MY FIRST

Accrington Stanley manager MEMORY: Sitting on a beach in Wales, throwing stones at an old plastic toy windmill.

HERO: Gerd Muller, the German centre forward, although I did hero-worship my brother and my dad. They played local football and I just wanted to be as good or better than them.

DRINK: Bottled Guinness. My grandmother, who lived to 93, had a bottle a day and she used to give me a little drop in a sherry glass. I think she thought the iron would do me good.

HOLIDAY: The first holiday I remember was in a caravan in Wales but I first went abroad when I was seven. We went to Majorca with my mum's redundancy money. It's going back about 30 years and at that time there were only five or six kids in school who went abroad.

JOB: Before I left school I pushed an old Wall's ice cream box around but that didn't last long. When I left school I became a stores clerk in Kirkby, Liverpool, where I still live. It's not that far to Accrington -- only about 45 minutes.

CAR: A mark one Ford Escort. I crashed it the second day I had it.

PET: I had no pets as a child and I don't encourage my own children to have them, although they have some goldfish. I have always been a little bit scared of dogs.

HOME: The first home I bought was a bungalow in Kirkby and my first home where I lived with my family was in Kirkby. I have lived all my life there.

RECORD: Roll Away the Stone by Mott the Hoople and Jet by Wings. LOVE: I married her -- my childhood sweetheart, Lorraine. We started going out together when we were 15 and have been together ever since. We have been married for 20 years..

LIE: Telling my parents I hadn't fallen in the river. We used to jump across it and I remember falling in and making up an excuse -- I think I told my parents I had fallen in a puddle.

EMBARRASSMENT: There was a school fancy dress disco and I hadn't turned up in costume. My teacher dressed me up in her daughter's mac to make me look like a devil. I was very nonplussed and my mates had a go at me.