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Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

MNF Extra: Jonny Evans on playing for Sir Alex and his taxi to Sunderland!

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

Sky Sports

Sports, Sports News, Soccer, News

4718 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Former Northern Ireland defender, Jonny Evans, joins Jamie Carragher and Dave Jones in the MNF Studio to look back at his football career - from playing for managers such as Sir Alex Ferguson, Roy Keane and Louis van Gaal, to lining up alongside Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand, and winning the FA Cup. Plus, who are the toughest opponents he faced? 

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0:00.0

Johnny Evans, our special guest. This is Johnny's career in numbers. We've got Manchester

0:08.6

United to the top there, but actually the debut started at Royal Antwerp. That was the first

0:14.5

football Johnny played. 14 senior appearances there. And then in English football with

0:19.5

Sunderland, two loan spells, one of the

0:20.9

championship and then having one promotion, one in the second half of their first Premier League season

0:26.5

with Roy Keene as the manager. 198 appearances for United, six major trophies, three

0:33.6

Premier League titles in total eight major trophies, 538 club appearances, plus the fourth

0:41.7

most cap player in Northern Ireland's history, 107 caps, and every minute of four games at

0:49.0

Euro 2016, which must have been very special. Johnny, what a career. Thank you.

0:55.0

That is.

0:56.0

I love it when you put a career up like that, and it is so impressive.

0:59.0

The numbers are so big.

1:00.0

How much pride does that fill you in?

1:03.0

Huge pride, first of all, and I think some...

1:06.0

I often think back, you know, when you're a kid,

1:08.0

and you just think it's like a bit of a dream,

1:10.0

and now you're at the end of know, when you're a kid and you just think it's like a bit of a dream. And now you're at the end of it and you're like, did that really happen? I suppose that's kind of the phase of minute, this moment in time. Like, my career's just come to an end and I'm sort of going back. I'm not one for looking back and reminiscing too much, but there's little moments that come to you and you're like, oh, that was incredible what I just experienced.

1:28.9

And I suppose you're always looking for what's next and can you replicate something as good?

1:34.0

What are those things that come to your mind when you're thinking like that?

1:36.8

Just being a Man United kid growing up, or a Man United fan as a kid growing up and then going on and playing over 200 games for them.

1:44.0

How old were you when you first had that connection with Manchester United?

1:47.0

From really, really young.

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