http://fourfourtwo.com/interviews/one-on-one/178/article.aspx including:- When did you first hear the name Sparky? - I was wondering, so googled it "With a group of friends when I was seven or eight. For some reason, we decided we were going to be nicknamed after a comic. I had a mate called Beano, so I had to pick one. There was a comic called Sparky, it rhymed with Mark, so I picked that. It wasnât because I was a frustrated electrician or anything, although I did have visions of being one." You were known as âLager Legsâ as a lad in Wrexham. Was there a point when you realised that booze and football didnât mix? "Yes. I wrote a book and they were trying to sell the serialisation rights to a newspaper. They needed to hang it on something so we came up with this one chapter which Iâve regretted ever since. Itâs as cynical as that, Iâm afraid. I enjoyed a drink; I was part of a generation that did and I was doing no more, no less than anybody else. It was never a problem for me."
