Richard Fitzpatrick
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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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He also reminded me of Guardiola in just the intensity, the obsessiveness, like the control was the byword with HH.
He was obsessed with controlling the lives of his players, controlling their diets, their social lives.
Guardiola similarly, like never sit still.
In Spain, they have a word, pesado, like kind of,
pain in the ass kind of he just doesn't let up and I mentioned in the book you know Guardiola was similar in that regard like when he first took on coaching the Barca B team his first gig in coaching he used to phone up the players after midnight on their landlines to check that they were in and you know they'd get fines if they weren't that kind of in HHS day was checking their hotel bedrooms and
making sure they were in bed.
He wouldn't let them sleep.
They had to be in bed by 10 o'clock every night, except one night a week.
He was just remorseless in that sense.
Yeah, exactly.
He didn't trust players.
How could he when he didn't trust himself when he was such a philanderer in the womanising sense?
Yeah.
I hadn't thought about that before.
Yeah, huge similarities in that respect.
I remember doing that radio documentary on Patrick O'Connell, Don Patricio, as he's known in Spain.
And the lead into this story was how he saved Barca, bringing them on this fundraising tour during the Spanish Civil War to Mexico and the United States.
But it quickly developed into a story about his personal life, his private life.
He was a bigamist married to two women.
Curiously, they had the same name, Ellen.
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