Signing for Liverpool, working with Roy Evans and winning the ISL trophy - Tony Warner's story

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.4 • 1000 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Former Liverpool goalkeeper Tony Warner sits down with James Pearce to talk about his long football career.Warner has just returned to the UK having won the Indian Super League as part of former Aston Villa manager John Gregory's backroom staff.The 43-year-old spent five years at Liverpool in the 1990s and was named on the bench 121 times but never made a first-team appearance. He went on to play for the likes of Millwall, Cardiff City, Fulham, Tranmere Rovers and Wellington Phoenix before making the move into coaching.Find out more about Tony's career, his relationship with Roy Evans and what it was like to play for Liverpool in the 1990s. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Blood Red Liverpool podcast.
0:05.0	I'm James Pierce the Echo's Liverpool correspondent.
0:08.0	I'm delighted to be joined today by former Liverpool goalkeeper Tony Warner. Warner Tony how are you and
0:15.2	Tony Warner Indian Super League winner understand you only got back in the country
0:19.9	yesterday Tony was it six months away? Yeah yeah pretty much
0:24.0	it landed yesterday about I don't know about midday but it was a bit of a long stint
0:28.7	away you know didn't really kind of ever see myself going to India. The opportunity came around.
0:33.3	And we, yeah, we did.
0:35.4	We won the league.
0:37.4	Coaching out there, it was a real, was a really good experience.
0:41.0	It was a lot better than I thought it would be and you had to go over there
0:45.3	there are having some big names out there that I've got out there you know it's a fledgling
0:49.8	league you know it is just kind of in a infancy and stuff but if you're going to be out there you might
0:55.1	well but it was it was a successful season.
0:59.1	And of course you were working with John Gregory, the manager of Cheney and FC.
1:04.0	Obviously he's a name that people will know from quite a long way back in terms of his time
1:08.6	with Aston Villa.
1:09.6	What's your links with John Gregory?
1:11.6	I didn't have any fun this year.
1:13.0	I've just got a text off on one day,
1:16.0	write up the blue.
1:17.0	And I felt yourself, you know,
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