Harry Kewell
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Yeah, Alan Smith.
Wow.
He was a little bit younger than us.
We heard about him when we were coming through.
We heard about this young, feisty... Who was kicking everyone all over the show.
Kicking everybody, yeah.
So when you played a five-a-side, you always made sure you had Smithy on your team.
Well, it's huge, and especially in this day and age now because you don't want to be known as a utility player, but you want to be known as you can play three or four positions because if you do get injured and the player that comes in, because usually you have two world-class players now in your team, and if he gets his opportunity, he takes it, you may not find...
you can get back into that position.
So you might have to adjust.
And if you can adjust into another position, if that position becomes vacant, you can kind of slip in there and you can work your way back into the team.
But that's for an attacking and defending.
Me personally, when I started off as left back,
Because I was very much an attacker when I was younger, to learn how to defend was good for me.
And again, when I did move up to the front, I knew how to defend.
When right backs were running at me, they thought they were running at a winger.
Well, literally, I had two years as a left back, so I knew how to defend as well.
So I knew how to tackle, which I didn't tackle that much.
But I knew how to stop someone and knew how to defend, head, all that kind of stuff.
And that kind of helped me progress when it went into the attacking side of it.