Ramble Meets... Jonathan Greening
Football Ramble
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4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of Ramble Meets… we speak to former Manchester United, Fulham and West Brom midfielder Jonathan Greening. In this revealing interview Jonathan talks about his early career at Manchester United in that treble-winning side, following Steve McClaren to Middlesborough and his appreciation for the old-school environment that shaped his formative years.
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| 0:00.0 | So I walked in and he's going mental to me, abusing me and then next minute they just grabbed me and took boot room. |
| 0:06.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:06.6 | Lights off, digging me and all that. |
| 0:08.3 | I wasn't. |
| 0:08.8 | Remember the metal things you sitting in, the mud off the, off the, the back of the studs? |
| 0:12.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:13.1 | Just scraping it down my hamstrings and my calves. |
| 0:16.2 | Really? |
| 0:16.7 | And then lights came on. |
| 0:18.4 | Blood all the way down my hamstrings and calves and they shouted, don't ever forget to do my boots again. |
| 0:25.1 | Jonathan Greedin, ex-footballer, last guy to lift a trophy for West Bromwich Albion. |
| 0:37.4 | George Best said that when he was asked the most important thing a football player needs, he said balance. |
| 0:43.8 | What do you think is the most important thing a professional footballer needs? |
| 0:47.0 | Balance before 20 points are. |
| 0:48.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.6 | It's a good point actually. |
| 0:53.9 | I think he needs to be mentally strong. |
| 0:55.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.3 | Yeah, he needs to be mentally strong because I think that's one of the biggest things I think for me when I was 16, nearly 17, I, you know, I worked in the York City youth team. |
| 1:09.3 | I was on the bench. |
| 1:10.4 | I wasn't, you know, physically strong enough. |
| 1:13.5 | I, you know, I'd grown into my body, should I say. |
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