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Mikey Devlin

Mikey Devlin

Scottish footballer

Jun 4, 2026

8:05
Mm-hmm.
8:06
And we had to, in that literal event, go man for man, which for me personally wasn't always a great outcome, [laughs] um, and then in turn the team.
8:14
But probably those kind of... that natural response to if you're, if in a back four, being up against a center forward or a 10 that's kind of playing up against you that drops in or whoever it may have been at that moment in time, my instinct was to go with.
8:27
And I'd done that in training, and literally as soon as I stepped in and left a hole, the guys that were in the starting 11 for the game that was coming up, one or two passes later, I'm behind and scored into the hole that I'd just left, and Steve stopped the session, and I was like, "Here we go." And he was like, "Look, this is the challenge between club football and the way that you're asked to play at your club and the, the way that I'm asking you to play.
8:47
And if somebody comes off you in a specific area of the pitch, listen, if it's round about the box, I need you to go.
8:52
But if it's 30 yards out, I would rather they got the ball, was able to turn and come at you, but my back four's intact, so we can then have a recovery midfielder coming back in," whatever it may be and whatever it looks like.
9:03
But you had to try and get used to that, and he had to get that message across that there was a, a specific defensive...

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27:13
Aye.

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