‘I used to be two-foot kicked within the again at Crystal Palace – I needed to do one thing’
Premier League legend Ian Wright has opened up concerning the time he was allegedly bullied by Crystal Palace team-mate Jim Cannon.
Wright, 60, is without doubt one of the hottest gamers of his era. While he’s finest identified for his time with Arsenal, he first started to make his identify at Selhurst Park, the place he was a prodigal teen attracting many admirable glances throughout the nation.
However, the previous England worldwide didn’t have it simple, as he claimed he needed to tolerate some tough therapy from fellow Eagles legend Cannon, who he claimed was a “bully” and made his first couple of years in skilled soccer “a f***ing nightmare”. During one small-sided match at coaching, Wright stated the Scottish worldwide defender hit him with a intentionally excessive sort out from behind.
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While requested on Sky Bet’s Stick to Football podcast a couple of team-mate he did not like, Wright stated: “Jim Cannon when I got into the Palace squad, he was just a bitter, cantankerous old player.” He went on so as to add Cannon’s behaviour made him “scared” and “nervous”.
Wright recalled a time in coaching once they have been enjoying with small-sided objectives, and Cannon would stand within the objective, “spoiling the game” for everybody, as they could not rating. He stated: “There were a couple of times where I done a move on him, and then put it through his legs and it went in the goal, and I done it twice.
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“I remember the second time the lads were going ‘wahey’. And as I turned around he f***ing two foot jumped me in the back. He was as bad as it gets in the dressing room.” Wright added: “People don’t realise how gruesome a dressing room can be, with the wrong person in there.”
Cannon was a titanic determine for the Eagles. He made 680 appearances for the Londoners over the course of 15 years on the membership. Wright’s first three seasons have been spent alongside Cannon, in what turned out to be the veteran defender’s closing years at Palace.
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But Wright stated he would all the time bear in mind their time collectively for all of the improper causes. He gave one other instance of when he was beginning out as a 22-year-old professional simply “months off a building site”, and “hardly even knew what to order” within the membership’s communal consuming space.
The legendary striker stated: “I remember when I was ordering, he would take the f***ing p*** out of everything that I would do, ‘you can’t afford that’, ‘do you have that at home?’, ‘how do you say that?’, ‘do you know how to say that?’, like [potato] dauphinoise, that kind of stuff… it made me stop going down [to eat with the other players].”
Cannon, who was pipped to Palace followers’ “Player of The Century” award by Wright, has all the time denied being a bully. Speaking in 2017, he instructed The Times: “I wasn’t a bully, he was just a loud-mouth upstart.
“I used to be an skilled centre half and I knew he was going to come back up towards folks worse than me so I gave him somewhat slap someday and that was the extent of the bullying. I’m not excited by Ian Wright, he was an exceptionally good participant and if he thinks I bullied him, perhaps I bullied him into being a superb participant.”