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Last Word On Spurs

Kasey Keller - Special

Last Word On Spurs

Last Word On Spurs

Soccer, Sports

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Host Ricky Sacks was joined by John from Lilywhite Rose and former Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Kasey Keller on this week's Last Word On Spurs show. Kasey Keller squeezed just about everything into a 22-year professional career. Over a century of caps and four World Cups for the USA, cutting his teeth at Millwall, glory days at Leicester, 83 consecutive starts at Spurs, the first American to play in La Liga and a title challenge with Rayo Valecano, only the second American to captain a Bundesliga side during his time at Borussia Monchengladbach before a hero's return home to Seattle, where he played until he was 41. He even lived in a castle during his time in Germany! As part of Martin O'Neill's golden spell at the old Filbert Street in the late 1990s, Kasey helped the Foxes lift their first trophy in 28 years - the League Cup in 1997 - and clinch three-successive top 10 finishes in the Premier League. He was also in goal for Leicester against is in the League Cup Final in 1999, won by Allan Nielsen's late, late diving header. Kasey later played in the final game at Filbert Street as a Spurs player in May, 2002 and then had a game he'll never forget in our first visit to the all-new Walkers Stadium, as it was then (now King Power Stadium) back in October, 2003. After two years in Spain with Rayo Vallecano, Keller returned to England with Tottenham in 2001. Signed as a back-up to Neil Sullivan, who at the time was the club’s player of the season, he took a while to establish himself at White Hart Lane and wasn’t helped by playing behind an often mediocre defence. Spurs fans retain grim memories of the 2003-04 season when Glenn Hoddle was sacked in September with the club in 17th place. Under caretaker David Pleat they stayed in the bottom half for almost the entire season and finished 14th. Through an unstable period, Keller was seen as sound and reliable, often making last-ditch blocks with legs and feet to bail out team-mates. At the age of 38 Keller finally made his MLS debut with Seattle Sounders where he stayed for the next two seasons before retiring. #THFC #COYS #TOTTENHAM #HOTSPUR #TOTTENHAMHOTSPUR #SPURS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network.

0:04.4

Hello and welcome to the last word on Spurs.

0:07.8

We hope you are keeping safe, we hope you are keeping well, and hopefully we're going to give

0:11.5

you another hour of escapism and hour of

0:14.2

light relief as we roll back the times as we bring another former Spurs player

0:17.8

onto this show but before we unveil who we've got for you this week I'm delighted

0:22.0

to have back alongside me. John from the

0:24.4

Lee White Rose, John, how are you?

0:26.2

Hey Ricky, yeah, I'm doing relatively well, just sort of taking each day as they come at the moment,

0:31.9

enjoying spending time with my family and looking forward to doing these weekly shows with you.

0:35.6

We've got another excellent experts players tonight. He's got a host of stories to tell us all. I'm sure our viewers and listeners will really enjoy this show.

0:43.0

We've been quite lucky that in this period with this last kind of cut the months we've been lucky enough to interview some really, really fascinating experts players and we've got yet another one to bring you he made over 85

0:54.9

appearances for Tottenham between the 2001-to-2005 period between the sticks we're

1:00.5

delighted to welcome to the last word on spurs Casey Keller joins us Casey how are you

1:06.3

Hey Ricky hey John good just like you all just kind of

1:11.2

Dealing with this interesting situation that we're all in and making the most of it.

1:17.0

In the states, Casey, I mean, what's it like over there?

1:20.0

How are you adjusting to life out there at the moment?

1:23.0

Well, I think it all depends on where you are regionally.

1:26.0

I'm sure that's the same in England is where certain spots hit harder than others,

1:30.0

but we're all kind of stuck under the same boat that professional sports

1:34.4

is shut down across the world and you know I myself who after retiring moved into

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