Classic Big Interview: Frank McAvennie Part Two
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Here’s another chance to hear my interview with Frank McAvennie from season one.
In part two, Frank describes West Ham’s almost-annus mirabilis under John Lyall, when they could and perhaps should have won the First Division title. Rival Kenny Dalglish seemed to think so. Also, falling out with Sir Alex at Scotland and TV stardom.
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| 0:18.9 | Hello, Ms. Graham. Welcome to a classic big interview. Today, join me. We're going back to season 2015, 2016. This is what I had to say about it back then. |
| 0:28.0 | Two million of you have listened to the big interview at least once and I hope we're well on a way to the next million starting with Frank Mcavenny |
| 0:38.0 | Frank's done one of two silly things in his life but then again so have I. What I didn't like given that when I watched him I always thought he was a footballer of supreme finishing, real intelligence, great movement. |
| 0:50.0 | I didn't like the fact that his social life had pigeonholed him and that everybody only thought of him as a party boy |
| 0:57.8 | whereas in fact he's a bright football man very good storyteller. Funny, I always like funny. And what we all felt was that |
| 1:06.3 | he could take us into that incredible season when West Ham, not the West Ham of Bobm |
| 1:11.5 | or Martin Peters or Harry Rednap, the West time of Bobmura Martin Peters or Harry Rednap. |
| 1:14.0 | The West time of John Lyle finished higher than that club has ever finished in the top league before, |
| 1:20.0 | led by Frank Maccabending on the form of his life during a season when half the games weren't even televised. |
| 1:26.5 | I remember being very frustrated not to be able to watch his progress down there, but learning about learning about learning about Trump Night Club and George Graham, |
| 1:35.0 | learning about how Luton and David Plike came so close to signing him, learning about the things that |
| 1:40.6 | went on in London, him asking for for a transfer the team meeting that changed |
| 1:45.2 | the entire dynamic of the season that was fun I like Frank Mcavenny and I like watching |
| 1:51.0 | him play with any luck you'll listen to this and you come out |
| 1:55.2 | having enjoyed it and maybe with at least more of an opinion of him as a top class striker in England's top division. |
| 2:05.0 | See you on the other side. Well, I'm in Alex, were a great combination. |
| 2:15.0 | I thought, apparently 86, that's why Ken didn't go to the World Cup, |
| 2:22.0 | because Sir Alex didn't pick on Hansen and I couldn't believe why |
| 2:26.7 | I didn't pick him because he won two European championships and you're going to play against |
| 2:31.6 | the best in the world he is one of the best in European football. |
| 2:35.0 | Not just... He'd treat that. In Scottish football, but in English football. But in European, he could go and play against the best in Europe in the way that he could play. |
| 2:42.6 | There was a bad blood thing, yeah. |
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