We know it's been an age, but the WCSW podcast is finally back, and it now stands for West Coast Soccer Whenever-we-feel-like-it.
If you're going to be away, you want to come back with a bang and we feel we've done that in this episode with a very special guest this week - former Whitecap and Liverpool legend <b>Bruce Grobbelaar</b>.
Bruce was goalkeeper for the Whitecaps for a season and a bit during the Club's NASL days in 1979 and 1980, and we have a chat around his memories of that time, what it was like being at the Caps when they won the 1979 Soccer Bowl and his debut as a Cap, when none other than Dutch legend Johann Cruyff scored against him.
There's also a lot of chat about Liverpool FC - past, present and future. We look at the highs of winning the European Cup and being the most decorated goalkeeper in English football, to the lows of Heysel and Hillsborough, as Bruce shares his heartwrenching memories of that fateful day in Sheffield and the aftermath.
And if that's not enough, we also talk about playing for the Zimbabwe national team, African football, the World Cup in South Africa, his stint in the UK version of Hells Kitchen, the famous wobbly legs, and touch briefly on the match fixing allegations and a lot more.
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He was such an interesting guest, we could have filled the whole hour talking to him alone, but as it's also been a busy time in Whitecapsland since we've been away, we have time to look at some of the talking points in tonight's show.
You can listen to this week's podcast (and the previous ones) on iTunes <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/westcoastsoccerweekly/id491781299" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a> or download it for your later listening delight <a href="http://westcoastsoccerweekly.podbean.com/" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>. Can't wait? Have a listen on one of the players below:
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