The signing of the Dutch nobody seemed to come out of nowhere. Another quick-fix by the all-powerful Rudi Assauer? Hardly.\n\nAssauer knew exactly what he was doing.
He had noticed Stevens long before, at a summer tournament with Roda in 1995. Stevens later remembered seeing a man in shorts and with a cigar in his mouth simply wandering across the pitch between the players and thinking: what on earth sort of bloke is that?