“I was sharing a room with a French defender, Laurent Charvet, and we went over to Steve Howey’s room to ask if he wanted to come with us to get something to eat,” Kanchelskis wrote. “Howey was lying on his bed watching television and all around him he had bottles of beer. ‘Do you want to come for some food?’ I asked him. Steve pointed to one bottle. ‘That’s my breakfast.’ Then he pointed to another. ‘That’s my lunch, and that bottle over there; that’s my dinner.’ Laurent and I went to find a restaurant and at around eight o’clock we came back and looked in on Steve. He was still lying on his bed. He hadn’t moved; he had just called room service and all around him was a mass of empty beer bottles.”
Kanchelskis believes United and City were poles apart as clubs then. “I knew Joe very well from Everton – nice guy, nice coach, and like any small club, the fans at City were great,” he recalled. “We would play very badly and still the fans wouldn’t criticise. It was, ‘Okay, okay lads’. It was very strange for me. We were bottom of the league and in the international break we went to Marbella! Bottom of the league and we go to Marbella! Smoking, drink, celebrate! Mamma mia! I don’t know why we went. Don’t ask me why. It was terrible and I was surprised. It wasn’t professional. It was bad management. The team needed more concentration, more training, more tactics. But that was City at that time…”
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