Jamie Carragher: There’s Something About Xavi

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Jamie Carragher never enjoyed international tournaments and wonders if England puts too much into its club game – which is a matter life and death – instead of valuing national side’s endeavours more.

Also in part two, he describes the 1999 Champions League final between Manchester United and Bayern Munich, and argues that David Beckham’s performance that night – and his talents in general – are undersold.

We chat about Liverpool’s incredible 4-0 trouncing of Barcelona last year in the Champions League semi. Jamie says that Jurgen Klopp makes players believe that they can do anything.

Lastly we talk about Xavi, the player Jamie most admires because he had such a quick footballing brain. He took charge of a game and told others what to do.

Thanks Jamie, that was sheer class.

Graham

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0:50.0	so maybe even strangers in the street. Love you. Part 2, he said, stealing unashamedly from John Walters, the producer of the mighty John Peel who he named Music Loving Johnny Plei.
1:16.5	And I'm using Port 2 to introduce part 2 of the Jamie Carcher interview that we did recently about his version of Greatest Games.
1:27.0	Now in it there's a wide variety of matches including of course Liverpool 3 C Milan 3 in that penalty victory
1:35.2	England 4 holland won in euro 96 Barcelona 3 Manchester United 1
1:41.2	Liverpool 4 Barcelona nil Manchester City 3 QPR2, but the one we focus on hugely
1:48.5	in this episode is the way in which England defeated Germany, 5.1 in Munich, and how that related to, or what happened,
2:00.0	and what when Jamie went back to look at it, how that related to England's subsequent failure to use what was dubbed the golden generation
2:08.0	to actually not only win a tournament, but even to come close to troubling the scorers at big tournaments.
2:14.4	Jamie's extrapolation of what he learned from what is held out as England's greatest
2:19.8	performance of the modern era and how that's been marked in a way that didn't represent
2:26.2	big chunks of the game.
2:27.8	You'll find that interesting whether you're English or not.
2:31.1	He looks really closely at David Beckham, his role in the 1999 Champions League final,
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