Ronnie Whelan

And they ruled the world, didn't they, for quite a while.

So it was just Liverpool, Everton, you know, wanted the same haircut as Steve McMahon and Ronnie Whelan and, you know, desperate to get their kits and can still remember going to a sports shop in the Wirral, which is about 10 minutes away from Liverpool.

And, you know, my brother was Kenny Dalgleish.

I was Sammy Lee.

But that said, you loved Kenny Dalglish and how good he was to deal with it.

I mean, I do tell a story in that when, you know, before, was it the 86 Cup final against Everton and I was sent over, Liverpool had Jim Beglin, Mark Lawrence and Ronnie Whelan, Everton had Kevin Sheedy and they were the two big teams in the league at the time.

And I decided I better reach out because it's very easy for a player to say, no, the boss mightn't like you talking to me.

So I said I'd ring.

He's great fun, great fun.

And the other boys are, I mean, Ronnie Whelan's great crack as well.

Sorry,

Fjortoff, forgive me, Fjortoff played for Swindon, Middlesbrough, Sheffield United and Barnsley all over here and then a selection of other teams as well.

Go into the full reams of them that are up on the podcast, I suppose, platforms, whether that be Apple podcast or Spotify, and you'll see all our conversations with people like we've interviewed Mick McCarthy, Gary Breen, we've interviewed Oh, who do we got? Maddy Holland, Amber Barrett, Maggie Bonner, Ray Houghton, Kevin Kilbane.

All those episodes are up there for you to enjoy.

And hopefully with Ronnie Whelan coming up in the weeks to come as well.

Ronnie, Ronnie's...

Because if you did it all in one summer, yeah, it's going to be tough because clubs are going to know you have money.

John K said, I may be living in the past, but I believe when our club scouts observed Rush, Ronnie Whelan, Craig Johnson, etc., they knew what type of player they wanted and the player they observed fit.

So for me, look, these days it's a bit mad, isn't it? Like you've got obviously the old-fashioned scouting system, then you've got all the data and all the other metrics to look at.

Then you've got to look at the human side of it.

It was converted by Daniel Kelly.

certainly we have been spoiled for choices over absolutely stunners you think back to the Sligo Derby earlier on the season that Matthew Wolfe almost Ronnie Whelan effort the winner Stephen Walsh well he can have the competition all himself you think of the Ed McCarthy couple of Rockets to come there as well as a crunch and challenge over on the far side We watch the goals fly in.

Pats are 1-0 up on Dundalk.

Shells are 1-0 up on Drodd.

Mr. Paul Gascoigne.

We played Tottenham at White Hart Lane, and Steve McMahon and Ronnie Whelan wound him up verbally the whole game.

And by the end, he was running around, and you could see the tears coming down his face.

He was so frustrated-

It was always the same thing.

Just pull your two wide men in, Ronnie Whelan, Sammy Lee or Jimmy Case, Ray Kenny, a bit tighter so nothing was happening between us, it was happening outside of us, which give us a chance to make some sort of recovery.

But I don't think, I, I was never that bright to go down what you're talking about in terms of coaches changing it from the side.

It's an instinct.

who were you who were your teammates who were you playing alongside

Well, basically, it was, firstly, it was soonest before he left, but it was Ronnie Whelan.

Ronnie Whelan was on the left and Sammy Lee, right.

And up front was Rush and Kenny Douglas, who I played with in Scotland, my country.

He was a fantastic footballer.