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Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

At Home: S2E09 - The Secret Footballer

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Colin gets a visit from The Secret Footballer, the anonymous purported Premier League footballer who lifts the lid on what actually happens in the dressing room and within the confines of the corridors of football, and what life is really like off the pitch for a professional player.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Doleepa, and I'm at your service.

0:04.7

Join me as I serve up personal conversations with my sensational guests.

0:08.8

Do a leap interviews, Tim Cook.

0:11.2

Technology doesn't want to be good or bad.

0:15.0

It's in the hands of the creator.

0:16.7

It's not every day that I have the CEO of the world's biggest company in my living room.

0:20.7

If you're looking at your phone more than you're looking in someone's eyes, you're doing the wrong thing.

0:26.0

Julie, at your service.

0:28.0

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0:31.0

Hello everybody at home is here again with an episode unlike any other

0:38.1

before this series has always been about sitting down with a sports person and

0:42.3

getting to know them better, I suppose.

0:44.7

The real name, but in this case, that's going to be impossible because the secret footballer

0:50.3

is exactly that, and while rumors swirl around the same few names his

0:55.8

identity remains a topic for debate he writes from inside the dressing room his

1:00.1

books and his columns divide opinion but it definitely offers up a different

1:04.5

insight into the inner workings of the game. This at home is not a boy trying to

1:08.9

out him or trying to provide ultimate clues but instead just to see if in my living room we can

1:14.5

understand why he does it why he hides in plain sight it's a little bit of a

1:18.9

challenge as well I imagine in parts it's going to have to be quite an impersonal interview, a normal interview if you like.

1:25.2

But that's a change for at home.

1:26.8

Hopefully by the end we'll get the grips with why he does it and the big question

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