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Goldbridge & Hart React To England Squad, Donnarumma's Form & SAF Being A Gentleman | Overlap Daily

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Goldbridge & Hart React To England Squad, Donnarumma's Form & SAF Being A Gentleman | Overlap Daily

The discussion centers on football memories, current team dynamics, and pivotal matches. Joe Hart shares a vivid childhood anecdote about correctly predicting Roy Keane’s move to Manchester United, underscoring his lifelong connection to the club. He reflects on Sir Alex Ferguson’s legendary leadership, praising his calm, gentlemanly approach and ability to inspire players, which remains a defining feature of his career. A major emotional highlight is the 1999 Champions League final, which Hart recalls as a formative experience at age 12. The conversation then shifts to present-day challenges, including Manchester United’s dramatic comeback against Roma and the psychological strain on players and staff. Hart analyzes Don Aruma’s goalkeeping, emphasizing the mental toughness required in high-pressure moments. Manchester City’s form, though inconsistent, is viewed as resilient, with confidence in their depth and recovery ability. The segment also highlights iconic comebacks in football history, such as the 1999 final and the 2005 Istanbul Miracle. Finally, Celtic’s recent struggles are discussed, with a focus on fan frustration and internal conflict, while the possibility of a strong performance against Man City is seen as a potential turning point. The show concludes with a broader reflection on how football teams manage pressure, performance, and identity, especially during crises.

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Overlapped Daily's brought to you by our title sponsors Skybett and Sky Vegas. This is a global Andy Overlapped production. Have you got a book out yet, Joe? No. Be up on here if you did. No, no, no, it's. It's not my thing. I don't know. I don't know if I could do it. Because you have to really, really go into it and I find myself pretty boring. So, I've got a book out. I've, yeah. Yeah, I did it about two years ago. Come on. Football according to Goldbridge, which was basically just. Is it on here? No, they haven't put it on here yet. Why not? Hey, you're not good enough. I'm going to bring one up. But, no, it was good fun because I didn't actually write it. It was more of like a. It was being interviewed and then they did the book. And then I got it for about a month to read through it and add it and add a few sort of jokes and stuff in. Right, okay. I really like my story of football from a kid to where I am now. But the best bit I enjoyed about it was the. I used to do a paper round when I was like ten. Yeah. And you're always the original for Brits here, Romano, because I'd read all the morning papers, get on the bus. And there was a couple of times where Roy Keen was going to go to Blackburn. And I got on the bus and I had to be about 12. And I was like, he's not. He's going to Man United and all the older lads. Well, I almost got beat up for it. He's going to Blackburn and I was like, no, he's definitely going to Man United. But there was no phones or anything like that. Was that a big story where Roy Keen was coming from for us? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I lived in Nottingham. Right. So, yeah, I think a lot of. I think a lot of Forrest fans wanted him to go to Blackburn for some reason because they were dead excited. But obviously they were exciting. But because I was. You know, I was like, no, he's going to Man United. It's a last-minute change. And I always got beat upon the bus and then on the way home. Everyone was like, you were right. I was like, yeah. Yeah, yes. But interesting 40 years of Sir Alex today. So, I see his picture there. Yeah. Quite similar actually in that picture. What, me and him? Yeah, similar sort of Barney, mate. Yeah. He better look longer. No, he does not. No, he does not. Well, I suppose you don't have many. A lot of people have been asking me, like, what are your big memories of those 40 years? Oh, I've got some great memories of him. Yeah, go on then. Oh, I remember I was a neutral in 1999. In fact, I was an English supporter. Yeah. So, I remember, I remember the cut final. I remember. You're younger than me. Yeah, I like. Yeah, I'm just coming up 40. Yeah, so. So, what was I? I was 12. 11, 11, 12 then. Yeah. It was a pretty cool time. I used to love, like I said, I didn't get much football. I was in a skyman when I was younger. So, I saw David Seaman and Peach Michael. I couldn't wait to watch them either of them play, especially when they played each other. But just all the dry am I used to obviously watch how the Arsenal United Dramar unfolded. I loved that rivalry. Yeah, loved it. It's the best I've ever seen. And how he handled it. And then obviously I got to play against his teams many times. I got pumped by his teams. And then I was on that, you know, when it started to turn a little bit. And that was an amazing feeling to beat Svalix Ferguson's Manchester United. That was when we really felt we'd arrived. What was he like after, did you ever see him after games, would he come in, or was he? Not really, but I think what always resonated with me was his reputation as a real gentleman. And when I'm young and I'm here and people go, "Oh, you know he learns everyone's name." And I'm thinking, "Well, does that make you a special person?" And then the older I've got, and the more I realise how important he was as a senior person, to make people feel, make them feel special, to make them feel wanted, to make them feel welcome. It's a bit of a, without wanting to say an old, a bit of a dine art. And I love that. I love those old school ass characteristics. And I think I also really like the fact that he was, it was pretty apparent that if you fell the wrong side of him, you knew. There's like, in modern football, I think that's a difficult art nowadays, because people are very sensitive and rightly so. And I quite like the old school kind of, you're either on my team or you're against me, or you're against me, it's going to be difficult. And I think he was the master of that. I think for me, there's probably two big memories from the 40 years, because my granddad was the reason I got into Manchester United. I think there's two things that, when he was still here, that I remember was 99, which was the pinnacle. I think it meant, I loved it, I was about 18 at the time. So I was living in Ireland, drinking, it was great. But when I got back and spoke to him, you could just see that because he'd remembered the Busby Babes, and it'd been a long time since '68. And also going back a bit previous to that was the Steve Bruce headers. So I think for me, it's like, I mean, his whole career at Manchester United was just sort of incredible when you look at where the club is now and where it was when he picked it up. This is Overlapped Daily, brought to you by SkyBet. All the latest football stories, the debate's getting fans talking, and the opinions you won't want to miss. We're bringing you another packed show with SkyBet. Today, Joe Hart and I talk all things Manchester United, Man City, the England Squad announcement, and give our predictions for the Premier League this weekend. Right, let's get straight into it. [Music] I mean, let's bring it to the now. Man United did win on. God, it's been a long week. Tuesday. Tuesday night, yeah. Half time, it wasn't looking too good. What do you think that does now? I'm interested in your opinion, because I've been speaking to United fans all week about it. How do you look at that? Do you think that that 45 minutes against Roma is that a turning point? You've been in the dressing room, you've probably been in bad runs? I think in that dressing room, if you're a player, you can't help but hear the noise. And I think they would have expected. I don't know. It doesn't sound like that. It's a great communication at Manchester United in terms of from the hierarchy to the management. Yeah. So I think that Bournemouth game, I think the lads would have possibly expected a change. This is me just trying to get into the psyche. This is no personal feelings towards Michael, how he's doing. If I'm in that dressing room, I'm losing it's Bournemouth and I'm checking my phone. I'm thinking there's going to be some sort of change here. And then when I see this not, I think there's a real opportunity to go, where are we at here? Like I said, I talked about, I talked to you, I think it was you that I talked to about it. Or it might have been actually when you talked about Bruno Fernandez and what goes on straight off camera and then the conversations, how important they are, away at Carrington Training Ground. I think those conversations would have had to be key. You can't ignore the elephant in the room. I think Michael would have had to address the situation to the players just so they've got a little bit of understanding. I watched the first half and it looked ominous didn't it? Yeah, I could have been a full meal down. I don't think anyone in that stadium would have thought, "Man, you're going to come out and produce one of these kind of miracle second half that they've produced over the years under Sir Alex and I think I remember Harry McGuire scoring late. I can't remember who was the Leon. Yeah, the Leon game. You know where the atmosphere revs up and people get to, I think you've got to forget all about your baggage in that second half as a money nut fund. You could just enjoy it for what it was and seeing them playing with passion and coming to your kissing lacy and all those moments. And it was nice to see for the team. It was nice to see for Michael these cool calm reactions. I think it's a pretty sick way to do things. I think you see the, I think it was Bruni. It was so close to Carrick. And they're all going mad in Carrick but Carrick says it like that again. I think that's because Michael is such a fair level guy. He knows that isn't the end of whatever's going on right now. He knows that's just a moment. I don't know whether it was a plan the way they scored the goals, whether it was a conversation. But there's a lot of hard work to do in that dressing room. There's a lot of hard conversations. I think you'd be some buzzkill to ruin that night but the next day, it's straight back to it man. They know they've got a really tough game. It's Aston Villa on Saturday or Sunday whenever it is. And you're like, here we go again. We were just talking off air. You were saying what's the reaction bin to that and you're absolutely spot on. I think the buzz of the night and then you wake up the next day and you go look, we've still got one winning nine in the lead. We've got this big game against Villa. One thing I did want to ask you is because I think that there's a lot of conversation about the blame being with the players, which I don't necessarily agree. But the one thing I would say to that is that the predominant majority of these players are the players that got him the job. And now it's almost like if they lose the players aren't playing for the manager, if they win or look at the job character. And we've almost got into the situation now where I do think that's important. That it's mainly the same players that got him the job. But now they're being the ones that aren't playing for him. How does that even happen? You've been in dressing roomed. Or is that just not the case? No, it won't be the case of necessarily not playing for Michael. They'll just all be in such a low-ebb of confidence. And football's such a mad game. We'll probably talk about Celtic in a bit. They were in exactly the same moment when they were down at home. a'r gweithio. Mae'r gweithio'r gweithio. Mae'r gweithio. Mae'r gweithio. Mae'r gweithio. 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I just wondered what the penny will drop in that first 20 minutes against filler. So I'm gonna go with the points on that. I'm gonna talk about Don Aurema, but I'm gonna be nice first. - All right, okay. - Just in relation to closing off that Rome again, the, what's it like as a goalkeeper when everything's going on at the other end, 'cause it was constant United. The men's, no one even knew who was there in this. What's that like as a goalkeeper when you're involved? Like, 'cause obviously you're in goal, I don't wanna talk about it for the entire moment. You weren't really involved in that last 10 minutes, but it's the biggest thing that's ever happened to Manchester City. How does that, how does that, are you just a spectator at that point? What's the mentality of a goalkeeper in those last few minutes when you're teams at the other end, winning big games? - I think, I think you can't help. You can take a moment. I think there's been every now and again, there's a moment where you get involved, I think, saw Jordan do it against Manchester United. It's a sort of late equaliser. People say like, but you're so emotionally involved in the game. And I think I've only run up once, and it was when we beat Wales in the Euros in France. And I'd let a soft Garof Baal free kick in, and I was like, oh, fuck. It was, that was like, I've never willed, well, I've done it many times, but I think when Studge danced through and then scored, I couldn't help but run the length of the field, but there was about, was that Wales? - Yeah, there's about 30 seconds left after that member. And I was blowing, and Garof got one out of his feet from 40 yards and hit one on these added ass balls. And I couldn't, it went wide, but I was dead, I was dead on my feet, and I learned from that moment, I was like, I'm not doing that again. Because Lions as happy as he would have been when he saw Cunya score, you have to be aware that your job is not done, like Cunya's job's done, even to the extent he got sent off, all the pictures, all the moment, and the adulation, there's a brilliant finish, take the wins, that's the whole point in being a striker, but as a goalkeeper, until that referee blows his whistle, like you are emotionally flatlined. Sometimes you can feel the emotion, you can, it triggers you, but I think in your mind, and I've noticed it now, I've come out of football, I'm always worst-case scenario, I'm always trying to put out the worst-case scenario, I'm gonna have a save to make, I'm gonna have something to do. So, yeah, that's what we signed up for, never ever, like I keep saying, never feel sorry for a goal, whatever you've just talked about there, or bad moment, good moment, that is what we've signed up for, and like I say, Lamman's, I can't speak for him, but if I'm in that situation, I'd have been like, sound, back in the room, because we all know how quickly it can turn. - Let's talk Man City then, 'cause you know where I'm gonna go with this, Donna. - Yeah, remember, a few areas, I think, I think, and I think a lot of people have thought that, and apparently there's another one in the live-sea game again, I say apparently, because I'm not an ex-goal keeper that can definitely analyze these things, but what do you think's going on with him at the moment? - So, he's obviously, it's brilliant, isn't it, because he's right up there, and rightly so, one of the best goal cubes in the world, on talent, on confidence. He's made much winning save to season, you would have seen it at Old Trafford, that last minute save against Nbumu, and then he's had big moments at Liverpool, thought he was absolutely outstanding, even though City won the game 3-0, he was excellent. But it's just what comes with being a Manchester City, a Premier League goalkeeper. You're gonna get that heat on you, and he would have felt it, I'm sure, at PSG. This is a guy that was playing for AC Milan when he was 16. I remember playing him when he was maybe 18 when I was at Torino, and I was like, "Spec this kid's special." Not just only in the way that he plays the game, but in the way that he can conduct himself. There's a real class act, and he had a very much Gigi Buffon was my idol in terms of goalkeeping and how he behaved, and say, "Never meet your heroes." Like, he was one of the most special people I'd met and played against, and I watched him, and I watched how he conducted himself, and it wasn't because it was me, because I always have an eye on these things in the tunnel, I can see like a nervous goalkeeper stood next to him, and he makes them feel special. It's just a different aura, and on a room has got that. But just at the moment, he's very much one foot forward, and then he's having to take a step back. You know, he made, in this life-set game, he made a save that only he could make up to his top left-hand corner, fantastic save. And then he stood a little bit higher, the goal against. So he's confusing himself in my opinion at the moment, because the Brighton goal is not his fault. No one near his fault. But it's that cut back that people will go, people will argue, should a goalkeeper, can they not just stand a little bit higher and cut that out? Absolutely, I mean, yeah. And I would always argue, and I talked about it, when I talked about lamens in those last seconds, like, we're a worst-case scenario. We've got to be in there for the worst-case scenario. When we can't really afford to be a front-footed goalkeeper. So my opinion for the. for the Don Aruma goal that you can see against Leipzig is, I think, he just got. The guy was so close to the touch line, so the kind of percentages were very low that he could hit that near post. So Don Aruma was trying to be a real team player, right? I truly am really trying to step up in the Champions League, be higher, be there for that cut back. But the goalkeeping world humbles you so quickly. And it was an outrageous finish. Outrate, and if we had no skin in the game, if we had no Premier League hat on or no, I'm not a man's city, we'd be praising the goal. But because we're here talking about Don Aruma and City, he gave the guy an opportunity, and he ripped his heart out with it. Absolutely ripped his heart out. And is that, like, because I always look at that, whether I'm playing computer games or. Even the Roma goalkeeper, I know, couldn't you hit it? Well, there's always this. Maybe it's a myth. Goalkeeper shouldn't get done on their front post. Is that goalkeeping you shouldn't get done on your front? No, I just think that I think the CUNY1, you've got to make it as difficult as you possibly can to get beat. And you've got to give up. You've got to give up. As a goalie, it sounds so counterproductive, but you've got to give up something. You've got. Like I say, your job is to make it as difficult as you possibly can to get beat. Your job's not to save everything. Because there's so many hindsight goalkeepers, and I hear them all the time, and I understand it. I heard people talking about. I think Stevie was. Stevie G was talking on here. I think. He used to turn for Don A'Rumo, which wasn't. It didn't make me happy when he spoke about him, because it didn't feel right. And I would never do that about. I've got a Joe and Stevie on the show Monday. No, no, but I love Stevie. Stevie's awesome. Stevie's awesome, and he knows that. But I think goalkeeping is special. My protective blanket came on, and I was like, "I'm not okay." And he talked about Don A'Rumo was one-on-one against Ashton Villa and Nicholas Jackson. So if you're on that angle, sorry, I'll get very handsy when I talk about it. If you're on that angle and you want someone to beat you, sorry, sometimes you want to make it as difficult as you can for someone to beat you, you can't afford to stand. If I'm on that tight angle, you can't afford to have your hands up here, because the easiest finish is the rap low. Yeah. So you almost have to say, "If you want to beat me, you've got to. " It's a really, you'd rarely see it. You see someone thrash it. You'll see a goal, they flail like that, because it's the hardest finish, because you've got the least control. The top player can curl here, they can smash, they can get their head over the board, because we hear everyone talk about it, but to lift your head and lean back, it's not an easy finish. And Jackson got one to about here, and then Vardial had one in a similar moment against Suzuki in the second half, and his hands were low. And it was probably just about head height, and he had the speed and the timing to just get his hands here, rather than there, and he flicked it onto the bar. And there are tiny little bits that come into goalkeeping about making it difficult as you possibly can. And we've done a rumour at the moment. I think he went a little bit away from that. I think he was trying to help the team, rather than just be the top goalkeeper that he is, trying to stand in that congested six yard box. And like I say, the Ipsley player just humbled him really quickly. Man City play, Forest. Tomorrow half pass five at Forest. They'd lost their last two. We spoke a couple of weeks ago, before City had lost any games. They'd had the guilty charges, but they'd bounce back from that, and they were unbeaten. They'd won every single game. Last couple of games, couple of losses. I don't think that's unexpected, but is there anything you're concerned about that? Could that be a little bit of a mental thing starting, a bit of fatigue, you know, Liverpool, we saw it, it was, they used it as a positive. Do you think it's just natural? You lose a couple of games, competitive league, or are you concerned that it might start to have a bit of an impact on the team? I don't think the conversation over charges will, of course, the results. I think that might have helped with the performance at Liverpool, ironically, and helped for whatever reason, but I'm just talking about from an in, you know, that kind of together galvanised, but I still see a galvanised team, I still see a really competitive team, and even in the games that they've lost, you know, Aston Villa was a tough game. I think Suzuki walked off player of the match. It's a good game, yeah. It was a good game, two brilliant teams, you know, they've got a great record there. Really, they really have, and they look like they're starting to find their straps, but, and then the brightened game for Brogdon walked off man of the match. And then that's not saying that there's no, you know, there's Manchester City with brilliant, because they can obviously play better, but I don't see anything concerning in their team. I still see people getting used to playing, I see in Jai, starting to really have impact. I'd love to see him with a few more assists and goals, I think that would really, really make a statement. and obviously was Semenio at the moment. I'm loving seeing Elliot Anderson, like coming to a Manchester City team and patrol it and just look at as at home as he does. - It's a bit like when Rice went from West down to Arsenal, isn't it? - Yeah, it fits that. - It really fits. - Price tag. And it didn't have to, you know? There would have been a lot of people going, really. But me personally, I've loved him. I did the under 21's final. England under 21's are commentated for it. And I watched him, first time I watched him play and I was like this guy. I adored him, not because he's the way that, not only the way that he plays football, but he's attitude, he's got that kind of killer instinct. You never know what he's thinking. He's just that midfield that you can just rely on at all times. Fernandez is finally his feet. You know, scored a big goal from Manchester City in the Leipzig game. So it was, feels so weird. That brightened game to not see Harland on the score. She was weird, but put that right the other night. No, I don't see concerns, but that doesn't mean that I think they'll go to Forrest and blast them away for it. Like, City have had tough games at everyone. That's a tough, tough forest. But that'll be a thing done, but I don't see it being a problem. City win then. I see City win in that, yeah. I see, I was, when I was driving up here this morning, I was like, I want to go for a shock this weekend because I'm convinced there's going to be a shock. Whether it's Sunderland Chelsea, Liverpool at Palace, Man United Villa, City going to Forrest. I think there will be a shock, but I don't think it's going to be in that one. That's not where I'm going to go for it. I think Forrest are in a false position, and maybe Sunderland are as well, maybe not. But I think Forrest are in a false position. I watched them play and field a few weeks ago. But I don't see. I mean, we would be talking about City being in a crisis on Monday, they were to lose three in a row. And I don't see that happening at all. (upbeat music) - Okay, welcome to Six of the Best, bought to you by Super Six. Very topical this one, Joe, because obviously with Man United's late comeback against Roma, we're talking about the six of the best comebacks of, well, I'm going to say all time here, because I can see number one, straight away, Man United against by Munich, and we've already spoken about this. This is not something that gives you bad memories. - No, it really doesn't. I'm not a hater, that's not in my blood, and I didn't have the leadances that I'd have now. And that game was wild, man. Like I remember getting to the end and the corner being taken, and who scored the first one? Was it Teddy's score? - Yeah, yeah, Teddy, yeah. And then kind of me and my dad going, oh my god, and he actually, he went old school. He went into making cup of tea. And I carried on watching the games, because it was late for me at the school. He let me watch that one. And then I went running in to tell him that it's all showered scored, and he wouldn't have any, he didn't believe me. And I was like, it was all kind of hell broke loose in the house, it was a good moment. It was a good moment, I can't deny that. I can't make up, I didn't feel good about that. So you must have felt unbelievable. - I mean, yes, anybody who says, what's your best memory as a man United van, it's almost a cop out to say it, but it has to be. It wouldn't a treble, it was the way we wouldn't it. To me, it's just the best moment. And it's one of those things where I was trying to say to my kids and stuff, when you have a high in football, make sure you celebrate it, no matter what it is, because I can never go back to that. And that was the pinnacle. This next one is, for Liverpool fans, we'll probably be very close to what we've just discussed there. For me, as a United van, I was absolutely loving the fact that they were losing. - Oh, yeah. - I actually know a Liverpool fan who, at half time turned it off. And they're only turned it on towards the end, because his phone was just, - Some of them got a call from him. - We're talking Liverpool, AC Milan 2005, the Miracle of Istanbul. If it was anybody other than Liverpool, I'd be like, what a night. But the man United, Liverpool fans would say the same about 99. - Well, I'm a neutral, again, I didn't have my alliances, then, and I was actually in a pub in Shrewsbury. I was still at Shrewsbury town at the time. I think it was. I remember watching it, and it was 3-0, and just no one was interested. I think there were some Liverpool fans in there who got it, and everyone just totally switched off. I think they were playing pool. And then, I don't know, Stevie's scoring that header in the way that he kind of went to the fans. It's easy now, because they won the game, but you've just, I mean, knowing what a player that he is now, I'm lucky enough to know what Stephen Gerrard's like as a player, like the grit and the. He's not just good at footy, like he's an animal. Like, he was not. They weren't going to let that die. And then, just knowing how, you know, it went from an absolute stroll in the park for AC Milan to then feeling unbelievable pressure, that kind of strange save that Dudeck makes in the last second when he almost kind of turns around, but his involuntary hand position, and it ricochets off his arm and manages to go over. And that was wild, that was special. These games are iconic, aren't they? Well, I think the top three. I mean, look, I will put that Liverpool one in there, as much as I don't want to, you know, and I think we're definitely putting the United one in. This one will cause controversy because of the recent stuff that's going on, but we will deal with it in relation to what happened in 2012. And again, it's one I'd like to check out of, but the only compliment I can pay is when I'd wear a score, I turned my TV off and didn't watch Sky Sports or anything for two months. I was like, "I was done with football." So when it causes the United fan mat, which trauma, you know, it's a big moment. It is, no, that's. That was. That it wasn't a great one to experience because, you know, with regard to stuff like, you know, we talk about everything's going on in Manchester City, but to be on the pitch and to be involved in that moment of something that you thought was going to, you know, Zabba Leitt's scoring it half-time. It was almost. We were such a good team and QPR were in, you know, a difficult position in the league and Joey gets sent off. I was just like, "Right, okay, it's named on the trophy." Almost AC Milan feels at half-time when they're playing against Liverpool and to have the kind of soul sucked out of you as Paddy Kenney made, save after save and block after block and to actually almost get in a headspace where. I'm such a, like, positive person, but I was almost in the headspace of like. Oh, no, we. Because you needed two, didn't you? That's the thing, from my point of view, I wouldn't watch it because I was like, "City will win this game, easy." Yeah. And Jay Barton's been sent off. And I remember, mate, ring me, he says, "You need to put it on." I'm like, "No, I've got plans." And he says, "You need to put it on." They're losing 2-1. So I put it on and when it gets to the 90th minute, I'm like, statistically, they've got to score two goals in about five minutes. Yeah. That made it. I needed one 6-0 that day, because it was what I was expecting. But we were banging on the door and, like I say, it was one of those games where I thought, "We're not going to get through here." And then Edin scored and they almost was like. And, you know what I mean? And what draws, probably, even worse. You see, I think that it's a bit like '99 with sharing him the first goal. I celebrated it in a strange way more than the Soul Shower 1 because it was like, "That was the key back in." And when Jacko scored for you, I was like, "They've got time. They're going to get at least one chance more." You know what, the stadium didn't shake, it was like. I think everyone was just like. Everyone was so. It was a lot of head-in-hands moment, a lot of. Everyone was kind of gutted. Roberto had checked out a little bit. He was thrown in Mancini, sorry, in Italian. "You're this, you're that, you're that." And that's how he was. But then, obviously, Corner had other plans. As Mario had other plans and unfolded, how unfolded. We need to do six for Super Six of the best. I think those three go in, despite me can't stand two in them. Yeah. So, let's go through the remaining. Well, with through some of these. So, Barça PSG 2017, Barcelona 6-1. I remember that. Yeah, it was basically over from the first leg, but I mean, it was decent. I'm not a lot of lights. It was decent. Did it result. It didn't result in a Champions League win, did it? No, I don't think they did win it in 2010. No, it didn't. No. But, yeah, it was a good comeback. Oh, mega comeback. Spurs Man City is number five, which was 2001. I vaguely remember, if someone told me one of the goal scorers, it's in my head, but I'm not a big Man City fan, I'm like, "Oh, what's their name?" Jean Wright definitely scored. Yeah, there was a. Oh, I can't remember his name, but FA Cup 4th round, City 3-0 down at half-time. Then Adam and Santa then came back to win 4-3. This was pre Man City having all the money as well, so it does have credibility. Right, okay. Well, again, they didn't get a win off the back of it, so as in won the FA Cup. Yeah. That's why six, I think. I know you're gonna struggle with this one, but this was mental. This was an unbelievable performance, this. Yeah, was this the one where Trent did the. Yeah, yeah. And the reggae scored. And they went on to win the Champions League, yeah. Yeah, that's. 2 Liverpoolerns in here. But first firming, come on. Yeah, Liverpool Barcelona 2019, semi-final, second leg, 4-3 on aggregate, Barcelona had one foot in the final after Messi's first leg double. However, a depleted Liverpool, missing Sallor and Firmino, turned the tie around to 4-3, a reggae score in the winner, and he'll always have legendary status in Liverpool for that. Yeah. I do remember this one. I mean, it was a league game, 2001. I was listening to this in the radio in Ireland at the time. God, I don't think. listening to the matter. is on the radio was really prominent when I was growing up. Like, you know, in a car people do it. I still enjoy listening to the game on the radio. Yeah. I do. I do. I do. It's a different world. I like it and I like football on the radio, but maybe I'm old school. So we were three and a half-time at what would have been White Heart Lane. We won five-three. I mean, that's a pretty decent comeback that is. Yeah. And it was in the league, but. So what we've got a space for. We've got space for two more. So we've got Deportivo versus AC Milan 2004. AC Milan seemed destined for the Champions League semi-final. Deportivo look around your wound four-neil to turn it around. I mean, I don't massively remember that. I'm going on paper. That's brilliant. But like, yeah, it's not sitting in my memory. And I don't think we're going to have many Deportivo fans flying it. So we don't include that. Reading Arsenal 2012 four-neil down after 37 minutes. I remember that. Arsenal then decide scored four times to take the lead cooked to extra time where they eventually won 75. I don't remember that one. I remember that one. That was that was a wild game that. And then we've got Trammeer 4-3 Southampton 2001 FA Cup 5th round replay. Trammeer managed by John Oldridge and bottom of the old Championship with three-neil at half-time against Premier League Southampton, but eventually won 4-3. So we've got we've definitely got Mangier Knight at Bayern, Liverpool Milan, Man City, QPR. That's three. Liverpool Barcelona, that's four. I think Mangier Knight at Tottenham 5. So we either go Spurs 3, Man City 4 in 2001 or we go Deportivo AC Milan 2004 semi-final. Spurs 3, come on. You've got two unites. And Spurs fans can't moan because in their normal tradition, they are in here as the team that bottled it. Oh no, I'm just there twice in there. I'm not a part of that enjoyment you've just got there, but yeah. I am definitely. That was Super 6. Six of the best. Don't forget to enter your Super 6 predictions on the app for a chance of winning £1 million, £18 plus and terms and conditions apply. [Music] One of the other former clubs that has been in a crisis, they got a good result against Pizzic Tas last night, Celtic. I'm not a pretend. I know loads about what's going on with Scottish football, but I did watch the when they played Rangers recently. Rangers looked a lot better than them, but then you look at the league table and they're still at the top. I mean, that's the thing, isn't it? That's the thing about that club and that is why I adore it and I'm so pleased that I got to spend time and be a part of it. The expectancy and the expectation, unless you are a Celtic man or a Celtic person, you wouldn't understand because, like you say, you know, the still top, I think Rangers have a gaming hand because they've played in a Cup semi-final that we can, but even if they win that, they're still a point behind. Domestically Celtic, they've lost two and drawn one in 11 games. I know I was looking at how they've started leagues recently in the past kind of eight, nine years, like they're right up there with what they do, but they're not flowing. And there's not, you know, the strikers aren't scoring. Camilo Doran is an absolute savior of this season. He came on, him and Kalamazman came on, I think, in around the 60th minute with it looking ominous. You know, one the old downing, it's Pershiktas who are flying high, who are really good team. And Kalamazman's first touch smashed it through bodies. He's got that magic moment in him, he had it last year, he's the one who scored, you know, in the beat hearts three, one, he got to run the length of the field on his own. He scored a couple of big goals in the title running as well. But the stadium made me happy to feel the stadium shake through the TV, because that stadium does go wild. And at the moment, people are talking with their feet that it wasn't a sold out cry, which is so unlike Celtic, but what's the problem with Celtic, Jay, because I look at it from the outside and Martin O'Neill is a legend of the game, but he's getting flak now. I think that's sad, because the stage of life he's at, he's gone up there to help them out last year. They've obviously given him the job, but he's now in the fire in line. It also seems to be probably more aimed higher, higher than that as well. It's flak with love, and that doesn't, that doesn't make any sense. Of course, we know it doesn't make any sense, but Martin O'Neill will be, and it is absolutely a door, a door, but he knows what he's signed up for as a Celtic manager, and he knows, and he would expect to be getting to a lot of questions asked about him at the moment. And that's not him saying that he's not up to the task or he's not the man for the job, but that's what comes with a territory. If you really understand Celtic, you understand that if you're not bored line perfect domestically and challenging in Europe, you're going to get it. You're going to get it because they care and they're intelligent football fans, and at the moment there's just, there's a massive disharmony with the board. The fans really don't understand what the direction of the club is, and obviously the board, I've got their opinions in terms of the success that they've had, they hadn't continued to have. So it is difficult at the moment, and that was really shining brightly mid-season last season, but then the team Martin came back in and the team started to win, and it goes away. It's amazing what winning can do, and at the moment they're not, you know, the difficult result of Falkirk drew it home to Dundee, and then this felt like, it felt ominous, this persic task game, it felt like it was going to be a riot, or not even a riot, just, do you know what the worst feeling you can have in a stadium, and I've very, rarely felt it out there? It wasn't anger. It was people going, "Yeah, we lost again." Like, that is the worst feeling you could have. You'd rather have someone's, that impassion and that embroiled as a Celtic fan. Like I say, domestically, a lot of very few games, but no matter what run you'd been on, like, you could feel that it wasn't the majority, but you'd feel some people like their whole life and whole livelihood, proudly, as Celtic, and if you don't perform in that shirt, you're going to get it, and whereas I've got still friends up there, and they were flat going into the game, and if Celtic had lost, they wouldn't have been angry, they'd have been like, "Oh God." And that's not a nice feeling, but hopefully, I talked about it for Michael, but I think it's a little bit different up there, because there's still top of the league. If they can take that kind of atmosphere that they generate towards the end of the game last night, into the league game this weekend, I think it's Kilmanuk, then it could be a spark for them. It could be a massive spark to go again. It is true, though, because you're right. I think back over the night, it'd been bad for a long time, and obviously doing all the watch-alongs and the clips. I know myself that maybe three, four years ago, some of my reactions were really angry in that matter, but I think back to Chelsea last week, we'd done our right in the first half, but in the second half, when we actually ended up with ascending off, when we lose, you're not angry, you just say, "Oh, we go again." And that's not a good place for football club to be in at all. And as a player, honestly, that's tough, which sounds, it doesn't sound right, does it, because you think it'd be in shouted out, or being screamed out, or you're going mad, like seeing clips of you going mad online, that would hurt more, but trust me, it hurts more for people to go. Because it's almost like they're giving up on that. Oh, there we go again, right. Next week, it is a better get on with my normal life, rather than living and dying and breathing your football club, because that's a great feeling to be part of a club when it's like that. Yeah. Also Thursday night, but going into the weekend, they beat Man City last week, Brighton, a very good result against Gatafé. I mean, I don't know how good Gatafé are now. I mean, I know they were very good before. This is the conference league to be fair, but they've got Brentford on Sunday at home, having been to Anfield, I thought they played well, but they lost. Went to Man City, could have gone either way, maybe Man City with a better team to be honest, but they won three points from six away from home. You've got to go and beat Brentford, but the bigger question is for Brighton, just where are we putting Brighton now? Because Arsenal beat Liverpool last week. Man City could get that points deduction. They're almost the next in line to push for a title if that's possible. Yeah. Yeah, there's certainly up there, and what will be a quarter of the way through the season, so they're entitled to have their opinion. I think if you've spoke to Fabian Hurtsley, it'll be a game by game. If you've spoke to Brighton fans, it'll be a game by game. I think the biggest credit they deserve is the fact they've still managed to maintain in Europe because that conference league, it's not what everyone wants. I think when, you know, especially when you start planning a season, but I think squad-wise, I think he's gone quite strong. I checked the changes last night, I don't think they were injuries, they were able to maybe rotate a little bit in three or five times because you were asking about, don't you? Yeah, I was injured. And at the moment, at the moment, they're in a really good place, and they just need to continue that for as long as they possibly can. There's no point now in aspirations for where they want to be at Christmas or let's just live in the moment. Let's go game by game and enjoy exactly everything that we're doing. I think they can almost plan to be in the knockout stages of the conference league. They've obviously gone out of the Karabau Cup, which will be disappointing, but at the same time when you've got this league run going, you can really, really think, you can really Mae'r pŵr o'n gwaith i'r pŵr a'r pŵr i'r gwaith i'r gwaith, o'r pŵr i'r gwaith i'r pŵr i'r pŵr i'r pŵr i'r pŵr i'r pŵr i'r pŵr i'r pŵr i'r pŵr i'r pŵr i'r p� a yw'r gwiaeth yw'r gwiaeth yw'r gwiaeth yw'r gwiaeth yw'r gwiaeth yw'r gwiaeth yw'r gwiaeth y I don't know, I'd look at Brentford and go, that might be a very difficult game for us, but I think how many, you know, Brighton ever to Magnet at Arsenal Man City, next five games for Brentford, but I don't know, I look at this Premier League now and I was saying this to Beth who works on the United Stan with us the other day, I said, the problem with Magnet at being 12 points behind Brighton or 9 points behind Liverpool or 8 points behind Chelsea, whatever it is, is that maybe four or five years ago, you'd go, good runner games, I don't think, unless you are and maybe an Arsenal or a city, I don't think you could look at that league now and go, I think, you know, 9 points now, almost in your day, it would be, it's almost like 15 points, because it's really hard, I think, to go and win, to close a 9 point gap on anybody. You slip up in any of these, like you talked about Chelsea or away at Sunderland, and then the really struggling at the moment, difficult result in Europe. They're not a bad team, they're really not a bad team, full of them, obviously had their start to the season, they had some top players and when they, when they click and they get into gear and, you know, they can put together some, like, clean sheet or get a little bit solid, like these, every team can hurt you. Every single team, I think, you know, a whole have come up, made statements, it's which have come up, made statements. Frank's got a commentary play, and again, they're, they're an Everton tonight. Like, you just can't afford to plan, you can't afford to strategically plan to win this game or be a tough game there, it's every single game takes every single bit of your energy and your focus. And that's life, that's the job, but I totally agree with you mate, I don't think that, you know, a big gap is only very few will pull away with those big gaps, I think everyone else is very much in a similar sort of conversation. It's funny you mentioned their Coventry because they're lads who are doing some building work for me, they're all Coventry fans. And every week, they're like, they're just desperate for Carrick to survive until we play Coventry at Old Trafford in early December, which for me would be an easy three points, they're like, no, no, we want that game so that we can play Carrick and sack him and get three points at Old Trafford. Really, is that where they heads at? It's just the confidence and brilliance of the Premier League that it is so competitive. Although Arsenal Hall is where we're going next, I mean, I think we give Arsenal respect, we give whole respect, but I can't see anything other than an Arsenal win, it's the sort of, might not be pretty. No, but 10-0, 2-3-0 I think. I think Arsenal started the season really well against Coventry, didn't they, with that 3-0 win, and that was, for whatever you want to look at it, that was a statement win. Arsenal have got those tools now to go toe-to-toe with the Bayerns, with your Liverpools away, and they've also got the skills to beat teams that they're expected to beat. So I think that'll be a tough day at the Office of a Hull. A Hull have got some fighting them, a Hull have got some real character, but I think Arsenal will have too much for them at the Emirates. So we both got Arsenal with a comfortable win there, right? This, these next two, is where I reckon there's going to be a shock, we've got Chelsea going to Sunderland on Sunday to a clock, we've got Liverpool going to Palace to a clock on Sunday. To be fair, Palace and Sunderland have both had that Thursday night thing, which can make them tired, but I think Sunderland, you sort of touched on it a little bit there, what a difficult game it is. I don't think Chelsea were that good against United, and I think Sunderland, this is the game where they need to either be wolves of last year where God, this is real, they're going down, or they actually show that they're in a false position. I think Sunderland are going to get a result against Chelsea on Sunday. If you were to push me for a shock of the week, I think that has the most potential, I think Chelsea will beat Sunderland, I do. But I think when we look at the narrative, and I do think they're in such a false position, they're not playing well at the moment, they won't claim to be playing well at the moment, they've got some really top players. I think Robbie's fit again, he's key, he's key for Sunderland. They were so good last year, they weren't just off the cuff good either, they were solid, especially at stadium, they made it really, really difficult. They were like a team, weren't they, some teams are individuals. Yeah, and you feel like, oh, it depends on him, I know I touched on Robbie, but you can be as solid as you want and in the game, but you need someone to finish those chances. And I watched him at, obviously the Manchester City game where he got the hat trick, and then he was out injured. And that game could have been a point for them as well, that's the season, yeah. That's the Premier League at the moment, but I actually think I'm not in your, I don't think shock of the week, but if they have to go somewhere. That's where you get it. I think that's going to be a tough, tough game for Chelsea. And Liverpool go to Palace, my prediction is that Palace are going to go down, I called it at the start of the season, as sort of like in a bit of an out there thing. Liverpool have lost two games. I mean, that Fenerbahce game, I think that can happen to anybody. You know, I had been to Turkey in the past, it's tough. And I think when you look at the first 20 minutes, it looked like Liverpool would win that game, but maybe a bit like Roma thought they were going to win the game. It's how you end the game. Do we see any issues with Liverpool? An iriola losing two games, or do you think it's just the way football can be? I think Liverpool win that game. I watched a little bit of the Palace game last night. Obviously got the result in the end, down to 10 men, half and high. But in a really strong Premier League, like I said, I think Liverpool got some top players, and he's scoring goals now. Barcola, if he can get his moment for it, if he can start to tick. I think that's very much a conversation. But they look like they're starting to find their feet in this Liverpool iriola size, so I think Liverpool will have enough. So my shock's Chelsea, well, actually, your shock's Biller. I'm not having that. No, I'm having it, no. No, it wouldn't shock anybody else, but well, we'll have to wait and see, but hopefully in the night we'll get the win. For you, maybe. Right, Joe, we've just breaking news on overlap daily, although by the time you're watching it, it will be a little bit older, but England squad is out. It's an entirety for the Croatia Spain International Break. A few interesting ones in there, Joe. You were just mentioning no Jordan Henderson in there, no Manu in there, and no Cole Palmer in there. But Joe Bellingham comes in, King, Josh King in there. Good player, I think he's deserved that. What you thought? Yeah, interesting. I was interested to see the goalkeeping situation. Obviously Pickford, Steele and Trafford, no Dean Henderson, maybe they want, maybe they don't think he's quite fitting off yet, because I think he's a top goalkeeper and deserves to be in that England squad defensively. Just on the goalkeepers, we've seen Trafford get a bit of game time in the last international break. Obviously, Jordan Pickford's got loads of caps, been a good servant for England. Would you be looking at that from Tugel's point of view as now is the time to make that transition, or do you think it's just still stick with Pickford for the year? No, I think Jordan's been brilliant for England and he started really well for Everton, but I think if you're the coach, I think you've got to use these games as good opportunities to see what's around him. You never know what's going to happen over the next couple of years. James has made a really positive move to Leeds and he's proved himself at Manchester City last year with the two cup wins. I think it's a great opportunity for Tugel to really understand his goalkeepers, but I think Jordan's been superb for England. If the tournament started tomorrow, he'd be England's number one. I think as a forward thinking coach, with a lot of the other positions, you've got to be thinking about the next two years and how people are going to progress. So I totally understand what he's doing, those sorts of changes. Yeah, two years is what's two seasons. It's not going to change in that time. Joe Bellingham in there, I find quite interesting. We do the Bundesliga on this channel on Friday night, so I've seen a lot of the Bundesliga. I'm really interested in this because it's the whole brother dynamic. Joe Bellingham is one of the best players in the world at the moment. Joe Bellingham admittedly a little bit of not seen much of him and curiosity of just how good he is. So it'd be interesting to see if he can get some minutes. And I'm also a little bit disappointed. I mean, there's no man you're not playing there at all. This is a sign of the times, but I may new seem to have got himself back in the plans. There's a lot of people saying, well, he's just coming back from injury. But that doesn't tend to stop international success. managers. No. He played against Roma. We expect him to play against Villa. So if you fit, you fit. Yeah, I don't think, like I said, I don't think it's too huge a statement at the moment. I think with Kobe coming off the back of an injury and I think Thomas has proven that he likes to keep consistency in his squad. Obviously, I don't know enough about Joe Bellingham. I know that he was really highly thought of. Obviously, he's got his brother, his brother. He's in the world of his own in terms of how he's stepping up on the biggest stage. But look, Thomas Tukur don't hand out caps or he doesn't call people up for the sake of it. So he must really see something in him. He's obviously got his finger on the pulse when it comes to the Bundesliga. So he must be performing well for Dortmund. But I'm really, you know, I'm really interested to see, I think Josh King. I think he's been excellent in a really tough season for Fulham. Well, it looks like it's him or Parmer. And I think driving up here this morning, I was expecting what they were saying that Col Parmer would be brought back in because he has ears playing for Chelsea. We're not aware of any injury issues. But Josh King, I mean, on Merit, I think he looks really, really good. But if you Col Parmer, you're probably thinking missing the last one with that, you know, seems to be a little bit of debate around what the injury was. Might have put Tukur in a position where he's gone, look, you know, he's missing out. There's someone who's ready to come in. I think Col Parmer's an awesome player. And when he's hot, he's a game changer. And it was sounded a little bit bitty how I didn't quite understand what Tukur was trying to say when Col was, went away from the last squad. So I think he's going to have some real clarity. He's going to have some interesting questions on that. But I'd like to think him in call about a conversation. Because that needs clearing up. He's one of our best players, one of our most talented players. And there's no point in them having a bit of a strange relationship. It needs to be really clear. Nearly, and I think as England fans now, I think we really need to understand why Col Parmer is in the squad. But, you know, on that flip side, I think it's a great opportunity for Josh King. And I think in a difficult season so far, for fuller me to really show. Well, I know so. There's Phil Foden, who maybe I wouldn't put him in the squad, but he's not 35. He's still very much in the age group that he can get in there. And look, I haven't got a problem with it as an England fan. If he said to Col Parmer, look, at the moment, he'd probably not in my thoughts for whatever reason. But you can be. Oh, you've got to march. That has to be the conversation. Like I say, we don't know whether it's injury related or, you know, we're early on in the day, but you've got to have those conversations with those players. There's no point in creating a, you know, a big separation between yourself and a Col Parmer and or a Phil Foden. I'd like to think conversation. You know, I think it was very tomas 2 called famously. When he likes you, he's very much open to calling and facetimes and keeping players happy. You know, I think John Stone's talked about when he wasn't playing at city. He's still wanting to be part of his squad. I think as an England manager, I think it'll be important to stay in constant dialogue with these players just because, you know, you don't, you know that if they catch a streak, if Col Parmer's playing to his level or a Phil can recreate his levels from a couple of years ago, they'll be so important in this England squad. So he obviously feels like he needs to bring other players in, absolutely no problem, given their opportunity, but just in relationship needs to remain. Yeah, be interesting to see, and of course, big game against Spain as well. So no easy games, and there's some good tests looking forward to it. Okay, Joe. So we put a call out on socials for some questions for us that we could put to each other, and these are some of the best ones we've got. So thank you everybody who sent them in. So at XCOM 1995 asks, Joe, what's your favourite off the field memory with Manchester City? Oh, what is my favourite? That we can put out that. Yeah, that's literally where my mind went to. What's my favourite off the field memory? Do you know what, it was after we won the FA Cup in 2011. We did a bus tour and we went through and we ended up back at the stadium, which I didn't know how that was going to work. Obviously, I'd not been a part of that with Manchester City and Manchester City fans, I hadn't won for a while, and we went back into the stadium and we were presented on the pitch, and the stadium was full, and it was just, I don't know, everything felt amazing about that moment, about that time, winning that trophy, the FA Cup game, that Wembley, but because of when it was, there were still games to play, it was in the season rather at the end of the season, but to be able to celebrate how we did Champions League football and in the stadium with all the fans, that was special. I've got one for you, mate. This is from Aidan, and he's asked Mark if you could score any goal against me, Joe, in any match, what would it be? You see, I'm trying to pause a little bit here, like any football fan doesn't actually know the answer to this, because I think if for anybody that didn't play at the highest level and loves football, you know, I definitely can think of one. So for me, I think, you know, like sort of you're in goal, yeah, cross comes in. No, I'm not going to do the O-Bred kick, right? You sort of edge of the box right on the D there, and as it sort of bounces up, it's a low bounce, you catch it with the outside of your left foot, so it's got the outside on it, right? Right in the top corner, you're at full dive, can't get anywhere near it, straight for dens behind you. It's one one at the time, it's added time, it's for the title, and you just, yeah, I mean, I'm getting goosebumps, now it never happened. What's the celebration? You know what, I think there are celebrations, yeah, I respect people who celebrate and they've got one in mind, and I think when you score that type of goal, it's just, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's really sad that I'm getting goosebumps. I fancy going, but why have I put myself, I've moved to set for your shot at Old Trafford as well, so, yeah, lovely stuff. Great finish mate, first of all. Good question, what a goal, check it back, check it out on YouTube. Joe, absolute pleasure as always, thank you very much for coming on today, and we'll see what the weekend holds. Love it, thanks mate. Thanks, Joe. This has been a global Andy Overlap production. Thanks to our title sponsors Skybet and Sky Vegas, we'll see you next time. This has been a global Andy Overlap production.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Joe Hart recalls a childhood memory of correctly predicting Roy Keane’s transfer to Manchester United, despite being mocked on the bus for it.
  2. He deeply respects Sir Alex Ferguson’s leadership, reputation, and ability to connect with players, calling his approach a hallmark of old-school football.
  3. A key emotional memory is the 1999 Champions League final, which he experienced as a 12-year-old, highlighting the lasting impact of that moment on his football journey.
  4. Hart reflects on the psychological toll of recent managerial and team struggles, noting the difficulty in turning around performance after setbacks.
  5. He praises Don Aruma’s goalkeeping performance, emphasizing the mental and tactical challenges of making difficult saves in high-pressure moments.
  6. Manchester City’s recent form is seen as resilient despite losses, with confidence in their team depth and ability to recover.
  7. The show highlights major football comebacks, including United vs. Bayern, Liverpool vs. AC Milan in 2005, and Spurs vs. Man City in 2001.
  8. Celtic’s current crisis is noted for fan frustration and internal discord, with a belief that a strong performance against Man City could reignite momentum.

Summary:

The discussion centers on football memories, current team dynamics, and pivotal matches. Joe Hart shares a vivid childhood anecdote about correctly predicting Roy Keane’s move to Manchester United, underscoring his lifelong connection to the club. He reflects on Sir Alex Ferguson’s legendary leadership, praising his calm, gentlemanly approach and ability to inspire players, which remains a defining feature of his career.

A major emotional highlight is the 1999 Champions League final, which Hart recalls as a formative experience at age 12. The conversation then shifts to present-day challenges, including Manchester United’s dramatic comeback against Roma and the psychological strain on players and staff. Hart analyzes Don Aruma’s goalkeeping, emphasizing the mental toughness required in high-pressure moments.

Manchester City’s form, though inconsistent, is viewed as resilient, with confidence in their depth and recovery ability. The segment also highlights iconic comebacks in football history, such as the 1999 final and the 2005 Istanbul Miracle. Finally, Celtic’s recent struggles are discussed, with a focus on fan frustration and internal conflict, while the possibility of a strong performance against Man City is seen as a potential turning point.

The show concludes with a broader reflection on how football teams manage pressure, performance, and identity, especially during crises.

FAQs

No, Joe Hart did not write the book himself. He was interviewed for it, and he only added a few jokes and personal comments after reading through it.

As a 12-year-old, he used to ride the bus and predict that Roy Keane would join Manchester United instead of Blackburn, which he later proved correct—though he was often beaten up for his bold statements.

One is the 1999 Champions League final, which he was 12 years old during, and another is the emotional impact of his grandfather, a lifelong supporter, remembering the Busby Babes and Steve Bruce headers.

He described it as a 'great gentleman' who made people feel special and welcomed, with a strong, clear 'either with us or against us' attitude that was rare in modern football.

Manchester United were losing at halftime, but made a dramatic comeback in the second half, which Joe said was a key moment that showed the team's resilience and belief.

He believes goalkeepers are emotionally flatlined until the final whistle, and that their job is to make saves as difficult as possible, not to save everything.

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