Article: Football: KINGS OF CLUBS; GARY SPEED: 500TH PREMIER GAME TODAY STEVE CLARIDGE: 1000TH GAME TODAY 'I swopped burgers for seaweed & bananas to stay at the top '.(Sport)

Byline: Alan NIXON

GARY SPEED is a football marathon man as he clocks up his 500th Premiership appearance - but owes his long-playing record to being out paced by Gordon Strachan.

Speed will reach his personal milestone for Bolton Wanderers today but it was watching the older Strachan run away from him when he was a Leeds United prospect that changed his outlook.

The Wales midfielder revealed the life-changing moment when he explained: "I was still stopping off at Burger King in those days, while Gordon was eating his bananas and seaweed.

"We all asked 'why is he ...

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