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Ross Barkley OPENS UP to The Athletic ft. Jacob Tanswell

1874

1874: The Aston Villa Channel

Sports, Soccer

4.8728 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Dan Bardell is joined by Jacob Tanswell to discuss Jacob's interview with Ross Barkley. Ross opened up to Jacob on a number of issues and Jacob is here to talk through the interview. Sponsored by MATCH BINGO https://1874.io/matchbingo Get your Founders gear: https://foundersdesign.co.uk/ __________________________________________________________________ People often ask me how they can support the channel/content. If you enjoy the content and want to make a donation then it’s appreciated. Would never move to subscription model, but happy to accept donations if people want to help the channel at: https://buymeacoffee.com/danbardell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello, welcome back to 1874.

0:31.8

I'm your host, Dan Bardell, joined by the Athletics, Aston Villa correspondent Jacob Tanzwell,

0:36.4

because Jacob's brought out a really important read today on the Athletic

0:40.3

with Aston Villa's midfielder, Ross Barkley.

0:42.7

Ross opened up to Jacob and talked through a variety of issues in his life.

0:46.4

And Jacob, just how was it to sit down with Ross and have this chat?

0:50.5

Yeah, I'm firstly, very, very proud of the interview and how it's gone. Obviously, it's very important that a footballer, like Ross, who's, you know, in the top flight, he's very established, opened up about some of the problems he's previously had.

1:10.9

And it was a really honest interview.

1:13.7

You know, so we talked about him going to E. Total therapy.

1:19.4

But also basically a wide-ranging interview from the start to finish really.

1:22.9

I was there with him for around an hour.

1:25.9

He talks about obviously being that teenage prodigy at Everton,

1:29.9

going to Chelsea, the frustrations that he had at Chelsea, the incidents that he had going on

1:36.4

night's out being punished by Chelsea being caught, you know, let out late at night,

1:43.8

the world publicised things that are already out there being a young local lad in

1:49.0

when he went in Merseyside and then being recognised and that leading into trouble as well.

1:54.0

So yeah, it's not always every day you get a top flight current primary footballer who's willing to speak so openly.

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