Off Script: Merson’s career in characters
Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Sky Sports
4.0 • 760 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:28.3 | Merce, welcome to your first episode of OffScript. How are you keeping? |
| 0:32.6 | Yeah, good, thank you. Yeah, good. Good. A bit up and down, but yeah, I can't mo. |
| 0:37.3 | Throughout the years, we've spoken to at length about your triumphs and your problems in football. |
| 0:41.3 | We want to delve into your experiences, playing alongside some of the biggest characters in the game throughout your career. |
| 0:47.3 | Now, if we go back to the start, where it all began for you, the mid-80s, your breakthrough of Arsenal, |
| 0:52.3 | your breakthroughs, what coincided with George Graham's |
| 0:56.1 | reign at Highbury. You don't have to look too far for proof that he was one of the biggest |
| 1:02.0 | characters and personalities of his age as the manager. As an 18-year-old, was that baptism |
| 1:06.9 | fire working under him? Yeah, I mean, it was petrifying, if I'm being honest. |
| 1:12.6 | He ruled with an iron rod. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah, and he was someone that I don't think in this day and age |
| 1:20.6 | with players on 100 grand a week, he would get very far. |
| 1:24.6 | But for me, he was the best manager I ever worked under. There's no |
| 1:29.7 | doubt about that. I don't think we'd want anything to ask him without George Graham. So, yeah, |
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