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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Les Ferdinand: Adventures in Istanbul

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Hola Big Interview listeners!

This is part one of my interview with Sir Les Ferdinand. You're going to hear about a young striker who took a leap into the unknown and swapped QPR reserves for a spell with Besiktas. It was the making of Sir Les.



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0:00.0

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0:05.6

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every month and you'll also unlock our entire archive straight away, all for £2.99 a 1. It's the best deal in town baby and we need you. Hello my beloved socios, okay? This is a first. After two and a half seasons we finally

1:00.0

got a night of the realm on the show. So, please be up standing for Sir Les Ferdinand.

1:06.7

If you watched football in the 90s, you'll have special memories of Les Ferdinand for

1:11.2

Kupiar and Newcastle in particular. He was a hugely popular striker, powerful, quick,

1:16.8

supreme in the air, particularly for his height. He's now back at QPR which was his first professional club as Director of Football.

1:25.0

So get ready to hear Celes on all of these subjects and also on helicopters.

1:30.0

Of course you're going to love that, well at least I did. But let's start in Turkey. How many of you know that it was in Istanbul where Siles first made his name and won his first trophy gloriously against the man I most hate in all of football.

1:47.0

I can fully understand having watched you play and having talked to you while I worked in London

1:55.9

where they call you Sir Les but we're with so Lesford now which is very exciting indeed

2:01.3

and we're in your majestic office where you can see

2:05.1

your domain out the window and it's a beautiful London day this is kind of you a

2:09.0

manner this is back to well this is where L..'s finance should be at 2PR.

2:13.0

Yeah. I, yeah, we say my manner. This is my club in terms of, you know, where it all started for me.

2:19.0

In terms of my manner, my own manas Labagrave, I grew up up in sort of like West London, 19 Hill.

2:24.1

And I'll like, though this is the West Side, it's not quite as... It's the leafy countryside, sort of thing.

2:30.0

As you go from here back into town, there's a little bit of wild land where they've got ponies and horses and stuff

2:35.2

that nobody's ever developed. That's right yeah. I'm absolutely love. That's so London. I think it's greenbelt so no one can develop on it.

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