Hello and I thank you.

Thank you. Thank you

thank you for joining us with me in the studio today it's the excellent

Julian Lawrence who's wearing one of those hoodies with the thick flat drawstrings, the one that kind of looks like

tapeworm.

Down the line we have the Sunday Times football correspondent.

It's a real privilege whenever you can come on. It's Jonathan Northcroft.

Later on we'll be talking a bit of diving in English football, looking ahead to the

Champions League knockout. Now you may be expecting us to start at Wembley and in North London, Darby, but let's face it,

nothing is bigger than Manchester United. Plus, we were just up in Newcastle last week,

so we start at St. James's Park.

And there's another reason to start at St James's Park because joining us on the line

is Henry Winter who was who was there. Henry, Newcastle pull off a 1-0 victory.

Off the top, I gotta ask you, how much of an impact do you think

last Thursday night's live edition of the game

podcast when Rafa was able to hang out with Allison Ollie and the

inimitable George Colkin how much of an impact do you think that had on Newcastle's win?

I think it rallied the whole city, the whole region. I think it just it just

changes interesting the city that's George and the press boxes and James's party yesterday. It was that there was just a few a few of people wanting to come up and talk to George and say how much they enjoyed the

the podcast and the event so no it's fantastic. He is like the Pope of Greenwich

Village. Now moving on to the game itself I want to talk Newcastle for a

minute in the sense that we heard

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