Rory Smith, the New York Times Chief Soccer Correspondent, relives the eight goals of his life and tells Theo Delaney about a life in football as a journalist and author (his latest book Expected Goals: The Story of How Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever is just out in paperback). A Liverpool fan since childhood his chosen scorers in this, part one of two, include Hagi, Rivaldo and Luis Garcia.@RorySmith@LifeGoalsTD @theodelaney https://t.co/ml6IzwmPSOhttps://www.theodelaney.comhttps://www.11-29media.com/life-goals

Life Goals with Theo Delaney - Rory Smith (Part 1)

Every football fan knows it's the goals that really stay with you such is their juddering emotional impact. In Life Goals well known football fanatics re -live the eight defining goals of their lives with host Theo Delaney and reflect on what was happening at the time as it all comes flooding back. Like a good football match it veers from the poignant to the euphoric

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Theo Delaney’s guest is a bona fide legend of sports broadcasting Gary Newbon who has presented thousands of TV shows and worked for many years as an influential executive at ITV and Sky Sports. Renowned as an interviewer, the title of his recent memoir ‘Newbon - Bloody Hell’ is a reference to the famous quote he got from Alex Ferguson in the players tunnel in Barcelona after his Manchester United team had won the Champions League in dramatic style. The book has been nominated in the Sports Book Awards. Gary is a Leicester City fan and among his chosen scoreres are his friends Jimmy Greaves, Geoff Hurst, Trevor Francis and Jamie Vardy.@LifeGoalsTD@theodelaney https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/newbon-bloody-hellhttps://www.theodelaney.com/life-goals-links

Life goals with Theo Delaney - Gary Newbon

Theo Delaney's guest is the BBC's Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent Marianna Spring. Only 28, her prolific journalism and broadcasting career encompasses The Guardain, Private Eye, Panorama and a series of lauded radio shows and podcasts. Two days before this interview she won the Best Speech Presenter award at the prestigious ARIAS and her first book, the excellent Among The Troll, is out now. A lifelong Tottenham fan, among her selected goal scorers are Kane, Lennon and Bale.@mariannaspring@LifeGoalsTD@theodelaney https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/among-the-trolls/https://www.theodelaney.com/life-goals-links

Life Goals with Theo Delaney - Marianna Spring

Reliving the goals of his life is legendary singer Colin Bluntstone of The Zombies who were inducted in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in 2019 and are currently touring the UK having returned from another successful set of dates in the USA. Known for his honeyed vocals he tells Theo Delaney about his 60 years in music and of his concurrent devotion to Chelsea. Among his chosen scorers, Le Tissier and Torres and his cousin, Blues legend Frank Bluntstone.@TheZombiesMusic@LifeGoalsTD@theodelaney https://www.thezombiesmusic.com/https://www.theodelaney.com/life-goals-links

Life Goals with Theo Delaney - Colin Bluntstone

Theo Delaney’s guest is Mehreen Khan, the Economics Editor of The Times and co-host of the brilliant football podcast Heroes and Humans with previous Life Goals guest Simon Kuper. A huge fan of Chelsea, whose biggest games she finds almost unbearable to watch, Mehreen chooses goals from Di Matteo, Lampard, Cole Palmer and more.@MehreenKhn@LifeGoalsTD@theodelaney https://linktr.ee/heroesandhumanshttps://www.theodelaney.com/life-goals-links

Life Goals with Theo Delaney - Mehreen Khan

Part two of Mat Snow on Life Goals in which the former Mojo and FourFourTwo editor relives goals from Berbatov, Son and Danny Rose, expounds on the joys of watching football with his daughter Lola and tells how he came to be manager of one of the best live bands around, Ese and the Vooduu People.@mat_snow@LifeGoalsTD@theodelaney https://www.facebook.com/mat.snowhttps://www.theodelaney.com/life-goals-links

Life Goals with Theo Delaney - Rory Smith (Part 1)

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