# Lloyd Isgrove: Playing with Mané & Bale & Emailing EVERY Football Club In 🇦🇺?! | EP 103

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Published: 2026-04-14T05:45:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 4967

## Resource

🔥 We sat down with former Southampton winger & Welsh international Lloyd Isgrove for a chat about life at the top and everything in between. From over a decade inside a Premier League academy to battling through the English Football League and eventually landing in Australia — Lloyd shares stories you won’t hear anywhere else 👀 🎙️ In this episode: ⚽ Life in a Premier League academy (10+ years) — how ruthless and cutthroat it really is 🔥 Trying to break into a stacked Southampton first team (Mané, Tadić, Lallana, Van Dijk & more) 👀 What Sadio Mané was REALLY like in training vs match day 🏴 Playing in the Championship, League One & League Two — and how it compares to NPL football ⚽️🥅 Playing with a Young Ivan Toney… How he was back then 😳 Why Millwall is the WORST away day as an opposition player 🐉 Inside the Welsh golden generation — sharing a squad with Bale & Ramsey 🇦🇺 Moving to the NPL — first impressions of football in Australia ➕ And plenty more stories from a career across England and beyond If you love football stories from behind the scenes, this one’s for you 🙌 👍 Don’t forget to like, comment & subscribe for more football podcasts every week! #FootballPodcast #PremierLeague #Southampton #WelshFootball #NPL #SoccerStories Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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