A nightclub story that 'summed up' McAvennie
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Tony Cottee played up front for West Ham with Frank McAvennie during the 1980s and says his strike partner was not one for an early night.
On the most recent episode of BBC Radio Scotland's Sacked in the Morning podcast, Cottee shared a time when his approach to a night on the town was quite different to McAvennie's.
"I can tell you one funny story," he said. "I didn't really go out, but for whatever reason, [one night] in the 1985-86 season, I decided to go out with my best pal who played for Leyton Orient and we went into London. We ended up in Stringfellows, which was a nightclub in those days, not the lap dancing club it is nowadays.
"I'm in the nightclub and I've had a few drinks. It gets to about half past one in the morning and by this time, I'm sort of half drunk and I'm tired and I want to go home. So, me and my mate thought we'd make our way upstairs as we were in the basement.
"We got to the middle floor and on the middle floor, where reception is, I bumped into Frank McAvennie and I give him a big cuddle. The paps were taking pictures of Frank and all that sort of stuff.
"I looked at Frank and I said: 'Have you had a good night?' He went: 'Good night? I've just got here'.
"So, I was going home and Frank's only just arrived at half one in the morning. That perfectly summed it up."
