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The Anfield Wrap

Cup Of Tea: Mike Kearney

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🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In a free Anfield Wrap 'Cup Of Tea' John Gibbons speaks to Mike Kearney about his life following the Reds, being an internet sensation and what it's like meeting Mo Salah. Mike, who is visually impaired, was recently in the news having been captured celebrating a goal at Anfield with his cousin Stephen Garcia and as a result was subsequently invited to Melwood by Salah to meet the Liverpool squad. In our half hour show John and Mike's chat about his experiences following the Reds up and down the country and what it's like now being asked for selfies on the Kop and becoming an internet meme. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network.

0:05.0

It's a cup of tea show, although we're on water at the moment, but

0:08.0

Clay kind of my maker's fun, who knows.

0:10.0

This is John Gibbons, and I'm joined by Mike Kary. We're delighted to for Mike to come in and lots of you will know Mike from what YouTube fame I suppose you'd say now Mike

0:19.8

Celebrity Liverpool fan. What do you want to call it? I don't know yeah to be honest

0:25.3

infamous maybe. Infamous yeah for those who don't know or need a little bit of

0:30.7

introduction Mike was kind of picked up the first time at the

0:33.4

Napoli game on the front row with his cousin. Mike's partially cited so

0:37.8

although I mean he'll expect himself although we can see a lot of what's going

0:40.9

on he does need a little bit of help so there was a nice video

0:43.2

course of his cousin explaining a little bit more about what Mosala had done in

0:48.0

that fantastic goal against Napoli it got picked up a lot of people have enjoyed it because it was you know what

0:53.7

football's all about really sharing it with your friends enjoying it with your

0:56.7

friends and enjoying a fantastic moment and then got invited down to to Melwood

1:01.4

Mike for a special kind of afternoon but before that did you know you

1:07.4

were being filmed no I don't know only I had an inkling at half time when the fellow come up to me and he asked if we could do an interview for the American TV.

1:19.0

He said, oh, can we do a story about, you know, of a walk alone and I was inspired you.

1:24.7

I went, neither I made him off their pints.

1:27.0

I just wanted to sit in the front row and that and just turn to our

1:33.7

and I was just laughing going what's that all about it. He should have asked us where

1:36.8

media horse will do any and he got his number howl do it? But him no it like that thata, his name's Tony, and the cameraman was his name's Tony as well.

1:48.0

That went out on there to it.

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