One on One | A year in the life of Newcastle's Dan Burn, from League Cup to World Cup!
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Hello and welcome back to One on One from Sky Sports. I'm Juliette Farrington and this is the podcast where we talk to some of football's top names. Or on this episode, could that be the tallest? Because if you are a regular listener to this pod, you may remember around this time last year, a conversation I had with Big Dan Byrne. Because that's how everyone knows him, the Newcastle defender, Big Dan Byrne. Anyway, he had quite a week after we first spoke last year because he scored in the League Cup final to help Newcastle lift their first trophy in 60 years and he got an England call-up. So 12 months on, I went back to Blyth to reflect on the past year that he'd had. He's still believing and still dreaming and he still has so much more to give.
So here we go again. Sky Sports one-on-one with Dan Byrne. Picking up to 45. Trippier with drift. In goes Byrne! CHEERING It's the boy from Blythe. A Wembley goal for the first time in a Geordie generation. What a header. It's Cyril. So Dan, just looking back, the last time we were here, it was a glorious day and the sun was beating down. It's pouring down with rain at the moment. But one of the last things you said to me was if it was to end tomorrow, your footballing career, you'd be really proud, really happy for everything that you've achieved. And then the week that followed, can you talk us through that week? Yeah, crazy week. I think it was probably just a couple of days later, but yeah, getting the text off.
I've spoken about the text off Thomas Tuchel and not really believing that he'd actually text us and then spoke to him on FaceTime and he sort of said that he was thinking about calling us up. So it was just a whirlwind week. Yeah, and then we had the final on the Saturday or the Sunday and then straight off to England.
What were Dan Burn's achievements over the past year?
So that probably three weeks after that had been sort of the craziest couple of weeks of my life. So, yeah, I'll say it again now and then say what happens. My career ends now, I'm happy. Your career ends now, you're happy. Yeah, I'm happy, yeah. But even though you want it to continue, obviously. And you want to kind of be that part and that set-up of England looking ahead to the World Cup this summer. yeah hugely I think like I feel like that's happened as I've gotten older and matured a bit I probably would have shied away a little bit from it and said like I didn't want to think about it or like it'll happen but like I'm desperate to be there I want to be there like I feel like I'm Doing what I'm doing at the moment is taking us on that course.
Don't get us wrong, a lot can change. We've got March international break coming up. But I want to be there. It's not where I'm going to get another chance. If I don't get this one, it's not going to happen. But yeah, an amazing place to be at the moment.
How does Dan Burn feel about his footballing career at 33?
I've made the last however many camps since the managers came in and I'm playing with full confidence. You very much made his first camp and you were in a good place though 12 months ago. You were happy with everything. You were just content. Yeah. I think that does the same sort of thing. I think that happens when you get older. I've spoken about, like, since I've had kids, it sort of mellowed us out a little bit. And I think just knowing that football is important, but it's not like the be all and end all sort of relaxes a little bit. And I just sort of take everything as it comes, really. Did it make it easier, the fact that, well, before you didn't know he was watching you, so I guess that's the easy part because you just did what you would do.
Yeah, yeah. But now you know that you are being watched and you are being talked about and you are being thought of. Yeah, I think it adds a layer to it. I think normally if he's coming to watch you play, you'll get a text in the morning and you'll just sort of say, oh, good luck today. I'm coming to watch. I'll try and catch up with you after. So I think that immediately you're like, I've got to play well today. It does add a little bit, but I think it's one of those where now I feel like the way that I prepare for games and recover from games and set myself up, I feel like whatever sort of happens is going to happen.
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