IAN ASHBEE TELLS CHRIS DUNLAVY ABOUT HIS INCREDIBLE JOURNEY WITH HULL CITY...

IAN Ashbee is talking about facing Luka Modric and Xabi Alonso when I comment that the illustrious duo are very similar players.
“I don’t think so!” guffaws the former Hull City skipper, before realising he has misheard. “Oh, you mean to each other? I thought you meant to me!”
Nobody, it’s fair to say, ever mistook Ashbee for a silky playmaker. Gnarled and scarred, the Brummie battler spent most of his career in England’s lower leagues, scratching a modest living with Cambridge United before joining a Hull s...