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 automotive he wished he owned.
Gough is without doubt one of the most memorable cricketers from the 2000s, enjoying 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 lately, 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 all the time owned a Vary Rover since he first performed for England and his fascination with massive automobiles.
“I labored on the motorways for eight months after I was youthful” Gough revealed.
“The rationale I labored on the motorways is as a result of I wished to purchase a model new Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet, this might’ve been 1990, it was implausible. Actually it had a ravishing form, it was gold, that browny gold color, and I received the flamboyant writing down the edges I received ‘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 in all probability solely incomes £6,500 as we solely used to work for six months earlier than cricket began to take off.
“So I received a job within the winter, incomes extra from engaged on the motorways. I purchased the automotive due to that job, in any other case I’d by no means have been capable of afford that automotive, the most effective funding I ever made. I beloved that automotive. I wanted I’d have saved it.
“It’s the one automotive I wanted I’d saved. A number of the good automobiles I’ve had, that’s the one I wanted I’d have saved.
“Since I turned an England participant, I’ve by no means not had a Vary Rover. As soon as I received my first one, after 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 kind of individuals who simply likes massive automobiles. 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, similar 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 suppose it has a show-off issue about it.
“I’ve all the time preferred massive automobiles, you already know just like the American ones the FBI drives round in, the Escalade. That’s the one automotive I’ve all the time wished. I might see myself in one in every of 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 had been enjoying a take a look at match, and he pulled up outdoors one in every of his eating places and I assumed I need one in every of them!”
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