At The Match: Newcastle 1-0 Wolves, April 2022
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Andy visits a rejuvenated St James’ Park for a special Friday night under the lights.
Mike Ashley’s departure at the end of last year lifted the dark clouds hanging over the city, but the new Saudi ownership has also prompted some difficult conversations. Andy speaks to Emil Franchi - who interviews supporters around the ground every week for Newcastle’s fan magazine, True Faith - about the new, conflicted optimism among the fanbase and dives into the city’s unique football culture.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, real talk. Some people think that Costa Express machines do coffee machine coffee. |
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| 0:19.6 | think that our coffee machines do the instant stuff because at Costa Express we do real coffee |
| 0:25.0 | instantly. Costa Express is coffee machine coffee made a little better. |
| 0:40.5 | So I've made this walk up to some changes park so many times. I came to university here and |
| 0:47.5 | now a few years later I live here again and it's pretty remarkable some changes park because |
| 0:56.4 | it's a huge stadium right in the middle of the city. It's a one-off, it's extraordinary really. |
| 1:08.5 | It just appears out of the middle of the shops and the houses and everything like that. |
| 1:15.0 | But a huge part of going to the game here. I've never gone directly to the game. You have to |
| 1:20.8 | go to the pub first because getting into the pub and talking about the game and sharing that |
| 1:27.9 | excitement that everyone in the city has right here in the centre of the city is a huge part of |
| 1:33.8 | it before you can get to the stadium. So for that reason I'm meeting a meal in the pub |
| 1:40.8 | before we get in. There is a choice, there is a selection but we're going right out |
| 1:44.7 | to St James's Park. Time a little chat about the game. |
| 1:56.4 | Oh and that's busking Joe. |
| 2:01.5 | This is the essence of your castle really isn't it? The fact that you come to a pub around the stadium |
| 2:09.2 | within Stone's throw of the stadium before it starts and everywhere is totally packed and yet |
| 2:16.2 | you're within a goal kick of the stadium. Yeah it's amazing isn't it? Every aware fan always says |
| 2:21.4 | that this is the joy of coming to Newcastle so much sort of make a week end of it. |
| 2:26.4 | This is Emil Franky. Every home game he interviews fans around St James's Park for the club's |
| 2:30.8 | fans in True Faith so he knows the mood around Newcastle as well as anyone else. I don't think |
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