Deaser Originals

Hello, I'm Joy Barton and welcome to The Edge, my brand new podcast series for Deaser Originals.

Now most of you will know me from the football pitch and maybe occasionally from the headlines too, but I also consider myself many things, a pundi, a father, a bit of a thinker.

Over the past few months, I've found myself away from sport, banned from the game of love,

and I've been using my time to explore something I've always been interested in,

the mindset and the psychology of the game, to have the edge, as I would call it.

Now, to me, the idea of the edge can mean a lot of things, being on the edge of success,

the edge of failure, the edge of change.

But on the edge, I feel, that's where you truly find out about yourself, it's where you

truly grow and prosper as an individual.

And on this show, I want to explore that,

to speak with the people I look up to in the worlds of performance,

sport, music, politics and beyond,

and to find out what living on the edge really means to them.

In the first episode today, I thought it would be fitting to start with a conversation with my old boss.

Ed's typed this out here and I'm just laughing reading it. Today I'm joined by the best manager I ever played on this show and I'm like,

fucking hell.

Someone who had now class as a close friend.

I'm like, fucking chees and hell.

That is cheese, boy.

Cheese and hell.

Forgive the swearing, but that was me cracking up at the intro Eddie.

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