Transcript of what went on between Shepherd and Ritchie yesterday morning

<font face="Times New Roman">GS: Andy can I have a word?</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">AR: Can it wait I’m off to find a dentist</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">GS; What’s up wi thee?</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">AR: My dentist on Racecommon Rd chucked me out, no more NHS, and MY BARNSLEY CONTRACT doesn’t have Denplan</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">GS: Don’t need it, waste of money. Besides we’re a football club not a bloody health service. Have you seen my teeth? Not been to a dentists in 35 years and teeth like Nijinsky I have.
AR: Was there owt else?</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">GS: Yeah, I just got a call from a bloke in Middlesboro, he’s got a player, shall we get him?</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">AR: Who is he? What position? How old? Why do they want rid?</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">GS ……. Middlesboro, he’s bound to be a reyt laiker gerrim signed Andy! Give Southgate a ring.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">AR: Can’t do it now, if I miss the 10:17 bus from Grove St I’ll have to walk into tarn and …</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">GS: …. You could ask Gareth where he gets his teeth done? He looks a bit like a horse, always admired that in a man ..</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">{phone rings}</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">GS: Alex? Yeah great!</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">AR: Who was that?</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">GS: Fergie, he’s got a laiker foir us an’ all, gerrim signed Andy lad!!</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">AR: Who is he? What position? How old? Why do they want rid?</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">GS: ….. Man Utd ffs!!!</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">AR: I’ve got to go, by the way any news on my contract yet?</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">GS: Don’t miss that bus, I’m not paying for taxis. Besides thi contracts got yonks left on it yit, what’s wi folk today?
AR: I can’t stand here talking football, I’ve got more important matters to see to</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">GS: We’re 2^nd from bottom !!</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">AR: I need to get my teeth done, now Dowie's got the sack I just moved one rung up the “ugliest manager still in a job” ladder
GS: Tha’ll not be in that league for long ..</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">AR: Yer what?</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">GS; Oh nowt, do you happen to know’t number for Radio Sheffield like?</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">AR: No I don’t, I could give you the number of all the dentists in the S71 post code area. Why do you want Radio Sheffield’s number?
GS: Oh nowt, what you up to toneet like?</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">AR: Playing Football Manager 2007 probably. You?</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">GS: Talking wireless. Aye, that’s it, talking wireless for me.</font> </p>

 

You never lose it.

 

Two things stagger me at this juncture:</p>

1. You were actually privvy to this conversation in the first place
2. You managed to remember it verbatim

You thought about being a reporter like Gaz?</p>

You'd be dead good like.</p>

 

I taped it

Keep it between me and thee but I've got a cassette recorder under Gordon's desk. It's got bluetooth.  I get loads of good stuff through.  Like I say though.  Between me and thee that one.

 

Shep obviously lied to us

Cause he said that he hadn't spoken to Ritchie since Friday, and this proves otherwise

 

RE: I taped it

That's two wi blue teeth in Gordo's office then.

 

Straight from the horse's mouth mate .... nt

 

RE: I taped it

neigh lad

 

That's spot on, that.

Thaz gorra reight memory, thee.