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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Classic Big Interview: Gary McAllister Part Two

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

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

In part two, we hear about Leeds’ mighty Battle of Britain against Rangers in the Champions League in 1992. Also, becoming an unexpected Liverpool legend, and winning an extraordinary UEFA Cup final against Alavés in 2001.

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0:00.0

Hello, it is Graham. Welcome to a classic big interview. Today, join me. We're going

0:20.3

back to season 2015, 2016.

0:23.8

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

0:28.8

Gary McAllister, in my view, is the epitome of what

0:31.3

the English Premier League doesn't have enough of. A guy with fabulous

0:35.5

control of the ball who reads the game C-spaces but uses his feet to put the ball exactly

0:40.8

where it should go, exactly where a teammate needs it. I knew that Gary was the man who put

0:46.4

Pet Guareola's European career at Barcelona to a painful end with a one-nill victory at Anfield over Barcelona. He thought it was a wind-up

0:56.4

when he was asked to sign for Liverpool, when he did sign for the Reds, he wound everybody

1:01.3

else up, ending in glory, sadness for him in the FAA Cup final

1:05.4

But a magnificent part in one of the most exciting UEFA Cup finals there's ever been

1:10.2

Oh, and by the way I didn't expect the sex toy. Obviously there was massive celebrations after the game because the draw had been made.

1:27.0

We knew we were playing Rangers.

1:29.0

The Rangers of the draw had been made.

1:30.0

So Walter was at the game, obviously mean we bumped into which and after the

1:36.1

game it was an international game so obviously I was going back in the same flight as

1:41.2

Walter and bats and the Leeds team went back to Leeds,

1:43.8

but Batti was going England,

1:45.1

Gary Speed was going with Wales,

1:46.9

and we bumped into Walter.

1:48.4

And that was just after we'd been chaperoned

1:52.1

through all the nightclubs and bars in Barcelona by a Barcelona legend Steve Archibald

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