Tim Spiers
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2,293 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Sep
Tim Spiers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He then goes away to manage Porto and the rest is history with him.
But it would make complete sense for him to go back to Barcelona at some point.
In theory, going back 15 years.
But the thought of it now makes the complete opposite of sense.
His abrasive, pragmatic style, it just wouldn't have worked there.
Would he even have dared to enlist that kind of style, Mourinho?
Because you don't just need to win at Barcelona, you need to win with style.
When he was with Bobby Robson,
There's a fantastic Bobby Robson documentary.
I think it's called More Than a Manager.
And they focus on a lot of that time at Barca.
And anyway, at one point they were winning a match 6-0.
And the Barca fans were getting the white hankies out.
And basically saying, yeah, it was against Rayo Vallecano.
So despite the sort of victory, the fans were waving their handkerchiefs because the football wasn't good enough.
Someone had a banner.
Oh, no, I think there was a headline in a newspaper which said, Barcelona win 6-0 but play no football.
Right?
So if you imagine sort of Mourinho going into that, there's no way that he would have enlisted his normal sort of pragmatic style.
You know, the idea of like him telling Iniesta to bulk up and play like the McAlealy role.
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