My Best Eleven
Hosted by Luton Town Legend Marvin Johnson and Media Pundit Andrew McMellon. We interview ex-professionals (players, managers, officials) as well as celebrities and find out who would get into their ultimate Best Eleven Players they ever played with. They tell us about the formation, starting line up and select the best manager they have worked with or seen On the way, we find out stories and comical moments from their career as well as find out what they are doing now.
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Friday Oct 30, 2020
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Part 2 - Graham Alexander
Graham Alexander talks about his midfielders and strikers that he picked for his 4-3-3 formation in his Best Eleven. He also works out whether David Moyes shouting or Lennie Lawrence wheeling and dealing management style suited him best
He talks through his time at Scunthorpe, Luton, Preston (x2) and Burnley as well as winning international caps with Scotland and playing against the likes of Frank Ribery.
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Monday Oct 26, 2020
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Part 1 - Graham Alexander
Graham Alexander talks about his Best Eleven players he has ever played with as well as manager who he played under.
He recounts stories from Luton, Preston and Burnley as a player. He also goes through his time in management and opens up (as much as he is allowed to) on his exit from Salford City 2 weeks ago
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Monday Oct 19, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Matthew Upson, the former Luton, Arsenal, Birmingham, West Ham, Stoke, Brighton and Leicester player. He also played for England full international team including at the 2010 World Cup, scoring the England's goal in the England v Germany knockout game.
Matthew has a catch up with Marv and Andrew whilst talking about his Best 11 team and manager he ever played with/for.
Matthew talks at length about how Tony Adams made him into the player he became, how he was one of the fastest players in the Arsenal team and the differences between Fabio Capello and other England managers.
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Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
The Northern Irish International Kingsley Black is our guest this week naming the best 11 players he ever played with as well as the manager who he loved playing for the most.
Kingsley is a player who has played at Luton Town, was signed by Brian Blough at Nottingham Forest and then went onto play for Grimsby Town and Lincoln City. He gained over 30 caps for Northern Ireland and won the Man of the Match in the 1988 Littlewoods Cup Final (League Cup).
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Monday Oct 05, 2020
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Emmerson Boyce (Boycey) is our guest this week naming the best 11 players he ever played with as well as the manager who he loved playing for the most.
Emmerson has had a great career at both club and international level with clubs including Wigan, Luton, Crystal Palace, Blackpool and now Ashton Utd. He has won the FA Cup as captain and played hundreds of games in the Premier League. Emmerson also represented Barbados internationally.
Emmerson currently runs a podcast too which focus on his playing career and he chats to ex team mates about their time as professionals. He is also dedicated to a number of other charitable projectshttps://open.spotify.com/show/2vYe5J12PW2A5QpODvFWKRhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbqDER7_ljDBTXs8us-J-Eghttp://www.emmersonboyce.com/Twitter: @EmmersonBoyce
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Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
John Hartson (ex Luton, Arsenal, West Ham, Wimbledon, Coventry Celtic, West Brom and Norwich player) is our guest this week.
John talks through his Best 11 team and manager he ever played with/for.
With Andrew and Marv chatting through the players, John tells us stories about breaking rules as a trainee, the big transfer to Arsenal and how Martin O'Neill took a gamble on him at Celtic. John also opens up about his battle with Brain Cancer too and how he feels he has a second chance at life.
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Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Steve Davis (Played for Southampton, Burnley (x2), Luton, Blackpool and York. He managed Burnley twice in 2007 and 2010)
Steve talks through his Best 11 team he ever played for and with.
Andrew and Marv talk through this team with Steve, the times at Burnley with some 'old fashioned defenders', Steve realises lots of players swap between Burmley and Luton and explains how, incredibly, he and Marv got the final yes or no to Lennie Lawrence as manager (when David Kohler was in charge).
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Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Scott Oakes (ex England U21, Leicester, Luton and Sheff Wed player)
Scott talks through his best eleven team he ever played for and with.
Andrew and Marv talk through this team, Scott talks about his time with the England U21 team, his time at Luton during the 1994 cup run as well as his time at Sheff Wed with characters such as Paulo Di-Canio and Ron Atkinson
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Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Carl Emberson is a goalkeeper who played for Millwall, Colchester, Walsall, Luton, Southend, Grays Athletic and Sutton Utd.
Carl goes through his ultra defensive (as expected with a goalkeeper) formation, best 11 players, best manager and his favourite Luton game ever.
Andrew and Marv talk through this team, hear some stories from the dressing room, changing room and other places too. Carl also gives his view on young players today. He then goes into depth about his time at Millwall and growing up playing football in the early 1990's.
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Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Steve Howard (ex Hartlepool, Northampton, Luton, Derby, Leicester and Sheff Wed striker), names the Best Eleven he has ever played with.
Steve talks through the formation, best 11 players, best manager and his favourite game ever.
Steve won our public vote to be our first ever/ launch episode and it is worth a listen. We have decided to upload the whole interview as cutting it would mean deleting stories and banter!!
With Andrew and Marv talking through this team we hear some ripper stories from the dressing room, changing room and other places too.
Try and have a guess of the players Steve picked as we go with his clues and let us know if you agree or disagree with him.
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