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Cup Final Win - Lasses reaction!
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It's the girls turn to talk all things Cup Final Win... because lets get real, we could probably discuss this all day everyday for a long time :-)
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Introduction and Podcast Setup
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Newcastle podcast.
00:00:12
Jo
yeah
00:00:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is me, your host, and I am joined by my fellow girly Jo. How are you, babe?
00:00:22
Jo
It is me with my broken voice. i'm Awesome. Awesome.
00:00:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Perfect. For anyone that is watching, me and Jo do have matching bucket hats on um because
00:00:32
Jo
Yes, we do. We're geeks.
00:00:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
because we match everything and we're nerds and we're dorks. Yeah, although I'm going to just quickly slip mine off because it is squishing my head because of my um microphone. So it is coming off my head for now. um Welcome to the Daily Newcastle podcast. and It's the girls.
00:00:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's the girls' turn to give their reaction. um We went on last night because um the boys were together and they gave their reaction and will make no apologies because we're kind of probably going to repeat everything they have said.
00:01:02
Jo
Yeah.
00:01:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
and But it's our turn to give our opinion, our views and talk about the wonderful game that we got to witness on Sunday.
00:01:04
Jo
Yeah.
Celebrating the Trophy Win
00:01:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
We finally, finally, finally got to see our beloved Newcastle United lift a trophy for the first time in, I mean, what is it?
00:01:21
Jo
yeah
00:01:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
68, 70 years, whatever it 50 years, 75 domestics. um fifty years well
00:01:30
Jo
70 for domestic, 56 for, yeah, technically.
00:01:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
seventy for domestic Yeah, 50 states for major.
00:01:34
Jo
do But, you know, you long way longer than we've been alive, girl.
00:01:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Too long.
00:01:37
Jo
That's all that matters, right?
00:01:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Too long. Yeah, absolutely. um So we haven't got a plan. We're absolutely just going to talk about um everything that we witnessed on Sunday, to be honest.
00:01:44
Jo
Who cares? There
00:01:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
So if you have listened to the boys' reaction, which obviously you have because but um you guys listen to every day, we're probably going to bore you and repeat you, but repeat the boys, what they've said.
00:01:48
Jo
we are.
00:01:57
Jo
Nah, none of that.
00:01:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
But um it's our turn. So let's get started. Um, Joe, I'm just going to put it out there. I vaguely, vaguely remember at one night in January, I think it might have been after a certain, certain game that Newcastle played.
00:02:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
We sat here and said, it's time. It is our time to win a trophy.
00:02:21
Jo
So I can't.
00:02:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we had a really strong feeling that it was it was coming home, if you like.
00:02:27
Jo
Yeah.
00:02:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
it was coming It was coming back to um the cathedral on the hill. It was coming back to St. James's Park. um First of all, I want to ask you everything around Sunday. how You were obviously up in Newcastle in the strawberry from the crack of dawn.
Game Day Experiences
00:02:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
So you would just want to start off by saying, give me your day breakdown and how it went down and how the feeling was in the city.
00:02:47
Jo
Literally.
00:02:55
Jo
My...
00:02:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Obviously, I'm three and a half hours away, so The feeling down here was probably a little bit different, but um tell me, tell me about your day.
00:03:00
Jo
Yeah.
00:03:06
Jo
Oh, just something I've waited decades to experience. Obviously, and we've all waited this as long as we've been alive. Anyone under the age of like 60, 70, whatever, we've waited as long as we've been alive. So um ah yeah, as you know, i was ah me and Donna were the first ones in the queue.
00:03:22
Jo
They even laughed at us when they let us in because it was literally only a few of us because everybody wanted to go to the stack, except when people couldn't get in the stack, they all then filtered back and realized that the strawberry was the place to be. However, we obviously had prime seats at this point, which is now even the barmaids and guys were saying that's our lucky table because was joking.
00:03:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep. 100%.
00:03:40
Jo
being the superstitious fool that I am and all the millions of things that we do on a daily basis. But I was like, we sat there for Derby Day. We sat there for the cup final. out They actually said they were like, any next event, you guys need to be first in and you guys need to sit here. I was like, just put a reserved sign on.
00:03:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
one hundred percent
00:03:55
Jo
So we are now Strawberry Royalty, just like that. um Not that we they didn't know us anyway because are regulars in there. But, oh, man, just what a day, man. I started my day with a pint and a sausage roll because I'm a classy, classy Jodie.
00:04:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, yeah.
00:04:10
Jo
Classy Jotty. I decided I needed a coffee, but you know you're not allowed just a coffee. oh you No, no. Well, I wasn't anyway. So I had an Irish coffee because it's still a bit alcohol, it's a little bit of coffee.
00:04:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
An Irish coffee. Yeah.
00:04:20
Jo
I went back on the pints after that because, again, being classy.
00:04:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
St Paddy's weekend, we're rude not to.
00:04:23
Jo
um Well, yeah, something like that. And then I hit the rum. And I'm not going to lie, I do remember the match. I do remember the match. But I was very drunk, as you can imagine. But, I mean, God.
00:04:37
Jo
Yeah, it seven and a half hours of drinking before the match even started. So I'm quite proud that I even remember the match, personally. But, you know... My mom will be proud of that, you know, I came back alive and all that sort of things that she probably didn't think i was going to.
00:04:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, yeah.
00:04:49
Jo
But man, that game, man.
00:04:50
Jo
Like, you know what it is, right? And you yeah we've all had it, right, over the last 48 hours. Probably the biggest range of emotions from pride to disbelief to waking up each morning for the last two months.
00:04:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh.
00:05:01
Jo
Like, did it happen? I dreaming? Nah, it really happened because then it's all over social media. It's all over YouTube. It's like, oh, man, it it's just in your face and then you can just live it over and over again, which we probably will for a long time.
00:05:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, yeah.
00:05:12
Jo
But one of the ones I was walking around my parents before the school run today and probably the first time I've felt it in the last 48 hours, I felt calm again for a change because I've been like right up here and I felt so calm.
00:05:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like me and you.
00:05:25
Jo
And I started thinking, you know what it is though? You know what this is? This is justice. We played all the big teams, the top four teams as it stands.
00:05:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, yeah.
00:05:35
Jo
We beat Chelsea, we beat Forest, we whipped Arsenal. And what did we do to Liverpool? Arsenal. We whipped Liverpool because 2-1 flatters them. We absolutely smashed them. Salah, it's the only game he's done nothing in terms of goal contributions or anything. Like, come on, man.
00:05:51
Jo
Any neutral. And if you're if you're not saying it, you're just salty as hell because anyone watching that has to acknowledge that we had them. Slott was amazing, by the way, afterwards. to Shout out to him.
00:06:01
Jo
Fair play to him, because Klopp wouldn't have.
00:06:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, yeah.
00:06:03
Jo
Klopp would have been his bit of twisted little crying ass.
00:06:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
You're vicious in defeat.
00:06:06
Jo
But anyway, Slott was brilliant. He just acknowledged that we were meant. They stood no chance, and we fully deserved it. And that's why on the way to the school run today, I was thinking, you know what? I'm now temporarily, because I'm now hyped again, calm about the situation, because it was bloody justice, man, wasn't it?
00:06:21
Jo
Man, we bloody deserved it, man. So we won it, and we... You deserved it, man. Nick, take over.
00:06:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:26
Jo
I'm going to swear. Take over. I'm going to do that.
00:06:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm taking over. and you can know him Obviously, I am three and a half hours away from Newcastle. I am not far from London, to be fair, on a train, but obviously couldn't get a ticket to go to Wembley.
00:06:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I decided to stay at home and watch it with my family, who are lifelong Newcastle supporters, we all are. and And let me tell you now, it didn't and didn't tarnish the day whatsoever. So I am just going to tell every single listener who you know, feels a little bit gutted that they weren't at Wembley. We all were. Let's be honest. Every single Geordie would like to be at Wembley or watched it in a local pub that was maybe two hours away, three hours away, or even in Newcastle. doesn't it matter.
00:07:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
I watched it with the family or even decided to stay at home. I just want to tell you guys that does not make you any less of a fan that what I've been told apparently on Twitter doesn't make you any less of a fan where you watched it, how you watched it, because we all made our own memories. And let me tell you now, watching that Newcastle win with my family, I wouldn't have changed it for the world.
00:07:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
obviously, unless I was at Wembley. However, um yeah, what a day. And I'm going to be really honest, mate. Like, I woke up on Sunday, right? And obviously, for everyone listening, and I've said it before and I've said it a couple of times, my husband is a Liverpool supporter.
00:07:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, not been a great week in our household because even they got knocked out of the Champions League as well. So, yeah. and
00:07:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I woke up on Sunday and I thought to myself, I was nervous.
00:07:42
Jo
Oh.
00:07:43
Jo
but
00:07:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
I probably didn't really sleep that great, which sounds really funny when you say that to, like, non-football fans. If you don't like football, i don't understand, but OK. But, um But I really felt calm. I felt calm. I felt nervous, but I felt calm. I felt a lot more calmer than what I did um two years ago when we played Man United in the final.
00:08:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then the whole day I was just like, no, I'm really excited to see us go out there. I've got a really funny feeling.
00:08:08
Jo
Yeah.
00:08:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've been saying it for months and months. Me and you and Kevin have been really vocal about how we think we're going to come.
00:08:12
Jo
yeah
00:08:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're definitely winning silverware this year. We've all said it um It's also came off the back of the same year where people have doubted Eddie Howe and blah blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, is he the manager to take Newcastle forward? I am just going to sit here and tell you guys now, he will be proud of me.
00:08:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Eddie Howe cannot go anywhere for the time being. he cant He cannot go anywhere because that game on Sunday is the the best game i have seen every single player
00:08:29
Jo
No. Yeah.
Performance Highlights and Praise
00:08:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Newcastle, every single player in black and white play.
00:08:42
Jo
yeah
00:08:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Every single one of those 11 players on that pitch deserve man of the match. Like, I've never seen a team like it. It was unbelievable. And i have been riding the highest of highs since probably, what was it, 6pm Sunday.
00:08:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
And eventually calmed down today at work. People were asking me like, oh, you're buzzing, you're buzzing. But now I'm back high again, because I'm like, we've bloody done it. We actually, chi ah we actually done it.
00:09:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, I cannot believe in our lifetime that we have watched Newcastle win a trophy.
00:09:08
Jo
Oh man.
00:09:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
And they didn't just win the trophy. They absolutely battered Liverpool.
00:09:17
Jo
Mm-hmm.
00:09:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
They battered them. And the scoreline didn't reflect the performance, in my opinion. Yes, obviously buzzing with the 2-1 win, but it should have been about three or four points.
00:09:24
Jo
Nah.
00:09:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:09:27
Jo
Agree.
00:09:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I'm just... Yeah, I think maybe I'll break for the first ad, shall I? Because we've got a lot more to break down. Obviously...
00:09:36
Jo
but have
00:09:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Guys, we're just really, really happy. And it is going to be a lot of nonsense for a lot of people. um But we're just really, really happy. So I'm going to break there for our first ad, which is from our sponsor, Bionique.
00:09:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And then I think in the second part, Joe, we maybe need to give a Big Dan Byrne a little bit of attention. So I'll play the first ad.
00:09:57
Jo
Cool.
00:10:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ken's lovely voice. He could read me a nighttime story. I think I'd fall asleep in a good way.
00:10:40
Jo
Dulcet tones, isn't it? Yeah.
00:10:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, very lovely. um i will put the link and the ad in the comments, guys. So be sure to check out um the Bionique website and there'll be a code in there for I think it's either 15% off or 20% off.
00:10:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
I can't remember, but I will put that in there.
00:10:54
Jo
yeah
00:10:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:10:56
Jo
Kinda.
00:10:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, Jo, we've got our feelings out. we Well, mostly.
00:11:01
Jo
kind of
00:11:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've got them out, kind of. I don't think I'll ever get all my feelings out. I think I'm going to be like this for the rest of my life. um Let's just talk about, let's give the second part. um I'm giving Liverpool no attention, by the way, in this podcast.
00:11:14
Jo
Some player a focus. No, no, no, they don't deserve any, it's fine.
00:11:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, yeah, we don't deserve any. don't want to talk about them. It's not the Daily Liverpool podcast, I'm afraid. So if you're looking for a little review, you ain't getting one. um Big Dan Byrne.
00:11:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
What a wonderful, wonderful week.
00:11:30
Jo
Yeah.
00:11:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I've got goosebumps sitting here talking about him, to be honest. I've been a bit of a critique about Dan Byrne in the past. I will hold my hands up. There's been times where he slipped and, you know, and I'm just a bit like, oh, God, is he the man that we should be having at centre back?
00:11:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I'm eating my words now.
00:11:46
Jo
Mm-hmm.
00:11:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
um You know, Friday gets a call up. Obviously, he had had a call up last week. He gets his call up for his first ever international camp by Thomas Tuchel at 32 years old. What a journey that is.
00:11:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Two days later, he is playing at Wembley in the Carabao Cup final for his boyhood club. um Let's not forget, he's obviously one of our own. Not only that, he takes it one further and scores the opener.
00:12:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it wasn't just a little score opener a messy one. It was absolutely beautiful.
00:12:17
Jo
Yeah.
00:12:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
What are you thinking? Do you agree? Give me your opinion.
00:12:22
Jo
okay
00:12:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Come on, hit me.
00:12:23
Jo
Literally could not be happier for the bloke. Was pretty hyped during the week anyway when we saw that he'd been called up for the England squad and me being me can't stay off social media and saw some absolute idiots Call out and say what the hell he being called up for? i was like, are you kidding me?
00:12:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know.
00:12:37
Jo
Do you actually watch football? Like, ah even if you're not a Newcastle fan, do you actually have any acknowledgement about what what's going on in this?
00:12:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know,
00:12:42
Jo
Never mind. Anyway, I shouldn't acknowledge these people. My dad tells me all the time, but I do because I can't help myself. Anywho, back to Byrne. He was just immense as always. He's been our player of the season. We've talked about it.
00:12:54
Jo
Hall, yes, we've obviously talked about him being it, but Dan Byrne was the one that we've kind of called out a bit for being the player of the season so far. To be fair, I don't even know what could happen now between now and the end of the season to take him off that mantle.
00:13:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Same. 100%.
00:13:07
Jo
So I might just hand him the play of the season.
00:13:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:13:09
Jo
Now, the rest of them, I love you guys, but Byrne gets it, like ah especially because of what he did at the weekend as well. I mean, of all people, ah you know we've probably all said it before the match.
00:13:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:13:20
Jo
And all we did in in the copious amount of hours and the build-up of waiting for the match to come on in the pub covered about every aspect of what we want to happen first and who we want to score and all this sort of stuff. And I was like, oh, one of the Geordie lads has got to get it, especially Byrne.
00:13:32
Jo
I was like, well, we all know my love of Murphy, but I was like, if he could get one. But Murphy got an assist, so I'm covered all around, so happiness is right here. um But yeah, like damn burn getting that goal, man.
00:13:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Whoa, 100%.
00:13:43
Jo
An absolute bullet of a header that they said they'd been practicing certain things in training. and Eddie did say it didn't go exactly how it had in training, but who bloody cares because it went in the back of the net. And I don't care how it went in training at that point because all that matters is it happened in the match.
00:13:57
Jo
um And again, he was absolute colossal. The only other player that it's hard to pick, like I know you said before about like not like everyone being a man in the match. But i you know you do have the conversation of, oh, who would be your man of the match?
00:14:09
Jo
The one who really, really stood out to me was Big Joelman.
00:14:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
one hundred times
00:14:13
Jo
He was a man mountain.
00:14:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah
00:14:15
Jo
He was back to his best. He saved whatever he's been hiding for the last few games. Back to his best.
00:14:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:14:21
Jo
Share, share. Back to his best. What's he been doing for the last few months? We've even called him out on it. We'll admit that, you know what i mean?
00:14:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
So many times. Yep.
00:14:29
Jo
Back his best But it's almost like And they did it in the last Cup run didn't they They kind of just fell apart in the last Cup run Unfortunately on the last Cup run They also fell apart a bit in the Cup final as well But man did it not probably give them A rocket up the backside they needed to perform And they did it They did exactly what they needed they deserve every little ounce of respect Applause Everything man Eddie's a genius The players were immense That's man that's all I've got to say man I've got to
00:14:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, yeah.
00:14:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
oh
00:14:58
Jo
i'm gonna start crying again
00:14:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no, mate, me too. i'm They all, every single, I'm going to just talk about Danburn for a minute. Yeah, his goal, bit a was, I'm going to say Shearer-like, but I think it was even better than that.
00:15:07
Jo
Yeah, yeah Was I think Shira would give him that Because Shira said a lot of good stuff about Miaz, yeah Brilliant
00:15:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm really sorry, Shearer, because I love you. I think he'll agree with it because it was even the corner. I'm just going to call up my guy trips. Actually, I'm going to give him a little bit of I'm going to give him a cover in the third part because I feel like we need to talk about him.
00:15:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I trip his corner was i mean, he's given some corners. I'm thinking, oh what the hell is that? You know, but this corner was like off the training ground and Dan Byrne straight in at the back. The six foot seven giant that he is.
00:15:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
um God knows what Liverpool are thinking, and by the way, having their probably smallest player on the pitch, Mark um BDB.
00:15:47
Jo
Mental.
00:15:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
But anyway, here we are. And it was stunning, stunning, stunning goal. um And I couldn't be happier for him. And I think Kev, I think he touched on on yesterday's pod, it was released um yeah on yesterday's pod, sorry, with the boys, that he's never felt Wembley erupt like that and had never experienced anything like that in his life.
00:16:04
Jo
Yeah.
00:16:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Let me tell you now, I have never experienced that feeling and I was watching um like you were watching on the tv from home it was unbelievable and I could not be happy for him I feel like he's come total full circle um ah yeah he he is just what a week and you could see the emotion in it when he went ran obviously and
00:16:11
Jo
Yeah. yeah
00:16:15
Jo
Yeah.
00:16:23
Jo
Yeah.
00:16:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
celebrated and all the play you can see what it meant but then you could also you also got the other side of it you can see that they were celebrating they were happy they scored at Wembley because obviously last time we didn't but you then also got like literally yeah they were celebrating and then straight away they were like right back to business it's back to business we're we're back to business until at least the 90th minute um and then just what you have touched on with um you know Mr Eddie Howe I felt like as a club him team
00:16:39
Jo
They were right back on it. They were.
00:16:44
Jo
Yeah.
00:16:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Even the fans, the city, they just got everything right this time. And I've actually had to write this down and so I can read it off properly and give it the give it the attention it needs.
00:16:59
Jo
Yeah.
00:17:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I'm talking on and off the pitch. So let's just talk about the club. um I'm talking about social media about the club. Last time it was um constant montages from the past and Bobby Robson and Keegan days and all the old players, do it for them, blah, blah. Whilst I'm totally here for it was constant, bam, bam, bam.
00:17:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
The social media content from the club this time round has hit really hard, but it has just been minimal.
00:17:25
Jo
ah
00:17:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
It has been the hashtag we don't do quiet and it's been the odd post here and there. It's not been all these old montages from, you know, the last sort of 50, 60 years.
00:17:33
Jo
Yeah.
00:17:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
We all know Sir Bobby would be smiling up there. We all know Kevin Keegan will be buzzing from wherever he watched it. You know, we all know that. So I feel like the club, the content the club put out on the socials set the right tone.
00:17:41
Jo
Yeah.
00:17:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Wall flags. I mean, I wish we could talk about them more on every single podcast, but I feel they produce such a simple but powerful message with the history book. Obviously, Bruno and Joe Linton have said it was beautiful.
00:17:55
Jo
It was a beautiful flag, that man. Yeah.
00:17:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
They said, you know, we want to write ourselves in history books.
00:17:59
Jo
yeah
00:18:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, what did they go and do? They give a history book display and it was just so simple.
00:18:04
Jo
Yeah.
00:18:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
It wasn't overbearing or overpowering. Obviously, everyone had their scarf that they got.
00:18:08
Jo
Yeah.
00:18:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
The club's and sponsor put on the thing. That looked unbelievable when the players were walking out. Yeah. The supporters, by the way, all game were on it. Like even when we played Man United in the last final, we get the nerves were high.
00:18:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
we were quiet. This time there wasn't one quiet moment in that pitch. Every chant Liverpool were doing, the Newcastle fans are coming back.
00:18:21
Jo
yeah
00:18:25
Jo
yeah
00:18:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, from the first minute to the 90th minute, they were on it. Every one of the lads had a great game. Eddie got his tactics spot on. And that is the first time I'm going to say that about Eddie.
00:18:37
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Like there's been times where I thought, oh, maybe his, you know, substitutions are a bit late. Maybe this is a bit off. Maybe that was a bit off.
00:18:43
Jo
Yeah.
00:18:44
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This time, there was not one thing that that man done wrong. He didn't doubt himself. And thank God he didn't.
00:18:50
Jo
Yeah.
00:18:52
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We all said we have to have the game of our lives to win. And they delivered it on and off the pitch.
00:18:58
Jo
Yeah.
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And that is what feel winning feels like.
00:19:02
Jo
It is.
00:19:02
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A team that looked like they were up for the trophy that day. And the right team won, in my opinion, because I'm going to just say it.
00:19:11
Jo
Oh god yeah Any Liverpool fan, the players surely they'll admit it Like I say, Slops had the decency to come out And completely admit it immediately after the match as well When the emotions probably pretty roll So you know, anyone with just, come on, just just be honest like I appreciate football fans like to wind each other up and just banter all that
00:19:11
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Liverpool looked like they didn't even be bothered. Oh, yeah.
00:19:32
Jo
But nobody can seriously come out and say anyone else deserved to win that game other than Newcastle. So, you know, and I'm not i'm not even willing to entertain anyone that says otherwise.
00:19:37
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No, no.
00:19:41
Jo
I'll be honest. I'll just say you're clueless. You're just either salty as hell or, you know, just get give over, man, is what I have said to a few people. Just give over. Just come on.
00:19:49
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Yeah, 100%. Yes.
00:19:50
Jo
But... But yeah, like I've got to be honest on the atmosphere thing, because I was in the strawberry, and I've got to say, by the way, that is by far so far the best place I've ever watched a match that I haven't been at.
00:20:02
Jo
So I go to all the home games, I have been down to Wembley in the ninety s
00:20:02
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yeah
00:20:06
Jo
I didn't obviously go this year. how However, I will touch on this very quickly. Me and Donna kind of had the chance to go at the very last minute. And we had a very sensible conversation about whether we should, after we'd already cancelled the whole tale, which I'd had booked since the back end of goddamn November, because I'd cancelled it thinking I wasn't getting the ballot and all this. And then through works, I work for...
00:20:25
Jo
a company that sponsors Wembley. ah Leave it at that. And then, and but yeah, like it was like two, two and a half days before.
00:20:29
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Yeah.
00:20:35
Jo
I say two and a half days because literally obviously if we're going by hours here and we were like, hang on, because obviously the hype went up like, oh, hang on, can we go? So we were like, right. And we texting. was like, ringers. I was like, hang on. We need to have a conversation here. We need to do this sensibly. Like, hey, what's the logistics now?
00:20:48
Jo
ah B, I wasn't bothered at the ticket price, it was going to be about 200 quid each, fine, would have paid that happily But the clincher for me was The only tickets available that you won't be surprised to hear are either with the Liverpool fans Obviously wouldn't happen ah him Or otherwise in the neutral area However, in the neutral area where you weren't allowed to wear your colours You weren't allowed to sing or anything like that Now
00:20:52
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fine. Yeah.
00:21:10
Jo
I like a good s thing, hence the reason my voice is broken right now. and Most fans do. And we were like, hang on, are we really going to spend God knows how many hundreds of pounds? Probably be very drunk.
00:21:21
Jo
Then um end up in a neutral section where, well, she went two years ago, Donna, by the way, and she took her jacket off at some point and some woman came across to her and said, um put that back on. If you take it back off, you're getting kicked out.
00:21:35
Jo
And I thought myself, I don't want that.
00:21:36
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ah
00:21:37
Jo
that's not it That to me is not an experience. I would have happily paid the money and been in the Newcastle fans and been a drop of hat, me and Donna would have been there.
00:21:40
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no
00:21:44
Jo
But you know what?
00:21:44
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Yeah.
00:21:45
Jo
I had such an amazing day in the strawberry. I don't care that I wasn't at Wembley.
00:21:47
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Yep. It doesn't matter.
00:21:50
Jo
And people like, oh, it's easy to say that. Well, yeah, actually, it is easy to say that because I could have been there. So yeah, actually I can say that. And if you know you know what I mean, I couldn't hear any of our fans, by the way, because what's great about the strawberry and what would have happened in a lot of other pubs, we sang throughout the entire game.
00:21:56
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It sounds like that.
00:22:05
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All game.
00:22:05
Jo
It was like being at a match.
00:22:05
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Yeah, I love that.
00:22:07
Jo
We watching the TV, but we sang throughout the entire game.
00:22:08
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Yep.
00:22:10
Jo
And it was just the best. When Dan scored right before halftime, was beautiful because obviously the halftime whistle went, everyone just piled out into the street. Everyone's jumping all over each other, they're hugging each other.
00:22:18
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well
00:22:20
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yeah honestly it was an unbelievable feeling yeah it was absolutely fantastic um we will give isak's goal um some coverage i don't suppose you have the zencastle ad handy do you my darling um yeah we'll just break for this the second ad and then we have got free reign to talk about the rest of the game
00:22:20
Jo
Oh man, it's just everything, man.
00:22:24
Jo
Yeah, yeah, so yeah.
00:22:30
Jo
Yeah. I have, baby, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I got it.
00:22:39
Jo
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00:23:04
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lovely thank you um yeah joe as you can hear guys is is struggling um so we will keep this next bit short my darling uh well i say short we probably won't um it's only right and for the the coverage that we've given dan burn we have to give well actually we have to give three plays in the build-up to this goal actually we have to give mr isak um
00:23:06
Jo
My voice is starting to go again. Never mind. Something special.
00:23:16
Jo
Yeah, yeah.
00:23:25
Jo
We do yeah Absolutely
00:23:26
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a big shout out because that goal was a beautiful. um But we also need to give Tino Livermento and your boy Jacob Murphy a shout out because the lead build up to this goal was stunning. um I'm first going to kick it off by saying I owe Tino Livermento a huge public apology because he listens to this, right?
00:23:47
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So he he knows my opinion of him, right?
00:23:48
Jo
Obviously
00:23:48
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He listens to it all day. um Tino, if you're listening, I am incredibly...
00:23:52
Jo
He cries because of it, Nick. You upset him.
00:23:55
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I agree. I am incredibly sorry for doubting your left foot because I don't know what game you've been playing and who you've been trying to fool.
00:24:01
Jo
Yeah.
00:24:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know if that's even a case or if you've generally just been warming it up for this game, but it's bloody work.
00:24:06
Jo
It's work to treat.
00:24:10
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Because that ball that you crossed in, I'm talking like he's listening, that you crossed in to Mr.
00:24:15
Jo
He is.
00:24:15
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Murphy was amazing. ah FIFA-like. It was absolutely fantastic.
00:24:20
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um So you're here, but have my apology. will never doubt you at left back ever again, because not only did you keep Mo Salah in your back pocket, um you also and technically assisted, technically, um our second goal.
00:24:20
Jo
was.
00:24:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
And Mr Murphy, for another Newcastle fan that got an assist, it couldn't happened to someone better. his little header down to Isak and then Isak's finish for that second goal.
00:24:43
Jo
I couldn't. Oh.
00:24:46
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And I have never, and I'm so, so happy for all the play and all the fans out at Wembley that we scored down that end.
00:24:53
Jo
At that end, yeah, I am.
00:24:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
I am so happy that we scored down that end because the scenes.
00:24:55
Jo
Because the view's pretty kind of iffy, isn't it, really? Yeah. I think the view of Wembley in the lower tier, you've got quite, it's it's a very low slope, if you know what i mean.
00:25:00
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Oh yeah, 100%. 100%. No, you're seeing
00:25:05
Jo
So I think the other end of the thing, if you're really low down, you're not seeing a lot.
00:25:06
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a lot.
00:25:08
Jo
Let's get real. Are you really? So, yeah, it's brilliant that they got to see that at that end.
00:25:09
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no you're not seeing a lot
00:25:12
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Yeah, I would just like to talk about Isak's celebration because the photo is going everywhere with him pointing back at ah Virgil van Dijk.
00:25:21
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Hey, he's so cold. I love it. Yeah, and vanta yeah van Dijk's got his head in his hands. It's absolutely brilliant.
00:25:21
Jo
And he's all that.
00:25:28
Jo
Oh, man.
00:25:29
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And then I don't know if you've seen the videos because for the last 48 hours, i have my screen time is going to be shocking. It's going to be about 24 hours at this point. um I've just been watching all the videos and all the different angles and things.
00:25:41
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um when Isak's goal went in, did you watch Murphy's celebration? Have you seen it?
00:25:46
Jo
I've seen her back a couple of times, yeah.
00:25:49
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Honestly, it's actually going to make me cry.
00:25:51
Jo
It's just...
00:25:54
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It's the fact that obviously Isak's gone quite rightly running into the fans when I'm here for it.
00:25:58
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But Murphy's celebrating as a fan. It's like he's celebrating as a fan.
00:25:58
Jo
Yeah.
00:26:01
Jo
Yeah.
00:26:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it was at that moment that not only did I start believing and all the fans at Wembley start believing and you start believing, we were texting, obviously drunk and all that sort stuff.
00:26:09
Jo
Absolutely. sit
00:26:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
I feel like at that exact moment in all the plays but particularly Jacob Murphy with a celebration I feel like he thought we're gonna do this and it was way jumped into Dan Burns arms and honestly mate it's warmed heart and it's actually gonna make me cry thinking about it
00:26:20
Jo
Yeah. He
00:26:25
Jo
was like, he was like, little kid jumped in. Oh,
00:26:28
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it was Dan's arms because you know Dan Burns 6'7 and Jacob Murphy's about five foot
00:26:31
Jo
don't set us off. Oh, true.
00:26:33
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um Yeah, honestly, don't set me off.
00:26:35
Jo
Mm hmm.
00:26:36
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Anyone small compared to Dan Burn. um Yeah, but was I just cannot, I don't know how I want to talk about it.
00:26:39
Jo
that true true
00:26:44
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It was just two beautiful goals by two incredibly talented players um and they fully deserved it.
Player Accolades
00:26:52
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um
00:26:53
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And I know you obviously agree because he's been speaking about it. um And they all, all of them deserve to hold their heads high after that match because it was, There's not one complaint from my side.
00:26:53
Jo
Thank you.
00:27:04
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um
00:27:05
Jo
No.
00:27:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's one player, well, two players I just want to give a bit of a shout out to and because, again, they obviously listen. um before we move on to miss Before we move on to Mr.
00:27:12
Jo
I know what you're saying before you even start. and
00:27:16
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Eddie Howe. um Actually, no, there's three. um
00:27:20
Jo
we We in particular both owe a certain someone an apology. And I know you're going to shout this next person out, surely.
00:27:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, you I don't know. i don't know who you're to for.
00:27:30
Jo
Who did we really not want to play and who did we really want to play and then they didn't?
00:27:36
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I don't know.
00:27:37
Jo
but
00:27:37
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my God.
00:27:39
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Oh, Mr. Pope. OK, so i owe two I owe three plays.
00:27:41
Jo
with
00:27:42
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An apology, really. um
00:27:44
Jo
Oh, do you not thought about him?
00:27:45
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don't even think about Mr. Pope. You can go first with Nick Pope, then.
00:27:49
Jo
It's all right. No, I'm i'm just laughing because I thought it would definitely one because how many times of me and you, Dubs has got to start. Dubs has got to start. There's no way we won Pope. Pope can't be reliable. Pope can't be this. And look, we've got to hold our hands up. We both got that categorically wrong. Or was Pope crap-housing us into thinking in that he couldn't do it and then he did it.
00:28:10
Jo
Oh, man. some of that He made a couple of cracking saves that really kept us in that game.
00:28:14
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ah one That burn of mine save he made with his like forearm almost.
00:28:17
Jo
is on me, man.
00:28:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah ah for example you is hand yeah yeah Pope, you are the best shot stopper.
00:28:19
Jo
But great reflexes, man.
00:28:22
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I'll take it all back. I really am sorry.
00:28:24
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Really, really sorry.
00:28:24
Jo
I'm really, really sorry.
00:28:25
Jo
I'll never doubt you again. There we go. That's all I've got say.
00:28:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
So Tino and Nick Pope, I'm really sorry. and Anthony Gordon, now that the game's done and we've got the trophy, I finally forgive you. So all is forgiven and I love you again. So I can't wait to see you back in black and white. Thank you.
00:28:36
Jo
yeah
00:28:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
m And theyre the other two, well, Mr. Joey Linton, can you just um play like that every single game, please? Because Can you imagine playing against him, by the way? Could you imagine playing against...
00:28:46
Jo
I think he's an ah thing on his day he's unstoppable. He's a beast. He's a literal powerhouse. Nobody can beat him.
00:28:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
an actual beast.
00:28:52
Jo
So many players have said this as well. Not even our players, by the way. So we're talking like ex-players. Because i know She-Ra came out and said it. like he would He was like, imagine, you wouldn't want him running at you.
00:28:58
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yeah
00:29:00
Jo
But you're right, you wouldn't.
00:29:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. He's everywhere. He's everywhere on the pitch.
00:29:04
Jo
Yes, man. When he's on it, he is on it.
00:29:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Left, right, top court, he's on it.
00:29:07
Jo
Yeah.
00:29:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Every tackle he made, he celebrated like he just scored the winning goal. I've never seen anything like it.
00:29:11
Jo
It was beautiful.
00:29:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was stunning. And again, another player that just bleeds black and white. It's like they he was born and raised here.
00:29:17
Jo
It does.
00:29:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like it's it's lovely to see.
00:29:19
Jo
Yeah.
00:29:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
And they're the kind of players you want in your team. um Trips. Just when you think he's coming to the end of his career, he pulls out a performance like that.
00:29:26
Jo
Outstanding.
00:29:29
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um He was everything we needed on Sunday. Calm, collected, cool, um professional, performed well.
00:29:36
Jo
Yep.
00:29:39
Jo
Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah not a bad word to say about him he had the game of his life um
00:29:44
Jo
ah He's got the experience on Nick, hasn't he? Come on, he's won leagues. is just He's that type of player where his iate he's got his natural leadership they were fully aware of. But I've got to be honest, even if Hall hadn't had the injury he's had and he was still playing left back,
00:30:00
Jo
I did actually want trips at right back anyway, purely by by the way down to his experience Not because I thought that oh he's so much better than Livermanto Obviously Livermanto's got the youth, he's great don't get us wrong and he was outstanding on Sunday However it was just because of that big game situation, trips will not be flustered it was one thing he can guarantee it wouldn't have been that So I'm so happy for him that he had that because he was our number one He was our first hooped to believe in the project
00:30:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:30:19
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and so Yep.
00:30:26
Jo
And to see him and Bruno lifting the cup.
00:30:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh,
00:30:29
Jo
And how classy is that by Bruno, by the way?
00:30:30
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don't.
00:30:32
Jo
Not only did he bring trips over, he then wouldn't lift the cup without LaSalle's, who didn't even want to come over, bless him, because he knew he hadn't played a game.
00:30:32
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Oh, no.
00:30:37
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so mono
00:30:40
Jo
And he's, like, shaking his head, and Bruno's like that, and made LaSalle's come over as well. Like, it's just classy, man. It's just, on top of the fact that he cried his eyes out, and I'm the only... I'm not stalled. I'm going to cry.
00:30:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm probably going cry ending this pod. um You've just touched on Bruno.
00:30:55
Jo
Oh,
00:30:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
um I don't think I love a player more than what actually love, Bruno Gamares. um He I to say about Joe Linton, obviously, but he is ah player that you want to play for your club. He just gets it.
00:31:17
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He just gets it.
00:31:17
Jo
Mm-hmm.
00:31:18
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and
00:31:19
Jo
Yeah.
00:31:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, you know, he
00:31:20
Jo
He gets us. That's the main thing.
00:31:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
He gets us, he gets the club, he gets the history, he gets the passion, he gets the emotion, he gets the fans, he gets you know everything.
00:31:22
Jo
He gets us. Yeah.
00:31:27
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And he has from day one, since he I think, since he obviously had joined the club. And his even his wife is but Newcastle crazy. i don't know if anyone follows her on social media, but she loves us.
00:31:36
Jo
Yeah.
00:31:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
and um And that's really, really nice to see. And you know Bruno hasn't probably had a strong season, we'll say. Obviously, he's been great off the ball, but sometimes when he's been on the ball, he hasn't been fantastic.
00:31:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
But another player that just came out and played out of his absolute skin and gave a captain's performance.
00:31:50
Jo
Thank you.
00:31:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And like again, I'm repeating myself. and i know the boys have said this, but like he just honestly played so, so well. The passion between him and the rest of the team, you can see the players respect him. um It was just beautiful. And.
00:32:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
and I am just going to talk about his um post-match interview because holy moly, I have never cried so much in my life.
00:32:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
He sat there and said, like, you know, it was the best day of his life. I'm sure he means after his kids and wedding, obviously. um But I'm sure we're up there.
00:32:22
Jo
I know.
00:32:29
Jo
Maybe.
00:32:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:32:31
Jo
Maybe not.
00:32:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
He said, yeah, he said he, you know, yeah well, but a year or so ago, he wanted to write his name into the Newcastle history books.
00:32:38
Jo
Yeah.
00:32:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, good going, Bruno. You've done that as well as the rest of your um teammates.
00:32:40
Jo
Thank you.
00:32:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, thank you. He said he
00:32:51
Jo
We will.
00:33:01
Jo
Well, um but I've said this for a while and I'm going to back it up even more now and completely agree that I don't think, and I truly believe this, that he wouldn't leave us from another English club. 100% will not leave us another English club.
00:33:13
Jo
I'd like to think he's never going to leave us. However, I'm also not...
00:33:18
Jo
I want to say daft enough, but it's not really that much of a daft statement, that if the likes of Real Madrid or Barcelona came in, he would leave. But you know what it is I would happily, not happily, over-exaggerate it there, but I would thank him with all of our hearts and we can clap him away and he gets what he deserves to type of situation.
00:33:34
Jo
But I don't believe he's going I don't, I do not see that man leaving us for anyone other than such a big club that he can't possibly turn it down. And I don't want to talk about any big English club. I genuinely think he wouldn't leave us for an English club. I think he loves us too much.
00:33:49
Jo
to do it. However, I do see the likes of Izac not doing it. I'm not saying Izac doesn't love us. I'm saying he doesn't love us like Bruno, though. Nobody loves us like Bruno. None of the foreign players. Anyway, Joel Aiton, maybe. Joel Aiton as well, maybe.
00:34:01
Jo
But again, is it is it is it the passionate Brazilian thing? Because we are very passionate Geordies. We're known for being completely devoted beyond all the means. I mean, come on. Again, how many years has it been?
00:34:12
Jo
And we will go out in our droves, home, away. We'll support the team. We'll We're just daft about football. It's a religion up here, isn't it? And if they came over and thought, oh, hang on, we've came to a club that matches their emotional state that they're always in as Brazilians. And like, so yeah, i think that's, yeah, I'm with you, babe.
00:34:30
Jo
All
00:34:34
Jo
right.
00:34:38
Jo
I'm with you.
00:34:48
Jo
We've got time, don't worry.
00:35:10
Jo
Yeah.
00:35:15
Jo
Yeah.
00:35:20
Jo
Yeah, there.
00:35:30
Jo
Of course we can, yeah.
00:35:32
Jo
Yeah. I don't want to see it ever again, I'll be honest. No, it's ridiculous.
00:35:37
Jo
yeah
00:35:39
Jo
He deserves it all, doesn't he, really?
Eddie Howe's Impact and Transformation
00:35:41
Jo
But, I mean, in the space of three and a half years, he's rescued us. Like, I still, to this day, do not agree that any other manager could have rescued us from relegation, by the way.
00:35:50
Jo
So that leads on to the fact that had we not been rescued from relegation, we wouldn't have then went on to have what we've had in the following seasons because we would have had to try and claw our way back. Richest club at the championship, bugger off man, we all know what the PSR's ruined us anyway So we're not the richest club We've got rich owners that can't spend it, next story But the point is he's rescued us, which then allowed us to progress very quickly to a final Alright we failed, big deal Champions League To another final, which we've now done All in the space of three and a half years And on this note by the way, because I'm now going off on a tangent And I don't care if we run over
00:36:25
Jo
Because the only thing I'm sad about Sunday, by the way, is our precious Amanda Staveley and were not anywhere to be seen, even though we knew they were there.
00:36:36
Jo
Not once did they... but add Did you... I know I was drunk. I didn't see them on TV not once. And you know what I really, really wanted? Because I said before the game, I was like, you know what it is? When we lift that trophy... Because, again, you know, we we did believe genuinely.
00:36:49
Jo
I was like, when we lift that trophy, I'd love for them to go down on the pitch. Because know... now what's he called, our owner, I can't say his name, I'll butcher it, anyway, when he was down there, and oh man, how precious would it have been to let them down, and I know they're not of the club anymore, before anyone says, oh stop being stupid, they're not with us,