Richard Fitzpatrick
speaker
677 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 14 May
Richard Fitzpatrick’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They hadn't any close friends in the game.
He was an unbelievable womanizer, incredible at charming women, but he was very unfaithful obviously to his wives and that really violent man.
the three wives, yeah, and many, many children, seven, eight children.
But also, you know, he was extremely violent, and this really struck me, probably the womanizing and the violent streak in him.
Like I would...
like many of us, be fascinated with Alex Ferguson, like, you know, Ferguson famous for his hairdryer treatment.
But this guy, I mean, would headbutt people that got in his way.
He grew up in the slums in Casablanca.
in the interwar years.
So his resort to violence was a pronounced feature of his personality.
Yet he was practicing meditation and yoga, practicing yoga naked every morning.
chanting self-help mantras to himself.
You know, I feel strong, calm, serene.
I am lucky.
I am also beautiful, you know, bigging himself up.
So he was such a curious mix of influences from Zen to skullduggery to physical violence.
incredible, like, you know, back-to-back league titles with Atletico, they'll never again win back-to-back league titles, you would think.
Same with Barca, and then Grand Inter in the 60s were the team to beat in that decade.
That's why when they met their Waterloo at the 67 European Cup final, losing to Celtic, which was a huge surprise, everybody rejoiced.
I interviewed Hugh McIlvany, who's sadly passed,
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