Ronan Mullin
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766 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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Trying to create the predator in the kind of early 90s.
And he went to Nike, he went to Puma, he went to Reebok, he went to Adidas.
They all said, no, thank you.
Your boot with the little plasticky knobs on it, just nah.
What gave him the idea was like table tennis, the grip on a table tennis bat.
So the piece says, this is the bit I had known about the Predator.
Hell bent on proving them wrong, Johnston travelled to Munich.
And he got, I don't know how, he got Franz Beckenbauer, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Hans Muller to put the boots on and to kick it to each other in the snow.
And he videotaped the session.
Then he took it back to Adidas and they were in financial difficulties at the time.
He said, I showed them the film and they went, don't leave the room.
We have to do a deal.
Well, yeah, that's great, isn't it?
Yeah.
And so to the obvious question we're all having, is he a gazillionaire?
He he should be a gazillionaire because initially the deal was you get two percent of all boot sales, all predator boot sales, two percent.
So I don't know what have they sold from the mid 90s through to today?
gazillions.
But it wasn't a huge success at first.
And Adidas bought Johnson out of the contract.
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