Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode you'll

hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day.

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Ali Dick, what a mercurial wide man, what a superb winger with an unfairly truncated career.

Ali played under Croix at Iax alongside, such as Ronald Kumen and Van Baston, and says that

Croif and his presence will always cast a spell over Iax.

Ali went to Croix's birthday party, Jeremy Bucker.

When we began, you talked about seeing that outrageous Clockwork Orange side of 74 Holland

starring Rensen Brink and Neskins and Croyf and Vignyans and all these kind of wonderful footballers but your hands stood out and there suddenly

he's a course but at that stage he's only been coaching a season he's only been in charge

one season he's retired from Iax they they wouldn't pay him, he goes to Fanner to stick it out and

place them for a season.

Winsor the League, Player of the season aged about 36 or 37.

He's had one coaching season with Iax and quite a volatile season before he signs you

you are part of his rebuilding of Iax so I'd imagine that when you come along he'd have paid quite close attention to you

I suppose what I'd really like to know is what your first impressions of him were what his

behavior was like whether it felt a little bit overwhelming to be in his presence or not.

A couple of years previous, Tottenham had played fine-ord and he was he played at White Heart Lane.

So he wasn't that long finished playing.

The fact that he'd only coach for one year, that was irrelevant. Everybody knew Crive had a football brain. He knew what he was doing just a matter of time before he shone. I didn't think to myself at the time, as you say,

I'm pretty much unknown about Ayax going over there. I didn't realize he was kind of

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