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Speaker: I was watching the match and I was kind of like, my eyes were just sort of getting heavy and I was thinking, what the fuck is this?
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: It's not time to sleep, yeah?
Speaker: It's not sleep time, but it happens.
Speaker: So there you go.
Speaker: That's a good way to start the podcast.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: Napping when you shouldn't.
Speaker: So...
Speaker: Hey, it's needed, brother.
Speaker: I think sometimes you feel like you need it now when the weather is so bad outside or the way it is so dark and gloomy, wet, cold, and you're inside your own home and it's warm.
Speaker: All of a sudden you're like, let me just close my eyes for a bit.
Speaker: Or in your case, why are my eyes closing?
Speaker: yeah it's a good question to ask you know you have to ask yourself these questions now and again you know why my eyes closing when they shouldn't be right now you know but uh no i feel i'll be honest i feel i feel refreshed it was like about an hour maybe an hour 15 or something like that and i woke up i was like whoa that was weird there you go there you go that's what a nap during the day feels like that's what it does to you yeah it's brilliant it's brilliant um i recommend it for people i do
Speaker: All good, mate.
Speaker: All good, mate.
Speaker: We had a birthday party today, which was fucking insane, man, insane.
Speaker: Went to it and they made a sign of a waiver.
Speaker: A waiver?
Speaker: Weaver.
Speaker: Waiver.
Speaker: They made a sign of a waiver and they were like, once you read free, they were like, oh, we don't hold any responsibility to any injuries, even if it's life-threatening, life-changing injuries.
Speaker: I was like, what the fuck are we going into?
Speaker: Bear in mind, this is for a four-year-old, five-year-old party.
Speaker: What the fuck?
Speaker: I know.
Speaker: I'd be scared to even just go there now.
Speaker: I'd be like, nah, I'm all right.
Speaker: You know what?
Speaker: I'm going home.
Speaker: I'm going home.
Speaker: I didn't know this until we turned up.
Speaker: Once I turned up, it was too late then because the little one was like, come on, come on, come on.
Speaker: I want to.
Speaker: And I was like, yeah, yeah, we're going, we're going.
Speaker: And anyway, long story short, get in.
Speaker: It used to be an old converted long story short.
Speaker: So I'm going to tell you this story.
Speaker: I'm going to tell you the long version because that's what we're here for.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: Come on, bro.
Speaker: Come on, bro.
Speaker: It was meant to be one of those gala bingos building.
Speaker: Oh, sorry.
Speaker: It was a gala bingo.
Speaker: Let me try that again, put my teeth in.
Speaker: It was a gala bingo building.
Speaker: Now it's been converted into some sort of a soft play kids attraction sort of thing.
Speaker: All it was was just like a huge inflatable bouncy castle like going must have
Speaker: Do you remember in school the whole P-hole?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: It must have started from wall to wall, so the full length of the P-hole, and then he used to do a Z-S shape going up.
Speaker: So you kind of start on one end and keep going.
Speaker: It was incredible.
Speaker: The downside was all ages were jumping in, and you can imagine boys who were 7, 8, 12, 12.
Speaker: They were just like rummaging through as if they were like rugby American football trying to run with the ball.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: Trying to do flips and shit.
Speaker: It's like, what are you doing?
Speaker: What is this?
Speaker: I'm like, I can't leave, bro, relax.
Speaker: And then obviously I went in with a little one and he's like that Kevin Hart one.
Speaker: Hey, hey, hey, oh, hey.
Speaker: I couldn't lose my bouncer.
Speaker: What can you do?
Speaker: And I was like, this is why grown-ups don't go on the bouncers with kids.
Speaker: Somebody shuffling cards.
Speaker: It's been real.
Speaker: But, yeah, no, that's what we did today.
Speaker: And it was, to be honest with you, once I signed that waiver, it was scary.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: Okay, so wait, so the waiver is basically, yes, your kids are allowed here, but then we'll get injured.
Speaker: Is that what is that?
Speaker: Basically that saying give us your money, you may end up your child being injured, God forbid.
Speaker: And then all of a sudden, it's like we have no responsibility for it.
Speaker: Or worse.
Speaker: Or worse.
Speaker: Some of the ways some of these kids were going like just rummaging through but obviously I stayed in front.
Speaker: Oh, sorry, behind the little one to let her have a go so nobody can get past her.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: Still, man, it's a flipping bounce.
Speaker: You jump on one thing, it kind of boings back to you, ricochets.
Speaker: You've got kids bouncing off your chest and shit.
Speaker: Like, what the fuck is this?
Speaker: So I was like, they're trying to protect my one, like a huge hug.
Speaker: And her friend was like, I want to... Well, I nearly said the child's name there.
Speaker: But anyway, help me as well.
Speaker: And I was like...
Speaker: You're on your own.
Speaker: You're on the other side.
Speaker: You were like literally coming out.
Speaker: Not today.
Speaker: Roll out.
Speaker: You are.
Speaker: Damn.
Speaker: I'll jump it on with you.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: That is.
Speaker: It would have been fun if it was kind of just her age group.
Speaker: I'll give or take a year older, maybe a year younger.
Speaker: But, oh, yeah, different abilities.
Speaker: When I say to you, like, boys who are 11, 12, you know what?
Speaker: We were 11, 12, and we know how hyperactive we were in running and trying to show off.
Speaker: So yeah, that's literally what it was.
Speaker: You can kind of, the older boys got caught in their own challenges and competition and who can do it the fastest and who can jump the furthest and who can this and so on.
Speaker: My little... Like elbow dropping little four-year-olds and shit.
Speaker: That's close.
Speaker: Yeah, no, I'm joking.
Speaker: I wasn't close.
Speaker: But yeah, that's what we did today.
Speaker: And then obviously we watched the match.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: I'll be honest with you, right?
Speaker: That doesn't sound like a very, you know, at ease sort of moment or like, you know, a few hours, you know what I mean?
Speaker: Because you always have to be on edge or you have to be on edge, obviously, for these, you know, just in case the worst happened.
Speaker: But wow, that is, yeah, screw that shit.
Speaker: You've got all this to look forward to, my guy.
Speaker: Because you never switch off, to be fair.
Speaker: For any of the listeners who do have kids or toddlers now and so on, you just like think to yourself, fuck, okay, well, wait, wait, what?
Speaker: Hey, hey, hey.
Speaker: Because they've got no sense of danger, bro.
Speaker: No sense of danger.
Speaker: And somehow they seem to think daddy can fix it all.
Speaker: They're like, it's okay, daddy, if it breaks, you fix it.
Speaker: Uh-uh.
Speaker: yeah if that arm breaks you will you will buy me a new one no daddy will not buy you a new one what do you think like daddy's got a bugatti to keep are you joking do you know how expensive the tires are yeah you're gonna you're gonna give that you're gonna put that through a car wash now and again do you know what i mean so that shit's expensive man diamond cleaning alloys and shit the fuck like nah nobody's gonna buy you shit you wanna you wanna ride in a bugatti then no daddy will not buy a new one
Speaker: yeah wow that is that's literally where we're at i don't know if the listeners can relate or not but i'm sure they can because i'm sure you got it yeah no no not the bugatti all right like daddy can fix it mommy can fix it it's okay if it breaks you just buy me a new one it's just like as if money grows on trees no sense of taking care of kids you know you know how that felt like you know that was that we went through that phase it's i know i know it's not it isn't it isn't right i was talking to somebody about this and i
Speaker: You want to try to ensure that your kids can never go without.
Speaker: So I'm happy to admit this.
Speaker: My parents, obviously, they weren't the wealthiest.
Speaker: No, we weren't broke.
Speaker: We weren't living under a bridge.
Speaker: But obviously, I didn't end up having all the gadgets or all the toys that my friends had.
Speaker: No, we did.
Speaker: But it was like two, three years later, you know?
Speaker: Yeah, two, three years later, right?
Speaker: We were delayed.
Speaker: We had delayed wealth.
Speaker: Everybody on PS3, that's when we go to PS2.
Speaker: And I was like, no, this is the wrong one.
Speaker: But you wanted a PS2 four years ago.
Speaker: You said PlayStation, right?
Speaker: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker: I got my PlayStation 3 four years after it came out.
Speaker: So, you know, it is what it is.
Speaker: Mate, I was like, everybody was on PS2.
Speaker: I wasn't still on PS1.
Speaker: And then I remember, right?
Speaker: I think it was my brother or I, or together something.
Speaker: We did like good grades or something.
Speaker: It was like a reward.
Speaker: And they were like, oh, we'll buy you a PS2.
Speaker: We're like, no, PS2 is over.
Speaker: Now it's an Xbox.
Speaker: So the Xbox had just come out.
Speaker: Yeah, it just came out.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: So then I ended up getting the Xbox 360 because I was like, listen, might as well spend a little bit more and I can keep it for longer, you know, trying to negotiate with my friends.
Speaker: Of course, yeah.
Speaker: So, yeah, so for that reason, I'm like, when she's like, I want this, I want that, and I'm like, how much is it?
Speaker: It's okay, yeah, go on.
Speaker: And then I'm like, what am I doing?
Speaker: I'm building a monster.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I need to make sure she hears the no sometimes.
Speaker: It's classed, our class has delayed wealth, do you know what I mean?
Speaker: That's what it is, yeah.
Speaker: It's two, three years.
Speaker: Oh, yeah, I remember 2006.
Speaker: March 23rd, 2006.
Speaker: Oh, wow.
Speaker: You remember the day.
Speaker: Oh, man.
Speaker: My PS3 had just come out.
Speaker: It's just been launched.
Speaker: Because, again, we were excited because I had the PS2 for a few years at that point.
Speaker: So we were excited that PS3 was going to come out.
Speaker: But it was 420 quid.
Speaker: And I'll remember the price.
Speaker: It was 420 pounds.
Speaker: And obviously, you know, you'd ask.
Speaker: They'd be like, hmm.
Speaker: uh-huh sure but no that's not happening daddy can make you a ps4 daddy can make you a ps3 at home i can get you the box the box we can put your ps2 in and then pretend it's a ps3 but yeah and then in 2010 that's when i actually got christmas 2010 that's when i got my ps3 and it wasn't obviously wasn't brand new it was secondhand from game but you know i remember my dad came home and he was like oh right there's gonna be a christmas present but is this the one that you wanted i was like what
Speaker: am I seeing a PS3 right here but again to me I didn't give a shit how old it was you know what I'm saying I fucking loved it every single moment you know what I mean like for me that's all that matters and obviously for kids I don't have kids so I can't really say I'm going to be like Seth Rogen where I'm just probably not going to have kids to be honest I'm enjoying the single life without kids that's what I'm saying shit like you know kidless life there it is oh there he goes he's being hit around the face laughing
Speaker: I'll put the sound effects later as well.
Speaker: But yeah, you're right though.
Speaker: You're right.
Speaker: We were never short on the things that we wanted, but it was just a bit of delayed gratification.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: Yeah, we weren't short.
Speaker: It was delayed.
Speaker: We always had what we needed, by the way.
Speaker: We're not slating parents yet.
Speaker: It was what we needed.
Speaker: and all that stuff.
Speaker: But yeah, like all the luxuries, because that's what I'm going to class them, like, you know, your game consoles and all the latest football boots.
Speaker: I remember I wanted a pair of football boots.
Speaker: I think I've spoke about this before.
Speaker: R9s, right?
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: And I had to get them myself.
Speaker: In a way, I was glad because once I made the money, like for little jobs here and there, neighbours grass and so on and so forth.
Speaker: And anyway, I made some money and I was like,
Speaker: When I went to pay for those fuckers, I was like, £120?
Speaker: I was like, I know how long it took me to make £120.
Speaker: What the fuck am I going to spend £120 on these boots for?
Speaker: But I was like, nah, suck it up, bro.
Speaker: It's going to make you a better player.
Speaker: It didn't.
Speaker: It made fuck all.
Speaker: But anyway, that's what I believed as a 14, 16, however old I was.
Speaker: I think I remember you getting them, to be honest.
Speaker: It must have been earlier than that.
Speaker: It must have been earlier than that.
Speaker: Yeah, I've definitely spoken about it.
Speaker: I remember telling you the colours, zinc and orange.
Speaker: Yeah, I was going to say, no, it was definitely earlier than 14, 15.
Speaker: was definitely earlier than that i think i well i don't know actually what was it well yeah oh yeah no you're right no so yeah no you're right you're right no it must have been around around around that time yeah for sure i think i was like first year of college first year of college so yeah or henry was still playing for arsenal because he had the white and yellow ones yes yes he did yeah those were yeah those were really nice to be fair those were really really nice but yeah like like you said you know we never we'd never you know it's never about slaying parents or anything like that it's just you know
Speaker: it depends it depends what's for us we were different sort of like you know we were the same with each other but we were different to to the rest like oh no we must have it now now we would never like that we kind of understood obviously the the the hardships and the struggles at the time um so yeah we just made our peace with it but look there was no better feeling than seeing that ps2 for the first time you know upgrading from a ps1 or upgrading to a ps3 from a ps3 do you know what I mean I still
Speaker: remember those days and for me it's never like oh i wish i got it in 2006 nah i've still played with it for many years i've still got it and i've still got that ps3 that exact same one it's the original one the backward compatibility because obviously they changed the change models yes yes yes so i've got i've still got that and i would never ever ever trade that in for anything like my mom's like oh we've got cousins in albania then why don't we send them it i was like mom if you send them it i will send you along with it
Speaker: Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker: And I will bring that PS3 back, and I ain't bringing you back, I'll tell you.
Speaker: So, no, for sure, like, yeah, I've still got it, man, of course, because it's not even... It's the backward compatibility, for one, but it's the fact that I'll always remember that moment, that day, because he came home... My dad came home with the box.
Speaker: He pulled out the PS3.
Speaker: He's like, is this the one you want?
Speaker: Yeah, cool.
Speaker: And then I saw FIFA 10 in there as well, Wayne Rooney on the cover.
Speaker: I saw FIFA 10, and I was like, mate, nah, I can't wait for Christmas now.
Speaker: Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker: Classic, classic.
Speaker: So, do you know what I mean?
Speaker: And you're never going to get those days back, and sometimes...
Speaker: that delayed gratification it worked for the better because you appreciate it more it's like you cherish them more this long to get it and i have it now it's mine i agree i agree i'm just super soft when it comes to the little ones for some reason it's just daddy's yes and mommy's no like that i'm like yeah okay that's why she loves going like anytime we go out i'm like yeah come with daddy and then she's like yeah i'll come with you we went to buy a present for her friend for the party today and she went
Speaker: What about this one, daddy?
Speaker: And I was like, Yeah, that's a really good one.
Speaker: She goes, and I was like, for your friend?
Speaker: She was like, No, this one's for me.
Speaker: I was like, not for you.
Speaker: We're looking for your friend.
Speaker: No, for me, daddy.
Speaker: And then she went, for the journey home, how about we buy some snacks?
Speaker: How about some snacks?
Speaker: It's very determined and straight to the point, and I like that.
Speaker: Straight to the point.
Speaker: You've got to appreciate that one.
Speaker: And I'm like, no.
Speaker: And then she's like, I would really like some rice cakes, some Snackajacks rice cakes.
Speaker: This is not an ad, by the way.
Speaker: That's what she likes.
Speaker: I'm like, all right, Daddy will buy you some Snackajacks ice cakes.
Speaker: This is the full Kevin, that Kurt Williams bit where he goes, Daddy will buy you the Jordans all day or every day.
Speaker: But if you were quicker in the Thomas or whatever the hell he says...
Speaker: Luckily, to be fair, it's really good.
Speaker: She's not really the kind of branded trainers or designers.
Speaker: I feel like that's more for parents to put their child, their toddler, four year old, five year old and they're like, oh, the latest Jordans or the Nikes.
Speaker: She's into the Elsers.
Speaker: They grew out of them like that.
Speaker: We spent when we went to Albania on holiday,
Speaker: my wife's like let's get her a nice pair of trainers so i bought her two because i found two pairs that i like so i was like fuck it let's buy two i got a pair of 95s this is not me bragging by the way this isn't a balling situation it's just like the little one i'm gonna buy so i bought her those and i bought her the other ones and i was like look she's got these here but they're simply for holiday because by the time we come back she's probably grown out of them and uh by october they no longer fit her and that's like well three figures obviously
Speaker: that has been spent in two pairs of trainers and you think to yourself now we love the elsa's we love the what's what's i don't know what are these shows that she watches obviously a lot of disney stuff and i think it's pj masks or something like that like she loves shoes like that you don't know but the listeners will and i'm like all day every day every month i will buy you a new pair of elsa's for like 15 pounds or 20 pounds you know what i mean instead of like until until you're at that age where you're not growing anymore then you can buy
Speaker: got no on football listeners going on what the fuck are these two talking about we're talking we're trying to see what the weekend preview is but listen don't you find it it's quite sad when you're that young you don't really care about designer or branded clothes i use the word designer not because designers change now now it's to like montclair and all these other like four-figure yeah all this bullshit the yeezys and shit yeah yeah right but when we were younger it was all about the adidas and the nike wasn't it really there's always branded stuff
Speaker: And I'm always like, at what point does that transition happen where no longer you don't like the Elsas or the Pokemons or the Power Rangers shoes, you go straight for, no, I like that.
Speaker: Is it like secondary though, right?
Speaker: It can't be primary, surely not.
Speaker: I don't remember in primary school being...
Speaker: Bro, for us at school, it was PS1, PS2, and Xbox.
Speaker: But no, Xbox wasn't even out then.
Speaker: That's what it was back then.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: It wasn't even about PCs or anything.
Speaker: People now are like, oh, I'm having a Mac.
Speaker: Oh, I've got an iMac at home, and I've got this, and I've got an alien computer.
Speaker: No, we didn't care about any of that.
Speaker: For us, it was, you know, like you said, football boots, because that's what we liked.
Speaker: A football top, you know, oh my God, I've got the brand new Arsenal top.
Speaker: I've got the brand new Chelsea top.
Speaker: Look at that.
Speaker: I've got the name on the back.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: But now, obviously, we're like, what the fuck?
Speaker: Why would I want some of the geezers' name on the back of my shirt?
Speaker: I'm walking around.
Speaker: Gallagher like who that's not even my name I'm not even English I think I think I think it happens I think it happens in that in that school transition yeah you're right secondary school is probably probably more because you know that's when kids can you know think more more for themselves and this and they see others and others are bragging because that's how they brought up from their parents you know like
Speaker: oh, you know, I got you these pair of Balenciagas, so you better look after these because these are very expensive.
Speaker: Guess what?
Speaker: That kid's going to go to school the next day and be like, oh, these are very expensive Balenciagas, yeah.
Speaker: And then your kid's going to come and say, oh, my friend had these Balenciagas, very expensive, and I want some.
Speaker: Like, wait, what?
Speaker: Shit, I never had Balenciagos.
Speaker: What the fuck is this?
Speaker: Yeah, no, to be fair, it's only recently I learned... You had Deodoros and shit and Elise.
Speaker: And Fila.
Speaker: And Fila.
Speaker: Do you know what?
Speaker: The funny thing is, right, those things are like 100 plus pounds now.
Speaker: The Fila's and the Deodoros.
Speaker: You know what I'm saying?
Speaker: The way back now, it's like that fashion would be coming back.
Speaker: Cappas, right?
Speaker: Do you remember when we were kids?
Speaker: Cappas were like the cheapest shit that you could get because they were just cheap.
Speaker: And we didn't care for them.
Speaker: Like, we wore Cappas, but obviously for us, then it was like, oh, I'd rather have a Nike or whatever.
Speaker: But now Cappas, this is £70 worth fucking, not these, because these were from vintage, so not these specific ones.
Speaker: I don't know what you're pointing at, by the way.
Speaker: I'm just saying not these.
Speaker: All right, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: Cappas.
Speaker: So yeah, like something like this, like from an actual shop, you're talking 70 plus pounds.
Speaker: It's that retro fashion now, isn't it?
Speaker: Everybody's trying to go back to those times and it's on.
Speaker: So now I agree with you.
Speaker: Like, is this Diodorus?
Speaker: I was looking for a pair of boots and I want to get and play five a side.
Speaker: I was like, oh, let me see if I can find some cheap pair Diodorus or... You can't.
Speaker: There's another one.
Speaker: There was another one like Umbro.
Speaker: There was Sondico.
Speaker: Yeah, Umbro's.
Speaker: Umbro and I'm like, they were like 90 quid.
Speaker: I was like, what the fuck?
Speaker: 90 quid?
Speaker: I'm not spending 90 pounds.
Speaker: Umbro's and Pumas, by the way.
Speaker: And Pumas, yeah.
Speaker: If you would become such an expert, anyway, now, now, literally my, the pair of boots, the football boots that I have, like the AstroTurf stuff, they're Sondicos because those were the cheapest, 25 quid.
Speaker: 25 quid and it's like even then i'm like do i really want to spend 25 quid on boots i wear like what maybe once a year but you know fuck it i've got them now i wear them whenever obviously football happens or used to happen yeah oh yeah whenever it comes back around if it does yeah exactly like but no fuck jesus christ man you're right though for us it was always nike and adidas there was nothing else above those and nothing else rebox were cheaper pumas were cheap
Speaker: Elise, all that shit, Deadoras, what was the other one?
Speaker: There was another one, began with a D as well.
Speaker: sorry the slazzin the slazzinjas and shit i remember le cox sportif or the cockerel the cox sportif yeah the cox sportif yeah it's like what the fuck the shits are expensive now and what's the other one the japanese running one as a what the hell asics asics yeah asics i remember like there was a pair of boots the cheapest that you could get yeah the cheap the running the running shoes yeah yeah the running shoes but the running shoes yeah
Speaker: And the New Balance as well.
Speaker: New Balance came out like all of a sudden because some athletes were wearing them or were sponsored by them.
Speaker: New Balance became all this expensive shit.
Speaker: And I'm like, what the fuck is going on?
Speaker: What is going on?
Speaker: Converse, they were £35 when I first bought my first pair of Converse.
Speaker: £35, £78. £78.
Speaker: 78 pounds i'm like nah i can't for what cloth and rubber like literally let's just be honest it's cloth and rubber you don't wear converse for any for any other thing apart from like just looking good that's it you don't run with them you don't play basketball in converse anymore none of that shit but yeah i think i think school has a major has a major influence on kids i mean you just remember from yourself as well i just quickly just googled which one i was talking about it was the me mizuno
Speaker: The Mizuno's, yeah.
Speaker: Mizuno's, yeah.
Speaker: Mizuno's, yeah.
Speaker: They're the ones that I was, that's the ones I was trying to say to you instead of Asics.
Speaker: Sorry, I meant the Mizuno because I think that was a Japanese one as well.
Speaker: Because the Asics, because the Asics, I think, I think.
Speaker: They're predominantly running.
Speaker: Yeah, but back then they were cheap.
Speaker: But now Asics are like, oh my God, running and jogging and all this and that.
Speaker: It's like, no, no, no, no.
Speaker: Just give me the Nike and Adidas and I'll be happy with that.
Speaker: Thank you very much.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: That's literally all I've got.
Speaker: I've got pairs of Adidas.
Speaker: I don't think I own a pair of Nikes.
Speaker: Like I haven't owned a pair of Nikes in a long time.
Speaker: Now, see, for some reason, I've still ended up staying on those.
Speaker: I've changed, by the way, my footwear.
Speaker: While we're talking on footwear, I used to be a lot of Adidas, and then I've just felt like my foot sits better on a pair of Nike shoes.
Speaker: I feel like they support my arch better.
Speaker: The best pair of trainers that I had were a pair of running shoes called the Nike Free Run 5.
Speaker: I had them at university.
Speaker: I don't know if you remember.
Speaker: They used to be like a sort of like kind of this color.
Speaker: Like a mesh.
Speaker: Describe this.
Speaker: How the hell are you going to see this?
Speaker: You can't see this.
Speaker: Disappeared, man.
Speaker: Oh, shit.
Speaker: Disappeared.
Speaker: Fuck it.
Speaker: That colour.
Speaker: Yeah, that colour that just disappeared in the background.
Speaker: Yeah, that with yellow, but I can't find them anywhere else.
Speaker: And then I found another pair that they did and I bought them, but just my foot sits better on them.
Speaker: Like my toes seem to be freely rather than squashed like sardines and it supports my arch because I've got a little bit, not a flat foot, but I'm kind of on the way there.
Speaker: Yeah, so try to have that support.
Speaker: And I think it's just because of the brand as well.
Speaker: I don't know what it is psychologically, I guess.
Speaker: But yeah, I've never deviated now since I've swapped to Nike.
Speaker: As university, I'm always Nike's.
Speaker: 95 as well by the way love 95s and I love the Nike what's it called the Nike ones or Nike yeah and ones something like that I think they're called Air Max ones not Air Force ones yeah yeah yeah they are they've got no they've got no flexibility that's it just like clonk clonk clonk it's like you buy them like Air Force ones to sit down
Speaker: And that is crazy, right?
Speaker: How crazy is that?
Speaker: You're buying shoes to sit down.
Speaker: My favorites to this day that I've ever had were a pair of leather-topped Sambas.
Speaker: I did that Sambas.
Speaker: Leather tops.
Speaker: And I've got a pair downstairs, but I've got the suede finish on top, the classics.
Speaker: But the leather ones that I used to have, those were my favorite ever shoes that I ever owned, like trainers ever owned.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I got put off those trainers simply because I was playing with them.
Speaker: I don't know if this has happened to any of the listeners.
Speaker: Every time I made a contact with the ball, like not obviously not full on laces, but just where your big toe is that kind of like sort of two o'clock.
Speaker: If 12 o'clock is full on and nine o'clock or whatever.
Speaker: You know what I mean?
Speaker: And then that's from then it just started.
Speaker: I don't know whether it was just consistently because I was that good.
Speaker: Consistent contact all the time.
Speaker: That's how you got your regalibur.
Speaker: They literally ripped.
Speaker: They ripped there.
Speaker: Oh, mine ripped.
Speaker: Mine ripped as well, yeah.
Speaker: Mine ripped from like crossing, I think, crossing mine.
Speaker: Because obviously predominantly right-footed, yeah.
Speaker: It's the crossing that did it for me.
Speaker: But again, I don't play footy in those shoes anymore because I've learned my lesson.
Speaker: Like even if I bought another pair of leather top sambas, I would never ever kick a ball in them because it's like, no, why would I do that?
Speaker: You know, these are comfortable to walk in.
Speaker: Why the fuck would I do that shit?
Speaker: But not shoes.
Speaker: I've got, oh my God, I've got like
Speaker: Again, not like bragging or anything, but I've got such a big collection of shoes, but they're mixed match.
Speaker: They're not like, oh, I've only got Adidas or I've only got Nikes.
Speaker: No, I've got a collection of Converse, which I really do like.
Speaker: I like my collection of Converse.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Chuck Taylors for the people over the pod.
Speaker: Chuck Taylors, yeah.
Speaker: I love my Chuck Taylors.
Speaker: I really do.
Speaker: My sister got me these weatherproof ones.
Speaker: so like obviously if it rains you don't feel shit and they're like sort of reversible in a way where it's like if it's cold outside your foot stays warm and if it's warm outside your foot stays cool yeah yeah yeah got that technology yeah yeah yeah so if it's warm it's cool yeah yeah I didn't even know that was a thing until she got them I was like oh my god these are awesome all black and I
Speaker: fucking love them yeah love them but uh and one of my uh ex uh girlfriend she got me a pair of ex-friends yeah she got me a pair of uh batman converse like proper original batman converse oh they are again i've only worn once because let's face it i look ridiculous wearing you know walking around with a comic book on my foot yes that's what it is really just walking around with a comic book all this misses is just the music
Speaker: uh no no no
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But yeah, collectible-wise, shoes-wise, it's the converse for me, which I just fell in love.
Speaker: I found these.
Speaker: Anyway, look, let's not talk.
Speaker: Let's go.
Speaker: Let's talk about some football.
Speaker: I'm still serious.
Speaker: Don't you feel like, as you get older, you feel like you're wearing more boots, like high-toppy things for your foot to be more comfortable rather than style?
Speaker: Yeah, Tim's as well, bro.
Speaker: I wore mine yesterday, and I had another pair that I've kind of exhausted.
Speaker: When I mean exhausted, bro, I've put them together with Gorilla Glue.
Speaker: I've tried everything to them.
Speaker: People at work,
Speaker: Like, what are you doing?
Speaker: Like, why are you still wearing them now?
Speaker: Like, because they're my work shoes.
Speaker: Like, it's fine.
Speaker: Like, if they get knackered, they get knackered.
Speaker: I don't really care.
Speaker: Whereas the other pair that my wife bought me, like, I think she bought them from two years ago.
Speaker: Like, they're in a box.
Speaker: I wear them.
Speaker: I take them out.
Speaker: I put them back in the box.
Speaker: I put the insole inside as well to keep the creases out.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: And I wore them yesterday and she was like, it was muddy of course, she was like, are you sure you want to wear them today?
Speaker: Have you seen that?
Speaker: That's taking the piss, that's taking the piss, it's like, come on, yeah, this is what you bought at the party, this is what I'm trying to do, I choose when I wear them, in the sun, with flipping shorts.
Speaker: You're looking like a rap video out here, do you know what I mean, in LA eating a bowl of cereal or some shit?
Speaker: Yeah, that's it, cycling shorts and an umbrella.
Speaker: brilliant yeah you go swimming in those bad boys but you know i love i love the timberlands as well to be honest like i've yeah crazy expensive is all right let's be fair yeah crazy expensive unless they want to sponsor us and yeah man i'm all for it they are like last thing i'll say on shoes um maybe last year or the year before we went to maybe shoe or footlock one of the two i can't remember which one it was right but walked in there and sat on one of the shelves with like
Speaker: timberlands but they were sort of a bit like high top but they were more like trainers rather than boots
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And I swear to you, I fell in love with them, fell in love with them.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And that Christmas, my mom, she got me, my mom and sister, they got me a pair of Timberlands, not each, by the way, combined.
Speaker: Let's just, let's not go crazy because they're that expensive.
Speaker: You literally need three people to chip in.
Speaker: You need to get a, you need to get a GoFundMe page.
Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: That's what they did.
Speaker: But, um, so, but then obviously they got me the proper boots, the high top boots, right?
Speaker: when i was like yeah these are lovely don't get me wrong these are comfortable as shit and i could literally you could walk up a mountain and there was no problem but in the back of my mind i was like damn i really wanted those those timberland trainers you know i mean and i don't even know where to find them anymore but they were like uh 85 quid or something like that which for timberlands it's not too bad it's not too bad to be fair enough but it still hurts they're pushing like around 80
Speaker: 120, 100 and something, you know, it's like you think to yourself, 180, 220 for the boots.
Speaker: Yeah, the boots, the boots, 175 quid at the very least, like what the fuck?
Speaker: What the fuck?
Speaker: But anyway, like, you know, Timberlands love them shits.
Speaker: But we're not, you know, we're simple guys.
Speaker: Yeah, simple.
Speaker: Yeah, we're talking about three figures and a pair of shoes and we're like, eh, simple.
Speaker: We are simple, but the things that we like, obviously, you know, we work hard, bro.
Speaker: Sometimes you need to treat yourself as well.
Speaker: You need to know what you're working for as well.
Speaker: Sometimes it's not all about like, oh my God, I need to save, I need to save.
Speaker: Of course, save for a rainy day.
Speaker: That's not what we're saying, but treat yourself as well because you know how hard you work.
Speaker: What's nothing wrong with a little treat from you to you?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: so i'm so glad i found vented by the way honestly vented is one of the and i've never used it are you kidding me are you kidding me you never use vintage bro trust me don't don't go on vintage right now because no don't do it because you will literally not even pay attention to what i'm saying to you believe me go on vintage ask your wife she'll probably know what vintage is will i be able to meet martin odegar if i go and vintage like you did
Speaker: No, that was marketplace.
Speaker: That was marketplace.
Speaker: I don't even want to be on here.
Speaker: Let me close this tab down.
Speaker: I don't even want this tab.
Speaker: Trust me.
Speaker: Trust me.
Speaker: Vinted, right?
Speaker: Like it's, you will get addicted and I got addicted to it.
Speaker: Like I said, this not because top that I'm wearing right now that you can see the stripe.
Speaker: That's where I got it from.
Speaker: I got it from Vinted.
Speaker: And these couple, these 12 quid from Vinted, brand new.
Speaker: But someone was like, they don't fit me, so I'm going to sell them brand new with tags.
Speaker: Like, what the fuck?
Speaker: Of course I'm going to pay for them.
Speaker: Let me have a look at this.
Speaker: No, no, no.
Speaker: Let's not do this.
Speaker: Let's not do this.
Speaker: Let's talk some football.
Speaker: Let's talk some football.
Speaker: No, actually, we do need to talk some football because my boys won again.
Speaker: I mean, come on.
Speaker: Come on, bro.
Speaker: Just say that tongue-in-cheek really.
Speaker: I wouldn't get it for sure.
Speaker: I don't even know.
Speaker: Where are we even in the league, by the way?
Speaker: Because Man United drew today.
Speaker: I know Newcastle lost.
Speaker: As part of me, I was kind of bittersweet.
Speaker: I wanted them to win, but then I remember why I don't want them to win.
Speaker: Of course.
Speaker: Of course.
Speaker: For you.
Speaker: But for me, obviously, the opposite.
Speaker: Yeah, the opposite.
Speaker: We'll come to the City-Newcastle game because that was...
Speaker: in a way boring but exciting at the same time or it got a bit exciting by the end but um you know i was i was actually listening to some of the predictions that we made uh on the previous pod yeah i've got my god we were way off so let's just let's just rattle through some of uh through some of the games right
Speaker: We'll start off with Fridays.
Speaker: We'll start off Burnley-Luton.
Speaker: I can't remember what my prediction was.
Speaker: You went 2-1, I went 1-2 and finished 1-1.
Speaker: It finished 1-1.
Speaker: So we balanced each other out.
Speaker: I watched bits of that match.
Speaker: Not really exciting.
Speaker: I thought it was going to be a lot more end-to-end because they were fighting pretty much for the six points at the bottom of the table.
Speaker: But no, it just really wasn't.
Speaker: When Luton scored, I was quite excited.
Speaker: I was like, yeah, get in.
Speaker: But no, that's all it ended.
Speaker: It ended on 1-1.
Speaker: So...
Speaker: And they scored 92nd minute as well.
Speaker: Yeah, well, this is what I wanted to ask you about because they're talking about the penalty should have been a free kick on the keeper and that was never given.
Speaker: Did you get to see that?
Speaker: Because I haven't seen anything on that.
Speaker: I did.
Speaker: Another controversial decision that should have been given or wasn't given.
Speaker: I think so as well.
Speaker: I think so as well because when you look at it, it looks like he backed into the keeper.
Speaker: Like he did it on purpose.
Speaker: He backed into the keeper.
Speaker: But...
Speaker: Yeah, I think that probably should have been a foul on the keeper, but, you know, it's VAR.
Speaker: I'm not surprised anymore.
Speaker: It's just you have to make your peace with it and you move on, really.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But I genuinely thought that should have been a foul, but, you know.
Speaker: there's been some awful decisions which we will get into each game especially one of the weekend for my team because if it was the other way around I'd have been fucking fuming by the way I don't know if you did you watch any of the Chelsea match no I was actually out shopping with the wife so I didn't get to see any of the match but obviously the result I was you know checking flash scores like yeah okay cool just checking and oh Chelsea winning now bastards but it wasn't great though it wasn't great but we'll talk about it later but yeah yeah
Speaker: from the game that I saw yeah 1-1 it was it was a draw it should have been a draw really I'm happy that we took the 1-0 another clean sheet if it does anything for that back four but yeah and then Newcastle
Speaker: I'm sorry we'll just stick on Chelsea I think it was I think for Petrovic I like that keeper I don't know what it is about him I really do like him and I'm glad that he got another clean sheet he hasn't really put a foot wrong has he he hasn't he hasn't and again when goals go in against Chelsea or when you can see goals can't really blame the keeper too much because there's been a lot of defensive errors as we pointed out last game Colwell De Sassi
Speaker: When you've got two defenders who are not doing their job properly, then you can't really blame the keeper or Thiago Silva.
Speaker: Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker: Because he's doing everything.
Speaker: And the keeper's, like you said, he hasn't put a foot wrong.
Speaker: And I'm glad that he got what he deserved, which is a clean sheet.
Speaker: But obviously, Palmer is getting a lot of penalties.
Speaker: Let's just be honest, he's getting a lot of penalties, but obviously I know you don't care because shit, he's scoring.
Speaker: It's not so much he's getting them.
Speaker: The other boys are getting the penalties.
Speaker: He just seems to want to... He's scoring.
Speaker: Yeah, he's scoring a lot of penalties.
Speaker: A lot of penalties.
Speaker: While we're on that, to be fair, starting 11, I was a bit like, meh.
Speaker: Yes, I saw your message.
Speaker: We discussed on the previous part, I was like, really, these three boys can't play together.
Speaker: But tactically, they kind of said to Conor Gallagher, you do the running.
Speaker: Caicedo will sit back and just do nothing, just sit back.
Speaker: Because not really won many balls for us.
Speaker: And then Enzo was a little bit more active, a bit more lively, a little bit more like what Enzo that we saw last year, where people were like, oh, there's a good player in there.
Speaker: We can see flashes of it.
Speaker: But again, the main thing of any good play, you need people to run.
Speaker: You need options.
Speaker: There's no need to have the ball in the middle of the park and stick your hands to the side.
Speaker: Where is everyone?
Speaker: We've seen Declan Rice do this for you guys.
Speaker: I saw Cole Palmer do it, Enzo do it.
Speaker: Whereas yesterday, we were getting numbers in the box.
Speaker: Unlike the Middlesbrough game, although we struggled to break them down, we were just like one or two people in the box or nobody in the box.
Speaker: No one in the box, yeah.
Speaker: When Maddie Wakers crossed.
Speaker: And then...
Speaker: Yeah, yesterday, four or five people running into the box.
Speaker: Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker: And I was like, OK, sweet.
Speaker: Chilwell is making a comeback as well.
Speaker: Hopefully he stays fit till the end of the season and he can finish the remainder of the season.
Speaker: So, yeah, that's a big plus for us because Cole Will, as good as he is, as good as he is, as good as he was a couple of games in September, October time, he hasn't really given offered much going forward.
Speaker: Unlike Chilwell, Chilwell kind of can do both of those fullback roles.
Speaker: Then he gets injured.
Speaker: So, you know, you're going to have to take the good with the bad.
Speaker: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker: So let's hope not he doesn't get injured anymore.
Speaker: But I think with that, sorry, Rick, with that starting XI, as we discussed on the last pod as well, you know, you're screaming out for a focal point, which in this case, Breuer.
Speaker: And because, look, it's not even the fact that, you know, he's a great player or whatever.
Speaker: He's just your only player that can play in that position who has some sort of, you know, not creativity, but has a bit of power and he can finish...
Speaker: ball like once once he gets into that position you can finish it like unlike nicholas jackson which he can make the run but he can't he doesn't have the end product so again i don't want to say i'm not saying this to say like oh bro he you know he's the chosen one or whatever no but he is the only one that could do that job right now currently in that chelsea squad you know what i mean and uncuckoo when which i didn't know by the way he got injured again um yeah injured again i didn't know that
Speaker: But even Nkuku, he's not a striker, like an out-and-out striker.
Speaker: He really isn't.
Speaker: He hasn't been brought to be a striker neither, by the way.
Speaker: And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker: So for the options that you have, Breuer is definitely the only one who could play that.
Speaker: And look, when you've got runners like a Palmer or Sterling, Sterling can make a run down the wing.
Speaker: He can cross the ball.
Speaker: He can find a pass.
Speaker: Palmer, obviously, as we discussed, Palmer sort of drops into that free-roaming...
Speaker: number 10 role which you can find a pass and then you can make them late runs so again when you've got people like that it's easy to start shifting the squad around you know the team around the starting 11 it's it's easy to see like oh okay well like i said you sit back because we don't need you up front so you just shore up our defense and we've got enzo and galaga who obviously wants the runner the other one's more of a creative player in finding the passes in enzo so it's you know as a starting 11 i think it's probably
Speaker: not far off your best with what you have right now you know barring the injuries that you've got yeah I agree I agree with what you're saying it's just the thing is if they're not the three in the middle as we mentioned earlier it's not very consistent like obviously looking at it and the way what looked set up yesterday was like a 4-2-3-1 with Gallagher playing as a 10 yeah
Speaker: So if Nkuku comes in, Nkuku would get the 10.
Speaker: If Enzo and Caicedo are firing all cylinders and filling their full potential of 100-something million each, then these two start over Conor Gallagher, right?
Speaker: Or you would assume these two start.
Speaker: Another good thing yesterday was Kearney.
Speaker: Kearney Chukomeka coming back.
Speaker: So he's obviously going to come back.
Speaker: And he was very good until he got injured against West Ham.
Speaker: I don't know if you remember...
Speaker: beginning feedback i was taught i was praising him a lot so he's got that kind of feeling that i enjoyed running with the ball running forward when i was saying to you uh the spurs boy kind of break down lines and shit yeah breaking lines taking on at least that first initial guy comes to you for a press go past him and then go and then looks to kind of move the ball forward rather than sideways so but we still need a striker the formation 4-2-3 was probably our best one uh palmer has to play because stats alone show that he must play
Speaker: But he just gets, I think he gets scared quite easy.
Speaker: If somebody goes in with a tough challenge or one or three players don't give him the space he needs or the space he must have and the runners, then he just shuts down.
Speaker: It kind of, he heads goes down and what we saw in Middlesbrough.
Speaker: By the way, he's allowed to have those games as long as it's a one-off.
Speaker: As long as it's not kind of a,
Speaker: Let's do this every one good game and an awful game.
Speaker: One good game and an awful game.
Speaker: That's not the Cole Palmer that we want.
Speaker: But statistically, he starts every game because he's scored.
Speaker: And he has to.
Speaker: Like you said.
Speaker: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker: I totally agree with you.
Speaker: And again, he is, well, he has been your best player this season.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Especially in that front three or front four or whatever you want to class it as in that forward role.
Speaker: He has been the best and you can't drop him for anything really, unless obviously if he's feeling a bit fatigued and yeah, fair enough, you give him a rest.
Speaker: But then you'll struggle.
Speaker: Then you'll struggle because who are you going to put in that?
Speaker: You're going to put Madweke in there.
Speaker: Like, what the fuck?
Speaker: Who are you going to put Madweke in there for?
Speaker: Madweke, I was even surprised he came on as a sub, really.
Speaker: I would like to have seen Modric come on, especially when Follum are looking for an equaliser, like leaving a lot of space behind.
Speaker: He's that guy.
Speaker: I was really disappointed in that decision that he made because you can trust Modric on his speed.
Speaker: If you don't trust anything, just trust his speed that he will get there before any other defender or any other player.
Speaker: because he is that quick.
Speaker: And I think, I thought it would have been a good way for him to have a little run out, maybe play with a formation or a little, some tactical changes to see what they're going to do against Middlesbrough.
Speaker: But he won with Maduweka again.
Speaker: I don't know why.
Speaker: I really don't rate Nani Maduweka at all.
Speaker: I think he's so left foot.
Speaker: He can finish, don't get me wrong, and he can get a strike off, but he needs a lot of time and a lot of space, which is in the Premier League, you don't get time and space.
Speaker: Absolutely not.
Speaker: Absolutely not.
Speaker: And we've seen that with other players
Speaker: with other with other players as well who obviously trying to get a little bit more time and
Speaker: It's fast-paced.
Speaker: It really is fast-paced.
Speaker: And the Premier League can ruin good players from other leagues.
Speaker: It's like, oh, yeah, this guy.
Speaker: And like Werner, for example.
Speaker: I saw Werner.
Speaker: It's like, you know, he's still making shots.
Speaker: And it's like, dude, where are you sending that?
Speaker: Are you sending that back to Leipzig?
Speaker: What are you doing, man?
Speaker: Yeah, I thought it was bad for him today when he was five shots, zero in Tagalog.
Speaker: Look, we'll definitely come to that match as well.
Speaker: I'll briefly touch on it because I don't really care for either team, to be honest.
Speaker: But I actually sat down and watched that game because I thought it was going to be...
Speaker: a lot more exciting than it ended up being but yeah like you know with going back to Chelsea in terms of what he put out it's probably the best with what you've got obviously Chilwell you can't really put him in you know in the starting 11 because he still hasn't got the speed but I was surprised as well when because I saw your message as well like you know he doesn't trust Mudrick and for a second I thought like oh okay Mudrick's on
Speaker: and he doesn't you know it clearly it's clear why pochettino doesn't trust him but then now i'm looking i'm like shit didn't even make it on the team didn't even make it on what the hell is going on obviously you're the toughest critic for modric and even last week or week before last episode or the episode before that you were saying like he's doing some good stuff he's making some decent runs you know you're singing not singing his praise oh my god he's worth the 80 million no etc but you were saying he's doing some good stuff or he looks to be turning his game around and he's
Speaker: But for some reason, we seem to have players who make that turn, gain a little bit of confidence, and then... And they get benched....putches like, nah, not anymore, they sit down.
Speaker: And you're like, what are you doing?
Speaker: We are crying out for players to have confidence.
Speaker: We need the spine to have all these wingers, literally everybody on that team.
Speaker: If you want a top four and challenge for the titles, not this season, but coming season, you need to be flying high on confidence.
Speaker: And currently...
Speaker: we lack a lot of it.
Speaker: We lack a lot of things forcing it.
Speaker: Even yesterday, we went one nail up and I was like, right, attack now.
Speaker: Let's have, what's the game plan if we go up ahead?
Speaker: And it was the same game plan.
Speaker: Let's slowly pass it around first of all.
Speaker: Let's get some players better than Middlesbrough, of course, because against Middlesbrough, we were awful, but it still wasn't to the Chelsea that I expected or the Chelsea that I'm used to seeing, you know, the intensity, the pace, that killer instinct.
Speaker: is very much kind of oh we're one nil let's see if we can kind of save this result and you're like bro like you scored in the first half there's another 45 minutes to go and by the last 10
Speaker: We were soaking up pressure.
Speaker: We were soaking up pressure.
Speaker: And like I said, I was surprised that it ended up 1-0 considering the goal came, what, like just before halftime?
Speaker: The penalty came just before halftime?
Speaker: I was very surprised and I was thinking, you know, this is probably going to end up as a draw.
Speaker: You know, I think that was the prediction, wasn't it?
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, you predicted 1-1, yeah.
Speaker: So, but look, you know, at the end of the day, fair enough, like, you know, you score a goal, you maybe didn't attack as much, but, you know, you soaked up the pressure, but you've got to take, like I said, you've got to take the good with
Speaker: with the bad and in this case, yes, you didn't obviously, you know, get a second goal or whatever, or trying to get a second goal.
Speaker: You didn't concede.
Speaker: So, you know, you gotta, it's, it's a balancing act and it seems like,
Speaker: it seems like you kind of figured that out or Pochettino's figured that out.
Speaker: But again, there's still mistakes in his team selection because like you said there, you know, Fulham were leaving a lot of space behind and by the time they were doing that, Sterling would have been tired.
Speaker: Palmer would have been tired.
Speaker: Obviously, Madweka came on.
Speaker: But shit, the fuck, you might as well put me or you on and, you know, we could probably have a better chance.
Speaker: Madweka is what Modric was.
Speaker: Do you remember what I used to say?
Speaker: Modric is so predictable.
Speaker: Madweka is predictable.
Speaker: everything is on that left foot and it's not like Palmer Palmer seems to get everything on his left foot but he does this thing effortlessly sometimes it's just like defenders think he's going right and he ends up going left as if he makes defenders forget that he's left footed Mader Waker just tells you like telepathically and it shows you by the way I'm going to pass to him three miles away like by the time he crosses the halfway line it's like bro shit man can you just at least attempt to do like a little exactly do something like a little me or something
Speaker: No, nerve-wracking, nerve-wracking end of it.
Speaker: But another thing to talk about, as I mentioned at the beginning, was the challenge.
Speaker: I don't know if you saw the highlights.
Speaker: I've seen the challenge.
Speaker: No, no, I have not.
Speaker: That Gusto did.
Speaker: Oh, dirty, dirty, dirty challenge.
Speaker: Dirty challenge.
Speaker: Like Gusto, was it?
Speaker: He should have...
Speaker: He should have seen a red.
Speaker: I'll be honest with you, he should have seen red.
Speaker: Because luckily the referee for us, lucky for Chelsea, didn't get sent to the monitor, gave it a yellow and left it with that.
Speaker: He clipped the ball.
Speaker: Don't get me wrong, he touched the ball a little bit, but he just showed it right on the angle.
Speaker: Yeah, follow through.
Speaker: We've had players who've been sent off for that.
Speaker: Looking at an interview, what Pochettino said, he goes, I didn't argue with the one against Aston Villa because that was a red, but this one was a yellow for me, it wasn't a red.
Speaker: Marco Silva was like, what is going on?
Speaker: clearly yeah I'm sure I'm sure he was I'm sure he was like fuming to be fair but it could have been a different result Chelsea with 10 men oh I agree oh what a save by Petrovic by the way I'm just watching one of the I'm just watching some of the highlights my god what a save that was incredible so again he kind of deserved it he kind of deserved the ooh naughty from Gustav do you see yeah seen that do you see that yeah that's ooh I can't believe he never even got sent to the monitor because of that
Speaker: Williams heel was planted as well oh shit that looked actually looked nasty and I'm very sure about that because you've seen players off because of that you know what I mean dangerous tackles and what not but there you go look at the end of the day you got the three points that you needed and you know you still sat 8th I think are you sat 8th no we dropped down to 9th we were 10th we moved up to a United draw moved us down that's right yeah the United draw wasn't it so that really is
Speaker: Well, yeah, screw Spurs as well.
Speaker: But so look, I think I think my prediction on where Chelsea is going to end up, I think that's going to come true, to be honest.
Speaker: I said somewhere between seventh and ninth.
Speaker: Did I say that?
Speaker: Seven, eight, I think you said.
Speaker: And then you saw that.
Speaker: Yeah, I'm happy with that prediction, to be honest with you, because again, you're going to get games like this where you win one nil, but then you're going to get other games where, again, that one is not going to be good enough.
Speaker: And then you'll end up or even drawing like right at the death of it.
Speaker: It's just going to be heartbreaking.
Speaker: But overall, I mean, overall, I'm guessing you weren't really that happy with the performance.
Speaker: Just listen to what you're saying and how you're saying it.
Speaker: Obviously, I don't have that enthusiasm in my voice.
Speaker: I'm not like, oh, we did this.
Speaker: Because like I say to you, I watch football and yes, we win and I'm happy with a goal and get in.
Speaker: A great finish by Palmer, by the way, to kind of like, let's just shout out to him.
Speaker: The game that he had against Middlesbrough, the sitters that he missed against Middlesbrough to take the pressure on, to take the penalty.
Speaker: at Stamford Bridge to be like no I can do it such a young lad with such a kind of like mature head and a lot of balls on him to be like you know what I'll take this and he took it so and put it away so well done to him for that but yeah overall the performance was a bit weak and the penalty was weak as well if I'm totally honest like Raheem it was like the Bruno Fernandes penalty against Wigan where just the leg was coming and just leave a leg dangle there but not even enough to get contacted it's more like you just get grazed by the leg and then go down it was a sterling penalty
Speaker: Yeah, the Sterling penalty was really, really weak.
Speaker: And it went for us and I'm like, yay, let's have that.
Speaker: But being realistically as a football fan and without my Chelsea hat on, I hate seeing those penalties get given because you can stand up.
Speaker: But then it's a very gray area of like how forceful is that must a challenge be in order for it to be a free kick or a penalty?
Speaker: Where do you draw the line?
Speaker: You know, like, oh.
Speaker: That was a graze, but that might not have been.
Speaker: It goes back to the shot penalty, isn't it?
Speaker: It goes back to the shot penalty where it's like, which it shouldn't have definitely, definitely 100%, million percent.
Speaker: It should never have been a penalty, but you're absolutely right.
Speaker: That's where Va needs to step in to be like, look, mate, his elbow hair kind of grazed the top of his shin pad.
Speaker: The guy took two more steps and then fell over.
Speaker: That is not a penalty, right?
Speaker: That is not contact, okay?
Speaker: That is not contact.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: They're making it as if the alien contacts came down and like, ah.
Speaker: Now, if a player takes two, three steps, he should not be given a problem.
Speaker: Like, what are you doing?
Speaker: Even if it takes two, three steps and they're really trying to stand you, we've seen that happen as well.
Speaker: We've mentioned it on the podcast.
Speaker: Yeah, where it's sort of like falling.
Speaker: Yeah, they're like going through his head down.
Speaker: And that doesn't even get given because they're like, oh, you took a shot.
Speaker: But that should have been a problem because it's completely knocked him off balance.
Speaker: Whereas the Jota one, he took two steps.
Speaker: He's like, what am I doing?
Speaker: I've got Captain Salah on FPL.
Speaker: I need to go down.
Speaker: Yeah, I need to go down.
Speaker: No, you're right.
Speaker: So it's kind of like getting punished.
Speaker: The players are getting punished for being too honest.
Speaker: Yeah, the honest players get punished and the ones that get free and the acting and the dive in.
Speaker: Then obviously they're the ones who trick the ref.
Speaker: Which I don't want to see from players like Jota because we praise him every single podcast and he's so good.
Speaker: He's a game changer.
Speaker: I think he's a game changer.
Speaker: So, yeah, I definitely don't want to see that.
Speaker: But I'm glad that obviously, you know, the fairness is coming out.
Speaker: And this is what I mean when I say in the group, I'm a fair guy, like when it comes to judging penalties.
Speaker: And even for my team, it's like, what the fuck was he doing?
Speaker: Get up, book him for that.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: If Saka goes down and it's shit, book him for it.
Speaker: Because, again, I don't want to see that crap.
Speaker: It's a waste of time.
Speaker: And, again, you just basically, what they're doing is you just sort of stopping that momentum because you decided to fall down and, oh, ref, ref.
Speaker: Like, nah, just stop it.
Speaker: Stay on your feet.
Speaker: What you're explaining is what gets mimicked at Sunday League.
Speaker: Not that I get to watch all the matches in the league, but I've seen some interviews where players, like, sorry, coaches and parents, they're doing what they see on the TV, the whole ref, ref, ref.
Speaker: And it's like, oh, they do the Bruno Fernandes kind of touch the eye when they've touched on their knee or something.
Speaker: They're like holding their face.
Speaker: Like Rivaldo shit.
Speaker: Yeah, the Rivaldo stuff, basically.
Speaker: That was brilliant.
Speaker: So these guys need to understand, like, yes, you're trying to cheat to get those three points, but there's kids watching you as well.
Speaker: And if they, by the way, footballers will never change.
Speaker: If they can get an advantage on all competitive sports, they will try and get that advantage.
Speaker: But it's up to officials to be like, nah, that's not good enough.
Speaker: And to be fair, the referee allowed a lot to happen here against Chelsea.
Speaker: He was like, there were some challenges with all like, oh, is he going to give it?
Speaker: And he just said, he was like, get up, keep going.
Speaker: And I was like, do you know what?
Speaker: Good referee there.
Speaker: What's his name again?
Speaker: Anthony Taylor, the guy who got done.
Speaker: Anthony Taylor he's a good referee from Anthony Taylor no he did he had a good referee he had a good game that day apart from the two challenges the rest of it he let a lot go because you know come on it's still a contact not contact spot but it's still some physical contact there's shoulder barges and he allowed a lot of challenges especially when players it is but some people made interrupt contact sport rugby American football oh yeah no no no it's violent yeah that's aggressive that's aggressive yeah that's wrestling yeah
Speaker: almost almost mate almost but yeah no i i totally agree and i think uh some of the footballers they have a responsibility to the younger generation and again now you get players like anthony and carnachos and shit like that like oh look at me i've just fallen over ref where's my nah what the fuck bro you are from you claim to be from like the favelas of brazil where you literally will get shot and you're telling me a graze on the fucking laces puts you down like that
Speaker: I don't think so.
Speaker: Get up.
Speaker: He's a yellow for you.
Speaker: But one thing on that, and we'll move on if you have nothing else to add on Chelsea.
Speaker: One thing on that is, you know, the rule changes, like, you know, the sort of referee rule changes.
Speaker: Oh, this rule change will happen in 2026.
Speaker: I'm like, wait, isn't that in two years?
Speaker: What happened in 2025?
Speaker: What, we're just...
Speaker: skipping past that yeah we're just gonna okay do you know what lads right you've got one more year to cheat like you are doing right and then you can't do it anymore why don't you just change the literally the season after or implement it midway through a fucking season what you can't do that of course you can do that you know a two-week break or christmas break or whatever it is right international break you come back by the way we've got new rules introduced there you go you fall down like that again you are going to get a yellow card
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: There is absolutely no question about it.
Speaker: Like VAR, for example, you know, all these rule changes, like, you know, with the, is the ball over the line or not?
Speaker: Or what classes as a handball and, you know, where, you know, natural arm positions and
Speaker: you know those can change very quickly like you know within an international after an international break you come back you're like right okay we saw what happened just before the break you can't do that anymore now it's changed it takes it takes seconds seconds to change it you know what i mean and i don't agree with this like oh yeah we've got a massive rule change in 2026 fuck that mate
Speaker: do you know what i mean 2026 the man said you've won it twice since then because some some cheating's going on and again i don't give a shit about 2026 like let's just be honest i don't know what's going to happen in 2026 will i will i not be here i don't know like that should be realistic i want to see something now exactly yeah like the future's not predicted the future's not guaranteed is it so yeah and i'm with you 100 these rule changes i say come in this play now like you think why so far ahead like what's happening to in a couple of months or at least next year
Speaker: The higher-ups haven't made money yet.
Speaker: That's exactly what it comes down to.
Speaker: And sometimes speaking of the higher-ups on a quick detour is I feel like all these other clubs who are again taken over by billionaires are really being handicapped because Chelsea were allowed to spend X amounts of money.
Speaker: However, they liked when Roman came in, City were the same and so on.
Speaker: Now you think of Newcastle and they're like, no, you can't do that.
Speaker: You've got to live within your means.
Speaker: You've got to do this and spend within your means.
Speaker: Sorry, sir.
Speaker: sometimes I feel like there is some slight change and it's that hierarchy isn't it the elites trying to get their own way again but yeah just to add on Chelsea obviously happy with the victory just finish it off before we move on and next game for us in 10 days time is that second leg against Middlesbrough and then we play three days after in the FA Cup yeah that's going to be tough that's going to be really really tough so two home games really but against Villa at home in the FA Cup
Speaker: So see Villa either they will try to kind of like push for the league and maybe try to get a Champions League spot and put all their eggs in that basket or they're going to another Premier League team they may think actually you know what let's go to Stamford Bridge and win this bastard and no Chelsea out of the FA Cup which I hope it doesn't happen but
Speaker: That's tough.
Speaker: Listen to this.
Speaker: Three fixtures.
Speaker: Tuesday 23rd, Borough at home.
Speaker: So that's Middlesbrough second leg.
Speaker: Friday the 26th is Villa at home.
Speaker: And then we travel to Liverpool on Wednesday the 31st for the Premier League again.
Speaker: So that is some tough games for Chelsea.
Speaker: So wait, Tuesday and Friday?
Speaker: No, so yeah, Tuesday, Carabao.
Speaker: 23rd, yeah.
Speaker: And then 26th.
Speaker: 26th FA Cup.
Speaker: And then 31st, Premier League away to Liverpool.
Speaker: So effectively playing...
Speaker: Less than 10 days, we're playing three matches.
Speaker: That is crazy.
Speaker: Eight days.
Speaker: Why would they do that?
Speaker: Tuesday and Friday?
Speaker: Surely that's not a real thing, right?
Speaker: Tuesday, Friday, Wednesday, with a travel in there as well.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: That is incredible.
Speaker: I don't agree with that.
Speaker: And this is why stuff like the Super League, if it ever happens, which, again, I'm not against, by the way.
Speaker: No, me neither.
Speaker: We've said this, haven't we?
Speaker: But the only way I would agree to the Super League is if you get rid of this fucking bullshit, like EFLs or international fucking friendlies and nation leagues or whatever the hell it is.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: Like pointless stuff.
Speaker: Get rid of that shit.
Speaker: Get rid of that shit.
Speaker: No one wants to see that.
Speaker: No one cares about Nations League match.
Speaker: I've never, never once, me and you, we kind of take a break during the international break when it's Nations League.
Speaker: Like, we don't give a shit.
Speaker: We were doing a little bit of England and stuff at the beginning.
Speaker: They were like, nobody was interested.
Speaker: Nobody was interacting with that.
Speaker: Even we found it boring talking about international because it was all predictable for England side of things.
Speaker: So, yeah.
Speaker: I think what they need to do with stuff like that is on the summers that there isn't any football, get the national teams together and be like, right, we're going to play the International League tournament.
Speaker: We're going to have...
Speaker: a week of sorry a month of friendlies every four every four days five days you can play a friendly get all your friendlies and then make your decisions from there because yeah this is I like that as a consumer I'm like oh yeah loads of football but as a guy a fan for a club that is really struggling and lots of injuries I'm thinking like fuck
Speaker: Tuesday the 23rd football, Friday football, 31st football, 4th football.
Speaker: So that is wow.
Speaker: Four games in a space of 12 days.
Speaker: And the trouble with that is, obviously, especially with Chelsea, is the fact that how many players you have injured already
Speaker: And with that sort of, again, these are young players at the end of the day.
Speaker: Like, obviously, people will say, oh, well, they're young.
Speaker: They can go on.
Speaker: No, no, they are young.
Speaker: Their muscles haven't developed to the full potential yet.
Speaker: And what we do, what the FA is doing or UEFA or FIFA or whatever, what they're doing there is they're kind of hampering their development and they're sort of pushing these players to get injured, really.
Speaker: That's the way I look at it because it's like... But they don't care, do they?
Speaker: When you're getting paid, so crack on, and that's it.
Speaker: They don't really care.
Speaker: As long as it's...
Speaker: If that's the excuse, then, you know, lower the wages and lower the game time.
Speaker: Like, I'm serious, lower the salary and lower the game time.
Speaker: Yeah, have a salary cap on what the players can earn.
Speaker: And then we'll see who, how, obviously, how committed they are to what they're doing.
Speaker: Because like you said, you know, just we've talked about this so many times, you know, young players on eight-year contracts and getting, you know, close to 100,000 a week.
Speaker: Come on, tell me where the commitment is.
Speaker: Tell me where the motivation is to play football there.
Speaker: Like, seriously, there isn't.
Speaker: There isn't one at all, is there?
Speaker: No, not at all.
Speaker: It's just, I'm a millionaire and I can do the F I want.
Speaker: I can meet who I want.
Speaker: Spirit.
Speaker: The spirit of the sport has unfortunately been sucked out of the sport by the money.
Speaker: And that's just the way it is.
Speaker: Like, you know, remember back in the 90s, early 2000s, we never had these problems.
Speaker: Oh, Bergkamp was signed for £16 million.
Speaker: Like, what?
Speaker: £16 million?
Speaker: Should they sign in youth players for that now?
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: And that was record-breaking back then.
Speaker: Like, oh, my God, Wenger, you spent £16 million.
Speaker: it wasn't even Wenger sorry before Wenger wasn't it yeah yeah 94 so it's like oh my god 60 million but again now that's literally nothing a player gets 60 million in a year and that is not yeah of a sudden that is not good I'm afraid that is that is take it's just turning the sport into business and I don't like that it's the top it's I think the problem is where this kind of shifted is when the top guys the Ronaldos the Messis got the high salaries because they were the world best but then players like Mbappe because there was potential there
Speaker: demanding a very high salary you know like obviously there's some rumour talk about Mbappe going to Real Madrid and demanding 75 million because he's going to save him 200 million in transfer fees but he wants 75 million a year after tax let me say that once again after tax
Speaker: which is probably like 100 plus before tax.
Speaker: And he wants that.
Speaker: Now you think to yourself, like if Mbappe is getting that and you're a player, let's say you and I are doing this podcast and I venture somewhere else and I'm doing mine.
Speaker: And then you say like, I see you or you see me getting 100 million.
Speaker: You're like, hold on a minute.
Speaker: Like if Ricky's getting 100 million, at least I want 25 or I want 50.
Speaker: And this is how it slowly starts and players and agents and be like, listen, I can get you more money.
Speaker: And in a way, get it because if they're making 6 billion on this Premier League deal,
Speaker: if you're the top guy for your team they've got plenty of money there but the only problem is be humble with your money and continue to perform for the shirt like i'm i'm not against you making money because if the business is making 10 billion a week i want you to i would like to have 100 grand of it a week which is what
Speaker: At the very least.
Speaker: 10%, 1% of it.
Speaker: If I am the top guy, if I'm one, yeah, 10 million, 10, 1 million, yeah, less than 10%, which is 1% actually.
Speaker: So it'll be 1% on 100 grand.
Speaker: And if that's the case, then, you know, if I'm the middle guy, not even the top guy, if I'm the middle guy at the company, I would like 1% of that week's earning if I'm that good, I'll play it.
Speaker: So I can understand, but the thing is just play for the shirt because these fans, obviously, we know what we go through.
Speaker: You've been through it, I'm going through it.
Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: I'm still going through it.
Speaker: What are you talking about?
Speaker: I'm still going through it.
Speaker: Yeah, but at least you see the light at the end of the tunnel, of course.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: I think someone's put a boulder in front of that tunnel, bro.
Speaker: I think someone's just dynamited the fuck out of the tunnel.
Speaker: Literally.
Speaker: We are going nowhere, bro.
Speaker: What are you talking about?
Speaker: We have to turn back around.
Speaker: Find another avenue.
Speaker: Find another route.
Speaker: But yeah, I totally agree.
Speaker: And I think it needs to change because...
Speaker: Look, at the end of the day, I want to watch football.
Speaker: That's all I care about.
Speaker: I want to watch football.
Speaker: I'm not making any money from watching.
Speaker: I'm not a betting guy.
Speaker: You're not a betting guy.
Speaker: So for us, we have no monetary ties to any of this, apart from when we spend money on a shirt now and again.
Speaker: And we're not even buying shirts every season because why would we?
Speaker: Again, what am I going to do with a collection of fucking Arsenal shirts?
Speaker: oh look at this kid when i have a kid or whatever it is oh look look at daddy's collection so what did you play for them no well what does it matter are they signed by anyone no it doesn't matter then does it like why do you have it's just another top with a badge on just another top with a badge so again yeah for me as a fan and majority of the fans out there we just want to watch football and again i want to watch football but not to the point where you're sacrificing human beings do you know what i mean where let's face it footballers are kind of like modern day slaves that's literally what they are they don't know they
Speaker: You know what I mean?
Speaker: I want to go here.
Speaker: No, no, no.
Speaker: You're actually going to go over there.
Speaker: You're going to play for these guys once or a few times and then maybe we can discuss you going over here.
Speaker: That's it.
Speaker: It's easier than in American sports, don't you think?
Speaker: Because all American athletes who play like MBS, they really are the modern day slayers because they're like you're getting traded to so-and-so and they have no say in it.
Speaker: have no say in it.
Speaker: They have a slight say in it but even now it's like money talks like now you can't go there because so and so has offered 100 million for you.
Speaker: You can't go to City for 40 million Cucurella because Chelsea are offering to pay 60 million.
Speaker: So you're actually going to go there yeah.
Speaker: Yeah if they're willing to pay 20 million let me see if I can get an extra 10 grand a week which you probably would and then all of a sudden that decision has been made up for you.
Speaker: You think you
Speaker: You had free will and you made that.
Speaker: But you did not have free will.
Speaker: However, all these incentives in front of you have made you go exactly where they want you to go.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: There was a basketball player called Gary Payton and he played for Seattle Sonics.
Speaker: back in the 90s, and he was one of the best, like, he was one of the best sort of, like, Steelers in the game.
Speaker: You know what I mean?
Speaker: They literally called him Gary the Glove Payton, right?
Speaker: And he said on an interview, which I heard recently, he said, basically, he goes, the owner, I didn't even know I was getting traded until someone came in the locker room,
Speaker: just before that that particular match and he said oh i heard you're going to i think it was like new york or something like that it was like what do you mean i'm not going to new york yeah i've just heard that you're going to new york and then he goes yeah and then i have a chat with the manager that with the owner yeah i was getting traded to new york so he's like i was i was getting ready to put my my sonic shirt on go go play this match and then all of a sudden i'm getting told by some other geezer who's got nothing to do with this yeah yeah i heard you going to new york what the fuck
Speaker: you mean so again you're right it is and look the thing is with american sports i never i don't get where the competition comes from by the way where the fuck is the promotion where's the relegation that is competition i don't care about this east v west and oh this conference versus that conference like bro like hang on means nothing so you if you if you're a bad team so you just stay in the league basically you just stay where you are yeah you just stay in the league then but where is the point in that do you know what i mean and then you get celebrity and anyway look american you sound like that you sound like that show ted lasso that i was watching when he goes like wait there's
Speaker: You get relegated?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: In America, we don't do that.
Speaker: You just stay where you are.
Speaker: I don't get it.
Speaker: I don't get it.
Speaker: I really don't.
Speaker: I get the sport, sorry, but I don't get the method of the competition.
Speaker: Like how the competition is made up of
Speaker: And then they're the champions of that team and then all of that country.
Speaker: They're like, oh, we're world champions.
Speaker: They're like, bro, what are we talking about?
Speaker: Baseball.
Speaker: Oh, baseball world champions.
Speaker: What are you talking about?
Speaker: What are you talking about?
Speaker: We're talking about world series.
Speaker: You're playing other states.
Speaker: How about you just say like you're the United States champions and that and leave it at that.
Speaker: I've never seen a baseball world cup.
Speaker: cricket i've seen a cricket world cup where literally international teams play each other and then you get to be crowned the the world cup champions you're not the world champions but in america like you know the nba like how are you world champions right no you're nba champions right that's your association that's it you are that champion okay until you go play internationally which obviously they do now uh
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: FIBA is supposed to be this, like, you know, it's literally the FIFA of basketball.
Speaker: And it's right there in the name.
Speaker: But yeah, and then the worst one is, last thing on this, the worst one is American football.
Speaker: Like, oh, we are the world champions.
Speaker: What are you talking about, bro?
Speaker: We're the only country that plays, bro.
Speaker: Literally the only country that plays this sport.
Speaker: Are you kidding me?
Speaker: Go play rugby and then you can class yourselves as the fucking world champions.
Speaker: The American football, and it's like the name, it does exactly what it says on the tin.
Speaker: It's American football that's only played in America.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: professionally like it's a sport that I don't know yeah I always thought about this the other day I was thinking if they get these coaches you know like Saudis do getting all these great names over like the Ronaldos the Benzimas and so on to kind of boost up their football
Speaker: And I was thinking like, maybe like they just start thinking or like the Russians or somebody gets money and says, let's get Bill Belichick on here and then trying to start a team, you know, because it's got to start somewhere and have that snowballing effect a couple of years, a decade.
Speaker: And then all of a sudden have like, I don't know, like America versus US, America versus France, England versus America, et cetera, and so on in American football.
Speaker: And then see, are they the best?
Speaker: Are they not the best?
Speaker: Because in NBA, they are the best.
Speaker: We see it every four years at the Olympics.
Speaker: It's not even, yeah, that's not even debatable.
Speaker: Yeah, it's not even enough for debatable.
Speaker: is it because the spot has had so much investment from such a young age you know i mean like some european teams come close but it's an american spot at the end of the day it's invented in america and that's where like you said that's where the investment happens you know from day one but the good thing with basketball is the fact that they played in the olympics and they do have a basketball what is it a world cup do you know i mean they have the fever world championships which is fair enough because then you get the best players from america versus the best players from europe
Speaker: Fair dues, all from the rest of the world.
Speaker: That's fine.
Speaker: I agree with that.
Speaker: And obviously, you know me, you've known me for a long time.
Speaker: That's a world competition, yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, I love basketball.
Speaker: I always have done, always have done.
Speaker: So I understand that.
Speaker: But then when you've got baseball, which is literally played in the United States and Puerto Rico, it's like, what the fuck?
Speaker: Puerto Rico, right?
Speaker: It's not even a real country in a way.
Speaker: It's literally, I'm not saying that to be dismissive of Puerto Rico, but it's literally a territory of America.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: It was for a while.
Speaker: People thought it was going to be the 51st state of America.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: Puerto Rico.
Speaker: So it's not a world and you need to stop that right now.
Speaker: But I agree with you NFL-wise, American football.
Speaker: I'm not saying there isn't people overseas who love watching it, who love playing it.
Speaker: but not to the level, you know, for it to be classed as the world championship or the world champions, you know what I mean?
Speaker: So all the Super Bowl, like, oh, we have the most watched.
Speaker: No, you don't.
Speaker: Like, have you seen how many people watch the World Cup final?
Speaker: It's like triple, quadruple your numbers.
Speaker: It's not even the World Cup final, even the cricket World Cup.
Speaker: In fact, it's India versus Pakistan in the cricket or something like that.
Speaker: It's like insane.
Speaker: And you see this now where podcasters in America and obviously here in the States, in the UK as well, not just the States are talking about, like, do you know, how many followers has LeBron James got?
Speaker: 60 something million on Twitter or Instagram or something like that.
Speaker: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker: Yeah, like 300 million or something.
Speaker: It's like a third of the population.
Speaker: Yeah, there's a third of the population of India.
Speaker: I'll be honest.
Speaker: I'll be honest with you.
Speaker: I don't mind cricket for a while.
Speaker: I didn't understand it.
Speaker: But obviously it's been explained to me over time.
Speaker: And I've watched a few matches, especially in the World Cup.
Speaker: That was last year, beginning of last year.
Speaker: I watched a lot of cricket.
Speaker: And I enjoyed it.
Speaker: I really did enjoy it because, again, once you understand the sport, you kind of enjoy it more because you start thinking tactics.
Speaker: Why isn't he doing this?
Speaker: Why is this so spread out in the field?
Speaker: Why doesn't it come closer?
Speaker: And then something happens.
Speaker: Oh, I get it now.
Speaker: That's why it doesn't happen.
Speaker: The ball is played, isn't it?
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: The ball is a fast spin or is it going to be a spin or is it going to be like a fast-paced one?
Speaker: I played cricket.
Speaker: My old job, we did it.
Speaker: my old job we did a company versus company and they were like uh i love the batting got to field and i was just like i stood there for a while just absolutely doing nothing like literally nothing because of all that came my way i was just there like this i used to love the rounders which is like the closest i guess to baseball to baseball yeah yeah underhand yeah there was nothing else there but what i used to love is and i'm sure people can relate as well especially if you're in the uk
Speaker: oh, he's very good, move further back.
Speaker: Somebody who can really hit the ball.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: I love further back.
Speaker: I enjoyed it.
Speaker: I enjoyed it.
Speaker: We're talking about the sport itself, isn't it really?
Speaker: And no rounders, cricket, baseball.
Speaker: Like I, I genuinely, I really, really like baseball.
Speaker: I get it as a sport.
Speaker: I enjoy watching it.
Speaker: I've seen it live when I lived in Toronto.
Speaker: I just really, really enjoyed it because again, you can understand the passion that, that the fans have, especially over that side of the world, you know, but you know, I really do enjoy it.
Speaker: But again, let's just,
Speaker: It's not a world sport.
Speaker: Let's just be clear on that.
Speaker: I'm glad you said that.
Speaker: I was going to say we're not trashing the sport.
Speaker: It's a good sport.
Speaker: Absolutely not.
Speaker: Just the title of world champions is maybe just say champions.
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Speaker: NFL, I don't really, I don't really, I get it and I understand the sport, but I just don't really care for it that much, to be honest.
Speaker: There's too much stopping and I don't like it.
Speaker: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker: I only like watching the highlights.
Speaker: I'll be honest with you.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: I'm the same.
Speaker: 10 minutes, I feel like as if a four-hour match can really be put on 10 minutes and this 10-minute highlights reels or like half an hour match.
Speaker: It could be a half an hour game because of all the stoppages.
Speaker: That's why I used to watch the Super Bowl, but
Speaker: four hours it was just so much time change the time that it's on as well yeah but i think i'm with you on the stop it for nfl like you kind of get in some momentum and they're like right time out and we're having this you're like well what's happening now it's like three minutes away what's going on defensive line comes on and then you've got the super bowl for example you've got the super bowl halftime show and i'm like
Speaker: Fuck me.
Speaker: That's like 45 minutes.
Speaker: That's literally a half of football.
Speaker: And this is why, obviously, I think Americans look at us like, oh, those guys are very simple, you know, two 45-minute halves and that's it, no breaks.
Speaker: Yes, it's a sport.
Speaker: Like, I'm not, you know, for us, it's a sport.
Speaker: It's not really entertainment.
Speaker: Like, obviously, we are entertained standard, but it's a sport.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: It's a sport.
Speaker: That's it.
Speaker: Whereas NFL, they're treated too much of entertainment.
Speaker: Oh, every two minutes we have to have an ad break.
Speaker: I've watched.
Speaker: Have you ever watched NBA?
Speaker: Like any of the NBA matches that are on?
Speaker: I've stopped watching it simply for that reason.
Speaker: A long time.
Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: Because it's like, oh, after every, during a 22nd timeout, you've got like a two minute, you've got a two minute ad break.
Speaker: I'm like, wait, wasn't it supposed to be a 22nd timeout?
Speaker: Like.
Speaker: How do you work that out?
Speaker: Are we still alive?
Speaker: What's going on?
Speaker: Yeah, what's going on?
Speaker: Obviously, for me, it was a slam dunk competition back in the day.
Speaker: But anyway, enough reminiscing.
Speaker: Let's go back to football.
Speaker: The next match that obviously was on was the Newcastle-Man City match.
Speaker: Did you catch any of that, by the way?
Speaker: I caught bits of it.
Speaker: I didn't get to watch all of it from the start, but I watched, I saw all the goals.
Speaker: I even put on the text because it was before City scored, it was just that even message that boys did on the group chat and I said, it's just so boring watching City.
Speaker: This whole Tiki Taka keeping the ball.
Speaker: And by the way, that Bernardo Silva finish was incredible finish.
Speaker: I'm not taking anything away from it.
Speaker: I feel watching City is the same as watching Real Madrid, sorry, Barca back in the day when they won everything.
Speaker: It was amazing that first season.
Speaker: I was like, wow.
Speaker: and then second season I was like yeah yeah incredible you're like wow amazing and then I'm like meh it's like watching it's like watching your friend who you meet for the first time and like oh I've not seen each other do a backflip you're like fucking hell dude how the hell did you do that you're amazed but every time you meet him he does a backflip you're like alright mate relax now yeah take it easy you're gonna pull your back out take it easy bro can you do something else can you do a frontflip bro like I'm sick of dying to seeing backflips that's how I feel no I think so with Pep Guardiola every team every team that Pep takes over is
Speaker: else can you show me something else yeah don't you feel like it just sucks the joy though i know what he does it does just suck the energy out of the opposition and then be able to score goals and it's fine you can do that as a city fan i'm sure they're all like oh my god he wow and watching city is incredible i just i'm not a fan of watching city i'm really not when you're playing against someone i'm like no i know i know they'll probably win uh yesterday i only had a bit of joy when i saw the two goals from isaac and gordon by the way i love isaac i know i'll put this on the chart i just want to say this again
Speaker: He is quality.
Speaker: He is quality.
Speaker: As an Arsenal fan, I want them to spend 100 million on Issaac over Tony any day, every day, all year, every season.
Speaker: Just flirt with the idea because I think Newcastle are going to be under financial fair play.
Speaker: There's a bit of scrutiny there.
Speaker: Just flirt with the idea.
Speaker: Just go, here's 100 million for Issaac.
Speaker: just off of that there's no need to go for Ossie Emi or wherever Ossieman or wherever his name is in Napoli I'm sure I get his name wrong no he's not proven but it's like in the Premier League you saw what he can do man he's
Speaker: That's the guy you want.
Speaker: He was so threatening.
Speaker: He was so threatening against City yesterday.
Speaker: And again, especially in the first half, by the way, because again, it was kind of like a tale of two halves, which you can expect because that's what Pep does.
Speaker: That's what Klopp does.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: Like, that's what they do.
Speaker: It's, oh, OK, so you wanted to play like that in the first half.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: You play like that in the second half.
Speaker: That's it.
Speaker: I'm going to fucking suck all of you bastards.
Speaker: And you know what?
Speaker: They get scared because they actually mean it.
Speaker: So you will get benched.
Speaker: But I think it started off great for Newcastle straight off the bat.
Speaker: Sean Longstaff got a goal.
Speaker: It was obviously disallowed.
Speaker: It was offside and rightly so as well.
Speaker: But from that moment, I was like, oh, OK, fair enough.
Speaker: And I said to you on the on the podcast on the previous part, I said to you that, you know, it's going to be a good game.
Speaker: I think I think I predicted this as a draw, if I'm not mistaken, because I thought, you know, they've both got attackers.
Speaker: They both can score goals.
Speaker: And it was just going to be a battle for the midfield, which it kind of was.
Speaker: But honestly, that first half from Newcastle, they were just impressive.
Speaker: Absolutely impressive.
Speaker: And I mean, did you see Gordon's goal, by the way?
Speaker: Did you see that pass from Bruno Guimara?
Speaker: Yeah, the vision on that pass as well was just incredible.
Speaker: But Bruno was watching that and she was like, wow, I can't believe that just happened.
Speaker: Like she watched that and she was like, oh my God, that was such a great goal.
Speaker: And yeah, as a not really a football watcher,
Speaker: If she can appreciate that, then yeah, it had to be a great... It was just a fantastic pass.
Speaker: It really was.
Speaker: And a great finish from Gordon as well.
Speaker: But then equally, second half, as you just mentioned, a game of two halves.
Speaker: It was like Mr. Assist comes on, Mr. Goldscorer, Mr.
Speaker: Mr. New Haircut, Mr. Who Changed the Game to Get Your... Did you know he changed the way that people do deals now?
Speaker: He decided to get data analysts instead of getting his football agent to negotiate his new contract.
Speaker: And then he kind of told them how important he is to Man City.
Speaker: And that's why he wants 400 grand a week.
Speaker: He's the first player to do that.
Speaker: He's not a 400 grand a week.
Speaker: He's on 400 grand a week.
Speaker: I was going to say, I'm not surprised.
Speaker: And the rest.
Speaker: I'm not surprised at all.
Speaker: But he got a data analyst to kind of show visually for them which pie charts and graphs and so on to kind of say that.
Speaker: So by the way, I love Kevin De Bruyne.
Speaker: I loved him w hen he was at Chelsea.
Speaker: I saw glimpses of this while he was playing for Chelsea, but Mourinho ruined him.
Speaker: Mourinho wanted him to track back and do what Jose Mourinho does to football players.
Speaker: You work your socks off front and back, front and back.
Speaker: And he just couldn't hack it at Chelsea.
Speaker: And he didn't really get me enough opportunities.
Speaker: Not that he couldn't hack it.
Speaker: But now, like, wow, like, this is what we could have had.
Speaker: As soon as he stood up from the bench to go in, I was like, fuck, this is literally it now.
Speaker: And again, I'm not the only one who probably thought that.
Speaker: Even Eddie Howell was probably stood there in his dugout like, oh, shit.
Speaker: All right, someone come and tackle him.
Speaker: Someone just go ahead and just slide tackle him over here, please.
Speaker: Just get rid of him.
Speaker: Rumor has it 60,000 people or 40,000 people in Newcastle watching it just side.
Speaker: Fuck.
Speaker: As soon as De Bruyne stood up.
Speaker: I'm not surprised.
Speaker: Around St.
Speaker: James is all you heard.
Speaker: Fuck.
Speaker: Everybody looked around like, what the hell was that?
Speaker: And I'm not surprised, mate, because again, that guy comes on 69th minute for Bernardo Silva for the goal scorer, right?
Speaker: So this is how much Pep doesn't give a shit how good you are on that pitch.
Speaker: He's like, right, no, if I need to move you, you're getting moved.
Speaker: Unless you're Messi, obviously.
Speaker: But comes on 69th minute, 74th minute, gets a fucking goal.
Speaker: And what a goal that was, by the way.
Speaker: I'm outside the box, but I'll be honest with you.
Speaker: Like when you see that again, the keeper was blocked.
Speaker: The keeper had people in front of him, so he couldn't see where that was going to go.
Speaker: But then again, it was...
Speaker: just you know kevin you don't know whether that's fluke or did the bruny mean that did the bruny see that yeah i think so as well he could see that the kipper's vision is is blocked so therefore he just thought i'll just slot this in here he's that good he is that good the bruny is like looking looking at 2030 right now we're in 2024 he's already looking at 2032 he's already stood at the rule change 26 rule change 2026 rule change
Speaker: he knows that he knows that shit he already knows that yeah honestly he comes on and then obviously provides an assist for bob at the end 91st minute and that's that's all she wrote that's the end of that good night thank you so much for watching and uh take care of yourselves that's literally what he said to everyone like i won't be surprised if he actually said that to her but yeah he's such a fantastic player and
Speaker: yeah he's unplayable mate like he is he's the best midfielder in the world i don't give a shit what people say about drew bellingham drew bellingham has got a long way to go before he reaches kevin de bruyne like you know status and kevin de bruyne i'd put him up there with with a sedan to be honest that's how good this guy is like he is just unreal so yeah he's the game changer and um yeah that was it for city and that two two i was like oh this is good
Speaker: his assist was incredible as well it was it really was I love that guy love KDB so yeah I'm not happy with the fact that he's back now the fact that Arsenal are five points behind Liverpool and obviously City they're going to get Haaland back as well with De Bruyne behind him
Speaker: It's almost a cheat code, mate.
Speaker: It really is a cheat code.
Speaker: It's over already, isn't it?
Speaker: It's over before it starts.
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: You know that's a starter pack.
Speaker: You see De Bruyne... Don't you feel sorry, by the way, for De Bruyne?
Speaker: I just want De Bruyne very quickly that how awful his national team play.
Speaker: Like how they all perform for individual accolades rather than as a collective team.
Speaker: They're just the Lukaku's that everybody... Yeah, same as Portugal as well.
Speaker: But I just think you feel sorry for De Bruyne of how good he is and won't do anything with his country.
Speaker: No, we can't because, again, like you said, everyone in the Belgian team, they think they are the best.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: Because for their clubs, at some point, they were the best.
Speaker: You know, in Thibaut Courtois, for example, from the keeper.
Speaker: In Lukaku for a while, he was the best.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: Yeah, especially at Inter, yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, and then you got De Bruyne, who is clearly the best, and he doesn't even tell himself that.
Speaker: Everyone else knows that he's the best.
Speaker: And yeah, they are an individual team, and that's why they will never ever win anything.
Speaker: And I'm always happy when Belgium either get knocked out or lose to a shitty team or whatever it is.
Speaker: I'm happy, and I'm there to watch it.
Speaker: Yeah, I'm happy now, by the way.
Speaker: Yeah, not because of De Bruyne.
Speaker: I want him to win shit, like, you know, big accolades like that.
Speaker: But because of the rest of the team is like, no, do you know what?
Speaker: Go fuck yourselves.
Speaker: You're Belgium.
Speaker: Like, seriously, let's just face it.
Speaker: The only good thing that came out of you were waffles.
Speaker: Can we just be honest, right?
Speaker: Waffles and De Bruyne.
Speaker: That's literally the name of the podcast, by the way.
Speaker: And Eden Hazard.
Speaker: Don't forget Eden.
Speaker: I'm sorry, my bad, my bad.
Speaker: Don't forget Eden.
Speaker: I am now happy because back then I wanted De Bruyne because obviously I like De Bruyne and Eden Hazard.
Speaker: I wanted him to do something with his country.
Speaker: But once he retired and then I'm just like, you know what?
Speaker: Fuck you guys.
Speaker: And especially if Kevin De Bruyne is not playing, I'm like, you guys are just so shit as a team.
Speaker: I don't watch them.
Speaker: I don't watch them, yeah.
Speaker: No, no, but if they played like a major competition, I think they went to the semifinal in the FA Cup, in the World Cup and so on, and they just got beat.
Speaker: Especially the one, and it's just like, a commentary always says, this is the golden generation for Belgium, and they do nothing.
Speaker: And that's the reason why.
Speaker: It's like Galacticos of Real Madrid.
Speaker: We've got too many stars who think they're stars.
Speaker: It's not enough.
Speaker: You need some kind of Gallaghers in there just to do some running.
Speaker: It's a team.
Speaker: It's a team at the end of the day, mate.
Speaker: Like, that's literally what it is.
Speaker: You know what I mean?
Speaker: Like, for the France 98 World Cup, not many people will remember Emmanuel Petit.
Speaker: but he was very vital to that World Cup winning team.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: Like he really was.
Speaker: Forget Zidane, forget Henri.
Speaker: Like Henri wasn't even a big name back then in 98.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: He was good.
Speaker: He was learning his craft.
Speaker: But I'm saying like you need players like that.
Speaker: Like Djokovic, for example, Johan Djokovic.
Speaker: You need players like that.
Speaker: Not many people remember him.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: I remember he played for Bolton, believe me.
Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: You play for Bolton.
Speaker: And again, this is what I mean is that you need players who don't have that big name on the international stage to do the dirty work.
Speaker: Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker: Like not many people, like obviously everyone will remember Messi for the 2022 World Cup.
Speaker: But they won't remember what's his partner called?
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: The guy who protected him everywhere.
Speaker: Yeah, DePaul.
Speaker: Again, but you need players like that because... Protected him everywhere.
Speaker: Yeah, you need players like that.
Speaker: And that's what I mean.
Speaker: So, yeah, with De Bruyne, it's a shame.
Speaker: But, you know, in terms of individual talent, shit, he's unmatched.
Speaker: And I need him.
Speaker: I want him to win a Ballon d'Or once because he is a full well-deserved.
Speaker: If they give Messi another Ballon d'Or, I'm going to flip.
Speaker: For what reason?
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: Why did he get it the last time?
Speaker: When did he get it last time?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: He played for a PSG team.
Speaker: He played for a PSG team.
Speaker: No, he wasn't even PSG.
Speaker: I think it's because he won the World Cup.
Speaker: That's why they gave him.
Speaker: Because he won the World Cup.
Speaker: He wasn't good enough to be he's the best in the world for that year.
Speaker: Because he wasn't like he got the best player in the World Cup.
Speaker: That's fine.
Speaker: done but he's not you don't win a ballon door because you were good for a month at a tournament no absolutely and he wasn't good for a month in the tournament like just to be honest he had a few good games let's say he was let's say he was you don't get a good reason that goes from for the whole year for you to be like oh actually you're the best in the world because you did really perform really well for that month in the tournament and you know tournament has its own reward you got the best player of the tournament ballon door is completely different yeah i agree i agree there should be different criteria on how it's judged
Speaker: what I'm looking for here it's it's it's fixed it's it's bullshit because obviously during Covid Lewandowski should have won it and never did they were like oh we're not going to do it this year and then the next year all of a sudden Messi won it again or something like that it's just it's just bullshit it's just bullshit so yeah because let's just face it when Messi in that PSG team he didn't he was no he should have been nowhere near that Ballon d'Or list he was not good enough
Speaker: like again when you consider he won the Ballon d'Or the previous years because he was genuinely the best but then you give it to him because he what he scored 15 goals in the PSG team that fucking did nothing that's not good enough like you know
Speaker: give me that back like I don't think I think we were wrong you're down to six yeah give me that back stop it stop the madness but no I think and when Ronaldo won them he was genuinely the best player like he didn't Ronaldo didn't get one because ah if I get to Ronaldo we'll give him one yeah go on then go on then no he he worked his fucking ass off and if he'd stayed with that man new team before obviously Ten Hag decided he was like oh I'm bigger than Ronaldo I was like mate
Speaker: He will never, ever be bigger than Ronaldo, like ever.
Speaker: Maybe in weight, but that's the only time.
Speaker: Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker: I don't think anybody's bigger than Ronaldo globally, to be honest.
Speaker: Absolutely no one ever.
Speaker: And again, I was always on the Messi camp, but that doesn't mean that I don't appreciate Ronaldo and how great he fucking was.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: And if he stayed with my new team, he probably would have deserved the Ballon d'Or more than Messi fucking for his shitty World Cup.
Speaker: Because again, Ronaldo would have...
Speaker: married a team a whole team and he did he scored 25 goals the season before ten hag arrived you know i mean 25 goals for a man united team show me one player that or do you know what fuck that the combined squad of man united this season they have not scored 25 goals do you know what i mean but ronaldo was doing it by himself it's like yeah i'll do what fuck 25 goals now that mate do you know i mean a bit of a
Speaker: So again, I agree.
Speaker: I agree.
Speaker: As much as obviously I love Messi, one of my favorite players of all time, there's certain things which I disagree with.
Speaker: It's like, I don't know about that, mate.
Speaker: You know, you clearly get favoritism here because you've got that name.
Speaker: He's getting favoritism in the MLS as well.
Speaker: I don't know if you've seen some of the things.
Speaker: Like he just, he goes and fouls players and they like play on and then he gets like a graze and he goes down.
Speaker: They're like, oh, that's a yellow card challenge.
Speaker: How dare you even tackle the Messi?
Speaker: You know, he's got shares in MLS, right?
Speaker: Yeah, he gets money all over.
Speaker: It's like a million years.
Speaker: The refs, the referee and their boss.
Speaker: Their boss, yeah.
Speaker: Literally that.
Speaker: But again, it goes back to that entertainment, and then let Messi do what he can do.
Speaker: How dare he take the ball off Messi?
Speaker: There is none of that competition.
Speaker: It's all entertainment in the MLS still, especially with Messi and the charades that Beckham's ball put in Messi, Suarez, Busquets, and...
Speaker: jordie alba all of the same spread in the spot no but like no like like you said before though like with the nfl like you'd get a coach belichick for example to coach out on the french team or the brand new and the brand new american football french team for example do you know what i mean so you need you need to spread the sport like that and i am totally totally up for it i mean these guys are like in the fucking
Speaker: mid to late 30s you know what I'm saying I don't give a shit like they're not for me I don't class the MLS no no exactly I don't class the MLS as anything like you know I don't I don't remember the last time an MLS team were actually in the in the FIFA World Cup for clubs I don't remember it I think Chicago Fire maybe didn't you play Chicago Fire dude did you Chelsea play when you won it
Speaker: it was a Brazilian team wasn't it I think it was a Brazilian team we played the yeah well we played two obviously we got beat one time we played one the second time with Thomas Tuchel but it's a team but you're right I've never seen an MLS team neither but again I just feel like David Beckham's just done it because it's a new club and he's just trying to get the biggest names there which is fine which I totally understand that because again you get kids involved Barcelona's I'm just like meh
Speaker: No, no, I agree with you.
Speaker: To be fair, there's three players, no, three, two out of the four, I just can't stand.
Speaker: Busquets and Suarez, I just can't stand them.
Speaker: That's fair, that's fair.
Speaker: But again, you can't deny the impact that they had on the game in the last 10, 15 years, you know?
Speaker: Yeah, no, no, I agree with that.
Speaker: And I'm not taking anything away from being in quality.
Speaker: Like I even said, Busquets should have deserved a Ballon d'Or or even a nomination before Jorginho did.
Speaker: Who the hell is Jorginho before Busquets on that Holden midfield role?
Speaker: I agree.
Speaker: I totally agree with you.
Speaker: But it's just as individuals and as sports people.
Speaker: That's fine.
Speaker: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker: I agree.
Speaker: But no, they're having an amazing impact in Miami and, you know, they're doing their things.
Speaker: And to be fair, as boys, we're better than to let's, you know what, let's regroup to a different team, lads, and let's keep making some money.
Speaker: The weather's great, the food's not that bad, and we're getting paid shitload.
Speaker: No, I agree.
Speaker: And I think for me, it's the fact that, like I said, it's the awareness that they're building up, the sort of, the prestige almost, they're building up with soccer, right?
Speaker: over in America.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: And I'm up for that because again, it's a global sport.
Speaker: This is why it's the biggest sport in the world.
Speaker: I don't give a shit.
Speaker: American listeners, if you listen to this, right, it's the biggest sport in the world.
Speaker: That's not even enough for discussion.
Speaker: That's not even enough for debate.
Speaker: Yeah, that's not even enough for debate.
Speaker: I don't care what you think.
Speaker: Oh,
Speaker: the nfl is good no mate no in the southern states it may be good but no in in in the global context of the whole world no it isn't it's nowhere close to being a good spot so yeah for that reason alone i'm happy that they've done that and beckham has done that because again beckham is from from the uk he has grown up with football and he understands the impact that football has on the world but he's like you know what massive country over here these
Speaker: focus you know they still call it soccer which is like you know what the brits used to call it back in the 1800s do you know what i mean so it's like yeah i'm gonna go over there i'm gonna put some education over there with training grounds and get the good coaches get the good players in so so kids can grow up and like oh i want to be like messy because look let's face it like florida has got predominant uh has got a majority of you know mexican yeah
Speaker: Latin Latin Americans who live there and guess what Latin Americans they don't grow up with no fucking baseball or NFL they are football fans it's a whole continent that are football fans for God's sake do you know what I mean Brazil we've had the best players from Brazil we've had the Brazilian team
Speaker: are the best globally in terms of like, you know, the cups that they've won, the World Cups that they've won, the players that they've, you know, that they just keep churning out every single fucking generation.
Speaker: They've got great players coming out.
Speaker: So, yeah, it's, for that reason, I'm glad.
Speaker: But anyway, look, it's,
Speaker: let's move it on yeah we kind of we kind of yeah diverted for a little bit we went from Newcastle and talked about Brazilian so obviously no the next was Everton Villa obviously you went nil-nil I went 2-1 I don't even know what it finished to be honest I didn't really watch it I was out today went out to get some lunch so finished nil-nil oh well done you did I actually predict that right you predicted nil-nil yeah oh that's pretty oh shit because I'm sure when I heard the podcast back I was like I heard myself say oh no I think Villa gonna take a W here fair enough I'll take it I'll take it boring match
Speaker: I watched the most parts of it and it was a boring match, mate.
Speaker: It really was.
Speaker: There was nothing good about it.
Speaker: Aston Villa didn't offer anything.
Speaker: Everton had a couple of good chances at the beginning.
Speaker: like Carver Lewin honestly one of the worst strikers I've ever seen like my eyes have ever ever seen on TV it's he is shocking and by the way Carver Lewin by the way sorry go on I was gonna say and this is considering the fact that I've watched Nicholas Jackson play as well you know what I'm saying and I still think Carver Lewin is the worst striker in the Premier League right now I haven't watched him enough to I'm gonna do a Wenger I haven't seen it I haven't seen it before
Speaker: you should do if i say anything i'll get in trouble yeah that's it yeah oh no but uh what was i gonna say did he he didn't start as a striker for everything i remember he was as a center back or right back or something when he first broke into the start in 11 dominic calvin lewin was either a winger or a left back or right back one or the other he was not a center forward and then all of a sudden they played him center forward i remember that very first game became odd because i was like
Speaker: It's a strange transition when I saw the next Everton team.
Speaker: He was at the top.
Speaker: I was like, why on earth is he there?
Speaker: But all of a sudden, now he's their number nine.
Speaker: So yeah, if anybody knows and remembers any Evertonians around or any football knowledge, walking encyclopedias, be like, actually, no, you know what?
Speaker: Ricky's right or Ricky's wrong.
Speaker: Let us know.
Speaker: Get in touch on Facebook and let us know.
Speaker: But yeah, I could have swore he was, or his first game he played was a right-back.
Speaker: I don't know why.
Speaker: Possibly.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: But yeah, that's something to think of.
Speaker: Okay, I thought you might have known, but you don't.
Speaker: No, because again, sorry, I know it's hard to believe, right?
Speaker: But I genuinely do not care for Calvert-Lewin.
Speaker: I could not care less for him.
Speaker: It's very hard to believe.
Speaker: And the fact that he was linked with Arsenal a couple of seasons ago before his big injury, I was just like, why?
Speaker: And again, I was listening to Arsenal podcasts dedicated to Arsenal.
Speaker: They're like, oh, we should bring Calvert-Lewin forward.
Speaker: what for fucking what would you want to bring Calvert-Lewin in for do you know what I'm saying bring in Nicholas Jackson for God's sake hey where have you I will literally pack his bags I will drive him I know you would I know you would I know you would but again I think with Nicholas Jackson if he plays for Arsenal I think at some point next season he would actually be quite decent because he'd have a good coach around him and good you know good coaches around him look it's not even like coaching with him he can't finish one-on-one situations like it doesn't matter what you do at something is going to be
Speaker: an instinct and a God-given talent to be able for you to put the ball in the back of the net.
Speaker: You can, good coaching can gain good positions and make good runs or timely runs, but in order for you to put the ball in the back of the net, nobody, come on.
Speaker: No coaching is going to do that.
Speaker: You just need to know how to do that.
Speaker: You need to know where you are in and outside of that box.
Speaker: Spatial awareness.
Speaker: That's the word, spatial awareness.
Speaker: You need to have spatial awareness.
Speaker: Like Eddie Nketiah, he may not be the best striker ever, but he knows how to score goals.
Speaker: If he's in that six-yard box or within that 18-yard box, boom, he's straight in there.
Speaker: But he doesn't have the other talent of Nicolas Jackson, the running, the pace.
Speaker: Yeah, he doesn't have the running, the strength, the pace.
Speaker: And that's why you're going to find one.
Speaker: So that's fair enough.
Speaker: One of the best finishers for me, obviously, and apart from my nine, is Rude van Disteroy.
Speaker: I remember van Disteroy, that six-yard box, just like popping it in.
Speaker: popping it in a bit like what Harlan does everything is around that area spatial awareness I know where I am I know where the ball is going to go that's it it's all about it's a science isn't it it's a science like oh well I'm here at the edge of the six yard box if I hit it this way I know where the ball is going to go that's it sometimes like you said that is that's just your talent like your brain that's how it works that's the science in your brain that's it
Speaker: But no, yeah, this match was fucking boring, man.
Speaker: Oh my God.
Speaker: There was nothing offered from any, from, from either team, just shocking, shocking performances.
Speaker: And this is what I'm saying.
Speaker: Like Aston Villa, you know, they keep playing like this.
Speaker: Unfortunately, they are not going to be in that top four for much longer.
Speaker: And, um,
Speaker: Look, my words will come true.
Speaker: Mark my words.
Speaker: Yes, yes.
Speaker: And obviously the last match of today was Man United, Tottenham.
Speaker: And just straight off the bat, obviously, I'd fuck United, fuck Spurs.
Speaker: Fuck United indeed.
Speaker: But I definitely wanted United to steal a win from Spurs because obviously, you know, they are very close to Arsenal right now.
Speaker: And I don't care for that that much.
Speaker: But, you know, third minute, Hoyland scores.
Speaker: I was like, get in.
Speaker: Can't wait for that.
Speaker: This is going to be a great game.
Speaker: And then fucking Richarlison gets up there and scores.
Speaker: And it's like, are you kidding me?
Speaker: Where's the defenders?
Speaker: What's going on here?
Speaker: But they left him open.
Speaker: They genuinely left him open.
Speaker: And it was not... It wasn't good.
Speaker: It just wasn't good at all.
Speaker: And...
Speaker: and then Rashford obviously he gets a goal which I'm happy for because I don't mind Rashford I think he's he's the only player probably that I don't mind from from Man United the rest I couldn't couldn't give a shit about to be honest with you but yeah good he had a good pass good finish from the sort of like inside the box curls it in boom great goal nice one from Rashford but yeah and then you know 2-2 Benton Co scores
Speaker: I thought they were lucky to be fair United with the two goals.
Speaker: The way the ball just kind of sat for them.
Speaker: It's one of those where the defender makes a tackle and he just fell to Hoyland's feet.
Speaker: I understand he had to take a touch and then great finish, great strike.
Speaker: But just the situation as a build-up, he was just like, I think it wasn't him, but Doji tackled Rashford.
Speaker: At first you're like, wow, Rashford, what an assist with a back heel.
Speaker: And then you watch it again, it's like somebody tackled him and it both fell to him.
Speaker: Oh, I was going to say, no, no, it was definitely like a deflection.
Speaker: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker: It was deflection onto Hoyland.
Speaker: That led to Hoyland scoring.
Speaker: So then it's just that situation.
Speaker: But great finish.
Speaker: One taken away from the finish, but the build-up, they were lucky to get that goal.
Speaker: And I felt like it was the same for Rashford.
Speaker: Actually, no, the Rashford goal was more of a one-two rather than a mistake.
Speaker: So yeah, it was the first goal that I was...
Speaker: That was a bit like meh.
Speaker: Anyone says backheel, they are mistaken.
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: No, no, I mean backheel, like when you watch it live, you're like, oh, what happened?
Speaker: But then you watch the replay, you can definitely see it.
Speaker: Yeah, it was a deflection, yeah, for sure.
Speaker: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker: Whereas Bentancourt as well, 52nd coming back.
Speaker: Like, what did Ten Hag say to those players?
Speaker: They're like 2-1-0, halftime.
Speaker: I just don't know about Man United.
Speaker: Man United fans really need to be worried.
Speaker: Listen, I'm a Chelsea fan and I'm worried about my team, but you guys are on the same boat as us.
Speaker: How do you concede after being 2-1 up?
Speaker: Half-time, come back out 50 seconds, you're 2-2.
Speaker: to be fair Spurs should have won that for me they were dominating the whole game they really needed to put more pressure on United because the moment they put pressure they scored and we saw that didn't we like 50 seconds in like I said 2-2 Bentancur and then they seemed to die down I don't know what you felt like it was just like pass pass bit of bit of trickery try to do it a bit of showing off from Bentancur and a bit of Hoyland holding the ball for longer than he should have done and when in reality moved it quicker yeah
Speaker: Stats speak quite loudly.
Speaker: And the first half, it was Tottenham who was sort of dominating in terms of the expected goals and whatnot, which again, you know how much I don't give a shit about that.
Speaker: But the second half, both expected goals for teams were like literally 0.6 and 0.5.
Speaker: Yes, Spurs had the majority of possession, but that's all it was.
Speaker: That's literally all it was.
Speaker: That's literally what I mean, yeah.
Speaker: And again, I'm sorry to say it, and I keep saying it.
Speaker: I will always say it.
Speaker: As long as I watch the Tottenham team play, they are not good.
Speaker: I'm sorry, but they are not good.
Speaker: The only thing they can do is counterattack, and that's where United went wrong.
Speaker: They left spaces open for them.
Speaker: And again, Wan-Bissaka, he's all right sometimes, but again, he's not that great of a defender.
Speaker: Dalot, he made a couple of mistakes, which again, could have been punished, but...
Speaker: because it's Tottenham it's the way of the way of the Tottenham so you know as Conte used to say I have a slight disagreement with you on that one I do think they're playing some good football to be fair and this Ange guy I really like Ange I don't know if I'm being biased slightly because I'm not fanboying over Ange but quite like him the way he comes across in the media and the things he says but also Tottenham have been doing quite well I don't
Speaker: For me, they just took the foot off the gas.
Speaker: They were controlling, dominating.
Speaker: That's not good.
Speaker: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker: But this is the thing, again, he's got some injuries in that.
Speaker: I didn't see Ben Tankou play.
Speaker: Sorry, I didn't see.
Speaker: What's his name?
Speaker: Sar and Kulisevsky.
Speaker: Sar Basu.
Speaker: Not Basu.
Speaker: What's the boy that I like in midfield?
Speaker: who's Basuma Basuma Basuma which I don't know why you like him but that's that's fine that's a whole different position I like him because of that same thing as I said to you like is when players run past a midfield player I've seen him do that a couple of times for Spurs a couple of times in 22 games man no no no I don't watch all the Spurs game but the games that I have seen I've seen him do that and I'm like this is what I want from my midfielders the rest of the games I watched
Speaker: He got sent off against Luton and I think he got sent off another time and that.
Speaker: But yeah, he did all right.
Speaker: I think he did well against you guys as well, to be fair, when I watched him at the Emirates.
Speaker: And obviously, Madison is missing.
Speaker: So yeah, there's things to come back for them.
Speaker: I think they will be all right.
Speaker: And I do think they'll finish, obviously, in the Champions League places.
Speaker: I think they will.
Speaker: I think they'll finish in Champions League places, but I just don't think they're playing good enough football.
Speaker: I'll be honest with you.
Speaker: Because the rest of them, like again...
Speaker: The top four, it will be City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham.
Speaker: I have no doubts about that because the other teams below them, either they will run out of steam or they're not having been playing good enough.
Speaker: Like United haven't been good.
Speaker: Chelsea haven't been good.
Speaker: Newcastle are like, you know, patchy at best.
Speaker: Patchy at best.
Speaker: I mean, yeah, you put up a good fight against Man City, but at the end of the day, you lost that match.
Speaker: That's three points dropped.
Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: You know what I'm saying?
Speaker: So this is, this is why I think with Tottenham again, in the last couple of seasons where you think, Oh my God, Tottenham are fourth.
Speaker: And yeah, they're a champions league team.
Speaker: They're not.
Speaker: It's the other teams who are supposed to be champions league teams.
Speaker: They haven't been good enough.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: And that's always my argument.
Speaker: I don't rate Ange that much as much as you do.
Speaker: And I don't know what it is about him, which I genuinely think he will turn out to be a fraud like Ten Hag will.
Speaker: I don't think he's good enough for this league.
Speaker: And it shows because he seems to be one-dimensional now.
Speaker: And again, now that he doesn't have Son, he's really struggling.
Speaker: And it should.
Speaker: It absolutely should.
Speaker: He's a huge player.
Speaker: I don't disagree.
Speaker: I don't disagree.
Speaker: But then again, when you look at the United team, again, if United were at the very peak, if they had the Ronaldos, if they're like literally right at the peak of the powers, Tottenham would have just been wiped.
Speaker: Absolutely would have been wiped.
Speaker: And again, I've seen enough Tottenham games this season to come to that conclusion.
Speaker: And that's just not one game or two games.
Speaker: I've seen enough from Tottenham this season.
Speaker: And I've said this how many times in the podcast I've said this about Tottenham.
Speaker: I've never changed my mind.
Speaker: And today proved exactly that.
Speaker: Because they are not good enough, I don't think, to be serious.
Speaker: they've improved from where they have been having those defensive managers Mourinho Conte and all the rest of them they've improved massively they're playing more attacking football and I can see why Tottenham fans will be excited especially when some players come back I'm sure they'll be excited Sonny coming back Madison coming back I don't know why Kulisevski didn't play today Kulisevski is much better than Brendan Johnson he would have got more balls in the box he would have took more shots Brendan Johnson is quite weak I don't even know why they bought him to be fair is that Angus signing or is that Daniel Levy signing I guess we'll never know
Speaker: but uh yeah i don't think i don't think i signed him to be fair i don't i just probably just has no idea who brennan johnson is when he was at celtic he had no idea who plays for not an enforcer the right wing or something but uh no yeah madison has been a great sign for once they get madison back they'll be i think they'll start scoring goals again because they were really scoring goals that's why they were top of the league for a reason until they got all the injuries to the back but that's another thing today they got the same back four sorry about that i just hit the mic but they got the same back four that they had
Speaker: when they played against Chelsea with the injuries and the red cards so it's interesting to see what they do next for Spurs I don't know why we're spending so long on Spurs neither of us feel any type of way for Spurs but they've got Brighton in the prayer no sorry they've got Man City in the FA Cup on the Friday the 26th oh that's gonna be a good match that's gonna be a good match for sure yeah and the thing is I can't even I can't even I can't even like look at that match and think
Speaker: Oh my God, this is where Spurs decide because every time they play City, they always seem to get a result out of them, which is fair enough.
Speaker: But again, that doesn't mean anything because you've had lesser teams who've got points against City.
Speaker: Like in Nottingham Forest, I'm sure last season they did the same thing, didn't they?
Speaker: No, no, no.
Speaker: One match means nothing, but it could be a slight indicator to see where they're at.
Speaker: But with so many injuries and players missing, again, it's not a true indicator.
Speaker: Maybe...
Speaker: maybe it's just me and i don't know what it is but i just don't feel as strongly about madison as a very good player i'll be honest with you he's a good player but i don't think he's a very good player i don't think he's very good but i think he's been very good for them for them i mean i think that's what i'm that's what i mean the difference in like he's very good for them same as i was saying for kind of gallagher on the last last episode is he's not very good but he's been very good for us for well yeah see what i mean yeah because again you compare it to the other players that they've got i mean to the star in 11 that's around you
Speaker: comparing to the players that he's got around he's the one who's working the hardest Madison's the one who's creating most of the goals they've got Madison was setting him up which is fair which is fair obviously when them three come back Kulusevsky's son and Madison come back then yeah fair enough then we'll see what happens but again they've got players like Oli Skip do you know what I mean and Emil Hoiberg and that type of shit they're just who's that guy that came on the Spanish guy and I thought he was English Brian Gill or something I was like Spanish they had the Spanish flag like yeah
Speaker: I know Spanish.
Speaker: Yeah, I thought he was as English as they come, bro.
Speaker: I thought like he was as English as just a saw.
Speaker: So it's fish and chips.
Speaker: Dude, Spain need to disown him.
Speaker: Spain need to be like, no, no, no.
Speaker: I was like, what is going on here?
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: Brian Hill.
Speaker: And I think I made a comment on the group last time I saw Brian Hill play.
Speaker: And I was like, this is the worst.
Speaker: That's the thing as well.
Speaker: The team is, as a squad, apart from a star in XI, the star in XI that they had at the start, their squad is awful.
Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker: And that's what you need.
Speaker: Look at the amount of games that teams are playing.
Speaker: You need a good squad.
Speaker: Arsenal need a good squad.
Speaker: Saka's exhausted.
Speaker: Can't perform.
Speaker: Liverpool are the same.
Speaker: You know, like with those three midfielders, then you get 38 and Jones coming in.
Speaker: Okay, they might do all right for one or two, but that's not players that you're going to rely on.
Speaker: And again, like squad players, you need a big squad.
Speaker: But what can you do?
Speaker: City have got that squad and their 115 players.
Speaker: allegations against them yeah yeah well you know that's all a different thing isn't it but look Rick I think we've been going on for long enough to be honest and we need to get this podcast out for people to listen to we need to get it out tomorrow as well and that as well yeah we will be back at the probably during the end of the week we'll discuss on some transfers because I know there's no football on for the next couple of weeks or 10 days I think it is is that right don't you play next week is it next week oh is it already is it next week already fuck it how long was your sleep
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: Where am I here?
Speaker: Oh, yeah, so we're back on the weekend.
Speaker: Okay, so we will be back with some predictions.
Speaker: We'll probably do one Thursday night.
Speaker: On Thursday evening, yeah.
Speaker: Or Friday evening, whichever one, because obviously the first match is back on Saturday.
Speaker: So, yeah, so we play Brighton, I believe.
Speaker: Oh, did I just see that right?
Speaker: Did we play Brighton?
Speaker: Oh, Crystal Palace.
Speaker: So we play Palace.
Speaker: Lunchtime kickoff at home versus Palace.
Speaker: We'll come back and we'll do some predictions about that.
Speaker: But, yeah, if you have nothing else to add, mate, we will catch everyone on the next one.
Speaker: We'll catch you on the next one.
Speaker: I thought that was you going straight on.
Speaker: I was like, that's why I stayed quiet.
Speaker: Thank you so much for listening.
Speaker: I was like, what's this guy do?
Speaker: Why is he paused?
Speaker: I looked up.
Speaker: We'll bring this podcast out.
Speaker: Yeah, we'll bring it out.
Speaker: And yeah, thank you so much for listening.
Speaker: We'll catch you on the next one.
Speaker: And yeah, if you have any questions, please hit us up on Twitter, Facebook, and we will answer them.
Speaker: Good night.
Speaker: Bye.
