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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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And you're very welcome along to the final whistle. It's Richie McCormack here alongside Brian Kerr after we saw Nottingham Forest pull back a late goal to equalise against Newcastle at the City Grand this afternoon. Elliot Anderson levelling the scores with three minutes to play after Harvey Barnes had prodded Newcastle in front with 16 to go.
Brian Kerr, it was like one of those games where even when it was at 0-0 you could never say it was boring. It was actually really entertaining I think up until that point. The goals really livened it up for that last 15 minutes or so.
Yeah, I thought it was a very good game. Newcastle have nothing really to play for. They've had a poor season and they were on a very poor run of results until they beat Brighton last week. They played really well in that match. But given the situation they were in, I was surprised about the verve, the enthusiasm they played with. They were aggressive around the middle of the field.
They got at Nottingham Forest, didn't allow them to settle the ball. And I thought they played very well in Newcastle. They didn't have the quality in the final tour to let them down on the solo. Didn't do an awful lot until they had the free kick rattled off the bar. But once they got the breakthrough, I kind of felt they looked like they were going to win this game.
But then Norwich and Forest upped the game. The substitutes made a difference. They obviously have had a tough week, a long week. Good win against Chelsea last Monday. Then towards the night, a kind of heavy defeat and fairly dispiriting overall. The hope they had going into that match to lead them from the first leg ended up getting turned 4-0.
So today it took them a long time to get going, but the manager made good substitutions, they made an impact, and probably just about earned a draw in the end.
Newcastle had a really good platform through Guy Maroiche, who had chances of his own of course, and Sandro Tonali in the centre of the park. As we mentioned in the commentary, there's been a bit of speculation that one or both of those could go in the summer. Newcastle probably in a position with PSR where they need to sell before they can buy. Holding on to at least one of them is key for them.
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Chapter 2: What happened in the Nottingham Forest vs Newcastle match?
If they lose two, it'll be really, really such a huge problem.
Yeah, it'd be certainly hard to replace those two players of such quality. Guimaraes has been the top scorer from the centre midfield position which probably says a bit about some of the rest of them but you look at the line up today and Anthony Gordon doesn't start in the match and a lot of speculation about him as well and it's a bit surprising you would have thought
given the takeover by the Saudi people that Newcastle will be pushing on and they'd be the ones that the speculation would be about who they're going to sign. Are they going to sign some big names, some proven players let's say. And some of that speculation seems to be about players going out of the club who've done very well for them. So it will be
usually disappointing I think from a supporters point of view should they lose some of those fellas particularly those two centre midfield players I think Gordon he looks gone doesn't he if you didn't come on today you'd have to be on the bench with the speculation it's a strange one I think what I heard during the week that Bayern Munich had started talks
with Newcastle and Newcastle don't seem to have denied that they don't seem to have come across that that isn't happening so that's that would suggest there's something going on and would obviously be attractive for Anthony Gordon to go to Bayern Munich where you have a real chance of winning trophies and going on in the Champions League as we saw this year they weren't quite good enough when they came down to it in the end against PSG but you know it would be
A high-profile move, probably a good move for him financially, but will Newcastle just let that happen? It would be fairly damaging for them if they become just another selling club to bigger clubs.
Yeah, it seems as if they weren't able to manoeuvre themselves properly in PSR stakes, and that's what's led to this position, whereby even the likes of Valtamata, who started today, it was his first start since that game against Sunderland when they lost to one of St James'. And it's really hard to pinpoint anything that he did this afternoon.
Not going to say even negatively, but he really didn't get himself about enough and didn't really impose himself on the game.
I kind of like him. I think he's still quite a young player. He's only emerged from the under 21 German international team. Now he's in the senior squad. I like his touch. I think he has good quality on the ball. He didn't have a great game today. He had a couple of little half chances.
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Chapter 3: How did Newcastle's season performance impact the game?
He's gotten eight games now without defeat. They'd won their previous three before today. They battled back to get a point when it looked against them as well this afternoon. They course corrected in the first half when positionally and tactically they seem to have gotten it wrong again. He's done really, really well.
Yeah, he has. There's no doubt about that. I mean, he came in in position last year. He went to the Wolves and helped to save them. But then this season didn't start for him at Wolves and he was gone out of there. He was hanging about. And as you say, they took it. He had a history with Maranacos. He had worked at Olympiacos before and had some success there. So they obviously had a relationship.
But he has done a good job. He's getting good, consistent performance out of them. They've stopped leaking a lot of goals, which they had been leaking. And they've had injuries, they've had to contend with a lot of injuries as well, still have a good few players out. But they've had plenty of good players in the squad.
There's been no lack of spending by Maranacos in terms of recruitment of players. I kind of thought they'd got too many players at times and it didn't allow the managers, the various managers to... settle on the team. I imagine with his involvement, he was probably in their ear telling them, you need to play this guy. I'd say there's a lot of that goes on. It's not an easy club to manage.
But this fella knows the form. He's been there before with him. He knows how it operates. And as well as once he started getting a result or two, he was having his own way. But he's got consistent results. He said at seven unbeaten in the Premier League. I think there were ten unbeaten
before the match the other night against Aston Villa because they've had a few rounds in the Europa League as well so he's done a great job and I think that point today is going to make them safer out there I don't think I don't think Spurs or West Ham are going to get to 42 anyway now it's 43 I don't think they'll get to that
They've got games against Manchester United and Bournemouth still to come. Before I let you go, Brian, this week you were one of the signatories on a letter for Irish Sport for Palestine calling for the boycott of these Nations League games going up in September, October for the Republic of Ireland against Israel.
Why did you feel it was important to lend your signature at least and, of course, your voice towards that goal?
Well, a long time back I had said that I didn't think the Republic of Ireland should be playing Israel. I think they should forfeit the games or do whatever has to be done. But I think that the FAO should take a stand in support of the Palestinian people.
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Chapter 4: What role did substitutions play in Nottingham Forest's comeback?
I mean, I've always felt that Israel shouldn't be playing in European football anyway. Geographically, they're not in Europe. And I know it was only done to kind of sort out a situation that they couldn't play with many of their neighbours in the Asian qualifiers.
In this circumstance, when it came to it with Russia, FIFA and UEFA were fairly quick to boot them out of football and boot their clubs out of European competitions in UEFA's case. We still haven't seen them back. And we still haven't seen the back and yet we see a little bit on the Olympic side of them Belarus coming back in and I think you know I like I Feel strongly on this that the Israeli
Israeli football teams, it's a kind of a sports washing situation really if they allowed them to continue to play as if nothing has happened and sporting people have no responsibility and they're not involved in what's going on.
everyone's involved in what's going on because people don't if they don't speak up against it and the sports people don't speak up against it well then they are part of it in my view and that's the counter argument for i guess for those who say you know keep politics out of sport but it's like well other teams and other countries are using their political ends through sports to cleanse themselves why shouldn't we use political ends to stand up for something
Of the lack of human rights or how different groups of people within those countries are treated, whether it's women or a particular cultural group that have been denied their full rights. So I go back to
when I was a kid and I remember going through a rugby match with South Africa and Ireland here and people like Heather Rasmull being outside the ground protesting against apartheid and I didn't really understand it that well because I was so young but I got to understand it fairly quickly afterwards.
And that changed things, not the protests outside the ground, the Dunstowers, the girls in Dunstowers refusing to walk when Dunstowers were importing their oranges from South Africa. It started a role and it made a difference and they took a stand, it took away a bit of sporting. the sporting world taking a stand of refusing to play against them because it was their biggest sport.
That had an impact, ultimately, what's going on now. And the fact that the Irish basketball team were put in a very, very awkward situation, players were put in an awkward situation. But again, the basketball organisation weren't supported by the European Basketball Union in terms of trying to take a stand. They were forced into playing the games.
Can the FAO be doing more than to make a case to UEFA or to FIFA?
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Chapter 5: How are Newcastle's key players being affected by transfer speculation?
But then again we may not have much power within UEFA because of our past sins and because the regime, recent regimes and
Well, they always famously got on quite well with UEFA.
Yeah, they did, but the people who are there, thanks be to God, they're not there anymore. But the newer people who are involved have not veigled themselves into the realms of power within UEFA yet. But they still should take a stand and be principled about it and just say, no, we're not playing. That's it. And make the arguments and try and deal with the fallout from it.
Where do they lose a couple? I mean, I know they're stuck for bobs, but I think the Irish public would have more respect for them and the Irish sporting public would have more respect for them. And sponsors might even have more respect for them if they took a principled stand on this.
Absolutely. Cheers, Brian. Thanks for that.
Thanks, Richie. Thank you.
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