All Wednesday: Hunting for jean replacements with Des Walker

The Star, Sheffield

On this week's episode of All Wednesday we caught up with actor, Tommy Craig, about his own Sheffield Wednesday history... From squeezing the Owls onto Coronation Street to going hunting for jean replacements with Des Walker. He's got plenty to say!

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00:00So Chris invited me to go to Enfield, and I live in south-west London.

00:03I've never really been to Enfield before, which is north-west,

00:06north-east, sorry, north-east London.

00:08And anyway, I went to see the game, and then afterwards they said,

00:12do you want to come to Charlie Chan's nightclub,

00:14which was underneath Waltham Store Dobbs?

00:16And I'm like, I don't even know where that is, but I'll come,

00:18you know what I mean?

00:19And I looked round.

00:19You're not turning down anything for Chris Waddle, are you?

00:22You're not turning down Chris Waddle?

00:24No, so the Wednesday players, they had to stay for a meal,

00:27but they were all itching to get away.

00:30And by the time they ordered cabs, I looked round,

00:32and there was only me and Des Walker in jeans.

00:33Everybody else was suited and booted.

00:35And it was that era when nightclubs were a bit funny about what you wore.

00:39So I looked and I thought, if I get turned away from this club,

00:42I've got to be in a cab with Des Walker, because if they turn me away,

00:45they've got to turn Des away, and I'm sure they're not going to turn him away.

00:48And by now, there was a few Spurs players with you,

00:50Paul Walsh, Jason Duzell.

00:51It was a big group.

00:53We get to the club, and the bouncer won't let us in.

00:55He says, no, you can't come in here in jeans.

00:57And Des Walker, you don't hear him talk very often,

01:00but he's really chatting.

01:02And once he starts, he doesn't show up.

01:05This bouncer weren't having it.

01:06He's like, no, you're not coming in, you're not coming in,

01:08I don't care who you are.

01:09Anyway, a lady walks out of the barn, and she went, Des Walker.

01:13And she went, you know who he is?

01:14He went, I don't care who he is, you know what I mean?

01:17So she took us around the corner to her house on a little back street,

01:21and she got us a pair of trousers each from her husband,

01:24and her husband was in bed.

01:25He was asleep, and she put the light on,

01:28and he went, Des Walker.

01:29Yeah.

01:30Yeah.

01:31OK.

01:31I'm back.

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