Jan Molby talks to Huw Richards and tells him about cultural changes in his time in England and the transition from player to manager
As a youngster, how conscious were you of British football?
Very aware of it. In my part of Denmark, the interest was in English and German football – in other parts it’s only in the English game. The Danish game then was still amateur. My first team was Arsenal. It was the year they won the double and while I didn’t know what the double was, you get interested in teams you see a lot on television. That interest in British football is still there in Denmark. There was a period when you had stars like the Laudrup brothers playing in Spain and Italy when they got the similar coverage, but nowadays all the kids want to play for Manchester United, who have incredible support in Denmark, the same way Liverpool do in Norway. I remember when we played Rosenberg, there were about 10,000 people to greet us at the airport and in a stadium holding 24,000 there were 21,000 supporting Liverpool.
