Amanda Staveley: “The Great North Run was one of the fantastic reasons why we came to Newcastle”

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00:00 When you bought into Newcastle United, did you buy into the whole North East with events

00:03 like this?

00:04 I knew, I mean the Great North Run was one of the fantastic reasons why we came to Newcastle.

00:09 I'm a Northern girl, my sister-in-law has run in it many times, I'm a sprinter so I

00:14 need to actually enter next year's race.

00:18 But we're so proud to be here, the incredible work that the Great North Run has done, Sir

00:23 Brendan has inspired me and inspired us all at Newcastle, so we're just really excited.

00:30 Your head coach Eddie Howe is the official starter this year as well, how proud does

00:33 that make you?

00:34 So proud, we came in today and seeing him starting this amazing race means everything,

00:41 it means a great deal to him, he said to me on the way "I'm so excited about meeting

00:46 Sir Brendan" so it was so lovely.

00:49 It's a beautiful day for it as well, the sun has really shone on Newcastle today.

00:52 It always shines in Newcastle, even when it rains!

00:56 But I hope everybody's going to be safe, it's hot, so I hope everybody's going to be safe.

01:02 But to have Mo running, this is going to be incredible, his last race and we're going

01:10 to give him an amazing send-off, so I'm just very excited for his race as well.