Martin O’Neill: ‘Holding the European Cup aloft – I thought 'this belongs to Puskas, Di Stefano and Best'
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In part two of my intense, fascinating Big Interview with Martin O’Neill, we hear about how this keen student of human nature has an obsession with true crime. Martin speaks about captaining a Northern Ireland side which transcended the sectarian divide and defeated hosts Spain in the 1982 World Cup. Oh, and there’s glory days with Nottingham Forest – who says lifting the European Cup was just for the likes of Puskas, Di Stefano and Best?
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| 0:00.0 | This is David Moyes. This is Yapstam. This is Ryan Fraser. |
| 0:03.2 | This is Troy Deney. This is Adam Lalana. This is your club and you are listening to the big interview with Graham Hunter. Welcome back to what we like to call, let's see if it catches on, part two of the big |
| 0:29.3 | interview with Martin O'Neill. We hear how this keen student of human nature has an obsession with |
| 0:36.3 | true crime. It's particularly the Hanrati case. I put it to him. You see what I did there legal terminology I put it to him regularly |
| 0:47.9 | repeatedly that he could have made it as a lawyer given that he's bright, given that he enjoys the study of people, |
| 0:56.4 | given that he's extremely articulate and confident when on his feet. You might be surprised by the |
| 1:01.9 | answer. We talk about him being the captain of a Northern |
| 1:06.6 | Ireland side which transcended sectarian divides and plays in the 1982 World Cup, defeating the hosts all the time with him being at the behest of Billy Bingham, the first Catholic captain of Northern Ireland. There's content about Jerry Armstrong. Do you remember |
| 1:26.9 | Jerry playing for Watford or for Majorka or for Spurs in Northern Ireland? Did you think he was up there with the talents of |
| 1:34.8 | Socrates and Falcowl, the Brazilians of 82? Did you? Then of course no |
| 1:40.9 | discussion of what Northern Ireland did in World Cup 82 in Spain would be complete without |
| 1:45.8 | talking about the exceptional brilliant Norman Whiteside. |
| 1:50.4 | Martin does that really well. |
| 1:51.6 | Yes, Northern Ireland could have gone on further had France not seen a goal of his |
| 1:58.6 | incorrectly ruled out for offside, But nonetheless, those were glory days with Northern Ireland and they were almost |
| 2:08.0 | equalled with the fact that Nottingham Forest won the European Cup twice under Brianclough with Martin a mainstay in |
| 2:16.5 | midfield but only appearing in one of the Cup finals. He could have had the England |
| 2:21.6 | job. Was he the right man? Was he experienced enough? |
| 2:26.0 | Listen to him on this. He rejected offers to say it Celtic, including Leeds. |
| 2:32.0 | There are questions about who his best signing as a manager were. |
| 2:36.2 | I genuinely believe that if you've listened to him recently, particularly at the events that he's |
| 2:41.5 | been part of that I've hosted. I think you might be quite taken |
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