Pascal Chimbonda - Special

Last Word On Spurs

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Host Ricky Sacks was joined by Jamie from the Daily Hotspur as the Last Word On Spurs had the pleasure of welcoming former Spurs defender Pascal Chimbonda onto the Last Word On Spurs. Described by one reputable news outlet in 2007 as ‘a Tottenham Hotspur player’, Pascal Chimbonda left his stamp all over the Premier League during the noughties. The fast and industrious right-back was bought by a number of managers between 2005 and 2011, and if you followed Premier League football during that period (particularly full backs) you are bound to know his name. In 2005, Paul Jewell brought Chimbonda to Wigan from Bastia, for a fee worth £500k. In today’s volatile transfer market, with clubs paying extortionate prices even for defenders, that number would probably be in the region of £600k. In his first season in England, his performances for Wigan earned him a place in Raymond Domenech’s World Cup squad. At the tournament, his contribution involved sitting still on the bench as his French teammates went all the way to the final. If you pause it at the right moment, you can see the top corner of Chimbonda’s head on the screen as a disgraced Zinedine Zidane trudges off following that red card against Italy. By the end of the 2005/06 season, ‘Powerful Pascal’ had also attracted attention from some of England’s top clubs, including Tottenham. In wonderfully tactless style, he decided to play all 90 minutes of his last match for Wigan with a written transfer request stuffed down his sock, which he presented to Jewell in the dressing room immediately after the game. Chimbonda has a feeling this might be why the former Wigan boss has not made much of an effort to remain in contact. But he got his way, and after the World Cup completed his £4.5m switch to Spurs. He hit the ground running in North London, earning praise from his manager Martin Jol, and maintaining a spot in the starting eleven despite competition from a player called Stephen Kelly. Spells at Sunderland, Blackburn and QPR followed for this Premier League classic, and it says a lot for Chimbonda’s undoubted ability that so many clubs continued to add him to their ranks. #THFC #COYS #TOTTENHAM #HOTSPUR #TOTTENHAMHOTSPUR #SPURS #LWOS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network.
0:05.0	Puddleston knocks it in there.
0:07.0	Will it drop?
0:08.0	It's gone in.
0:10.0	It's Jim Bonda.
0:12.0	Has he rescued it for Topham?
0:16.0	Hello and welcome to the last word on Spurs here.
0:20.2	Hope you are well.
0:21.7	As we continue to fight and battle the coronavirus. We're trying our best to still bring you some spurs content
0:27.1	Over these next couple of weeks. We've got some wonderful interviews with some ex-spurs players
0:31.4	And we're delighted to bring you yet another player that played in the
0:35.1	Lily Wyatt firstly I'm delighted to have Jay from the Daily Hot.
0:38.7	Back with me Jay how are you? Yes I'm very well thank you. I hope all the listeners are also doing very well, you know,
0:45.4	sticking to the government guidelines and everything. Yeah, and I just wish everyone well.
0:50.3	Yeah, I echo those thoughts, Jay, like I say, keep having to stay at home, keep washing those hands, keep throwing the rules of regulations set out by the government.
0:57.0	We are absolutely delighted to welcome a former Spurs player during me and Jay's time, growing up watching Spurs. We remember this guy
1:05.0	on the right-hand side, bombing up that field,
1:08.0	bringing us forward in attacks,
1:10.0	and being pretty reliable defensively,
1:12.0	delighted to welcome Pascal Chimbonder to the last world on spurs.
1:16.8	Pascal how are you and how your family?
1:18.7	Yeah, I'm cool Ricky, how are you up?
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