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A bonus episode for you! I was at the Camp Nou last week for an extraordinary Champions League semi-final first leg which finished Barcelona 3 Liverpool 0. 

Ahead of the second leg at Anfield on Tuesday, I talk about Valverde's tactical acumen, Messi's increasingly vocal brand of leadership and whether Liverpool can find their shooting boots in front of goal. 

Enjoy!

Graham

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Hi,

Let me tell you about Ally Dick. Because unlike our other episodes, I know most of you probably don’t know the name this time - and I want to make sure you don’t skip over this interview. 

As you listen to this hopefully just before the second leg of Spurs v Ajax, here is a player who links those two great football clubs. 

As a youngster, Ally was an electrifying talent, a winger who had his pick of the top clubs in Britain and chose Spurs. 

He was a UEFA Cup winner with Tottenham – he came off the bench in the 1984 final but ended that game, which went to penalties, unable to run due to badly damaged ligaments in his knee. 

He was signed by Johan Cruyff at Ajax to play in the same team as Marco Van Basten, Frank Rijkaard, the emerging Danny Blind and a young thruster called Dennis Bergkamp.

The reason that you don’t know his name as well as you know those of his teammates is the debilitating series of injuries that punctuated his short career as an elite footballer. 

But listen to this, the first part of our interview, focusing on Spurs, and you’ll get a unique portrait of a kid with the world at his feet in the early 1980s – a natural, uncoached talent whose only tactical instruction at Spurs was: do your thing.

Enjoy!

Graham

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Reflecting on from Liverpool’s epic Champions League win over Milan in Istanbul, Jamie Carragher talks about how it felt to play through the pain barrier against the best team in Europe.

He’s great on another historic final – the UEFA Cup win over Alaves, and why Liverpool couldn’t celebrate it. If you want to know more about the myth of ‘continental’ management and what Jamie thinks of recruitment at Liverpool over the last 10 years, then I think you’re going to enjoy this.

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In the second half of my fascinating chat with Gus Poyet, we discuss his days playing in London for Chelsea and Spurs, and his love for the old Wembley Stadium. Gus also speaks about his transition into management, notably leading Sunderland to a League Cup final and missing out on signing defensive genius Virgil van Dijk.

I am certain you will enjoy this, one of the greatest Big Interviews we have done so far.

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Welcome to our first live episode of Between the Lines. This is a conversation between Jonathan Northcroft, chief football writer of The Sunday Times, and his counterpart at the The Times in Scotland, Michael Grant. It’s chaired by, Martin BackPage and it took place at Glasgow’s Aye Write book festival on March 29. Jonathan is the author of Deadlines and Darts with Dele and Michael wrote the definitive book on the early years of Sir Alex Ferguson, Fergie Rises.

As always, we focus on process. The boys tell us about their best and worst interviews (hello Gareth Bale) we talk about the place of match reports in the modern media and the joys of watching live football rather than from the comfort of the armchair.

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Gus Poyet is a prime example of how Uruguayans provide the never-say-die ingredient for many European clubs.

In the first half of our fascinating conversation, Gus speaks about the influence of basketball on his development, and about his annus mirabilis of 1995, when he won the Copa America and was an integral part of the Real Zaragoza side who defeated the mighty Arsenal in the European Cup Winners’ Cup final.

I am certain you will enjoy this, one of the greatest Big Interviews we have done so far.

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As the city of Barcelona welcomes Manchester United 20 years after they won the European Cup at the Camp Nou in the most dramatic finale imaginable, I thought I would record my own memories of that time. 

I was chief football reporter on a national newspaper then, following United as they closed in on the treble. So here's my recollection of the football, the personalities, the work and the general craziness of the end of season 1998-99. 

I hope you like it. 

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It's the business end of the season so we've decided to record some extra shows.

Here's my preview of the Man United v Barcelona quarter-final first leg tie on Wednesday (April 10).

Enjoy

Graham

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We bring you the one and only Shaun Maloney.

I grew up in the same village and went to the same school as Shaun. He's came a long way from Bieldside in Aberdeen, though. After an excellent career at Celtic, Wigan, Aston Villa, Chicago Fire and Hull City, he is now assisting Roberto Martinez with the Belgium national team.

Martinez once said Shaun has an 'elite brain'. You're about to find out why. Sit back and enjoy the company of Shaun Maloney.

Graham

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Here's the second part of our Q & A for March 2019. Includes questions on Messi, Scotland and what I would change if I headed up La Liga and the Spanish football federation.

Enjoy!

Graham

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