Dave Bassett
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Sep 25, 2026
Matthew PaceyHOST
[laughs]
Chris BrownHOST
What, Spud and Dave Bassett.
Matthew PaceyHOST
Shall we go in with one?
Chris BrownHOST
I'm just over the moon for Georgia.
Craig HignettGUEST
Dario Gradi was a brilliant coach and brought my football on more than anyone.
Craig HignettGUEST
Dave Bassett was a brilliant manager you'd want to run through brick walls for because he was great.
Craig HignettGUEST
Gary McAllister I thought was really good.
Craig HignettGUEST
Him and Eric Black were great at Coventry.
Phil CraigGUEST
He's back in England again.
Phil CraigGUEST
And his assistant manager this time, Noddinger Forrest and Dave Bassett.
Phil CraigGUEST
Oh, is he? Yeah.
Graham DunnHOST
I didn't
Eoin SheahanPANELIST
Yeah.
Mick McCarthyHOST
Dave.
Mick McCarthyHOST
It.
Mick McCarthyHOST
Sam Torrance.
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Mick McCarthyHOST
I would have been wrong.
Mick McCarthyHOST
Yeah, Ray Wilkins played for them but he was manager at QPR.
Mick McCarthyHOST
yeah listen to this for a run of managers from Sunderland in their hilarious era they went from Paolo De Canio to Gus Poyet to Dick Advocate before that they had Steve Bruce and all of their Sunderland managers have been mentioned Spreja and Wilkinson working backwards from Forrest Vitor Pereira last year Vitor Pereira Steve Cooper then long time out of the Premier League all the way back to Big Ron Atkinson Dave Bassett Frank Clarke Palace going backwards Ian Holloway Ian Dewey Alan Smith and Steve Koppel and the ones you missed from Fulham were Claudio Ranieri Rene Muehlenstein Mark Hughes and Laurie Sanchez
Eoin SheahanPANELIST
Mark Hughes I wouldn't have backed myself with a lot of them to know if they were Premier League or Championship though
Marc JonesGUEST
so that Plough Lane gets called terrible by lots of people but it kind of you know any club that goes on that rise that quickly if it's not being funded if it's just purely on football excellence you know we kind of like outgrew the stadium and still had it there and then of course as you say and I know I know I'm rattling on now but it's kind of like it's my era really this sort of era you know so it is my sort of it's my TED Talk, if you will, we'd lost the greatest manager that most of the fans at that era had heard of.
Marc JonesGUEST
So we had a huge, really influential manager in the mid-70s where we again went on this magical cup run, which was that Alan Batsford side featuring Dickie Guy and Dave Bassett.
Marc JonesGUEST
We had that, you know, that draw at Ellen Road and then went out to a Dave Bassett home goal ironically playing at Sellers Park in the replay so there's been this kind of like history of us as a non-league club being known for FA Cup exploits and then you know Bassett then comes out of that side and takes over as manager who then masterminds this kind of climb builds this modern version of Wimbledon a little bit based on Alan's hard work.
Marc JonesGUEST
You know, there's no reason why you can't be as fit as a professional footballer, as an amateur player.
Marc JonesGUEST
He was very much that kind of, you know, they trained literally every night, I think, back in the 70s when they were semi-pro.
Martin RamsayHOST
But they've been around for generations, somewhere around there.
Martin RamsayHOST
And I think it's this meteoric rise, really, that is such a part of the story.
Martin RamsayHOST
How important, how integral was Dave Bassett to that sixth place finish and the success that you'd achieved? And can you remember how you felt that summer of 87 with Bobby Gould coming in to replace him? Was trepidation, was there okay? That was fun.
NickHOST
And it now feels like we are hanging all our hopes on a really young lad, according to Baraldiz, a really young lad who's very, very raw, that's not... has barely played any first team football for a professional club and he's also on loan for a season Where is the strength in depth? And where are the players that we own? Now, if we are going to play one up front, which we definitely can't if we get rid of Callum O'Hare, we're going to have to play like a 4-4-2.
NickHOST
We're going to have to go old school, Mike Bassett style, Dave Bassett style.
NickHOST
And this is ridiculous.
NickHOST
So we've got Patrick Bamford.
Stuart PearceGUEST
So I turned that down at 17.
Stuart PearceGUEST
Uh, Dave Bassett, we had good links with Wimbledon because our manager at Wealdstone was also, um...
Stuart PearceGUEST
Alan Batsford was Wimbledon manager.
Steve SidwellHOST
Mm.
Steve SidwellHOST
Yeah.
Stuart PearceGUEST
So I would... gone in.
Stuart PearceGUEST
I'd had a bit of treatment with a physio after training that day, and Dave Bassett come in and went, um, "We want to sign you, but, um, Wealdstone want 25 grand.
Stuart PearceGUEST
So go back to them and tell them you want to come and sign for Wimbledon.
Tim SherwoodHOST
They knew what they were, but they all realized they had to play for the team.
Tim SherwoodHOST
Dave Bassett, he's the one who give me my opportunity.
Stevo the MadmanHOST
You're right.
Stevo the MadmanHOST
You're right, it's Dave Bassett.
Tim SherwoodHOST
He give me my first chance to play at Watford.
Tim SherwoodHOST
He took over from Graham Taylor.
John BrewinPANELIST
Put down the loofah.
Max RushdenHOST
Maybe if it's Dave Bassett.
John BrewinPANELIST
And, and [laughs]
Max RushdenHOST
[laughs] If it's Barry Fry, I'll just carry on washing myself.
Martin TylerHOST
And he's got great connections there.
Martin TylerHOST
And of course, Dave Bassett managed Watford.
Martin TylerHOST
um but um i was able to talk about acting to vinnie which was not something that i'd imagined talking when i first met him in the late mid 1980s and how much how he learns his line he was his great company and and he's um there's a new show in netflix coming out on netflix coming out the gentleman which he's played by guy ritchie who's helped vinnie enormously and what was it lock stock and two smoking barrels i think that's when he made his debut But, you know, to have two such fantastic careers for somebody who was a bit lampooned at the beginning.
Martin TylerHOST
I
Martin TylerHOST
see them peering out the windows.
Martin TylerHOST
He's lovely.
Martin TylerHOST
And Dave Bassett will be 82 later this week.
Martin TylerHOST
And he took Wimbledon.