Kevin Kilbane: Rui, Roy and Figo's Magic Feet
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
4.5 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Hello Big Interview listeners! We’ve picked out a juicy chunk of my Big Interview with Kevin Kilbane. In this extract, Kevin talks about the great Roy Keane and his influence on his Ireland team. Kevin describes a team-mate who demanded high standards, while he also gives a brilliant analysis of how exactly Keane controlled the tempo of matches and put Ireland on the front foot.
Keane was a talisman for his country, no more so than in a 2002 World Cup qualifier in Dublin against a Portugal team which included Luis Figo and Rui Costa. Kevin believes that match was the Man United midfielder's best ever performance in an Ireland jersey.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Big Interview lovers this month just for our associates those who join us at |
| 0:04.8 | Patreon.com |
| 0:06.3 | forward slash Graham Hunter there's a first-class big interview with Kevin Kahlban. |
| 0:10.4 | What tipped Kevin over into being an automatic invite to be a guest. |
| 0:13.6 | The big interview was his excellence as a broadcaster. |
| 0:17.8 | Basically whenever you listen to Kevin, either on television or where I mostly listen to him, |
| 0:21.9 | which is a news talk off the ball you're going to enjoy |
| 0:24.6 | it you're going to know more about the situation that he's assessing he's worthwhile |
| 0:29.2 | in this big interview I think you're going to laugh at his escapades on the golf course |
| 0:35.6 | His advocacy for his daughter's well-being inspires me the importance of his international career |
| 0:41.3 | The fact that some of what we saw as a footballer and some of what |
| 0:44.4 | we're hearing as a broadcaster was formed by the fact that he and his family did not always have |
| 0:49.8 | the economic well-being to count on having food on the table or electricity or gas |
| 0:54.6 | and the remedies he took to solve that tell you a lot about this interesting, reliable, |
| 1:01.0 | fun, intelligent fella who's making such a strong name for himself in |
| 1:06.1 | football broadcasting. This, however, for all of you is a section of that |
| 1:10.5 | interview where he breaks down Roy Keane the the player, and reveals what he considers |
| 1:14.6 | to be Keino's best away in America. That was a thing that Mick did. |
| 1:28.8 | Was there a little bit of structural... Oh yeah, they were just playing the friendly? |
| 1:31.5 | Yeah, there was a lot. I think Mick recognised he had us then for what |
| 1:34.8 | it been about two weeks I think we went out there we had a two week block of |
| 1:37.6 | training and Mick got working on the organization site I was trying to impose? |
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