Ramble Meets... Danny Kelly
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Put simply, Danny Kelly is a broadcasting legend. Now found most regularly on talkSPORT presenting Kick Off, The Season Ticket and wherever else his prodigious talents are needed, he has over 30 years in the media game, including stints editing the NME, Q Magazine, and of course covering sport consistently across TV and radio.
In this latest episode of Ramble Meets, expect hilarious stories and tangents aplenty as Danny talks to Luke about how he fell in love with football in the first place, his most memorable moments in several decades covering the game, and what he thinks of the current state of the world's most popular sport.
This episode of Ramble Meets was recorded on Friday 26th April 2019.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings mortals, it is I, Loki, God of mischief. |
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| 0:51.0 | This episode of ramble meets is sponsored by Betfair 365. |
| 1:00.0 | Hi, I'm Danny Kelly. I've made my living out the two things I love, popular music and football. This is about football. |
| 1:11.0 | Danny, it's absolutely fantastic to have you here with us in different surroundings in our studio, which is a real trick for me. |
| 1:19.0 | I don't forget we worked together. I know exactly. We have met. |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah, exactly. What are your first memories of falling in love with football? |
| 1:27.0 | When did you experience football and think that is the one thing for me? That is the sport for me. |
| 1:32.0 | I grew up in the middle of London in Islington, in the shadow of Arsenal's Old Stadium in Highbury. |
| 1:39.0 | I guess I came of age 6, 7, 8, 9. I noticed that in the mid-60s, when the crowds were just gigantic at English football. |
| 1:48.0 | I got taken by my uncles. My parents emigrated from Ireland in the late 50s. I was born. |
| 1:54.0 | They were joined by regular reinforcements from their own family. As people were 16, they came to London to write. |
| 2:00.0 | They brought their mates with them as well. One of my uncles, my uncle Patrick and Patrick. |
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