Anthony Gordon: Newcastle Ambition, Meditation & England Hopes
The Overlap
The Overlap
4.3 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode on The Overlap, brought to you by Sky Bet, we are joined by Newcastle United and England winger Anthony Gordon.
Gary Neville meets Gordon along Whitley Bay beach. He starts with the first part of quick-fire questions, where the Liverpudlian opens up about the importance of psychology and meditation on his game.
Gordon made a huge decision to move to Newcastle from Everton in January 2022 and talks about life at St James Park under Eddie Howe, his ambitions and the club's goals as he enjoys his most prolific spell in professional football to date.
With the upcoming Euros and having made his senior England debut in March’s international friendlies against Brazil and Belgium, the 23-year-old will be looking to replicate last summer's achievements that saw him named player of the tournament as England lifted the under-21 European trophy.
Lastly, Quick-Fire Questions resume where Gordon reveals his best goal, who he’d want to take a last-minute penalty to save his life and which former-teammate Gordon reminds Gary of in terms of self-confidence.
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| 0:00.0 | If you play a sideways ball or a backward pass, |
| 0:04.0 | back to your keeper or a defender, |
| 0:06.0 | you can hear them. They're behind me. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm like, they're brutal, you know what I mean? |
| 0:10.0 | Honestly, it's unbelievable. |
| 0:11.0 | Football has changed. |
| 0:12.0 | What's that game? |
| 0:13.0 | I think your ambition to further your career is to be fair what I'm interested in. |
| 0:18.0 | The idea that it's not easy for a local lad to leave a club. Some of the lads used to have everything on jackets, some of the lads, clothes. Actually. I used to wear gloves. Yeah, gloves. Because your hands got cold for this. Yeah, I used to wear gloves. I seen Scorzi other day, complaining about the lads of the hudder see that is that was the points where you think this is getting difficult |
| 0:44.3 | I've got one goal and one purpose |
| 0:46.3 | and not and will ever get in the way of that |
| 0:48.3 | my ambition is to be at the very top of football |
| 0:50.3 | and I couldn't do that where I was |
| 0:52.3 | is that not quite sort of like intense I can't though. It's like I just remember all the bad things. Which defender you dread coming up against? None. Not? No. I never said that before on any media outlets or things. What about the meditation and the visualization? No one knows her side to me. Ultimately I'm so desperate to get to where I need to get to. My ambition takes |
| 1:10.8 | control and when I get opportunities like Newcastle, I was never ever going to say no. |
| 1:17.7 | I can't get over how tall you are about that? |
| 1:23.8 | Honestly, I could have literally put a bet on that you were going to say that's fair. |
| 1:28.3 | Everybody says it. |
| 1:30.3 | Anyway, quick five questions. |
| 1:32.3 | You're the player of the tournament in England and London 21's European Championship, so here are 21 quickfire questions. |
| 1:38.3 | Just do it. |
| 1:39.3 | The best item of clothing you own? |
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