Where is steve archibald

There was no way, he said, he was wearing the No. Archibald explained how important No. It was the right thing to do, he was sure. He'd take No. You've come to replace Diego, they said; I've come to be Archibald, he replied. Which, as always, he was. He was Barcelona's top scorer as they won the league for the first time in 11 years.

The following season, they reached their first European Cup final in 25 years. Archibald, 63, still lives in Barcelona now, almost a quarter of a century after his final game, a solitary appearance for Home Farm in Dublin.

We took the idea to Nexus, the biggest providers of renewable energy in Spain, and went from there. Whereas Endesa and Iberdrola, for example, will buy their energy at 5, say, add a margin and sell at 7 or 8, we don't.

We buy and sell at cost, with a small management fee, and we keep it clear: The energy sector is complicated in terms of tariffs and it drives people crazy. We like to be transparent, which the industry is not. It's a hell of a place really. If we can simplify it for ourselves and the customers, good. Why, then, don't other energy companies adopt this model? It's green energy; others sell 'dirty' energy: fossil fuels, atomic energy, and it's not clean.

I don't like to use the word 'movement,' but it is something we're pushing. And that links to the medical sector: They're working and curing people, and we want to help cure the planet. It's about awareness. So we decided: OK, let's give them their energy at cost for a year. They don't need to do it now: They're head down, working; they can't lift their head up because all they're doing is working, sleeping, working, sleeping.

No one has been able to stop the world like this, nobody, not a war or anything. Not like this. It's like the world has said, 'Listen, hey, enough. I'm choking here. I'm going to die; you need to stop. There he won the league in under an as yet unknighted Alex Ferguson , before securing a move to Tottenham; another team on the rise from a relatively low ebb. Original Series Brits Abroad. He was joining a club in a slump.

As well as their domestic drought, the unlikely truth was that both of his previous two clubs, Aberdeen and Tottenham, had been more successful in Europe in recent seasons.

Archibald quickly adapted to life in Spain, becoming proficient in the language and embracing the hotter conditions, relishing how it made his muscles looser and more flexible. He was new to the squad, but not a direct replacement for Maradona in his view. With such differing styles, approaches and attributes, how could he have been a replacement? The spectre of Maradona had other implications in the team, as would soon become apparent to the Scot.

It was a matter of great personal importance to him, but it was the number worn at the time by the influential midfielder Bernd Schuster. Eventually Schuster commented that if he gave up the number 8, he would have to wear the number 10 shirt recently vacated by Maradona, and Schuster was wary to say the least of the pressure that would place on him.

Archibald quickly understood that if he forced the issue, as he was contractually entitled to do, it would likely create a rift in the squad, with him as the cause. With Schuster, this would mean the start of a very productive relationship both on and off the field.

Archibald hit the ground running, even before the opening day clash with Real Madrid, scoring twice in a destruction of Boca Juniors in a pre-season tournament. The last board said there was no Plan B. If not, go. Nor does Archibald think Barcelona should retire the shirt Messi wears; the one he wore. Life goes on. Someone like him. I never regretted it, though: a wonderful experience, better than I could have imagined. He pauses and laughs. I was clean through at Wembley, ready to beat Joe Corrigan, and that bastard Bryan Robson took me down.

At Aberdeen we beat the Old Firm. I played for Spurs, played European football, internationals. My confidence has never been knocked. Why should I doubt myself? I said to the kitman: take that off, put my name on. It was a slot and I was on top of Diego.

He left perfumes and stuff behind. I smelled pretty good. I remember sessions on a small pitch with tiny goals. It was visible immediately. The Barcelona vice-president, Joan Gaspart, had promised double the wages and a statue for figures that good. Archibald scored, Barcelona won and went on to be champions for the first time since