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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Classic Big Interview: Gary McAllister Part One

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Here’s another chance to hear my interview with Gary McAllister from season one.

In part one, we hear about how Howard Wilkinson assembled a great Leeds United side including Gary, Gordon Strachan, Gary Speed, David Batty and the magnificent Eric Cantona. There’s a wonderful tale about the great Billy Bremner’s muddy loafers, and (Scotland fans look away) detail about THAT penalty miss against England at Euro ’96.

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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.

0:24.0

This is what I had to say about it back then.

0:29.0

Gary McAllister, in my view, is the epitome of what the English Premier League doesn't have enough of.

0:34.0

A guy with fabulous control of the ball who reads the game sees spaces but uses his feet to put the ball

0:40.7

exactly where it should go, exactly where a teammate needs it.

0:44.5

We often say how much would such and such a player be worth in the modern market?

0:48.4

Well, with Gary, I think you name your price, you name your figure.

0:52.0

Fantastic, elegant technical gifted

0:55.1

visionary footballer he arrived at our Leeds atel for this big interview looking like a

1:00.4

million dollars I can tell you that for sure, and then metaphorically at least by

1:05.0

the end of the interview, his words were worth that much too. I didn't really expect the Vinny Jones

1:11.1

loving. They're great words as we go about his traditional playing

1:16.3

partners in the Leeds midfield that won the title Gary Speed David Batty, but good

1:20.6

stories, good explanations about Canton at his arrival as impact and Billy Bremer.

1:25.6

If you grew up as a Scott or as a Leeds fan, Billy Bremer was a very important character.

1:30.7

The story about him in his loafers and his sheepskin coat on his beautiful

1:35.2

London West End tailored suit playing in the mud of Leeds's training ground.

1:40.5

It's a dancer.

1:41.5

It's perfect. perfect. You've always been able to talk as interestingly and elegantly.

1:56.0

But football is you were able to play it.

1:58.0

That's not final because you're going to go on and prove that over the next hour.

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