My Best Eleven

Recently appointed and current Doncaster Rovers manager Gary McSheffrey talks about his playing days and also offers some words of wisdom about his management style going into his new role

Gary is fondly remembered for goals at Coventry, Luton, Birmingham, Leeds, Scunthorpe and Doncaster Rovers. 

He recounts his time of being the trainee and working his way up at Coventry to spending the latter part of his career watching players come through and offering advice

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This episode, Marv and Andrew look back on some of the best guests we have heard from (with some hilarious extracts from episodes gone by.

They call (try to), future guests to give you an idea of who we have coming up in Season 3 as well as have a random/unplanned chat with a past guest whilst he is preparing for his next top flight match!

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This week, ex Bradford, Luton and Stoke (amongst others) defender joins us to talk about his career on and off the pitch.

John finds a number of players and talks about Luton and promotion to the Premier League with Bradford so fondly and has some great stories including how he had to play against Mitchell Thomas hungover!

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Alan Nielson is an ex Newcastle, Luton, Southampton and Fulham Welsh international defender. He has also has 3 spells as caretaker manager of Luton Town and now works as U23 Norwich manager.

Alan talks about coming through with an excellent crop of Newcastle youngsters, playing under Kevin Keegan a number of times and also his experience at Southampton with Ali Dia who came on as a 'fake'

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Joe Allon's My Best Eleven is one of the funniest and best for stories both from the pitch and behind the scenes.

The ex Newcastle, Swansea, Hartlepool, Chelsea and Brentford striker names the best 11 players he has ever played with.

The man is a true Geordie and speaks also about the takeover and what he loves and loathes about football in 2021.

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This week we have ex US international goalkeeper Juergen Sommer on. He played for clubs including Luton, QPR, New England Revolution and Colombus Crew

Juergen does something different as a one off by selecting the best 11 players he ever played against in a competitive game. This covers lots of countries, competitions and eras

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Ex Northern Irish international, Spurs, Sunderland, Luton, Burnley and Nancy striker Phil Gray joins us to tell us the best 11 players he has played with.

He opens up on his time at Sunderland and also his moves to Nancy (Fra) as well as Fortuna Sittard (Ned). 

Phil also explains how and why he always seems to find himself in the middle of mischief, even some which meant he had to swap North London clubs as a youngster.

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This week, we are joined by Marv's ex boss (at Kettering), Lee Harper who played for Arsenal, QPR, Northampton, Walsall, MK Dons and Kettering Town.

Lee talks through the move from non league football straight to Arsenal and playing with the likes of Seaman, Adams and Wright. 

He recounts the challenging times at QPR and then Northampton but how it made him a better player and leader. Then how he has used this knowledge to set up his own goalkeeper academy (https://www.lhgka.com/ )

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Ex England international Paul Walsh played for teams such as Liverpool, Tottenham, Luton, Portsmouth and Man City. He was a striker that many a manager loved and relied upon to get goals and make those memorable runs. 

Paul talks through some amazing team mates to make his Best 11 (as well as a number of honourable mentions). 

He talks through his England caps, moves between clubs as well as his love of the game he still has today.

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David talks about the best 11 players he has ever managed at teams such as Luton, Leicester, Tottenham and Sheffield Wednesday.

He has some great stories about buying and selling players plus his opinion on football being played the right way. David Pleat is a man who loves to talk about football and it is clear that the passion and pride is there for all the players he helped in their careers (including our own Marvin Johnson).

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