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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
And then that really is it.
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
Yes, I have, yeah, yeah.
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
Yeah, I actually find that all right because certainly in the core comms, I find as if I can restrain myself a little bit.
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
And I think if anything, as we've said before, we actually, when you're criticising,
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
you actually go more over the top than perhaps you would with anyone else because I think it's your own team and you probably know, well, you do, you know the own team and we know the ins and outs perhaps and who's playing well, who's not playing well, who should be playing, who's not playing, how many mistakes he's made, has he made another one?
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
So if anything, I think when you criticise, you actually go over the top
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
And then when you praise, you're perhaps keeping, or I do, you perhaps, or I try and keep it back to not go over the top when you have to praise because I just think it's important that people see you as, or you try to be neutral anyway because when you're doing the core comms or when you're being a pundit, yes, I know that we support them and what have you, but particularly core comms, I think it's important to come over as neutral as possible.
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
It's easier for core commentators, obviously because the vast majority of us have sort of played the game and everyone knows who we support.
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
But the commentators, yeah, you're right.
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
They tend to be a bit more shy in seeing who they support.
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
Because of that, they want to be seen as very neutral and not taking A side.
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
But for us...
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
Particularly core commentators, they get hammered anyway, so it doesn't matter who you support.
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
So far, yeah.
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
There's always something around the corner.
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
I think the romantic side because when you go back, I mean, Newcastle played Barcelona, I think it was the first game, wasn't it?
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
This season when Marcus Rashford scored at St.
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
James's, didn't he?
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A First For Newcastle, “VA F***ing R” & A Bonkers Night In The Champions League
He had a great night, didn't he?