Kieron Dyer | Open Goal Meets... Newcastle United Hero As He Discusses Career + Ipswich & West Ham

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 172 minutes

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Summary

What an interview we've got for you this week as Si Ferry sits down with Newcastle United cult hero, Kieron Dyer to discuss his career in a fascinating chat.

Kieron talks us through coming through the school of hard knocks at Ipswich to being touted by the likes of football legends Sir Alex Ferguson and Ruud Gullit as the one of the most promising up and coming talents in the UK.

We go into detail about life at Newcastle and experiencing the growing tensions between Alan Shearer & Gullit in his early days at the club to the glory days under Bobby Robson which saw the return of Champions League football to St James' Park.

Kieron also chats about the infamous on-pitch fight between him and Lee Bowyer during the Graeme Souness era and what ultimately led to his departure from Newcastle which saw him join West Ham, QPR and Middlesbrough.

Kieron also provides insight into his recent terrifying heath scare and his fight back to full fitness as he's now returned to the game as a coach at Chesterfield!

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0:00.0	Yes, what I guess we've got on today, Kieran Dyer! The big name, keep continuing. how are you mate? How are you doing, you right?
0:21.6	You're looking a million, mate.
0:22.6	I weren't a year ago, I'll tell you that.
0:24.6	Do you know what I like, mate, the wee bit of grey on that in the beards, man?
0:26.6	A bit of Richard Gere.
0:28.6	Richard Gere?
0:29.6	You've got a wee bit of Richard Gere, mate.
0:31.6	At Chesterfield now?
0:32.6	Yeah, I know. Beautiful stadium, man. It shocked me. When Cookie, Paul Cook, asked me to come and have a look and talk about me coming to join the staff.
0:43.3	I was thinking Chesterfield, like they were in the National League, wasn't for me, but as soon as I came up here,
0:49.3	see 9,000 fans in the stadium, see the way they played, training pitches. I was like, wow, real potential, so yeah.
0:56.0	How did the coaching job come a bit?
0:57.6	Obviously, Paul Cook's the manager, my mate Gary Roberts as assistant manager, what a hero,
1:01.2	a guy in there?
1:02.4	So Paul Cook, when he was appointed Ipswich Town Manager, he came in, I was doing the under
1:07.6	21, so his first day into the club, he was going to sack me.
1:13.4	He was just going to clean out all the players and all the staff.
1:16.9	So I got summoned down to the training ground to meet him at Ipswich.
1:19.3	I thought I was just going to have a chat with a new manager.
1:21.8	Little did I know he was going to sack me.
1:23.5	And then he got me into the office.
1:28.6	Robo was there and we started talking football and he kind of just buzzed off me and actually thought, oh, we could do with him still at the football club.
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