BITESIZE | Vinny Samways: Viva Las Palmas
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 16 April 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Today’s story comes from Vinny Samways, who describes swapping a career in England for the searing heat of the Canary Islands where he excelled with Las Palmas.
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| 0:18.9 | Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode you'll hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day. All of them will come from my |
| 0:24.8 | podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter, which you can find by searching on Spotify or wherever |
| 0:31.1 | you get your podcasts. |
| 0:39.7 | On the big interview today, we're with Vinny Sandways who took the gamble of a lifetime in 1996 by swapping top flight English football for life with Las Palmas in Spain's |
| 0:45.6 | Segundo division. Vinny gives us an insight into the football culture on |
| 0:49.6 | Grand Canaria and the journey that took him to take on the best in the world while they were playing in Lalega. |
| 0:57.0 | Listen on. |
| 1:02.0 | Give us a step backwards in terms of maybe going from Premier League to the Second Division, |
| 1:09.2 | but obviously I'm thinking this is short term because I do believe with what they've got in place we can get |
| 1:15.9 | never easy and a proof's in the pudding because it took us a couple of years. |
| 1:20.8 | So yeah it was a risk, but it was one that I was prepared to take. So that was really the start of that. |
| 1:29.8 | When I first went to obviously, you've possibly been there to the insula |
| 1:34.6 | last parmes is old ground, it held around 20, give or take 24, 25,000 supporters. |
| 1:44.4 | Every other week we played at home, it was full. |
| 1:48.0 | And it was a typical, it reminded me of the old Upton Park |
| 1:52.4 | where if you took a throwing a fan could touch you on the shoulder it was they were that close to the pitch. So I mean the first time I played there, I couldn't believe the atmosphere was just phenomenal and the |
| 2:06.2 | canaryan people's knowledge of football is amazing. Absolutely they live and die for their club. |
| 2:14.0 | And I couldn't believe it because you're talking about an island, |
| 2:18.0 | which is two hours away from the mainland on a flight. |
| 2:22.0 | And I'm thinking, this is this is proper and at that time Barcelona be |
| 2:28.1 | when the second division and the likes of Shavi, Carlos Boyle, Gabri, they had some phenomenal players. |
| 2:40.4 | I'll never forget when I played against Sh and and Coe the first time I'm thinking, wow, these guys can play. This was like, I mean, |
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