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The Redmen TV - Liverpool FC Podcast

Former Liverpool Defender Vegard Heggem on Steven Gerrard, Retirement & Supporting The Reds

The Redmen TV - Liverpool FC Podcast

The Redmen TV - Liverpool FC Podcast

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🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Dan spoke with former Liverpool fullback Vegard Heggem to discuss his time with The Reds and all things LFC.

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0:00.0

We need to talk about one moment in your career in particular. It's probably not the most

0:05.6

famous moment of your career, but probably the most spoken about one. I'm sure you know what I'm going

0:09.1

to ask you. It's actually you being substituted for a young skinny lad from Heighton called

0:14.0

Stephen Gerrard. Now, the rest is history, really, when it comes to Stephen Gerrard. But tell us

0:19.0

a little bit about your first experiences of seeing him

0:22.2

in training because this is his debut that we're talking about when he comes on and he comes on it right back

0:27.0

obviously and yeah we know what happens after but for you obviously you've involved in that moment

0:32.4

so you're kind of involved in his start if you like of his journey in a weird sense but in terms of

0:37.2

watching him in training again this young teenager just starting out,

0:40.8

what did you think when you first seeing him?

0:43.7

Well, you know, it was normal that we had the young guys coming in from the academy

0:50.1

and train with us for a week or so, you know, to sort of try and, you know, test, test the water to see, you know, ease them into the next step.

1:00.2

So, you know, there were some new phases now and then.

1:03.5

And then clearly remember then when Stephen Gerard and also, what was his name?

1:13.4

It was only called it Ritey

1:15.4

because it was also a fullback.

1:17.5

Steve Wright, was it?

1:18.6

Yes, yeah.

1:19.6

They were mates and they came in

1:21.3

around the same time,

1:22.7

you know, really young and, you know, skinny.

1:25.4

Not a lot of weight training by then.

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