Carl:(doing an accent…) “You never know how it’s gonna go.”
gary: “You only need one foot as well, you already knew that?” carl: “One foot?” guy in studio:“Gary? Gary?” gary: “Yeah?” mic: “The person who is driving…” (??)
Carl:“So it’s in park?” Gary: “You’re in park, yeah.” carl: “Yay…”
gary: “Put your foot there. put your foot on the brake. the brake. that’s the brake.” carl: “The brake?” gary: “The brake. the brake to drive.”
carl:“That’s the brake?” Gary:“Yeah, you need that to drive.” carl:“Oh right.”
gary:“Now take your foot slowely off the break.. slowly. you don’t need to fully accelerate. you don’t need to fully accelerate.” (he’s actually saying about three sentences and repeating himself thirty times)
anthony: “Oh dude.” carl: “Now what?”
Carl actually starts driving…
everyone: “Whoa! whoawhoawhoa! WHOA!”
carl: “Shhh! shh! listen!”
Carl:“I’m gonna go back, then I go forward.”
gary:“No, they want you to reverse in, they don’t want you to go forward
anothony: “Go for it!”
(they start fighting)
carl: (slapping gary’s hand away) “Who’s driving??” anthony:“Can i get out?” Gary:“Pull it up a little bit more.”
more “whoa whoa whoa” while carl wiggles the car back and forth
gary: “Forward. very slow. very easy. just like that. nice and easy.” carl.“Okay okay okay okay.” anthony: “Just that little bit more”
carl:“I’ll get it, i’ll get it, i’ll get it…”
more whoa whoa whoa.
carl:“I could ride a motorbike. can i ride a motorbike??”
anthony: “Cut it to the left. to the left. go to the left.” gary: “Very slowly, swing it in”
whoa whoa whoa
anthony: “Back up a bit more. you gotta cut a lot, cut it a lot. let go of the brake. that was good.” John: “Cut it a bit. go back and come again.” anthony: “You’re gonna get it dude. Cut the wheel all the way to the right.” (carl actually listens, for the first time)
carl:“Okay, now what?” anthony:“Now let go of the brake.” gary:“whoa whoa whoa” anthony:“Just let go of the brake. just let go of the brake. there you go” gary: “Whoa easy! easy!” anthony:“You’ve got another foot.” gary:“Easy! easy!!”
anthony:“Okay. Try to straighten out, go forward.” carl: “Check this out!” anthony:“You’ve got it. you’ve got it.” gary: “Right, just turn it out. turn it in but very very easily.”
anthony:“Let go of the break. nice one!”
(clapping)
carl:“That’s crap, we’re miles away from the wall!”
Anthony:“Who cares? it’s in there and we’re alive!”
(they get out)
anthony: “I’m in here, I’m twelve years old and I’m parking Cadillacs!” (??)
“I had to fight so hard with England. I was bashed and bashed with my England career and, just as I start to come good – and I was going to come good this summer – this happens. It sums up my international career.“
Just for a moment the tears flow. He insists, though, that he wants to continue the interview and soon is reflecting more on the glory of his achievements than the pain of what he has lost. To have captained his country, to have scored a century at international level against Australia, to have played a full part in a series win against the No. 1-ranked Test team in their own backyard: these are tremendous accomplishments.
“I always think of the positives,” he says, managing a rueful smile. “This could have happened when I’m 20. I wouldn’t have played for England, scored centuries for England or captained England. My last full game was in an England shirt and I scored a century.”
‘Might someone at Nottinghamshire have called an ambulance earlier in the day, when he was still in Cambridge? The physio had thought fit to provide him with oxygen in the dressing room, after all. Why risk letting him travel back before seeing a doctor? And, most of all, having allowed him to return home, why simply drop him off at the ground? His mother subsequently found him lying at the foot of a flight of stairs that leads to the players’ dining room. This story could easily have had a much darker ending.’
I know he wanted to avoid going to the hospital at first but this is really worrying.
I’m not a big crier at stuff but this had me going ;_; Idk why but him saying it could’ve happened to him at 20, and he’d never have had an England career at all, really got me. To have achieved so much, maybe with the possibility of this lurking inside him all the time, is incredible. What a guy. I’m so thankful he’s still with us.
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