Lads On The Sideline Podcast
A football podcast hosted by a father, Vincent, and his two sons, Sean & Conor, who are massive Man United fans. Not just Man United talk but all things football. From match reviews and previews, to big topics and stories we will give our honest and unbiased opinions on it all.
Lads On The Sideline Podcast
Episode 31 - Man City win Carabao Cup & Ireland v Czech Republic
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On this weeks episode we took a look back on gameweek 31 which saw penalty drama between Bournemouth v Man United, Chelsea and Liverpool lose, and Spurs relation worries deepen. We gave our opinions on VAR (again), and we talked about Man City’s cup final victory over Arsenal. Like every week we answered listeners questions and we looked ahead to Ireland’s World Cup qualifiers.
Welcome back everyone, episode 41, Lads on the Sideline Podcast. It's me, Connor, joined by my brother Shell. How's everybody getting on? Welcome back. And our father video. Oh welcome back, everybody. As usual, thanks very much for listening. Yeah, thanks very much for listening. Everyone who's listened all the way through to number 41. Got it quick, hasn't it?
SPEAKER_01It has, actually, yeah. Six months might as well say definitely went in quick, like yeah. But very enjoyable doing it with the two of you, I must say. Well it is, yeah. It's like a therapy session out of the last season. Got us over it a bit, you know.
SPEAKER_02You know, so yeah.
SPEAKER_01We look forward to every Tuesday, but obviously we're doing the Monday night this night as well, like so, like so for our own reasons and different reasons that we'll have to be done on Monday. But look, we has everything we go through everything again as normal. Connell have his nails now when it's sick.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's it. Well, I don't think we've had any other business in it, so we've got straight into the nails anyway. It's been raining for the last couple of days, great, yeah. Brilliant, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, it really is it.
SPEAKER_01Proper proper spring weather.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Great. But er, yeah, so look at we'll kick on into a nails a bit a bit of nails, but nothing that we sort of have to delve into too much like uh if the fourth one is Morocco through the African Cup of Nations champions now. Yeah, taken away of uh Senegal. Senegal was it? Who did that? Yeah, you're right. Senegal, wasn't it? Yeah, Senegal. Um took off them.
SPEAKER_01Well as you know, boy then it's it's look it's just it's look at it's just uh rules like that, but like the main rule is that they were talking about real lakey two and get the real lakey four and all, but the the the look at the mainland them the layman's names is the real is like if you walk off the pitch but without the referee's permission, um but then um you it's you the game is is right for you then and you just had to lose the game. That's that's the rule. And you were lawful like for what, ten or fifteen minutes and obviously came back on and wonder, but then it was like off, but the look at the rules are the rules, and that's it. Why it takes so long to decide that though? Two months though is it's very long time to yeah, like two months is very long, like would you give you a medal back? Wait for the book. You'd make you wonder, wouldn't it? Did there ever happen to another team before that like 50 years ago when you turn around and say, like, well, if the rule was there now, was it there a long time ago as well? Did somebody else walk off? I don't know, but like there has to be a lot of repercussions. I'm sure there's loads of things getting looked into early. I'd say so.
SPEAKER_02I'd say it was it's there is mad, isn't it? Like it's more than just I'd take the trophy off and give it to Morocco like it's all all the medals and all and the like Senegal celebrating for months and what the bonuses are now paid, I'm assuming so even if the if the managers not would have got a bonus for winning it and do you take the do you have to take that back and like yeah, it's just always the repercussions, but it's just strange as Sean, you said it just said a second ago, way it took two months.
SPEAKER_01I mean, if it's a rule and it's a rule and it's there like like it should have been Dais. Yeah. If the if the rule is there and it was broken and it should have been Daisy.
SPEAKER_02Someone in the stadium would have been that's there at the breaking that whatever rule, I'm sure there's a number or a description to it. Sorry, that's gone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wasn't he?
SPEAKER_01GM is like to show you that like you wouldn't think it'd ever have to happen. But they've got to show you like if you're the manager or you're the secretary of your club or something like that, and you see them walking off, you'd get that message down there saying you can't walk off as a rule, you just can't walk off. You think somewhere up above that somebody uh as in a country like that in Ireland, and it may united if they were to walk off if it was a rule in that as well. Like you think somebody in a proper professional club like or a proper country club in a final would know that that's a rule, yeah. Wouldn't it? Somebody in the city wouldn't put the back on there.
SPEAKER_02Which makes you think uh I'm always skeptical of these things, you know. You can never prove them, but it's our another reason behind or something. I don't know, you wouldn't know. Yeah, because I know when when it was over and we are talking about if was in Morocco when you missed the penalty we are saying it was a bit weird that some of the players weren't celebrating and all this stuff. It was a bit strange, it was not a strange too many question marks around for something that should be so simple.
SPEAKER_01Very weird, like yeah, and the African Nations Cup then the next time is in wherever now I can't even remember. In Morocco, it's in Morocco, you see. So um so they wanted them to win like because they'd be a host nation because it's in Morocco and all like but you know what? I think I said it the last time if you if you go down to the African um football federation tr just for for a long lot, yeah, it's just say right, there's supposed to be a lot of corruption in it. So I wouldn't be surprised. There's something way, way.
SPEAKER_02I think there's something's too should be so simple and it's not there's something else going on. Yeah, definitely. 100%. I don't know, I don't know. Are they hosting the World Cup as well with Spain and Portugal? I've got to be you might be completely wrong with that now, but I actually don't know that could be a thing. Yeah, I mean, like well, that's it. It's very strange. Um we move on then, just quickly touching the Champions League, considering it's getting into the latter stages now of the quarter finals. So some match scores in the last after the last round. Some of the English teams are put right in the box. Yeah. Um but the draw down on the next one, some tasty uh fixtures, Ray Madrid and Bayern Munich. And Spartan, Lisbon, and Arsenal there on the boat on the 7th of April, and uh Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, and then PSG and Liverpool are on the 8th, and then the week after then the reverse fixtures, so some interesting games there, like in there, like yeah.
SPEAKER_01Well, look at part from Sporting and Arsenal, just say no, not and and I'm not even putting down Spartan because you don't know where they're going to play to say, right? Just say you look at the other three fixtures, um, they could they could be finals. Yeah. If you're looking at just fixtures now, well obviously it's not because of now, right? Because anybody could play in the final, but they're all big clubs that you would be woody if looking at a match if that was the final. Yeah, yeah, it could be. Yeah, yeah. You'd finally be glad to watch. Yeah, yeah, definitely.
SPEAKER_02Like when you look at like Real Madrid and Boring Munich and Barassa and Athletico, I started to look at them to as being like 50-50. Yeah. PSC and Liverpool, maybe PSC would say would be favourites, but if Liverpool were to win nobody'd be surprised either.
SPEAKER_01No, no, you think it's an arsenal so clear always bought Lisbon as well. Like yeah, so yeah.
SPEAKER_02We'll see. Look at games that we I know we're not in the Champions League, but at least you might be able to look at them and made by Joker has to score against Low Club, any? Yeah, didn't even think of that actually, yeah. That's probably the only teams he will score, yeah. Or is it May for the end to knock him out or something like that?
SPEAKER_01Look, it'll be good games, and I doubt we'll be watching them and that's it, should you say?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly, yeah. Then uh we'll stick with the club news before we move on to Ireland. Um just really quickly, Maynew and Maguire they're saying they're close to signing new contracts with United. Uh uh Romano said it the other day and it came up in Sky Sports, so I don't know how long they are or how much they're getting, but what do you think? May new, yes. Made it worse.
SPEAKER_01Maynew young play I'm sure they give him five years. I'd say if you extend McGuire's by a year at his age. I take him there for the for the experience. And I know like if we if if you go on Web of Magic Wand, you we we did what we did last week and we said you get rid of 15 players and bringing it out tomorrow, that's better, but you can't get rid of them all at one time, so it's still probably good to have in the dressing room like like he did with Evans in that time, like he like he was older, even they gave him a contract, probably good to have around. But in fairness, he's having a good season, isn't he?
SPEAKER_02This is again this probably just gonna show how bad everything is if United are relying on him and we're sort of geez if Maguire wasn't there, God knows where we'd be. I just want to be seeing rid of all these players. Yeah, but we will eventually, but you say it can't be honest. It's not a bad story, though, because he's like a record sign, and then he obviously he was brutal brutal for a while. Maybe the pressure, then he he got a slate in the in the the press and the fan base and the whole world more or less. Yeah, and then he came back and he's playing well and he's won a couple of trophies, I suppose it was too. But he's at the five in the England's game. He's honest, he's honest, but he's been there for four manager seconds, five manager seconds, yeah. Like a lot of them, so that's right. Yeah, I know he can't get rid of them all, but of all of them, if if if you were to pick one to say it probably would be him of all the old people who are still there, like I said, the O'Shaw, I'd rather keep him than Emperor Clowns.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'd agree with you there, definitely.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, same, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Um so I mean gonna be one to the news, Irish news and sporting news in general. So then you have a little shout out there. We always do when there's a poor movement.
SPEAKER_01Poor Michael Lester, like yeah, died um yesterday. Yeah, um terrible sad, like I mean, not that I ever watched loads of a GA, but he was definitely the voice of um Um what was that on Sunday? Sunday game. Just a Sunday game. Um thirty odd years he was doing it for. Now do you know what I have to say? We were talking to the job today, and somebody asked me a question as he was retired, I knew he was retired, but he said I just guessed a little that he was through probably two or three years. Yeah, and and the chapter job said no, he was retired since 2018. Now I couldn't believe it. Yeah. Just say like that that was uh eight years, so he was retired from the game, just say. But um look at just our deepest condolences and give us sympathies to everybody that know, but especially all his family, because he was definitely definitely a stalwood on um Irish um sport.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we always do it if somebody passes away, we just got to give her a little bit of a shout out and a show, man. Um another bit of Irish new was positive, I suppose. Uh Katie O'Connor won the bronze medal today for the World Indoor Pentatland. She set no Irish record, so just a little bit of a shout-out.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and you know what? She's not 100% fit either, do you know? So million miles away from the top um points the way to gather all the points together. So um she's just gonna knuckle down now and go hard now and go into the Europeans and then just go again for the next competition.
SPEAKER_02I saw that the points that she got this year would have got silver last year. So it is standard was obviously high, like you know what I mean. Yeah. So fair play. Something for us to look forward to.
SPEAKER_01It's a medal coming to a world championship and the Olympics and all the electrics, the the Olympics and all there's all the electricity great, doesn't it? You have to say now, like that's one sport like over weeks that you can enjoy as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so then Irish football now's air manager, he's got a new deal till 2028. Hal Brumson. So from thinking he's gonna get to sack and coming back to do his dentistry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or in the playoffs now and he could get to the World Cup and he has a new contract in the next two years. So I'm sure it's you do it on purpose, don't you? Like the the Ural and it's here, isn't it? In the UK.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's yeah, the guaranteed winner because it's because one of the House Nations, isn't it?
SPEAKER_02Like so So he has a new contract, and then obviously Oyland and all the playoffs are on now this coming week, so the squad is announcing. Nothing really strange about Ferguson is out injured. Yeah. Uh Josh Cullen, he's also out injured, and Mikey Johnson. Then a couple of people sort of missed out that might have been in the squad. Uh Will Smallbone and uh Festi Ebacele. No, he wasn't really great last time, was he? So I'm not really surprised. So we'll touch on Oil in a bit later on, but he's a squad is as good as you can get as well with them players. Look, you'll put their effort in trying to.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you put their effort in, he's still scoring goals, yeah. Yeah, so like he like he's up there, he's scored a little bit. So he still has some got the goal feeling in him.
SPEAKER_02I haven't had much to hang on out on over the years since like the Robin's. Look, you look forward to it.
SPEAKER_01Something to look forward to, isn't it? Like, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Well, it's the last time you could actually look forward to an Ireland game where you're like, there's actually something to play for here. Yeah, um like Don't remember. I don't know, I can't really remember. Switch bar being a bit home to watch them but live in the stadium. That's just because you're going to a live game, but other than that, you could just come back to Farge McCarthy then like they've been in the the playoffs a few times at Denmark and knocked them out and stuff, but you've sort of gone into them games thinking we're not really gonna get out now with this, but like it's hopefully they get past the fourth, so you kind of have a feeling they could definitely win towards the end if you can win the home then, didn't he?
SPEAKER_01Sunday then they're like, alright, fair enough. Like but a little bit of home advantage, but I mean I know the last time he played there as well, he didn't Denmark beat the 5-1 or something.
SPEAKER_02But look at Maryland was and Poland that year now, you know.
SPEAKER_01It's different now, isn't it? I suppose. Yeah, like what the dare nobody didn't like Tripair score the last kick of the game with the top of his toe to have send the whole country in delirium. Got us there, there's no one expecting them to score that, like you know and we wouldn't need me time for this now. So the fact that by there we have a chance. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Even that game with Paul Hungary are sort of ah we're not gonna be hungry like you maybe they did so. Remember that game we went to in Viviva in Oreland Poland. It was uh it was 1-1 in the end, and Shiny Long scored last-minute equaliser, but my in-laws or anybody who's not listening, you know, sort of from Poland, you know. Um my wife actually had a uh White Kobeak was his name, he was on the bench for Poland that that night. He got you a ticket. Yeah, you were in the friends and family in the Polish section a green, white and orange hat on with a Manchester United crest in the middle of it. Never forget it. It was hilarious. I didn't care. No, it was hilarious. Even McCarthy Hork maybe oh Jesus, I'm not be saying that. Our cousin, um he thought it was hilarious. Yeah, and even even uh Jagosh's name was Greg, the Greg Vykoviak, that's he's retired now, but he thought was gas as well.
SPEAKER_01Probably game, but really don't care about anybody like him.
SPEAKER_02He didn't play for Russia Dorn, did he know? No, no, no. Um what's the other chap's name? He was playing for West Brom, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's yeah, yeah, but I can't remember. I can remember his name, but yeah, sorry, yeah. He was playing for Lekie Dansk in the Polish League and um Union Berlin. Oh no, 19 Munich, you know, like not Munich. I call it Munich second team. I don't know if there's any relation to them or not, but play for them for he was a fresh footballer, he made a living out of it, but yeah, fairly good. Yeah, yeah, he always thought that was great. That was great. That was a great match though, though. It was that was a great good fans, isn't he?
SPEAKER_01So that was a little sorry there. Remember that all right. Still have that hat here? I do, we wear it all over Manchester.
SPEAKER_02Okay, hopefully the bleeding de win look where you look at hanging your hat on Tri Parrot, aren't you? To get us goals and just be solid at the back, but like Sabra, you know, are there now with all of the bit of experience and Coleman's there, isn't he? Yeah, Coleman's in and no one's probably playing to get you MacConn's. I actually think your man might be a bit of a miss in the middle culling. Like I know he's not playing. Look at if Borney get relegated, he might stay with Borney. I don't know if a premiership team will buy him, but he sort of just keeps the ball going there, doesn't he? He's fit enough, he gets around the pitch as well, doesn't he? Yeah, better version of the Glenn Wheel and so. He's good on the ball, yeah. Yeah, yeah. You know, somebody could play, look to your team and think we might get something out of him. He's a captain, yeah. Yeah, as well, yeah, it's a captain material, so look at with a bit of luck we're talking next week, and then there'll be two games on, aren't there? So yeah, hopefully with a bit of luck we're into the World Cup and we can be happy, but great. We'll uh we'll touch on both early matches next week because there's obviously no Premier League, so we'll spend a bit of time going over both games and well, I'd say boat games. Hopefully it's two games that's not a little. A bit of luck. Yeah, hopefully, yeah. So ergon it. Was there a thing about you know Ronnie O'Sullivan team? Oh yeah, I was watching the snooker.
SPEAKER_01Can you explain that to me because I was talking about it? No, I don't know. I was watching the snooker yesterday morning and watching it at six o'clock in the morning. Yeah. And he was winning um four-nil, then he lost the next five, he was losing five four. And then obviously, we'd have been in China, then with the football nine on. I watched, I put it on yesterday then, just joking one of the games. I said, No, check up the snooker and see when the snooker's gonna start back. Should it it was already on? He won he lost a nine-seven, didn't he? So I was glad they didn't watch it in the end, but he he he went he came to six all, and then I don't know like what happened after that. But look, it was just good to see him back in the final, and then the break 153 got the highest break ever. So he he put somebody into a snooker and and and he got uh at the start, right? And he missed the red, but he got a free ball then as well. So he put the grain and then went up and pot and then he he popped like everything. And yeah, everything but he didn't get one four seven, if you know what I mean, like you put two pinks along the way, but it's still the highest break. So he's looking pretty lucky, he's getting the back a bit of farm. He didn't walk away and bottom the black, no. No, no, no, not trying to be the man. Yeah, well then you have the old well look if we start off because it was Friday night, we're going to the league fixes, so we go to the results, obviously. So Barmwood and um United two all draw, and um I just think that it was definitely two points robbed. Now I say that, and you can exaggerate on this wherever you want it. It definitely should have been a second panel. Don't care what happened, I don't care what way it works out. He pulled him down in the box, and I'd expect Bruno Fernandes to step up and score another goal, and the game would have been over to me. They'd have got three points, it would have been nine points ahead of Chelsea, eight points ahead of Liverpool. Now the results went that way a little bit, but I'm not even talking about them. I thought United game. So realistically, to me, like it was a good point away with the results, but you it should have been three. Like the first half alone, they should have been doing much a better team. Second half, maybe it was a bit more even, but the referee was a disgrace. What do you think?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I d I I I agree, definitely, yeah. Should have the second penal would have changed everything. Like, I don't know why he didn't give it. Is it I always think with I always taunt to some people reading a lot of stuff online? Do they think do the referees think if I give another penna the game's over? But if it's ten pennos, give the ten penal. Yeah, if it's a pen. Your job is a referee the game, not to dictate how the game goes. Exactly. I don't know if it's true or not, but does that go through people's heads? He's supposed to be neutral to every game he plays, and that's what referees are there for. How is that not a pennel? I'd like this thing like this thing to both of them are penos because it's not a couple of people's ladder, they're very soft, but you to force them, you've dragging them. And it's a penna nowadays, and that's it. He goes down a little bit a little bit easy, but that's as an affair, you have to know. Even Harry McGuire said at the end, said I should have known football the way it is, this day and age that was gonna be given. But that was that was a correct decision in my eyes as well. Yeah, of course it was, yeah. It definitely was, but if we won one lost or Drew, it doesn't matter. That's that was the correct decision. But I always do say we shouldn't be relying on moments like that in match, it should be just going and beating them. It should be beating them. No, but it's two massive talking points though. With the air, I'm not gonna take that away. And we did play well, I thought. I thought we played very well because we we tested the keeper in the first half now, anyway. Good one off the line from Fernandez. Um I thought we played well now. In the second half, you can see they were really good players as well, don't you? Like I'd say if they keep going, they'll do well to hold on to all them. Yam Brooks and all is a good player, and your man in the middle.
SPEAKER_01Take him, he's a good player player.
SPEAKER_02He's a good footballer, and Tavernary is a good footballer, and you know, and Ed Ed Ed Neels. I can't see him play for a big team, but he's better than Delap. He's better than Joggeress, I think, you know the way so he's um, doesn't he? He's fast and all he's clever, he's very clever. Um but yeah, I'd I actually thought that the forums was half decent in the first half there, and then I it I and then had to touch on his why didn't he start Sesco? I don't understand it. No, I was giving out that that I seen the law's name on the team for God's sake, but um he was injured, uh not injured he was sick, wasn't he? But I don't think he would have changed anyway. So why is he not playing Cessco? And then he waited too long to bring him on, and it's just a substitution, but like it's just strange. Even like bringing Ugarty on, like you know, like I know if you're useless he is he's crap. What are you bringing him on for? He's like a headless chicken. Why are you bringing makes him melt on for as well? What's your head on the thing?
SPEAKER_01So he's like something you'd see in the farm at Christmas, yeah, and you've gone around with a fucking hatcher chopping all the heads off, you're running around like all them chickens.
SPEAKER_02He must have got the ball three or four times. And freeze, yeah, yeah. It's ridiculous. I I don't understand his substitutions. That was like nearly as bad as bringing on Malisea that that game. Yeah. So he didn't get that right, and he should have brought his common. That was just and we whipped the ball in again so many times when he's on off the pitch. What are you I don't understand it? Yeah. Prepare him that as you anyway. Look at one point in the end.
SPEAKER_01Colin have his point.
SPEAKER_02They are the much better thing. Last bit of the fourth half was a bit sort of all over the place. About end to end, they had a couple of chances. We just looked all over the place, like midfield looked so open and all, and they're constantly getting in behind Casemiro, and again, he's just out of position all the time. What are you doing? Like I said to you at one time, it's like, why is Casemiro the forward player forward? Like, and they broke after that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, got a big chance, like it makes no sense. But look at going back to that now, and not if we want to be United to say, right, the team in my eyes, right, of the last couple of games, right, has to be Sesco centre forward because you bought him to be a centre forward, right? And Embraermo has to be playing on the right wing because Amad is not playing well. Uh Umbrell was not playing well either because he's a centre forward, so he's playing every position. Pull him back out on the right wing, put Sesco in the middle, and leave Conya on the left, and you win more games, I think. Well, and Ahmad is good if you really need him for his trickery to come out for twenty or twenty five minutes. Yeah. Definitely, because Bram was wasted as a centre forward.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, definitely, yeah. Two goals and set pieces. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Like you said, Sean, we should be going out. beaten Barmann because you shouldn't be relying on a pennot and an own goal from a corner and then if you would have got another pennot, it's another set piece.
SPEAKER_01So there's still not scored enough goal goals. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_02So look at like you said with the other results, obviously you'll mention now it turned out to be not the worst draw I think we probably all said that you take a draw before. Yeah and then I'll say it was like are you take a draw away to Balmer done a Friday night Liverpool will be strong. Point games you will like you look at them four teams there like us Philly, Liverpool and Chelsea they're not going to be winning all the matches at the end of the season because some of them are playing each other now.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02We're playing um Chelsea next we're playing Leeds next we should be winning that game right yeah should be winning that game and Chelsea just taking Chelsea for example they're playing Courtney playing home to City like Susan Chelsea then Chelsea's two next matches the next two matches could be twelve points at them yeah or you could one or something yeah whatever way the match works out with match but anyway yeah yeah they won't keep winning because they were playing away to Everton and Liverpool playing away to Brighton for it's no way all of them are going to all of them are going to pick up points. Aston Villa at home that was a good win because as I because West Ham been in well recently like even dragging one point games like you know so and a clean sheet for them too so they're only one point there behind us now. I know yeah just looking at Sky Sports they're looking at most chances created Brian Fernandez 101 the next one's 58 Sky has Sky Sports are sort of have a bit of an agenda I've never seen uh when people are talking about assists that all these assists from open play and uh set pieces and all of a sudden his nails the open play assists are popping up all over the place I've never heard that before giving it an assist and that's not really it's I've heard it before but that's a that's a silly thing to say but I've never seen the emphasis on it because of Bruno Fernandez and it's Manchester United last year just because someone thought of some of the work he's an Arsenal fan that yeah he sack it last year he got injured but he had 10 assists before then there's six of them from corners yeah no there's still still assists the other way but it was oh the the question was of what if he didn't get injured he would probably would have broken the record guarantee if he broke the record he didn't even mention that it was um sixty percent of them are from corners no but because it's Bruno Fernandes it's still rubbish yeah you know and that's it and I look at Kamara then we go to the next one which was a great winner there for Brighton Brighton meeting Liverpool 2 1 well beck tell you I don't know how he's wasn't put into the English in the in the in the squad only because like of all the English players playing in the in England now like he's still leaving English goal scorer for goals and he leaved him out of the panel that's very strange isn't it like like I definitely thought he'd have been in in there yeah differential off the bench isn't it you did say he said a couple of weeks ago you know you should sign in for a year or two yeah his experience like I said like he played well and we I we watched I watched it up in yours then didn't I and I thought he deserved it. He did played very well again defensively just I don't know what's going on with Canada he just looks all over the place every time he plays slow and all he's clumsy isn't it look poor going forward he look weak people get shoved off the ball like well every time Liverpool come forward you know what they're gonna do and you know Vertis was going to get shoved off the ball and Gagp's gonna do a little bit of a stutter and like come inside and shoot and it's too predictable. Yeah it's just and we always used to say when United would bring on Garnaccio or something or a Yan Zoe like hopefully he can do something. So when Liverpool are bringing on your man and you're sort of they're relying on him.
SPEAKER_01You know you're in a bad place when you're relying on a teenager to do something they're doing what United were doing for years with you bringing on some bit of trickery to get you something just just something that's bad. Yeah you're right Connor when you look at it that way like it's bad isn't it? Yeah long way opinion and look at you beat Gallatry easy enough during the week but but then galaxy don't travel well so you went in the same team with you wear when you played at home fairness with a broken arm like 45 minutes you're playing with a broken arm. Yeah well known as Britain's arm of Hall get him off the pitch if he's still playing football but look at fairness to Brighton do play very well Brighton where Brighton the league must be Brighton in the league now are um tenth 43 points and Chelsea has six with 48 so look they'd be still thinking that they can still chase a European spot too definitely do you reckon you'll obviously onto Spores in a minute but do you reckon Spores being so bad has sort of taken the emphasis off slot and his job a bit and the fact that Rossina's a bit of a nutcase like nobody's really thought about slots and getting sacked anymore really but they haven't really gotten any better have they? No the last couple of weeks like you're right there's more emphasis on um Chelsea Rossina just say um just being in the talking in the middle and just spin quirky or something you know what I mean like so that's taking the armour and then Spores was just the talk of it down isn't it I think you're right though I think it is taking the heat off him a little bit.
SPEAKER_02Because I thought he had a little run in Liverpool didn't he was like six or seven games when he didn't Lewis but now they've there's a couple of matches now where they're after being a bit hit and miss again.
SPEAKER_01Like that's the last couple of games did he draw with Wolves and Spores and lost the herd and lost again beat them beat them sorry I think the next game now would be and you you think it would be a formality just say because you think it's just playing on to Fulham but it won't be a formality like Fulham and a half decent side a little tough test for them after like having to wait three weeks to play to play that game in the league. And did they play Man City in the Fan City for yeah and then talk about Fulham like I know like well we go to the Everton great win beating Chelsea but then Chelsea didn't play well but saying that Everton just didn't let them play for one second so didn't he were completely in that basically all game it was really really good performance from Everton.
SPEAKER_02Yeah that's my my side every performance of the week ever since then yeah I was thinking them just he absolutely battered them didn't he start to finish really did like yeah man Garner's turn into a better player now in the middle in fairness like he's playing well with him really steady player looking forward you just thought oh here we go again like I don't know what's going on with Chelsea like I really don't know if that some of that players are woeful. Kevin won a game a four game something wrong with matches they've no experience really barred no two boys in the middle £100 million players but what experience have they really got though?
SPEAKER_01Nothing by that big price tag footballers and I don't get me wrong I like to Matt United don't get like Cassado and that but who else is they're still very young aren't they yeah like can we say they're a world as well like little it's not like as if the they're a team Bondon team if you know what I mean like they are a lot of individuals do you know what I mean like leagues in the dressing room and all it's career with some man united thank god sometimes you look at Chelsea right and you see someone that's playing for them and I thought sometimes I don't even know who they are.
SPEAKER_02Yeah there's too many like these it's like I was a fellow playing the other day in the middle uh Santos or something or Sanchez rather than I was like who are you? Yeah where'd you come from I mean like bringing these players on you're like that's the model that that United are really going for and buy all these young players and so they all have like resell value and not going for experience like why why didn't they go for Horizon up front? I don't know why didn't go for someone like that because the model is that's what they're saying anyway over 26 they're just not no but you'll have to change that. But it's not worth United I hope to do because it's based off what evidence does this work.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Well look a Cesco is a good boy do you know I mean we have to say yeah even like bringing on uh the lap and Garnacho like if you're a Chelsea fan you're like you that's not giving you any encouragement is it? That could have been us last year.
SPEAKER_01This year we could have bought the lap and kept Garnacho like so they so they are getting it right a little bit now so we but this is really really now when it comes to this the summer now they have to be working on a new manager. We're not going to go over again as a girl but the midfield has to be sorted out and another forward like as a winger like for gone for attacking.
SPEAKER_02Joe what do you bet of what they'd want to look behind because I or Everton might be only a point or two behind them as well now what do you think?
SPEAKER_01Who's this uh Chelsea like talking about look at Chelsea have 48 points and then Everton at 46 like Everton are there with the Chantal Seague running either no worry about Brentford they're ahead of them with goal as well are they 46 points too yeah like they did they must be only three points off Liverpool then yeah them two are them two are three points off Liverpool because Liverpool have 49 and there's a Merseyside thereby coming up in a couple of weeks as well isn't there so like I'll look a lot different by the end of the big time I think oh yeah it definitely changed we top the look at the bottom and the top like but um Fulham then beating Burnley um 3 1 like I know they got a lake old him and as I get a pen of just a right I think I put the now for 2-1 and he like but look it's hard to pass Lizard in he and as I think yeah yeah yeah so it's gonna be that good that he got an all anyway sorry yeah I'm not gonna button no you're right but she on but um I thought I was talking about going to win I think the three one would have probably put that down for a whole minute anyway yeah yeah we didn't yeah just I think you might have the right score kind of you gonna write this week did you had to put up a little bit of ground this week we're right putting out to been two one they got a 90 odd minute penal and I was watching it and there was like six minutes had it on and I forgot what happened must have been maybe the pen or they're checking it or something and when they got to like 96 minutes like grand lovely 3-1 but then didn't he play till like 98 and it's just like don't score don't score don't score coming forward and then look at Leeds and Brentford nil all now come here you will be always passed by a game you could easily pass by that one and we were watching uh the other day Freddy poor game between the two of them yeah as you say like like it's a home point for them and like it is like the way the bottom is every every point will count.
SPEAKER_02What do you make of the they're saying Keith Andrews is telling the keeper to go down injured Keller so that he could bring the team over and give them more instructions and all people seem to be giving out better. That's what it's got isn't that clever um tactics yeah something different seeing outside the box but I was watching Sky Sports earlier and I think they're saying there's a rule coming in now where if I don't know whether it's like an outfield player goes down injured not you have to go off the pitch for like 40 seconds it's gonna be a minute but then the opposition have to pick an outfield player to go off the pitch for a minute as well. Oh no I thought I thought you should get rid of that if you get down injured just keep pitch like what I mean but yeah so trying to cut all that out. You know like you said I thought it was clever. I think I was only the box or something they're changing the wrong things. Yeah didn't Newcastle do it when we played them or all Trafford anyhow when we were sort of bombarding them and told the goalkeeper to get out injured when he wasn't and it it won't be but both teams can do them. Yeah we can't do it they do it like yeah you said you can all do it and they can all waste time yeah and look at where people do waste time when they're taking long throws now and go over taking corners now and you win them one nil and two nil like it's a part of the game isn't it as though you have to put a different level to speed her up change the ball on the picture need addressing them of course well just before you you go on these the final now in a little while but I used just out of curiosity right I used counting Arsenal taking corners yesterday and Man City taking corners and on average no I counted like five or something Arsenal corners on average it took them between 50 seconds to a minute and 10 seconds to take a corner and it took Man City 30 seconds to 40 seconds to take a corner.
SPEAKER_01It's deliberate it's horrible horrible football they come in like don't need to the players they have Artette I can't stand them yeah I'm gonna be honest. Yeah well look at we are probably all happy that City we'll need no United fans with that because you show you like it's it's not the teams it's it's just the fan base they have when it's our tetra isn't it yeah we'll talk about it in a second yeah well look at come here and then um Aston Villa beating like at West Ham there was a good win because like it stretches their little gap at the fourth now like there are probably four four or five points now we had the um fifth so like it was it meant he really got a good win as well slipped up and Shelty slipped up and Liverpool slipped up so filler really well like they really got a good one there didn't he with the three points poor now they were the second goal was brutal from the golf fever just spilled it straight into Watkins but like you said it's a do you just hate the results of this side of the season though absolutely yeah definitely but they were playing as well they took the fucker up a scabby leg as they say and then look at this could have been the result of the weekend as well like Sunderland winning the way to Newcastle that was a good win yeah I have to say like winning right to one was a great win bad result for them isn't that Newcastle because the way they've been playing yeah Sunderland are ahead of them now they say with a throw or something Sunderland are a point ahead of them also raid their team it's gas isn't it because the simple as it is you wouldn't even know how many times you played each other but it's the latest goal ever to make the history of that goal as a winning goal in the 89th minute it's the latest winning goal ever in the in the town side derby an 89th minute winner. Yeah it's funny because you think of all the years if somebody scored a goal in the injury time or something wouldn't you have a level no it's the latest goal to say in the last 11 matches against Newcastle sometimes yeah we won like eight ones that's a double you know this year yeah yeah as well into the bargain because the track can make a big difference with them in the middle yeah good players midfield isn't he when he's yeah on song like in front of something yeah and then look at Kame this might result of the weekend and I've not saying like sports are brutal but not in the first can be brutal too but for not in the first to go ahead and went three nil against Sports after Sports beating Atletico Madrid in the in the Champions League during the week must be gone with a bit of confidence I thought I didn't put him down I think to win and my predictions so for for not in the first go away and went three nil that's my win of the week that was great man to yourself my results they deserved it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah like they were much the better team wouldn't they suppose we're all over the place with them sports are in trouble aren't they big like realistic trouble now you've been saying it for weeks now really but this is look one loss away from being in the relegation zone. Like I don't know about you pair but I sort of always thinking it'd be grand that Spurs like they thought Tottenham can't get relegated like but they really could yeah because I don't know like I was I said to you I think I watched the fourth half with you Vin I was like I wonder what this after these it was the fourth half because Forest scored a half right before halfway didn't he and say it to you it was like I wonder what the sports player's mentality is now like because they're not used to being in a relegation fight so it's a sort of a baby grand sort of a thing. I'm glad you said that because I was thinking ready for the fight like sort of thing as well some of them players might want to and if they want to give their all now and they do give their all and the club stays up they find it very hard to leave next year. But if they get relegated their move out sports happens like that. So if I was thinking or if you're if you're an I've an agent I'm telling that player I don't care about sports I don't care about the money and I'm your player listening if you get relegated not telling to play bad but that's what I'm thinking but I'm sure these conversations go on if you get relegated with sports I know it's mad but you'll go to Man United Pedro Porro or Van De Ven and nobody remember you got relegated with sports and you'll go so much easier and your ages are going to get hit. You paint the picture to them and I'd say a lot of agents are going to be on that or do you do the fight for the badge and keep them up and then find a heart to get out of them next year. I don't know. There's something I was thinking of you know like I like that the transfer fee might be hard but the sign off theme might go up through the roof and I can't hear how much easier would it be for you as a top player now a lot of top teams want if you're in the championship it's easy. It's an easy negotiation.
SPEAKER_01I'm not gonna tell you and it was not it was not not if it's not um um sports and just say nothing the first wear to get a little winner too then and it's West Ham of sports. West Ham are a big club too at the point for getting that big mistake and if they were to get that'd be a disaster for them two to get winning would Jared Bowen be playing in the championship he shouldn't beat that. He won't that's what I'm saying so either way if it's a big club going down because even if it's not in the forest and we're not even bringing Leeds into this league as regards the Disley we're only talking about these three and we're not even mentioning Leeds to say and we all expected Leeds to get down from from the start of the season. Now Leeds could stay up to say and and if the the way they're playing getting results like these at one one all draws and then all draws well could be the one point at a site at the end of the season. And then if it's one of the other three after nothing for getting into Europe and the other two established premiership teams.
SPEAKER_02Imagine next year Spurs of West Ham get relegated and you have a big stadium like that in the championship and Rex get promoted and then you have their little the race court race course ground as everybody is in the Premier League I find it very hard to come up because they will lose players find it hard to come back up yeah yeah definitely and then look at we go to the last game that was all the leagues like like as a guy said like it was good by Man City yesterday in the final wasn't it yeah that's a the the first 20 minutes I thought Arsenal played well and Trafford made a good save the triple save if you want to call it I thought after that City just batted him he did I thought they just played them off the park do you know what it was like man against boys but I didn't really know like it was what way to explain it because he just played at their pace didn't he Man City from this that was in the six minute those three shots yeah from the six minute to the 94th minute they had Arson one shot on target and then he hit the crossbar and it clipped off the side the post he'd argue with that wasn't really like wasn't a who was that fellow took a shot for again for Barmort against United the midfield no that was a that was a rocket off the crossbar that's a proper crossbar you know the way the others just clipped off the side of it you know what isn't that did that that was four shots on target ahead yeah and three of them were in that little sequence of play and one so it looked like he went there was parking the bus in the final mate trying to get a point.
SPEAKER_01I need to win look at Khmere maybe look at Khmere and maybe they might have been just going in throwing them with counters and all that they won it in that Champions League match or they wouldn't have been gone in City was slaughtered out of two games like against Madrid just early and then like obviously Arsenal couldn't be favourites to win that game yesterday I'm sure a lot of people might have them favourites and um but I was just delighted to see City win them just um only because like as you say like there's less man City fans under his ass they get less pleading abuse don't they think and then like as you say they didn't fans just fucking torture their ass sometimes don't they're all there on the he didn't make it out there wasn't a mistake and he could have got nearly sent off before that coming out you know that's really but uh it wasn't that he's an escape he's a scapegoat it was the tactics was where's what where's Starboy?
SPEAKER_02Where's world class Saka? Where's he they were all bad he's been shit a few years the two sent the half marked Holland for Salib and marked Haland out of the game and there was sort of a good battle between them but apart from that I said I would have played well for an arson no Jocharez maybe he didn't get the ball Mendy in the middle maybe I don't know yeah a little bit like they've nothing on the left wingards Martinelli they're poor isn't he sack it was bad Royce was bad the full backside just some um TV programs or fan channels just to see what they're saying you know like some of them are that's only the Carab Cup doesn't matter. Where were they last week? You just need you haven't won a trophy in six years you should be that could set the sequence of things down for to win things or it could bottle be a bottle to do things like yeah like you know you're looking at I still think they win the league now but if if imagine they go away to even Barcelona if they meet them. Barcelona they aren't the strongest Barcelona team I've ever seen they're one of the worst I've ever seen actually and and you need to win if they say they get a home draw force and and you need to win it could be a draw and you need to win at the at the the then there's not a chance or if they if they're playing Boring Munich in the final they'd be tumped. Yeah I'm telling you based off that performance I think Man City's wing has won the game for them.
SPEAKER_01Yeah Semenu just fits in doesn't he I think Semenu on the right on the right wing but then he switches a little bit to the left and dog or whatever his name I know Doctor or whatever his name is right very tricky just say right and even Cherky like started had a game so the them three that were just playing out wide like I think won the game never know where Riley he scored the two goals to say Rav but it was them that caused all the havoc wasn't it yeah they really won the game occupies the twos and the halves the two that really marked them at some stage which gave the otherwise freedom yeah and that's it and I can because I felt like a picture for football the way Art had his thing and it this sounds mad but frustrated I've said it before frustrates life because they have a good team they should be nearly winning everything the way the the way the way the the way the league is gone the way the world has gone they should be almost not the champion maybe but they should be winning the treble at least two cups on the league.
SPEAKER_02They should but they won't and he's just a well he's done well to get them I always say he's done well to get them to this stage from where they were six years ago or whatever it was. But Gene that's terrible football isn't that's awful football you could say they missed Odegaard or Eze or somebody sort of like that. But he had Havertz to come in like not many squads in fairness have alright Adegaard is missing you can bring Eze in now he's missing you can bring Havertz in like if Fernandez gets injured you bring in Mount not good enough to say right like that if Manson that many squads like that out there like so I didn't I don't think there's any excuses for any of the players being injured because it's taken them seven years to build this squad. Exactly and if you can't win the Caribbean Cup I don't know like I I think he will win the league now but like I've always said until he do it I won't believe it. And I I think we said a couple of years ago, I think City will beat them. Well maybe they're not off City's.
SPEAKER_01The next fixture's a big fixture for it. That's all very nice. They have bounced back in the past, so they're actually news. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02But I tell you what, uh, even Trevor and he's listening, they give uh he's talking to him and they it was wasn't it great? They're the two best teams in the land. It's not great. No, is it no? It's not great.
SPEAKER_01We said against United and Villa last week and I'll play with third and fourth and all like that. It's terrible. Including United. Of course, that's what it sounds like.
SPEAKER_02You're United from there. We are shit. I know we are. But at least we know that. Yeah, I know, yeah. But uh yeah, so your forest that's we're oh yeah, forest three now, I disposed like the new side channel. Everton Everton, yeah. Very good. So we're gonna move on now. We don't have any predictions coming up this weekend, obviously, because it's internationals and whatnot, so we're gonna spend a bit of time doing our questions between this week and next week. So whatever questions John can get through, we're gonna fight away now. So let's just talk about what Trevor's out there, Jordan the game yesterday, so we'll start off with him back to the United game. Has well not the United game, but back to the man United. Has Cardeck got lucky since the city in Arsenal win? Got lucky. I think he's just playing players well, for the most part he's played players where they should have been sort of driving a couple of red cards and penals, I suppose, if an hour away, like you know what I mean. I don't know whether it's luck or whether it's the last couple of weeks you've sort of seen his limitations like as a manager. Um so I don't know if it's luck.
SPEAKER_01He has made good decisions and whatnot, but still, yeah, it's down to a bit of luck as well. Isn't it like like that some of the teams he's playing, like you did get a like lucky bounce of the balls and like a couple of red cards like helped out with a couple of results and played teams like play, probably played Villa at one time when they were poor, like so like you did he did get a bit lucky, but like I still don't think it's the manager for for my United. Like I think that there needs to be a more experienced manager manager coming in because you said that even the last couple of games now, um you haven't played really well. A part now you said Barmer did play a bit well, and he still didn't pick the right team and like failure like substitutions to be um you have to see things a bit quicker, I think. And then you said even even Sean Connolly and like I know we took Casemiro Walters like but I know he's on the yellow card now, but to bring that Ugarty on and all, no, like we need somebody better that like now we get him to the Champions League, do a great job, pay him his bonus, whatever he got, but definitely need a new um an experienced manager. I think it's a bit of half and half, yeah.
SPEAKER_02I think you you curate your own luck a lot of the times as well. Like if you had a got two penalty, you were like, Oh, that's lucky a bit. It's not you're it you're in their box. That was bad luck. Making them make mistakes, it was more bad luck, yeah. But he they have got lucky. And just sesco, he he has really helped out, and I'm Bruno Fernandez as well. Obviously, can't talk uh forget about him. But Sesco, many goals has he scored that were winners, yeah. That's why we are where we are, and then obviously have Bruno playing Nova Skin as well. But that's that's nice luck in some ways.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, look, you need an old sport topic.
SPEAKER_02Bringing on Sesco's is I mean you have him on the bench. It's not rocket science, it's not as if you're a tactical genius, just brought on your big man. Yeah, but then he should be this is where you should be playing and then he's not, and that's like that's a big major red flag. Major red flag, Master and Sesco, doesn't like for me. Yeah, but yeah, so I would agree.
SPEAKER_01Uh well everybody needs around the reason from what he's fans, don't you? Yeah, everybody, it doesn't matter what what what like competition or in whatever you uh everybody everybody somewhere along the way needs a bit of luck. I mean another red card and down to time end against Newcastle and he couldn't win.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you know that should probably should have been a win if you're gonna go by that point, you know. Um still take it though. I guess it's self- if you get toward or get Champions League spots, a spot, uh thanks, but good luck. That's it, definitely. Um so there's another guy er who I know he has one this is from last week and it only came out now this week, I don't know. Is he reading something there or not? I don't know. Um Ben, his name is he says to us, said to me, sorry, what do we think of the signing what do we think of signing Bruno Gimmeris? He said that last week though, so that only came out during the week that were linked to him. Yeah, yeah. Talks, too. Talks, advanced talks, apparently. Well, I don't know. Yeah, well, but it depends on who you are. But that was just before the facts, that's why I think it's fascinating the question.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and you know what? May you know it may not be linked to millions of players. But like first of all, I'd like it to be true, and second of all, would you is it's a question would would you sign him or or like you 100%? Yeah, what do we think of it? Yeah, a good player. Think he's only about not even only about 28 because you know what they're talking about, you said a minute ago, Sean, about do you want to sign younger players? But he's an established centre midfield player like from Newcastle for a couple of years now. He's a good player now, 28 is a good age. In his prime now, like he's not younger growing up now, like 29 November. Yeah, he's in his prime. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I don't know what yeah, he'd definitely be up there in the top five midfields in the league, I think. Yeah, and I know on the pitch he's a bit of a head case as well. But you kind of need that to say he's passionate, I think, more than that else. You don't really hear much about him off the pitch. Maybe that's sort of puts me. I like Tanali to say, I don't know if there's a question about Tanali or nothing, but that's sort of something I have in the back of my head of like why he's done off the pitch. You don't need that. You don't need to be bringing people in like that. And I know he might not ever do anything ever again. There's many night you're playing for though. They'll someone will bring it up. Yeah, there'll be something. Yeah, there's the risk of it, or there's just don't need that tall deal. Like I mean, and he's like captain and a little yeah, good player. New Casal Eva More. As I was thinking, there's no resale value on them, right? Some people are saying that even the workers, I was just talking to them about it. But I don't care about that. You're signing an established top midfield, you're gonna get at least three good seasons now, and by that stage, God knows what can happen. Yeah, but that's the way you should be. And I don't care about no resale value. Nothing the glaciers have enough money, fuck them. But I don't I understand the business model of like even making money off Garnacho just because it's him makes me feel it makes it feel me feel a little bit better about the situation because I don't you like them. Yeah, but we're not boring. You know what I mean? Like you spend that money again, you should be a piece of the puzzle, it could be a piece of the puzzle, you'd be in established Champions League team again, and all of a sudden that 60 70 million euros apparently therefore, which is I don't know, in pounds, 65 million pounds, let's say for example. That's nothing. Yeah, really. Think about it. Exactly. He's our captain, he's he's a bit of bite, but he has that cunya sort of shit hair about him too, but he's a good footballer.
SPEAKER_01They need to buy a staff, yeah. So I think he should, yeah. Yeah, 100% like yeah, definitely so run the football club, like a football club now to win things and not be Brian Young's for as you said for retail value down the road. No, we're not one of them teams. We want to be mindful now to be winning.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Um Ray, so we sort of touched on this already, but um fella know we actually wrote into me though. Um Mo was his name, he said, will City will the City final loss for Arsenal start a bottle job for the rest of this competition that they're in? I think I said a couple of weeks, so I I probably would, but in the league, City haven't convinced the last couple of weeks. I don't know if they'll catch them. I don't think they'll win the Champions League. I think there's better teams in the Champions League than Arsenal. The LA Cup, where it's another cup of you might get a bit lucky, isn't it?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but they'll draw out far, then they like in fan, they'll draw out again.
SPEAKER_02I think they'll either win the league or else win nothing. I don't I can't say they'll win in the FA Cup or the Champions League. I think if they play City again in the FA Cup, I think they'll beat them. I think Liverpool could even beat them on a one-off match again. Yeah, but look at it. Liverpool can beat anybody in a one-off game, like United. That's the thing, they're not consistent enough. Yeah, I don't think they'll win the Champions League. I think there's a couple of better things. Like I think if they beat if they played Barcelona or even Atletico, I think that'd be tricky for them. And then get into a final against anybody in Jenna Side. Yeah, PSG, Borne, Munich, Real Madrid, any of them, I think it's gonna be tricky.
SPEAKER_01So half yes hard to know really, isn't it? Do you know I I think right when people managed to talk about the next game, right? That's been an important game, like I used to say Amron used to say, I'm looking forward to the next game, like the next game, the next game. I think the next game now, I don't even know who they're playing the next game.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, they couldn't.
SPEAKER_01No, don't yeah, like but just say the league game, right? You'd expect you'd expect them to be uh South Half and just say so just say they go and you had a tricky just say league fixture, just say in the next game. Um that's going to be um a tough game whether the league it'll crumble a little bit or with the whole one like so half twelve, eleven of April. So so look they should be winning that. But look, if they didn't win that, then there'd be pressure. You know, I agree, I agree. It's half and half, they will win something. I think they'll win the league.
SPEAKER_02I just don't think they don't have much more to play for. So they can just keep the pressure on, but they haven't been consistent all year, so I can see them win the league. I can not Joe, I I think Arsenal would nearly want City to beat Liverpool in the Epic Cup because if City do get knocked down in the Epic Cup and the league, like you said, that's all they have left to play for. Then Jesus, they'll put 100% into it. They'll probably win every game league, yeah. Yeah, like and that's where it'll change, like show me. So Liverpool could do Arsenal a favour by losing. Yeah, it's a good point, it's a good question. Sir and Scalore around here, isn't it? It's all the Irish players you see getting escorted to train and um Allah Hyde here. Um yes, yeah, lovely, thanks for that. Um so there's another one here. I know I don't know there's loads of questions about the final, to be honest, which is um so that actually covered plenty of them. Um this was from a couple of weeks ago, but it sort of ties into it uh thing as well. Ben rolling to us again, he said to us, Are we glad we didn't sign Jockeress? Um I don't know. I think like I said a couple of weeks ago, I don't think we've seen the best of him because of the team that he's in. I know he's a bit clumsy, he's not really a great player. I said he's a sort of a mid-table player, but I don't think Arsenal suits him at all.
SPEAKER_01No, like look, he's a holding up player, isn't he? Really? He's a different player than Arsenal, they always talk with a boss from the one that was a bit more pacey. Yeah. Like like Jesus that plays him, like he's trickier and then he he spin off you quicker than he holds the ball and brings people into play. But he's a good goal scroller. I mean, I think he has about 16 goals this year, like it's a bit more rough around the edges or something, isn't he? I don't think that suits yeah, and he's not gonna get any better because he's like because he's already 27, I think. So I don't think he's gonna I think that's just him as a game, like like like well I go and ask the question, but would would you would you prefer the design Gorkias instead of Cisco? Or are you happy with Sisko? It's torn down happy with Cisco. Like one is 22 and one is 27.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Only because there's room for Cesco to grow. And it will. I don't think they're utilising them that well. I knew he wasn't gonna get the same numbers that he got for uh sport, not a chance, but I thought he would have got more than this. Give a league. Yeah, you know. If he if he just say he did sign with United, and if he got on to half of those chances that Fernandez is creating, yeah, exactly. Would he get more chances with United? Or with Liverpool or Chelsea or something than he is with because Arsenal don't put crosses in the playoffs. Set pieces and corners. But you play the ball too much, don't you? Yeah, yeah. It's more out of the wings, isn't it? And overlapping runs and underlapping and all this sort of stuff.
SPEAKER_01Like but fair and saying I think he played about 40 games, yeah. 41 games river, and he scored 16 goals. So it's not a turn, like for for like his first year. Like you said, he's got to go on from Spartan and Portugal to go to the premiership. So fair and saying he's he's still alright, like you. But no, no, no. But rather than having Sesca and Death Rock.
SPEAKER_02He might just struggle under Arsenal's health, though. Seska looking at it, not from set pieces you might be getting. No, yeah, but I know what you mean, though. Yeah, um this was wrote into us as well. David said to us, will we be watching the Ireland game or and do we have a chance? I know we sort of touched on that. Yeah, we were quite a bit. Hopefully, there are two games that we watch it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we said we've got a chance of both against both of them. Yeah, remember a chance. Like check checking and not and not playing right either. Like they had a lot of trouble as well before, even like the last match as long. So, like no, I don't know how that fixed up now, just as regards how that's Patrick Shick, is he from? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02He's a good player. He's a dangerous centre forward, yeah. That's the thing. Like so check Eastland from there as well, isn't he?
SPEAKER_01Well, you'll have a better squad in Ireland, I think. So it'll be a tough game, but look at it's it's a one-off game and that's it. And it'll go all the way. If it has to go all the way to the panels now, they'll go all the way because that's it. Like it's not to be a winner. It's a cup final.
SPEAKER_02Well you get that it's in Prague, so it'll be flares and there'll be loud and you'll probably be banging drums and whatnot. So or they'll have to play against the occasion and the atmosphere more so than the team as well, don't you?
SPEAKER_01So they'll just have to think, focus, I'm in Temple Bear on a Saturday night. I'm in Temple Bear, I'm in Candom Street on a Saturday night. Flares Noise.
SPEAKER_02So uh yeah, no, I think that definitely definitely think we do. Um so this is a talking to Shane, so he wrote into us again again, and it's just more of a talking point, it's more of a statement. So let's read it out and see what you I know what you I know what you mean. So see what you think. So this is a talking point from Shane. Um if FARS here to stay and we are making celebrities of referees, then bring in referees interviews for interviews and make them explain and answer questions like we do with players and managers. I think that should happen. First off the bat. I think they should be brought in to explain themselves. I know they had the referee for them and all this, but it's not the referee in question. They need to be brought in.
SPEAKER_01Well, see, I see I'd look a bit different, you say, because I'd like to look at it as if to say, right, the referee isn't making mistake, right? First of all, right? Act well, right? Just say, take him for instance, right at the weekend, right? The first thing they're gonna do is ask him with that penal. Yeah. Right? Fans are already riled up enough, so he gives an explanation that doesn't sue people to say, like, like, instead of coming out, he's not going to come out and say, Oh, I made a mistake, um, it should have been a pen. He's gonna butter up somewhere along the back and say, right, right? I know, yeah. Right. And then it's gonna ride the fans up more. There's mad fans out there that want to kill him. Yeah, yeah. So like for health and sake reasons alone, like to say they can't really come out and give interviews, like they just have to be dealt with after that with the referees association or whatever. Because they Or even the the Var team. I blame the Var mower, yeah. Like, like, like I'd like the Var person, yeah, because he's a referee as well, for him to explain why that's what I think should be who didn't like a game at a hundred miles now the premiership, all right. Like that was blanking now the other day, right? Where you knew yourself with a panel, right, on Ahmad. All the mistakes can get compassion, why? Because it's a quick game, they can't see everything. It's human, uh it's human uh uh contact. There and then you have to make a decision like that and to snap your finger to say the var person's looking around a couple of different angles and all, and if he doesn't agree, it doesn't change it to the right one, he should have to explain where he didn't. That's right. The referee in the pitch, no, he shouldn't stand in front of the camera because it's too um it could be too dangerous down the road, but people know where he's gonna be.
SPEAKER_02He's a referee as well.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's what then more so the bar referee, yeah, food assistant referee, should be doing it. The actual referee on the on the day to make mistakes, we're all human, yeah, generally, and then like as I said, for health's sake, the reasons that fire should be brought, but fire should be have to explain.
SPEAKER_02She should be brought into that and explain if there's no dodgy decisions, then you don't bring him in. No, what are you looking at?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'd like him to explain which of what's fair versions better.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I think. Yeah. Yeah, I I think it'd be just all solved if you could just hear what their conversation was, like in rugby. Yeah. Like Jordan, like like you said the other day, United that penal. So the referee is standing three yards away from me. The linesman is probably about 15 yards away from me, and then there's three people or two people in the VAR room. But you like to hear what they're saying to be true. Yeah. And if the referee is like, uh I'm not 100% sure, the linesman might say, I couldn't have a good view of it. Then you hear the VAR team saying we're gonna have a look for now, and then they're like, No, we there's not enough just insufficient evidence that it's a pen over. You'll start to be like, you'd be still annoyed.
SPEAKER_01But what happens if you have a point in your hand, Connor? You might throw at the telly.
SPEAKER_02That's LJ Samson's problem.
SPEAKER_01Actually, no, I wouldn't even bring you into a Sean Connor or Meg. Sean is the one that's trying to speak to the Kelly.
SPEAKER_02Two Kelly's down in the past ten years. On a mobile phone. So uh yeah, I think that's good answers there, actually. Yeah, yeah. Because the China's fed up for ours. But I think we all are a bit of course. There's just some uh two equal systems, yeah, yeah. That's it. So there's uh another one brought uh I was out on Saturday night, and a friend of mine's a husband, uh Bruce's name, he gave us just a bit of a trivia question travel, which is a little bit. I could I didn't get it, but um I told him I'd call out for them. Uh he might have an educated guess. Okay. He got me on that, I didn't get it. Um but uh so this is from Bruce. He said, Who was the last team to win the league wearing a vertical strip?
SPEAKER_01Don't care whether people are wearing vertical strips.
SPEAKER_02No, sis, like the main home strip, like yeah, okay. It's just the premiership or just the league? The league, yeah, it wasn't the premiership. No, it wasn't it. They won the league. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If they want the hint, it's miles back. Yeah, I'd imagine it's miles back. We just had to start naming all the teams, then I think. Just no, no, no, no. That's up to you, as I wouldn't have got it.
SPEAKER_01Newcastle they never won it, so it wouldn't be them like so. No, no, Sunderland. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Sunderland last won the league in I would say 1954.
SPEAKER_01I'd say Sunderland. Yeah. Say the last of the won the league probably would have been nineteen twenty-three.
SPEAKER_02We're close enough though. Nineteen thirty-five was the league. I knew it would have been Sunderland, got it red and white stripes, yeah. Jesus fair enough. Well, that's a good question, but it just hadn't yap and he's a pretty massive football fan, you know. But he's yeah, intended he's an intellectual guy, they can always ask questions like this. Yeah, so I I couldn't. I would have just went through the ones, but I just mean next guess how to be the prisoners association of orders. So if anybody has any more questions, any questions at all, of course, send them into us, but any more like that with the international break now. We can uh spend it. I like they're they're they're good questions like the people listening. I have been told people who are listening to us and you like they learn something from it anyway. Of course. So if you've any any questions at all, don't be afraid to throw them in on Instagram, I'm on it. How can you put one post up there? No, you won't. No, yeah, that's it then isn't it for this week? So again, thanks for anyone that's listening and uh following along and liking and sharing everything and whatnot, and keep it coming and keep your questions coming in.
SPEAKER_01Especially the people from America and all kind of. Yeah, you say we we definitely appreciate the people that are doing it from far, far away. So everybody but especially like if you're gonna go to the bother and listen to three Irish people from America, thanks very much for listening.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, definitely, yeah. And uh yeah, look, hopefully Ireland win, and hopefully next week we're talking about them being in in the World Cup. And if they are, we'll touch on it a bit more, and if they're not, we'll just glass over and move on. Yeah, that's it.
SPEAKER_01We'll talk about swimming.
SPEAKER_02Well many nights aren't playing for three weeks.
SPEAKER_01No, yeah, exactly. Yeah, think you'll have to go to sleep figure again. Yeah, that's true as well, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so there'll be no predictions this week, obviously, and then there'll be no predictions next week. So uh prediction for the Irish game.
SPEAKER_01A one-all draw, and then Oriel's gonna win a penalty. No, I'm gonna have to be have to be just positive for them two one an extra time, Ireland.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, two-nil Ireland.
SPEAKER_01Oh then they'll beat Denmark 1-0. Oh they'll beat Denmark 5-1. Yeah. But then you know what? Then I'll wake up.
SPEAKER_02Right, and hopefully we're talking next week in Ireland or end the World Cup with a bit of luck. And we'll talk to people then. Thanks very much. Thanks very much for listening. Bye.