City 'keeper Ian Walker has been speaking to The Times newspaper explaining why he joined Leicester and just how he felt at Spurs. Asked about his final few months at Spurs Walker said, “It’s only now I realise how depressed and frustrated I was at Tottenham.

“I must have been a pain in the backside because I was walking around with the hump all day long. But that’s all lifted now.”

He went on to explain what kind of relationship he had with then Spurs manager, George Graham, “I’d been there since I was a trainee, but loyalty meant nothing.

“They bought Neil Sullivan from Wimbledon and I didn’t have a problem with that, but on the Friday before the start of last season, George wouldn’t say which one of us was playing. Then I bought the Evening Standard on the way home and there was a big headline saying Neil was in and I was out.

“I let it ride over the weekend because I didn’t want to upset the team, but went to see George on the Monday. He tried to deny he’d said anything, but there were loads of quotes and I knew the reporter who’d written it. George just didn’t have the honesty to say it to my face.”

It was then that Walker decided that he wished to be transfer listed. But it was a chance meeting with Stan Collymore, that convinced him that Filbert Street could offer just what he needed, first team football.

“Stan was driving around the States in a camper van this summer when I bumped into him,” Walker said. “Despite his problems here, he said it was a great club. Inside information helps. Then I met Peter Taylor and he said it could kick-start my career. I’d worked really hard with Hans Segers (the goalkeeping coach) at Spurs because he kept saying I’d get a chance somewhere. It wasn’t a wrench to leave Tottenham.”

So there you have it lady's and gentlemen. The reason for Walker being here, Stan Collymore. Maybe it's one of the few things we can actually thankhim for?

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