The Column

Brian's CV	Column One
Australasia Postcards	Column Two
Lynn Kilclines Book 'The Lion, The Witch & The Rucksack'
A cottage to rent on the Algarve, Portugal

September, 2000
PP. There has been a short debate about Brian Kilcline on the HTAFC list at Smartgroups and you have been described as 'vicious' when you were playing professionally. Is this true?

BK. Peter you will have to explain where you get these articles. There was never ever a bad tackle ……a bit late but never bad.
And regarding the breakdown on the motor way, in the later days of an elderly footballer’s career there isn’t the luxury of five star hotel’s so that you could wait for the team bus to pick you up, no you had to risk life and limb on British motorway’s, trying to get from one side to the other so that you could get picked by the bus as it flew by, still moving in some cases.
And if it was moving the pre match meal of a Little Chef Burger or fry-up didn’t sit well in the stomach. So that day I was probably the only survivor from that small group of footballers waiting for a bus.

PP. What have you been up to of late?

BK. I’ve been doing some work with a company called “The Press Association” who hasve got together with the P.F.A. and some ex professional footballers. I am given certain matches at the beginning of the month, which I go along to and observe.
With the help of a mobile phone, which I was given at the beginning of the season, I contact an operator on the other end of the line, and for the ninety minutes of the game, I pass on the match details - dead ball’s, throw-in’s, tackles, fouls and all set pieces.
The operator, who is in front of a computer screen, is inputting all the information and data. So I get to go and watch football and get paid for it yet again.

I am also doing some work for Huddersfield Town Football Club Academy Under 14’s which I enjoy.

Sunday the 3rd of September was the first Academy game in which I was involved ; we were playing Blackburn Rovers Under 14’s.
I arrived and got everything ready for the game, kit, ball’s and the team sheet.

I am thirty eight year’s of age and now I understand what those parents thought when I used to get off those team coaches at the tender age of 14 with a beard and standing about 6 foot tall.

The Blackburn under 14’s were nearly as tall as me now, they just seemed to tower over our lads, but to be fair they didn’t pay any attention and went out and competed with them.
Didn’t help though which is a horrible thing to say, height does matter.

But to be fair with Huddersfield they are sticking with technically gifted lads small or not, I think they may have to change their way of thinking if they are to compete with the big boy’s.

Watching all this football again has got the juices tingling again even though the football has not been the best, Huddersfield and Halifax being the main culprits.

So far as to say I think I could do as well as that.

Brian's CV	Column One
Australasia Postcards	Column Two
Lynn Kilclines Book 'The Lion, The Witch & The Rucksack'
A cottage to rent on the Algarve, Portugal