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Was browsing the books in WH Smith in Halesowen yesterday and found Dave Jones's autobiography No Smoke Without Fire. Not sure if this has been out a while or if its fairly new but didn't know about it myself.
Seemed to contain a lot of typical Jones paranoia and victim mentality though I guess this isn't surpising given what he went through with his family.
Naturally I skipped the Everton, Stockport, Southampton and court case chapters to get to the Wolves one and Jones describes how he was desperate to get back into football and things were slow until he got calls about 3 jobs. 2 of which were ourselves and Norwich City. Can't remember the 3rd.
Jones was contacted by Moxey and given an address in London to attend an interview. As he was arriving Dave Bassett came towards him, obviously having just been interviewed. Jones felt the interview didn't go well at all and that he had blown it. He went for an interview with Norwich and if Delia had offered him the job he would have accepted it on the spot and he would never have come to Wolves.
She didn't. Then he received a call from Jez asking him how he felt the interview had gone. He was honest and said he felt it hadn't gone too well at all. Jez then told him they disagreed and offered him the job. He accepted.
Minutes after accepting the Wolves job Norwich were in touch offering him the job at Carrow Road. He turned it down as he had by then given his word to Wolves.
I may buy the book as I would like to read more about his time at Wolves to see if I can gain any insight to life behind the scenes at Molineux.
Seemed to contain a lot of typical Jones paranoia and victim mentality though I guess this isn't surpising given what he went through with his family.
Naturally I skipped the Everton, Stockport, Southampton and court case chapters to get to the Wolves one and Jones describes how he was desperate to get back into football and things were slow until he got calls about 3 jobs. 2 of which were ourselves and Norwich City. Can't remember the 3rd.
Jones was contacted by Moxey and given an address in London to attend an interview. As he was arriving Dave Bassett came towards him, obviously having just been interviewed. Jones felt the interview didn't go well at all and that he had blown it. He went for an interview with Norwich and if Delia had offered him the job he would have accepted it on the spot and he would never have come to Wolves.
She didn't. Then he received a call from Jez asking him how he felt the interview had gone. He was honest and said he felt it hadn't gone too well at all. Jez then told him they disagreed and offered him the job. He accepted.
Minutes after accepting the Wolves job Norwich were in touch offering him the job at Carrow Road. He turned it down as he had by then given his word to Wolves.
I may buy the book as I would like to read more about his time at Wolves to see if I can gain any insight to life behind the scenes at Molineux.
