January 19 – Savage Garden

WITH all their money, expensive cars and page three model girlfriends it is often said that Premier League footballers live on a different planet.

One of our favourite top-flight heroes certainly seemed to live on in a different world to the rest of us, if his grasp of geography is anything to go by.

Yes in the world of Robert James Savage, Britain itself is a different shape to how the rest of us understand it with the town of Blackburn apparently a lot closer to Wrexham than we all thought.

It was on this day in 2005 that Savage engineered himself a transfer to Blackburn Rovers from Birmingham City, citing the fact that he wanted to be nearer to his parents in Wrexham as the main reason for his move.

This despite the fact that the real reason was he wanted to go and play for his old Wales mucker Mark Hughes at Blackburn (for more cash); and that Ewood Park is a grand total of five minutes closer to Wrexham than St Andrews.

Eager to ram home the point The Telegraph stretched the imagination of how millionaire premiership footballers travel just a tad by revealing that if Robbie were to get the train it would take him an hour longer between Wrexham and Blackburn, and he would have to change three times.

Karen Brady, Birmingham chief executive was as baffled as the rest of us at Savage’s sense of direction

“We are all surprised and disappointed by the news of Robbie’s transfer request, especially as it seems he wants to swap Birmingham for Blackburn, which I cannot understand,” she said.

“If Robbie has come to that decision because of the distance between Blackburn and Wrexham, he should take a look on his map.”

Still, Robbie never did mind being hated by all and sundry so adding the other half of the population of the second city (Villa fans obviously already fully paid up members of the I Hate Robbie Savage Club) was probably not going to mean he lost any sleep.

Sav has of course now moved on again and can now be found at Pride Park trying in vein to convince anyone who’ll listen they still have a chance of staying up.

Here is Robbie in a series of clips getting hit in the face by everything from the ball, the referee and even his own teammates.

For all you fans of Italian football, make sure you come back tomorrow for news of a 100 per cent bona fide nailed on absolute legend. Arrivederche.

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