I’m an ex-EFL boss… club owner kicked me up the backside for goading fans before running off to do same thing

EFL fable Andy Hessenthaler has opened up connected the craziest moments of his career.

Hessenthaler, 59, starred for Watford, Hull and Gillingham during his playing career.

After hanging up his boots successful 2007 helium past moved into coaching, and has managed Gillingham, Dover, Leyton Orient and Eastleigh.

His acquisition crossed the football pyramid has churned up immoderate singular stories, ranging from furious managers to chaotic proprietor antics.

The icon lifted the lid connected immoderate of his experiences arsenic portion of SunSport's "What the EFL series?"

Best ever player?

Kevin Phillips would beryllium the standout subordinate for maine successful the EFL due to the fact that the amount of goals helium scored and helium had a fantastic career.

Most annoying EFL fans?

Got to beryllium Millwall. (Laughing) Has to be.

Maddest dressing country tale?

Lindsay Parsons, bless him he's passed distant now. We was losing a crippled - I can't retrieve who it was against - and helium mislaid his head.

He kicked the doorway and arsenic he's kicked the doorway his ft got stuck successful the door.

Everyone was trying to support a consecutive look but helium really couldn't get his ft retired of the door.

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Craziest transportation story?

I signed Paulo Gazzaniga from Valencia and we ended up, wrong a twelvemonth erstwhile helium got successful to the squad we were, selling him to Southampton.

But the craziest happening for maine was I got to Southampton with him and different cause turned up retired of the blue.

There were 2 agents saying they represented the lad truthful we couldn't bash the medical.

Fortunately for the lad it went done and helium signed for Southampton.

Wildest proprietor antics?

Old Leyton Orient president [Francesco Becchetti].

We were playing connected boxing time against Portsmouth.

We were losing the game, and the manager was getting a small spot of instrumentality from the fans but astatine half-time the owner had travel down and sat behind our dugout.

I kept looking around, the subs were looking. I was similar 'what's up with this guy? Has helium been drinking? What's happening?' All helium kept shouting was 'Andy, Andy'. 

We won the crippled and the guys who were giving Ian [Hendon] the manager a small spot of abuse, I benignant of cupped my receptor a small bit, to accidental you're not going to springiness him immoderate instrumentality now. 

And arsenic I did that and we travel retired of the dugout and stood up idiosyncratic kicked maine up the backside.

I've turned circular and it's the owner, the adjacent infinitesimal the proprietor conscionable ran disconnected down the broadside of the pitch, took his overgarment off, ran past the Orient fans clapping them, went implicit to the Portsmouth fans and started goading the Portsmouth fans.

I couldn't judge it, I've conscionable been attacked by the owner.