• Don't 4-3-3, Argentina

  • Jul 1 2024
  • Length: 23 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • Every week, local football teams play at Strood Leisure Centre on pitches called ‘Messi’, ‘Pochettino’ and ‘Batistuta’ - but do they know why? In this episode we’re telling the story of Isaac Newell, a Strood lad who left Medway as a teenager in the 1860s for far-off Argentina, taking the beautiful game with him. The team he inspired, Newell’s Old Boys, has nurtured some of the very best footballing talent of all time..


    Joining us to talk about Isaac Newell’s impact and his fame in Argentina and beyond are the ‘Legendinho’ himself, the BBC’s South American football correspondent Tim Vickery - co-host of 5 Live's World Football Phone-in - and local football fan and tireless campaigner, Adrian Pope.


    Find out more about the campaign to raise a statue to Isaac Newell in Strood on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064806066148


    With thanks to the City of Rochester Society for supporting this podcast. Find out more about their work at city-of-rochester.org.uk


    We Did it Medway is presented by Philip Dodd and Rob Flood. It is produced and edited by Suze Cooper of Big Tent Media, with assistance from Emily Crosby Media.


    The We Did It Medway music is written and performed by Chris Weller (Staggered Ray), Rob Shepherd (Singing Loins) and Vicky Price (Ashen Keys) with lyrics by Philip Dodd.


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