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Christian 0:01

That's when I saved

Will 0:02

I was like,

Christian 0:03

building.

Will 0:03

that's my favorite thing. When we just hit record, kind of like, we're back Season two, episode three, have match Day one end, we're gonna be covering match day one. We'll give you a couple news. We'll send some blessings up for some phantom limbs on the pod. We're gonna shout out some new listeners. Very shortly we will talk maybe winners or losers. We'll see how we feel, and then we'll also do a preview for Match day two. Exciting stuff. How are you guys doing today?

Jerrell 0:31

Pretty good, pretty good

Christian 0:32

That

Jerrell 0:33

on this wonderful Wednesday, August 20th, 2025,

Will 0:37

get there on August 20th. Room joined by Christian Jarrell. we have

Jerrell 0:43

and, and the ambulance.

Christian 0:45

in the

Jerrell 0:45

the ambulance in the background.

Will 0:46

That's the, that's the, that's the nice part about having a office street side. You get to hear ting in the background. It's headed your way a Christian. So you know, if you hear that in about five minutes.

Christian 0:56

because you ignore that Velcro sound. It's just me taping up my knee.

Will 1:01

Today we're joined by a lot of random outside noises. We're gonna put we're gonna put it on the socials. Just what random noises did you hear in the background? Whoever gets the most listeners right, gets to see Christian's calf

Jerrell 1:12

Yeah.

Will 1:13

be flexed the same way. Plus he's up for Christian's, MCL. He put up too many bangers up last night. He's dealing with the.

Christian 1:19

ends only.

Jerrell 1:21

But, but the Uber career is suffering.

Will 1:24

You have to get that Tezi autopilot going. Are you driving, sir? Mm-hmm.

Jerrell 1:29

Nope, it's, it's Elon Musk. Drive'em for me.

Christian 1:34

Way more. Alright,

Jerrell 1:36

have Waymo?

Christian 1:36

you, what'd you

Jerrell 1:37

Not here.

Christian 1:38

I heard we got some new, we still got some

Jerrell 1:40

We got some new, we got new. Yeah, we got some new places. We got new places. We got Frankfurt, Germany.

Christian 1:45

Ah, I

Jerrell 1:46

We got Brisbane, Australia, part of Queensland Dublin, Ireland, and Charleston, South Carolina. So thank you guys for listening. That's great. Like I logged in, I was like, holy shit. Like people are tuning in. One of you guys, one of you guys out there went on a marathon run of our podcast and we appreciate that even more.

Christian 2:06

They was trying to just speed run, trying to get cut up with the Premier League.

Jerrell 2:09

Absolutely. Yeah.

Will 2:11

like, what happened last year?

Jerrell 2:12

Yep.

Will 2:13

So they, they were trying to get the chronological, they're

Jerrell 2:16

Yeah.

Will 2:16

Premier League seasons, like that league started last year, so yeah, we appreciate you guys listening and send a subscribe, send a, send a shout. We have socials. Tell me all about'em.

Jerrell 2:26

We've got Twitter, blue Sky, Insta, the Football Fellows at all of those. We have an official website, football fellows.com, where you can see some news. It gets updated sometimes and the standings, so you don't have to get ads from the Premier League or anything. You can just go straight to football fellows.com. See the standings right there. Don't have to about anything

Christian 2:45

What was that website? One more time.

Jerrell 2:47

football fellas.com.

Will 2:49

Bus sprout, we don't need you. Even

Jerrell 2:51

We

Will 2:52

kind

Jerrell 2:52

we do, we do.

Will 2:53

of use do easy for posting, but

Jerrell 2:55

We need them to host the podcast, although they're trying to raise the rate.

Will 3:00

We also have a Gmail Football fellows@gmail.com. Send us the email when, yeah, I don't know, just'cause Fuck

Jerrell 3:07

We need, we need an artist. We need an artist for, for the podcast episodes.

Will 3:12

Oh, do we? It.

Jerrell 3:13

Maybe it's intern work.

Will 3:15

Intern work. I don't, I don't know if any of the interns have a fucking creative bone in their bodies

Jerrell 3:20

That's why we need.

Will 3:21

guitar. If it's acoustic guitar, I know a guy. It's Christian. All right, cool. Outside of that, you guys doing well?

Jerrell 3:29

Yes, doing well

Christian 3:31

We're doing.

Will 3:32

Christians like as well as I can with them building next door, we'll get there.

Christian 3:35

It's actually pretty interesting. I'm actually enjoying the way they're

Jerrell 3:39

the progress.

Christian 3:40

housing, fucking whatever

Will 3:42

The video of them lifting up the, the piece up just like it was a gingerbread house, was actually wild. I was like, I don't know how I thought buildings were built, but

Jerrell 3:52

You should.

Will 3:52

it was like that. O.

Christian 3:53

the, they casted the walls on the ground and I was like, those are some pretty tiny rooms. And then they put it up and I was like, oh, those were window holes.

Will 4:01

Mm-hmm. Windows. Alright.

Christian 4:04

Guys.

Will 4:05

new,

Christian 4:05

news

Jerrell 4:05

We.

Christian 4:06

from around the

Will 4:06

Yeah, so the Esau drama ongoing he missed a pfas and he put a statement up, black text, white black background, white text stating just kind of like, pretty much, I ain't showing up to that shit. Thank you to everyone. Great season to everyone. Couple arsenal players, couple Manchester, Liverpool players. But pretty much I ain't showing up. I'm on strike. I wanna go to Liverpool. cut the check, or receive the check. And Newcastle respond to it the well. Now he's, now you're really not fucking moving. So we'll see how that goes over like the next week and a half left in the transfer window. As a it looked like he was a done deal to sprayers over the weekend. Crystal Palace, they were gonna hold off because they have their qualifying matchup tomorrow. So maybe same day you're listening to us. If as it gets posted, I don't know if Gerald's gonna go tonight if he's feeling ballsy or maybe tomorrow morning, but,

Jerrell 4:54

to be accurate, I might have to.

Will 4:56

But in the meantime, Kai Havet with Arsenal. He looks like he's suffering in the injury, the extent not known, but it looks like he'll be facing a spell on the sideline. So now it looks like that's about to be hijacked by Arsenal as, as they looks like he might be going to Arsenal, Arsal might be willing to pay a fee around the 68 million pound release clause from over the summer as they look to bolster up their left wing forward line. There. But we'll get further into that. Yeah.

Jerrell 5:22

the wolves, they, they signed the fastest man from the Italian League,

Will 5:26

And the yes. Jackson Tchaa for

Jerrell 5:30

but does it.

Christian 5:31

I Cs are silent.

Will 5:34

ua,

Christian 5:34

Yeah.

Will 5:34

dunno, sorry for fucking it up. Jackson, my guy though. It's wolves for 12 point a half million Euros. He was clocked at 35.8 kilos per something. I, I.

Christian 5:45

40 yard dash units.

Will 5:47

There's a question early on. We're early on into the recording and I've already been stuffed, fuck, I have to be more ready, my fault guys. But yeah, we're still seeing deals getting done. A lot of places set. Some places set tight like Brighton, they got all their deals done before July 5th. Other teams palace, looking for spending full and also with their coaches asking just like, where's cut the check, please. We need, we need reinforcement. So we'll see how that goes over the next week and a half.

Jerrell 6:12

Yeah. Two teams that haven't really been spending, I think they're the bo. I know Crystal Powell spent the least. I think Fulham is down there too.

Will 6:19

I, I think Fullham, they only got a backup goalkeeper for this season. And

Jerrell 6:23

Oh.

Will 6:23

Rodrigo Muni, who had a big goal over the weekend he might be on the way out. So we'll see. We'll see.

Jerrell 6:29

Oh, no.

Will 6:30

Glasner not happy. Westham I think also needs some spending, but that's neither here nor there. But we had our first weekend of Premier League football. How'd it feel, guys to just see all these games going on

Jerrell 6:41

It felt really, it felt really good. I was driving, I got, I got to the hotel and I was just like, wait, Liverpool and Bourmouth are playing. I need to watch this. Missed the first half.

Will 6:53

that energy

Jerrell 6:54

And caught the second. So if we wanna jump right into the review. But yeah. Liverpool born Myth four two. It was really fun watching the cherry see if they can kill some more giants this season. They almost, they almost got the point at, at Anfield but it just got away from them. Cha Chaa, how would you pronounce that

Christian 7:10

I'm pretty

Jerrell 7:10

chia?

Christian 7:11

I could be

Will 7:11

Yeah.

Christian 7:11

wrong.

Will 7:12

Kiaa. Yeah.

Christian 7:13

sir.

Jerrell 7:14

Hits the goal in the 88th minute to put the, to put Liverpool up three, two, and then sala sprints across the field to win the ball over. And then just like I still have enough energy to dribble some more and shoot and score, and GoBoard two in the stoppage time, sala is inevitable. And I was just like, man, I would've liked, I would've liked Liverpool to drop points at Anfield.

Will 7:38

the game was cod at that point. We're not gonna hit the inevitable line every time he scores, but yeah.

Jerrell 7:44

am, but.

Will 7:46

Hugo? Hugo, it was already okay. Hugo had to etiquette also with another goal. I think he scored in. Damn near most of his fixtures since we're take inevitable back from Drew. I don't remember the second golf at the top of my head, but Liverpool up 2.0. Antoine Simo, he was able to score a brace in the second half to bring it level. There was an instance of him being racially abused and the. Fan that was found of it was banned permanently from the stadium. It's good to see something being done versus a, just a slap on the wrist, but ans a menu as well. I think he was linked with Arsenal when they found out about Rs, but we'll see how that goes. But he gets a brace, but Liverpool Remi reminiscent of last season. They got goals two goals late and they sealed three points to start off the season.

Jerrell 8:28

Yeah, so my new Schools are really nice.

Christian 8:31

that, that I've noticed is the last two games, they're, they have

Will 8:34

Give it to me.

Christian 8:35

what's his name? Shores by Woo.

Will 8:37

Yeah.

Christian 8:38

He's. He's usually more of an attacker midfielder than they have been playing midfield. The two goals that led to the two goals from Bemo came from just everybody in Liverpool being up top. There's too many people attacking friend PA also plays up top. I think their second, their first goal there nine, like there was like eight out of the 11 players for Liverpool. Were in the attacking half on the first goal. There's just, there's no one to hold the midfield and everybody's just in the attacking, attacking. And that's where two of the both goals for burn Move came. It was just just got caught flatfooted at top of the on the opposite side and they just sped through so

Jerrell 9:17

Yeah, no, definitely.

Christian 9:18

last time. And it's something that they might wanna look into maybe change some players around, get some more defensive holders in there. But there's no doubt that they can score. They're always going to score. And now it's just I feel like a, a better team. Have a better chance of pulling away points from that, from that,

Jerrell 9:34

So what you, what you're saying is they need more tense.

Christian 9:37

Need more tens. Yeah.

Will 9:39

think it'll, yeah, it'll be interesting.'cause I feel like Sova Sly, who I think, I've, I've sung his praises before, especially when we're covering Euros last summer is, yeah, he plays more of a 10 role. McAllister can be interchanged throughout that midfield. But Florian and Verts, while he can't play left wing, he's more known for playing like more, a little bit more centrally in a 10 role. So how that works between them, f pong wing back. And then also Milo Kki kind of plays a little bit more of a wing back as well, so you can get a attacks from different ways. But yeah, getting the tactics rights is gonna be crucial. They definitely did look a little bit more vulnerable in the midfield in their back line than you're used to seeing. Hey, they got the three points, but it'll be something interesting to track.'cause despite the Scoreline, I thought be Smith played them pretty solid for first game on the road to start the season.

Jerrell 10:21

Yeah, definitely. Because at the end of the day, like the charities they did, they, they did come back to equalize in that second half. So a lot of resiliency there too, despite the results. So they, they might be a tough team to just play against and you can't count them out. Onto the next one. We had the villains verse, Newcastle and a zero zero draw. Ashton Villa had to survive a red card to hold onto this draw.

Will 10:47

Yeah, Esri Kza with the red card in the 66 minute outside of that villa. Didn't look, didn't get too forward on their front fit, but New Castle also couldn't convert, so I don't really have much to add on this one. It would just be something just kinda Newcastle doesn't score a goal. You're gonna hit the Esoc button and be like, oh shit what's going on there? Newcastle continually looking to bring in a new striker look. I think they just had a bid for Y Visa. For about 40 million pounds or euros, forgot off the top of my head. I'm rejected as Brentford also looking to hold onto somebody on their end. So we'll see what it, we'll see what that looks like. In the meantime, a lot of

Jerrell 11:20

No, at the price is right, they'll sell'em.

Will 11:24

The price is 150 mil,

Jerrell 11:26

that's what they, that's what they valued him at. Holy shit. I don't know about that.

Christian 11:31

How much did they pay for him?

Will 11:33

I don't remem

Jerrell 11:33

not a lot.

Will 11:34

they got him from Rail's side of that, but they, it was, it wasn't that much. But when you look at it, look at his age, he's 25. Who's the top nine that's realistically available across Europe?

Christian 11:44

for him.

Jerrell 11:44

Lisa, I thought he was 28.

Will 11:46

Visa is like 29, 28.

Jerrell 11:48

Yeah,

Will 11:49

Oh, are you asking Visa or are we talking esoc still?

Jerrell 11:52

I'm talking Lisa.

Will 11:54

Oh, I have no idea, dude.

Jerrell 11:56

I was like 150 for Lisa. Is is insane.

Will 11:58

no. I, I was talk.

Christian 12:00

not.

Will 12:00

absolutely not, bro. I wasn't,

Jerrell 12:02

I was like, whoa.

Will 12:03

wasn't, I wasn't gonna stick on that for too long. I was definitely back on ES socks since we were

Jerrell 12:08

Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. 50 for Estock. Okay. I'm like, all sure. Yeah.

Will 12:12

feel like 40 mil for Visa is like decent money, honestly.

Jerrell 12:16

Yeah.

Christian 12:16

Newcastle bought him for 75 mil.

Will 12:19

from society of that,

Christian 12:20

yeah.

Will 12:21

Yeah, so we'll see. They, I think they want one 50. They're trying to like, not get bullied out of it, but we'll see how that goes because we'll definitely get clarity over the next 11 days.'cause we're also in a World Cup year yeah, but draw on the road at the London Stadium to start the season for them. We also had Brighton versus Fullham ending in a one one draw as well. Brighton's, get a, get a Matt Riley pen in the 55th and Fullham Rod Uni. He ties in the, pretty much at the last corner of the game in a game where Fullham really didn't show much going forward, exacerbating those concerns about the lack of spending that they've done headed into the season.

Jerrell 12:57

Yeah, not a whole lot going on here. It's a one, one draw. It was a game that could have went either way. To be honest. But yeah, it's split the points surprising Match Sutherland and Westham, or is it surprising? I don't know. It depends who you ask.

Christian 13:10

bro. Not to Mexican Twitter baby.

Jerrell 13:12

No, absolutely not. I did see that recently though, too. I was like, they don't even have a Mexican player. Huh? They just love'em. Yeah.

Will 13:18

Sunderland. Yeah.

Jerrell 13:21

Three Oh.

Christian 13:23

of light, right? The soul. SOL, you make the connection to soul beer, Mexican soul beer.

Jerrell 13:30

Mm-hmm.

Christian 13:31

There it is. There

Jerrell 13:32

Alright.

Will 13:33

there. There's things still worth fighting for.

Christian 13:35

Yeah, but I don't know how many of our viewers have been up on the Sunland Twitter slash Mexican Twitter, but all of Mexico is backing up Sunderland and I love it,

Jerrell 13:44

They're not gonna, they're

Christian 13:45

a

Jerrell 13:45

gonna stay in the league.

Christian 13:46

They were just like, we're here eight years in, we're back baby. Mm-hmm.

Jerrell 13:50

Three goals in the final 30

Will 13:53

Yeah. Yeah. They

Jerrell 13:54

just okay.

Will 13:54

got three at home. And they returned to the Premier League for the first time in eight years. Grand Jaka also on that squad, shout 10. But Westham Pro.

Christian 14:02

The Greenage Jaka signing. I forgot about that. Yeah. Pretty fun fact about so in the last 10 Premier League seasons, newly promoted clubs have only managed to win five out of their 30 opening matches. The

Jerrell 14:14

Can you name the other one?

Christian 14:15

Brentford, Bern, Mo, and Hu's Field Town.

Will 14:21

We had another team win, right?

Jerrell 14:22

Yeah, we did.

Will 14:23

get there. Yeah, but that exacerbates Grand Potter's concerns Westham, very much a team that in transition, it looks like. Where are the goals come from? I do not know right now because I don't

Jerrell 14:33

Not here.

Will 14:34

Yeah. Yeah, Westham, they're on my relegation wash sprayers, Burnley, one of our other ascendant teams played this weekend and Spurs just with a neat 3 0 1 to start at the Thomas Frank era.

Jerrell 14:45

That's it.

Will 14:45

gets a brace.

Christian 14:46

I know. Amazing Brace. I don't know if you saw the second goal.

Will 14:50

I di I did. I didn't get a chance to see it.

Christian 14:52

I wasn't over the head.

Will 14:54

hmm. Good to see him. Score goals. Yeah.

Christian 14:56

Charleston got voted player of the the week as well. So

Will 15:00

Yeah,

Christian 15:01

Charleston.

Will 15:01

good for him. He had a tough season last year for them, but getting, being able to hit the ground running, definitely a player who has a good amount of quality. Just didn't really show up last year, unfortunately. Burnley tough, tough welcome back for them. But spurs looking to start off the season right versus tail end of last season.

Jerrell 15:18

Yeah. So yeah, taught him off to a good start. Thomas Frank, maybe a confidence thing. I don't know. He's got the squad, it's gotta come together and Brinley is not. We don't know what they're gonna be this season, but they got burned. But a good, a good, a good result.

Will 15:36

Yeah, I'm.

Christian 15:36

why you listen.

Will 15:38

This is why you're here. But yeah, I mean we talked about it a lot last season. The injuries talked about, we were like, spurs probably like the best 17th fish team we've ever seen in the Premier League. So it's really just kind of like, what's the ceiling and how much better can they be than last year? But it's good to see them, get this result early and we'll see what it looks like and we'll see what reinforcements they look to bring in, if that as a deal falls through.'cause I think they're also in on from Manchester City. As well. And I think I

Jerrell 16:04

Lisa.

Will 16:05

was reading already about a replacement they had in case as they didn't work out actually. Spurs spending money and looking to support Thomas Frank, Thomas Frank one of my favorite managers in the Premier League. So

Jerrell 16:15

Yeah. I know they've also been on the fence about WEA as well,'cause of the Thomas Frank connection. Don't know if that'll materialize. I think

Will 16:24

how

Jerrell 16:24

wea,

Will 16:24

than 40 mil do you want to,

Jerrell 16:26

I, I don't,

Will 16:27

who's older? That's the thing I think.

Jerrell 16:29

I dunno. I dunno. And I,

Will 16:32

you, Christian.

Jerrell 16:33

41 million. I don't think Lisa, Lisa still didn't even play in the first game. I think he's also protesting

Will 16:39

I think they marked it

Jerrell 16:40

being told.

Will 16:41

was a, like an injury sub or some shit, they just PRD it, so we'll see.

Jerrell 16:46

but he wasn't there

Will 16:47

I called this one Wolves Did not beat Manchester City and Wolves. A fantastic review debut for grinders of ac former AC Milan, man. Pretty much ball the game to assist in a goal. Yeah. So pretty much this went by the books essentially Rin. He had a great debut to start off rayon Cherokee. He was able to get a goal late and Erling Holland had a very clinical brace. Pretty much what you expect from Manchester City. All in all. So four oh result wolves didn't have much of a chance, but it was great to see grinders just pretty much hidden. A lot of these guys were able to get some preseason matches with Club World Cup and just some friendlies or whatnot. So you already see them. Coming together, especially with those January signings that really felt like the start of Manchester City's rebuild. Yeah. Manchester City, are they back? Hmm? I don't know if they left.

Jerrell 17:32

Yeah, I don't think they really left, but they'll compete this year.

Christian 17:37

necessarily a, a tough competition. Wolves ended just out of relegation last season.

Will 17:41

Hell yeah. Christian. Fuck'em up.

Christian 17:43

yeah. They got a few new pieces, but it's hard to get that going just off of the first first game. See, wolves have a long way to go. Man, city, just, you can't really count Manc city out in, in, in these games against bottom half teams.

Jerrell 17:58

Yeah, west Hammond Wolves raced to the bottom. I think.

Will 18:01

Yeah, we'll see. Wolves did finish really strong last year. I don't wanna fully discount just to finish that especially from like January on. But it is just looking just more of a matter of just like simple economics where it's just like the reinforcement that they need. Losing Kya losing ran, I ty it is just like where, who's stepping up and where do you get them from? We'll see. I don't wanna fully just say they're there, but I think we did have them on watch, just given there hasn't, we haven't seen much change with that team. Maybe this might be my surprise of the week. Chelsea Crystal Palace at Stanford Bridge. Zero zero finish. as they had a free kick goal disallowed in a weird moment where they said that Marge wasn't far enough from the wall. Chelsea won the XG battle, but they couldn't get any of goals. I think they had no attempts on goal from the fir in the first half. Second half. They picked it up some, but they finished zero zero to start their season.

Jerrell 18:49

Are you surprised at the draw, or are you surprised by the lack of goals?

Will 18:52

I probably the draw, honestly, Chelsea looked like they found some foreign second half of the season. They just bought an esteve. They just bought, they have net though. They have some investments in key places. Chris Pels is very much on the end where it's just like. You have Isaiah Gay, he still there. They look like they're out and it's just what does this team really look like? Without those guys, since they've had so many players, they've been losing over the last season and a half, two seasons. And they haven't been able to get one for one replacements for those guys. Not that players can fill in like Michael say from last year, someone who you can try to get the ball rolling with. So that coupled that being at home, I'm really surprised that hows got the draw despite winning the community shield to start the season.

Jerrell 19:29

Fair. Fair. Fair.

Christian 19:31

crystal Palace line are pretty compact on this one too. Chelsea, Chelsea controlled the, the possession of the, of. the game. 72% possession on this one, but they couldn't go anywhere with it, pretty much. The, the middle of the, they, they crowded Cole Palmer. They blocked the, the path to goal. They did really well in the, in the middle to pretty much Fort Chelsea from being able to they only had two, two big chances. Yeah, they, they just paid a good compact defensive plan and helped them get a point.

Will 19:59

Yeah, ballot had a couple, I think they also had another effort for him, essay that bounced off wood work, if I remember correctly. But zero, zero to start the season for these two teams. Yeah.

Christian 20:07

at first. I'm not too, too don't like the rule of just oh, you can't crowd the wall. You can't be too close, blah, blah, blah. But I, I saw the replay and I was like, yeah,

Will 20:14

Yeah.

Jerrell 20:15

Why it exists.

Christian 20:16

Yeah, that's a.

Will 20:18

Yeah. As a subbed off before the end of the game. Looked like he might have had a moment where he is oh, is this my last game or whatnot with him. And same with gay as well. Gay, he just walked off the pitch. I think he had a little kick up with Glassner. Glassner was trying to talk to him. He just kinda walked off. So the vibes aren't great right now in north London. So we'll see. We also had,

Christian 20:37

in North

Will 20:37

there's multiple teams in London. Drew, you wanna take the next one?

Jerrell 20:41

Yeah. Next we had Nottingham Forest and Brentford Nottingham Forest with three goals to Brent Ford's. One. Chris Wood gets his brace. He had a good run when when Brentford got their pocket picked, he just was like, oh, I'm gonna start my run. And then the ball just landed. To speed. And he was just like, dribble, dribble, shoot. And I was just like, ah, yes. Is this the brentford season we're in for? I did, I did stop watching at halftime because it was already three zero because I also had to get to the Arsenal game.

Will 21:06

Yeah, no, we appreciate your honesty, king.

Jerrell 21:08

I, I had to get ready and then later on I was just like, oh shit, Brentford scored. This will definitely help. The gold differential.

Will 21:15

was out here. Said, put those stingers away.

Jerrell 21:18

Yeah.

Will 21:18

listening. I heard the stingers out again and I was like, oh man. Such a good, I wish we came up with that last year.'cause yeah, this might be a tougher season. Coach, not Mark Andrews, that's the title. Michael Andrews Forgot.

Jerrell 21:29

Keith Keith Andrews. Keith Andrews.

Christian 21:32

bees last week. I forgot about that.

Jerrell 21:34

Keith, yeah. Keith Andrews is a, he's a set piece coach and, and I, I guess I could say their set pieces look good'cause, that's his specialty. But in the first half it was just like. There's no attack, there's no teeth. I was just kinda ah, this is tough. Like we're definitely missing some forwards. So

Will 21:53

I think when they were, once they were down two, oh, they showed a cut to him on the sideline, just what the fuck did I walk into?

Jerrell 21:58

yeah.

Will 21:59

as well'cause yeah. Brentford also dealing with the fact, they lose losing some key players. Obviously they lose their coach, so hopefully they're able to land on their feet and get

Jerrell 22:08

I had to listen to Tim Howard at halftime, be like, yeah, ER's the team I have going down. I'm just like, I hate Tim Howard.

Christian 22:14

On the other side of the ball, the, on the other side of the balls, the balls on the other side of the ball. The trees did really well. You,

Jerrell 22:20

Definitely. Yeah.

Christian 22:21

past weekend'cause he just got signed. But James McAfee signing from Man City is a great add to this. Theme in the midfield brings some good control for them. The trees always had a problem with possession. I don't think they've ever most of, most of the games, they, they, I don't think they've won a game last season with more than 50% possession. Or if they did maybe one or more, but I have that in one of my notes. Flos have won a match with more than 50% possession. They haven't won a match with more than 50% possessions since a won oh, against Crystal Palace last October. So they're not known to hold onto the ball. Maybe that's

Will 22:55

That's wild.

Christian 22:57

They lose the possession match. And that probably, probably makes sense on why we all pretty much wanted their entire back line as our teams are like players. We, we each had left back, so I think you had the keeper. We wanted the, one of the center backs. So with James McAtee edition, they're able to control the ball midfield. They're, they're, they're, they're looking strong. Chris Wood, as we mentioned, got a brace. He's still on form. He was voted the he was on the Premier League team of the season as well, so he's. He still wants to keep that run going. So shout out to Chris Woods. Shout out to trick trees. They beat the bricked up bees, so

Will 23:29

Y Yeah, they scored three after in six preseason games. They scored one goal, so you know, a little nervous coming in. But a Brent forget right game is apparently all it took for them to get back on. Back on track. Sorry, Darrell.

Jerrell 23:41

Nah, it's fine. This is gonna be a tough season.

Will 23:44

Speaking of tough seasons Manchester United versus Arsenal ends up zero one in favor of the gunners. K Fre, he scores off a corner routine. I

Jerrell 23:53

Of course.

Will 23:53

Ohana wasn't starting, which was wild. Christian by and deer came in. He's not the best in dead ball situations but.

Christian 24:01

Clearly.

Will 24:01

could have done a little bit better to fist out the corner, but Kali Fre gets like the tapper of all tappers. David Ray has a great game. What do you guys think about the game this weekend?

Jerrell 24:09

Did, did Arsenal

Christian 24:11

I just

Jerrell 24:11

eek this one out?

Christian 24:12

had a really good chicken pot pie at this Irish pub while

Will 24:16

This

Jerrell 24:16

did look. It did look good.

Christian 24:17

Yeah,

Jerrell 24:17

It did look good. Yeah.

Christian 24:18

a really fucking good chicken pot

Jerrell 24:20

Shepherd's Pie was pretty good too. And harps all around.

Christian 24:23

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Right before a three hour drive home. But. But jk cops

Will 24:30

12.

Christian 24:31

JK 12.

Jerrell 24:33

It.

Christian 24:33

it was, it was a very, very disappointing game. We got the win, but I did not enjoy seeing arsenal play. It, it just looked like we couldn't get possession. Yoko, this didn't even get a shot on goal. It, it just did not look like this is the form that we need to keep.

Jerrell 24:50

Knows how to bottle him.

Christian 24:53

Yeah. But no, it, it wasn't a good game. The pen was nice. They had, Manu did pretty much the same pen and you, the goal corner, sorry. And like you mentioned, he, it was pretty much the same, same position, but he was able to fist it out when Manu was not able to. But yeah, I was not impressed on how Arsenal played at all. Unfor.

Jerrell 25:12

I was impressed by Man United forwards though BOMO just fitting right in. Kya also as well, and they slept on Sesco too, but like that man United attack was just like, they, the XG doesn't really show it, but they were moving and I think the goals will come. Is it only a matter of time? Arsenal is obviously a very tough team to beat. I honestly thought Man United was gonna tie that game at some point, but yeah. David Ryan, man on the match, but yeah, Manu Knights attack, look. Really good. And then when they subbed on Harry McGuire, you know their right winger, I was like, oh my God, it's coming. So man, just.

Will 25:48

Brian and Beo BEO was was a problem all game. He almost hit almost hit a bicycle at some point. Just a lot of pace, a lot of energy. I'll give Arsenal o obviously it's not the result you want to see, you could see that they're trying to be a little bit more fluid with the way they play midfield. Yeah. Their midfield wasn't as strong as you expect from them. They didn't, weren't able to get the goals or whatnot, but you could see that they're trying to play a little bit more fluid, a little bit more in transition. Than we're used to. Ball was moving forward a lot quicker, a little bit more direct than you're used to saying, but I think it's gonna take time to gel. Going forward. Obviously losing Kai Haver is not great. Yoko des not his best date, not the best debut ever. It looked. He he was pressing at moments dribbling over himself a little bit working on the buildup. But all in all, say what you want about Manchester United. You got three points on the road to start the season at, at old traffic. So you take the points, you take a lesson, you held onto it leads coming weekend, and then Liverpool the following. So you need to get that. Let's try to figure it out soon. I is all I have to say, I'm not gonna read too much into it'cause it's just one game and

Jerrell 26:48

One game.

Will 26:49

the three points. If we were a draw, maybe I'd be talking a little bit different. But for now we did what we had to do to win and got our goal early.

Jerrell 26:55

Yeah. Spoiler though, man, United

Christian 26:58

It's,

Jerrell 26:59

Man, United and Wolves

Will 27:00

Game script. These teams need a, need a goal more than the other

Jerrell 27:05

man. United Wolves are the only teams to not take points at home. So

Will 27:11

for our

Jerrell 27:11

yeah, spoiler. Newly ascended leads took on Everton and they get a win. One zero is a is a penalty.

Will 27:20

of our ascendant teams getting the dove. Let's go.

Christian 27:24

At that.

Jerrell 27:25

This year's gonna be different, guys.

Will 27:27

What does that mean? JI was just like, are are you, are you talking Bradford going down into existence or?

Jerrell 27:36

Brent's not going down. It's gonna be the wolves and westham going down.

Will 27:40

gotta clip that.

Jerrell 27:41

Yep.

Will 27:41

leads United are able to win one oh off a penalty in the second half Lucas and, and MEChA their new signing. He's able to get a goal. Tight handball. Tight handball call is all I have to really add to it. But leads United definitely the deserved winners of the matches if you ask

Jerrell 27:57

Oh, they dominated it? Yeah. They're like, this statue was crazy. I was just like, did Everton show up?

Will 28:02

E Everson their coach after the game kind of complaining, just like he's playing Neto. He is not crazy about Neto. He is disparaged and brought foreign press, but he just playing with what he has grish. I don't think he got full burn in this game, but they just look toothless. So it looks like a little bit more of the problems that we saw towards the end of last season without the investment to get back. So we'll see. We'll see. We'll see. But leads United, they're able to get the win at home. You look to see, I'm sure the supporters were happy to see it as well.

Jerrell 28:28

Celebrating,

Will 28:29

Celebrate it.

Jerrell 28:30

Will be home next week though, in their, at their new fancy stadium.

Will 28:34

it's fancy now. Change them

Jerrell 28:37

oh yeah, they made it worse.

Will 28:39

shit. Mercy.

Christian 28:41

Not Molly bushels

Will 28:44

did we wanna do a impromptu winners and losers or we just wanna skip to the preview?

Jerrell 28:48

I could give you a winner. I can give you a loser.

Christian 28:51

and my winner

Jerrell 28:52

Go.

Christian 28:53

be Rick Charleston

Jerrell 28:54

Yeah.

Christian 28:56

Brace Like you. Like we mentioned earlier, he, lot of look up lot to look up to from a lot left wanting from last season came out strong. Amazing goals. Shout out to kudos for making an impact right away with the first assist. But yeah, Rick Charleston had an amazing weekend. That was a great goal.

Jerrell 29:12

Yeah, I'll double up on that and just say T them as a whole, just getting the three points is a huge win for them. New manager, I, just big just to come in and like, all right, we want to win. Let's prove we can win. We're not 17th place team. So yeah, T them winner.

Will 29:28

Cool. Look at this. We got so much better than we were last year guys, before I remember last year, we were like motherfucking my winner definitely gonna be the ascendant teams. Two of them able to get a win on their opening weekend at home. Last year we were on Southampton watch where we were waiting to see if they'd break 11 points. So two of those teams able to get wins against teams that have been in the league. Wes team's been up for a while. Everson's been up for a while, seeing those two teams hit the ground running. Hopefully the relegation race is a little bit more interesting this year, and maybe we see some new teams stay up this year, so I'm gonna go ahead and give it to our ascendant teams. Do I, do I get to double back on losers or.

Jerrell 30:04

Yeah, go ahead.

Will 30:05

yeah. My losers is gonna be my catfish because I believed in you last year. Not my catfish no more that's in my past, but Westham I hope you have a plan. I like watching the Hammers play. I think there's sound there, but getting three owed by newly ascendant team, probably not the plan initially. Westham is gonna be my losers for this week.

Jerrell 30:25

Yeah, so my losers, I mentioned already before is it's gonna be man United and the wolves not getting points at home. It's just. You all teams out.

Will 30:34

God.

Jerrell 30:35

So yeah, you all teams out.

Will 30:37

Drill, drill, drill doesn't go fuck about your circumstances this year. I like

Jerrell 30:41

Not at all.

Will 30:42

I'm moving differently.

Jerrell 30:44

You get a point, you get three points. There's no zero points. You can't do that to the supporters. They're waiting all summer for this.

Will 30:52

Playing a good second and third place teams for last year. I love the energy drill.

Christian 30:56

My loser, my loser's going to be yodi. Just,

Will 31:00

is.

Christian 31:01

yeah.

Will 31:01

back on the other side.

Christian 31:03

Yeah. No, just for this week, Yoko just did like his first Premier League game. He couldn't even get a shot on goal. He played most of the match, but yeah, no you, you, that's most,

Will 31:14

No, you are right. I just wanted to make sure that no one thought it was 85, but yeah.

Christian 31:18

that is most but yeah, he couldn't get a shot on goal. He just seemed flat footed out on the pitch. He, he. it just wasn't a good showing out for yo. it's only, there's only one way to go up here from here and that's up hopefully. Yeah, yo Dish, my loser of the week.

Will 31:31

Damn harsh. Hey, it's your loser. I just wanted to like, have discussion I guess. Our midfield looked like we couldn't string two, three passes together as well. I think Otto Guard's the only one who had like a good game and even then he was still turning the ball over in portions. How much of that do you think contributed to Yoko? How much do you think it was just kinda there might have to be an adjustment with the style to play as well. Arsenal last year a lot would see a lot of low blocks as they played with control and then they, that we almost joked about them having to pass it into the net a little bit unless they have a little bit creation out the wings from someone. Do you think it's like yo Kadesh just like not meshing with that style completely. You think it's changed in like dynamics? Do you think they're trying to switch more transitory to fit the way he plays so he can get the runs in behind and out wide or.

Christian 32:16

Ju has had what is it like about a month now to mesh? He's had a few games already under his belt. He's had a few practice sessions. His practice sessions. He looks like he connects pretty well with nor Guard. But yeah, just overall the team did not do well. You're right. O ode, guard. I think I told you Gerald Dur, while we were watching the game that I was like, I, I wasn't a fan of Iota Guard was playing either. He did give up the ball a lot. There was, there was a lot of moments where they just didn't complete the last pass. There was like, you, you would see Yoko doesn't make a run behind the line but Arsenal kind of defaulted just passing it out to the wings like they're, they're used to instead of playing

Jerrell 32:50

Allergic to the center. Yeah.

Christian 32:52

Yeah. So it, it was, it was bad all around. For, for the feed that people prefer would be okay. You, you would, you want some At least more physicality, more, more awareness, more at least a shot on goal.

Will 33:02

He ran over to Lit, like completely big bodied him. I, ode Guard created I ode Guard to me, it's funny. For me, I thought he did the best, like creation wise. I thought Rice and Zubie had a pretty quiet game for midfield. I know Ode Guard had moments where he was. know, turning the ball over in midfield, but I felt like he was the only one with like incisive passes a lot of the game. But that disconnect too between even how we see it. It could be just like I, maybe the midfield just wasn't fully clicking. Yo Kash does have to be better. I think. Like he tripped over his own dribble when he had a opportunity. So you hope it meshes as well. Hey, it has the best of us.

Christian 33:36

Yeah,

Will 33:37

but yeah, especially with Haard going down, the pressure's going to amp up. I guess the only thing I'll add is yeah.

Christian 33:43

I do wanna see Arsenal play more down the middle. Get more passes down the middle. I think we've, we've been defaulting a lot to just passing out to the wings. Just how we make got most of the goals last season. Just pass it out to where you got SOC out there. You got Martin Elliot out there, hopefully you can

Will 33:57

those are our, those are our boys.

Christian 33:59

They're our

Will 33:59

He's my star boy.

Christian 34:00

boys.

Will 34:02

yeah, so we'll see. We'll see.

Jerrell 34:03

We're adopting a third

Will 34:05

is always also just gonna have to deal with the fact that you're not gonna see a team really try to play too high up on Arsenal. I feel like, I feel like a lot by default is that low block, which makes it a little bit tougher. But hopefully, hopefully, hopefully we see a, a reh explosion soon,

Jerrell 34:20

maybe sooner than later. Let's find out. We got match day two. Preview gonna be, yeah. So I can clip it.

Will 34:28

leads is gonna get fucked on at the Emirates. You already here clip it.

Christian 34:32

Yoga is gonna be mentioned on all winners and losers. It's just which side? Who knows?

Will 34:36

Hmm? It's a coin flip, but you

Jerrell 34:38

All right.

Will 34:39

Day two preview drill.

Jerrell 34:40

Match day two. So we have the hammers taking on Chelsea. Neither scored goals. Who's gonna score first guys and then.

Will 34:48

Tim, hold on.

Christian 34:50

I'll put money that it's on Chelsea.

Will 34:51

Yeah,

Jerrell 34:52

Man, city versus m We talked about how Tottenham, they got the feel good win against the ascended team, Inver League. Now they're gonna play Man City on the same side. We're like, oh man, city beats wolves, who we were used to seeing down at the bottom. How does this matchup go? We'll find out. Maybe it's one of your guys' matches. Watch. It could be a banger. It could literally be a bard. Me. Let's find out. Board myth takes on wolves. That will be something I no comment.

Will 35:18

That's crazy. fucking wild.

Jerrell 35:21

The ascendancy battle will be Burnley in in Sutherland. Fun one. Beford will take on Ashton Villa Arsenal will take on leads. Crystal Palace V Forest, Everton v Brighton, Brighton, Foland V Man, United New Castle v Liverpool. The New Castle v Liverpool game looks a little different now compared to last year.

Will 35:42

Yeah, winner. Winner Keeps the boy.

Christian 35:44

It'd be crazy if Estock shows up to the game wearing

Jerrell 35:47

That's the agreement.

Will 35:49

We're playing Esoc, playing for Esoc. Pink slips, bro. What, what games are we excited for this weekend? Gu?

Jerrell 35:55

Give me, gimme the man city Tottenham game. Actually, I, I do wanna, I wanna check in on,

Will 36:01

expecting you to say Burnley. Cilo, but yeah, Manchester City sprays. What you looking forward to watching?

Jerrell 36:07

I just wanna see what this to team looks like. With the more competitive team, a Power Six team with Thomas Frank in charge

Will 36:15

Mm-hmm.

Jerrell 36:15

how competitive they are, how they spread the ball, how they're able to attack. And then let's see if Man City's back, like I mean that conversation's gonna continue or Man City gonna be one, two competing for that title again. I know this game went, this tie went back and forth last season. I think Tottenham did get a win off Man City.

Will 36:34

got a big ass one. They won four. Oh.

Jerrell 36:35

Yeah, this will be a fun one'cause they're retooled and both sides ready to go.

Will 36:40

Yeah, so last season ham knocked its Manchester City out of the Carrabelle Cup, October 30th, three weeks later they, Boston four. Oh. They lost one oh in February, but that was also when they were a little bit more injury ridden. Yeah, we'll see man. City retold man city will be at home. So Spurs have to contend with that, but we'll see if they can follow that positive energy from their win this week versus Manchester City's positive energy coming from this week. Dare I say, I'm rooting for Spurs this weekend. I don't know.

Jerrell 37:08

Yeah. Fuck City.

Christian 37:09

Gimme a

Will 37:09

is.

Christian 37:10

Gimme a tie. I'm rooting for no one to have fun.

Will 37:12

I want a zero

Jerrell 37:13

Zero. Zero.

Will 37:15

zero zero game. Not even any rereads or yells, just

Jerrell 37:19

I want a penalty off the woodwork.

Will 37:22

I want them to sky it. Those are more debilitating, I feel when you just, Ooh,

Christian 37:28

it's,

Jerrell 37:28

What about you guys matches you're looking forward to?

Christian 37:30

I'm looking forward

Will 37:32

go.

Christian 37:32

Crystal Palace versus the trees.

Jerrell 37:35

Oh,

Christian 37:35

be a.

Will 37:35

Gimme the bar.

Jerrell 37:37

the Bark

Will 37:38

fucked him up.

Christian 37:40

The tricky trees at the sensational

Jerrell 37:44

Spark.

Christian 37:44

not good. Mm-hmm. I

Will 37:46

Eagles. Eagles. Eagles.

Jerrell 37:47

The Eagles

Christian 37:47

Eagles.

Jerrell 37:48

Bright Brighton is the,

Will 37:50

the brey breezy EEGs? No. We'll, we'll, we'll workshop it, fix it, and post.

Jerrell 37:55

Yeah. But yeah, that one,

Christian 37:57

Yeah. A good mid table battle. Palace. I, I'm curious to see if they could maintain, like the defense they showed up against Chelsea

Jerrell 38:05

oh man, them eagles are gonna land in the forest and make it.

Will 38:08

Up, bricked up. E.

Christian 38:10

Rick UPS is crazy, but no, nine four had a really good for first game. I'm excited to see if Chris Wood Con continue that. I'm, I really wanna see the new signing. James McAfee, when he did play for Man City last last year, he had written some really good games. Excited to see him start for it. And

Will 38:25

I, will MCee

Jerrell 38:28

Yes, quite

Will 38:30

carry on?

Jerrell 38:30

well.

Will 38:30

sorry. no. Carry on. Christian, he was spitting. He was spit. I just said MCee. I was just, I wasn't sorry. Intrusive thought.

Christian 38:38

No, but I, I I feel like force is gonna eke out a win on that one. Probably. It is gonna be a close game. But yeah, it should be a pretty solid game to watch.

Will 38:45

palace with that midweek fixture as well. Let's see if it affects them. Is, are they still on the team by this

Jerrell 38:50

Welcome to European competition. Does that affect if you watch it or not?

Will 38:55

Jesus Christ. Outside the game I'm looking for, I wanna see the Derland game. Cinder Lynn has a chance to that. Why do you love cider has a chance to start their season on six points. That, that when you come to

Jerrell 39:07

Of the table. Top of the table.

Will 39:09

not what, that's not necessarily where my brain's at. But six points to start off your season, that's a great platform to try to avoid that relegation spot. I know.

Jerrell 39:17

You've already scored three, so

Will 39:19

I know

Jerrell 39:19

three more?

Will 39:20

the bottom three last year, it wasn't really close by the end of the season, but you're really looking around like that 25, 30 point range. So you can talk about being safe. So starting the season off off six, this, them getting that surprise result last week and then getting to play against a fellow team on the ascendancy could be a good big week for Zender

Jerrell 39:38

Mexican Twitter will go crazy.

Will 39:41

Soul. We're only drinking soul this weekend, boys.

Jerrell 39:44

No model.

Will 39:45

Hmm. Yeah, I'll pencil you guys in for sure. Any other games you guys are interested in looking at?

Jerrell 39:51

Always brentford.

Will 39:53

I thought you were gonna say Arsenal, but

Christian 39:55

He only has one season

Jerrell 39:56

That's a given

Christian 39:57

Give it to him.

Jerrell 39:58

and then the pod will be a premier championship pod.

Will 40:01

crazy.

Jerrell 40:03

But yeah, obviously Arsenal Brentford for me as well,

Christian 40:06

we always gotta watch Arsenal. We are Arsenal fans and yeah, hopefully we take the lead on early.

Will 40:11

Hmm,

Jerrell 40:12

piece, another corner. Yeah.

Will 40:15

hmm. Cool. Cool. Excited for it this weekend. Other things going on? So it won't be this Thursday. Following Thursday, August 28th, we get those league phase draws for the Champions League. Go ahead and put that in early. That is a shit show to watch, but I will be penciling time out for that.

Jerrell 40:32

And

Will 40:33

anything you guys want to touch on for this

Jerrell 40:35

yeah, and Will said, crystal Palace will be playing midweek. When is that again? Lemme give you a date tomorrow. Tomorrow the 21st of August at 3:00 PM Catch it. I don't know who they're playing. Fr Fredericks dad. Yeah. Good luck to Crystal Palace.

Will 40:52

Yeah. Next week we'll go over those match day two Revolt salts. We'll have a match, day three pick review. Maybe we'll touch on that league phase draw just to see what potential matchups could be fun or maybe who's strongest on each spot. Some more winners, losers. Anything else you guys wanna add?

Jerrell 41:08

Yeah. Did, did you see Palaces of Jerseys? You see the away kids? Did you watch the game?

Will 41:13

The gold

Jerrell 41:14

The gold kits.

Will 41:15

did. I did.

Jerrell 41:16

Yes. Very nice.

Christian 41:19

Oh

Will 41:19

I liked them. Yeah, I did.

Jerrell 41:22

Alright, cool. That's all I got.

Will 41:25

No, when you were saying it the internet kind of lagged out a little bit, so it all came together late. So that's why I was just like, yes. But I did see them. I did see them. I was like, oh, those are the little kids show I was talking about. Yeah. The we, I wouldn't know anything about that'cause they won tr they won trophies. so

Christian 41:41

of third kits, did you see Sutherland's third kit of Black Cats?

Jerrell 41:44

I have not seen it,

Christian 41:46

Black?

Will 41:46

just like, maybe if you guys wanted to do the kit episode,

Christian 41:49

actually

Jerrell 41:50

I don't think it was official when at that point they're already leaking the, the fucking 26, 27 kits for Arsenal.

Will 41:57

Barcelona's wearing their fucking third kit from last year because all of their jerseys there's like issues with the, the overlapping colors. So they were gonna wear orange kits but they were like, they might look too close. Like red kits shout Majorca. They got two reds in the first half last week. That was tough for them.

Jerrell 42:13

All right. I think. I think we're done. I think that's it. Kit talk

Will 42:17

episode. Good

Jerrell 42:18

always. Perfect. We did it. This was the overreaction episode.

Will 42:23

I felt like we were appropriately reacting, but you're right. You're right.

Jerrell 42:27

All right. See you guys next week. Peace.