The Broken Metatarsal - A 2000s Football Podcast

2: Danny Mills: Partying with Beckham and Steps - and scaring wingers

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Episode notes

In the second of our player specials, this week we speak to former England, Leeds, Man City and (sort of) Derby defender Danny Mills.

RUNNING ORDER:

  • Intro
  • Interview - How a Broken Metatarsal helped Danny play for England 4:09
  • Playing in that World Cup squad 6:34
  • The Beckhams' Pre-Tournament Party 7m 39s
  • Were there England cliques? 11m 16s
  • The ramifications of Rio's missed drug test 13m
  • Beckham penalty v Argentina 14m 15s
  • Getting merchandise in the wake of Beckham, and isolation in Japan 17m 40s
  • That Brazil game and Danny's role in the Ronaldinho red card 20m 30s
  • Meeting Cafu and Ronaldinho in a drugs test room 21m 40s
  • Leeds in Europe 24m 44s
  • The Ashley Cole sending off and the disciplinary process 26m 56s
  • O'Leary's love of luxurious hotels 30m 48s
  • Leeds v Arsenal & Did Viduka lift Keown off the ground?  31m 21s
  • Runs in with Pires, that tackle, and the birth of modern diving 33m 35s
  • Danny's favourite shithouses & messing with Savage 35m 39s
  • Ways to be a shithouse 37m
  • The deserved Bellamy red & what Bellamy was like 39m 39s
  • A nice story about Graeme Le Saux 43m 19s
  • Why Leeds and Arsenal clashed 44m 54s
  • Danny's short spell in that terrible Derby side 46m 25s
  • Paul Jewell's Sex Tape 50m 09s 
  • Looking back quickly at Danny's career 51m 04s
  • Mark brings up a Mills story about Stoke 
  • Outro

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