Brendan Rodgers – The Football Interview

Football Daily

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Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News, Sport

4.3 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s edition of the Football Interview, Kelly talks to Brendan Rodgers. He talks about the ‘unique pressure’ of managing his current club Celtic, his hope of managing 1000 games and how winning the Championship play-off with Swansea City in 2011 and taking them into the Premier League propelled his career to another level.

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0:27.7	The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.
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0:39.7	Sort of expecting that every week now.
0:48.8	The Football Interview on the Football Daily podcast. I'm Kelly Summers and this season I'll be interviewing some of the biggest names in football, asking them the questions they don't
0:53.3	normally get asked as I try
0:54.8	to find out more about the person behind the player or manager. The first half will be on football
1:00.1	the second on their life away from the game. This isn't just any interview. This is the football
1:05.8	interview. Brendan, lovely to get to sit down and chat with you, away from the pressure, I'm guessing, of what it must be like up here for you in Scotland?
1:27.2	Yeah, it's very intense and obviously huge expectations at Celtic,
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