BITESIZE | Quinton Fortune: Scholes was on another level
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Today’s story comes from Quinton Fortune, who recalls being mesmerised by Paul Scholes’ passing ability at Manchester United.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Vic interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode |
| 0:17.8 | you'll hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day. All of them come from my podcast, |
| 0:25.0 | the big interview with Graham Hunter, which you can find by searching on Spotify or wherever you get |
| 0:30.9 | your podcasts. |
| 0:32.0 | Quinton Fortune was in wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:36.0 | Quinton Fortune was in awe of schools, especially when he arrived at Old Trafford, |
| 0:39.0 | and Quinton recalls being mesmerised by him during the now famous Box training drill. |
| 0:45.0 | He believes that Skoles taught World Cup winner Paul Pogpa everything he knows. The United used boxes, but it's known around the world now as their own those. |
| 1:01.0 | The concept's the same, but it's not a circle it's a |
| 1:03.2 | box and there were grades of boxes at United where there was the elite box |
| 1:06.9 | and you said go in the middle but just describe that just that you know what |
| 1:11.0 | was the level of boxes who played where and what didn't he want to do when you say |
| 1:14.9 | didn't want to go in the box. Describe that. Well just you get the box with obviously you get geeks, |
| 1:18.9 | scullsy, Roy King, the senior players at that time and then you get our box, the still called |
| 1:25.9 | the youngest and a few foreigners and there's two players in the middle and it's 10 by 10 and when you go in the middle and |
| 1:36.9 | the box at your night at that time it could be a while before you get up and |
| 1:41.1 | that's and that's what this is the simple things and that's the |
| 1:44.0 | one, I'm going to do my coach you by just now and I have the opportunity to coach some |
| 1:47.5 | players. I say to them, this is part of the game, this is part of training. |
| 1:50.9 | It is, we have fun, but this is what you do, this is when you watch Scolzy, |
| 1:55.2 | they're fizzing at the bottom. When I arrived at night I was watching them I was thinking, |
| 1:59.8 | what is going on you? Watch the table back and fizz is Roy Kim Dwight Yolk and they go one touch football |
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