BITESIZE | Walter Smith: Keeping Gazza on the straight and narrow
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Today’s story comes from Walter Smith, who tells us about doorstep recruiting Paul Gascoigne for Rangers and then keeping him on the straight and narrow.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode you'll |
| 0:18.6 | hear an elite football or tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day. |
| 0:23.2 | All of them will come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter, |
| 0:27.2 | which you can find by searching on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:42.0 | The Great Walter Smith shares with us what it was like trying to keep Gaza on the straight and narrow during his very productive spell at Rangers when Walter aged a century. |
| 0:47.0 | I started to say well you know we've got to find something to bring an extra spark to us so you |
| 0:59.6 | look around then all of a sudden I read in a newspaper at Gascoons Leaving Latsie on. |
| 1:08.0 | I had met him on holiday the year before in Florida and so I just bumped into him. Yeah even the same I tell. So I had |
| 1:19.0 | met him and he didn't know who I was but but I mean, that's Paul. But anyway, I had my two boys with it, so it |
| 1:28.0 | ain't obviously knew who he was. And like everybody else, when it was wondering about a beach, they'd start to play football |
| 1:37.6 | with the kids and he'd get any of them. |
| 1:39.4 | So I thought he would bring a much needed spark to her and sure enough. |
| 1:44.7 | When I sat down the chairman I said look you know I've got opportunity here I said |
| 1:52.3 | gas go in back why don't we? |
| 1:54.0 | I know. When you look at it now and you look at the premise ship now. |
| 1:57.0 | But at then, Rangers Celtic could still compete. |
| 2:01.0 | And that, it was just after the middle 90s it started to go away from us in terms of finance |
| 2:06.3 | but we could still compete. The chairman got in touch with President at Latshil and you know, we would be interested in saying |
| 2:15.0 | Paul Gasco in. |
| 2:16.0 | He said, fine, okay, there's a number of English clubs |
| 2:21.0 | want. We're going to transfer them at the end of season you know so |
| 2:23.8 | so the children said well can you speak to the player yeah so that was the end of |
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