{"id":404407,"date":"2025-09-07T04:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T04:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/404407\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T04:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T04:52:12","slug":"jacob-murphy-names-the-terrible-terrible-runner-in-the-newcastle-united-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/404407\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Murphy names the ‘terrible, terrible runner’ in the Newcastle United squad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Newcastle United star Jacob Murphy will have the honour of being the starter for the AJ Bell Great North Run. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Murphy<\/a>, along with Nick Pope, will start the half marathon. The famous run starts in Newcastle before continuing down the coast into South Shields. <\/p>\n

The two Newcastle United<\/a> stars will be the first active footballers to start the world famous event, though manager Eddie Howe<\/a> has previously performed the honour. <\/p>\n

In the build-up to the run, Murphy was asked a series of questions. <\/p>\n

Out of his teammates in the Newcastle United squad<\/a>, Murphy backed Sven Botman to come first in a half marathon. <\/p>\n

When it came to who would come last, however, Murphy had a more revealing answer. <\/p>\n

\"JacobPhoto by Marc Atkins\/Getty ImagesJacob Murphy jokes that Fabian Schar is a terrible runner <\/p>\n

The Newcastle star selected Botman\u2019s defensive partner Fabian Schar<\/a> as his pick to come last. <\/p>\n

He joked that his Swiss teammate was a \u201cterrible, terrible runner\u201d, largely because his game is based on intelligence. <\/p>\n

\u201cFabian Schar,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cTerrible, terrible runner because his game is all about intelligence not the running.\u201d <\/p>\n

To Schar\u2019s credit, he\u2019s not often put himself in a position where he has to run for any great deal of time for what feels like an age now, such have been the level of his performances under Howe. <\/p>\n

What Jacob Murphy has said about starting the Great North Run <\/p>\n

When the news was announced, Murphy is quoted as saying: \u201cMe and Popey will see you on the start line. I\u2019ll start practicing my wave.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Toon star also expressed a willingness to do the run himself, saying: \u201cI think it would be something I would really like to do once I finish playing. A really good challenge, test myself. <\/p>\n

\u201cA new comfort zone to try and get into. Yeah, I look forward to these sort of huge challenges when I finish playing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is the 44th edition of The Great North Run, and 60,000 participants are expected. Around 200,000 people are expected to watch the runners in action.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The route will see runners go across the Tyne Bridge to Gateshead and past the Gateshead International Stadium before continuing on through South Tyneside. <\/p>\n

From there, it will feature a mile-long stretch on the seafront to the finish in South Shields. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle United star Jacob Murphy will have the honour of being the starter for the AJ Bell Great…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[41672,16205,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-404407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-fabian-schu00e4r","9":"tag-jacob-murphy","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115161225266170740","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}