Ramble Meets... Warren Haughton
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On today's Ramble Meets... Andy Brassell is joined by former Leicester City and Woking forward turned broadcast journalist, Warren Haughton!
From playing on the estates in his hometown of Birmingham to trialling with Aston Villa at 14, Warren became obsessed with football from a young age. After a stint at Leicester City, he journeyed through a variety of non-league sides before pursuing the journalism career he's become known for. He joins us to discuss his nomadic playing career, including the physical and mental strains that nearly made him quit aged just 24, as well as his second career in broadcasting. Plus, he tells us about receiving a special pair of gold Adidas Predators from Kenny Dalglish!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Warren Horton, sports consultant, and remember, if you don't shoot, you don't score. |
| 0:05.5 | And goals pay the rent. |
| 0:13.2 | So if we go right back to the beginning, Warren, at what point did you think to yourself for the |
| 0:20.5 | first time, I'm going to be a footballer? Well, I could walk, I suppose, because as soon as I |
| 0:28.0 | started walking, I started kicking a ball around them with my dad and with all my friends and |
| 0:34.4 | fell in love with it. It felt natural to me, Andy, playing football, walking around kicking a ball. |
| 0:41.1 | I even remember my parents, my mom telling me that the first pair of boots I had, I slept in them. |
| 0:46.1 | That's her obsessed at the one time. So yeah, it was something that as soon as I could walk, |
| 0:51.7 | as soon as I had a fill for football, as soon as I saw on the TV, I fell in love with it, |
| 0:56.4 | and that's what I wanted to do. But I suppose we grew up at a similar time, didn't we, in the 70s and |
| 1:04.0 | 80s, late 70s and early 80s. So I guess football was a lot more of a social thing there. |
| 1:12.0 | Street football was a lot more of an essential thing, wasn't it, with kids on your estate or on your |
| 1:16.8 | road or whatever? That's how we played. I always harp on about this to my kids and to my |
| 1:26.4 | peers. Where I grew up in an area of Birmingham called Lee Bank and the local school was a school |
| 1:34.4 | I didn't go to. So I went to another school and it was a rugby school for football. So I made my |
| 1:40.2 | mum change school so I could play for a better football team. That's how obsessed I was with football. |
| 1:45.0 | Most of the kids I played football with went to the best school, which was Lee Bank. So I made sure |
| 1:50.4 | I was there. I played football with them in the streets. I played football with them on pictures. |
| 1:54.5 | These were the days where you played football on the grass and the key take would chase you off. |
| 1:58.7 | And then 10 minutes later when the key take would gone, you go back and play. That's how much we |
| 2:02.6 | were in lovely football. So they were about 23 or 40 of us kids on his estate and we just all played |
| 2:09.0 | football, football all year round. Obviously a bit of cricket as well. But that's just how it was. |
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