CONTINUING our City Favourites series with part two of the LEE DUXBURY interview.

FAVOURITE GOAL

“I’ve got two favourites – one was before we got into the play-offs with Kammy (Chris Kamara) away to Hull.

“The game was just unbelievable, absolutely bonkers. We were on and off the pitch and there were police horses and dogs everywhere.

“We were finding people’s wallets on the floors where they had been fighting – it was something that I will never forget.

“I scored a goal there that looks brilliant on YouTube. If only you knew the truth!

“Ian Ormondroyd crossed the ball from our left and it came to my left foot about eight yards out.

“The pitch was bobbly and I was just concentrating on getting a good contact to put it towards the goal.

“I completely missed it with my left foot – but there were loads of bodies about and it hit my other standing foot and went in the bottom corner.

“I could claim that I brilliantly opened up my foot and guided it in but it was so lucky.

“I immediately went over to Stix and said I’d just scored the luckiest goal ever! I knew it was going to be our day at that point.

“The second goal I really look back on was one against Reading – and it was thanks to Paul Jewell winding me up.

“Jagger was always on at me to just play to my strengths.

“I had a shot in the match with my left foot and he turned round and shouted, ‘Dux, you can’t even shoot with your right – so give it to someone who can instead!’

“I was seething with him and the blood was bubbling over.

“So, the next time I got a chance with my left foot, I was just going to hit it and see what happened.

“The ball came to me 25 yards out and I smacked it right into the top corner. I don’t think I’d ever scored a goal before or after with my left but it was just that perfect moment.

“It was like the goal that Wayne Rooney scored once against Newcastle. He did it with pure anger – I was just the same.

“But I didn’t go looking for Jagger as I celebrated because I knew deep down he was right. I had to play to my strengths and shooting with my left foot certainly wasn’t one of them.

“That was the importance of listening to my peers and learning from them.

“But it was a great way to retire my left foot!”

FAVOURITE GAME

“I’ll never forget playing against Liam Brady at West Ham in my debut. Here was a player who was a star for Arsenal, Juventus and the Republic of Ireland up against an 18-year-old kid.

“I also remember that 3-2 win at Everton in the FA Cup when Chris Waddle scored the wonder goal and the cup run.

“But it has to be the promotion season and the way it finished.

“You could write a film about the Hull game. Everything was on the line, we needed to win to make the play-offs and there were riots and this, that and the other going on around us.

“Blackpool away in the play-offs was the highlight, beating them 3-0 after losing the home leg.

“It’s funny but you watch matches on telly when a team’s 2-0 up and then the other side just step up.

“There’s a psychology in football where you go on the defensive when you’re winning – unless you’re Man City and it’s just constant!

“We knew Blackpool wanted to protect their lead and their mindset had changed. So, when Shutty (Carl Shutt) got the first goal back, we had that belief to go on and you could see them getting nervous.

“There were a few close calls but everything just seemed to be going for us.

“It was a moment of disbelief when the final whistle blew and we realised we were going to be the first Bradford City team to go to Wembley.

"All our fans were streaming onto the pitch – and this guy just jumped on top of me!

“Then it was about finishing the job in the final and we felt that nobody was going to stop us. We had this mentality to run through a brick wall for each other.

“Lining up in the tunnel, I stared into the eyes of the Notts County players. Other lads were doing the same and they wouldn’t look at us.

“I knew then that we’d got in their heads and we had it. They’d been expecting to play Blackpool and we had that momentum – we knew it and so did they.”

FAVOURITE TEAMMATES

“It’s impossible to narrow them down because there were so many who did so much for me.

“Greg Abbott, Gavin Oliver, Paul Jewell, Robbie James, Gary Williams, Mark Leonard, Jimmy Quinn, Mick Kennedy – they all guided me and basically said, ‘do this and you’ll make a living’.

“They made me into a player, knowing my ability as well as my weaknesses.

“My job was to win the ball, drive forward and I scored a few goals. But I wanted to give the ball to the really creative players.

“I used to love playing with Paul Jewell. Technically he was a very good player who really should have played a lot higher.

“I’d look for where he was even before the ball came to me.

“I also liked playing alongside Paul Reid because we were similar type of players and used to interchange. It really messed with the opposition and we were both a little bit nasty as well.

“And can you imagine playing with Chris Waddle and Gordon Cowans? I just loved it.

“I’d give them the ball and sit back and watch. They were such a pleasure to play with and great human beings, so normal in the dressing room."