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🗓️ 27 February 2024
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It's happened, we've got him! Lady Evans is joined by Mr Evans MBE on the Manchester United podcast! This episode was recorded in two parts, the first at the Evans household, before we catch up at Carrington to discuss the fact that the defender is now back at the club, after re-signing in the summer.
No ground is left uncovered with the Northern Irishman, from his early days as a supporter and memories of celebrating in the street when his heroes won the Treble. There is some chat around the computer game Football Manager, life in a body cast (!) and why he wouldn't kiss his mum in front of Roy Keane!
Of course, the background of how he joined the Reds' fabled Academy is covered in depth, as well as his two stints in the senior team. Impressive stays at West Brom and Leicester City are also discussed but the main focus is this big Red's affection for his boyhood club.
There is even a selection of listeners' questions for Jonny to answer as he lifts the lid on how much United means to him.
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0:00.0 | Hello, welcome back to United Podcast. This is part two of our conversation with Johnny Evans |
0:05.8 | MBE. We're in the Evans' household and we're going to start this exactly where the last |
0:10.0 | one finished. So make sure you've heard the first part first this is a second here |
0:14.0 | we go. So you come back to United you made your debut yeah what was I like? |
0:19.2 | It was good because I was actually I think my league debut for mani and out it was against |
0:24.0 | did you know much about it coming up I think it was Rooney was it that he said to me a |
0:29.8 | couple days before he's like you're playing at the weekend he's like be ready that's kind of what he said. |
0:34.0 | Do think he was told to tell you that? No I think he was just like knowing the team and like knowing what was going on he was probably |
0:39.7 | always asking questions and did you not ask him how do you know that I think I just kind of |
0:44.0 | ignored it thinking that he was maybe either talking rubbish or like I was like we're |
0:48.0 | going to be playing at the weekend so I think was it I thought there's a few injuries at the time but I ended up starting at Stamford Bridge and they got a last minute equalizer actually. |
0:57.3 | Are you the type of person to get nervous before a game? |
0:59.3 | Yeah, there would be times when you get nervous but I suppose maybe my nerves are different than what other people's nerves are |
1:05.0 | so it's hard to sort of say whether, |
1:06.0 | but yeah, you always get little butterflies. |
1:08.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
1:09.0 | Probably as you get older and you create those nerves kind of |
1:11.0 | you're able to control them better. |
1:13.0 | But as you're stepping out at Stamford Bridge, |
1:15.0 | for Manchester United, boyhood team. |
1:18.0 | Yeah, I probably be honest, I don't think I was as nervous that when I was that young. |
1:22.0 | Because I don't feel like I ever had anything to lose. |
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