He turned twenty eight years old less than a fortnight ago but he is still as agile as an obese teenager, Phil Davis talks to the pigeon about football, MILF's and God (which gets a bit tiring to be honest.)
Furious pigeon managed to catch up with JD
Lions goalkeeper Phil Davis on his local park bench, he is a courteous and unasuming young man: "Hi, how are you? I ain't a paedo, I'm not here for the kids, I'm just perving over the MILF's...have a look through this fisherprice telescope, it's shit but you can see through that chunky MILF's white shorts, (he says pointing)I fucking love this place."
FP:What drives you, Phil?
PD:Well, I've had incredible support from my girlfriend, my parents, my friends, my family because they've pushed me on and encouraged me for every moment of my life...but I'd like to thank God for everything, despite there being absolutely no evidence of his involvement whatsoever.
FP:So why thank him?
PD:Because I'm a good christian which makes me a good person.
Early days
FP:Phil Davis was born with the rare and severe condition of bi-lateral talipes (two clubbed feet) and doctor's weren't sure that you would ever be able to walk, it took two surgeon's Mr Paul Cotterill and Mr Paul Braddish twenty-four years and five seriously, gruelling, surgical procedures costing over £35,000 to rebuild your feet and ankles and here you are at the age of 28 playing regular, amateur football it really is remarkable.
PD:It certainly is remarkable, Mr Pigeon and without those two fantastic surgeon's and consultants (ranked 2nd and 3rd in the UK in their fields) I wouldn't be here today...well, I would be here but I'd probably be a wheelchair-bound, emotional mess, I praise God for healing me, Amen.
Phil played only twice for Meadows primary school as a defender making his debut on the school playing fields of Rubery juniors; "It was then that I decided that I wanted to be a 'keeper, I couldn't stand being outfield." he was ten years old but it wasn't until he was fourteen when he began playing for, Methodist Church funded, AFC Longbridge that his real playing days started. In 1995 AFC Longbridge won the Inter-Birmingham 5-a-side cup at Aston Villa leisure centre with Davis playing in all five games. Davis and AFC Longbridge had to wait four years for their next trophy but it was worth it: "The leisure-leagues premiership trophy at Birmingham university, it was fantastic; we had a great bunch of lads and that season was the result of years of hard work and steroid/nandrolone abuse." Over the next few seasons we won it again twice then got relegated and then won division one to be promoted and won the premiership again in Fox Hollies in Solihul."
Moving to Manchester
Davis moved to the city of Manchester where teams like Manchester united and Manchester city play but he was to create his own team for the company where he worked, National Carparks: "We started out as Spartak Karpark..." he says with a smile on his face "...but we had to change it to get a shirt with the company logo as a sponsor, we became NCP Manchester. We had one season where we finished third in the Stockport leisure league premiership which we could've won but we failed to win our last two games."
Davis' record in his final three seasons was incredible; just 9 defeats in 62 games and conceded just 32 goals.(goalposts were narrower in stockport leisure-leagues) "We went to Amsterdam for a cancer charity tournament, the Willow Cup founded by Bob Wilson which was great and we also played in a five-a-side NCP national cup in Barnet, London but got knocked out in the 2nd round on penaties. I loved it because Manchester is a football town, it's all football and as we were a works team the pressure was on from all corners...the MD of the company wanted to know how we got on, employee's were giving you stick if we got beaten, it was in the monthly newsletter...it was great."
Coming home
One of the most anticipated transfers of the summer saw Davis lured back to the city of his birth by Richie Summerfield who had recomended him to JD Lions player/manager James Walker who did not hesitate to snap up the veteran 'keeper (despite having never seen him play) "I'd wanted to move back here, things had gone a little stale in Manchester and I needed a fresh challenge and I'd got an apartment here with my girlfriend so I jumped at the chance to sign for JD."
Phil Davis's rubbish book; 'Jesus Saves and so do I, occasionally, Amen!' published by Ladybird books is out now (we're confident that you won't have to reserve a copy) price: £4.65 (inc VAT)
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