Dion's Gaffer Tapes
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Dion's Gaffer Tapes
Dion Dublin enjoyed a 22 year career as a player and played for some of the finest and most charismatic football managers in the modern game. In this series, Dion tracks down his old gaffers to find out how they handled those pressure cooker environments, how they got the best out of their players a...
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9 episodes
9: MICK McCARTHY – 40 Years of stories, from his early days as an apprentice at Barnsley, to captaining the Republic of Ireland in the quarter finals of the 1990 World Cup in Italy!
Mick McCarthy is a no nonsense sort of bloke. He was as a player and he certainly is as a manager, because as he states in his own words, ‘that’s just...
8: ALEX McLEISH – Never one to sidestep a potentially hostile situation, on or off the pitch!
Alex McLeish made nearly 700 appearances for Aberdeen during his 16 years at the club, and is rightly regarded as a Scottish football legend. During h...
7: SEAN DYCHE – Trying to recapture Burnley’s top flight form, and make Turf Moor his ‘happy place, happy place’ once more!
He’s the longest serving manager in the premier league at present, and known for combining science with a firm but fair approach. Sean Dyche is playin...
6: BRYAN GUNN – Learning from Sir Alex Ferguson during his time at Aberdeen, and flying south for the winter to become a Canaries legend!
He may have started his footballing life in the far north of Scotland, but Bryan Gunn is an absolute legend when it comes to Norwich City, and will al...
5: MICKY ADAMS - A short fuse, but a long career!
Sent off on the opening day of the premier league era in August 1992 while playing for Southampton, Micky Adams was a player who could certainly be ab...
4: JOHN GREGORY – Terry Venables was the biggest influence on me as a manager, while Stan Collymore was the biggest challenge I had to face.
From humble beginnings as a 15 year old apprentice at Northampton Town, to leading Aston Villa out at Wembley for the cup final in 2000, John Gregory...
3: GORDON STRACHAN - Learning from Sir Alex, a very odd encounter with Brian Clough, and placing Noel Whelan under house arrest!
Gordon Strachan is one of the greatest characters in the game. He played under Sir Alex Ferguson as a young man at Aberdeen, before travelling south t...
2: GLENN HODDLE – Spurs, England, Swindon and Survival
In October 2018, Glenn Hoddle collapsed with a heart attack at the studios of BT Sport and very nearly died, had it not been for the quick thinking of...
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Join Dion Dublin as he chats exclusively with some very famous Gaffers!