Spice Boys

Yeah.

That was all part of the theater though, wasn't it? Liverpool Spice Boys.

That's what he called it.

That's it?

Today, we'll talk about Liverpool, Ireland, Jack Charlton, a little about Roy Keane, and some of the great moments and the difficult ones in Jason McAteer's career.

Jason McAteer, as I mentioned beforehand, one of the Spice Boys, one of my great heroes, welcome to the Sporting Club Ireland podcast.

It's taken a while for you to invite me on, but here we are, yeah.

[laughs]

[laughs]

So no one questioned them.

We got to tag the Spice Boys 'cause we were losing.

Yeah.

I'm Dangerous Dave, a Liverpool supporter from down south who began following the Reds in 1992, the very first season of the Premier League.

Last time we opened our second season by examining the Spice Boys, we asked whether Liverpool's talented young team of the 1990s were generally distracted celebrities who failed to fulfil their potential, or whether they were unfairly reduced to cream suits, magazine covers and nightclub stories.

Today we focus on the greatest goalscorer from that generation.

He was a local boy that emerged from Liverpool's academy and immediately looked completely at home in front of the Kop.