LAST Saturday at Mansfield v AFC Telford I had the pleasure of the Stags’ injured defender John Dempster (and ex-NLP work experience boy!) alongside me in the Centre-Halves Union part of the Press box.
The ex-Kettering and Crawley man was co-commentating on local radio with the Stags’ head of media Mark Stevenson, adding another piece of work to his portfolio as part of his sports journalism degree at Stafford University.
The 29-year-old is also writing a ‘Top Secret Whispers’ column for excellent matchday rogramme ‘The Stag’, where he briefs the locals on dressing room shenanigans of a variety much warmer than what occurred at Woking in midweek.
Take winger Lindon Meikle, for example, who prepared for the game at Luton recently by doing something Demps “had never seen before in the dressing room”.
He wrote: “Lindon was warming his boots up with a hairdryer before he put them on!
“He later revealed to me that the hairdryer trick hadn’t worked, and he was running up and down the touchline moments before coming on trying to get some feeling back in his feet because they were numb from the cold!”
It clearly did work in a different way – sub Meikle went on to set up one goal then net the winner!
