Ramble Meets... Andy Brassell
Football Ramble
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4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Andy Brassell is one of the world's most knowledgeable and entertaining pundits, whose passion for football has taken him all around the world when covering the game. He can be read regularly in the Guardian, and heard on talkSPORT, as well as The Football Ramble's sister shows On The Continent and At The Match.
Here, in the latest episode of Ramble Meets, he talks in-depth to Luke about his career path so far, including his journey into football punditry and how much he owes to Tim Vickery, what it's like being on friendly terms with Cristiano Ronaldo, and the most scared he's been when covering a game.
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| 0:38.7 | Andy Brassel, writer, broadcaster on European football and type of things on my knee at airports. |
| 0:52.1 | Andy, it's an absolute pleasure to have you here with us in the ramble meets seat. |
| 0:56.0 | Pleasure to be here. |
| 0:57.6 | I think clearly a lot of people who listen to the football ramble will also listen to |
| 1:01.7 | on the continent and will know all about what you bring to the table. |
| 1:05.5 | But why don't you give listeners, and me, really, a little pracey of how you came to be where |
| 1:11.6 | you are today? |
| 1:13.6 | Well, after leaving university, which was kind of to put off getting a job. |
| 1:20.4 | I was putting on DJ events, doing a bit of tempering in offices because I didn't really want |
| 1:27.2 | to do a proper job. |
| 1:29.8 | And I saw this adverb one day. |
| 1:33.4 | I guess I must have been about 24, something like that. |
| 1:37.4 | So this is not sort of late 70s. |
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