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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

John Toshack on his glittering Liverpool career, Bill Shankly, Jurgen Klopp, and how close he came to taking over at Anfield

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

A true Liverpool great is the special guest of our latest podcast.John Toshack has been back in the city this week to promote his new book, Toshack's Way: My Journey Through Football.And the man who won three First Division titles, two UEFA Cups and an FA Cup at Anfield granted an audience to our Liverpool FC correspondent James Pearce.The duo talk Toshack's eight years on the Red half of Merseyside during the 1970s, from turning down Bobby Robson to his memorable first meeting with Bill Shankly at Liverpool Lime Street train station, and from how his first of 96 goals for the club made him an instant fan favourite to his legendary strike-partnership with Kevin Keegan.Toshack makes it clear throughout the podcast just how much of an influence Shankly, Bob Paisley and Joe Fagan had on his own management career, which saw him take Swansea City from the Fourth to the First Division in the space of four seasons and to winning the title with Real Madrid in Spain.The 69-year-old also reveals just how close he came to becoming Liverpool manager and the pain he felt at missing out on the job he seemed destined for.Toshack also gives his verdict on Jurgen Klopp and the current Reds cross, and the paramount importance of winning that first trophy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

0:08.0

Well, hello and welcome to a very special edition of the Liverpool Blood Red Podcast.

0:14.0

My name is James Pierce and I'm delighted to say I'm joined today by former Liverpool striker

0:18.8

John Toshak, John.

0:19.8

Great to see you back on Merseys.

0:21.8

How are you? I'm fine, thank you.

0:24.0

Must bring back a lot of memories.

0:26.0

Not quite as good as you're in Clops, Liverpool at the moment.

0:29.0

Okay.

0:31.0

And Barcelona, is that home for you these days?

0:33.8

Well between between

0:37.2

between San Sebastian and Barcelona I spend most of my time and I'm a mary Yorker.

0:43.7

I don't get back over here too often now.

0:46.4

No.

0:47.4

And Toshak's way obviously is recently being published looking back on

0:51.9

you know a remarkable career, 96 goals in 247 games for Liverpool and then a

0:57.6

managerial career spanning 40 years across the globe.

1:01.9

It's been some journey, it Was now the right time to get it all down on paper?

1:06.0

Well, I think so. I've been involved in a few books before, you know, years ago a Christmas annual poetry book which was good

1:17.3

fun you know an autobiography as well after the Swansea days and a book in Spanish as well.

1:28.0

My first two years, a diary of my first two years in San Sebastian.

1:34.0

But this one, yeah, I was approached about doing a full autobiography

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