Ray Parlous is speaking...

RP drew great inspiration from the work ethic of big names like Bergkamp.

"Someone like Dennis Bergkamp, if you watch what he did in training, he was amazing - and after training he'd stay behind and practise at 28 years old. Us lot would be walking in to go and have our lunch! He was a much better player than us in our eyes, so why was he practising when we're not? Suddenly we started staying out a little bit longer to try and improve our technical ability. (...)

The likes of Bergkamp, Vieira, Pires and people like that... it was a great moment to play in those games."