Paul Caddis has revealed how John Hartson's personal clean-up resulted in another task on the chore list for Celtic up and comers.
Back in Caddis' day as a Parkhead player, the club's prospects would help do plenty of tasks around the Premiership first team. Cleaning boots and such would be on such lists but when former striker Hartson went for a shave, the mess left behind would be added. As part of a wide discussion on Undr the Cosh, host Jon Parkin revealed he used to get young players to shave his hairy back during time at York City, with academy talents claimed as too pampered in the modern game.
Now manager of non-league Hereford, Caddis said: “John Hartson used to trim his balls and we used to have to move balls out the way to sweep them. He’d trim up and there’d be all these ginger pubes.
"I worked with Fleetwood academy. I know the 18s do jobs and that but they’re doing nothing compared to what they used to do. It was better the old way, that’s why they’re such little a***holes now. They’re all chirpy, too much too young and all the rest of it. Nowadays, academies are almost built alongside first teams so you lose that nervousness.
"You used to idolise a lot of the boys in the first team. You don’t see that now because you’ve probably grown up with them over the last three or four years. We would never go in for lunch until after every first-team player had left the building. It would be half two, three o’clock sometimes because one of the first-team players was still in the gym, but I think that’s the way it should be. It’s the first team’s building, that’s the way I see it, but nowadays it’s becoming too snowflakey.”
