Damien Duff: The Street Footballer
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
4.5 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Hola Big Interview listeners!
You have been telling us about their favourite Big Interviews from our archive. Here’s another classic.
In 2016 we meet Damien Duff at the Aviva Stadium – formerly Lansdowne Road – the ground where he won so many of his 100 caps for Republic of Ireland.
Damien’s reflections gave us a remarkable insight into the extraordinary character and talent that would emerge in memorable spells at Blackburn, Chelsea, Newcastle and Fulham.
This is a man who remains so in love with football that he recently hired an Astroturf park by himself to have a kickabout. That says it all about a remarkable football man.I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
Graham
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| 0:00.0 | This season we've asked our socios to choose their favorite interview from our archive. |
| 0:18.0 | The big interview started in April 2015 and we've now done over 200 episodes to 8 million listens. |
| 0:26.0 | Here's one of our associates explaining why the archive interview you're about to hear is their |
| 0:31.2 | personal favorite. |
| 0:32.2 | Hi Graham Neil and the team at Backpage, it's Taylor here from Shenzhen, China, and I've picked |
| 0:38.5 | Damien Duff as my favorite episode. |
| 0:41.3 | I really liked his story about how he still goes down and rents a five-a-side pitch and just goes and plays. |
| 0:47.0 | I think that's an underestimated side of the game and shows his real personality and I really like the passion and |
| 0:54.0 | enthusiasm of which he talks about football so yeah I'm really hoping to hear |
| 0:57.2 | that one again thank you David Duff we're in a hallowed place where you have made many worse |
| 1:11.2 | at Lansdowne. Tell me how you learned your skills and when you knew that the ball was your friend |
| 1:17.0 | and how did you develop that? |
| 1:20.0 | For me it was just I guess repetition errors practice really like everyone |
| 1:25.2 | there's big talking points in Ireland now that there's not players coming through and |
| 1:29.6 | it's down to coaching and what have you but I got to Blackburn Rovers who were then league champions at the time when I was 16 |
| 1:36.7 | Not because of coaching or anyone teaching me anything was literally like you just said there just kicking the ball on the street against the wall not even |
| 1:43.8 | with people said it would be a probably a billion o-mates even sometimes just but |
| 1:48.2 | listen every day just one hour or two hour or three hours just repetition dribbling the ball around the streets |
| 1:55.2 | it sounds probably incredibly boring but I wouldn't change for anything and like you said |
| 2:00.6 | I think you're a love of the game I think think I can match it. I'm just so passionate about. |
| 2:04.6 | I just love kicking football as far back as I can remember as soon as I could walk and nothing's changed now. |
| 2:11.8 | I'm recently retired two three months but for |
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