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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

BITESIZE | Gary Neville: Evolving the Footballing Brain

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Here’s another Bitesize from the astute Gary Neville. Gary explains his approach to television analysis – don’t treat the viewer as an idiot by stating the obvious. Instead, try to view a match in terms of overall patterns and then break it down by focusing on certain passages of play.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode

0:19.2

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

0:24.4

All of them will come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter,

0:28.4

which you can find by searching on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Today it's Gary Neville from our very first

0:37.2

episode. This is Gary breaking down exactly where his groundbreaking analysis comes from

0:42.0

and what he hopes to achieve every time he steps into the studio. Thundertree in my childhood and my probably early playing careers was incident led.

0:57.1

It was a moment in a game, a sending off, an offside decision, a goal, a bad mistake.

1:05.0

So it's incident led.

1:07.0

Goals don't interest me, and that sounds really daft that thing to say.

1:11.0

The idea, you know, last week with the the Charles Adam goal that scored from 56 yards.

1:14.9

Fantastic but it doesn't interest me. I've got no interest in it. I get bored of it very quickly.

1:20.8

Someone said to me, you know, show me,

1:23.2

break that goal down for me Gary. I couldn't do, I just run it in.

1:26.3

I'd run it in full speed and say great goal. Well done.

1:28.9

Because everybody at home can see how he's done it,

1:32.0

what the goal is, and I'm not telling them anything

1:34.9

they don't know so I don't treat the fan as an idiot I was more interested in

1:38.9

how and why rather than the incident so rather than what happened being the incident is how was a game

1:46.6

one, why was a game one. And sometimes that's the thing that interests me and I think that

1:51.4

when I went into to

1:53.2

punditary I always thought of the game quite analytically I was looking

1:56.2

enough to play under great managers I was looking to play under even like

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