{"id":17633,"date":"2017-11-06T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T15:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/?p=17633"},"modified":"2017-11-09T14:22:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T14:22:14","slug":"skive-part-vi-jan-molby-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/2017\/11\/skive-part-vi-jan-molby-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Skive Part VI: Jan Molby and that goal…"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Look, you are tainted goods after Brescia. If the bottom teams in Italy won’t touch you then you’re going to have to go somewhere else. I can get you into Greece or Denmark, you choose”.<\/em><\/p>\n

My FM18 agent<\/p>\n

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And he was right. Italy didn’t want to know. I had four interviews after Brescia, all of them with teams bottom of the Liga Pro and I didn’t get a single offer.<\/p>\n

I sat it out, June would arrive soon and then I could see what doors opened in Greece, Hungary and Denmark.<\/p>\n

Not that many, it would appear. Weeks went past and eventually I got a chat with Panianos (or someone like that) who had finished very low in the Greek 2nd Division. The chat went well, and I started to imagine leading out their side at their 500 seat stadium. Olympiakos eat your heart out.<\/p>\n

They offered me 200\u20ac a week and a one-year-deal. I asked for a week to think about it, hoping my agent could find me something to at least compare.<\/p>\n

And then the call from Denmark came, Skive IK were interested in me and without even knowing too much they became my first choice.<\/p>\n

Why? Well, honestly, the potential to flip the name of the series to something Skive related was a factor and I also liked their kit. But, more seriously, Denmark is a footballing nation that has fascinated me for many, many years.<\/p>\n

Get a brew, I’m about to go on a nostalgic trip yet again. Or just skip this bit…<\/em><\/p>\n

Jesper Olsen. That was the first time I really even knew Denmark played football. He was a rarity at the time, a non-British or Irish player playing in the First Division for Manchester United. Back then, English clubs used to sell their players into Europe quite frequently. Even the likes of Frank Stapleton played for Ajax and people of a certain age still wonder how the hell Terry Venables thought he could get away with taking Stevie Archibald to Barcelona to replace Diego Maradona. Jesper was a flying winger for United, though English Football never really saw the best of him. After realising United had Olsen, flicking through my Panini album also educated me on Jan Molby who remains my all-time favourite Danish footballer (sorry John Jensen). Jan was good enough to be slightly on the porky side and still play fairly regularly for the greatest side in the 1980’s in Liverpool. He didn’t move much, apart from the goal you can see below, but he didn’t have to. He could pass a ball like nobody else and learning English in Liverpool gave him an accent that could not be rivalled.<\/p>\n

Oh, that goal.<\/p>\n