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Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

Five Premier League unsung heroes

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

Sky Sports

Sports News, Sports, News, Soccer

4.0760 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Their team-mates usually get the accolades but this week we’re shining a light on the unsung stars in the Premier League – five high-performers who go under the radar. Peter Smith is joined by Adam Bate and Matt Cheetham to discuss.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this Sky Sports Football podcast, where this week we're picking out some of the unsung heroes of this Premier League season.

0:14.6

These are the players who have perhaps gone under the radar, haven't generated many headlines, but deserve praise for the displays I've been putting in.

0:21.0

I'm Peter Smith, the Sky Sports Football Features Editor, and joining me to discuss these unheralded

0:25.1

stars, our features writer Adam Bait and Stats Guru, Matt Cheatham.

0:29.5

Adam, you on the line there?

0:31.3

Yes, I'm here, yeah, good to be on with two of the unheralded stars of Sky Sports.

0:38.3

And Matt Cheatham, how are you?

0:40.3

I'm all good.

0:41.3

Stats Guru.

0:42.3

I think you might have upgraded me.

0:43.3

Last time you went with stats expert, it puts a little bit of pressure on to actually nail these stats

0:48.3

with no football going on, but I'll do my best.

0:50.3

Well, that reflects your excellent performance on the podcast. So we're expecting

0:55.3

great things from our stats guru this time around. So Matt, why don't you kick us off, Matt,

1:00.0

then? And we're going to start with a Sheffield United Centerback. Now, recently we ran a series

1:05.1

of features on the team of the season, and Jack O'Connell made the cut for the team. That was the

1:09.8

team that we selected on this podcast a few weeks ago.

1:12.6

But it's one of O'Connell's teammates, Matt, that we're focusing on today. Who's that?

1:17.6

Yes, Chris Basham. Chefs United feel like such a cohesive unit under Chris Wilder, instead of having many individual star names at all.

1:26.9

So at times it kind of feels like half their team could qualify for something like this.

1:30.4

But yeah, I guess Basham is certainly one of their leading players.

1:34.0

And given O'Connell got in your team, I guess Basham, perhaps a slightly less sexy pick at 31 now goes a little bit more under the radar.

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