00:00OK, last couple, John and Charlie.
00:03You've had and are having a remarkable season.
00:08You go into this game on Sunday with this amazing opportunity.
00:11What will be your final message to the players,
00:14I don't know, over the next couple of days,
00:16but also in that dressing room before they take it?
00:18Go for it. Let's be ourselves and go for it.
00:21Put everything that we have on that pitch,
00:24huge belief, huge conviction and go for it
00:27because we are more than capable of doing it.
00:29There's been a lot of talk about pressure, hasn't there?
00:32Is the arm embracing the pressure?
00:37Using that pressure behind you because you've had some wonderful performances?
00:41About 100 per cent, but this is exactly where we want to be
00:44and this brings a lot of positive things
00:47and I don't see anything that has to hold you
00:50because it's where you want to be in the period that you want to be
00:54and playing against an opponent that requires the best out of you.
00:57So it doesn't get much better than that.
00:59You obviously had a close relationship with Pep.
01:02You work with him.
01:03When you sort of fierce rivals,
01:05there's a bit of a strain on the relationship.
01:07Certainly do you talk less than maybe you would normally?
01:11Yes, like in a relationship.
01:13First of all, it's the distance.
01:15Spending 14 hours a day together and not spending any.
01:19So it's a big difference.
01:20And then obviously the fact that we are where we are,
01:22both challenging four very similar things.
01:25So that changes the relationship.
01:27But that doesn't change for sure.
01:29The way I feel about him and the times that we have together.
01:33That's...
01:34Do you talk, if anything, maybe recently a little bit more?
01:36I know you said you've not spoken since after the final,
01:38but do you speak a little bit more?
01:40Has it sort of thawed a little bit?
01:42Or do you still not speak?
01:43No.
01:44But if I have lunch with him or a coffee or whatever,
01:47in two minutes that relation will come back to nature.
01:50Because I think we are very capable of separating two things.
01:53It's the professional rivalry and the personal relationship.
01:58And that's going to stay the same.
02:00OK, everyone, thanks very much.
02:10Thank you very much.
02:12Thanks, Michael.
02:13Cheers.
02:13Thanks, too.
02:14You're so good.
02:16Cheers.
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