Former Arsenal and Crystal Palace striker Ian Wright has discussed the player he was bullied by when he was beginning his professional career at Crystal Palace.
Who Bullied Ian Wright While He Was At Crystal Palace?
Speaking on the Stick To Football podcast to co-hosts and Premier League legends Gary Neville, Roy Keane and Jamie Carragher, Wright was asked whether he had ever shared the dressing room with someone he didn’t like, to which he responded: “Jim Cannon, when i’ve got into the Palace squad. He’s just a bit of a cantankerous old player. Scottish player, centre half.
“He made my first couple of years in professional football a f****** nightmare. He was a bully in there.
“You know when you go for the communal food and I’m literally three months off the building site man, I don’t know what’s going on, sitting and eating with everybody. I hardly knew what to order properly. So I remember when I was ordering he would take the f****** piss out of everything that I’d do.
Ian Wright on how Jim Cannon made his life “hell” when he was starting out as a pro at Crystal Palace. Horrendous story about being bullied by a teammate pic.twitter.com/6vDuPSANRH
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“That’s the kind of thing that made me stop going down but off the back of that I was always in a communal setting, always. I was really scared, just very nervous about it. It never left me.
“I was scared of him, because one time in training I remember, we used to have those small sided games and the goals would be this wide and he would stand in the goal so you’d have to do something.
“So he’s just spoling the game because you can’t score the goal. So there’s a couple of times I’ve done a move on him and put it through his legs. I remember the second time the lads going ‘wahey!’ and as I turned around he’s f****** two foot jumped me in the back.
“He was as bad as it get in the dressing room.
“People don’t realise how gruesome a dressing room can be.”
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