Classic Big Interview: Charlie Nicholas Part Two
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
4.5 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Here’s another chance to hear my interview with Charlie Nicholas from season one.
In part two, my guest further defied the 'Champagne Charlie' stereotype by presenting as one of the most thoughtful and passionate students of the beautiful game. We are reminded of what a magical football presence Charlie was in the 1980s and 1990s.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it is Graham. Welcome to a classic big interview. Today, join me. We're going |
| 0:20.4 | back to season 2015, 2016. This is what I had to say about it back then. |
| 0:29.2 | When the sun finally shines on the west end of Glasgow. |
| 0:33.2 | We should have known that this was going to be an absolute |
| 0:36.2 | Bosker of an interview, but we didn't. |
| 0:38.3 | We knew beforehand. |
| 0:40.3 | Neil and Martin and I selected Charlie Nicholas because we were convinced that this was a guy very famous now for Soccer Saturday who'd been a footballer of tremendous creativity and quality showing some of the skill and cheekiness |
| 0:56.9 | and ambition that used to characterize the Scottish game and doesn't anymore. He talks with love about football because like me he still |
| 1:07.6 | head over heels in love with the beauty of this game. If you've come out of this podcast interview without thinking more about Charlie as a man of football, |
| 1:17.0 | I'll be deeply surprised. Sit back, get on your running machine, turn the engine, commute to work, whatever it is you do listen to it, and just |
| 1:26.0 | soak this up. |
| 1:27.5 | One of the best most enjoyable interviews I've ever been lucky enough to have. I'm glad Danny's been talked about in that way because as well as wanting to talk to the audience in this podcast |
| 1:47.1 | about you beyond your television personality because for younger people |
| 1:51.0 | Yeah, they see you as a star of soccer Saturday. |
| 1:54.0 | And it's good to talk about Danny and explain to people, not just the footballer, but the man too. |
| 1:58.0 | And if we're getting a little bit romantic about the past, |
| 2:00.0 | can I tease out a little bit about life at Highbury? |
| 2:03.0 | The stadium from you because I've cheated because before we turn the tape on, |
| 2:07.0 | I checked that you felt the same way and you do. |
| 2:10.0 | When I first came there as a report, |
| 2:11.0 | I having been lucky enough that Glasgow Water |
| 2:14.2 | Smith had taken me into the inside of Iverocks and lunch there. |
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