David Ginola: The Moments That Made Them
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What makes David Ginola a memorable player in Premier League history?
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Hello and welcome to The Rest Is Football with Micah Richards, Alan Shearer and me, Gary Lineker. We're doing our series of Premier League greats, the moments that made them. And we're going down the French route yet again. We've done Eric Cantona, but this is also, I would say, a maverick player in many ways, someone that Alan played with for a little while, someone that I've worked with on television in the early days, way back when. Really lovely guy. I like him a lot. I don't know whether Alan thinks the same thing. Let's say he was a good-looking soul. I think we'll all agree on that. Definitely. A certain David Ginlay. David Ginlay, who produced wonderful moments on the football pitch. Some would say he wasn't entirely consistent his whole career.
And is he worthy to be on the list of players that we've got so far? I would say so by looks alone, Michael. I looked so loud.
That's why it's... I'm not sure. But great moments. Great moments.
Is that fair? I think that's fair. Great moments in games. Yeah, he produced some moments of magic, didn't he? Which we'll get on to that Man United game. I played in that game when they beat Man United 5 and he scored that great goal from the edge of the box, turned and curled it in. But he was as good as I've seen, David... in terms of left foot and right foot going both ways, down the wing on the outside or coming in the inside right foot. He was unbelievable at doing that. I think his... Probably his best season would have been 95, 96 before I got to Newcastle.
He was already there when you signed, wasn't he?
So I'm thinking... When I signed for Newcastle, I'm thinking I'm going to this team like so many attacking players. We had me... Les Ferdinand, Keith Gillespie on the right, David Ginola on the left. We had Tino Asprea, we had Peter Badesley. And I'm thinking, how on earth are we going to get all these players into that team? I mean, Kevin tried his best to do that. So I signed him and the season kicked off in the August. I remember the season beforehand, looking at the TV, thinking, it'd be great to play in that team where Ginolo, winging balls in, left, right and centre, score so many goals. So I got there in mid-August and I reckon I had to wait until the end of September for the first cross coming in.
There was, I think, honestly, it was like... And you had a little word. Well, I had to because, just a polite one, because I was playing every single week and there was like, he was cutting inside and shooting and passing and I'm thinking, and he contains you and putting some crosses in. I used to watch him last season thinking, what is happening here? And honestly, it must have taken five or six weeks and I thought, sod this, I'm not going to have to tell him.
And you told him.
So I went in, I think we played Arsenal at home. They had one player sent off and he still beat us. So I thought, and he never put any balls in, so I'm going to go in and have a word with him. And so we went head to head in the dressing room. It was like, fuck you, Shearer. It was like, we got up to go together and we were sort of pulled apart.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What makes David Ginola a memorable player in Premier League history?
0:00–5:14
2
How did David Ginola's playing style impact his team dynamics?
5:14–9:16
3
What were the standout moments from Ginola's career at Newcastle?
9:16–17:18
4
How did Kevin Keegan influence David Ginola's performance?
17:18–20:10
5
What were the key moments in David Ginola's international career?
20:10–20:40