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Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

One on One | Palhinha on returning to the Premier League with Tottenham and the art of tackling!

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

Sky Sports

Sports, Sports News, Soccer, News

4718 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On 'One on One' this week, we get to know one of the best tacklers in the Premier League, Joao Palhinha. 

From breaking down the art of the tackle, to discussing life under Thomas Frank at Spurs, Palhinha chats to Juliette Ferrington about returning to London life and remembering Portugal teammate Diogo Jota.  

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Juliett Farrington.

0:06.9

And I'm Joe Tomlinson.

0:08.1

And welcome back to one-on-one from Sky Sports.

0:11.0

It's the podcast that brings you exclusive interviews with some of the big names in the world of football.

0:16.7

Coming up, Jules, sits down with Spurs' tough tackling midfielder, Jowel Pellini.

0:21.0

But Jules, before we hear from Jual, I know you wanted to mention Matt Beard, who sadly passed away at the weekend.

0:27.0

Yeah, just a couple of things.

0:28.4

Firstly, thinking of everybody, his family as well, who knew and loved Matt and the players that he coached at this difficult time and everybody that he was associated with

0:39.0

because he was associated with so many people.

0:42.6

And also that he was a real trial blazer, such a huge figure in the women's game,

0:47.9

winning back-to-back WSL titles with Liverpool in 2013 and 14.

0:52.7

That's talked about a lot.

0:54.0

But he also had spells at Chelsea women,

0:56.7

Millwall Lionesses, West Ham women. And most recently, up in Burnley, which is where I went to see

1:02.3

him just only last month to interview him for our Olivia Smith, our crazy Sky Sports special.

1:09.0

I WhatsApped him. He told me to come along, went up there, had 10 minutes

1:13.4

with him. He was just such a really approachable person, just a lovely human being and was always

1:20.9

giving his time to whoever that person was when their paths crossed. So it was such sad news and a real loss to the football

1:30.6

world over the weekend when that story and news of his passing on Saturday night started to go

1:36.8

around. Yeah, well said, Jules. We're thinking of everybody who knew Matt and loved him at this time.

1:42.5

Today's one-on-one and we're going to get to know the player

1:45.0

many Spurs fans believe could be the missing piece to their season. Well yeah, lots of people

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