Taylor ‘Would Kick His Granny to Win’

By Nick Raynor
April 12 2006

Newcastle United defender Steven Taylor is nearly ready to play again, and would kick his own granny to win according to Glenn Roeder.

Taylor has spent months on the sidelines with a shoulder injury but the young centre-back is nearly back to full fitness.

 

Roeder said:

 

"I've been very impressed with Steven Taylor," said Roeder. "Some days he works on his own but he's back to a level of physical fitness. If he had full movement in the shoulder he'd be fit enough to play."

 

"Physically he'd have been okay to send out to play on Sunday but we have to get the full range of movement in his shoulder,"

 

"He's been doing lots of swimming and working in the gym. In between times he's out working with us."

 

"It's not a problem of us saying, `Be careful, no crashing into Steven.' The problem is to get Steven to stop crashing into players,"

 

"It's a long time since I've seen a player who I get the feeling would kick his granny to win and that's lovely - although not for granny."