Alan Shearer on 30 years of the Premier League
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Thirty years ago today, the Premier League kicked off for the first time, so who better for Jimbo to look back on three decades of the Best League in the World™ with than Alan Shearer?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:09.0 | It's Monday morning, the 15th of August, 2020. |
| 0:13.8 | And it's 30 years ago to the day that the Premier League kicked off. |
| 0:18.3 | They were different times back there with a full 22 teams, just 13 foreign players, |
| 0:23.0 | and an opening day defeat by a clueless Manchester United. |
| 0:26.1 | Different times. |
| 0:27.4 | To mark this anniversary anyway, we're going to take a special down-memory lane reminisce now |
| 0:32.1 | with the man who is the Premier League's all-time top goal scorer and so much more, Alan Shearer. |
| 0:40.0 | Unbelievably, unbelievable. |
| 0:43.2 | 30 years of the Premier League, Alan, and an amazing time for you. |
| 0:48.0 | You set records, perhaps never to be broken. |
| 0:50.6 | You creosote a fence, same. |
| 0:53.2 | Not true, but yeah. |
| 0:51.3 | Is it not? No, I never. That was my father-in-law. I was too hung over to creosote any fence. I see. I see. You did get into the Hall of Fame. That was you, wasn't it? The first name in there. Yes, that was there. Fortunately for me, that was definitely me, yeah. Excellent. and you scored a lot of goals. |
| 1:11.2 | Do you remember opening lot of goals. |
| 1:16.2 | Do you remember opening day of the Premier League back in 1992? |
| 1:20.2 | I remember as if it was yesterday. |
| 1:23.2 | I was Britain's most expensive player, |
| 1:24.6 | having just moved to Blackburn. |
| 1:26.8 | I didn't feel any pressure. |
| 1:28.8 | I loved the day. I loved whatever came with it. And where have 30 years gone? The 30th anniversary, it's just incredible how |
| 1:38.1 | quick it's gone. It really is unbelievable. Well, plenty of things are still more or less the same, |
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