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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

BITESIZE | Joe Jordan: Don Revie was the master of preparation

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today’s story comes from Joe Jordan, who describes the revolutionary preparations undertaken by Leeds United’s legendary manager Don Revie.

Listen to the classic versions of the original episodes:

Classic Big Interview: Joe Jordan Part One - The Big Interview with Graham Hunter | Acast

Classic Big Interview: Joe Jordan Part Two - The Big Interview with Graham Hunter | Acast



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0:00.0

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

0:17.6

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

0:22.3

day.

0:22.8

All of them will come from my podcast,

0:24.8

the big interview with Graham Hunter,

0:26.8

which you can find by searching on Spotify

0:29.2

or wherever you get your podcasts. Pretty much every single soccer player we've spoken to had at least one incredible story about a manager that they'd played under.

0:38.0

Joe Jordan shows us the revolutionary preparations that Don Rivey undertook.

0:44.0

I have a fascination about Don, and because you were there because Eddie Gray I thought was when I was

0:56.4

grow I thought was a genius I would have paid everything I ever had to watch Eddie Gray play

1:00.5

because he was so good but when you throw in yourself and eventually

1:04.8

David Harvey and Gordon McQueen Peter Lorimer it leads what I said I followed all

1:09.3

the time and right from my earliest days but But I never really understood, I haven't really understood,

1:16.0

I didn't know until very recently that as a footballer himself,

1:21.0

before we even talk about what he was as a leader or an

1:23.7

organizer or a builder of a club and a coach that he'd been a very very good player he

1:29.8

was a football writer's player of, 55 at City, described, I never saw obviously as a sort of

1:37.0

of Hideguchi, this deep lying striker.

1:40.0

There's nothing new under the sun.

1:41.6

We all got very excited about messy being moved deep.

1:45.0

So if Bobby was his representative on the picture, describe the man that you met who signed you, having seen you playing it center half for Morton against Jeff

1:54.2

Assal and a friendly which would have been an experience at the time.

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