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Q&A interview featuring Christian Roberts

 
General football questions

1) What team do you support? I don't really support any team in particular. If I had to choose I would probably say Cardiff, because that's the team I went to watch as a boy.


2) What is the favourite ground you have played at? For sheer noise and atmosphere I would have to say The Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. I played in front of 60,000 fans there in the League Two play off final against Brighton. It was electric.


3) What is your career footballing highlight? Again, playing at the Millennium Stadium, and winning promotion with Swindon last season of course.


4) What was your worst moment in football? Being an unused substitute for Wales against the USA. I would have loved to have been capped by my country.


5) Who was/is your role model in the game? Ian Wright. I always admired the way he came from the bottom and worked his way up to the top.


6) What is your most embarrassing moment? Probably the away game at Rochdale this year. The ball went out of play and another got thrown in, only for me to boot it straight over the stand.

Town questions

1) What was your favourite Swindon game? It has to be Walsall at home, when we clinched promotion on the last day of the season. It was just a great day, brilliant for the players and the fans.

2) What was your worst Swindon game? Rotherham away in 2005. That was the start of my fall to be honest. It's the last game I can remember before I went on a downward spiral.

3) Who's the biggest practical joker at the club? I'd like to think I'm up there with the best of them, but for banter there's nobody better than Ady Williams.

4) Who gets the most stick about their dress sense? Again, that's Ady Williams. And he loves to drop a name as well. He'll come into training and say something like "I spent £300 on this jumper". You should see his Christmas jumpers. But Jerel Ifil has the worst gear out of everyone - it's terrible.

5) Who is the most intelligent member of the squad? Scouse Nico (Andy Nicholas) is definitely a good man to have in your pub quiz team. He's a bright boy, I'll give him that, but he also knows a lot of useless things as well.

6) Who is the least intelligent member of the squad? Probably Jerel, he's a good lad but he doesn't think before he speaks sometimes!


Hobbies and other interests

1) What do you do away from football? My hobbies are my two kids really. I'm still going to AA meetings too, which takes up some of my time.

2) What kind of music do you listen to? I'm a big fan of R&B and hip hop. I also like listening to garage.

3) Who is your favourite pin-up? Apart from my wife? I would say Jordan, or maybe Halle Berry.

4) What is your martial status? married, wife Janine.

5) What's your favourite food? I love Italian food. I would have a caprese to start with, followed by steak in peppercorn sauce and sautee potatoes and the biggest chocolate cake you could ever imagine for a desert.

6) What's your favourite TV programme? I love American comedies like Fresh Prince of Bel Air, My Wife and Kids and Friends. Trouble TV and MTV Base are the two channels that are always on in my house.



Trouble TV???  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

He's a classy bloke.

I like his taste.

My favourite thing about Mr Roberts was the way him and "Janine" stood in the corridor outside my hotel room the morning after the ball having a shouting match at each other at about 8:30am  :evil:

His son Ethan is a little fucker.

A friend of mine was sat in the Arkells one match behind Ethan and his mum. He kept jumping on the seat and saying ''oi, thats my dad down there''.  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

i've had the miss fortune to have the roberts clan sat behind me at a game.constant kicking of my seat for 90 mins.

Yeah Ethan is a little devil.

both kids were,dunno the names

Oooooooooo

What were they argueing about ?

i reckon roberts demands for anal were thwarted

made me laugh at the end of the season, roberts came out and was signing autographs and Ethan said daddy can i have your autograph, half way though being interupted with a sharp no  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

probably wanted a pint

They weren't on talking terms at 2 in the morning either. Was quite a moody git, but saying that I was pissed as a fart!  :mrgreen:

I'm not sure how you classify a steak with peppercorn sauce and sautee potatoes as Italian?

true

If you eat it in Italy?

Thats exactly what I was thinking

They were arguing about something stupid like one of them had left something in the room - mind you my head was a little fuzzy!

:D Ethans a little legend.He sat behind us loads last season with mrs.roberts.
He kept hitting my dads head though with an inflatable hand. In the end though he befriended my dad and told him how proud of his dad he was despite saying 'my dads the bald one in the blue shirt'.I think he got a bit confused.

Ethan is gonna be trouble when a teenager. Think of a young, more arrogant Roberts.