Thursday, March 24, 2011

The Big Interview: Marcus Hahnemann

The Wolves goalkeeper – and Premier League's only pilot – tells how he leaves the worries of the pitch on the ground.

Hahnemann, like most goalkeepers, has always been regarded as a little eccentric. The former Reading keeper has a sizeable gun collection, listens to heavy metal, likes to go deer stalking near his old home in Berkshire, spends hours doing up the many cars he owns and, to the bemusement of his team-mates completes a 10-mile round trip into training on his mountain bike every day.

Yet even by Hahnemann's standards, flying a plane seems a little extreme.

Could he not have picked a safer hobby? "I don't think it's dangerous. It's definitely not as dangerous as those guys on the team driving their cars on the road," Hahnemann says.

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