Eddie Howe: From League 2 To Champions League
The Overlap
The Overlap
4.3 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 51 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 manager Eddie Howe.
Gary Neville meets Eddie in his office at the Newcastle United training ground where the boss gives a fascinating insight into his tactics and playing-style which has brought so much success to his career.
Regarded as one of the finest English managers of the past decade, Howe achieved the near impossible at AFC Bournemouth, taking the club from the bottom end of League 2 to the Premier League in the space of 8 years over two spells in charge.
The former Cherries man talks about how he established his former side as a top-tier outfit before the toll of relegation, plus the lessons he has learnt along the way.
Finally, after a stand-out first full season at St James’ Park where he guided the Magpies back to the Champions League and reached a cup final, Howe talks about the current campaign and his plan to establish Newcastle back in and amongst the elite English clubs.
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00:00-01:21: Introduction
01:21-11:17: Tactics and playing style
11:17-20:28: Howe’s Newcastle United
20:28-27:45: Day-to-day schedule and building coaching career
27:45-36:52: Managing AFC Bournemouth from League 2 to the Premier League
36:52-50:03 Next step at St James Park
50:03-51:27 Post interview scenes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm okay, okay, okay, good thanks, how are you? You're all right. You're good. You're good. No word of a lie, I've just been to a Martyrson Spencer, simply food round the corner, an industrial party, probably know where it is. It's the coldest place I've ever been in my life. I've honestly, I actually said, is the store manager in? They've all got coats on. I know it's cold up here. |
| 0:22.6 | This is illegal. |
| 0:24.6 | I like the little tactics tables. |
| 0:28.6 | They're right, aren't they? |
| 0:30.6 | Yeah, I like it. |
| 0:31.6 | You know, all that digital stuff as much as you want, |
| 0:33.6 | there's nothing like being able to move it on there. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm still, you can see, I'm still visual. |
| 0:38.3 | You've got more times. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm a visual guy. |
| 0:42.3 | I take it very seriously. You've either got to train well and get on board or you're not really going to exist under me. I get in, I sit on the sofa the Champions League's on. I say to my eldest son, give me a pen and paper. I got an idea and you sort of like been through the door five minutes. You know, I was born me through and through. So I really felt that pain. And I felt like I'd let everybody down from |
| 1:11.1 | that moment that when that happened, I wasn't quite the same manager. |
| 1:21.4 | Is there anything on these boards that you don't like? No, I've, it's fine. I've moved them |
| 1:25.5 | around, so you could. I've been doing all shorts. When I look at these boards, I'm being, you might, you, tactically, I've been out of the game too long because they're playing a nine at the back. I don't think often how I would work this out. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. You've got 15 tactics boards. Now, I know a manager has to have a tactics board in his office, but 15. Actually, to be fair, my first question was going to be something else, but I'm not actually about the tactics boards. I've never seen as many tactics boards in my life. Yeah. Eddie, tactics sports. Are we starting? |
| 2:01.1 | Yeah. |
| 2:01.5 | Oh, right. |
| 2:01.9 | We just relax and stuff. |
| 2:04.5 | What are the difference between all of them? |
| 2:07.4 | Yeah, but it's weird because I don't actually use tactics sports that much on sort of game day. |
| 2:14.0 | So I'm not obsessed with tactics sports. |
| 2:15.7 | I want you to know that. |
| 2:16.4 | But for planning purposes, for training, with how we train, I feel like we need to know everything that's going on. So we just try and break it up. And yeah, we have a tactics board for pretty much everything here. My actual first question was going to be to you. first statement was, you're the most difficult person |
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