Robbie Savage Reveals Shocking Health Scare as Manager: "My Heart-Race Hit 189—Panic Attack in the Dead of Night"
He moved to Birmingham and showed Leicester fans exactly where his allegiances lay when he played them in December 2003. “I kissed the badge because my mentality was when I got booed, I’ll show you. I’m instinctive. Sometimes I’d say something and then think, ‘oh, boy, what have I done that for’. Paolo Maldini’s shirt.” He threw the Italian legend’s shirt away for the TV cameras before an international. “Because I want to please.” And occasionally wind up. “Graeme Souness chased me down the tunnel at Birmingham once (in 2004). I told him he was fifth choice for the Newcastle job!” I want to show people at the club I’m at that I’m all in.”
He re-appraises one opinion. “I also know what it’s like to be disloyal – at Birmingham.” He agitated for a move to Blackburn in 2005. “I pushed that,” he acknowledges. At the time, Savage claimed that he wanted to be closer to his poorly parents in Wrexham. There was two miles’ difference. “I was idolised at Birmingham. Because of what I’d given for the club. But I wanted to go and play for Mark Hughes. I earned more money, let’s be totally realistic.” He moved on after three years. “I went to Derby – Nigel Clough is great.
“Blackburn and Derby are the two sets of fans who welcome me back. Otherwise, every club I seem to leave, whether I’ve been loyal or disloyal, there’s a tendency not to like me. It does hurt. I should be going back to Birmingham as a club legend. I couldn’t walk out at the King Power. Some would applaud, but the majority wouldn’t.
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