Aldershot Dean Holdsworth Is Ready And Waiting For Manchester United

In the morning tickets go on sale for Aldershot Town Carling Cup tie against Manchester United Dean Holdsworth - yes, Dean Holdsworth: well-kept walking goal poacher in the 1990s - can be seen serving tea to the queue of fans already waiting at 8:00 Office open EBB Stadium.

It may have been simply a publicity stunt by a man who knows all about the same power over the defendant mythologizing his time at Wimbledon, and now Director of Football League clubs economy so spectrally thin and history buffs, it seems to shine in front of your eyes . But it was at least a good publicity stunt, and this is, after all, Aldershot, the club surf some of the best margins, but a sharp breaking the country is so prominent place in the main city Hampshire that the flames above the bar is likely that bring traffic to stop, and for which ticket sales in good times are a matter of financial life or death.

Meeting Tuesday with Premier League champions, but champions, who have lost their last match 6-1 at home, in an event of some greater distance in the history of a club folded and reformed 19 years ago and now stands at 15th in League Two. Little wonder Holdsworth seems almost indecent enthusiasm for the view.

"It's great for the club," he said in his office in the bowels of the strap key EBB wavy. "It's a phenomenon, and we were very excited and happy when the draw came out. Being greedy I would have gone to Old Trafford. Coliseum is a great place. But to have one of the biggest clubs in the world to come to our stadium is fantastic for everyone involved in this club get back on its feet. "

For added Holdsworth is a delight in the opportunity of returning to a familiar level of a 22-year career that saw him score 218 goals playing with 16 different clubs, the climax of a passage of five years at Wimbledon for which signed the summer of 1992 as a sword John Fashanu club. There may even be crumbs of hope here for photos, too. Holdsworth knows at least how it feels to beat United, having played in the 1-0 win at Old Trafford Wimbledon in October 1992 against a team that includes Ryan Giggs among the many fans of the first great team of Sir Alex Ferguson.

"It 'was a surreal feeling to be at Old Trafford and win. Just try to stay on the ground all the time to bring everything I've always wondered what it feels like a man United player, having that great feeling to play each week. I was in awe of the place as a player.'ve watched Man United and saw the men. [Eric] Cantona, Giggs, [David] Beckham, [Andrei] Kanchelskis, Bryan Robson, is just gone. Good players do not turn on the tap. These players proved to be every time, and that will be a brilliant director.

"With Wimbledon was David against Goliath, but it shows what can be achieved. Once you cross the line is what is inside these players. I will try to motivate, educate and instill faith in my players that this can be done. "

It is tempting to assume that the team will leave Tuesday night Holdsworth imbued with the essence of the band to deceive the exotic extravagance embellished Wimbledon success. In fact is the opposite Holdsworth as manager: a modernizer and a technophile, inspired by theorists portable carrying the Premier League. "I never thought about being a manager until I met Sam Allardyce," he said. "I'm fine with Sam and I realized that football was in detail and tactics. Sam spent two years in the career of a player, simply by making them understand how your body works. It was an education."

Holdsworth maintains the mystery Crazy Gang was essentially a propaganda tool. "I called the painter and decorator of the club, we painted a different picture of what we had was a facade is the Crazy Gang Kick It Up in the air, but we played some good things, and we were very ... respected in the game.

"I liked it, but. [Owner] Sam Hamann would be a locker room, banging a broom against a cupboard, turning the stereo up and went to three or four inches taller. There were many times the players would react to their clothes are cut in the pants legs. It was a difficult place to be. I had players crying in my car on the way home, saying: "Why do not you like me," I said, "It is not you, that will test your character. '"

Holdsworth has no regrets if handled with more care in their own career and can not reach the heights they could have at some time in English remarkable talent galore. Ian Wright, "a genius of a classifier," was his favorite and it's healthy to think that, with Alan Shearer, Robbie Fowler, Fernando Les and Teddy Sheringham, among his contemporaries, the young Holdsworth - who won a cap B, after scoring 16 Premier League goals in a season - would be a likely man British team now.

Because he is busy with the election of a clear hunger for control. "And 'the most expensive time of my career to be a bench opposite to Sir Alex. I want to win. I did my job. But I want more, I would like that this is the first of several times."

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