Just a good listen, Matt Kendrick has said he’s got David Platt in his sights for an interview but he can’t see the real biggie Martin O’neill happening
It was an interesting interview and good to hear from Gregory as I still have a lot of happy memories of his time. But Kendrick dodged asking a few trickier questions, such as the Balaban transfer as eamonn rightly mentions.That period when he first took over from Sir Brian though, what a blast that was. And topping the table twice was pretty decent as well, it's just sad that it petered out as it always seems to do when we have good periods (see O'Neill from March onwards every year, and Smith this season just finished for other examples.)
I still find it hard to forgive the negative way we played in 2000, with a side full of attacking flair, where an average Chelsesa side where there for the taking!
Q] If you could play the 2000 FA Cup final again, would you do anything different?A] Yes, I'd win it!I would do lots of things differently. That game haunts me. There have been times in my life where I've sat there and thought: "Why didn't I play a more offensive style on the day and really go for it!"I just feel tactically I got it all wrong on the day.I thought if we could keep Chelsea quiet for an hour we'd start imposing our game.We were always a very strong second half team. I always thought 0-0 at half-time was a good score because we were very strong after the break. There was a lot of energy and the lads were fit and in that situation we generally won games.I just wanted to keep them quiet but we didn't, they nicked one and the rest is history. It was very poor after that and we never really had a go until the last 10 minutes.Had it been a good game and we had lost 4-3, 3-2, even 2-1, you could draw some comfort from it.But no, I got it wrong and I have to live with it.
Quote from: pooligan on June 07, 2021, 04:05:28 PMI really enjoyed watching this .It answered a few things i had always wondered about over the years like Doug's penny pinching and the no show against Chelsea in the cup final and JG admitting it will always haunt him how we just never turned up .The thing that really interested me was how frank he was about Yorke and how he had told JG that he just did'nt want to play for Aston Villa anymore and how he did'nt lift a leg at Everton .To me he is up there with Steve Hodge as someone i will always have utter contempt forI was there that day at Everton, it was clear that something was up. I loved Yorke, and players move on, it's their career etc but it left such a sour taste, and then the badge kissing nonsense was pure twattery. He got what he wanted and was proven correct with the treble win, but I've got to say I quite enjoyed it when he was disposed off unceremoniously and spent the rest of his days jobbing around at crap clubs.Maybe because I'm a bit older and wiser, but I never had the same issue with Young or even Benteke, both of whom I'd have had back in a heartbeat.
I really enjoyed watching this .It answered a few things i had always wondered about over the years like Doug's penny pinching and the no show against Chelsea in the cup final and JG admitting it will always haunt him how we just never turned up .The thing that really interested me was how frank he was about Yorke and how he had told JG that he just did'nt want to play for Aston Villa anymore and how he did'nt lift a leg at Everton .To me he is up there with Steve Hodge as someone i will always have utter contempt for
Yep, he does have to live with it.I've never been so disappointed in anything.
Shame he didn't talk about Robbie Keane either. I remember thinking at the time if we got him we would be serious contenders. As I recall it rattled Man utd, Alex Ferguson went public sticking his nose in, which I believe put Gregory/Ellis off. Great interview he really is a character.