E09 | Joe Edwards
Episode Summary | Joe Edwards
Meet Joe Edwards. The hardest working man in football.
He is a partner at New Zealand's premier law firm Russell McVeagh who has won five Northern Premier League titles, played over 300 Northern League games and scored 100 goals.
Show notes | Joe Edwards
2.19 How Seamus and Steve know Joey complete with objections and corrections from Joey which fluster the hosts
10.30 Who is Joe Edwards: A tribute from Joe’s retirement game at Waitemata
11.38 Steve addresses why Joey felt it necessary to send through a 900 word document detailing his football history and notable talking points to the hosts
12.50 Joe talks about how frustrated he gets when the hosts make errors on the podcast and if he can compete with the Gwyther episode
13.50 Why Joey is the way he is, and why he’s so different to his brother
16.00 Was Joey always the diligent, straight A student with unmatched work ethic?
17.31 How valuable is Joey’s time? And how did he justify spending it at crap northern league training sessions?
20.30 The time Tommy Webb turned up drunk to a 7-a-side match and Joey didn’t forgive him for a year
23.38 Does Joey get annoyed by Seamus’ silly Facebook tags?
25.09 Could Joey envisage a different, more laid back lifestyle as a DJ
30.32 Joe’s interesting theory on diet. Why he won’t eat non-European food or anything from the sea. And how having two young kids has changed his life
34.50 How careful does Joe have to be about what he says on the podcast?
35.20 Joe talks about the time he called out a racist during an aftermatch speech at Birkenhead
39.45 Steve addresses some of the unsual things Joe included in his football chronology
40.36 Joe talks about the time he played with Steven Gerrard aged 9, and Joey’s tough run with injuries. Was Joe faster than Roy Krishna and Sean Lovemore at his peak?
45.36 Why Joey walked away from Liston College due to attitude of players and how proud he was to win Foodtown’s shelf-stocker of the year award in 2003
49.30 Joey talks about the common denominators in his Northern Premier League title winning seasons
52.45 Joey tells the story of when his strike partner wanted to fight him after a game. The one time Jake Butler went home early from a night out.
55.09 Joey’s biggest regrets. Ditching a team trip to go to a school ball and what not to say at ante-natal classes.
1.03.30 Why Colin Gardyne is never allowed at Joe Edward’s house again
1.06.06 How an outburst from Michael Mayne turned into ‘The Mayne decision’, a judicial term which is used often today
1.10.00 Who are the most memorable characters Joe met across 13 years of Northern League?
1.17.17 Would Joe one day consider NZ Football CEO?
1:19:10: The one time Nathan Strom asked Joey to write up a $30,000 legal document for him.
1:29:00: Joe asks Steve what the best Northern Premier League team he played in was
1:31:00: Joe and Seamus talk about their fav podcast episodes to date and Steve and Seamus talk about what they want the podcast to become
