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SPEAKER_01 0:10

You want to give a shout out to someone, don't you? What you wrote under it there. Oh no.

SPEAKER_03 0:17

Oh hi. Shout out to the Yeah, we had a little browse out of curiosity, and we've noticed that we've got surprise, surprisingly, quite a I wouldn't say a big, but a relatively small following in the US of A.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

Yeah, Virginia specifically. So shout out if you're listening to this, thank you so much. You're uh awesome person. People potentially. Yeah, it could be people, could be passing it around.

SPEAKER_03 0:42

We thought we thought that it was gonna be there's more in America than there is in our own town.

SPEAKER_01 0:46

Yeah, yeah, shout out to the US of A, and all we've done is slag the US off personally with the word. Yeah, great. So I haven't, I haven't. I love them. Yeah, I love him. Pulisic, up the soccer, Hadji Roy, up the soccer, Matt Turner, the man between the sticks, Robinson, from Milton Keynes, yeah, Balogun from London, is it? He's got a proper London accent, but um yeah, so this is basically like our last episode of the season because we started off with our predictions on our first one. Poor. Very poor. We're gonna run through them now anyway. But first episode then. Yeah, it was our first episode, a bit touchy with the uh with the recording. We didn't know what we were doing really. Still don't still ain't got a clue just winging it.

SPEAKER_03 1:35

Still doing it in my missus's uh beauty salon in the back garden. This just look this this amazing setup that you see. The other side there's nail polish and yeah, all sorts of shite massage bed the lot.

SPEAKER_01 1:47

Yeah, but yeah, so we're gonna revisit episode one and the teams we had. Now I sent you yours, but do you want me to get them up?

SPEAKER_03 1:57

No, I don't want to go through it.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

Right, so we had I'll just run through.

SPEAKER_03 2:01

I'll get mine up because like I say, then you can get yours up, so I'm not being awkward.

SPEAKER_01 2:04

Alright. You go and tell me, because I've got the Premier League table right in front of me now.

SPEAKER_03 2:09

Right, so I had we're going from bottom to top or top to bottom.

SPEAKER_01 2:13

Treat me there. Either.

SPEAKER_03 2:16

Right, so we're going from the bottom top. I had your bottom three. Well, bottom three, ridiculous. Uh one of them was one place off, but I had Sunderland bottom.

SPEAKER_01 2:26

That went mad.

SPEAKER_03 2:26

I don't think anybody saw that coming though. Nah, that was a big thing. Leeds as well, again. Fair play to Leeds. Um, and then I had Burnley.

SPEAKER_01 2:35

Yeah, see, Burnley went down, so you had one off. I had Burnley to finish bottom, Sunderland 19th, and Brentford. I had Brentford to finish.

SPEAKER_03 2:44

Well, just quickly, I know people are gonna give it to fucking Arteta, don't want to talk about that. But I honestly think Keith Andrews would be is better suited for manager of the year, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

Him or Regis LeBrie.

SPEAKER_03 2:56

I think that he's what he's done, every I think name of everybody wrote I don't know anybody that was like no that he'll they'll do well this season.

SPEAKER_01 3:02

The only reason I wouldn't have it is because he didn't finish end up finishing in European players, did he? Even though he was up there that whole time, he ended up slipping's fault, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 3:10

Yeah, he slips it on the last uh Liverpool if Liverpool would have finished uh Villa would have Villa would have needed to finish exactly and it would have dropped down, so but obviously they drew with Liverpool as well on the last game of the season, so it kind of fucked him up even more.

SPEAKER_01 3:25

But um yeah, I think between Keith Andrews and Regis Liberty for the manager of the season, I think you're right there. But yeah, who did you have just outside?

SPEAKER_03 3:36

Um the drop zone. So we'll I'll draw I'll do another five places. So I had Wolves, they went down, then I had West Ham, Chris uh so Wolves, West Ham, Crystal Palace, Forest, Bournemouth.

SPEAKER_01 3:49

Forest weren't far off here, I suppose. Forest in the 16th, you had Forest in 14th, and then you had Palace in 10th, was it?

SPEAKER_02 3:58

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 3:58

You yeah No, no, no, I had Palace. Oh no, that was I'm looking at my one. Yeah, you had Palace in 14th. Yeah, you weren't that far off, you were a place away from there, you got that spot on. I didn't. I had Leeds 17th, West Ham 16th, Wolves 15th, Forest 14th, Fulham 13th, Man United 12th, and Bournemouth 11th.

SPEAKER_03 4:17

Right, I'm just gonna run through the rest of it. So I had Bournemouth, and then I had this one was correct, I had Fulham, then Everton, then Man United, then Newcastle, then Broughton, then Spurs, then Villa, then Arsenal, then Chelsea, then Manchester City, then Liverpool. So the only ones I actually got right were Man City and Fulham.

SPEAKER_01 4:33

Yeah I'm on 10th was Palace, 9th, Newcastle, 8th, Brighton, 7th, Everton, 6th, Spurs, 5th, Villa, I weren't far off of that one, fourth Arsenal, third Chelsea, second Man City, first Liverpool. I've it's mad to think that these I at the start of the season I was pretty much sure that this and I was sure you did as well. Thought that it would be quite Boban. But looking at it now, some of them are so far off, it's embarrassing. That Sunderland one's terrible for me.

SPEAKER_03 5:07

Yeah, but no, I don't think it is. I think realistically they could they've come up, they scraped up, didn't they? Because they've massively dropped off. If I remember right. Yeah, they had African combinations as well as Cov, they just they just managed to get past Cov in the um pla in the playoffs. Um so they did they weren't you weren't going into it, and then they just started buying loads of random players that no one's ever heard of. Yeah, a lot of African companies. Granted Shaka was the only one everyone's heard of.

SPEAKER_01 5:32

I think he's sign of the season. Gotta be. Maybe gotta be sign of the season. Maybe. But yeah, like you say after Colour Milani. Oh no, he's amazing. I think he's probably the best season uh sign in ever, you know. Terrible to think he's literally rubbing a living.

SPEAKER_03 5:48

Dali Ali Buck.

SPEAKER_01 5:49

Yeah, I would terrible signing. How the fuck he plays with PSG, I don't know. And how he played in the final of the World Cup as well, I do not know. But yeah, um they had all these players from coming in from Africa as well, and I remember saying to you, they're gonna struggle in January when the African Combination comes, they're just gonna fuck. And they didn't, they just fucking composed themselves, their home record was amazing, they'd done the double on Newcastle, and they've got themselves in Europe. I think they've Europa League as well. Fucking amazing job he's done.

SPEAKER_03 6:18

The problem is though, I think I could be wrong actually. So I had him brought a bottom of the table, so but history does kind of dictate that when teams like that do qualify, they do struggle with the extra games.

SPEAKER_01 6:31

Palace and Forest this season have proved that.

SPEAKER_03 6:35

Because they did the same thing first season, right?

SPEAKER_01 6:36

Newcastle in the Champions League, like this season. I think they're in the first season, yeah. First season, yeah. Yeah, we know.

SPEAKER_03 6:44

But yeah, and that was when they had to finish, they weren't giving five places to Champions League.

SPEAKER_01 6:48

Five and six, weren't it? I think they finished seventh.

SPEAKER_03 6:50

I think no, I think they finished I think it was they finished I think they got the extra place because of ever won the FA Cup. I think they finished seventh. That's by the by though, don't matter.

SPEAKER_01 7:00

Yeah, either way, it does show history. Does show that when you go into the Europa Leagues, you are hit with all these guys, especially with they've only had one year back in the Premier League since uh five-year absence, was it, or six year absence. So they've got I think they're gonna struggle next season. They could potentially be down there in the bottom three, who knows? Um Man United, I had in twelfth, and they finished fourth third in the end. That wasn't fucking expected at all. And I had do you know what I had Spurs in sixth? Don't talk about that. I can't believe how far off it was, and then Liverpool, top of the league. We both had Liverpool to finish top of the league.

SPEAKER_03 7:42

Yeah, but Liverpool finished top of the league, and then they they made lots of good signings. At the start of the season, they were good signings. Vertz was a good sign. Well, I don't know, actually, I sort of said that I don't think it was gonna be a good sign in.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

Yeah, you said at the start of the season anyone that carries a hood million pound crow said just yeah, I called it in the episode, didn't I?

SPEAKER_03 7:58

The episode that we didn't actually manage to put out it got corrupted, and we said I said I won't do it again. Yeah, we've done it twice. Um but like you say, uh Ekatique was a good sign in, he started well, and then Isaac Premier League proven you think he'd be okay, and just thought that they're just when you make that many signings, you're just gonna go on and win it again. To be fair though, slot's obviously a fraud.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

If you remember correctly, team who fucking Pep Guadelho at the start of the season, they were winning a lot of games in the last minute. They won against Newcastle. This one. That Rio scored, didn't they? Rio scored, yeah. They've they've they've got a lot of goals, and I remember listening to Andy Goldstein on Drive on Talk Sport, and he even said they played when they're out. Yeah, shout out to Andy Goldstein. I love it while I do. Just they said it perfectly what it was. I love listening to Talk Sport.

SPEAKER_03 8:44

Andy Goldstein on Drive on Talksport. I fucking love it, yeah. Other other radio shows are available, yes. Um they say when they put something out there, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:54

But yeah, I was listening to him and he was saying the game against Arsenal after they won, he was saying is that if they if Arsenal lose their the next game, is that the season wrapped up? And this was early on, and then they're just fucking spoiled and spoiled, and then they're last gets Man United, and just don't know what the fuck happened. It just completely. Yeah, just going, but I I don't I don't think if if Liverpool got the right mind now, in my opinion, they should get rid of him, and now Ireola's available or Glasna, well probably not Glasna, but Ireola. I I'd definitely go in for him. He looks like a he'd be a good manager for Liverpool. He gives me that Rafa vibe. I think he'd be a good touch.

SPEAKER_03 9:36

I haven't thought about it. I'm trying to process it, but I don't really care.

SPEAKER_01 9:39

No, neither do I, but no, yeah, so that we did fucking too hot, man.

SPEAKER_03 9:43

It's warm. It's very warm. It's very muggy, and I've just it's like it's just had a cup of tea, isn't it? At the time we recorded it's 24 well, that's meant to go down and it's 24 degrees to die after that stupid thunderstorm. My missus woke me up telling me she thought she'd been shot, and asking me if I wanted to record it with her.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

Should have got her down here and recorded it. But um, yeah, so when we do do our next season reviews, this will obviously be after the the transfer window next season.

SPEAKER_03 10:11

Next yeah and they're gonna be better than the ones that we well I imagine our next review will be the World Cup review.

SPEAKER_01 10:17

Well yeah, next proper review will be our World Cup one. Are we do you want to do the whole um group tier and everything all the way to the final? Nah. No, fuck it then. We'll just do the winner. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:28

Because you got the thing, you you I the World Cup's fucking wild, innit? Do you know what I mean? Like, Uzbeki Stanker then I'm going through.

SPEAKER_01 10:36

Nah, no chance.

SPEAKER_03 10:37

No, but uh you say that, it's some weirder things have happened.

SPEAKER_01 10:41

What is the weirdest thing?

SPEAKER_03 10:42

Saudi Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia beat Argentina.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

I was saying this for someone earlier.

SPEAKER_03 10:46

I know I know Argentina would have win it, but Saudi Arabia beat them.

SPEAKER_01 10:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:49

Do you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 10:50

So anything yeah, anything can happen at a tournament. There's a lot of that France, they've got a tough one. They've got Norway and Senegal in their group. I mean, they ain't gonna completely spot elite.

SPEAKER_03 11:02

I think Scotland Scotland, Brazil, Morocco will be in London.

SPEAKER_02 11:09

I don't think I don't know. Scotland aren't Haiti might get points against Scotland.

SPEAKER_01 11:13

We don't know. Scotland might get its points against Brazil.

SPEAKER_03 11:15

Look at look at what about the other day? Someone said to me, Donaldson. Shout out Donaldson. Shout out Donaldson. We uh a friend of the pod. A friend of the pod. We um he was on about to me, so I was on about how angry I'll get during it, and he's he You've been very angry this year though. Yeah, obviously, yeah, that's understandable. But he reminded me that um our war was when we lost the Uruguay in 2014 and Costa. Was that Suarez when he got two goals? Costa Rica went on to win that group. You wouldn't never have Costa Rica to win that group, would you?

SPEAKER_01 11:44

No, that's mad. And Italy was in that group as well.

SPEAKER_03 11:45

And also I also I don't remember was angry, and he said angry was an understatement.

SPEAKER_01 11:49

Yeah, we had Costa Rica, Paraguay. And Italy. Uruguay, Italy, and us. We finished bottom, don't we?

SPEAKER_03 11:54

Yeah, we finished bottom. I think it was it was uh Costa Rica and Uruguay that went through.

SPEAKER_01 11:58

Yeah, fucking that's you you are right. I bet not no one would have had Costa Rica to win that one at all. But yeah, we'll do a we'll do a That was when we had Fabio Capello as well, wasn't it? Nah, Royal Hudderson with that. Was it? Yeah, 100%. 100%.

SPEAKER_03 12:12

You sure?

SPEAKER_01 12:13

Mm-hmm. I'm I'm defo sure. I'm 100% sure. That was the 2000 14th. Yeah, that yeah. That was the one Germany won, isn't it? Yeah, that was Hudson because 2016 was the Euros where we lost uh Iceland. In the it is Roy. Boy. We got Boy.

SPEAKER_03 12:38

Um he led the team to all win at the tournament where England was eliminated at the group stayed for the first time since 1958.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

He's gotta be one of England's worst managers. Gotta be. Yeah, that that should never have happened. That would be known as England's worst ever tournament defeat. Capello? Capello was 2018 onwards, wouldn't I? No. Yeah, he must have been.

SPEAKER_03 13:21

Capello 2010.

SPEAKER_01 13:23

Oh, Capello was before then?

SPEAKER_03 13:24

Yeah. His intention with Capello himself coming to course we're gonna go in 2018. Followed by 4-1 defeat to traditional rivals Germany in the Rider 16. The team's performance was at least partly attributed to the selection and tactical errors by Capello and led to calls for his dismissal on the 2nd of July. The FA confirmed they would remain in the role, that he would remain in the role till 2012, with Capello himself confirming his intention to step down and retire after Euro 2012.

SPEAKER_01 13:56

He was meant to be a role coin in the dressing room. Apparently, he banned all condiments and stuff. Yeah, yeah. What a prick. To be fair though, what a manager though. Yeah, I was gonna say, to be fair, he'd done a lot for Real Madrid, didn't he? He got him out of the bit out of the shit back in the day.

SPEAKER_03 14:09

Back in the day.

SPEAKER_01 14:10

Back in day. Alright then, um talking on the Premier League still, favourite who's been your favourite players to watch when you have had the chance to watch. We all know you're very busy as of late. So the ones that you've managed to see, who's caught your arm for?

SPEAKER_03 14:26

Um Nico Royley. Nico Royley's Nico Royal's had a has a very good. I think he'll start for England left here. Yeah, yeah, gotta be. I just hope that it's a big stage in it, so you just hope that he can take to it. But I reckon.

SPEAKER_01 14:39

Do you know you're saying that he stepped up when when Arsenal was against Arsenal in the League Cup and he scored two goals?

SPEAKER_03 14:45

Was it two goals? Oh, one the one was a mistake. But nevertheless, never nevertheless. So Nico O'Reilly, definitely young player, but Nico O'Reilly, um Bruno Fernandez, you can't look past Bruno Bruno Fernanche, if you want to say it in Portuguese. But for me, uh little bit of dip in form, but I think Semeno's just been class all years. Yeah, I was about to say Semeno, you can't afford him at board Cherky as well.

SPEAKER_01 15:12

Ah, do you know what? I love what watching Cherky play and then watching. Have you ever seen him pan the camera to Guardiola after and he's just like that stressing because he don't he's not that top of a manager, is he? He likes to keep it simple. But to watch him, he's like a proper old school, flary player, like a like a JJ Cutcher or someone who just gets the ball, fucks around. Player bands want to see that.

SPEAKER_03 15:32

Yeah, as long as they're not doing silly fucking Anthony shit or oh nah, that's just that's when it's too far.

SPEAKER_01 15:37

Yeah, that's when you if you can do it and calculate it well, get away with it, and it looks good, you know, you've got you you can keep doing it then. But if you fuck up a few times, it's like come on now.

SPEAKER_03 15:47

Yeah, so then they're all then, but I if I had to pick one personally, I'd say I've enjoyed Semenya. I know he had a dip in form for for Bournemouth, but then as soon as it was sort of announced that he was going to Man City, he picked straight back up and then he hit the ground running with Man City.

SPEAKER_01 16:00

Yeah, League Cup, FA Cup. I really I have really enjoyed Semenya again with the couple of things.

SPEAKER_03 16:04

I think going against uh City again, but I think Gaye's done a bit he's had a couple of mistakes, but I think he's been quite solid for City.

SPEAKER_01 16:11

He's done the job when he's needed to. He's had a couple of slip-ups, but listen, yeah, didn't help get him over the line in the end, but he he he better than I think he's better than Diaz. Stones is well Stones is Stones is gone, but he's gone to the World Cup. So how's that work? Fuck no, you tell me. But um, yeah, I I can't really argue with there. They're the players that I was gonna say myself, Smenyo Aureli. I'm trying to think if there's a road one where I could go. I think Roof's in goal has been good for Sunderland. He's he's he's gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_03 16:40

But they again they they they're another one, they dicked off massively, they did because they were doing very well, they were like top four, weren't they? And then other than the teams in the like towards the bottom of the table, they were losing to everybody or drawing, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they just started winning loads of games again.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

Yeah, just I think their home forms helped. Jacka. Jaka's been immense, probably the son of the season.

SPEAKER_03 17:00

I think what more they started very well, but then just dropped off.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

Waltomard. Yeah, yeah, he started playing when he scored that own goal against Sunderland.

SPEAKER_03 17:09

He started playing like a number like a hot bit of a attacking midfielder, didn't he?

SPEAKER_01 17:12

And then dropping right back. Yeah, it just hasn't worked out for him. I mean, there's not Igor Tiago, no, he's not Igor Tiago, that's yeah, Igor Tiago it is, isn't it? The one who plays for Brentford. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:24

But he's not a new sign, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:25

No, he's not a new sign, but yeah, yeah, yeah, he's been class, yeah. Good player. Um could argue him. I'm trying to think of else.

SPEAKER_03 17:32

Calvert Lewin's played well for Leeds.

SPEAKER_01 17:34

He has, he has, it turned up. And well, Bet Well Beck seems to be getting better as he's getting older. There's been a good few players, none that are absolutely shouting out to me. I mean, Matt like all the arsenal players, and I'll let you call the show. I was just about to say, what do you think? Because you said at the start of the season to me that Yakarez won't even score 10 Premier League goals. Do you remember?

SPEAKER_03 17:55

I did he?

SPEAKER_01 17:56

He scored 14.

SPEAKER_03 17:57

Oh. Right, okay. And I said, right, so I said that and he scored more, and I you were like, he's gonna be class. He's gonna be good. Give it time, give it time. So I'm gonna ask you the same question. Do you think he's class or is he shit?

SPEAKER_01 18:12

Ah, see, that's sort of an all or nothing question, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 18:15

Did he win Arsenal the league? Like did he, not them, did he win them the league?

SPEAKER_01 18:19

He contributed.

SPEAKER_03 18:20

No, that's not why I asked you. He was gonna win them the league, that's what everyone was saying. But they've won the league. He was gonna score like four goals. No, but he didn't win it, did he? No, the defence won the league. Yeah, exactly. Well, you could argue that the fucking VAR won the game. Yeah. Not gonna go into that.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

No, they won it, Fairfox to him. Corruptly, in my opinion. I'm not just saying that because you're a Spurs fan, but they had a lot.

SPEAKER_03 18:42

That West Ham game unboys pod, yeah, won it.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

But at the same time, I need to say this about West Ham because that goal should have stood. Yeah, because there's been plenty of occasions where Arsenal have filled the box this season on corners and they've scored from them, and the refers just waive it up to the street. West Ham do it.

SPEAKER_03 19:02

Oh no, so the problem is, right, it is that the the foul on Raya what Raya was a foul. It absolutely stood, it was. It was the right call by VAR. The argument the problem is that when it happens to Arsenal, it's going the way. I mean, like the people saying Gabriel Ed Button Haaland got overlooked. Yeah. Havertz studs overlooked, and it's happened to that happened to multiple, so I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 19:27

If she was on the other foot, Penoptys of Arsenal.

SPEAKER_03 19:29

Look, at the end of the day, they've won it fairfox to him.

SPEAKER_01 19:31

Yeah, congratulations, Arsenal.

SPEAKER_03 19:34

I hope that the tour bus breaks down. I don't want I was gonna say crash, but I don't want people to get a fucked up that is, bro. I don't want people to get no person. Get a flat toilet. I hope I hope that I hope I hope the Soccerade drops the trophy in right in front of the Well the Champions League trophy. Yeah, you wish. Drops the Premier League drops the Premier League trophy. How fucking wank are they gonna I can't wait for the I do know what? Like I've just thought this now. They've had the they've got the parade on Sunday, they're all there thinking that they're gonna have two trophies, and I can't wait until because they're well, we've got the Premier League still. Fuck off. You're doing that because you think you've got the double. No fairs. I hope I hope you I hope Soccerade drops the Premier League trophy and then the buzz runs over it. Then they can put that flattened one next to their golden one. No, they're getting a golden league because no one's ever done that before, have they? Man City did it a couple of seasons ago.

SPEAKER_01 20:36

Literally three seasons before. Yeah, fucking team. So they're having their parade on Sunday, is that what they're meant to be doing?

SPEAKER_03 20:47

Yeah, because I know I know someone that was um that's going to it. I love no called Joe. I had to cancel my Tay that tickets, and he was on about his parade.

SPEAKER_01 20:57

Well, he had to cancel his Tay that tickets.

SPEAKER_03 20:58

No, I had to cancel. I had to use my holidays on uh paternity and just take on it, so Oh, that's a shame. I'd good as you can imagine, but we move.

SPEAKER_01 21:08

We do, and that we will gonna go to Spain.

SPEAKER_03 21:11

I'm gonna be in Spain for the World Cup final instead.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

Wow. For the final that's fucking brilliant. Imagine it's against Spain.

SPEAKER_03 21:18

Oh imagine if it's England. I don't want now, I'll get rid of England versus Spain. No, you might get your head kicked in. I don't know, because I'm a bit larry after a few bits.

SPEAKER_01 21:24

Yeah, same, but you won't get your head kicked in.

SPEAKER_03 21:27

You've seen now we are.

SPEAKER_01 21:28

They've already won one not long ago.

SPEAKER_03 21:29

You've seen now we are no, I'm not about them, I'm on about the police.

SPEAKER_01 21:32

Oh yeah, just put 20 Europe your house, should be right, apparently. We're not seeing it between us, maybe.

SPEAKER_03 21:36

Yeah, it don't work like that.

SPEAKER_01 21:37

They're in Greece. It don't work like that, what have you tried it?

SPEAKER_03 21:40

They're in Greece, mate. I remember being in our beef and looking down an alleyway and just seeing like fucking one lad on the floor, don't know where he was from, and like six police with batons out, just fuck that. My old man, wherever I'll go, right, but he don't do it no more. But my old boy used to be like, I'd be like, oh I'm gonna go having for it. Oh fucking carefully, they're rough over there. I'm gonna go over Birmingham careful over Birmingham and get your head kicked in over there. Everywhere I went, I got my head kicked in. And then when I was going to our beef, he ran me and I was in the airport, and he was like, listen, you fucking I don't want to have to come over there because you've got your head kicked in by the police over there. Fucking be careful. I'm like, yeah, right then. Second day in I see that happen, I was like, Fucking ever once he was right.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

Out of all these times, he was actually right.

SPEAKER_03 22:19

To be fair, Averston is right of Averston.

SPEAKER_01 22:21

I remember you telling me about the football.

SPEAKER_03 22:23

Well, no, but yeah, not just that. Averston's clicky, man.

SPEAKER_01 22:26

I've never gotten it.

SPEAKER_03 22:27

Well, I don't know, I've not been there for a while, but like I remember once being told it's clicky, walking into a pub with Donaldson again. Shout out Donaldson.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

Shout out Donaldson.

SPEAKER_03 22:35

And walked into, and I was I was young, I was only 16 at the time, and just all of the eyes, you know, you just feel like everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a couple of dodgy places. They're not they're not from here.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

Yeah, not a lot of stuff like that.

SPEAKER_03 22:46

And then when I got a drink, and then the bartender was like, gay.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

What he just said that to you? No, he was gay, he was gay, so I'll be giving a bit of context.

SPEAKER_03 22:56

No, a bit of context. So he was gay, and I got to the bar and Aaron went, I'll have this. And he went, and he, what do you want? I went, I'll have a pint. I think it was when people used with fosters, I'll have fosters. And he's gone, are you 18? And I've gone, yeah. Who's your birthday?

SPEAKER_01 23:08

18 from Bloody Man 989.

SPEAKER_03 23:10

He went, Have you got your idea? I went, not on me. And he was like, okay. And he went, I don't think you are 18, but I think you fit, so I'll serve you anyway.

SPEAKER_01 23:17

Whoa, fucking hell, fair play.

SPEAKER_03 23:19

And then he took me out of the back and smashed the life out of me. Worth it for that extra fosters.

SPEAKER_01 23:26

Oh hell, yeah, two for the price of one. Yeah, that's it. Love it, bro.

SPEAKER_00 23:34

Half of it went over the fucking floor. That's the no, he was bumming me. That was Luke Fosters. No, he bummed me, I didn't, so I can have another one.

SPEAKER_03 23:42

Yeah, go on then. Shut up, boy. All of a sudden I went really deep, like a fucking hillpin now. Brilliant.

SPEAKER_00 23:53

Yes, please.

SPEAKER_01 23:54

Yes, please, Miss Passion. Let's talk about football, man. Go back onto the football before I end up fucking pissing myself.

SPEAKER_00 24:03

Thanks, Miss Pissin.

SPEAKER_03 24:04

Oh right. Walked in there crying. Huh? I walked back in crying. I bet you did.

SPEAKER_01 24:11

Never happened, did it?

SPEAKER_00 24:12

Of course it didn't, you fucking idiot. You're looking as if you're looking down like fuck it.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

I'm a bit dramatised from that. Rabbit's nose. Right. Miss him. Right then, let's go.

SPEAKER_03 24:26

I wonder if Donaldson will message me tonight. I remember. I remember I remember going into the club. I don't remember him fucking you, but I remember going into the clock. The clock. It was called the clock.

SPEAKER_01 24:35

I got a cock in the clock. Yeah, you got a cock in the clock. Well, let's talk about football now for football sake. There, let's talk about city. Shitty. Shitty, yeah. Pep bro.

SPEAKER_03 24:44

Did you think they bottled it, right? Because I seen someone. Bottle league. Oh, yeah, of course I did. See, this is the thing. I saw that. You know that big un. Forgot his name. But he's so fucking funny. But anyway, he did it to him and he said he turned he turned around to a city fan and he was like, what's it like to I'm not gonna do his accent anymore? What do you think he's like to bottle the league? And the blow turned around and meant we didn't bottle the league. Bottle in the league is when you're like 12 points ahead and then you come back. Yeah, yeah. We caught up and then we dropped points.

SPEAKER_01 25:10

Yeah, I didn't think of it like that. Bottle in the league is when you Arsenal have bottled the league the last few seasons. Man City were just trying to catch them, I suppose. Didn't didn't really achieve it. But you do do you think it's weird though? I was gonna ask, do you think it's weird that Pep's leaving a year before his contract ends? Do you think it's to do with his 151 charges?

SPEAKER_03 25:30

But there's a r you just see all this shit, then you I've seen rumours floating around that they're gonna start on negative 60 points.

SPEAKER_01 25:35

Wow Just relegate them. Well, yeah, just relegate them, what's the point? This is what I was gonna tell you.

SPEAKER_03 25:40

So I was saying something earlier. If they got relegated, who would get what would they would have to have another playoff?

SPEAKER_01 25:45

Would Millwall get up because they were the third team? Well, no, because if they if they get releg if they get the 60 points, this is what it says. So if they get the 60 points, they will automatically fall into the relegation zone. And this is if it's done before the World Cup, apparently, then West Ham would survive.

unknown 26:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:03

Because they put the charges in before the water.

SPEAKER_03 26:06

So people can get off our back.

SPEAKER_01 26:07

Yeah, European qualification places would completely reshuffle, it would become one of the biggest punishments. One of the biggest punishments in English football history.

SPEAKER_03 26:15

It won't it won't happen like that. Come on.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

So yeah. But I can't see it happening now. The season's over.

SPEAKER_03 26:21

They won't sixty points, it's fucking mad.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

Wow, look at what happened with Rangers when they would fucking divisions. Yeah, they've got drops, exactly. That's worse than 60 points. 60 points for Man City is well, how many points do they get this season? They'd be on negative 18. Oh, but fucking hell, yeah. They'd be fucked then. So you might as well just relegate them a couple of times.

SPEAKER_03 26:42

But that's what I mean, just relegate them.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

Relegate them twice, get them in League One. I like the idea more of I like City though.

SPEAKER_03 26:48

I like the idea of more relegating them. I don't want to relegate anyway, so I think it's same with us. I'm not just saying it, but I think it's good for football. Everyone likes a big team to go down, but realistically, you don't want City to go down, they're a big team. They're one of the teams you want to come up with. As a Birmingham fan, just for English football. As a Birmingham fan, though, you want to get promoted, you want to play against Man City. 100%. I don't want to play them in the championship. Exactly. Um so I like the idea more of um but I like the idea more of them if they're getting if they're getting relegated then Millwall going up.

SPEAKER_01 27:17

I don't think that would work though.

SPEAKER_03 27:19

No, but that's I know I don't either, but I'm just saying that's uh I'll in my head I'll like it.

SPEAKER_01 27:22

Yeah, but it would be just West Am that goes down instead. I mean stays up and Man City go down.

SPEAKER_03 27:27

No, West Ham stam still go down. Millwall replace West Ham uh Millwall replace Man City.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

Millwall finished third. Would it be Middlesbrough? No, you think just by table.

SPEAKER_03 27:37

Wouldn't you?

unknown 27:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:39

Or would you go playoff runner up? But you could argue then that Millwall performed better than Middlesbrough over the season. So two two wins. Well did they get no one one win and a draw? One win, one did they they drew one game in the playoffs, didn't they?

SPEAKER_01 27:53

I think they drew the first one, lost the second, 2-0.

SPEAKER_03 27:56

Yeah, second there, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:57

Against Hall.

SPEAKER_03 27:58

But yeah, um Southampton down Bampton should get fucking relegated just for how fucking dodgy that is.

SPEAKER_01 28:04

Do you know what's mad? Do you know if Millbour never won their last game of the season, they would have finished the place below and they would have played Southampton instead?

SPEAKER_03 28:12

I don't think that means anything.

SPEAKER_01 28:14

So that means they would have spied on them and they would have gone through to the final. Technically.

SPEAKER_03 28:19

If they did spot.

SPEAKER_01 28:20

If they did. Of course they did. They start on a minus four points as well, Southampton, next season.

SPEAKER_03 28:25

Well, there you go, exactly. So Man City ain't gonna get minus sixty up.

SPEAKER_01 28:28

But I don't get it as well, because this happened with Leeds and um Derby.

SPEAKER_03 28:32

Did yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:33

And that they should have sanctioned it straight there and then and they never did. They should have put a rule in saying, oh, this can't happen again.

SPEAKER_03 28:39

Yeah, they have. That's why now that's what they did anyway. That's why they got kicked out of the whole thing.

SPEAKER_01 28:47

Oh my bad.

SPEAKER_03 28:47

I thought they just put it through a court and I think they should get they should get fucking relegated just for how obvious he was.

SPEAKER_01 28:52

Geez has just stood there like that and planged out like apparently he was ordering and the manager was at the local at the at the ground.

SPEAKER_03 29:00

Is that what he said?

SPEAKER_01 29:01

Apparently, yeah, apparently he was ordering coffees with his name on it. You know, links back to him.

SPEAKER_03 29:06

Well no, but no, the reason no the reason he got linked to him was because so they took a photo of him. He was just standing there, but they're so they've noticed it, and then um who was it? Who are they playing?

SPEAKER_01 29:17

What Southampton?

SPEAKER_03 29:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:19

They were playing Middlesbrough.

SPEAKER_03 29:20

Is that what they spotted on Middlesbrough? Okay, I can't remember.

SPEAKER_01 29:23

Because then Middlesbrough went to the phone, didn't they?

SPEAKER_03 29:24

But yeah, so anyway, they spied on him and then so Middlesbrough's photographer was obviously their training, noticed it, took pictures of him, and they looked at his face and he they went on the um Southampton website and he's and he's yeah, he's like the uh analysis whatever the whatever the player is.

SPEAKER_01 29:40

Chief analysis, yeah, yeah. Analysis, yeah, he was that analytical. Do you know what's mad as well? He would have had to drove all the way to Middlesbrough. Drove.

SPEAKER_03 29:47

He would have to drive.

SPEAKER_01 29:48

He would have had to drive. I'm Brummy, mate. He would have had to drive. Do you say bath or bath?

SPEAKER_03 29:53

A bath.

SPEAKER_01 29:54

Yeah, saying bath.

SPEAKER_03 29:55

Scone or scone Scone.

SPEAKER_01 29:58

Scone, yeah, right.

SPEAKER_03 30:00

But you still, yeah, but that's yeah, but he didn't have to. Don't you drove someone crazy? You drove there. Yeah, past tense, didn't he? So he had to he he didn't have to drive there, he he would he he he's got losing the world.

SPEAKER_01 30:13

But people said he drove there. He drove there. Yeah, but if I say he drove there for eight hours, that don't make sense. Yeah, but he's only imagine he drove there for eight hours. Oh sound Chinese, it'd be broken English. He drive there eight hours. That's what broken English sounds. That needs to be cut. It don't need to be cut.

SPEAKER_03 30:30

So how you said it again, because now in my head I'm feeling like you gasped me.

SPEAKER_01 30:35

Right. Imagine he drove eight hours to get there. Yeah, we did.

SPEAKER_03 30:41

How you said it before he did he drove, he did, but the way you said it first, rewind it, watch it back. The way you said it weren't that way was correct. He drove there. Yeah, he didn't, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:52

He used to drive, you went he drove. He drove. No, I think you said he drove there, and I was like, he drove.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

Drove must have drove, bro. I swear to God. Oh, I don't want to do this podcast on the wall. I've sweating.

SPEAKER_01 31:03

Yeah, imagine he drove all that way. I got bummed in the clock, man. Give me a break. I think fuck off, man. Yeah, he drove. So it would have been a 16-hour trip round, and all that just to stand by a fucking true and record.

SPEAKER_03 31:20

Their manager, Southampton manager, approved all apparently. What?

SPEAKER_01 31:24

Yeah, he's come out and said that he approved it all. Oh what'd you reckon for him then, Sachs? He's a fucking good manager, I'll have him.

SPEAKER_03 31:31

No, because I think that I think that the whole of Southampton would have known. I think that he would have turned around to the board and been like, No, this is what I want to do, but they would have gone, yeah. I don't think you'd send because you'd that that you'd like to think the uh analytical expert or whatever he is would have turned around and gone, are you sure about this?

SPEAKER_01 31:45

Yeah, especially if it's that drive.

SPEAKER_03 31:48

Yeah, if that if it was that drive.

SPEAKER_01 31:50

If it was that drive, yeah. If it was that far, I'd be like, mate, really, you want me to drive travel eight hours just to do that.

SPEAKER_03 31:55

Pause this and fucking watch that back.

SPEAKER_01 31:57

I can't do it now, but yeah, I'll have a look when I'm gonna.

SPEAKER_03 31:59

Because I said it and even you knew it was off because you went on brummy, as if to say we always say weird shit. We do, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 32:06

So what you said was fucking wrong. It was right, it was fucking right. Right, last bit. Let's go on to Yeah, I fancy beer down the clock after this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:21

I do, I think. Yeah, please.

SPEAKER_01 32:23

That weren't I didn't say anything, that was my arse all that said that you whispering on um what was I gonna say? Oh yeah, the fucking what's it called? Our teams Spurs and Birmingham.

SPEAKER_03 32:40

Hold on, you just go back. You you you sent me a whole list of things that you want to go over and you went over our player. You haven't gone over moment or anything.

SPEAKER_01 32:48

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:49

You've got a whole list of these text when you say.

SPEAKER_01 32:51

It's because you've been talking about the club.

SPEAKER_03 32:52

I'll run them to you.

SPEAKER_01 32:53

You've run it down, baby. Oh yeah, favourite moment.

SPEAKER_03 32:58

And you get jealous of the club story.

SPEAKER_01 33:01

I've got a worse story, actually, but I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_03 33:03

No, so um, yeah, yeah, favourite moment. Yeah, so sorry, the only one we didn't touch on was favourite moment.

SPEAKER_01 33:09

Oh yeah, what was your you you you you've got uh a goal in it, yeah?

SPEAKER_03 33:12

Chris, right. Sobersloy's free kick against Arsenal.

SPEAKER_01 33:17

But the outside nah man, Man City one's better. What do you think?

SPEAKER_03 33:20

The one outside the foot and I think the one against Arsenal was just he gets that trap in the corner, doesn't he? Pitresque. I hate to say it, I hate to say it, but it's good like fucking Declan Royce's ones against our Real Madrid. Oh man, just ones like that man two in one game as well. Oh picturesque, nothing will ever top, and it's the this is this is one of them. Do you remember the dress? Was it is it white or gold or blue or black? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tiago's goal against Porto.

SPEAKER_01 33:47

Did it touch the floor or did it not? I don't think it did. That's such a beautiful thing. And I think it did, I think it grazed the grass. I think it just tickled it.

SPEAKER_03 33:53

I love how they're putting these like slow motion and putting some really beautiful music. No, no, no, no, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:59

Oh god. It's just poetic, innit?

SPEAKER_03 34:01

It gives me such a makes me harder than when I was in the clock.

SPEAKER_01 34:05

We're gonna get uh a clock, but with a foster's point in it.

SPEAKER_03 34:09

No, we're not.

SPEAKER_01 34:10

Here we are.

SPEAKER_03 34:11

Um this episode is sponsored by the clock.

SPEAKER_01 34:15

It's not also other watchmakers.

SPEAKER_03 34:20

Other pubs are available to get bummed in.

SPEAKER_01 34:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:25

You okay? I could tell.

SPEAKER_01 34:28

Oh fucking brilliant. Other pubers.

SPEAKER_00 34:32

I should do a comedy podcast.

SPEAKER_01 34:34

Yeah, get you and Jamie Hutchinson on the fucking on the go. I'd love to. That'd be fucking I love him all though. So funny. He's fucking hilarious, man.

SPEAKER_03 34:42

My favourite ever moment. And I always play it to the missus all the time where he's like, You're not doing as much coke anymore, are you? And he's like, I'd skip that up, medical reasons. Missus is allergic to having a laugh. He's missus, he's fit, you know. I haven't seen. You tell me your moment, I'll get his instructor and show you. Shout out Jamie Hutchison and his missus.

SPEAKER_01 34:59

Yeah. Yeah, second that. Um, my favourite moment. My favourite moment, weren't you?

SPEAKER_03 35:04

You can't say that you ain't actually saw it yet. You might go to something like that nice actually, mate.

SPEAKER_01 35:08

Our standards might differ, yeah. Do you know what for him? Fair fucking ply, man.

SPEAKER_03 35:18

Oh no, I think she's punching Jamie if you ever do watch this.

SPEAKER_01 35:21

Fair fucking ply, man. Jamie Hutchinson's reeled himself in a fucking big fish there, man.

SPEAKER_03 35:29

She's alright.

SPEAKER_01 35:31

Fair play to him.

SPEAKER_02 35:32

Fair play, fair play.

SPEAKER_01 35:33

Not you looking at his missus' photos. My favourite moment, because we're veering off track a lot, yeah. Weren't actually a goal.

SPEAKER_03 35:47

Do you remember me in the back of the clock?

SPEAKER_01 35:48

Yeah. Do you remember Chelsea versus West Ham and fucking in the corner? Uh Troy got uh and he f and he put and then Jal Pedro come out of nowhere and done this pathetic push that made him just stumble a little bit, and Troy just turned round and just fucking locked his arms in, started stepping to him like that. I've never seen someone sort of shit himself so quick. Jow Pedro shht.

SPEAKER_03 36:10

What about a steadhead Troyora who's never been never lifted a weight in his life?

SPEAKER_01 36:14

Yeah, yeah. It came out then it this season, because someone recorded him in the gym in West Ham. I don't know how you can say that. Nah, he he he says he does now, but apparently he never did.

SPEAKER_03 36:23

Yeah, exactly. This is when he was at Wolves and he was fucking babyoggling himself up.

SPEAKER_01 36:27

Yeah, but now yeah, he's saying it is, but yeah, that that moment, the fucking I pissed myself off and I thought it was great.

SPEAKER_03 36:33

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:34

No, I didn't go for a goal, just thought I'd go ahead and go.

SPEAKER_03 36:35

What's your favourite silly moment like that? Do you know one that always comes to spring to mind for me? When um of all yeah, like silly ones out, like David my favorite one with David Luis when he went injured at United and he heard someone shout Sojo Bob at him and he just went.

SPEAKER_01 36:49

Uh yeah. My mum might be Gary Lineker when he had a shot on the football pitch.

SPEAKER_03 36:56

Gary Linka's gonna cry. You're not saying that by Gary Lineka, so Gary Linak. Oh yeah, Gaza Gaza gets it yellow, and he's like, ah and Gaza goes Yeah, and then you go.

SPEAKER_01 37:08

Watch him fucking. Yeah, he slid and pooed, didn't he? Yeah, Gary Lineker slid and shot himself on the football pitch.

SPEAKER_03 37:14

Would that's we could do that's would that's another idea for another pod. Funny moments.

SPEAKER_01 37:18

Yeah, we'll we'll touch on that. Touching cloth. Touch on that. Yeah, no, no. No. I tried to make some out of it, but it didn't go.

SPEAKER_03 37:26

And then you wanted to quickly touch upon uh Our clubs Birmingham and Tottenham. There's a lot to say about Tottenham.

SPEAKER_01 37:34

Just rank your obviously I I know where you're gonna rank yours. Shoit. Absolutely pissed. Now next season better under the Zerby, under what we have. Yeah, I was just about to say next season. Something I'm glad you've got a good manager at, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_03 37:47

Well, apparently now he's been given a they're gonna give him a five-year contract and he's gonna make him one of the highest paid managers in the league, apparently. But um it would have had a massive bonus for him as up. But um finally, I know I've said it to you and I've said it to other people. There's uh apparently now there's a review underway to us to see what's going on with Tottenham and why they had so many injuries. Apparently, because there's only us, the only team that's had more ACL injuries other than us is Real Madrid, and Real Madrid the only other team with a retractable pitch. Ah that's one of the things they're looking under. Yeah, but Javi Simmons done is against the bigger. Yeah, I know, but you're still you but you're still playing on that retractable pitch more often than that.

SPEAKER_01 38:26

Oh, yeah, so the yeah, it's doing it's long that long conditioning the play.

SPEAKER_03 38:29

Yeah, I think we've had um Oderbert, we've had uh Simmons, and then um someone else. Kudovski Kudovetsky, yeah. Kulavetsky's that bad that he didn't even fucking play a single game.

SPEAKER_01 38:42

Well, yeah, apparently he was only a knock on it.

SPEAKER_03 38:44

Fort knows what's happened to him, mate. He's never he's been seen. He's gone he's getting to the World Cup, man.

SPEAKER_01 38:49

Oh, he didn't get the call up. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 38:51

Um but um yeah, so you you But Javi Simmons, sorry, Javi Simmons, ten days after he'd done it, is there's pictures of him in the gym? Yeah, seen.

SPEAKER_01 39:00

Well, fair play if he's fair enough, yeah, I know. Maintained. Not many footballers do that, do they? But erm so yeah, next season. Uh do you reckon if that does come through they'll What would have to change? Would you reckon you'd have to take the you can't really fucking take a retractable pitch out?

SPEAKER_03 39:18

I don't know, because I think that a a lot of money we get is from the NFL.

SPEAKER_01 39:21

Yeah, I was gonna say, and concerts and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 39:23

But there will be some sort of way where um you can still do the boxing and that's because that happens all over Wembley's not retractable and all that. So you can still do all that. Um there'll be a way where you I imagine with with mate, we've had science and everything that is now. I'd you'd like to think there's a way that you can condition the players to be able to cope with playing on a retractable pitch.

SPEAKER_01 39:44

Yeah. But it's just nice to know I think someone needs to get sacked. What's what's the expectations for next season?

SPEAKER_03 39:50

Uh rebuild.

SPEAKER_01 39:52

Uh I think would you be happy? I know it sounds mad, but would you be happy with like a tenth place finish next season? Yeah. Just to get away from that fucking idea.

SPEAKER_03 39:59

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just take it. I think realistically you just want stability. Just to just that's it. Play some good football, get some results. Uh obviously, you'd like to be high in an ideal world, play. I want to I've said it for fucking ages, and I've said to you, I'll I'm desperate for a good FA Cup run.

SPEAKER_01 40:17

Yeah. And it's not like you can't go on one either. I mean, if you get the look of the draw, you know, you could I mean Arsenal had an amazing run, and they still lost to Southampton.

SPEAKER_03 40:27

In my head, right, I'm thinking because we've got Robertson, it'll be good. I mean, we don't need another left back. Scentsy, but we've got him, I think he's a good addition. If this comes back from Hamburg, that's another good one.

SPEAKER_01 40:39

Um Pedro Power on the right, you're right there.

SPEAKER_03 40:41

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

I'd get a new keeper, mate, if I were you. Yeah, I find we're Vicaro Vicaro. So Vicaro Crafford would be fucking shout out to it.

SPEAKER_03 40:48

Apparently, Carl Darlow. Nah, fantastic. I'm not saying, I'm saying apparently what I've read. I like Kinsky personally. I think he's class. I think he's fucking dumb class.

SPEAKER_01 40:58

He's a good backup. He's too young to be put out there. He's shown that already, man.

SPEAKER_03 41:01

What? Because he had a shit a couple of minutes against Atletico. He's class, mate. He's the reason we're in the Premier League.

SPEAKER_01 41:06

He's also the reason you're at the Championships League.

SPEAKER_03 41:08

Oh, yeah, because we were gonna fucking go on to win that. Fuck off, mate.

SPEAKER_01 41:12

We still pulled a couple of goals back.

SPEAKER_03 41:14

Listen, yeah, because then we because he because Vicario came in for the next round and we dicked him, didn't we?

SPEAKER_02 41:19

No.

SPEAKER_01 41:20

He's not the reason. Uh I'm I mean I don't think he's the answer now. Maybe in a few years, yeah, but not now.

SPEAKER_03 41:28

Did I turn around to you and say we should keep him in as on and one? I'm just saying I like him, and he's the reason that we stayed in.

SPEAKER_01 41:33

You did make a good save against the Leeds.

SPEAKER_03 41:35

Made several good saves.

SPEAKER_01 41:36

That one at the against Leeds. That one off the bar. I even messaged you and said that's the save of the season.

SPEAKER_03 41:41

Easy. 100%. So yeah, I'm in up in my head thinking if we could I'd take Jackie Grealish still, you know. Why not? Coming off the wing, Sonny's position.

SPEAKER_01 41:51

Why not? Who's on there now at the moment? You've got Mamani at the minute, isn't it? Oh yeah, anyone's better than him. But you'd have Kudus back on one side on the right. You missed that on me. Grealish on the left, Madison in the middle, maybe, or Simmons.

SPEAKER_03 42:03

And then I'd I'd I'd think I'd probably say get rid of Solanke as well.

SPEAKER_01 42:07

Yeah, he's a one-it wonder, isn't he, by the looks of it? Done with Bournemouth for that one season, and that's it.

SPEAKER_03 42:14

But that's it. I'd have mate Troy get Troy Parrow back. He's fucking smashing it at Azer Latmore, you know.

SPEAKER_01 42:19

Do you reckon he'd do the job there?

SPEAKER_03 42:21

I don't know, but even if we're saying off the bench.

SPEAKER_01 42:24

But that league, the league's so much.

SPEAKER_03 42:26

And apparently he's des I was the only thing saying that even if we went down, he'd want to come back. Apparently, he's desperate to prove a point of time.

SPEAKER_01 42:32

Getting back.

SPEAKER_03 42:34

But he had yeah, I think his stats are fucking hazel out.

SPEAKER_01 42:38

I know it's the Dutch league. Yeah, it's like the same as comparing the Ocaras to the shut up, you fucking idiot. It's true, it's like comparing not it is the Portuguese League and the Dutch League probably ain't got that much in it. I'm not saying that 100% though, but the goals and it's probably the easiest to score goals in both leagues than it is a primitive.

SPEAKER_03 42:54

He ain't done as bad as I thought. Um no, yeah, sorry, that's all competitions. So 48 appearances, 31 goals, 10 assists in all competitions. That's not bad. Yeah, it's not bad. That's not bad at all. He's done well with Ireland as well. The season before that, he had 47, he had 20 goals and four.

SPEAKER_01 43:15

We just hate Tony. Have you seen his goals?

SPEAKER_03 43:18

Yeah, he's like a goal a game, ain't he?

SPEAKER_01 43:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 43:21

That's in any league that's good.

SPEAKER_01 43:22

Yeah, 100%. Ronaldo's not doing it. I'd love to get for him to come back to the Premier League because I miss Tony.

SPEAKER_03 43:27

I like watching Tony. But he's out there, listen. Um if he's he's out there anyway. He'll be back. 100% 400k after 10.

SPEAKER_01 43:33

Yeah, he's making his money now and then coming back, I know he is.

SPEAKER_03 43:36

Carlos Tevers did that in China, didn't he?

SPEAKER_01 43:38

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, we've got to be.

SPEAKER_03 43:40

Carlos Tever's got fine as shit. Quickly, then you run over Birmingham.

SPEAKER_01 43:43

Yeah, with Birmingham. I'm gonna go, um not angry, I'm just disappointed. No, no joking. Now I'm happy because like you just said then, if I asked the question to you, would you be happy with 10th? I said that at the start of the season, I want stability. We finished 10th. I can't really ask for much better from a team. It's just got promoted. I think Wrexham finished just out of the playoffs. Yeah, Wrexham have proved that it Who else went up? What this season?

SPEAKER_03 44:08

No, last season with you. You, Wrexham, oh uh Charlton.

SPEAKER_01 44:12

They stayed up as well. Yeah, done alright, and they yeah. But we are the first two teams, I think, in however long, good good fair three fucking seasons, that have got up and sta and finished in the top ten. So it puts us in good stead. We've got money coming in, we've got players. Uh apparently we've got a few players that got um clauses in their contract that if we didn't get promoted that season they can go for a real cheap fee. I've only found out that the other day, which is gonna be a bit of a shit app, which means another half rebuild, depending on how many players go, which could that be.

SPEAKER_03 44:42

You've got the pollen you're I mean there's the whole thing about big owners, Tom Brady, stadium, yeah. But it it that that noise only would be through a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 44:51

No, I wouldn't too old. Would you not? Too old. No. I'd have taken him two seasons ago, but I don't know. Not now. We've got Jay Stansfield, he's basically like the same. I'm not gonna say the same championship. I think Video could do a job in the championship.

SPEAKER_02 45:05

I think Video do a job in the championship.

SPEAKER_01 45:09

I mean I or Rangers, I think I've heard Rangers, Rangers Scottish League, I think, will fit him, but no, I don't know, I don't think I'd want him with the blues now. Not now. Um but yeah, I think just get a couple of good fucking signings. Yeah, I would. Because we haven't got an out-and-out striker. We bought that Kyogo, don't we, for £10 million and fucking he couldn't hit a bar and door, didn't score a goal in the in the championship, I don't think. I think he's got one or two goals in the cups. Fucking terrible fucking signing. So yeah, get a striker, get a goalkeeper. Fuck me, we need to get a goalkeeper.

SPEAKER_03 45:39

I think is you don't want to rush because I think you can you rush it and then you end up going up and it can go fucking tits up, and then before you know it, you can end up doing back-to-back the relegations.

SPEAKER_01 45:46

Yeah, you need to do like Sunderland did. They had two or three seasons in the championship before they ended up getting promoted, and then it's about stability, isn't it? Yeah, you just gotta maintain level headedness and don't fucking swap and chance, swap and chance, because otherwise you got a new squad every fucking yeah. Yeah, don't happen, don't work, don't work. You just need to have a bit of fucking faith, don't you? But Phil Parkinson, mate, with Wrexham. Half that squad were playing with not half of them, but there's a fair few lads in that squad that were playing with him in the National League, and he still kept him in. He still kept that he's he's made a fucking little community within that club, yeah, yeah. Which has got him to where they are now, I suppose. But yeah, maybe another season or two in the championship. Um I mean I'd like because next season you got the eight places, ain't it now? Uh from eighth to yeah, it's made just wait to make more money, innit? Yeah, so there's there's a possibility. I mean, we're only two places off it now, so there's a possibility we could actually go through that. It'd be nice to be in and around it, get the feel for it, but like you decided.

SPEAKER_03 46:39

Well, Cov like you said, Cov have done that steady trajectory thing, haven't they? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:43

So yeah, they've been in and around it. They also almost fucked up last season. They almost got remote. They almost fucked up this season. Yeah, but it weren't for everyone around them. They're in the right position to fuck up though. Do you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 46:54

If it weren't for everyone else flopping around them at the same time.

SPEAKER_01 46:57

Yeah, I mean I'd rather fuck up at top of the league than of than flop. Flopped off massively, and then Middlesbrough just decided and went, nah, do you know what actually you can have it yeah?

SPEAKER_03 47:03

It's your season fucking.

SPEAKER_01 47:05

Middlesbrough completely fell off when Rob Edwards left. Absolutely bottled fucking terrible. Now that's a bottle. Because they were up there with pretty much first, second throughout the half the season.

SPEAKER_03 47:16

Yeah, and then they did, didn't they? And then he left and then they went up, they went above him, and then just decided to lose those, and Kov just ran away with it again. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Kov got the two longest run winning uh undefeated runs, hadn't they? Yeah. In the same season. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Off the start, and then when they picked up the wins again. And then at the end, yeah.