Tampa Bay Rowdies star Neill Collins reveals all in this weeks special A to Z

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Tampa Bay Rowdies star Neill Collins reveals all in this weeks special A to Z
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By GARETH LAW

20th November 2016, 6:44 pm

NEILL COLLINS left Second Division Dumbarton to join Sunderland when he was just 20 years old.

Here the Tampa Bay Rowdies star, 33, tells GARETH LAW how he once called the manager who signed him Big Nose on the team bus.

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COLE. What’s it like playing with Joe at Tampa Bay? From the minute he walked in, he was a breath of fresh air. He can still produce magic. After his first goal, the ref even high-fived him on the way off at half-time. A top player and a top man.

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FLARES. Who’s got the worst dress sense? Steve Simonsen didn’t realise just because it was Armani it didn’t mean it looked good. An American guy at Tampa Bay called Tommy Heinemann would get ripped to shreds in a British dressing room. On game day, he wears brown dress shoes that look like bowling shoes. I gave him some stick but he told me he loved them.

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ROWDY. What’s life like in Tampa? It’s totally  different to what I’ve been used to. Training in the most beautiful weather in downtown St Pete’s is a far cry from freezing my wotsits off at Shirecliff in Sheffield. My family enjoy the lifestyle too.