The Football Show - Neville, Souness, Tarkowski and McCarthy
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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?
Yeah, there's been a few channels of information, to be honest. The Gaff has held a couple of Zoom calls as a full group, so everyone can sort of be there and listen to what he's got to say. And if you've got any questions, they can be raised and asked. And then obviously Ben, who's our captain, has been in contact with a club and then other captains at other clubs and stuff like that. So we're getting as much information as possible. I just don't think there's a definite in sort of any case at the moment. So There's sort of impossibilities thrown out. I think if you read the papers, there's a different idea every day of what could possibly happen. So we try not to concentrate on that too much and just sort of get information from the club when we can do.
And hopefully over the next few days, there's a bit more information coming out.
Looking at your own local paper, actually, the Burnley Express, this isn't a direct quote, but it's in their pages today, that it's almost unanimous, Burnley manager, Burnley players, you all want to go back, you all want to get on with it and resume the league. Is that about right?
From the people I've spoken to, I haven't spoken to every player individually. We've had a few group conversations where a few people will pipe up and say what they think. The general consensus is that we do want to go back and play and finish this season. As far as I'm aware, yes. But as I've said, there needs to be so many things in place beforehand to ensure our safety and our family's safety before we can actually go back and play.
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