Steven Caulker lifts lid on wild Dundee spell fuelled by drunken defiance, hotel fire alarms and police tags
dailyrecord.co.ukSteven Caulker reveals Dundee gave him his love for football back ... even if his "mental" stint in Scotland saw his captain order him to get "f****** smashed" from the table at Pizza Express.
The towering defender's short stint in Tayside got his career back on track after falling off the radar at QPR and five years on he's playing regularly for Wigan Athletic.
Caulker, who admits he once refused to play at Southampton because he was too embarrassed, says his spell in the SPFL was a much-needed reality check.His time there left Neil McCann on his knees after going through three captains in three weeks thanks to off-pitch antics, though they did eventually stave off relegation and finish ninth in the league.
Caulker only wore the armband for one game; he claims it was stripped from the previous skipper for giving an over-exuberant team talk on the table at dinner, before he lost it himself for setting off the fire alarm in a Dundee hotel.
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