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Former Derby midfielder Robbie Savage says insecurity over his own performances led to him logging on to club message boards using an alias and posting positive comments about himself.

Savage played over 100 games for Derby between 2008 and 2011 and says he would post comments after a poor performance.

鈥淚 was the most insecure person ever, to the point where when I signed for Derby and was having a shocker, you know those chat boards? I made up a name, went on them and used to say, 鈥楻obbie played well today, didn鈥檛 he.鈥�

鈥淪eriously, I was that insecure I used to phone newspaper reporters up if I got a six or a five in the paper and say, 鈥榃hat are you talking about, what game were you at? I was at least an eight or a nine!鈥�

鈥淚 was so insecure as a person, I鈥檇 have the best game in the world and I鈥檇 still think, am I going to be playing next week? I鈥檇 phone four, five, six different people to say I played well,鈥� he added.

This clip is from Flintoff, Savage and the Ping Pong Guy, first broadcast on Monday 27 February 2017.

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