BITESIZE | Terry Butcher: The lost legend of Kevin Beattie
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
4.5 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Today’s story comes from Terry Butcher, who describes how his former Ipswich team-mate Kevin Beattie could have been one of the all-time England greats and was a legend off the pitch.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode you'll |
| 0:19.1 | hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day. |
| 0:23.7 | All of them come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter, which you can find by |
| 0:28.6 | searching on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.0 | Now, if it's which town happens to be your club, |
| 0:37.0 | and if you're of a certain vintage, |
| 0:39.0 | pass the claret, please. |
| 0:41.0 | The name of Kevin Beattie may take your breath away. He is a unique story in |
| 0:46.8 | New English football and Terry Butcher tells us how Kevin could have been one of the |
| 0:51.0 | all-time greats on the pitch or if it hadn't been for a sartorial |
| 0:57.2 | shortfall or a genetic... he could have been a great-on-the-running track too. |
| 1:02.1 | You might want to use parental control in this anecdote. |
| 1:04.8 | It involves genitalia. I said Kevin Beatty there. |
| 1:15.0 | He was a phenomenal, my favorite player. |
| 1:18.6 | He was unbelievable. |
| 1:20.0 | Unbelievable. |
| 1:21.0 | We call him the monster. |
| 1:22.0 | He was like Popeye. |
| 1:23.8 | This is not, this is traditionally not a visual medium. |
| 1:27.4 | Terry's been very animated during a conversation and enjoyed it. |
| 1:31.3 | And if it's not impertinent even saying Kevin Beat he |
| 1:34.7 | brought a huge smile to his mouth and to his eyes and affection. When we were |
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