Classic Big Interview: Jamie Carragher
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Here’s another chance to hear my interview with Jamie Carragher from season one.
Our conversation marked a decade since Liverpool’s Champions League miracle in Istanbul; Jamie had to play through the pain barrier as he put in an immense performance against the mighty AC Milan. He’s great on another incredible final – the 2001 UEFA Cup victory over Alaves.
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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 | The reason that we began to do these podcasts, |
| 0:32.0 | The big interview with me. |
| 0:35.0 | Is football gives you a shot of adrenaline and happiness and does things |
| 0:41.0 | that you can't understand time and time again it builds the |
| 0:46.1 | climaxes that are as dramatic as anything that art, theatre, opera, ever invented. |
| 0:55.0 | One of the guys that we always aspire to talking to was Jamie Carrechre. |
| 1:01.0 | And the reason is, when you approach reporting on football for a living you can |
| 1:06.5 | make a choice whether you want to appear cool and always in the right whether you |
| 1:12.4 | let your passion for the subject spill out at the risk of being |
| 1:19.1 | maybe called naive or boyish, but I like to approach my work with my heart on my sleeve, open, honest and full of a passion for the subject. |
| 1:31.0 | That matched with Jamie, who played that way, who inspired me, who I loved |
| 1:36.0 | watching, learn and change. In this interview he'll talk about how he rates his ability, what made him a player to lift four European trophies. |
| 1:48.3 | He'll make me laugh, as I knew he would, and he'll take me back to the first time I met him which was in a |
| 1:53.9 | legends game in the Olympic Stadium in Munich just before Chelsea Byron Munich in |
| 1:59.4 | the European Cup finally was there with his boy was a talented footballer, and he told me about having gone as an |
| 2:04.9 | Everton fan to, I think the quarter of the semi-final of the Cup winners cup with Everton when he was |
| 2:10.6 | eight years old, taken by his dad because already football at eight, |
| 2:15.2 | particularly Everton in those days was an all-encompassing passion. |
| 2:18.8 | We're going to go on, we're going to talk about Stephen Gerard obviously, Alex Ferguson, Gary McAllister. |
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