The Big Interview: Andrew Flintoff
The Sunday Times have a "Big Interview" with Andrew Flintoff
Will
25-Feb-2013
The Sunday Times have a "Big Interview" with Andrew Flintoff. Such gems include:
We enter the suburb of Bowden and his mind returns to a frantic afternoon he once spent in a park here with his pet boxer dogs, Fred and Arnold. Why did he buy two boxers? Because he read in some book that they are “alert and sharp with a lifelong puppyish behaviour” and thought it sounded a bit like him.
So he has just taken charge of them and they’re out in the park on this gorgeous afternoon when, wild with excitement, they charge into a stream and, wild with excitement, he followed them in. Why? He can’t explain it. It just seemed a good idea at the time. He was splashing around with the dogs, and having great fun until they spotted this guy walking a golden labrador and decided to take off. He pulled himself from the stream and set off in pursuit, but the dogs were all over the guy and going absolutely mental when he finally caught up. “I had to pull the pair of them off him,” he says, “but he couldn’t have been nicer about it. ‘That’s all right mate’, he said. I looked up and it was Roy Keane. He hadn’t a clue who I was.”