Ramble Meets... Danny Higginbotham
Football Ramble
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4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Ramble Meets… Andy Brassell speaks to Danny Higginbotham about his storied career, from his fledgling start at Manchester United - where a broken leg nearly ended it all - to playing for ten other clubs and transitioning into punditry. Danny discusses a tumultuous time playing in Belgium, his deep affinity with Stoke City and why he doesn’t actually miss being a footballer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Danny Gimbal from used to play football. |
| 0:03.2 | I used to play football and where Adidas stand find the boots. |
| 0:06.3 | Now you can find me in a country. |
| 0:15.9 | The thing that struck me when I first met you I think is that |
| 0:22.0 | one of the first things I would think looking at your football in CV is |
| 0:26.4 | former Manchester United player because you came through the academy there. |
| 0:31.2 | You played in the Premier League, you played the Champions League, you played in the |
| 0:35.0 | World Club Championship, you went out to Rio in 1999, 2000. |
| 0:40.9 | And yet you almost seem to still have a great relationship with Manchester United, |
| 0:45.4 | you know, and MUTV, etc. But you kind of back away from that tag of former Manchester |
| 0:52.7 | United player, why is that? |
| 0:53.8 | It's a question I've been asked a few times actually because I made probably eight |
| 0:59.4 | appearances for United, something like that in total for the first team. |
| 1:04.4 | And I think for you to have the tag of say former |
| 1:09.1 | man United player, you know, I think it would have to be something more substantial than that. |
| 1:15.6 | You know, don't get me wrong, if someone said, you know, where'd you grow up? |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, a group at United. |
| 1:20.6 | But I wasn't a household name there, I didn't make multiple appearances. |
| 1:26.9 | And there were other parts in my career where obviously I played a lot more games for |
| 1:33.0 | other teams, don't get me wrong, it was brilliant from my perspective to grow up at a club |
| 1:37.7 | like United because at that particular time that era, you know, the generation that went |
| 1:44.2 | before myself, learnt so much from them, the senior players that were there. |
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