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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Classic Big Interview: Matt Le Tissier Part One

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Here’s another chance to hear my interview with Matt Le Tissier from season two.

Matt signed for Southampton aged 16 and stayed for his entire career. His sublime midfield talents would have enabled him to play at any level, but silverware and cash were never his motivation. In part one, Matt talks about his idyllic Guernsey childhood, his love of cricket, how to hardly ever miss a penalty, and scoring the last-ever goal at the Dell.

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0:20.0

Hello, this is Graham. Welcome to a Classic Big Interview. This time we go back to season 1617. This is what I had to say about it back then.

0:25.0

Malletice was the ultimate local hero.

0:29.0

Great film by the way.

0:31.0

Thank you for calling Knox Island Gas.

0:34.0

Matt loved that rabbit. It had a name. It had two names.

0:38.0

Okay, enough. Simply exquisite talent.

0:42.0

Matt could have played for any team in England, really, truthfully, for any team in Europe,

0:48.0

but instead opted to stay at Southampton during his whole career. Why? Well, listen to part one and part two which

0:55.7

comes next Monday and you'll find out. In the first part, Matt explains his Enid

1:01.6

Blitanesque childhood on Guernsey how much it formed him and shaped his

1:05.3

attitudes for the rest of his life. His passion for cricket, the art of penalty taking,

1:10.3

and that moment when almost as if it was scripted he scored the last ever goal

1:15.8

at the Dell before Southampton moved to St Mary's. This episode was made possible

1:21.0

by Nordoff Robbins. We met Matt on a glorious afternoon in

1:24.8

London before the Nordoff Robbins annual football fundraising dinner in

1:28.4

London. It's a charity that all of us at the big interview would like you to think about.

1:34.0

Nordoff Robbins delivers music therapy to change the lives, to change the experience of vulnerable

1:40.4

children and adults across the UK.

1:43.6

As always, this big interview podcast is free,

1:46.5

but if you think that this chat is worth a pound or more,

1:50.2

please do go to

1:51.4

W.

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