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Published 16:46 3 Nov 2015 GMT
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"Somebody rang me up and asked if I’d be interested. I have to say I didn’t know exactly where Lyon was. It wasn’t as easy then. You didn’t go on the internet and just type Olympique Lyonnais and find out everything about it. Somebody had seen me play in the European Championships in 1988 for Ireland in West Germany and marked me down and followed me and they approached the club."https://twitter.com/RemTheFoot/status/660218196285222912 Mick made the move to France but it wasn't all plain sailing, least of all in the language department. What's 'arse in a bacon slicer' au francais?
"The only thing I remember about that is the players saying to me “Tu parles francais comme una vache espagnole” – I spoke French like a Spanish cow. So that bit really stuck with me."Things didn't really work out for Mick because of Remi Garde and his defensive colleagues, who eventually forced the Irishman to decide that with a World Cup on the horizon he'd be better off back in England,
"I was only there from June till March. I’d had an operation at Celtic, I’d rehabilitated, I’d got myself in the team. But the knee played up again. Remi Garde and Bruno N’Gotty were in the team and they were two fantastic players. So I just didn’t get back in the team and didn’t really see myself getting back in the team while they were playing so well."https://twitter.com/BeyondTLM/status/661508378661928960 Mick saw the writing on the wall and decided that a move to Millwall was his best option, even if it did interupt his home decorating efforts
"I wanted to play in the World Cup in 1990 and Millwall came up. I’d just put the last roll of wallpaper in the house when a guy from Millwall rang. I didn’t want to leave Lyon. I wanted to play in the World Cup and the only way to do that was by playing first team football."Unless Garde arrests Villa's slide pretty soon he could be reunited with his old clubmate in the Championship next season.
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