Jim Burnside provides a warm welcome for Jim Stevenson to join the Assist podcast for this episode and it immediately kicks off with Craig Mackail-Smith and Jim Stevenson not remembering if they have been in the same team at the same time but agreeing they were quite literally in their own personal struggles at that time.

Craig and Jim Stevenson spent time together (they think) at Luton Town during their careers and they both discuss with Jim Burnside the physical and mental demand they would put on their bodies after team training had finished and what they would do the night before a game, is this a healthy obsession they had?

As Jim Stevenson takes us on a journey of his fitness pursuit outside of football he shares that he couldn’t allow himself to socialise with teammates (unless fitness was involved) and how dedicated he was. As ...