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CUT OUT NEEDED PLEASE CHAPS Pictures: TIM MERRY THEY are NEIL “RAZOR” RUDDOCK, 50 weight since I retired. My body fat would be really good to be back in Who: Newcastle United midfi elder. football icons who Who: 24st hardman was a defender levels were dangerous.” Lost 10 kilos. shape again.” Now a pundit and commentator. have gone from superfi t for Liverpool and West Ham. DAVID SEAMAN, 55 , 46 Form: Weighed in at 15st. to fl abby since hanging up Form: Warned by experts that he Who: Ex- and Arsenal goalie. Who: Starred as a midfi elder for , 57 their boots. Now, in a new ITV might drop dead at any minute. Lost Form: Weighed 17st but skates and Arsenal. The 14st star worked as a Who: Played for Sheffi eld Wednesday, show, , 72, and 4st in run-up to fi lming. goes cycling. pundit for BBC Radio 5 Live and Portsmouth and Brighton. His son his assistant , 55, are , 50 , 43 talkSPORT. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has gone on on a mission to get a squad of Who: Ex-Arsenal midfi elder who has Who: Liverpool goal legend. Now runs Form: “I was probably in better shape to play for Liverpool and England. former England stars to shape up battled drink, drug and gambling a property empire and is said to be than some of the others.” Swapped Form: Weighed 15st: “At my age I’m for a fi nal battle with bitter rivals addictions. worth £28million. beer for gin and tonics. struggling to bend down and put my Germany. JAMES MOORE Form: Has admitted struggling to Form: “I was disappointed by my , 47 socks on.” reveals how the team got on control his gambling, but lost a weight.” Who: Winger for United MARK WRIGHT, 55 trying to squeeze into whopping 15lbs while on the show. , 58 and Leeds United. Who: A defender for Southampton their Three Lions , 50 Who: Midfi elder for Newcastle United Form: At 14st says: “I wanted to be and Liverpool. He’s since become a shirts… Who: Ex-Southampton and England and Spurs. Now a BBC Radio 5 Live serious and get into shape… and the pundit and businessman. midfi elder, now Sky Sports pundit. pundit. show gave me the motivation.” Form: Weighing in at 16st he says: Form: “I’ve always struggled with my Form: At 15 stone says: “I thought it , 53 “It’s an eye-opener.” ‘The only thing I miss is the banter’ DAVID Seaman, ex-Arse- assures me. He and his wife, left, but sometimes I’d walk off the nal and England goal- pro skater Frankie Poultney (they course more frustrated than when keeper, tells me he has a met on in 2014), I walked on. I was like: ‘Hang on, still regularly take to the rink. “It’s this isn’t working’.” recurring nightmare. I a great workout. We do lifts, spins, He still watches plenty of foot- don’t doubt it. all sorts. And I love my bike. I’ll ball, largely for his talkSPORT I’m assuming it’s his fatal often blast off 25 miles.” breakfast show role with Alan Bra- fl uff in the 2002 World Cup, And do other road-users recog- zil. And there’s plenty in today’s letting Brazil’s nise the ex-England keeper, ped- game that impresses him. “I saw a ny. Overseen by Harry Redknapp dling like a loon down the A4 near stat that said it was 30 to 40% faster scoop a free kick over him from and assistant John Barnes, the his Berkshire home? than in my day. That’s amazing.” 30-odd yards, sealing England’s likes of Paul Merson, Matt Le Tis- “No chance! I’m wearing my hat, As for the crazy wages, not a exit. sier, Ray Parlour, Neil “Razor” glasses, everything. Plus I’ve got problem. “It’s just market forces. That, or being lobbed from half Ruddock and David him- no ’tache or ponytail now!” It’s not that different from fi lm that distance again in the dying self are challenged to Ah, yes, the legendary stars.” moments of 1995’s European Cup regain at least a Seaman ponytail. Does he Retiring at 40 was David’s own Winners’ Cup Final – by Zaragoza’s smattering of miss that? choice. He’s sure this helped him , ex of fi erce rivals Spurs. match fi tness to “No, I don’t!” he adjust. “When players have to quit But no, I assume wrong. “In my face a team of I was laughs. “I only had it early through injury, that must be dream,” he reveals, “I’m about to German veter- for four or fi ve a whole different mental thing. I play in a match when I suddenly ans. years, you know. don’t know how I’d have coped.” realise I haven’t got my kit. I often “Yes, it was never one The ’tache, now It helps, of course, that he en- have that one. It’s really weird. great to see that was different. joyed a hugely successful career. “Mind you, I did once turn up at all the lads,” I was born with Even those rare howlers never an England training session with he admits. “It to shout that!” fazed him for long. “That Ronald- two left-handed gloves. That was was like be- I sense that Dav- inho thing was obviously on a mas- for real.” ing a football- and bawl id’s easy-going na- sive stage, but those moments can So I take it, deep down, he’s miss- er again.” ture (“I was never make you stronger.” ing that old matchday buzz? Some of these one for shouting and And Nayim’s trophy-winning Apparently not. “Honestly, Mike, ex-pros, as you’ll on pitch bawling on the pitch”) lob? “Yes, Spurs fans are forever I haven’t missed football since the see, are in better have played a key role reminding me of that,” he chuck- day I retired,” insists David, who shape than others, in keeping him sane in les. “But I’m lucky. I’ve got nine quit in 2004, aged 40. but they’re all rather retirement. winners’ medals. That’s what I What he has missed is the banter. chunkier than in their play- Even before that, as other play- point out if they get lairy!” Hence he was thrilled to be ap- ing days. Ruddock, the most ex- ers wrestled with addictions (for Harry’s Heroes: The Full Eng- proached for a new ITV series treme example, is now the size of a team-mate Paul Merson, for in- lish is tonight and tomorrow kicking off tonight, Harry’s tank. Harry fears they’re “a heart stance, it was booze, gambling and on ITV at 9pm. David supports the Heroes: The Full English, where attack waiting to happen”. coke), David was getting hooked on British Heart Foundation’s charity ex-England pros reunite for one But David is the least of his wor- fi shing. It’s still a huge passion. cycle rides. Details at bhf.org.uk/ last clash with old enemy Germa- ries. “I haven’t let myself go,” he “I’d been playing golf to relax, bike-rides.