Carabao characters: Newcastle loving the league cup
Hallowe'en it may be, but love is in the air on Pod on the Tyne this week. George loves the pub. "Don't we all!?" you say. Not this much. He REALLY loves the pub. Eddie Howe's team love the league cup, and they love beating Spurs at St James's Park. They usually love going to West Ham as well (fingers crossed). Taylor loves Sandro Tonali. And Fabian Schar. And Bruno. And the rest of them, tbf...
58m Oct 30, 2025
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Matchday PotT: Fulham (h), Bruno's late booster
Newcastle after a Champions League fixture; not a pretty story on the whole. That's not to say they painted a beautiful picture on Saturday at St James's Park, but they got the job done. Captain Bruno arrived late in the box, late in the day, to follow up Osula's saved effort and find the corner. It provides a huge boost to a team still finding its feet this season, and hopefully a platform fo...
23m Oct 25, 2025
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Becky Langley departs, Benfica dismissed, but Sandro stays (sort of)
Sad news this week as Becky Langley, the pioneering head coach of Newcastle's women's team, was relieved of her duties. We hear from Amanda Staveley on Becky's legacy. Sandro Tonali's stay at Newcastle already has a longer shelf life after it emerged he signed an updated contract during his twelve-month gambling ban. And, after Eddie Howe's slightly re-arranged eleven put Benfica to the gravy s...
49m Oct 22, 2025
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Matchday PotT: Brighton (a), Wolte-magic not enough
Newcastle returned to Brighton's Amex Arena on the south coast (as did Chris Waugh) and their rotten record continues despite the best efforts of Nick Woltemade. A poor first half saw Howe's men trailing, but the giant german produced a moment of golden-heeled inspiration to equalise. Sadly, that was the extent of Geordie joy on the day; Danny Welbeck got his second to restore the lead and the ...
26m Oct 18, 2025
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Wilson arrives, Academy in focus, Lasses draw with Bristol
Another weekly Pod on the Tyne rolls around and, with many of the lads away on international duty, you'd think it'd be a quiet one. How wrong you are, friend! Newcastle United now have a CEO AND a Sporting Director after they agreed a deal to bring Nottingham Forest's Ross Wilson to the North East. Chris has all the gen on our new football supremo. Our Athletic duo (the capital A is crucial) ha...
59m Oct 15, 2025
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Howe's international break; assessing Newcastle's season so far
The September international break is an absurdity; great to see that (after George's comments on a recent PotT) the authorities are doing away with it (definitely related). But, the October break has a different feel. We're almost quarter of the way through the season... the Champions League campaign has started, and Newcastle players are dropping like flies. It's not the same as our last Europ...
47m Oct 08, 2025
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Matchday PotT: Forest (h), Bruno and Nick deliver "huge" win
Plenty of intriguing angles going into Newcastle United v Nottingham Forest in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon. Both teams played in Europe in midweek, Ange Postecoglu under pressure just three weeks into his new job, and the home attack struggling to spark… …Not that Nick Woltemade’s stats would fit that particular narrative. A penalty saw the German forward score in each of his first ...
34m Oct 05, 2025
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A fools' paradise? Woltemade and the wingers are Union-busters
Newcastle United haven't scored many goals so far this season, especially away from home, but on Wednesday night they put four past Belgian champions Union Saint-Gilloise and with relative ease. Nick Woltemade has been the source of some "salty" comments from Bayern-related figures over the last few days, but he opened the scoring with a deft flick which he definitely meant. Anthony Gordon scor...
51m Oct 02, 2025
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PotT joins Supporting Cast
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2m Oct 02, 2025
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Matchday PotT: Arsenal (h)... a tale of three headers
Heartbreak at St James's as Mikel Arteta's Gunners laid siege to Newcastle's wall of giant defenders and were able to break them down twice to take all three points back to North London. Chances were few and far between for the home side but Nick Woltemade did make the most of a corner he had earned and kept up his 100% record of headed-league-goals-at-SJP. George and Chris convened outside t...
31m Sep 28, 2025
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Matchday PotT: Bradford City (h), Carabao Beer!?!
The Bantams of Bradford came to St James's Park on Wednesday night. Unfortunately for them, Newcastle United are now heavyweights, especially in the Carabao Cup. Our defence of the trophy began in deliriously routine style despite a rocky spell early doors and a spectacular hit by Bishop Auckland's Andy Cook. With a one-two from Joelinton and Will Osula in either half, it was a comfortable even...
25m Sep 24, 2025
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What is this version of Newcastle United?
Recorded a mere 24 hours after the snore-fest at the Vitality Stadium, with George barely back through the marble portico which fronts Caulkin Manor, we're already moving on to a new week and yet more interesting football challenges. League One leaders Bradford City will be the visitors in the Carabao Cup as Eddie Howe's Newcastle begin their first defence of a trophy since 1969-70. Then, Arsen...
42m Sep 23, 2025
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Matchday PotT: Bournemouth (a)
Eddie Howe’s record with Newcastle against his old side AFC Bournemouth is, it’s fair to say, not a proud one. Less than 72 hours after an emotionally charged Champions League fixture against Barcelona, the trip to the Vitality Stadium looked a tricky one; especially with the Cherries having won three of their first four Premier League fixtures. In that context, a 0-0 draw doesn’t sound like ...
34m Sep 21, 2025
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Champions League Matchday PotT: Barcelona (h)
Here we go again... Champions League football returns to St James's Park with all the hallmarks of elite European competition... big name players... athleticism... skill... and, of course, tabards. But is it different this time? The arrival of Barcelona brings with it incredible memories, of course, but Newcastle's history in this tournament is just that; a series of great moments. Can we strin...
43m Sep 19, 2025
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Barcelona beware: Newcastle return to the Champions League
Here we go again! Newcastle United return to Champions League action after a year away, and it's our old pals Barcelona coming to St James's Park on Thursday night. We're all excited, but George really has the fever. No, really, he has the fever (get well soon, bud!). Only one thing to do; summon Jacob Whitehead in from a windswept beach in the West of Scotland. We also summarise what can only ...
33m Sep 16, 2025
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Matchday PotT: Wolves (h), Big Nick Energy!
Newcastle returned to Premier League action, after the ludicrously early September international break, needing to beat bottom-placed Wolves to notch their first win of the season. They would have to do so without two big new signings; young midfielder Jacob Ramsey and £55m centre-forward Yoanne Wissa. Ramsey is out for about a month, while Wissa faces an unspecified period out with a knee inju...
23m Sep 13, 2025
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W for Victory: Wissa or Woltemade v Wolves?
A little boutique edition of your favourite Newcastle United podcast this week as: a) it's been a men's international week and, 2) the Great North Run clashed with the women's fixture, so nobody's watched any live football at all. There was plenty of interesting stuff going on in the international fixtures, if you like that sort of thing, with Newcastle players starring for England, Italy, Braz...
37m Sep 10, 2025
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NUFC's new CEO: David Hopkinson + WSL Preview
Newcastle United have appointed David Hopkinson as their new CEO to replace the outgoing Darren Eales. David arrives with a powerful reputation in business built in his hometown of Toronto as well as New York and Madrid. It's been a tumultuous year at executive level and we welcome David's leadership although time will be a finite resource as he gets up to speed. While the process has taken alm...
46m Sep 05, 2025
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Relief and regret as Isak saga concludes with transfer deadline
The overwhelming emotion, and there have been many, is 'thank heavens that's all over with' but to suggest it's simple relief is to dramatically understate the complicated feelings we're left with. Whatever we think or feel, Alexander Isak is now a Liverpool player, Yoanne Wissa is our new number 9, and we can concentrate on the football with a stronger squad and an exciting Champions League ca...
58m Sep 03, 2025
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Matchday(ish) PotT: Leeds (a) w bonus Woltemade
It's another matchday focus Pod on the Tyne and an exciting trip to Leeds, railways notwithstanding, for a "winnable" game. Unfortunately, the football did not pan out exactly as we might have hoped, so we take the opportunity to swerve analysis of a very ignorable game. Instead, we discuss Newcastle's latest signing; a record transfer no less. Nick Woltemade isn't a prolific goalscorer, yet, b...
25m Aug 31, 2025
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Instant(ish) reaction to the Champions League draw
Here we go again. Newcastle were in Pot 4 for the 2025/26 Champions League draw and they will have the following fixtures: Barcelona (h) PSG (a) Benfica (h) Leverkusen (a) PSV (h) Marseille (a) Athletic Club (h) Union Saint-Gilloise (a) We've a quick reaction to all that, our Carabao Cup 3rd round tie against Bradford, and the news that a striker may be on the way!
18m Aug 28, 2025
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Gautrat exclusive: post-Liverpool fallout
The men's team showed incredible steel and determination without Alexander Isak against Liverpool. What does it all mean as we go into the last few days of the UK transfer window? Under Becky Langley, Newcastle's women are intent on getting promoted from WSL2 (formerly the Championship) at the second time of asking. They have made some statement signings in recent years (and already this summer...
53m Aug 27, 2025
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Matchday PotT: Liverpool (h)
It’s only our second matchday PotT but it may already be the biggest one of the season. Liverpool come to St James’s Park with Alexander Isak absent as he tries to secure a transfer (Anfield the only credible destination this summer). That’s not forgetting, of course, that Newcastle broke a 70-year domestic trophy drought last season with a Carabao Cup win OVER Liverpool. There are so many narr...
32m Aug 26, 2025
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Making a statement: Isak escalates as Liverpool come calling
Alexander Isak finally had his say on his absence from NUFC's first team activities, via a statement on Instagram. Club officials sprang into action with a response. There's little doubt, now, about how Isak feels about his future but without replacement strikers and a suitable bid, it's still difficult to see him getting a move away. All this leaves Eddie Howe without a centre forward for Mond...
52m Aug 21, 2025
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PotT's NUFC Q&A at the GCT
Right, here it is as promised, our post-summer Q&A recorded from the Gosforth Civic Theatre, where we ARE hoping to return to the stage very soon. With the arrival of Jacob Ramsey, there's basically just one position on everyone's minds now, and we fill you in on modern transfer techniques, being thorough about the news, and whether Newcastle can do without a striker (TLDR, they can't). There's...
45m Aug 19, 2025
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Matchday PotT: Aston Villa (a)
It's the start of a new Premier League season and everyone who loves Newcastle United is eagerly anticipating a stress-free stroll to three points... Oh no, that's right, we're all fretting about going into a challenging away fixture without our premium striking option as he's decided to down tools and sulk. Can Eddie Howe turn water into wine again? That's a bit unkind to the matchday squad,...
24m Aug 16, 2025
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Moving Forwards (or not): Newcastle United's distracted summer
We are soooooo back! That's Pod on the Tyne, not (necessarily) Newcastle United. Yes, it's been a typically Newcastle-y summer. Off the back of a glorious, trophy-winning, Champions League-qualifying season, Eddie Howe's plans for the new term have been thrown a gigantic Swedish curveball by Alexander's agitating antics. Isak aside, it might actually be developing into a decent transfer windo...
52m Aug 13, 2025
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Pod on the Tyne - An Announcement
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7m Aug 06, 2025
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Summer Q&A: Transfers, "the backroom", and chicken sausages
Taylor is struggling with the pollen count, Chris is making eyes at his BBQ, and nobody knows what day (or month) it is. Welcome to our first ever summer edition of Pod on the Tyne! We've already finished one transfer window and, while Manchester City have been busy, it wasn't the one that actually matters. Not that you can tell that to @furiouscramlingtondavey on X! However, with the imminen...
1hr 15m Jun 11, 2025
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Newcastle United's greatest ever season?
We've reached the end of a remarkable season, one that saw Newcastle United end a 56-year wait for a major trophy and return to the Champions League (after just one year away). It lays a decent claim, says George, to be the club's most successful season in history: a bold claim when the club has four league titles. But, while we happily bask in the glory, we also remember the stuttering start ...
1hr 9m Jun 03, 2025
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As it happened: Newcastle storm-ble back into the Champions League!!!
Relive a very nervy closing day as it happened with the PotT team. A two-nill win against a tricky opponent with a nerve-settling first-half goal from the leader in central midfield and a penalty from the team's world-class striker... Manchester City strolled back into the Champions League at Fulham. Newcastle United, on the other hand, made a right meal of it. Defeat at home to Everton saw t...
47m May 25, 2025
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Chatting Champions League and more with Jacob Murphy
Newcastle went down 1-0 at Arsenal on Sunday to set up a nervy last weekend. A win at home against Everton is needed to seal Champions League football (bar a near-impossible set of results elsewhere). Jacob Murphy has been speaking with George this week and he has faith in himself and his squad-mates to put in the performance needed against a post-Goodison Everton that is either eminently beat...
54m May 20, 2025
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Beers (and Chelsea sandwich) for Breakfast
Eddie Howe's trophy-winning Mags are on the brink of returning to the Champions League next season after a lightning start and a thunderous finish provided emphatic bookends to a nervy bit in between. The final result was 2-0, at least according to most reliable judges, and with two games to go, it's difficult to see how Newcastle can lose three places in the league. In fact with a trip to Ars...
1hr May 14, 2025
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Stark Waughs: NUFC strike back to take point at Brighton
A long time ago, at an AMEX arena far, far away... Chris Waugh watched a Jason Tindall-less Newcastle United fight back to draw against Brighton. Yankuba Minteh's goal, followed by a bizarre series of reactions, had seemingly put a dent in our Champions League pursuit, but referee Craig Pawson's third penalty award survived VAR and Isak slotted home. Meanwhile, closer to home at Blackburn's E...
1hr 13m May 06, 2025
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Eddie Howe back to work as Newcastle overwhelm Ipswich
The last month has been quite a rollercoaster for Newcastle's manager, Eddie Howe. From the ecstasy of our Carabao Cup win to the agony, and anxiety, of a brush with pneumonia. On Saturday, he returned to the dugout, and despite his admission he's not quite 100% yet, it was a huge boost for everyone. Alexander Isak's 22nd Premier League goal of the season, plus a pair of headers from Dan Burn ...
1hr 8m Apr 28, 2025
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Palace home; glorious, especially compared to Villa
It's a tale of two Uniteds this week. First up; a magnificent demolition of Crystal Palace when everyone scored, even Isak. And while Villa away was a Saturday to forget, the podcast team seem to have a lot more trouble remembering the details from earlier in the week. Either way, we are shrugging it all off and looking forward to an exciting run-in. Ipswich is the first of a crucial trio of ...
43m Apr 22, 2025
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Doing the Manchester United double: now that IS delicious!
Eddie Howe's illness, while obviously a concern for everyone, did not disrupt Newcastle's focus on a Super Sunday. Newcastle's senior teams won 10-1 on aggregate as The Lasses put promotion disappointment behind them with six unanswered goals against Blackburn. Manchester United, meanwhile, left St James's Park with their tails between their legs; our midfield trio bullying them into submissio...
55m Apr 14, 2025
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Bees and Foxes dispatched: Cup final response pleases Howe
Newcastle United took six Premier League points from their first two games after winning the Carabao Cup, albeit three of them were a little easier than the others. Brentford came to St James's Park and put up a fight, equalising through Mbeumo before Tonali's not-a-worldie saved the victory in another "game-state" triumph. Then to Leicester, the third leg of George's relegation odyssey, and ...
42m Apr 08, 2025
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Party time! Bus tour and Town Moor celebrations
From the sublime to the ludicrous, Newcastle showed the footballing world how to celebrate properly on Saturday as the Carabao Cup winners showed off their spoils on a bus tour of the city centre. A host of TV stars and football heroes joined the fun as the party carried on at the Town Moor with Eddie Howe in raptures (yes, really) and Bruno leading the chorus. The Lasses are out of their tit...
57m Mar 31, 2025
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The Lasses' derby double: record attendance at St James's Park
Newcastle United's women completed a derby double, beating Sunderland in the home fixture at St James's Park with a crowd of almost forty thousand watching on. Substitute Shania Hayles was the scorer, her tenth in the league this season, as The Lasses (TM) retained local bragging rights with a one-nil win which also keeps their slim title and promotion hopes alive. Meanwhile, in order to come...
56m Mar 25, 2025
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Cup Hangover Special: sharing memories of Wembley win
Eddie Howe's mighty Mags thrashed Liverpool in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley on Sunday. In this extended PotT we analyse the performance and bask in the glory. With an overwhelming response from you, the audience, we talk about the experience for those at the game, the reaction of fans around the world, and that strange feeling of what to do next? The very first thing to do will be watch N...
1hr 25m Mar 19, 2025
1hr 25m
The Sound of Victory: 2025 Carabao Cup Winners
We did it! (they did it!) Newcastle United are the 2025 Carabao Cup winners, and in some style... Grab your headphones and enjoy a weekend in stereo in London. From King's Cross, to Covent Garden, to Wembley, to Dreamland. Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
40m Mar 17, 2025
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Carabao Cup Final Preview
Here we go again! Carabao anxiety is morphing into cuppy fever at PotT towers with the mood enhanced by victory at West Ham (and Chris's negativity notable by its absence on Tuesday; something he more than balances out with one stratospheric stat). George, in particular, while not quite upbeat, is certainly buoyed by his examination of Eddie Howe's working patterns and the after-glow of that c...
54m Mar 13, 2025
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Hope in our hearts after West Ham win
Eddie Howe celebrated enthusiastically after the final whistle at the London Stadium. While it may not have been much of a spectacle, the 1-0 win (with a goal from captain Bruno Guimaraes) represented a real boost to the team's confidence. The preceding week had seen gut punch after gut punch... Anthony Gordon's suspension for the Carabao Cup Final (which will not be appealed) was followed by ...
43m Mar 11, 2025
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Pre-Carabao calamity: the Seagull sequel
Newcastle fans were left with a vomit-inducing case of deja vu on Sunday after the final home game before the Carabao Cup final saw another day of injury and insult. Lewis Hall was ruled out of the FA Cup tie vs Brighton and has consulted with a specialist, leaving his fitness in doubt, while Anthony Gordon saw red, and saw red; he now faces a three-match ban which would include the trip to We...
55m Mar 03, 2025
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Isak absence analysed as Anfield abstinence endures
Welcome to this BONUS edition of Pod on the Tyne, organised to commemorate the **checks notes** routine win for Liverpool at home to Newcastle... Yes, Chris made us all get together to reflect on a dress rehearsal that definitely could have gone a lot worse for Newcastle, but equally gave us no additional reasons to expect a winning performance at Wembley in March's Carabao Cup final. Of cour...
50m Feb 27, 2025
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Beating Forest 4-3 and why it's good, actually
Newcastle United were, at one time, primarily famous for being on the wrong end of a 4-3 scoreline; now, somehow, we're regretting being on the right end of one... That might seem contradictory but the nature of Sunday's win (against one of our main Premier League rivals, remember) was a trademark burst of St James's Park energy followed by the exhale of a loose accordion. BUT win we did, Lew...
55m Feb 24, 2025
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A Nightmare on Etihad Street: another alarming off-day
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Manchester... City stuttering, Newcastle striding into the Carabao Cup final and skipping over Birmunum banana skins...Oh no! Eddie Howe and the club both have terrible track records at the Etihad, but this goes down as one of the most disappointing performances for either. Beaten in duels, unable to make a pass, and with a distinctly buttery def...
50m Feb 18, 2025
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Newcastle: the cup specialists reborn?
FA Cup weekend brought mixed fortunes for Newcastle United's senior teams; Eddie Howe's men emerged victorious, but by no means unscathed, from a trip to Birmingham while the women's team fought valiantly and competed but were deservedly beaten by WSL outfit Crystal Palace. Eddie Howe rotated his squad at St Andrews, with only Bruno Guimaraes and Dan Burn retained from the starting eleven that...
46m Feb 10, 2025
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Another Eddie Howe masterclass for Arteta's Arsenal
Just when you thought it was safe for Arsenal to go back to St James's Park, Eddie Howe's Newcastle United delivered another performance of exquisite intensity to cast aside any nervous energy and cruise into another Carabao Cup final. Highlights included a line-up that looked like a low block back five, but actually saw two of the three centre halves charging upfield to harangue and harass Ar...
1hr 20m Feb 06, 2025
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