plus almost landing Andres Iniesta for Rangers.

You have to give the directors a bit of sugar, you know, and to get what you want you want you know I was Nicholas the Gates for instance a big

giant Serbian player who scored for me in that final. I was speaking to Steve Archibald who was in Barcelona and

Steve was talking about giving me in loan. But then the Chinese owners said that they were going to buy him and I thought

it was a lot of money for the club and he's not he's untested for the English

Premier and it might take him a while to settle. But they were insisted in buying them and

the bit they promised and this is the bit of sugar I give them a bit of sugar hoping

that they can give me a couple of players that I wanted and I was looking at

a little Italian, a kind of poor man Sergio Aguero Fabrizio Mikkorley, remember him?

A fantastic little player.

And Bobby Zamora was available as well.

So these were my tune in the hatless.

Bobby was on fire at the time.

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