Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show - Neville, Souness, Tarkowski and McCarthy
13 May 2020
Chapter 1: What iconic football moment is being reflected upon?
A very good morning and welcome to The Football Show, where for the next two hours we'll bring you all the latest news, bucketloads of nostalgia on a very special day, and plenty of football debate in the company of Graeme Souness and also Gary Neville. And also today we'll be reflecting on something that happened eight years ago today, probably the most iconic moment ever of the Premier League.
Balotelli, Aguero! I swear you'll never see anything like this ever again. So watch it, drink it in.
Never fails to put a smile on my face when I see that. Amazing season. Of course, later on, we'll be joined by the man himself, the voice of football, Martin Tyler. He'll be with us later on to chat through what happened eight years ago today. But right now, I'm delighted to say, joined by our colleague Patrick Davidson and fellow St Albans resident, with a round-up of all the morning papers.
Hey, Geoff, what a proud day for the city this will be. If this isn't back page of the Hearts advertiser... They're not doing their jobs properly, are they? Go on, what have you got, Pat?
Okay, so looking at the Nationals, looking at the back pages, what's clear, I think, now is that the main challenge and the most important challenge facing the Premier League, facing Project Restart, is persuading the players to resume, convincing them that their health and well-being is not... being compromised, basically.
Now, over the last few days, we've heard from the likes of Raheem Sterling, Danny Rose, amongst others. And on the same issues yesterday afternoon, I caught up with Burnley and England defender James Tarkovsky. How do you feel about going back and playing again, James?
Me personally, as long as there's obviously the safety precautions and all the testing that can be done to make sure that everyone's as safe as possible, I want to go back and play. I understand that people and players all have different views on the situation. And I don't think whatever decisions made is going to please everyone. It never is going to.
So my personal view is that everyone's as safe as possible and they're taking all the precautions they can do and we'll get to go back and play.
At this stage, where do you get your information from, James? We talk about a senior player per club, talking to the Premier League, maybe you're dealing with your own chairman. How does that happen? Do you speak to people directly? Are you that senior player? Or is it a case of, you know, Ben Mee goes and you get your information from him?
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Chapter 2: How does James Tarkowski feel about returning to play?
You know, and all this type of stuff that's come out in this last few weeks, it... And they're not going to have an easy ride, I don't think, with the captains on the call today.
I think some of the captains will give them a difficult time because the idea of ringing them up a month ago with regards to the pay cut and then the next time they speak to the Mr. Day with regards to sort of, you know, it's safe to play. there's got to be sort of a continual journey that you bring people on when you're looking at scenarios like this. It's a unique situation.
The Premier League, the EFL, other organisations have been able to, what would be, act unilaterally in the way in which they do for many, many years. What this crisis called for was a different way of approaching things in a more collaborative manner and bringing people on the journey.
And I think that some of the players today, not all of them, I agree with Graham, the vast majority of football players will want to play, but the ones that don't want to play... will need some major convincing.
I'm just actually thinking out loud, Gary. I'm wondering if Paul Scholes wished those guidelines were in existence some years ago, then you wouldn't have planted that great big sloppy kiss on him. But anyway, that's a different subject. Right, it's now time for a bit of a quiz, and it's time for Tyler's teaser. Hi there again, everybody. The teaser on its travels again today. France.
We're talking about France, the world champions, the World Cup holders. Now, there are five players who have won the World Cup who have scored in the Premier League this season. I'll give you a clue. Paul Pogba is not one of them, perhaps the most famous France international. But there are five players who have won the World Cup who have scored in the Premier League this season.
They're not all French. Over to you. Ooh, that's not easy, that one. Right, I'll give that some thought. Right, I'll give it some thought in the break. But after this, we'll be joined by Stuart Webber, the sporting director of Norwich City, about how the club are preparing for Project Restart. Welcome back to The Football Show.
We've just had a lively debate because in the 40-page protocol that was sent to players yesterday, there is a guideline that potentially they should turn away, turn their face away after making a tackle. Now, I'm delighted to say that we're now joined by Stuart Webber, the Norwich City sporting director.
First of all, Stuart, thank you very much for joining us this morning, but you've seen the protocol. Can you confirm that is in there as advice? And if so, what do you make of it?
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Chapter 3: What safety protocols are being discussed for players?
Everybody's trying to get people back to work. There are nurses, NHS going back to work. There are builders going back to work. There have been key workers. I mean, I keep seeing our recycling guys and talking to them and the refuse collectors and the postman and shop that I go in every morning for a newspaper or a few groceries. They're all still working.
So they're only trying to get the economy back. They're trying to get football back. It would be a big boost for everybody. But only if it's safe. But if it's only if it's 100% safe, then it'll never come back. Because even without the coronavirus, football isn't 100% safe.
As well as a distinguished managerial career, over 600 appearances as an uncompromising centre-half, over 50 appearances for your country as well. So I assumed we would have loads of VT to introduce you to. So I said to the boys, right, come on, let's get some proper stuff for Nick McCarthy. And this is what they come up with.
I mean, that's just, I mean, that's bordering on Ginola smouldering that, Mick. Do you reckon? I have to tell you, putting me and Ginola in the same context of anything, I'll take that to be quite honest, except for tackling and turning your head. That, I just, it's one of those things, and you guys are...
guilty of course the cameraman always wants to come and get right in your face what do you do i don't know i think i think i stopped short of blowing him a kiss to be quite honest okay okay that's that that's that's fair enough but uh there was another one as well when you were at blackburn as well which i could not quite work out can you tell me what was happening here i think it was a ghost somewhere spooked you
I'll tell you what it was, I'm guaranteed what it was. The players, when the referee's blowing his whistle and we're just coming out for the game, I'm convinced, I don't know, but I'm convinced, all the players smack the balls at the dugout, and if you're sat in the dugout, you're lighting it on right on the bugle. And I'm convinced somebody's just said, Gaffer, and I've done one of them.
Now, other than that, I'm scared of nothing.
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Getting milky in my old age, obviously.
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