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Mike Newell: Gazza, Shearer, Dalglish & Winning the Premier League

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Premier League winner. England international. Blackburn Rovers legend.

In this episode of Macca & Beats, we sit down with Mike Newell to look back on an incredible football career spanning Liverpool, Wigan Athletic, Luton Town, Leicester City, Everton, Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City and England.

Mike shares unforgettable stories from some of football's biggest moments, including:

Being signed by Everton after one phone call from Colin Harvey
Why Kenny Dalglish convinced him to join Blackburn Rovers
Winning the Premier League with Blackburn
Missing out on Italia '90 with England through injury
Why Gazza was the best player in the world
What Alan Shearer was really like when he arrived at Blackburn
Neville Southall's hilarious hotel room routine
Bobby Robson nearly signing him abroad
His honest views on football agents, bungs and the modern game
Why he believes football's obsession with statistics is "destroying the game"

This is a fascinating conversation packed with brilliant dressing-room stories, football nostalgia and honest opinions from one of English football's most respected strikers.

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction
00:48 Growing up in Liverpool
06:38 Released by Liverpool & joining Crewe
10:54 Why they called him "Psycho"
22:11 Signing for Everton
26:42 Neville Southall stories
29:08 Gazza - "The Best Player In The World"
35:13 Kenny Dalglish changed everything
43:41 Alan Shearer arrives at Blackburn
52:05 Winning the Premier League
56:05 Bobby Robson nearly signed him
57:02 Trevor Francis & Birmingham frustrations
1:08:15 Football agents & bungs
1:13:00 Why modern football is losing its way
1:23:43 Bill Shankly's best advice

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20 Comments

@andrewmarsden1970 1 month ago

Watched him quite a lot at Luton. Very good footballer.

@timwightman4473 1 month ago

This will be a great listen. Mike's dad sat with my grandad in the kemlyn road stand at liverpool. I'm tommy's grandson.

@iancollings1991 3 weeks ago

Fantastic interview and Mike comes across as a very humble guy who had a grear career. Didnt know he was a Lpool fan always thoight he was a blue. Keep up the good work lads!

@stevenjones2106 3 weeks ago

What a man Mike such a great person.

@IanGardiner-w5g 1 month ago

Really good interview didn't realise Liverpool were looking at him before Rushie came back seems a top lad

@charliesmithers7663 1 month ago

Mike is clearly too honest to get a job in football. Kudos to him.

@DavidMorris-x2b1v 1 month ago

Tough competitive player, worked hard, scored goals and fantastic player for Blackburn Rovers

@TheSugarDaddy1 1 month ago

One of my heros as a Everton fan growing up the way he was scoring goals in his first season i thought he was the new Gary Lineker

@vincentmcgarry3598 4 weeks ago

Another cracking podcast lads,keep em coming.👌🏽

@LeeSmith-j1t 1 month ago

Brilliant for the Rovers. The goal v Tranmere on his return from injury changed ae season. Playoff final goal v Deby and penalty v leicester Brilliant.

@armchairjockey- 1 month ago

What a player, back to goal, headed down from the goal kick, those were the days at filbert street, thanks for the memories

@juanbbien 1 month ago

Has a Blackburn fan Mike Newell was a great player for us, this was a good interview with no bad language just a could chat.

@RyanWales-e4o 1 month ago

Newell legend for blackburn, first game I went to Wembley won 1,0 newell scored pen to get us promoted great player

@lawrencesmith1952 1 month ago

Love his comments on today’s game , he is the first ex player Iv heard comment on how the game is played today in regard to keeping possession of the ball . Think I would love to see him manage a team , who would play the ball forward more instead of the boring square pass all the time . Good on you Mike wish more managers had your outlook

@darrenroche9225 23 hours ago

A great podcast and he was a fabulous player , it's a pity the likes of him can't get back into management, there is a lot of good English managers out there but it's fashionable to have a foreign management team , which is a pity for England

@unclejacksbluewhitearmy 1 month ago

Top, top player 🔵⚪️

@iandickson3236 2 weeks ago

Underated player, really liked him as a player and manager at Luton. Got totally shafted I think by Luton.

@philsteele913 1 month ago

Good player underrated, would take him at Everton now even though he’s about 25 years older than Barry

@nigel8499 1 month ago (edited)

Great interview thank you for uploading and sharing the happy memories from yesteryear.

@bulliboyz 1 month ago

Another great episode boys. Ask all the right questions because you’ve done your research. And then allowing the guests to regale their memories without feeling the need to interrupt with a silly comment or quip is a big plus.
Mike seems like a top fella too,