Classic Big Interview: Phil Neville Part Two

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Here’s another chance to hear my interview with Phil Neville from season two.

In part two, we chatted about Phil’s new life in Spain after he took on a coaching role at Valencia, a move instigated largely by a bold decision that his son made. Phil breaks down how he learned the language and soaked in the football culture of the nation. You’ll hear about the complex differences between the football cultures of Spain and Britain.

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0:00.0	Hello, it is Graham. Welcome to a classic big interview. This time we go back to
0:19.2	season 16. This is what I had to say about it back then.
0:25.0	Thankfully you're about to listen to part two of the big interview with Phil Neville.
0:30.0	If you haven't caught part one yet, come on, on keep up you might want to do that it's good not me him
0:38.6	In this one you're gonna hear all about how Phil decided to take on a new life in Spain largely thanks to an extremely
0:45.3	brave and interesting decision that is sun-made and what the family has learned since then.
0:50.2	If you're interested in the complex differences between football culture and Spain and Britain,
0:54.8	then you couldn't wish for a better guy than this one.
0:57.6	If you like this big interview and our other ones, you can rate and review them on iTunes.
1:03.2	What that does is helps other football fans find this show.
1:06.6	Finally, when Phil and I met up in hotel football,
1:11.1	he was promoting class of 92 out of our league. You may be watching the very
1:16.0	funny and interesting detailed BBC series and the book is out now. It's a pretty unique story in football, told brilliantly by the Neville brothers, Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, Paul Skoles, and the author, my friend Rob Draper. Buy it. You'll enjoy it. Here comes Phil. He's awful good. One of the reasons that you have got this added experience now is a tremendous
1:49.5	desire that you always had the first time we ever met oh I'm not really carrying the shape that I had
1:54.5	down in the Hilton gym.
1:56.7	He held him.
1:57.7	We had a chat about football and you pointed out the window down to the
2:00.8	Savannah's Institute.
2:01.8	It's sitting there looking at me because I've always promised myself
2:05.3	I've gone and learned Spanish.
2:06.7	The call came from Valencia and you went there completely independently of what
2:10.3	would happen with Nuno being sacked and so on.
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