Salut! Podcast: Newcastle face Sunderland and more Di Canio

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Football in, politics out. Or is it? Paolo showed his communist side this week after suggestions were made that the players were being made to do everything together, writes Gareth Barker.

For us however, we are firmly focused on the football during this weeks podcast, as most of you will be delighted to hear and it’s part of the build up to the big one – The Tyne Wear Derby.

“The derby, is the derby, it still counts for three points, not six points. But it counts in terms of dignity, honour and pride for 2,000 games” said Paolo Di Canio this week. It feels like 2,000 games since we last won one of these encounters. Can PDC inspire us to a far too rare victory over ‘them up the road’?

Stephen Goldsmith will once again be manning the desk and I’ll be chipping in once more. We have finally managed to snare another studio attendee, and making his debut this week is fellow Sunderland supporter Simon Patterson.

Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer? We say keep your friends close, keep your enemies on the phone! We’ll be joined by Broadcast Journalist and Newcastle fan Martin Lindsay for a pre-match chat. I guess we kind of have to hear what THEY think! Also on the agenda this week:

• We’ll be having a look back over the Chelsea game. Was it any better? Are early signs positive?

• What kind of result do we NEED from the weekend?

• Could we recover from a defeat?

• Who are our relegation rivals?

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