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Flintoff, Savage and the Ping Pong Guy

Return Of The McEnroe

Flintoff, Savage and the Ping Pong Guy

BBC

Sports

4.88.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Join Andrew Flintoff, Robbie Savage, and Matthew Syed as they debate the delicate relationship between the media and sport, is a sports person only in it for the money and the irrational hatred of people in sport.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Flintoff Savage and me, Matthew, the ping pong guy, Sired.

0:23.5

Before we get going, thanks so much for getting in touch again through the week using the

0:26.5

hashtag Fred, Sired, you can use that hashtag to suggest topics and issues you'd like to hear

0:31.5

about next week. But let's start as we always do by what we've been doing in the last few

0:36.3

days. Fred, any tears?

0:38.9

You know what, Matthew, no tears this week. I'm nearly back to normal, but I'm not going

0:43.0

to lie. What I've been doing.

0:44.4

Normal, you.

0:45.4

Normal as I get. But I've been avoiding situations that could bring tears. So, hold me

0:51.3

sit here for the main times on the band list. I'm not watching hold me sit here. I'm not

0:54.7

going to any functions which involve retirement or anything because I can't keep crying. I

1:00.8

can't cry. I'm not a cryer. But I say what I did do this week. I went to watch the Champions

1:04.9

League match, right? I watched Lester. But I didn't go to the ground. I didn't watch

1:09.3

it at all. I watched it in an hour, saying Lester. I'm doing this job for a company.

1:13.3

Oh, for the goodness of you. I said job for a company. Right. Right. Right. You have

1:17.5

got bills to pay for. You know, bills. You'll do anything for a few, Fred. I've got come

1:22.2

in from the man who would jump on a lion's back for the Fiverr. You're a football rob.

1:26.4

Don't even have a go at me. So, I go around to this house and the premises, you sit and

1:31.2

watch the Champions League. We've been to an Arsenal, fans. I've been to a City fans. This

1:35.2

time I've gone to Lester to watch the Lester's reveal game. I've knocked on though a family

1:39.6

of foxes have answered. I don't mean real foxes. The rattle's dressed as foxes. And I sat

1:45.4

there and watched it. And I must admit, when I thought it was going to go into extra

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