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Open Goal - Football Show

261: Si Ferry Meets... Jim Leishman | Tales From a Lifetime in Football

Open Goal - Football Show

Fitba Media Ltd

Sports, Soccer, Football, News, Sports News

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week we're delighted to be joined by one of the biggest personalities the Scottish game has seen with the effervescent Jim Leishman chatting with Si about his playing and management career.

From scoring the winner at Ibrox, to rejuvenating his beloved Dunfermline on multiple occasions as Manager and leading a newly established Livingston to their remarkable rise to 3rd in Scotland's top flight - this one is as mad a story as you'll hear!

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0:00.0

Yes, we've got an absolute legend on the show being desperate to get him on. It's the dawn of

0:19.8

done firm one. General Hishman, how are you Mr. Hishman? Oh great Simon, you know obviously

0:26.1

it's a strange time and everybody's life but we're just getting on with it. Oh yeah I must say

0:31.9

I've seen a picture of you I don't know if you've seen it doing the rounds but what a handsome young

0:35.6

man you are eh? You better believe it, Don Juan. Don Juan, that was George Marlor my manager. He used to

0:42.2

call me Don Juan every Saturday. Really going to the late Don Juan, who you were the late Don Juan?

0:47.2

Oh yeah. And on my palm just say what the what a pala butto me you know I mean I was a big fish and

0:53.1

then they go all the way minerals that I left today. I thought I was going to say how did you spend

0:58.9

any time playing football? You must have been playing Kise Kise Kachio then? No I just stood

1:03.3

I just stood there Simon they caught me. You didn't even run for the rolling birds at that age.

1:09.0

Oh bro right when talking about the playing career at a start with John now tell us if you scored the i-box

1:14.8

Oh no I don't know who took you that Simon but one of the proudest nights of my life. I think I

1:22.8

was a star at teenage area in Newfoundland it was a six-stage when they had a really really good

1:28.8

scoring place. They had paid an answer in 96 to 9 scores to go on. We were really struggling for

1:35.8

to avoid relegation. They drew me Clyde on this area scored on this area due to and in the i-box.

1:42.0

I think it was two weeks before Rangers went to Barcelona if we must go down a

1:46.6

more and John Gregg was on a player for that team wasn't it wasn't a playing he was the cover

1:51.7

of a wee injury so he didn't play with the rest of the big team played and that scored the fourth

1:57.1

goalie. The one fourth three eight to first minute Gov. Nend just to say the box left fit.

2:04.5

Know that I can't I can't even watch it with it. That was a big green just man wouldn't he?

2:09.8

He was a Rangers man I'm a father eh but he supported me Simon he was he was my he was a

2:15.2

mentor he was a great guy my father eh. They're a cool man they're hard to manage,

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