 Darren Randolph, hynny yn dwysig i AFC Bournemouth. Gwtodd eich gennyd am ffactor? Rwy'n gyfrigeu. Rwy'n gyfrigeu oherwydd. Roeddi'n ffactor amlo. Roeddi'n ffactor amlo. Roeddi'n ffactor amlo. Roeddi'n ffactor amlo. Roeddu'n ffactor. Roeddi'n ffactor amlo youn. Roeddwch wedi cael tua i gestio. Ryan Frederick's, Marcus Tavarnia. Have they told you good things about the club? Yeah, they have. And then obviously other people who don't play or have been here in the past have told me how great of a club it is and the area as well. So that definitely helped in my decision. Like I said, knowing the three boys is good and that's helped. So yeah, I'm happy to be here ready to get started. Now Netto is one of the other goalkeepers you're going to be jewelling with. Darren and I know that fighting for a place is something you've been very used to throughout your career. Yeah, I think most clubs I've been at have had to fight. You know what a goalkeeper is and I think that's just the nature of the business. Obviously it's our own little group within the group. You know, I've always been quite close in every kind of goalkeeper's union that I've been in. And ultimately we're just here to push each other and wherever there's a shot then it's hopefully going to work in their favour and make everybody perform to the best of their ability. More than 500 appearances for club and country. Darren, you must be looking forward to lending your experience to this group as well. Yeah, 100%. The position the clubs in have been there in the past. So I'd like to think I've got some experience and some other services to give to the rest of the team. You certainly learnt the ropes during your time at Charlton with some loan spells at places like Welling, Atkrington, Gillingham, Berrien, Hereford, they all would have stood you in good stead for a career. Yeah, start off in the lower leagues, proper men's football, but set me up well for my footballing journey and I think that's helped me in good stead over my career. And then he went to Motherwell where you became a legend. Darren, you played in the Champions League, you kept a clean sheet record for them and you got pelted with cigarette lighters in Denmark. Tell us about that. Yeah, I think we played in Cope Van Hagen and cigarette lighters, coke bottles, little plastic cups of beer. I think there was beer anyway. What else? Coins, usual stuff, but a nice little collection for after the game. That must have been a really good spell in your career because you were also in the team of the year in Scotland in 2011-12. Yeah, it was kind of a period in my career where I wanted to go out and make a name for myself. So I actually got to, you know, go to Motherwell, got the chance to play, experience European football for the first time. So it was a good period for myself and for the club. Bournemouth fans would not let me forget to ask you about the record 8-0 win that Bournemouth had at St Andrews in 2014-15 when you played for Birmingham. I've also got to remind them of the fact that Birmingham came here at Easter and gave Bournemouth a real scare by taking a 2-0 lead and eventually using 4-2. What was it like to play against that Bournemouth team in that season, Darren? That season, Bournemouth would have probably the only team in the league that probably everybody feared to play free-flowing football, you know, goals, power, pace, just everything at that time at Birmingham. We were struggling, we didn't have a manager. The club was kind of upside down trying to kind of wait and see what would happen on a day-to-day basis but it's always going to be tough playing Bournemouth. Probably top of the league at that time and then we got a man sent off after six, seven minutes. That's all I choose to remember or tell you about that day. Another successful period in your career was at Middlesbrough. You were in the PFA team of the season, you were a player of the year at Middlesbrough and like I said earlier, you played with Marcus Tavernier there. Just tell us about playing with him there. Tavernier broke into the Middlesbrough side when I was there and it was just what we needed at that time. The energy that young players have when they break into the team, you know, you can run for days, you're great on the ball. He played very well for us when he was called upon. Again, over the years, you've played with obviously some of the younger players and it's good to see how his career has kind of kicked on since then. Some fond memories for you at West Ham, Darren, as well. You played in the final game at Upton Park and you kept a clean sheet in a 3-0-1 against Liverpool, which was West Ham's first victory against Liverpool since 1963. Yeah, that came a week after. We played Bournemouth at the bowling ground and we lost 4-3. Bournemouth has been my bogey team over the years but like I said, the next game was Liverpool away. I think he won 3-0 and then that was obviously nice, the next game to have that. Like I said, the last game at the bowling against Man United, we won that game 3-2 so it was a nice memory, a nice result to leave that stadium before going on to the new one. How much of AFC Bournemouth's journey would you have followed? I know you encountered them in the championship with Birmingham. Do you remember the days back when they were struggling at the bottom of League 2 and then they got into the Premier League? Yeah, because I've been to Bournemouth before to play, obviously before the stadium was rebuilt, I think then. I don't know where we are in the stadium, but then when the end there was no stand. It was just like a little wooden kind of wall and if the ball went over it didn't get it back and it had to wait for a new one to be thrown on. And as one of the stories in football you can't help but know this and to follow. It's really a dream story to see obviously where the club was, to where it is now. The club's journey has certainly taken another significant turn with new owners arriving very recently. I know that you're an aficiado of basketball and NFL. Just tell us about how Americans do their sport and how well they do it. Yeah, they do very well. There's no stone left unturned that really is kind of made out to be a big thing and a good family day out. They love the kind of entertainment as well. Obviously come from a basketball family that was in the house from when I was a little baby and obviously NFL as well. Unfortunately I don't know too much about ice hockey but I also have to do my research and I'll pick it up pretty quick. We're all Vegas, we're all Vegas, Scotland Knights fans now I can assure you. Just expand a little bit on that basketball side of it. I think if you hadn't been a footballer you certainly would have tried to become a basketball player following in your dad's footsteps and only your brother as well. Yeah, my dad and little brother still play. My brother plays for his club side and for Ireland as well. I played for Ireland when I was younger in basketball. I got to about 15 and obviously needed to make a choice between football or basketball. I was never going to make it to the NBA so it was football I chose to go with. So far it's been a good decision. I read somewhere that you also fancied yourself as maybe being a Formula One driver. Just tell us about that. I don't know where you got that from. It was on the West Ham official website saying if you were the footballer you would have been a basketball player or a Formula One driver. Never mind anyway, moving on. So I was definitely made that up. Now you played a little bit Gaelic football and rugby when you were younger and you started out as a centre half. What tipped the balance to become a goalkeeper? We had a cup final and the goalkeeper ended up getting injured. He said who wants to go on goal and my hand shot up just thinking I would just be there for one game. I was stuck there afterwards and never got to get back out on the pitch and run around. So I put myself forward. I just think probably through playing basketball and Gaelic and rugby it's the hand-eye coordination that definitely helped. Now anybody who didn't get the X-factor gag at the start of the interview your partner is Alexandra Burke who won the X-factor in 2008 and then you became a father last year for the first time. Just tell us how fatherhood has changed your life. Massively. With the other responsibility now of looking after a little baby changes your outlook on life. Again, it's given me more drive than probably what I had before. To look after the family and to make the baby proud. We're going to finish up with one about your mum. Your mum's a folk singer. Now we still have this procedure here where new signings have to do in an initiation song. We don't need to say it to remind people because they may forget. By you saying it now it's going to be a thing. Especially the fact you put in mum sings. Everyone's going to be expecting, sorry to keep cutting you off. Everyone's going to be expecting big things and they're just going to be a let-down. Have you got any songs in mind? My dear, I'm not telling you. Brilliant. Excellent. Thanks very much.