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. Here's Christian who gives a folks title winner with Leicester City, telling you an incredible story from his early years as a teenage

professional in Austria. Christian found himself sharing a dressing

him with his childhood hero who then set about bullying him relentlessly. It's happened to us all.

Almost two decades later, folks has a different perspective on what was going on. I'd like to start with Diddy Kubauer,

and I want to know how it is that with his atrocious behavior towards you he helped make

you the man you are. That's very true so you really did your researches huh?

Well I remember him for real so say that as being the guy

but the most bookings in the shortest space of time ever. He was a special character.

He was really special. Strong character. Honestly when he was my age that I am now and I was back then, I think it was 17, 18 or so when I came

into the first team of Mathesburg, it's completely different to what the setup is at the moment between

young and all the players.

So I was literally for the five years that I played for Madersburg, I was frightened of him very very frightened because of the

character he is I mean I mean you described it the best way that he got the

most yellow cards most red, I don't know what else,

he had the biggest mouth of all.

He was simply, he simply tried to win every single game, every single game in the training. Looking back now I think he just wanted to get the maximum out of me, but back then I thought he just wants to humiliate me.

That's how it felt, but again, it gave me that extra push,

looking back now again, that probably made me do the next step after the next step,

which made me the play I am, which made me at the very beginning of my career,

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