Mick Quinn on scoring, gambling, fighting and now training horses: 'I banged them in for Coventry... I forgot I'd put £100 on them to go down!'

Daily Mail | January 26, 2018

Mick Quinn is talking records. ‘Calendar year? What the f*** is that all about?’

We are walking through the Newmarket stables where the former striker trains his racehorses. First, though, conversation turns to the penalty box, not the horse box.

In season 1989-90, Quinn scored 39 goals in all competitions for Newcastle United, more than any player that year in a European professional league.

Former Portsmouth, Newcastle and Coventry striker Mick Quinn now trains racehorses

u00a0Outside the penalty area, the rotund Quinn played with the urgency of a second-class stamp — Outside the penalty area, the rotund Quinn played with the urgency of a second-class stamp

He is also the only man to score in his first six Premier League matches, netting 10 times during that run for Coventry City in 1992.