Classic Big Interview: Chris Waddle Part One
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Here’s another chance to hear my interview with Chris Waddle from season one.
In part one, Chris – England's Zidane, in my opinion – breaks down what made him one of the great entertainers of his generation: his body swerve, his step-over, his decisions as to when to 'go for' an opponent. You hardly EVER hear a top-level athlete get to the bottom of their talent like this. Also starring the incredible Paul Gascoigne and others.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it is Graham. Welcome to a classic big interview. Today, join me. We're going |
| 0:20.5 | back to season 2015, 2016. |
| 0:24.0 | This is what I had to say about it back then. |
| 0:28.0 | I want to make an admission now, which won't play well in some parts north of the border. |
| 0:33.1 | But in 1990 during the World Cup semi-final |
| 0:35.3 | between England and West Germany, |
| 0:37.1 | when Chris Waddell very nearly chipped Bodo Ilkner |
| 0:40.0 | and the German goal, but the ball came back off the woodwork. Even as a proud scholar I so wanted it to go in. |
| 0:47.0 | At that stage Chris Wardle to me seemed like Britain's version of Michael Laudrop. |
| 0:51.5 | The two of them are tall, very big athletic |
| 0:54.0 | physiques, but they would glide past footballers, |
| 0:57.0 | A, as if they were on roller skates, and B, |
| 1:00.0 | as if they had the same low center of gravity as a rhema rhema rhema rhema or a messie. |
| 1:06.7 | I thought Wardle was magical to look at and what some of you who are younger won't know is that |
| 1:11.5 | when he moved to Marseille after dazzling at Newcastle catching my |
| 1:14.8 | attention there and then dazzling again at spurs as far as I was concerned there wasn't |
| 1:20.0 | non-stop sky television or YouTube internet in order to keep up with the way he was |
| 1:24.8 | playing. So from intermittent television clips and from the written press what |
| 1:30.2 | it appeared to me that he was playing even more brilliantly in France than he had in England |
| 1:35.5 | and that he was a prince amongst poppers in the French League. |
| 1:39.4 | Over the years we've shared conversations about skills development, about what he does and doesn't think about great |
| 1:45.9 | footballers, modern footballers. So we knew we had to go and talk to him and when he welcomed us to |
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