Classic Big Interview: Don Hutchison
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
4.5 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Here’s another chance to hear my Big Interview with Don Hutchison from season four.
You’ll hear about Don’s meteoric rise from boys’ club to Hartlepool to Liverpool – where he formed a midfield three with the magnificent Jan Molby and Ronnie Whelan under manager Graeme Souness. Don speaks about the vision, courage and split-second decision making required to be a midfield fulcrum.
There’s moving stuff, too: how Don’s winner for Scotland against England brought his tough miner father to tears. And how Don found Howard Kendall weeping after leading his beloved Everton to top division survival. There’s also a tale about another late, great manager – Walter Smith, who sprung the best bit of man-management ever on Don at Goodison Park.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a classic big interview. This is where we dig into the vaults and choose an episode from earlier in our shows. |
| 0:18.0 | This time we've gone all the way back to season 2018-19 and opted for one of our and your absolute favorites. |
| 0:26.8 | This is what I had to say about it back then. Do enjoy. |
| 0:35.0 | If I'm Graham Hunter and I am, then this must be the big interview. |
| 0:40.0 | Today's guest, another special one, is the man who played half of his career with his name spelled incorrectly on the back of his shirt. |
| 0:47.0 | It's Don Hutchison, no end. |
| 0:50.0 | I got to know a little bit on social media having listened to him adding his considerable articulate skills to co-commentaries on European football where he knows systems and players and adds something. |
| 1:03.6 | As a footballer, he was articulate, elegant, clever, used the ball really well out of time. |
| 1:10.5 | Had he been playing in the modern era, he'd have been transferred to Seville or Villarreal. |
| 1:16.0 | Or at least that's the way I like to think about it. |
| 1:18.0 | Coming up, how it feels or felt to him to be caught in one of Patrick Vieira's traps. |
| 1:23.6 | Inspector Gadget comes up. |
| 1:25.6 | And Wembley 99. |
| 1:27.0 | It was a good time to take one giant leap for kilted mankind. |
| 1:31.1 | Don Hutchison was a funny, intelligent, interesting, articulate guest. |
| 1:37.0 | He and we could have spent all day doing this. |
| 1:40.2 | Things got a bit personal. |
| 1:42.0 | There are profiles from him, from the heart and from the gut of two very different |
| 1:46.6 | Everett managers who had a huge impact on Dawn, his career and his day-to-day life. They are Howard Kendall in tears and Walter Smith with one of |
| 1:57.0 | his players, guess who? By the throat against the wall. |
| 2:04.0 | Listen on. You won't regret it. |
| 2:05.0 | This, ladies and gentlemen, children, |
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