In conversation with Caulkin
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
For those suffering Gab Marcotti withdrawal symptoms, we have a treat for you. And indeed a treat for Gab, as he sits down for a chat with one of his favourite writers, the northern sports correspondent for The Times – George Caulkin.
Gab and George discuss how press coverage of football has changed, the significance of football in the North East and of course, the current disconnect between fans and club at Newcastle United.
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| 0:45.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. This is our conversation with George Colkin and this is in person which is good because normally you're on the phone |
| 1:08.3 | If you're ending what it's going to be about well fundamentally it's going to be about George and... |
| 1:14.0 | My specialist subject. |
| 1:15.7 | You're a specialist subject, there you go and see where it takes us. |
| 1:19.5 | Um, George. |
| 1:21.7 | Gabbis. I want to get into it because people often ask me this. Maybe they ask you this too. |
| 1:29.0 | Would you want to be when you were kid? like did you picture yourself doing this or did you |
| 1:34.4 | have lofty or ambition? Football a pop star astronaut pilot but I mean I did you know no it's |
| 1:42.2 | not that I feel like I've kind of absolutely fell into this profession and |
| 1:45.9 | still sort of haven't decided what I want to be when I grow up when I say I kind of fell into it |
| 1:50.1 | I literally did really there was journalism in my family and got to the end of |
| 1:56.3 | university not really having any idea what I was going to do I did history and |
| 2:00.2 | politics and I had a year back in Newcastle it was just as Kevin Keegan was back as manager |
| 2:06.3 | in 92 and I you know was going back to St James's I was there every weekend and |
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