‘I’m an ex-Prem star who left after six months – I had home keys for 4 days’
Former Premier League defender Greg Halford as soon as needed to depart on mortgage, 4 days after receiving the keys to a home he had purchased.
Halford, 39, grew to become one of many many gamers to continually discover himself as a member of the mortgage military. The full again now performs for the favored Isthmian Football League facet Hashtag United having joined them on a free switch from Billericay Town in the summertime of 2022.
However, he did go on to make 28 Premier League appearances over the course of spells with Reading, Sunderland and Wolves. But such was the regularity of his strikes, he discovered himself heading to a brand new membership quickly after shopping for a home.
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“I purchased a spot in Reading and I had the keys for 4 days,” Halford stated in a earlier episode of the Under the Cosh podcast. “Then I moved to Sunderland.
“I bought a house in Sunderland and then I bought a house in Birmingham for Wolves.” Despite experiencing how briskly issues may change in soccer, he signed a three-year deal when he arrived on the Molineux.
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But after one season with the membership, he was then loaned to Portsmouth, who had been struggling within the Championship on the time. While he was not so eager on a transfer to the south coast, then-Wolves boss Mick McCarthy managed to speak him into becoming a member of Pompey.
“He talked about about Portsmouth they usually had been struggling on the time,” Halford added. “They had been on the backside finish of the Championship. I stated I didn’t actually wish to go.
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“I spoke to a few of the lads at Wolves, who said Portsmouth had come in for me. They was saying ‘you can do better than that and you might as well go top half of the Championship’. I actually turned down Portsmouth first and then things got worse at Wolves. Then I ended up going to Portsmouth in the end.”
His keep at Pompey would go on to be prolonged for an additional yr, earlier than he discovered himself becoming a member of Nottingham Forest. After two years, he was loaned to Brighton after which Rotherham, earlier than he went on to play for Birmingham, Cardiff City, Aberdeen, Southen United, Irish facet Waterford and Billericay.