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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

The Summer of Bellingham: England preview with Jonathan Northcroft

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

I caught up with Jonathan Northcroft as he prepared for another tournament covering England for The Sunday Times, to talk about how he thinks they have changed since their run to the final four of the 2018 World Cup - an adventure he documented in the book Deadlines and Darts With Dele. Jonathan picked his one to watch from Gareth Southgate's squad and we decided in advance who was going to make it to the final.

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0:00.0

Hi it's Graham Hunter. This is the big interview at the Euros. We've got color, we've got

0:06.2

analysis, we've got match action. I'm going to be following Spain all around the tournament

0:11.3

until they go out in Rome in the quarterfinals and we've got guests.

0:19.2

Johnny, obviously I'm going to go straight for the most expected question, but can you believe that it's 25 years since the Luton lizards?

0:30.0

Could you explain what the Luton Wizards are and how that relates to a European

0:35.6

Championship starring England versus Scotland? Well I went for a jog on Saturday and given that I've been limping ever since then,

0:46.6

yeah, I can believe it's, what did you say it was, 23 years?

0:50.4

25 years from four or a six until today.

0:55.0

I mean, yeah, we were young and in our prime them, weren't we?

0:59.0

We were a bit fitter than now.

1:02.0

But yeah, I mean, for those I haven't heard the legend of the Lutin lizards and

1:06.8

struggle to believe there are still people who haven't that's something that listen to the show

1:11.2

you know you have you got the euros obviously you had the the Scotland

1:15.0

England game in the middle of Euro 96 and that was a kind of taster really for the big

1:20.8

game which was Scottish press versus English Press down at the

1:24.9

Vauxhall factory playing fields I suppose they were down in in Luton and we put together a fine team went down on a bus from...

1:37.6

Were you staying in Kenowworth for the rest of us? Sting in some sort of

1:41.5

Shakespeare country it was in Warwickshire somewhere as I remember.

1:44.8

Yeah, so a year in 96, Scotland were training at the National Agriculture Center,

1:49.7

which is near Stratford upon Avon.

1:52.6

Press for staying in Kenowworth and Leamington.

1:55.4

Beautiful, beautiful part of the country.

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