Ramble Meets... Clive Allen
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On today’s Ramble Meets… Andy Brassell is joined by former QPR, Tottenham, Manchester City and England striker Clive Allen!
With his new autobiography ‘Up Front’ recently released, Clive joins Andy to discuss his 17-year professional career as a prolific forward through the eighties and nineties. The two reminisce about a range of his experiences including the challenging start to his professional career at Arsenal and Crystal Palace, his time playing at Bordeaux and the mental strain professional footballers have to bear.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the latest ramble meets. I'm Andy Brassel and today's guest is Clive Allen. |
| 0:05.4 | One that I'm very excited about because Clive Allen is a huge part of my football childhood. |
| 0:09.9 | The first year in which I regularly watched football 8687 was the one in which Clive Allen went on that incredible score in rampage for Tottenham Hotspotsco |
| 0:19.6 | and 49 goals in all competitions. But I've come to know Clive more bumping into him at BT Sport in recent years. |
| 0:28.9 | He's always very open and engaging and always got little bits of his stories from Tottenham, from Bordeaux, |
| 0:37.2 | where he went after Spurs which is a particular interest of mine. |
| 0:40.4 | And we got into a few of those subjects in great adept here. I really hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:50.0 | So I guess the first thing Clive is what was the experience of writing an autobiography like? |
| 0:57.2 | Was it almost quite nice to become reacquainted with your career? |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah I think so. Just all the memories that come back, the things that you |
| 1:07.4 | that obviously made a real impact in your life but also just recalling and actually things that popped up that you |
| 1:15.2 | you might have forgotten about. So yeah I think it was therapeutic. It was something that was |
| 1:22.0 | at times that was emotional, working with James Oly the author. It was a really pleasant experience |
| 1:30.5 | and obviously coming to fruition now with a book being launched and published and actually seeing it. |
| 1:36.5 | It's been probably two years in the making and it's something that I've thoroughly enjoyed. |
| 1:42.2 | Well there's a lot to pick through I guess and we'll get to some of it. |
| 1:46.8 | But I guess the thing that surprised me when I first started working with football and I |
| 1:52.8 | guess to an extent will surprise a lot of people listening is the fact that there are a lot of |
| 1:58.2 | footballers out there and I would say the majority of footballers who maybe don't have an encyclopedia |
| 2:05.4 | encyclopedic recall of their own career. I mean there's that brilliant story that I really loved |
| 2:11.1 | in the book about you have an argument with Richard Keys about no Keith Houching scored the winner |
| 2:17.6 | in the 87 Cup Final and you're really insistent and Richard Keys is going no no no no that's not |
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