My Best Eleven

Kevin is a QPR legend who sits as their 6th highest joint goal scorer ever over 2 stints as well as spending time at clubs such as MK Dons, Huddersfield and Luton Town.

He retells his playing career at these clubs, what made him come back to QPR as well as his honest opinions about playing under a number of managers. 

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Ricky Hill was one of the best players of his generation. He spent the majority of his time at Luton Town during the 70's and 80's as well as playing at Leicester and Le Havre too. This is as well as being capped by Bobby Robson for England

He talks about his time as a player, growing up as an apprentice at Luton all the way to his time managing the club (and beyond). He opens up on the frustrations he faced and still faces whilst trying to get back into Football Management. 

Towards the end of the podcast, Ricky answers fan questions as well

Ricky Hill's new book: Love of the Game:- The Man Who Brought the Rooney Rule to the UK. (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785318268/ref=cm_sw_r_wa_apa_fabt1_.6-QFb2SCBFQJ)

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Ian is our guest on this weeks My Best Eleven. He has played at a number of clubs across the world including Club Bruges, Luton Town, West Ham, New England Revolution and LA Salsa. He has also coached at LA Galaxy during their glory years with Landon Donovan, Robbie Keane and David Beckham.

He talks about his time leaving the USA to make it as a player and moving to Belgium. The differences between football all over the world and how he still calls England a 2nd Home.

Ian also explains how he helped the Italian Maestro whilst at West Ham practice for weeks to perfect 'that goal' against Wimbledon.

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This week we have a player who can name West Brom, Norwich, Cardiff, Wigan, Coventry and Luton as his former clubs. 

Leon talks about playing with some huge (current) stars as they made there was up or back down the football pyramid including Harry Maguire and Craig Bellamy. 

He also opens up (last 15 minutes of the podcast) about his career ending heart issue which happened whilst on the pitch during a game for Northampton Town. Even the fact if he had played 1 more match, he was risking his life.

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This week, Mark Pembridge names his best ever 11 players he played with. He recounts his time at teams such as Sheffield Wednesday, Everton, Fulham and Benfica as well as the Welsh national team. 

Mark tells the story of the crazy dressing room and owner style at Benfica under Graeme Souness, and stories coming through at Luton Town under David Pleat.

Mark shows his passion for youth team players and has some great stories about an ex England superstar who he played with at Everton.

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Curtis Davies joins us for this weeks podcast. Curtis has played for Luton, West Brom, Aston Villa, Leicester City, Birmingham, Hull and currently Derby County.

Curtis talks through the best players he has ever played with, tells some stories of the managers and coaches he has been under including great stories from his youth days

He also talks about his love of the game, opinions on youth team football as well as how gutting it was to not lift the FA Cup with Hull City. He also tells us has the 'gaffer' (Wayne Rooney' still got it or not on the pitch?

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This week our guest is Sean Dyche. This is a massive ex player and current manager of Burnley in the Premier League. There are some hilarious stories from his time playing and also some from his management time at both Watford and Burnley.

We speak to Sean about his playing days and his career progression whilst at clubs such as Chesterfield, Bristol City, Luton, Millwall, Watford and Northampton.

He talks through his time at these clubs, how his time with Marv at Luton turned his career around and what he has taken from previous managers to use in his current job.

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This week, we are lucky enough to have Matthew Taylor who played at clubs such as Luton, Portsmouth, West Ham, Bolton, Burnley and Northampton Town

Matthew talks about and remembers his days coming through under the guidance of Lennie Lawrence, working with managers such as Harry Redknapp and how he has learnt from them all to now be Under 18 coach at Tottenham

He also goes into depth about his believe on how young players should be managed and coached in the modern era too

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Nick Owen is most famous for his time on television hosting TV-am and Midlands Today, as well as his tenure as Luton Town Chairman for the takeover by Luton Town Football Club 2020. 

Nick talks through how he came to love the club after growing up in Berkhamsted, his memories of the highs and lows of watching Luton. The depth of Nick's player knowledge and match by match description is astounding and is so enjoyable for any fan.

He goes through and talks about his best ever Luton Town 11 team and also explains how he so nearly did not become chairman due to work rules/commitments.

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Tony Thorpe is this week talking about the best 11 players he has ever been on a pitch with whilst at a number of clubs but predominantly Luton Town, QPR, Fulham and Bristol City

He talks about his time playing in the 'Championship', the constant love and fondness he has for Luton Town as well as being honest about the extreme chanting he is on the end of due to misunderstanding about his more to QPR.

Tony talks about his time at Fulham as the revolution began and how Kevin Keegan signed him as well as how he is now finding management at Melton Town.

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