Steve Archibald: How to play centre-forward

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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THE Big Interview has been influenced by Steve Archibald on more than one occasion. It was his time at FC Barcelona and decision to settle in the city at the end of his career which helped me choose to move there myself in 2002, while Steve had impacted my life already, as a favourite striker at that other great footballing mecca: Aberdeen. In the first part of this interview, Steve talks about his Pittodrie career, his talented team-mates and, of course, the manager who would lead them all to the league title in 1980. It was inevitable that Fergie would get a mention . . . or Mr Ferguson, I should say, as Steve will explain. But he does not simply look back on those glory days, and it is fascinating to listen to Steve take a forensic view of the centre-forward position - breaking down the role of a goalscorer. Steve told the tale of his time in England, but that part of the interview was lost as a result of some technical problems during recording. I’m really sorry, especially to you Spurs...

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0:54.0	adventures with FC Barcelona listen to part two of this interview which is
0:57.7	out soon. Coming up now is the making of a player who'd become one of the most successful British exports to continental football, let alone Lalega.
1:08.0	Like all great stories about this game we love,
1:11.0	Steve's is rooted in that other footballing mecca, Aberdeen.
1:14.8	You'll hear about how he won trophies in the first side Alex Ferguson
1:18.5	constructed at my beloved pottery, but most fascinating I think is the way that Steve breaks down what he was learning
1:25.2	about the craft of his position center forward during this period he speaks about
1:30.7	the art of center Forward play brilliantly.
1:33.7	Steve also had an exceptional career in a great spur side and I know there are many
1:39.2	out there who support that club waiting for this. However, after, I don't know, nearly 30 big interviews,
1:45.6	for the first time we had serious technical problems while we were recording,
1:49.2	and we lost the part of the interview where Steve was talking about his time at Tottenham
1:53.7	and the World Cups he played in for Scotland.
1:56.0	So you can't hear about how Mickey Hazard could have played in the Guardial Labarsa team.
2:00.4	You won't hear about how Steve performed two songs in the same episode of Top of the pops and has a Blue Peter badge
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