Welcome to a classic big interview. This season we're going all the way back to

2019 2020 and we've picked out one of our absolute favorites. This is what I had to say about it back then.

Welcome to the big interview. I'm Graham Hunter. Firstly, I hope you're all doing as well as can be possibly imagined in these really strange testing circumstances

This is our first ever remotely recorded episode no no face to face during detention.

It's Jimmy Bullard coming up now.

We asked Mr Bullard to exit his garden where he was doing some beautiful work and very detailed work too for a specific reason.

I've always loved the way that Jimmy loved football.

He oozes an infectious adoration of this beautiful game and he played it really well.

We first met eight years ago after a classical and burst into a kind of impromptu a cappello karaoke across a hotel bar.

That was fun. Certainly for us. I'm not saying anything about the audience.

Jimmy's skill on the ball at

soccer a.m. honestly is is priceless to watch. He looks almost more in command of the

tricks that he can produce now than he was as a professional

footballer for, I don't know, West Ham, Peterborough, Waken, Hullum, Ipswich.

This was a guy who in my my opinion, was destined for higher things. I think Jimmy really was a good

footballer, but by the end he said he felt like his physique was made of glass. Things didn't happen quite as much for this really talented

entertainer as they should have done. You'll hear about how during his Premier League career

he was watching Spanish football and taking ideas and role models from La Liga into his

game, to his benefit. And Jimmy is one of those big interview guests who experienced real life, as we call it, before making the breakthrough into

pro football. It's a vital part of who he was as a player and who he is as a man, like Chris Wardle

so early in the series of these big interview at podcasts, he worked

hard for the money, as the song goes, before football liberated him.

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