Matt le Tissier Opens up on Being Sacked By Sky, Free Speech Censorship & Premier League Legacy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this exclusive podcast interview, Matt Le Tissier shares his thoughts on his Premier League legacy, being sacked from Sky Sports, and the influence of the mainstream media in the football industry. Don't miss out on this revealing conversation with the football legend!
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TIMECODES
0:00 Matt Le Tissier
1:16 My Attitude Towards Football
9:06 Football Lost it’s ‘chaos’
19:41 DONE-FOR-YOU SERVICES
20:02 Football Isn’t Fun Anymore
41:40 Being Famous
46:45 Being Sacked From SKY
1:03:00 Free Speech
1:10:33 Life After SKY
1:17:48 Speaking Out
1:22:23 Football Has Changed
1:34:20 Mainstream Media
1:37:36 Saudi Pro League, England & Best Pundits
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TIMECODES
0:00 Matt Le Tissier
1:16 My Attitude Towards Football
9:06 Football Lost it’s ‘chaos’
19:41 DONE-FOR-YOU SERVICES
20:02 Football Isn’t Fun Anymore
41:40 Being Famous
46:45 Being Sacked From SKY
1:03:00 Free Speech
1:10:33 Life After SKY
1:17:48 Speaking Out
1:22:23 Football Has Changed
1:34:00 Mainstream Media
1:37:36 Saudi Pro League, England & Best Pundits
Loved him as a footballer,love him more as a man,his thoughts and ways are awesome
Hi,i added a comment before seeing Yours. I guess what i felt was pretty much what people with a heart felt. I was pleased to see it wasn`t just me. Cheers Mate
Only proper human beings will understand and appreciate Matt le Tissier
You understand why he organised a betting scam??
@@polaris7122 proper humans do what they want when they want, just like his football. The bookies are the biggest thieves and I will always cheer anyone who gets one over them
@@KingKong-ee8hc hahahaha, but he didn't, he couldn't even kick the ball out of play properly! Hahahahaha!
@@polaris7122 liked the crack..cant blame him
@@polaris7122bro never watching him play
My favourite player ever and that's from a forest fan
Great interview..... matts a national treasure ......and I find it hard to dis agreee with any of his political views
Top bloke 👏
This guy is class not only on the pitch but off it. Good on you Matt!!
how is this anti vaxer clown class?
because hes speaking up and telling the truth!@@lenneth1188
@@lenneth1188 Did you ever see him play football? Also, did you have the vaccine? Did it work for you or did you still get Covid?
@@lenneth1188 Why is he a clown? Interested to get your thoughts
Matt comes across as a well-balanced and intelligent person...
Matt's right about football today. In the past it was about footballers not athletes. Now it's athletes trying to be footballers.
I think the football is better now generally speaking . Watch Man City when they are on their game and it’s incredible to watch and they’d beat any team from the days when ale Tissier played.
@@christopherwhittaker2620only Man City watch arsenal, chelsea Man Utd and Liverpool play and half the time the players can’t even cross a ball intelligently to a player just hit and hope. Most of football today is just pace and power no technical ability whatsoever.
@@christopherwhittaker2620To a certain extent I agree with you, however I find it very difficult to finish watching man city games. Like matt said, no is really interesting watching the team passing the 50 times before creating a chance. City games usually becomes dull and boring when you watch them
@@ntsikeleloncalane7442 I guess it’s horses for courses.The ability to keep possession, for let’s collet long length of time is an art in itself as far as I’m concerned. But I hear you. The best way I can put it is watch the Manchester City goal when they are playing at their best and then compare it to A goal from teams of the past, and I don’t think there’s any competition to be honest. But I said I hear you, you make a fair point.
@@christopherwhittaker2620 I think man city is much more enjoyable when u watch them I guess. I think what I'm trying to relay is that, flair and skill is dead in football. You have athlete who happen to know how to kick the ball rather than players who are just pure footballers. Players get mad today because someone did a rainbow flick on them, they label it as "disrespectful"
Matt gets a lot of stick in the media for his in my opinon common sense views. He puts his views over in a very calm and polite way but for some reason the mainstream are out to nail him. Its worrying how how divided we all are now... and there seems to be no room for debate anymore 🤔. You're a top bloke Matt 👍
This bloke tells the truth, country is woke. Wot our country back. Speak the truth.
I loved Matt as a footballer. His Goals were poetry in motion. It is the first time i`ve watched Him as a mere mortal,and i Love Him even more. What a fantastic,candid insight into to a true great. A very talented interviewer really helped.
3 things matt le tissier cannot do
1) Miss a penalty
2) Score a poor or average goal
3) Digest bullshit
He missed a penalty
@@bobolinho1
Only the one I think though
Win medals
Play in Europe
Play International football
Says it all that a great player like Alan Ball who covered every blade of grass on the pitch during a game, knew the value of giving the star player freedom to do his job.
Hahaha, you obviously didn't watch him play live! To compare him with Alan Ball, and talk about covering every blade of grass, is the most stupid comment ever!
Absolutely never been a footy fan but Matt is such a nice chap, insightful and interesting. Great stuff
I stand with Matt on everything he says. Everyone needs to wake up! We have the power people!
What a top honest guy ❤
I'm 43 years of age now and I look back to the 1990s football and footballers they were exciting days. As someone said "the problem with the good old days is that nobody tells you that at the time". I wouldn't swap the era of my childhood and teenage years with today's Times and I'm probably biased but at the same time never lived with rose tinted glasses.
No you're right. Check out some games played back then and you will see it was much exciting. It was all about attack. If a player went down screaming like a girl back then his own players would rip into him. Modern football IMHumbleO is slow and often boring.
20 mins in and this is a great interview so far
Most important thing I've got from this gem of podcast is
As HUMANS we have difference of opinion let's not let that be a factor for us not to live together in harmony no matter what we disagree on, come to common terms n disagree RESPECTFULLY but unfortunately today pple call each other names n negativity sales
Sad times of life/football
YOU n I can change that by start being Kind to each other today
Yes. 'Be Nice'. I try to be kind to everyone I meet. It makes me feel good. Too many people are alone. Whether I'm picking up trash from a street or simply asking a shop assistant how their day is going? We all carry a message. Especially the elderly who don't have anybody to talk to.
@@mooseing22 true 👏
Does anyone remember the Championship Manager add in the mid 90s in computer magazines? It said 'Le Tissier for England' and it was what most fans wanted at the time. Out of all the English players, Xavi said he was most the fan of Le Tissier and Scholes
Interesting and intelligent guy who gave us all some magic moments in his football career. Great interview.
great interview with le god good job Ben, ive subscribed saints fan now living in Canada. looking forward to a many great interviews - love this kind of content like the diary of CEO format. love it need more of this. good luck for the future.
What a player he was, one of the best ever. I agree that free speech should be protected.
Matt was the best English player of the 90s. Had he been Dutch, French or Spanish I’m sure he would have won in excess of 100 international caps.
He was a luxury player without the speed. Very talented but wouldn't last two minutes in today's football.
@@maxwellboyne2770 Yeah right like Darren “Sicknote” Anderson.
@@foolonthehill731 It is very difficult to say if Matt would last in today's climate because, as he mentions in the podcast, players are consigned to play in systems and that can sometimes restrict a player's ability. Gordon Hill for Man Utd, in the 1970s, is a classic example of somebody who was told to track back more under new manager, Dave Sexton but this unfortunately affected his game.
@@damienabbott9805 Matt & Gazza, and those kind of instinctive players would be in my team any day, they can produce the unexpected if you know what I mean, they're not 'robots' so to speak?
the fact that this man can get attacked and vilified for being so laid back is beyond a joke. speaks so well with no hate or harm. just views. says it all about the woke society of controlled speech
100% agree
Brilliant interview and interviewee
Matt was a class player and also an even better man for what he stands for. His opinion on football today is bang on. 2024 is the year of the truth. We’re tired of the lies and garbage being fed down our throats. Football today is rubbish compared to the yesteryears. The peak was early 90s-2000s. The entertainers in the game are dead.
I agree.... BUT.... I think Matt Le Tissier would struggle in today's football because of his lack of pace, tracking back, fitness and discipline......
Loved watching him, his goals were all worldies.... but he'd never get that amount of time on the ball these days
Excellent 👌
B - excellent ! How about a long Nigel Clough interview .? Thank you Hession
yeah love to hear Nigels take on his disgusting sacking at derby by the crook sam rush
Just imagine Le Tissier alongside Zola, Vialli, Poyet, Di Matteo, Wise , Desailly etc in that 90s Chelsea team 🔥
As a Hammers fan living Chelsea when the Blues were owning the league and Europe. To think of Matt in that team? His name would've up there with the very best in the world.
A great interview! Really enjoy you as an interviewer!! You asked some great questions
Thank you very much :)
I’ve got a lot of learning to do in that space but one step at a time.
Hit the nail on the head!
What a fantastic interview it went everywhere . Loved the story about the bloke in the pub , " you played for England didn't ya" ? yeah says Matt " got it ! Phil Tufnell , comedy gold . I almost fell out of the shower in hysterics , could've listened to that all day . Gonna give the Simon Jordan one a go now .😂
Loved the 'chaos vs control' conversation. Probably why theres always been a Messi v Ronaldo debate, thats another 'Chaos (Ronaldo) vs Control (Messi) situation.
Spot on there aarmccarthy
Matt is bang on about so much, he’s one of very few people telling it how it is, as for football VAR and PLAY ACTING is infuriating, and he’s right the Ref still doesn’t book or send the player off for it which is baffling to me ,and the really sad thing is there’s no longer any real character’s in the game, it’s changed so much, it’s because very sanitised, and that’s boring 😖
Matt is my absolute Hero I am 100% in agreement with all his opinions
one of the best interviews ive watched..i'd of loved to have seen Matt,kevin keegan and charlie george in the same team..what a forward line that would have been.
i could listen to Matt all day, a proper pro with such immense talent and a stand up guy unlike bellends like gary lineker.
Stuff the government . Stuff their opinions . This world is shite now in so many ways . This country is lost . Wish Matt was still playing
One of the most underrated EPL players ever!!
Indeed!
He wasn’t. I grew up in the 90’s. He was wanted by all the top clubs. His goals was ridiculous, he chose himself to stay at Southampton. P.s he was very lazy aswell…which went against him. Not underrated at all tho.
one of my fav players ever. Stuart Pearce got relagated and stayed with Forest to get promoted again, was England captain at hte time too :)
‘Go find something you enjoy!’ He says. Unfortunately not everyone is as lucky as you Matt
Excellent chat. So many people are like sheep and will believe everything the BBC etc will tell them.
He is also 100% right about VAR, there is far too much nepotism, the VAR officials are mates of the on field officials. The VAR should be 100% independent. Keith Hackett former head of PGMOL said this after the pathetic showing by the officials in the Newcastle vs Arsenal game.
good luck Ben!
Thanks a lot :)
Well here I am thanks to algorithms. Glad I am because I love what ex-proffesional footballers have to say. Especially someone so gifted with talent like Matt. As a player I thought he was exceptional. He made the game look beautiful and easy. A magnificent player.
He was a deadly striker, speaks the truth. ❤
Exclusive? The man hasn’t said no to any media outlet since 2018
What a player..he played like the brazilians of yore .. .I wish he was training young kids in the basics...
100% agree with Matt re Southgate, incredible that the FA are considering giving him another contract, absolutely baffling!
Does a part of this pod repeat around 40 mins
Loved Matt such a wonder talent! Though I often think that when hes banging on about politics or agendas that the mainstream have.. hes actually doing the same thing. We need to keep politics out of football! Not just on the left leaning but right leaning aswell! Let sport be sport.
But it's okay for Gary Lineker? Because Gary's political views are in line with BBC and Government agendas?
Gary Neville as well.
It's either acceptable to have a political opinion or its not.... can't start cancelling and sacking people for their personal opinion and allowing others to spout theirs all over the place if theirs I'd considered acceptable to whoever is deciding what opinion is acceptable.
The FA showed political support for LGBTQ but the second they were threatened to have Harry Kane banned for one match if he wire a rainbow armband they dropped the opinion... showing how much they really think of it.... they also lit up Wembley in Ukraine colours but wouldn't do it for Israel after October 7th because they're shit scared of aggressive Muslims.
The exact same reason they shit themselves in Qatar and dropped the rainbow armband.
And the Police stand there allowing Muslims to shout vile abuse and hatred towards Jews on the street right in front of them and do nothing but if a fan shouts a homophobic slur in a stadium they kick his door off at 6am 24 hours later, have him in court and his name splattered in papers and on BBC sport...
The police, government and all authorities are frightened to death of upsetting Muslims here....
To such a point they literally allow them to abuse everyone else
Matt Le Tissier please come and manage West Ham I like your philosophy about the game it is the opposite of boring Moyse ball.
No, you hav'nt gone mad, there is repitition.. you can skip to 47:01.
Get Matt on the football fill in with Ben Foster now!
Top bloke.
Mers and Matt
Brilliant of Phil Tufnell to do this interview 😜
You mad sod!!😂😂
When I was twenty in the 70s I wanted to play out from the back and use wingbacks
. i got so frustrated with goalkeepers kincking long all the time. Diet was important in my game. Wenger brought a breath of fresh air to football.
With all due respect, in the 70s there was no passback rule and far too risky to play out from the back on those heavy muddy pitches.
Playing out from the back is only possible now because the pitches are flat, fast and watered... trying to play that way on bobbly muddy pitches would have just been a disaster in those days.
Even until the early to mid 90s it wouldn't have worked.
Look at those heavy muddy pitches back then where the ball sticks. Come on mate?
There was a reason gks kicked it long back then.... the ball wouldn't reach a full back along the surface most of the season
Always like Matt great footballer, not flash at all well balanced, person can sit down have a good chat about anything not like crap overrated players today no class at all thinking there better than you and funnily quite a lot of professional ballers, are from council estates. They seem to forget very quickly where they come from Jokers
Genius is often misunderstood
I feel the national team would have done much better with him as a starter.
I was football daft, as a young kid and a teenager i played 4 games a week snd trained on the other games. I stopped watching football 20 years ago. Got bored watching balls kicked out the park to waste time. Talentless players who are just athletes. Fans cheering when their teams win a corner. The same rubbish every week when we hear. We need to take our chances. What a load of drivel. The same players will continue to miss chances. You can coach all you want, practise shooting, but a player will reach his maximum ability and if he cant shoot he cant shoot. Matt is right. I want to be entertained. People pay a lot of money, they work hard all week, then you hear managers say. Im not hear to entertain . Well im not here to spend hard earned money watching drivel. Another thing, theres nothing wrong with a one club player. They will always be put on a pedestal by their clubs fans. Better than the ones who kiss the jersey then a year later go somewhere else and kiss another jersey
54:26
Matt is right about Pep. He was overshadowed as a player and wants the glory now.
Oldschool Harry Kane in some respect
Sonia poulton probably the Best pin up girl 👍 and free speaking journalist of our time 👍My grandad would have had that lady painted on the side of his Lancaster Bomber 👍😶♦️❤🙄👍🐒☝🏼
This was brilliant! New sub.
Bingo, stop watching the News been banging on so much to people, your life gets better
But people were using the unregulated internet which is hardly a good place to for reliable information.
great interview but poor editing and sound quality
One of the greatest ever footballers on the planet in my opinion……the planet that is course flat if you believe any of the tosh he spouts these days! 😂
It's too corporate now, I like the ideas of FC United & Wimbledon and the like who form their own fan based clubs, I'd rather support that, grass roots football, no bollocks
With David Brailsfod I imagine Nice and Man U will end up dull and spreadsheet driven rather than expressive shambolic and full of flair, sadly
EDIT: aaaah, it was actually about covid tests, not heart issues! He pointed out that clubs in the relegation zone had the most positive covid cases, e.g. trying to get the season cancelled.
He simply voiced some ideas against the C0VID / V@ccIne narrative, like should we investigate heart issues, do youngsters need the shot and does the shot prevent transmission, all perfectly normal things to ask
He worked for a media company in the public eye. There’s things you can’t say and do , like it or not. My company is not media and not in the public eye, there’s still things I can’t express on….i must play the game or get sacked. He chose to not give a f , he got sacked. His fault no one else’s.
@@leonleon2276 absolutely, I can see why they had to remove him, it's all about protecting the brand, that's why we often end up with a post office scandal or jimmy saville scandal
Cancelled for being awake to how things really are.
I have learned from my encounters with psychopaths that they have a tendency to do spiteful, childish things. You can make them your enemy for any reason. You may have a slightly different opinion or just say or do something that only an immature person would be upset by. They also do not understand sarcasm. They take it literally. I believe many leadership positions have been taken over by these characters. It tends to lead to organizations losing revenue, good and hardworking staff and failing to function properly.
Never a winner more of a juggler
So they sacked Matt for just putting something on social media that some snowflake didn't like because they have to protect the reputation of the company but don't sack Charragher for gobbing in a childs face. The mind boggles.
I think Grealish is being played out of position at Man City and is not effective. He just slows the game down and then passes it sideways.
That’s what he’s being told to do
"Underrated as a player" is an understatement. Technically, he is the best English player in history. Had he played for Liverpool or Man U, he would have had 200 caps. And I'm not a bitter Southampton fan, I'm a lifelong Aston Villa supporter. 😊
Anyone who didn't lose a loved one during the pandemic will think he's great!
I experienced loss in 2020 & it was nothing to do with the particular virus
What a lovely fella and talks a lot of sense
Bang on Matt, one has to stand up for what one believes, Churchill was a voice in the wilderness in the 1930's.
No caps is England's loss, Matt was the missing piece. Playing against better opposition and scoring all the time, Euro '96 guaranteed, maybe even France '98.
Interesting interview Ben, but nothing on the content of what Matt believes in. Just everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Sounds great, but with that comes responsibility if you are in the public eye. You also appeared to agree with him that the things he voiced have since been proved correct. He was a decent footballer, but believes the world, and Sky are against him, and on that alone he is probably correct.
Agreed with virtually everything Matt said apart from his suggested demographic voting system. 51% of people voting in favour on an issue shouldn’t trump the 49% voting against it. If that would have happened over the last few years then every political message propagandised by main stream media would have been carried into law, despite nearly half the people voting against it. Democracy should be like science, it’s not about consensus it’s about achieving the correct outcome by conflict of interest free debate.
51% majority trumping the 49% minority is exactly how democracy works. What you propose at the end is the very opposite of democracy
If I were MLT then I wouldn't worry either. Sky were sacking everyone eventually making everything more woke, and therefore he and the others didn't stand a chance.
It's funny how the TV money has gone down over the length of the new premier league contract. Why?? Because subscribers have had enough of the woke content and therefore not spending their hard earned cash on Sky and the ridiculous TV licence
This interviewer is just agreeing with everything Matt says lol.
Complete dinosaur. Today's players are 100% better technically right across the pitch. Every player in every position can control and pass better these days and are professional athletes at the same time. The 'headless chicken' analogy just isn't true. He's just bitter because he was lazy. Imagine him if he'd had worked hard as well. Southampton would have been so much better. At least people like Carragher have grown with the times and realise the modern game is so much better. Bitter man who is stuck in a time warp. If he thinks the modern game doesn't have chaos any more treat him to a ticket to Anfield.
You didn’t bother about winning because you played with Southampton
Bit of jealousy there Matt, you got jibbed off cos as a player you definitely was top drawer but not much ooompf as a pundit yes Carra made a big cock up but you was like a school kid, he done this mine wasn't as bad. Sorry Tiss but as you said take it on the chin..
I watch football to see players do something I cannot do. Which is why I am not impressed with womens football.
Should have got himself in better shape during his career. Bad physique
Bit of irony in Matt complaining about being canceled while also (correctly) telling Carra to take personal responsibility. Take responsibility for your comments. You weren't canceled, you canceled yourself.
F sky! I signed up to them when it first came out back in 89-90 to watch England play the West Indies cricket tour! Subscribed for around 30 years!!! I cancelled about 5 years ago when they started to bring in their diverse/woke political agenda into sports! I will never ever pay to watch that channel again!!!! The bbc license went about 2 years later!!!
Who cares? Your choice .
Well you did! You responded! lol@@Yorkman7
He cares,and many others like him !
Cry me a river, Matt. F about, find out.
Someone got jabbed LOL
Geezer believes he is a god
Mate, stop playing the victim. You worked for sky. You on tv for sky. You pull the line. There’s things you can’t do, or things you can’t say or express on, to the public, he knows this. You play the game if you don’t agree. If you don’t, don’t cry about being sacked.
There’s things every day normal people , working for companies , not in the public’s eye, that they cannot do or say as they represent the company, they would get sacked. Cry baby. Get over it mate. You messed up , no one else. Apart from that , you was never underrated. All top clubs wanted ya, YOU chose to stay at Southampton. Top class player, however , very lazy, and sometimes packed a bit of timber.
Grow up mate dry the tears.
he encouraged people not to get the vaccine ....covid is now under control because of the vaccine and its undoubtedly saved 1000s of lives....think in the lancet they reckon 7000 people needlessly died because they refused the vaccine in part down to people like matt
Doesn't apply to Lineker though eh ?
@@paulrichards6894🤭🤣😂
At no point did he 'play the victim' in any part of this interview. What were you watching ?
Just wouldn't want to be you..
I learnt so much about Matt who I'd always respected as a footballer despite his sticking to Southampton for virtually all his career. He was quite open and I respected him a lot more when I found out about why he stuck at Southampton ( a big shame Wayne Rooney couldn't have thought more like that for Everton but there you go !) . So I was with him 100% ..until he ruined at all by being sponsored by a Cannabis derivate supplier. Speaking up for CBD is absolutely DREADFUL and is tantamount to calling for legalising Cannabis which I have a major problem with. He is on about COVID-19 vaccine etc but he's then peddling crap about 'Big Phama' companies stopping or trying to stop legalised Cannabis derivatives. IMHO Matt is a good man and made a lot a sense but it's a shame he's been corrupted by a cannabis derivative lobby.
Look into it dude, there's papers published on cannabis and the certain benefits it can give
Mediocre , trust me he scored a fee good goals but he was over rated
Why did he stay with Southampton all his career ?
Liked being the big fish in a small pond
Overrated more like