Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to the Goals on Sunday podcast. Joining Cami and myself this week is the one and only Neil Warnock. We'll look back at his extraordinary career, Cardiff's battle for survival, and also we'll talk about why we need to stamp out fan abuse in football. Enjoy the podcast. It's been a long time since you started, but you're still enjoying it? Life in the Premier League, how's it going?
Yeah, I mean, it's tough, but I've got a great bunch of lads. They're just such a genuine set-up. We're limited in certain things, but they're giving me some pleasure. We've done really well, especially at home. But the fans have been the biggest plus.
You know, being there two years, really, and the club, the difference now, the club, everybody's together, and I've never, never had a set of fans like this. 30,000 at home, whoever we're playing. And they've just 3-0 down yesterday, chanting, you know.
everything's gonna be all right don't worry got very close as well got very close when you when you just say there um we've got a great bunch of lads every team you have seems to be a team of workers and all yeah together i think that's that's why i think with the promotions etc
I've never had a chance to have a team given me that's got the top players in or anything like that. I've always had to build clubs because I've always been like the Red Adair of football. I had to put fires out and start from scratch really and try and build clubs back up.
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Chapter 2: How does Neil Warnock reflect on his career and Cardiff's performance?
I've had a tweet from Eric Hutchon on exactly that, say, can you ask Neil what the secret of bonding with the younger players is and the togetherness you always seem to bring to a club? I mean, is that something that you've honed over the years?
Yeah, that's the part that I enjoy in the changing rooms and around the training ground, the humour really, because I give my players some stick, but I'm sure they give me some behind my back. But it's good to be... I always thought when I first started, I want players to want to come into training. I want them to come and enjoy training. I don't want them to think, oh, not another day.
And, you know, you build different characters and how to handle the characters. You know, you can have all the qualifications in the world, you know, with your diplomas and things, but man management is still 90% of winning things and being a good manager. At least 90%. You've said in the past that you didn't really like the Premier League that much.
No, I mean, listen, we haven't got much money, we haven't spent much money this time, but in the previous twice, I've been a bit let down, really, I felt. Sheffield United should have been a great time, but the day after I got a letter saying they were going to take my option up, which was like saying they wanted me out.
Chapter 3: What challenges does Neil Warnock face in the Premier League?
A letter in the post, by the way, not a phone call, a meeting. After seven years, I thought I deserved better than that. And then QPR, you know, they're going to sell the club. I've asked, you know, I had three or four, Ashley Williams in my house to sign, said I can sign him for three million. And he said, no, I'm sorry, I'm not spending a penny.
He said, you'll have to wait till we sell the club. And of course, we didn't sell the club till the end of August. And we had to just bring in, you know, we brought five or six players in just like that at the end to try and just get a squad.
So quite a lot of tension and trauma comes with being in the Premier League. We have got some footage that makes us feel like, actually, you do secretly enjoy it quite a lot. There's some lovely moments here, Neil, from this season, of course. But you're just there and you can see these moments and how special they are.
Yeah, they're great, because the crowd are great. They get me pumped up after games and that, and... We've played some good stuff. We don't probably get enough credit. It's easy to lambast a Neil Warnock's team, really, but the lads have played some good stuff this year. Every window we've improved in the last two years. You can't just jump in and everything be right.
We've come up now probably a year before we thought we would, and then we've built again and then we've built again at the start of the season, and now hopefully we can add one or two more in January as well. But the lads, they've been amazing, really, how they've come along. Everybody thought we'd be down at the bottom with record lost points, but we've surprised a few.
Yeah, you're doing well. Another tweet here from Gareth Merritt. He says, firstly, please can you pass on my congratulations? The amazing job that Neil has done at Cardiff City. Absolutely brilliant. Can you also ask the gaffer about his reputation as a so-called panto villain with the opposition fans? Do you enjoy it or do you feel it takes away a bit of the achievements you've had in management?
The fact that you can rile up opposition fans quite nicely?
No, I think that's part. I mean, there's not many of us left really at my age, is there? It's going out of fashion now. All the modern managers now are all young lads with the write-down thing, the shopping list, aren't they? It's just I enjoy that. If fans give me stick, I like to give a bit back and this, that and the other.
It's only the, you know, occasionally the way you've come up against problems where, you know, the vitriol, the hatred's there in some faces. But I haven't had any of that for a few years now. You can enjoy that side of it as long as it doesn't go over the line. They call me names and all sorts of things, but I think that's enjoyment.
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Chapter 4: How does Neil Warnock foster team spirit and player management?
Never.
And I... I mean, that's what the game... You can't take passion out of the game. The passion's there, isn't it? And I think, I mean, my lot, Lincoln, I wish we would get a bit more passionate, a bit more, you know... I look at other teams around us and I think we're a bit too nice.
You get labelled as if you think we're the most physical side in the whole world when some of the comments about us, but we're not. We're a very nice sort of side. I bet we're very good to referee anyhow because we never complain, we never surround the referee.
Which is good, right? We don't want that sort of thing.
No, but it makes you wonder when you see these other teams do it and get away with it, the pressure that they put on referees.
Well done to Raheem. What a difficult week it was. Yeah, really difficult week. He came out with a smile on his face.
That's the way to answer it, though, Cam, isn't it? Putting another great goal in there and just getting on with it. All credit to him.
Measure of the young lad.
I think my Saturday morning is probably the worst part of the week. A couple of hours before the game, once the whistle goes, I'm OK. But the nerves never stop. My stomach churns. You never lose that, really, do you? You don't lose that. If you lost that and you woke up and everything was right, you'd think you were in the wrong game. I don't know what to replicate that when I do call it a day.
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Chapter 5: What are Neil Warnock's thoughts on fan behavior and abuse in football?
And, you know, he's improving all the time. So, you know, he answers the question. He don't give up here. A lot of people would have stood still there. But, you know, he don't give it up.
But not only have you got him to play up there, you've got him to play up there on his own.
Yeah. We try and get people supporting him as much as we can with him, but he's got so much energy that he can do that job. And it is a hard job, isn't it? You see a lot of teams playing 4-3-3 now, don't you? And that role up front is a difficult job.
The one thing I was pleased about him, Neil, because you don't see it very often now, well, you see it at Watford, he backs into centre-halves and he makes it uncomfortable, and there's loads that don't do that.
No, they don't. I mean, I said to him about Mitrovic at Fulham, you know, he's the best at that, really. Yeah, yeah. Be a bit like him, Patrick. Have a look at his videos and see what he does, because, you know, you're up against these big lads every week, and he's learnt on that. He's a little bit cuter, isn't he? You know, a little bit cuter, and that's what you've got to be.
Are you in the market for a striker in January, do you think, Neil? Is that something you'd like?
Yeah, we're looking at two or three positions, and we've made offers for strikers, but it's not as simple as that. Not only is it the offers you've got to accept, but... Are they better than what you've got at January? Are the teams going to let good players go in January? And we're not at the market where we can go and spend anything, like the top half of the Premier League.
We've got a certain market and we've got to try and get the best out of it.
It tends to be more expensive in January as well because everybody is aware when they're selling to someone in January that there's a more urgent need.
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