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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

BITESIZE | Dean Smith: My journey from fan to manager at Villa

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today’s story comes from Dean Smith, who talks about growing up watching perhaps the greatest team ever assembled at Villa Park as the likes of Allan Evans, Andy Gray and Gordon 'Sid' Cowans captured the league title before going on to lift the European Cup.

Listen to the original full episodes:

Dean Smith: How to Build a £100m player - The Big Interview with Graham Hunter | Acast

Dean Smith: Villa 7 Liverpool 2 and other Extraordinary Stories - The Big Interview with Graham Hunter | Acast



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you'll hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day.

1:03.2

All of them will come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter, which you can find

1:08.0

by searching on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. The ones that I looked up to then, as I say, Andy Gray, Brian Lille, and then it was Gary Shaw,

1:24.7

Sid Cowans. And later when I was actually involved in football and playing myself, still

1:29.6

watching Villa from afar, it became Paul McGrath, you know, and I do remember one player who we signed a French player who everybody really got excited about called Didiasis?

1:44.0

Didiocese, yeah, yeah.

1:46.0

Oh, I remember coming and playing against Manchester United and we were sat in

1:50.6

this Trinity Road by the dugout, and it it was like we haven't seen foreign flare before and it was so

1:56.5

exciting to go and watching but even playing the season we won the we won the title

2:02.4

going and watching the game against

2:03.9

Dib Switch and seeing Arnold Muir and play and and players like that, Frank Tyson.

2:08.8

It was, you know, great to see that there was actual foreign flare coming into the game then and let's

2:15.5

be you know we have to be honest about it that's what's actually you know probably

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