13: Paul Merson

The Greatest Game with Jamie Carragher

Buzz 16

Sports, Football

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week Jamie is with an Arsenal legend, to talk about his career and life on and off the pitch.
Paul Merson was one of the most talented players of his generation, winning 2 league titles, the FA Cup, League Cup and The Cup Winners Cup with the Gunners before spells at Villa, Middlesbrough and Portsmouth.
Paul and Jamie discuss his life as a manager, living with Gaza, and his battle with addiction.
The Magic Man chooses a greatest game that takes him back to his childhood!
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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the greatest game with me, Jamie Carreger, where each week I'll
0:10.4	be speaking to a footballer or a football fan.
0:12.9	About their team, they love a football and I'll be asking what is the greatest game of
0:17.6	football they've ever seen or played in.
0:22.0	This week I'm joined by Arsenal legend and one of the best one-footed players I've ever
0:25.6	seen.
0:26.6	Paul Merson spent 11 seasons with the gunners which included the famous Triumph in 1989
0:31.5	when I asked the one the tightler I'm field in one of the most famous games of all time.
0:35.9	Paul shares stories about his life on and off the pitch and at a life of amazing highs
0:40.2	and some serious roles.
0:42.1	This is the greatest game with Paul Merson.
0:50.1	The delight is to be joined by Paul Merson on the greatest game podcast within a Merson
0:55.1	local hotel as people milling about.
0:57.1	The whole hotel is a dreamkin.
0:59.1	The country club is this, this will be a hotel and never feel this would be so.
1:02.1	There's people laughing, people laughing, people drinking so it's been a noise in the
1:07.7	background apologies.
1:08.7	I just want to start with the fact that maybe not a lot of people know that you were a
1:13.7	big Chelsea man as a kid before you joined the Arsenal.
1:17.4	What was your era and what was your face game you went to watching Chelsea?
1:22.0	First game was a Westam in the 80s, early 80s.
1:26.4	I went with my dad's mate because all my family are Arsenal, every one of them.
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