England cricket legend Darren Gough joins hosts Jason Plato and Dave Vitty on the award-winning podcast Fuelling Round to debate his profession, his time on Strictly Come Dancing and the automobile he wished he owned.
Gough is likely one of the most memorable cricketers from the 2000s, taking part in with different legends comparable to Freddie Flintoff, Kevin Pieterson and Michael Vaughan.
The 54-year-old, who represented his beloved Yorkshire, sat down with Plato and Vitty in a revealing interview about what he’s been as much as in recent times, and why he’s jealous of the FBI.
Darren Gough on why Vary Rovers are king
Throughout a wide-ranging chat, Gough defined why he had at all times owned a Vary Rover since he first performed for England and his fascination with massive vehicles.
“I labored on the motorways for eight months once I was youthful” Gough revealed.
“The rationale I labored on the motorways is as a result of I needed to purchase a model new Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet, this might’ve been 1990, it was improbable. Actually it had a stupendous form, it was gold, that browny gold color, and I obtained the flowery writing down the edges I obtained ‘Cabriolet’ written in fancy writing.
“Simply having the ability to afford that again then with cricket, I used to be a younger professional then at 20, I used to be most likely solely incomes £6,500 as we solely used to work for six months earlier than cricket began to take off.
“So I obtained a job within the winter, incomes extra from engaged on the motorways. I purchased the automobile due to that job, in any other case I’d by no means have been capable of afford that automobile, the perfect funding I ever made. I beloved that automobile. I needed I’d have saved it.
“It’s the one automobile I needed I’d saved. A number of the good vehicles I’ve had, that’s the one I needed I’d have saved.
“Since I turned an England participant, I’ve by no means not had a Vary Rover. As soon as I obtained my first one, once I was 24, there’s not been any time in my life the place I’ve not had a Vary Rover.
“For me, I’m simply a type of individuals who simply likes massive vehicles. I take a look at a Ferrari, and as a lot as I find it irresistible, I can’t justify to myself for me to purchase a Ferrari. I couldn’t do it. There’s instances I’ve been tempted, identical with Porsche.
“The one one I feel I’d go and get is an Aston Martin, that’s the one I actually do like as a result of as high quality as it’s, I don’t assume it has a show-off issue about it.
“I’ve at all times preferred massive vehicles, you already know just like the American ones the FBI drives round in, the Escalade. That’s the one automobile I’ve at all times needed. I might see myself in one among them. I used to be so tempted at instances in my profession to do away with the Vary Rover for an Escalade.
“I noticed Rio Ferdinand in a single as soon as in Manchester. We have been taking part in a check match, and he pulled up exterior one among his eating places and I believed I would like one among them!”
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