BITESIZE | Brad Friedel: Facing Shearer, Henry and Bergkamp
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Today’s story comes from Brad Friedel, who reveals the three toughest opponents he came up against in football: Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode you'll |
| 0:19.0 | hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day. |
| 0:23.6 | All of them will come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter, |
| 0:27.6 | which you can find by searching on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:32.8 | This guy man, like, I was a goalkeeper that I was a goalkeeper that I communicated a lot and I tried to especially at |
| 0:50.0 | Blackburn at times and we have good teams by the way. |
| 0:53.0 | Blackburn, I mean to touch on that question, |
| 0:56.0 | that was, Blackburn was run by a different board. |
| 0:58.6 | We were good. |
| 0:59.2 | We had, we had very, very formidable teams back then with Graham students and Mark Hughes at the home. |
| 1:06.5 | So you know, very rarely would we go into game thinking that we were going to lose no matter |
| 1:11.0 | where we were playing, but every now and again you would play the great |
| 1:14.8 | the great you know the great man united team and yeah and you were up and you were up against it of course |
| 1:26.3 | but many teams across Europe would have been up against it. You know, it was so anyways, but Alan Sheer and he was at Newcastle and there were times where the Newcastle side wasn't great. |
| 1:33.2 | But I would scan the field and I knew he, you know, at certain moments, |
| 1:38.5 | okay, Sheer is going to be making his run across and he's going to get to that near post. |
| 1:42.0 | I know he's going to be there. I'm going to make sure that I'm going to make |
| 1:45.8 | sure I'm positioned there before I know it. The ball's behind me. Like motherfucker. |
| 1:50.9 | You know what? And I used to especially, you know, at that time I was in my early 30s, so you know, I was calm and I, you know, I could, I could, you know, I get pictures in my head you're playing arsenal the other one that I would I would put in that is Dennis Burke camp. |
| 2:06.7 | So those were probably the two and Dennis I'd have to look I'm sure he scored a goal or something on me, but it was his |
| 2:13.7 | orchestration of what was happening. And I would try to communicate to stop it. And the second, like would for a five minute spell you would like shut him down. He was so clever and he used to then find the space somewhere else. And then I would see Tierra on re drifting off and I just knew that I'm facing a |
| 2:36.8 | one on one with on re on my right hand side. I can't cheat to go to the left to my |
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