Nick Pope

Your fault for the goal?

No, the penalties.

And I didn't give it away, I'm sure.

It might say different.

And then the last minute, a cross came in the box and I went out for it and I dropped it.

I didn't score from it and we cleared it.

We spoke after the game and he just said to me, look, that didn't happen.

I'm going to write a report on you every week to your goalkeeper coach at Charlton.

And that one guy I mentioned, you know, you played really well and I want you to be positive and stay on the front foot always because that's what helps out most of the team.

So right from the get-go, you know, that was my first game and he had me, you know, right on his side.

So someone that I was really indebted to and really lucky to have him as my manager, my first spell out on mine away from, you know, a League One club.

I suppose so, yeah.

You get, you know, the old pinch yourself moment, and obviously for my friends and family who have kind of followed me, you know, since then, all the way to where we are now, I think for them as well, it's really...

crazy really to be able to say that you know you're doing that at 19 and the next level at 21 and 20 and 21 and you build on and you've kind of kept growing and growing and kept kind of the upward trajectory to get to where I am now it is

uh crazy and if you know if anyone would have said that when I was 19 or 16 or whatever you would say you know you're a lily and you talked a lot about learning from other keepers I think probably you barely get through an interview without being asked about Tom Heaton and Joe Hart or both but as well as the rivalry you must have learned a lot from that pair yeah a massive amount yeah I was really lucky um to go to Burnley and obviously Tom was a goalkeeper and

I was just involved in England at that time as well, and to get to learn from him was great, you know, day in, day out, and to watch him play on the weekend.

He was someone I learned a lot off, for sure, and a really good person.

Like you say, we got to push each other as well, which will benefit both of us, really, for sure.

So, yeah, it was Tom Summers on great, and Joe, who's obviously come to build him, and

someone as well as a great character and I've managed to learn different things off as well.