Sunderland's Dan Ballard on derby win, promotion & Xhaka impact
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Sunderland defender Dan Ballard speaks to BBC Sport's Betty Glover about the Wear-Tyne derby win, promotion and the impact Granit Xhaka has had on the Black Cats. They discuss how everyone has adapted so well to the Premier League and his teams aim for the rest of the season. They also get into his ability to step up in big games and how he's improved himself since last season.
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| 0:55.3 | This is the Football Daily podcast. This is the Football Daily podcast on BBC Sounds. Hey Dan. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. How are you? Yeah, I'm very good. Thank you. Yeah, very good. A bit cold. It's freezing here yet. It's freezing. Thank you so much for speaking to us today. There's only one place to start really, isn't there? That is with the Derby. Are you over it yet? I mean, it was a great |
| 1:02.7 | day. It was a really good day. So training this week's been nice. The lads are still buzzing. |
| 1:09.0 | So yeah, it was a great result for us. Are you like |
| 1:13.0 | replaying it in your head, like the atmosphere and everything? Yeah, I mean, games like that, |
| 1:19.2 | they're tense and you're desperate to win. So a lot of it's a bit of a blur, to be honest, |
| 1:25.3 | but I've been watching it back you know the goal's unfortunate |
| 1:29.4 | but it was nice for us and watching |
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