Exclusive Bluemoon interview with Paul Lake

I'm only 20 so i never got to watch Lakey but my old man assures me he was brilliant, I've watched a few games in which he played and he seems to remind me of Vinny K. Just got one question if anyone cares to answer it, if Lakey had they same injury nowadays, would he have made a recovery and played again? Suppose only Lakey himself could answer that. Wish i was there to see some things in the 70s, 80's and very early 90's. I feel myself getting nostalgic about times i've never seen. Very strange.
 
Fantastic read - thanks to both Lakey and Bluemoon for spending the time to get this together. Pleasure to watch you play Lakey, even if you did scare the living hell out of me as a 10 year old boy when you swallowed your tongue!

Looking forward to the show :)
 
bluejase said:
I'm only 20 so i never got to watch Lakey but my old man assures me he was brilliant, I've watched a few games in which he played and he seems to remind me of Vinny K. Just got one question if anyone cares to answer it, if Lakey had they same injury nowadays, would he have made a recovery and played again? Suppose only Lakey himself could answer that. Wish i was there to see some things in the 70s, 80's and very early 90's. I feel myself getting nostalgic about times i've never seen. Very strange.


As you say Jase Lakey himself will be the only one able to answer that specifically but to put it into perspective, when I did my ACL and cartilages at 18(25 years ago), well it was pretty much game over, basically it was to the hospital then the Docs, then told I`ll never play competitive sport again to any decent level and you`ll just have to make do, at that time the `dead mans` ACL technique was in it`s infancy and only available for pro sports people and you were in the minority if it worked.

Now roll on 15-20 years and it`s advances are remarkable, mine was done on the NHS as an outpatient, a mate, who was at City at the time oddly enough has done his twice and had the reconstruction twice and continues to play albeit at a lower level, so good progress is being made and hopefully Lakey will benefit.

PS, your old man was right, I was lucky enough to see Colin Bell and Lakey play and if he`d have carried on he`d have been right up there with`The King`.
 
Paul was one of the most naturally gifted footballers i have ever seen.
Colin was the King but Paul was the young Prince who one day could have stole that crown.
It is also nice to see how Paul picked himself up and got on with his life .When it would have been easy to wallow in self pity and,make a mess of his life.
A first class player and a first class person.
 

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