WE’RE solely every week away from the primary week of the Championship season south of the border.
And one of many most-eagerly awaited fixtures pitches Ryan Porteous‘ Watford in opposition to Lyndon Dykes‘ QPR.
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The 2 males have grow to be two of essentially the most trusted and vital members of Steve Clarke‘s nationwide squad.
However there was no quarter requested for or given on their final assembly – even regardless of the very fact Dykes was solely simply again from PNEUMONIA.
Porteous informed the Each day Mail: “I’ve performed in opposition to massive Lyndon earlier than.
“I believe it was his first sport again after having pneumonia, so I believed I used to be going to get a drained Lyndon Dykes.
“However, no, there have been elbows in all places… ‘Once we have been lining as much as shake arms at the beginning of the sport I regarded up and noticed Steve Clarke, so I believed: ‘”Proper, the gaffer is there, I higher be on it now”.
“They gained 1-0, however we have got them first sport of the season subsequent week, in order that needs to be fascinating.”
Porteous is prospering south of the border – after a time in Scotland which noticed him typically hit the headlines, and never at all times for the correct causes.
Former Rangers boss Steven Gerrard refused to shake his hand after one match, then accused him of a ‘wild’ deal with on Joe Aribo after a sport in October 2021 – with Porteous responding with a dig within the former England captain’s route.
There was additionally a run-in with former Aberdeen boss Jim Goodwin, who branded him a cheat.
However Porteous reckons these incidents WEREN’T the driving pressure behind his transfer – and says he was glad to take constructive criticism on board on events when it was made to his face.
He stated: “There was at all times form of noise after I was in Scotland.
“I by no means paid an excessive amount of consideration and it was by no means a driving pressure behind why I wished to depart.
“There was all sort of paper discuss or from pundits who do not actually know me.
“In the event that they have been prepared to offer me recommendation to my face, I’d hearken to it.”
