Friendly fire

CORK READY TO FACE HIS PALS

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The Clarets have taken just two points from the last 15 and beating the Toon – and his old pals – is the key for Cork.

He said: “I played with Jonjo a bit and Federico has gone there now. I like Jonjo and Fedy is a good guy.

“You cannot have sympathy for a pal though. Football is like that. You get on really well off the pitch and have lots of friends in football.

“But you have got to look after your own team and your own people around you.

“That’s what we need to have in our heads – to try and look after ourselves.

“It’s difficult when results haven’t been going our way. I feel we’ve done okay at times but we’ve obviously had some bad performances, some good ones and okay ones.

“I think at times, with the amount of games we’ve had, it’s been tough trying to be as physical and hard-working as we have been. We should be trying to get back to that.”

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