Kalvin Phillips Interview
Posted: Fri 23 Jul, 2021 11:10 am
This is a video of Kalvin Phillips showing Ian Wright around where he grew up and played football in Armley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-spJoinPxeI
Worth watching even if you are not a football fan. It has some good footage of street scenes in Armley and aerial shots of the railway cutting.
He played his football on the "Mushy field" which I recognized as the old West Leeds High School rugby pitches, which I played on with the oval ( never the round) ball in the 1960s. The author Peter Robinson, an old boy of the school, describes playing rugby on this muddy field in one of his Inspector Banks novels. Even in the 1960s there was a problem with effluent from a mushroom factory which used to turn the field into a mud bath resembling the Somme and it seems to have continued unabated for 50 years until Kalvin Phillips time there, but he mentions that the factory has now been replaced by housing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-spJoinPxeI
Worth watching even if you are not a football fan. It has some good footage of street scenes in Armley and aerial shots of the railway cutting.
He played his football on the "Mushy field" which I recognized as the old West Leeds High School rugby pitches, which I played on with the oval ( never the round) ball in the 1960s. The author Peter Robinson, an old boy of the school, describes playing rugby on this muddy field in one of his Inspector Banks novels. Even in the 1960s there was a problem with effluent from a mushroom factory which used to turn the field into a mud bath resembling the Somme and it seems to have continued unabated for 50 years until Kalvin Phillips time there, but he mentions that the factory has now been replaced by housing.