All Wednesday: Imre Varadi

The Star, Sheffield

On this week's edition of 'All Wednesday' we sat down with former Sheffield Wednesday favourite, Imre Varadi, to talk about his time with the Owls, quite literally having his pants pulled down, and what's happening now with 'Imre Banana'...

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00:00Imre, you joined Wednesday at an interesting time, didn't you?

00:04It was before, I suppose, the glory years that a lot of people remember now, of the 90s.

00:10What was it like when you joined Wednesday and how did that move come about in the first place?

00:14It was funny because I was playing for Newcastle at the time and I was scoring a lot of goals in the No. 9 shirt there

00:21and Arthur Cox came to me in training and said,

00:25we've accepted a bid from Howard Wilkinson at Sheffield Wednesday.

00:29We want you to go and have talks with him.

00:31I said, no, I'm happy here, I'm scoring goals, I'm quite happy here.

00:35So after the fifth time of asking me, I decided to come down to speak to Howard Wilkinson.

00:42So that was a Newcastle thing rather than not wanting to join Wednesday?

00:46At the time, but it was a great move for me in the end.

00:49On the fifth time, I thought, well, the club obviously wanted to accept the transfer fee

00:54and I went to talks with Howard Wilkinson.

00:57I'm trying to think of the old chairman, I can't think of his name.

01:01Can you remember?

01:03No, not at that time.

01:05It was a bit before my time.

01:07So I had talks with Howard and listened to what plans he had and then decided to sign for Sheffield Wednesday.

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