Ndlovu Corner
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This month our regular columnist Peter Ndlovu recalls a practical joke on Micky Quinn which went slightly sour
When I first arrived at Coventry City there were some larger than life, colorful characters but non more so than when Micky Quinn arrived!
I remember at away games Mick would get a lot of abuse for being overweight. Hell, even our own supporters named him after a sumo wrestler! After one game I decided it was time to play a joke on the joker, with unfortunately disastrous consequences.
Micky was an absolute animal when it came to drinking and I was the total opposite. I enjoyed the odd drink with the boys but Micky could put away ten pints and not blink. I knew that if I gave him a drinking challenge, he would do it.
We’d just played Arsenal at Highbury and Micky was in boisterous mood after scoring a hat-trick. The match ball was being sponsored by a perfume shop in London and after the game we were all given a bottle of aftershave each to commemorate our win. Micky was out in the corridor doing a television interview so I took this opportunity to empty my aftershave bottle and fill it with water. When Micky returned to the dressing room I hollered at him:
“Hey Micky, do you want my bottle of aftershave too? I can smell you from here.”
“Stick it up your arse” he shouted back, rather politely.
“I’ve got a better idea”
At that moment I started drinking the whole bottle.
Wiping the last drops off my lips I shouted:
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Think you’re f**king hard Micky? Try doing that.
The dressing room started chanting Mick’s name as he weighed up whether to accept the challenge. Quick as a flash he grabbed the first bottle he could see, which was poor Phil Babb’s, and downed it! The lads couldn’t stop laughing, it was one of the funniest moments of my life.
Unfortunately things went fast downhill from that moment. Mick fell pretty ill on the coach home and we had to stop off at a motorway services for 3 hours while Mick was sick in the toilets. The club doctor said he was lucky to get through it without having his stomach pumped. Bobby Gould fined me 2 weeks wages, which was quite a lot of money to me, and amazingly he fined Micky as well!
So if someone asks you to drink a bottle of aftershave, have a sip of theirs first!
