West Ham's record signing Matt Jarvis is the star of this episode of Football Stories.

Matt talks to Jim Salveson about the pressure of being a club "Record signing", his solitary cap for his country and coping with the injuries that have hampered the latter half of his career in football.

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Jim sat down with Scotland, Everton and Chelsea legend Pat Nevin for this episode of Football Stories.

Pat was talking in the week his new book "The Accidental Footballer" hit the shelves and this conversation looks back over the wingers career from his early days at Celtic to his trophy winning ones with the Blues.

Pat also talks about the job that Steve Clark has done with Scotland ahead of the European Championships and now he's always felt like "the Normal One" amongst his football piers.

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Andy Campbell is telling his story on todays Football Stories. The former Middlesbrough, Bolton and Cardiff City striker talks about his time in the game.

He also talks about the thrill of scoring goals, THAT picture of him playing for England U21s surrounded by the likes of Emile Heskey, Steve Gerrard and Jamie Carragher. PLUS he talks about the mental health challenges that face top level sportsmen.

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This episode of Football Stories is all about the women's game as Jim chats to Manchester City and Scotland International Caroline Weir.

Caroline talks about her time with current team Manchester City, her early steps into football (and the challenges she faced) and the thrill of scoring a goal in the Manchester Derby.

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Today's football story comes from footballer turned mental health coach Rhodri Jones.

Rhodri started his footballing life with Manchester United in the youth academy before being released at the age of 14. He slipped down the football league before falling out the game all together at the age of 26.

He talks about the impact that had on his life and how it lead to his new career as a Mental Health Coach, helping others who may face similar challenges to those he faced.

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This football story comes from former Nottingham Forest, Fulham and Boro keeper Mark Crossley.

The welsh stopped talks about his time in the game under the great man Brian Clough, who he thinks should have that England number 1 jersey ahead of the Euros and the current challenging facing goal keepers in the modern game.

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Former Chelsea youth player Dan McCarthy is the subject of this episode of Football Stories who tells Jim what it is like to be picked up by (and then) released by a prestigious Premier League academy.

Dan talks about his disappointment of being let go, the pressure that young players are under and what it was like to train along side players who went on to reach the top of the game,

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This episode of Football Stories is all about numbers as Jim chats to the man with the stats when it comes to football finance, Kieran Maguire.

Kieran is the man behind Price of Football - delving deep into the world of agents fee's and director loans. He is a teacher, author and podcast host, alongside comedian Kevin Day, for the Price of Football podcast (which is great).

He talks about (amongst other things) some of the merky deals he's encounters, how Manchester City avoiding punishment for FFP and wether West Ham's owners are as bad as they seem.

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What was it like to work under Arsene Wenger at Arsenal? Gary and Colin Lewin are two men who know the answer. The brothers are football physios who have spent 40 years at the top of the game looking after footballing superstars at Arsenal, West Ham and with the England national team.

The joined Jim on Football Stories to talk about what its like keeping millions of pounds worth of footballing assets on the pitch, if football players can have injuries that are "all in the mind" and, of course, the impact that Arsene Wenger had on football when he joined Arsenal FC.

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Have you ever sung a song on the terraces at Old Trafford? Chances are it was written by Manchester United's song-writer in chief Pete Boyle!

Pete has been coming up with chants to be sung at football grounds around the country for years and has been a Man U fan for even longer. He talked to Jim about how he comes up with his ideas, what its like trying to get a song going infant of 60,000 people and his relationship with some Manchester United greats like Eric Cantona and Gary Neville.

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