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I Had Trials Once...

Anthony Kay | Barnsley Drinking Culture, Issues with Simon Davey & THAT Promotion Winning Penalty!

I Had Trials Once...

I Had Trials Once...

Comedy, Sports, Soccer

4.8 β€’ 647 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

We're back with another episode of I Had Trials Once and this time we're joined by former Barnsley, Tranmere, Huddersfield, MK Dons, Bury, Port Vale, Chorley, Bala Town & Runcorn Linnets player...ANTHONY KAY! Anthony sits down to talk all things football from growing up at Barnsley to turmoil times as Bury FC entered administration. The lads start the pod discussing Jordan's Christmas drip to Belfast with the Radcliffe squad, what it's like still playing vets football and Anthony loving life as a coach at Southport. Anthony then talks the lads through his early life in football playing for Barnsley, the feeling of making his first team debut and having to do brutal dressing room initiations. The trio then chat in depth about the drinking culture at Barnsley in the early days, why Anthony had big issues with manager Simon Davey & why the chairman tried to sabotage his career. They then chat about Anthony's time at Huddersfield, the strength of their squad in League One and the experience of that promotion win. The lads then discuss life after Huddersfield at MK Dons and Bury before the latter would enter administration and the struggles that come with it with players not being paid. Finally they end the pod talking about his time at Bala Town in the Welsh League, the experience of playing in Europe before making the decision to step in coaching/management with Runcorn Linnets. πŸ”— Join our Patreon below for as little as Β£3 a month and get access to all of the best unfiltered and unedited stories that normally have to be cut! πŸ‘‡ https://www.patreon.com/IHadTrialsOnce/membership 🎧 You can listen to the full episode wherever you normally get your podcasts via the link below! https://podfollow.com/i-had-trials-once πŸ“³ Make sure you Like, Comment & Subscribe & turn on notifications so it lets you know when a new episode drops. Let us know in the comments who you want to see on a future episode of the Podcast! πŸ‘‡ πŸ“² Follow us on social! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Twitter: https://twitter.com/IHadTrialsOnce Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ihadtrialsonce TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ihadtrialsonce Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IHadTrialsOncePodcast/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.4

All our Sainsbury's party food is three for two with nectar. Like our taste the difference, crispy mushroom tartlets, mini-waggy beef cheeseburgers or crispy chicken bowel buns. That will get them coming back for seconds. And thirds. Want to save big on party pleasers? Ask Sainsbury's. Sainsbury's good food for all of us. 18 plus, Nects required, cheapest product free, available in store and online, excluding locals subject to availability, T's and C's Apply. Welcome back, pal. Are we on? We're on. Is that it? Right. Straight into it. How you feeling? Rough, mate. You look rough. Yeah. It's not, it wasn't the two-day bender in Belfast. Definitely was the two-day bender. It wasn't that. That's what I've told all my work this week because I've had to cancel. I've been ill. To be fair, when did I speak to you on the phone? I think it was Monday-ish and you was ill. ill. Yeah. You was really ill. Well, I got an early

1:28.2

flight back. That's not like me, is it? That's when you know you're ill. Yeah. Especially

1:33.8

you like you're there till the very last kind of drink, aren't you? Yeah. And so, yeah,

1:39.0

just I had to take myself away on the Sunday. Just got some scrant on my own. Well, me and Rio. And, yeah.

1:46.8

Fernand? Where you go, yeah? Rio Clegg. It's not quite. Yeah, it's got myself some scranding

1:52.9

then when I got back a bucked in a early fight and just got myself out of there. What's Belfast like?

1:58.1

It was good, but our captain, well, I'm the captain, not our captain, our social

2:04.6

sec, let's call him, Smithy, didn't tell us that our old tell had cancelled on us.

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