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The Spanish Football Podcast

TSFP Presents: Cult Heroes: Episode 4

The Spanish Football Podcast

Phil Kitromilides, Sid Lowe & Alex Kirkland

Sports, Soccer

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Join Phil Kitromilides, Sid Lowe & Alex Kirkland for this re-release of the fourth episode of our TSFP Presents series Cult Heroes. Originally published for patrons at patreon.com/tsfp in October 2019, we discuss two more LaLiga icons, Valeri Karpin and Biri Biri. We're releasing a classic TSFP Presents episode every week here on the Monday podcast feed. For the full archive of 100+ episodes, plus our new series Rincón Cultural, join us at patreon.com/tsfp. We're now offering annual memberships with 10% off. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's edition of TSFP Presents Cult Heroes,

0:04.2

the series that we initially recorded in 2019 exclusively for our patrons at patreon.com

0:09.6

forward slash TSFP and which we're now releasing for the wider public.

0:14.0

We're talking about cult heroes and this week we've got two pretty obscure figures but very

0:19.8

important ones nevertheless for their respective clubs, Valerie Karpin and Biddy Biddy.

0:33.5

Hello patrons, welcome to another episode of TSFP Presents Cult Heroes. I'm here with

0:39.2

Sid and Al in the pod mobile. Hello. Hello. Hi guys. Hi patrons. So today's episode, we're going

0:46.5

to be talking about Valerie Karpin and Biddy Biddy to legendary and collet players for both

0:53.0

of their respective teams. We wanted to talk about a player from that sort of celtovigo side that's

1:00.1

sort of late 20th century early 21st century. The best side they've ever had probably. The best

1:04.8

side they've ever had I think. Yeah and there are a number of choices and we've gone for we've

1:08.2

gone for Karpin. Yeah I mean to talk about the choice process we wanted to talk about Alexander

1:13.5

Mustavoid. That was the first player that we thought we were going to talk about. Yeah and the

1:16.0

man he was known as the Zah of Baleidos. My favorite historically inaccurate photo shoot involved him.

1:23.6

I'm going to say inaccurate nickname because he wasn't in fact a Zah. No but it's almost as

1:27.9

bad. Front page of I can't remember if it was Mark Orass a picture of Alexander Mustavoid the Zah

1:33.0

and of course because he's Russian they've got him wearing one of those communist hats. Yes.

1:37.2

I mean there is a fundamental misunderstanding of the russia revolution going on there.

1:41.7

Yes. So we were going to do Mustavoid but in the end we didn't feel comfortable because one of

1:46.6

the many incidents throughout his career that took place was a really deeply unpleasant one.

1:52.0

Which I must admit I didn't know about. Yeah but which there is footage of on the internet if

1:56.7

you want to go and see it's quite shocking and quite nasty. It's a bust up between him and

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