In Focus with Alexander Isak and Alan Shearer
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Alan Shearer makes the short trip to Newcastle United's training ground to speak to in-form striker Alexander Isak. The Swedish international explains why he's been scoring so many goals this season. He discusses his journey in football and how he grew up watching Spanish football. He sheds light on his future plans in football, short term and long term and where he sees Newcastle finishing this season.
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| 0:00.0 | Sir Alex Ferguson is the most successful British manager of all time. |
| 0:05.0 | Nobody is above him or this football club. |
| 0:08.0 | So how did an apprentice toolmaker from Glasgow become one of the most iconic figures in sporting history? |
| 0:15.0 | His strength of character, his determination, the fight on him. |
| 0:18.0 | He can be persuasive, he can be charming. He can be frightening. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm Kelly Cates, and this is Sporting Giants, Sir Alex Ferguson. |
| 0:25.8 | I didn't want to feel. I couldn't feel. |
| 0:27.9 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.8 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:36.0 | The Football Daily Podcast podcast on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:42.0 | Hello, it's Alan Shearer here and welcome to the Football Daily's In Focus. |
| 0:47.8 | Let's go and meet Alexander Isak. |
| 0:51.0 | The Football Daily podcast on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:56.0 | I want to start off and take you back to your early days, if you don't mind, growing up on the out of the skirts of Stockholm. |
| 1:04.0 | Was it always going to be football for you? |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.4 | Because his dad was a teacher. |
| 1:09.9 | Is that right? |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah, it was a teacher. But that right? Yeah, it was a teacher. |
| 1:11.6 | But it was always going to be football because where I grew up, I think in most places, |
| 1:18.6 | it's football is the sports that's played on the street and that's the sport you play on your |
| 1:24.1 | breaks in school. |
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