Jason McAteer: Bruce Rioch's School of Life

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Friends, I don’t know if I’ve ever laughed so much in a Big Interview as I did with Jason McAteer.

Jason made the grade at Bolton under Bruce Rioch, and quickly upgraded from a Mini Metro to a Lotus Elan. But Bruce wasn’t wearing it and told him to take it back to the shop.

Republic of Ireland midfielder Jason came from a Liverpool boxing family, and his upbringing instilled an incredible competitiveness. That, and the thought of the naysayers who told him he’d never make it, drove him to success. But the fact is that in football and in life you can’t always win, and Jason has had to adapt his psychology to that reality.

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0:50.0	so maybe even strangers in the street. Love you. Welcome back. My guest today is Jason Macheteer. Once a Bolton Wanderers, Liverpool, Blackburn Rover, and of course, Ireland.
1:17.0	I've met and worked with Jason a couple of times and I really liked him.
1:21.0	Thought he was a smart guy, fun guy, with a point of view that I like to listen to. Now Jason in his excellent autobiography describes the concept that there, through his career career have been two versions of him.
1:35.0	Trigger, which was the nickname he carried throughout his playing career,
1:39.0	was a bit of a lad, all was up for fun and trouble.
1:43.0	Jason, meanwhile, was a much deeper thinker and not just about football.
1:48.0	In ways, I guess you'll meet both of them in this two-parter starting with this episode where we spend a lot of time on Bruce Riech, a big
1:57.6	footballer for Scotland and for Derby and Everton during the 70s, whose managerial stock was sky high when he took Jason's Bolton up two divisions.
2:07.2	You're going to learn about Jason's mentality too, which I think is heavily influenced by the start he had in the game.
2:13.7	A start which is increasingly rare these days.
2:17.2	In this series of interviews we've heard it before, but Mr. Macateer heard the words
2:22.2	you'll never make it or their equivalent a lot
2:25.3	Particularly in a local watering hole and as you'll go on to listen to he learned to use all of this as fuel, use it to his advantage.
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