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Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

At Home: S3E12 - Michael O'Neill

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In the last At Home of the series, Colin Murray visits the home of a man who has helped create many sporting memories for him personally, Michael O’Neill. The Northern Ireland and Stoke City manager talks about his moving from being a player to management, bringing success to the Northern Ireland in Euro 2016, and how Stoke City is the first team he’s ever managed with its own training ground. This At Home was recorded the week before elite football was suspended due to coronavirus.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

0:05.2

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

0:10.2

podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.

0:13.0

Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,

0:18.0

making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

0:22.0

But you know I also know that comedy is really

0:24.4

subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer

0:29.6

from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you

0:36.2

fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.

0:41.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:45.0

This is at home with Collin Murray and after traveling across the UK and

0:51.0

we come to the end of Series 3.

0:54.7

It's a labour of love this podcast so I can't guarantee if and when there'll be another

0:58.6

series but if this is the end then I couldn't think of a better way to go out. Michael O'Neill has brought me more joy than any human being on earth over the past decade

1:16.4

and yes that includes everyone away from Sport 2. He took Northern Ireland from the Doldrums to the Euros and also to the cusp of a World Cup finals.

1:26.0

My country has enjoyed times that just before he took over seemed like something even too implausible in her wildest dreams. We have this saying, we're not

1:35.3

Brazil, we're Northern Ireland, but it's all the same to me. And Michael is down the earth and so so

1:40.3

normal a guy, but I've never really been able to lower him to that level, if that makes

1:45.1

sense from the fan's point of view.

1:51.4

So I have to admit nerves, real nerves, as always every time I'm interviewing.

1:55.0

Now I also know he's at Stokes City now which I'm sure we'll touch on a bit at the end,

1:59.0

but let's just see where it goes as always. As say back home if it goes badly I'll be

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