Up Front With...Andy Cole

Adrian Durham slams the EFL for ‘sticking a dagger through football’s heart’ as Tranmere Rovers looks set to be relegated to League Two, former Manchester United midfielder Darren Fletcher takes us behind the scenes to the Champions League Final in 2008 and a rousing Sir Alex Ferguson speech, Jamie O’Hara tells the talkSPORT Breakfast show that Premier League footballers should return to training or not get paid, on the Sports Bar Keith Lemon reveals how sleeping in his garden is helping him cope during lockdown, Glen Johnson discloses who were the most superstitious players he shared a dressing room with and former Burton boss Nigel Clough gives his first interview since leaving the Brewers. On Jim White & Natalie Sawyer’s show ex-France and Liverpool striker Djibril Cisse announces he wants to come out of retirement at the age of 38 and score four more times to reach a century of goals in Ligue 1, John Barnes reveals how the England Italia ‘90 squad missed out on a fortune with the New Order World in Motion song and Newcastle winger Matt Ritchie admits the players ‘have taken’ to boss Steve Bruce as rumours continue about his future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Darren Bent & Clinton Morrison both offer their support of Troy Deeney after the Watford skipper didn’t attend training due to fears the Coronavirus may affect the health of his family, meanwhile the QPR Chief Executive Lee Hoos tells Jim White & Natalie Sawyer that his medical team believe it’s ‘safe’ for football to return, Freddie Flintoff reveals all on Breakfast about the week he spent camping in Botswana for a TV show with lions for company, former England fast bowler Darren Gough tells Drive that the ban on saliva on cricket balls won’t have any bearing on the sport, Ipswich legend John Wark looks back at the club’s famous UEFA Cup win in 1981 with some complimentary words for talkSPORT’s Alan Brazil and there’s another sample of Hawksbee & Jacobs’ Clips of the Week, Wheel of Fortune. Homeland & Supergirl actor David Harewood talks about the positives he’s drawn from life in lockdown and in the Sports Bar Cup there’s news from Graham Beecroft on the massive local derby as the Soft Drink XI take on the Beer XI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Ally McCoist leaps to the defence of Watford’s Troy Deeney on the Breakfast show after the Hornets’ captain refused to train due to his fears over the Coronavirus and the wellbeing of his family, meanwhile the former Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan tells Jim White & Natalie Sawyer that Deeney must now take a pay cut if he’s unwilling to train, Lee Hendrie opens up about his own depression while encouraging listeners to talk about their problems, former world champion Ricky Hatton urges Mike Tyson not to return to the ring to fight Evander Holyfield but David Haye thinks that the third bout of the trilogy should happen, Hawksbee & Jacobs take us back to some Clips of the Week from 2012 plus they discuss the text topic of ‘German’ cockney rhyming slang, Freddie Flintoff tells Breakfast how he duped the producers of I’m a Celebrity Down Under into thinking he had a certain phobia and on the Sports Bar there’s another Titanic battle between Andy Goldstein & Jason Cundy in Play Your Cards Wrong. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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England & Spurs captain Harry Kane admits that he’s ‘benefited’ from the Coronavirus break and he’ll be fully fit when football returns, Crystal Palace’s Andros Townsend tells Jim White & Natalie Sawyer that the game must restart to save the sport, on talkRADIO Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden expects the Premier League to return by mid-June and with Mental Health Awareness Week underway, the former Manchester United midfielder Luke Chadwick revealed he ‘doesn’t hold grudges’ over the torment he went through caused by the BBC’s ‘They Think It’s All Over’ programme twenty years ago. Celtic boss Neil Lennon reflects on the Hoops being handed the SPL title and also confesses that he has no sympathy for Rangers, Harry Redknapp talks about taking on a team of naturists in the show Harry’s Heroes, on Drive the former MK Dons boss Karl Robinson looks back at their famous victory over Louis Van Gaal’s Manchester United and on the Sports Bar Jason Cundy and Andy Goldstein go head-to-head in another battle of Play Your Cards Wrong. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Simon Jordan demands more from leading figures in the world of football during the pandemic on the Final Word, Former Ireland striker Tony Cascarino reveals which former club of his has shown a brilliant caring gesture to him during Lockdown, European football expert Andy Brassell looks back at the weekend’s action in the Bundesliga as football returned to Germany with action live on the talkSPORT network, Paul Merson takes us behind the scenes of a new TV show and tells us what it’s like playing for Harry Redknapp, Max Rushden & Barry Glendenning look back at a ‘terrible’ game of Ian Culverhouse from 2017 on the Warm-Up and there’s a unique idea how to complete the Premier League season in the latest edition of the Glory Hunters podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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On this episode of Up Front With... Sam Matterface brings you the former Newcastle, QPR, Spurs and England striker Sir Les Ferdinand.We take a look at this striker's outstanding career with 215 goals, a winner of the Turkish Cup, Football League Cup, scorer of the 10,000th goal in the Premier League and member of the Premier League 100 club. Les opens up about giving the number nine shirt to Alan Shearer, why Newcastle lost the title and why David Beckham's red card against Argentina cost him at the 1998 World Cup. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Sam Matterface brings you another Up Front With... This week we hear from the Watford Captain Troy Deeney! We get under the skin of Watford's leading Premier League goal scorer and learn about the many sacrifices he and his family have had to make. From the early years, how he got his chance in professional football, the ups and downs of Watford FC, the impact Gianfranco Zola had on his game and why that goal against Leicester was not his defining moment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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On the Breakfast show Alan Brazil suggests that footballers should get back to work but his co-host Jamie O’Hara argues that Premier League stars must only return when it’s ‘100% safe’, super-agent Kia Joorabchian blasts Gary Neville after the pundit’s comments about Carlos Tevez, Middlesbrough’s Adam Clayton heaps praise on the NHS after his father left hospital having spent 51-days in intensive care, Dereck Chisora tells Oleksandr Usyk he’ll ‘fight him tomorrow’ if he could, Bournemouth’s Adam Smith reveals the secret that’s galvanised the Cherries during a difficult season, Jamie O’Hara looks back at his penalty miss when Spurs lost the 2009 League Cup Final to Manchester United, the 1988 FA Cup winning manager Bobby Gould reminisces about the late great Laurie Cunningham and the Crazy Gang beating Liverpool 32 years ago at Wembley and on the Sports Bar there’s another dose of Play Your Cards Wrong with Andy Goldstein & Jason Cundy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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