Graham Roberts

Ian, Ian Crook, uh, Stuart Bevan, as I said, Mickey Hazard, Paul Miller, you know, these are all players.

And we also looked, we also looked on the likes of, of, of Graham Roberts and Tony Galvin, who in effect weren't homegrown, but had come in effect from non-league.

Yeah.

So it was almost like, you know, they wasn't coming from another professional club.

That's when you knew that the club was at a certain level, but needed that little bit more to come.

Needed a l- little bit more to come, but, but the, the, the team, the group was, was certainly enhanced also by good signings.

So, um, we've spoken about the, the homegrown players that had come through, and your, your Robertsons, and Graham Roberts, and Paul Millars, and Glenns, uh, Steve, Steve Perryman, myself, S- Tony Galvin.

Uh, but of course, Ossie and Ricky that's, that, that Keith had, had purchased the season before.

I'm going to put the video up before I talk too much else about the game, but what I will say is that I'll agree with you in that we were short of a couple of the players that we would hope to have played that night.

Graeme Roberts pulled out in the morning of the game, if I remember rightly.

And he had to get replaced in central defence.

That was the main one.

Wow.

I was in the studio doing a set up with that with Graham Roberts and Kenny Sansom.

Graham Roberts, when I was a kid, he used to frighten the life out of me.

He was so scared.

Honestly, he just

It didn't get the recognition.

I also, I think I had Graham Roberts kicking me around the place as well for most of the night.

But it never took off.

It was meant to happen year after year that the winners of both championships would play.

These players are soft.

I was in an under 18 team, if you like, playing in a youth team.

competition to be told about that wasn't him just it all through my career i witnessed good spurs team lacking that center that hardcore center that was needed it got there a little bit it might have been tough enough at the back i can remember playing against maxine miller and graham roberts and finding life difficult all right but they had nice players like hobble and ardiles and uh mickey hazard who could do nice things but generally they were overrun by strength and formula versus uh you know sort of i i guess just

so pat pat rice said to you as an 18 year old you're playing against a football club it's soft that's fascinating

Got, um, Ledley King, Chris Hewson, Jenna Schillaci, absolute legend of the women's team.

Um, who else have we got? Graham Roberts, Clive Allen, Paul Allen's gonna be there as well.

Um, Stefan Freund's gonna be there.

Proper kind of cult, kind of, um, I don't know if I'm gonna say legend.

It's a late penalty.

A rather... forceful Graham Roberts tackle I think Alexey Mikhailichenko but he sticks it away it was quite a tough night I think Ali McCoy's playing a kind of lone striker I think in a kind of 4-5-1 and he was he was getting 10 shades kicked out of him But 1-0's not the end of the world.

Graeme Souness goes to watch Dynamo Kyiv train at Ibrox, as everybody does.

They have the stadium to themselves the night before the fixture of their away team.

I mean, just done.

I think Marius Lakotus scores.

And I think I mentioned on another... podcast in the series with Laurence Donegan about Celtic's double Richard Goff and Graham Roberts didn't really get on as people and they're absolutely caught flat footed.

Rangers eventually win 2-1 there are hints of a third which of course would set up a real finale but it's one that was felt got away in terms of how Rangers fans look on those European near misses because, I guess, of who ultimately wins it.