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🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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In part two of my Big Interview with the engaging Emma Byrne, we reflect on the remarkable rise of Barca’s Femení. When they played a Clásico in a sold-out Camp Nou, Emma realised that the women’s game had arrived.
We hear the extraordinary tale of how an impromptu training session at Arsenal led to her being appointed the Gunners No.1. And there’s chat about how Arsenal won the Champions League against all odds. Not bad for a woman who was told, following surgery at the age of 18, that she could forget playing at the top level.
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0:00.0 | This is David Moyes. This is Yabstam. This is Ryan Fraser. |
0:03.2 | This is Troy Deney. This is your club and you are listening to the big interview with Graham Hunter. Yeah, you're right. |
0:14.0 | You're right. Listen, there's no prizes. You are right. This is the big interview, part two. |
0:29.0 | Emmer Byrne. If you're wondering why Arsenal's women's team won the Champions League and the men's haven't, |
0:36.8 | here's a partial explanation. If you're wondering why Emma Byrne spent her communion money on |
0:42.4 | a pair of football clubs worth about 350 |
0:45.0 | quid in modern terms or why probably the best leader, the best goalkeeper in the history of Arsenal's Women's Football Club, |
0:55.0 | maybe even the best player in the history of Arsenal Women's Football. |
0:59.0 | If you're wondering how many times she's broken her toes, her fingers, smashed her teeth, when she's going to need a new replacement |
1:06.5 | knee, this is your opportunity to find out. |
1:11.9 | M Byrne is a huge character, tremendously insightful, very funny, a great representative |
1:17.4 | for the women's game, somebody who now has got a choice between becoming a first-class television analyst in Ireland, in the UK, in Spain, or |
1:27.0 | beginning to coach and follow through the leadership that she showed throughout her career winning nearly 30 trophies, |
1:36.5 | becoming Ireland's leading cap winner. And also if you want to know how it all got started and why it was that leaving Dublin simply to go on a bender |
1:46.6 | To go on the lash in London led to her becoming the dominant figure over the last 20 years of football for women. Arsenal is the place |
1:58.1 | to find out. I will reach through this microphone and punch you in the nose if you think a woman's |
2:04.2 | football I don't fancy it give yourself a slap tune in this is the dog's |
2:10.1 | bollics Emma Byrne with the big interview. What did it do for you personally as an analyst as potential coach as an ex player |
2:27.7 | when that Camp Now classical was I mean because both games to my mind were I thought they were fantastic games |
2:35.1 | with your vast experience of the women's game maybe I've missed competition |
2:39.3 | competitive matches were that standard but for Madrid to close the capsule quickly and |
2:45.1 | were beaten twice but I thought that they were exceptional in tactical |
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