Season Two - Episode 22 5th December 2018 - a podcast by Preston North End

Following the heroics of the youth team in the FA Youth Cup on Tuesday night this week’s Official PNE Club Podcast focuses in on the club’s youth development.

Academy manager Nick Harrison joins us along with academy graduate Josh Earl to look back over Tuesday night’s FA Youth Cup Third Round win over Charlton Athletic.

We re-live the drama of the 3-1 win in the penalty shootout, with goalkeeper Jimmy Corcoran saving two of the Charlton spot-kicks.

You can hear from Corcoran, speaking with iFollow PNE following the memorable win for the young Lilywhites.

U18s boss Harrison speaks in depth about the importance of the win for his young side.

He touches on the role PNE have in each players development as well as praising the spirited team performance to come through extra-time against the Category Two side.

Josh Earl speaks about watching on, with his brother Lewis in action for PNE, just two years after he was part of the U18 side that reached the last eight of the prestigious competition.

Having worked his way into the plans of Alex Neil, the defender also shares his thoughts on first team matters.

Now into his second year in the first team the 20-year-old talks about his desire to kick on and nail down a place in the starting XI on a regular basis.

As well as that, ahead of the trip to Nottingham Forest this week’s Star Six features PNE Legend Paul McKenna.

The former PNE and Forest captain joins us to talk through the best players he turned out with at North End having played for the Lilywhites over 450 times.

The podcast is brought to you on a weekly basis by host Guy Clarke.

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