Frank McAvennie features in the latest series of BBC Scotland's Icons of Football. Here, those who know him best opine about his career.
Former Celtic, West Ham and Scotland forward Frank McAvennie is first Scottish football legend to featured in the new series of BBC Scotland's Icons of Football.
I was lucky that we had season tickets, so we knew why Frank had set East London alight. We had confidence that he was going to score. Frank’s an icon because he changed our lives as West Ham fans. This skinny 26-year-old with a blonde mullet completely turned our world upside down.There aren’t that many born goal scorers around. If Frank McAvennie was around today and he was scoring 25 to 30 goals a season, he’d be worth £100m easily.There were so many things that, where a millimetre chance in either direction, and he doesn’t make it. It’s all fluke, fluke, fluke.
So, when Frank arrived, I had to change my game, I’m thinking, ‘thanks Frank, now I’ve got to bring something else to the table’. He’d say he was going home and that he’d catch the half past six flight up to Glasgow in time for training. And of course, he wouldn’t.
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