John Hartson: Knock ’em over, pick ’em back up

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter · May 4, 2020 · 52m

John Hartson broke up my Spanish detention with a brilliant remotely-recorded Big Interview.Big Bad John was the kind of centre-forward who defenders hated marking. If they were smaller than him, he would just knock ’em over, then pick ’em back up. So John was shocked when Valencia’s Roberto ‘The Mouse’ Ayala gave him his hardest shift in a Celtic jersey.There’s great stuff here about John’s time as an old-school apprentice at Luton, when he looked after his hero Mick Harford’s boots, and there’s chat about losing a European final with Arsenal in agonising circumstances. But he never blamed…