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Men in Blazers 08/14/17: Peter Moore Pod Special

Men In Blazers

Men In Blazers

Football, Fantasy Sports, Soccer, Sports, Mib

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Rog speaks with Liverpool FC CEO Peter Moore about the career odyssey that lead him to the boardroom of his childhood club, his time in charge at EA SPORTS FIFA, and his playing days at the Cleveland Cobras. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

This is Rebecca Lo or Rebecca Loa if you listen to suboptimal radio and you are listening to Men in Blazers on the NBC Sports Network.

0:18.0

It's unbelievable!

0:24.2

Welcome to Men in Blazers pod special. Our guest today is a Premier League CEO whose ascension to the

0:33.9

boardroom was more a global journey which could have inspired Homer to write the Odyssey and it

0:39.6

had been a little bit more into football. A lifelong Liverpool fan who left Mersey Side to play

0:45.7

with a Cleveland Cobra's. In the American Soccer League, pulling that opportunity to delve into

0:52.7

the sports footwear business and somehow into gaming where he rose to become the COO of the

0:58.9

invisible hand that's grown football in this country. EA Sports FIFA. But June the first, he became one

1:07.1

of the most intriguing signings of the transfer window when he returned to his childhood home,

1:12.6

assuming his new role as the CEO of Liverpool Football Club. The team he chaired his little heart out

1:20.4

for while growing up in the late 50s, 60s and 70s. We welcome to the pod. A man whose résumé

1:28.3

sounds like the most avant-garde football mixtape of all time, joining us live and in person

1:33.7

from the closet in which we pod. Welcome the one and only Mr Peter Moore.

1:39.6

You're right there lad. He's a Gaston Boer. Like me, you're a Liverpoolian by birth.

1:48.6

I've got a start off by telling you that the photos you tweet of the sunsets on the river Mersey,

1:54.6

now that you've returned, they stir inside of me a longing for our city. You seem to be genuinely

2:00.8

happy after traveling all around the world to be back in that remarkable city. Circle of life,

2:06.8

it's a fabulous city. I lived there in the 60s, I was born,

2:11.2

septum general hospital and lived in Gaston, my dad at a pub, right on speak road.

2:15.2

Down mile and a half for me. Mm-hmm. Moved out of there in the late 60s to 20 miles away

2:20.8

between Rexman and Chester, which is where my family is. But having come back over the years,

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