606 Savage Social: Glenn Hoddle
606
BBC
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The former England manager and one of the most talented footballers of his generation, Glenn Hoddle, joins Robbie Savage to answer your questions and shares fascinating insight into his life in football.
He discusses his time in charge of England, including taking them to the 1998 World Cup, leaving Paul Gascoigne out of that squad, dropping David Beckham for the first match and that heart-breaking defeat on penalties to Argentina in the knock-out stages.
Plus, he talks about his playing career with Tottenham Hotspur and Monaco, being player manager at Swindon and Chelsea, then returning to Spurs as a head coach.
606 Savage Social is a Shooting Shark Production for BBC 5 Live.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's 2003 in Birmingham. |
| 0:04.4 | Doors have been slammed in your face, you're not welcome here. |
| 0:07.1 | They were capable of murder. |
| 0:08.4 | Drive-by killings, gang wars, a vigilante group that fought against Jamaica's notorious yardies. |
| 0:15.6 | The home boy thought we're not going to take this anymore. |
| 0:17.8 | We're going to be even more violent than you. |
| 0:19.6 | Before turning on each other. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Livy Haydock and this is gangster, the story of the Burger Bar boys. |
| 0:27.6 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.1 | BBC Sounds, Music radio podcasts. Music, Radio Podcasts. Hi everyone it's Robbie Savage here thanks for listening to the |
| 0:43.2 | six or six savage social we're recording these podcasts from our homes during the |
| 0:47.0 | lockdown so you might hear the occasional dog doorbell lormo or child in the background |
| 0:51.1 | but I'm sat home and still lucky enough that a lot my former |
| 0:54.0 | teammates and opponents still talk to me. I'm going to get them on the line and put your |
| 0:58.8 | question to them. The person I'm speaking to today was one of the most talented English |
| 1:06.9 | footballers of his generation. He played 377 times for Tottenham Hotaught post-piburn, winning 2 FA Cubs and the Awafet Cup. |
| 1:16.0 | He moved to Monaco on one elite title. |
| 1:19.0 | He made 53 appearances for England including being selected for the 1982 and 86 World Cups. |
| 1:25.6 | He became player manager of Swindon town leading them into the Premier League |
| 1:30.1 | before taking charge at Chelsea and was credited the start and the rebuild of the club |
| 1:35.8 | attracting players of the caliber of Ru Pollitt and Newton the 1994 FA Cup final |
| 1:42.0 | losing Manchester United. |
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