Footballers have no passion when they give interviews, because they have been brain washed into spouting as many cliches as possible. Give me Ainscough interview anyday where you can detect the passion and excitement in his voice.

That's because he's a good warrington lad.

Er Are you sure. Drink driving offence at 19, a shoplifting offence a couple of years before (he might of not been in the Liverpool team at this age, but everyone knew his talent and that he had a better chance the most of making it).

Not to mention the dubious company he has kept over the years.

That's the VT and the Sin Bin down to a T, fella. I'm going to read the rest of your post now, but just thought I would get that one in. Personal feelings and all that, you know.

Paul Sculthorpe was renowned for using "you know" every other sentence.

I seen an interview a couple of weeks ago with our lord Tony Smith and even HE was getting into the swing of things with it.

Paul Cooke and Craig Gower might have had some off field incidents but they were great with the media, both intelligent and articulate. Gower would have been a great ambassador for league in Aus, a smart bloke who made a shedload of money outside the game through his business interests, he just had a habit of acting like a plank when he was on the booze.