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S03E11 - Tash Mic Guys - Corner Maestros, Boot Boy Sacked and Title Contenders
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A (NOT JUST) Sports podcast hosted by two rival fans...Arsenal and Chelsea. In our episodes we discuss EVERYTHING that pops up from movies,TV, music, politics, society in general and topping it off with some football and F1 talk. Join us for some absolute bulls**t and some laughters.
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Transcript
Opening and Casual Chat
00:00:14
Speaker
Bigger book this time. I've got many thoughts to write down. Love it. Love it. like oh My little notepad out as well. and before Obviously, Rick, how are you doing? Hope you're well. I'm good, Mara. I'm good. How are you, Mara? Mara. Mara. Yeah, Mara. That is something I haven't heard in a long time. Mara. No, Kara, I've heard I hear it like on a week on a weekendly basis, you
Football Player Performances and Tactics
00:00:38
Speaker
know? Mine is, you know, when Cole Palmer had a moment today and I just thought of a lad from Loftus.
00:00:43
Speaker
That's why I threw out Mara, because, yeah, you're right, you know, 100% is one of those. Oh, it's all of the slide. those la for you and but one hundred percent I 100%. Yeah. My little girl was ready. It is. I hope you're not going to get offended when I make notes in red in my own notepad.
00:01:02
Speaker
Um, no, I am not walk. I'm not snowflake. So no, um, I'll be fine. I'll be fine. I will not call the cops on you on this dirty, dirty trick that you use in red pen. How did your own house in your own house? You're crazy, mate. You're crazy. All right. Don't let anyone but can hear you say that. Um, but Rick, Um, um obviously I know of, uh, of, uh, we, you, you mentioned that you weren't, you weren't too well. So that's, uh, that explains why the, uh, the stops. And again, look, the thing is like, we said many, many times of order, right? We don't get paid for this. So this is, this is like, this is like, let's go to the, uh, let's go to the country club. Do you know what I mean?
00:01:42
Speaker
We don't go to country club every week. You know what I'm saying? Not to be traveling. I've caught a bit of a bit of a cough, but it's not going away. I've not been able to shake it away. So I do apologize, obviously, but I will try my very best to mute on time. And hopefully it doesn't come on a mid sentence. That's right. That's a bit. sound bit ah What gets your mind out?
00:02:07
Speaker
I'm wearing a hat so my mind can't go anywhere. It's enclosed in there. It's a very nice hat. It will stew. It came off live as well. I love the colour. I love that dark emerald green. Well, for listeners and for you, if you've forgotten, by the way, that we are actually, we do have an affiliate, which is New Era. We do, we do. That's where we are. That's where we are. That bird's not making its way down my way. I still have to pay for this. this got bought at TK marks for nine pounds. And a shout out to TK marks by the way, some crackers in there. And again, I'm not talking about white people, but yes, look, I've got to say that joke, right? Because no one, no one in the group, I think everyone in the group just sort of like bypass that whole joke. Do you know what I mean? When Sancho Scott, I was like cracker and then Not talking about power, but no one responded. I thought, ah, I need to reuse that one. It's a perfect timing. I'm glad you use it, because I was a bit too emotional. To be fair, my emotions got run there all over the place today. Up and down, up and down, up and down. You know, like two nailed over. I thought, oh, what are we doing? I saw the start up line as well. And then I saw Paul Mason talk about it as well, pretty much saying how Heath Mareska has gone with that team, because he did not know that Spurs are going to play with those two centre backs.
00:03:25
Speaker
Excuse me. I hear Romero and Vandivert. Yeah, but they've been injured. So they've been out for a while. So today he risked them. And this is something we're going to touch on today, they which was stupid of him. But yeah, then I was, and then two nails down. Oh, great. Great. How, how are we, how are we a spursy right now? How are we doing a spursy performance? I mean, it was, it was, it was such a massive collapse and real quick. I don't, I don't actually understand. You can watch it back, watching it live. I was like, Oh, what's going on here? But watching it back, you can see what's in him. Cooker Ellis slipped twice, gives the ball away in a position when the players are forward. And then that's when we got hit and because they were pressing and we beat their press numerous times. but
00:04:05
Speaker
you know, cocarellis slipped and then, or as my daughter calls them, cachovella. Which is fair because obviously his hair is like that. So which is totally fair. And obviously, you know, because we're we're semi pros, we make I'm not, I guess. I just wrote Arsenal four times
Humor and Affiliates
00:04:22
Speaker
on an empty page. I put the line, the day and the and the date. And obviously, this is an old 2020 journal diary. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So one as you can see, I've just wrote, oh, you can't see because of the flipping background thing. Yeah. but Oh, yeah. It's just Arsenal a couple of times. Well, just the ones actually. I've just gone over it three times. Well, you know, we're just rent free in your mind, Rick. That's what it is. Rent free in your mind, my friend. You missed a joke. I said I went over it three times, but never mind.
00:04:49
Speaker
I think, well, ah there you go. Then you went over my head. So there you go. We both missed something that something was missed, but I tell you what, though, I'll tell you what going on on
Player Critiques and Analysis
00:04:57
Speaker
Kookarela, going on Kookarela, this guy, he changed his shoes and i'm I'm not going to lie to you, right? Two things will happen and Puma will definitely get a complaint and the kit man will get the sack. Like absolutely no doubt about that. I can't believe a professional footballer looks and acts the way that Kookarela did towards his kit man.
00:05:19
Speaker
Yeah i agree with his arms in the air as if it was a kid man's fault as if the kid man like you know literally have the shoes on him are you kidding me that's why you have warm ups and i think who was it karrigan karrigan which said in the commentary he said this is why you have warm ups so you can yeah test that get out then test test the boots out if then you boot you've had it ah surely you warm in training as well and it's been great it wasn't just There's no, birds screaming it's been ready for two days. Literally two days. We've had storms and it's been on the news. The storm has been on the news. So it shouldn't hit anyone as a surprise. And again, the fact that you warm up for that reason or part of that, part of that is the, you know, fit for you to to find out if you were in the right footwear, but it's just, you know, throwing your arms up like that, your kit, man. It's like, are you kidding me? You are the professional. You are literally the professional. You know what's going to be good or not. The kit man can just be like, I like the blue ones. You know what I mean? it is, but no, you need to, you need to make, but so anyway, so yeah, I thought that was completely insane by the way, from, from Kookarela. And if I was Maresca, I would have absolutely taken him off in that first half. Like I would have absolutely taken him off in that first half um after that second slip but and after him throwing his arms up in the air, because it was just outrageous, man. Like you get paid so much money.
00:06:32
Speaker
and you're going to blame the kit man, which is the coach is going to do. Do you think Marissa is going to be like, Oh yeah, Kookarela is right. Yeah. No, it's the, uh, we're going to have to blame the kit man for this one. You had nothing, uh, nothing to, to worry about. But anyway, look, it was 100% cause he was a childish baby, but it's one of those things. He was looking to blame someone when things were going so badly.
00:06:54
Speaker
when in reality he should have just held his hands up and just came and changed his boots and do a Robert DeCarlo's performance afterwards because which after that I thought he was quality. He was really really good but like I said those two slips at first I was like oh Spurs are our planners but really when I look back at it it was simply because they put a high pressure and then because of the slip we we we were out of position. We could not defend that then. Fair enough, maybe we could have defended the second goal a little bit better because there were bodies backed by that point and they went through the legs of the legs of Lavia. But it's it's I 100% agree with you. That behaviour of arms up in the air, childish. There's no other word for it. It's a childish behaviour. It's not my fault, it's your fault. When in reality, you are a professional footballer for X amount of years.
00:07:36
Speaker
You've played, you've done warm ups, you've trained in boots, you know what boots to wear, you know what the ground is like. You've played in England for a long time actually. Yeah, you've played all over. But you've played in England for a long time and you've played all over the country as well in the sense of it's gone up to Newcastle for the games, he's gone here, he's gone there, wherever he may have been. So he's seen different grounds so he would have known what the ground is like to kind of wear to wear.
00:07:57
Speaker
And, um, but anyway, listen, these are mine or two, these are minors to kind of consider. But if we'd lost two nil, we would be not really know. Well, I mean, yeah, you say minors, but I mean, the way that again, that quick collapse at the beginning, it was, it was a bit, it was a bit out of nowhere really, considering how good Chelsea have played in the in the past few, uh, well, this season, this whole season that played really well. So it was, it was just a big, big shock. And I'm thinking, right. Well, you know, even at like a burnabout or a, and or a new camp, you know what I mean? You're literally at Tottenham stadium.
00:08:28
Speaker
like trophies have never entered that place ever. So there is literally nothing around there like a barrier for you not to perform. And yeah, I'm watching it live. That's what it feels like. But again, I watched the highlights and I was saying, like, did I miss anything alive? And I think this is the one thing I miss was we were putting bodies forward to try and do the triangles and beat their press. But once the ball got lost, we could not be depressed, obviously, because then we had players the other side of the ball.
00:08:53
Speaker
you know, because once Kukarela lost the ball to Kolesevski, our CDMs were behind Kolesevski, running back towards our goal. So I think because of the slip up, that's what lost us the kind of those first two goals, because we were, we dominated, we dominated everything apart from the score line for the first 20, 30 minutes until we got a goal, you know. Sancho's goal, by the way, quality, running a full pace and getting there.
00:09:16
Speaker
getting the power into it. But anyway, listen, since we started on Chelsea, let's begin from the start. Where do we begin? Now I'm joking aside. and But quality finished. And I was surprised by the way he started again, because I thought he's probably going to go with Noni Madawake and Pedro Neto, because he seems to favor Nonny. But although there was an interview that came out, he said, I like Nonny. He's excellent. He can this, he can that. However, currently he's not training as well as he should. And therefore that's why he's not in the team. Well, there you go. I mean, what else what else do you want the manager to say? That's pretty much him saying like,
00:09:49
Speaker
um his attitude is awful. So, you know, it's, it's pretty, it's pretty clear to be honest, but yeah. And then the thing is with my waker, you can kind of tell that he has, or he may have a bit of an attitude problem, just the way that he throws himself about on the pitch. And I don't mean like physically throwing himself, but just the way that he, he, you know, he runs around or he plays his game. It just feels a bit,
00:10:11
Speaker
of like, you know, ah look at me. i'm I'm playing for Chelsea and I'm, I'm the first winger sort of thing. You know, maybe he's just reading too much into it, but that's the kind of vibe I get from him. And every time he plays badly, you know, he just sort of like, you know, that there is no confidence in what he does. So yeah, I think, I think I'd probably agree with Mariska to be honest with you. Yes, you may get your a goal every now and again on like a quick little you know burst or golden patch that he has. But yeah, I don't think, I don't think that's good enough.
00:10:39
Speaker
That's not good enough for a team to maintain. So, so yeah, it's a bit, a bit, a bit of an issue that maybe, maybe shouldn't, you know, I don't think it's going to go any further than, you know, maybe it's going to become a huge thing. either I think he'll probably get played next game or he'll come have some
Chelsea Team Insights
00:10:56
Speaker
sort of effect on the game. but this is what we've been missing. We've been missing a manager to come out and just say, you know, call it as it is. He called it last time when we played against Leicester that night. He threw his arms up in the air, looked disappointed for not playing. He said, I don't know why he's disappointed. He's not performance. He's not, why is he expecting to stay on the pitch? ah And secretly this time he said he's not trading very well. So he's, to be fair, since that hat trick that he cut out wolves, he's, he's, don't get me wrong, he scored and assisted, but not as much as I was expecting him.
00:11:23
Speaker
And then, because he's been a bit of a greedy one um in front of goal and he's so left footed. I'm not slating him at all. long time been graing He's put some decent performances in, but yeah, just something there. And you know what? The squad is there. Like rotate the squad, put different players in. Neto and Sancho has been doing really well as wingers. Cole Palmer's been Cole Palmer. of course a stack What can you say about that kid? Like honestly, he's got balls of steel. They try that Penneker. What's it called? Penneker?
00:11:53
Speaker
Yeah, it was just wow, just wow. He did have that chance in the first half, I think, where he just completely missed the ball. Yeah, that's my topic. This is not one night. I saw that happen. I was like, this is not meant to be. And then obviously he did what he did. You know, like he, what I liked is we were fearless in midfield as well. Lovey had a really good game. Players were pressing him and I think it did a Cruyff turn and he took two players out of the pitch. Enzo Fernandez was running forward with it.
00:12:21
Speaker
One thing that I would like to see next time is to take it to the next level is not too many touches on the ball. That one touch pass in, so you don't have to wait. You know Sancho's free. Get it out your feet straight there, but get it out your feet and that sort of position your body in a sense so that the ball just goes straight. If you're left footed, it goes straight to the left side and you can hit it. you know like You don't have to take a touch. You just position yourself so you can hit it first time for that pass in. you should tell that to, uh, to Nico Jackson, because again, there was a, there was a moment, I think it was in the second half before he was taken off. I think you got a yeah because it called drama it' a good counter. Great counter. And it's like, how do you make the wrong decision on two options? Like you are two options that left and right.
00:13:03
Speaker
sort of makes up the pictures it was to lose a on yeah he also lose that the third secret option i think I think he was trying to rely on his pace and obviously when he got beat by Vandiver on the ball and for the ball, sorry, I think he kind of reverted a little bit to maybe trying to take a touch and do a bit of skill and do something. but But if still he was there, he kept defenders thinking, he kept defenders guessing, and kept them back so they don't think like we can't give Nico too much space. But overall I was a bit disappointed with his performance. I would like to have seen him get a goal, not for my FPL, but just get a goal in general. yes I've got him on my FPL as well. everybody else as well i think i think general so Real quick on FPL, I think you did quite you've done quite well this week. I think you're the highest scorer.
00:13:44
Speaker
um and because you got you' copied you copied your boy Palmer, didn't you? I've been Palmer, I had Bruno, but obviously I was hoping Salah and all them would have played, but obviously that got cancelled because i I was disappointed to be last and then forced and then make my way up again. So you you currently, you wow, you are currently five points away from me, by the way. I've had everyone who played for you because i' the and so I've got um obviously apart from Salah, who was my captain. So I think that's, there's quite a chunk of points right there that, you know, one goal would make the difference. and But everyone and else has played and I'm literally, so me and Lee
00:14:23
Speaker
me and Lee are actually joined second right now on the same points and 20 points behind top. So it's, do you know what? It's actually turned out to be a very good FBL. Well, I don't think I'm in the title race. So I think I'm still quite, five points away, five points away. So, you know, you're awesome in this case, you're awesome in this case, mate. So what was it?
00:14:47
Speaker
Well, sorry. Yeah. so you So you're right. I think with, uh, with, with Chelsea today, which else is it apart from the but say 15 minutes, 10, 15 minutes, they had a bit of a wobble, something like that. After that, it would have been very surprising that if Maresco didn't make any sort of, you know, any adjustments to his, to his tactics. And and I think he did that to be honest with you, because obviously clearly either that or Spurs really just spurs this so much that they, you know,
00:15:17
Speaker
which mid johnson but but I think we overran the midfield a little bit, but and as we run in the midfield, because he dropped Quesado into that CDM from right back to CDM, a bit like what Arteta has been doing with Thomas Parti. He starts as a right back, but realistically he's going to be a CDM when we're on the ball and have extra people forward and so on. But the problem that we had was whenever they cleared the ball out and they pressed us, there was nobody on the right-hand side.
00:15:39
Speaker
The center back, to the gap between the two center backs, Baddysheel Colville was so wide that once we lost the ball, they could not close the gap quick enough. The keeper is shocking with his feet. yeah The keeper is shocking with his feet. And to play that formation where you try to use the keeper as an extra center back, which I saw happen today, Colville had the ball keeper took Baddysheel's position, Baddysheel went to right back. And you look on paper, you think, oh, that's really clever. That's really, really good.
00:16:04
Speaker
But you need somebody who can play with their feet. like he Sanchez panics, he can't do it. And then he looks at the defender as if they made the wrong decision. And the defender's like, why did you even give it to me? I've got him on my back. like He's literally on me. like Why would you give me the ball?
00:16:18
Speaker
see So but someone like, uh, someone like, uh, David Ryan would be perfect in that Chelsea set up because obviously he can play with his feet and he does a similar role at the Arsenal anyway, like a sweeper defender keeper slash, you know, well, him, there's plenty of like, obviously if the people are going to go that way, you'd think that it's a city who's been excellent with the other players. They've been other ones, but I'd like to see what this, you know, I can't pronounce, isn't it?
00:16:41
Speaker
the goalkeeper who's on the B team. I call it the B team because it's effectively the B team for conference league and so on. But he's been quite good, the Norwegian, or is he the Finnish guy, Danish, and he's one of them. He's one of the Scandi countries. He's somewhere from the Scandinavian countries. yeah and yes nothing wrong with that but he was quality he played against he played against ah so Southampton when we won there as well we've been scoring goals we're like if you look at it now like a tackle we've been scoring but it's the problem that I have is always defense and we're leaking goals and most of the times we're leaking goals because of mistakes yeah and nine times out two goals I mean, okay, look, you can probably put that in a, in a vacuum really, you know, that, that's sort of the two slip ups that led to the goals, but you know, it's still a mistake because at the end of the day, it is still a human mistake, which was made by Kookarela in terms of the decisions that he made in terms of footwear. So maybe Puma puma is not the right ones, mate. You know what I'm saying? It's like the Bridgestone Pirelli Michelin situation. You're saying that you have just cost Puma stock to plummet.
00:17:43
Speaker
boom Yes. I actually used to own pumas as well, but you know, the, the bottom of the rubber, the the rubber just went real quick as if I was racing around Abu Dhabi. So we'll get to that. Of course we will. Of course. Well, look, Rick, um, yeah, second half
Match Reflections and Surprises
00:18:00
Speaker
I was impressed with Chelsea because again, they, they sort of found the right balance between defending and counter-attacking, but at the same time Spurs just looked dangerous when they went forward. You know, with Son Koleszewski going up there, obviously Madison didn't come until the end anyway, so he didn't really do much, but just them two in general are absolutely fantastic, and Solanke as well.
00:18:22
Speaker
You know, I was happy with Dominique. Absolutely. Ex-Chelsea Academy as well. So, you know, like he's, he's we went to Liverpool, left Chelsea, Liverpool, Bournemouth and so on. I'm, I'm, I'm happy he got his goal. I'm disappointed he was against my team, but I'm happy he got a goal today. And for FPL, FPL as well, of course. You know the reason. Quality going forward. They were really, really good. And I think Maresca saw the danger of that and he said, all right, let me bring Gusto on. Cause he had to bring a right back, a right back who plays in that position rather than some makeshift right back.
00:18:51
Speaker
And yeah, no, I was impressed. i was It was a decent game to watch. And I put it on chat as well, saying, like, if you're in neutral, this is a great game to see. Because lots of people hate Spurs. Well, you know they've done that to themselves. It's because of the fans, really. I'm sure it's a lovely football team. I'm sure they have you know some sort of history. I'm i' no doubt whatsoever. But the fans are just unbearable arse clowns. So it is what it is. But yeah, so look i was like I said, you know after watching that and the way that Chelsea came back granted against a Tottenham team, you know, whatever, but you can't help but feel that it is absolutely wide open in terms of, you know, title right now. but It just is, it just, it doesn't matter if Liverpool, even if they were just nine points ahead at this point, it doesn't matter. It's still wide open. Anything can happen. I agree. i that' all right open
00:19:43
Speaker
I'm still on that all saying of it's livables to lose really because they're so far ahead. I agree. I don't agree. as it ah as a a ks isza Is Afghan this year, this season? Is it in February 25? Because it's usually a fall on an odd year. Not too sure. Not too sure. They're going to lose Mohammed Saleh.
00:20:01
Speaker
And if that happens, baby, why are we going? There's obviously, you know, that's the thing you got to get. You chose to lose Nicholas Jackson, which he was thinking, Oh no, maybe, but Christian, so Chris uncool can come on. Christopher uncool can come on, you know? So we're not too bad in that sense. Yeah. Decent, decent player for sure. And, um, so let' let's just obviously hope that the worst happens to Liverpool and all of the players get injured.
00:20:24
Speaker
That's the simplest way, really. Rather than working out when Afcon is, you know, looking at this Google search business, I'd just rather wish that all their players got injured, you know, make it easier for everyone to ah to track, so. cop and fe too just love it away but that's nothing little i and i think I think with Liverpool, though, like, they they don't look great, but they are waiting for ball matches and dropping points at Newcastle as well.
00:20:48
Speaker
which is great. I thought, to be honest with you, I thought they we were going to have another draw against Everton. Last day of this, I thought Everton players would have been right up for it, would it be in the last Merseyside? That would be algorithm. But we weren't to be, weren't to be. There's only so much, there's only so much like a situation ah that can help a football team. And then you have to think, oh, wait it's Everton led by Sean Dyche.
00:21:07
Speaker
I think they would have defended really well. No, I'm sure they would have. I'm sure they would have. I'm sure they would have. Last year, 1-0. I haven't done a short dice. Beat them last year, 1-0. So maybe this year could have been something different. But no, I think but it wasn't it's an interesting interesting it's an interest interesting title race this year. See to yourself to hit some form and do something because they just look shocked. And I can't believe it. I thought they're back winning 3-0 at the week, midweek. Or was it 4-0 that they won? And then they scored for 2-2.
00:21:34
Speaker
whatever it was. Yeah. But he's called three goals. And then now they drew two, two against crystal policy way. And I thought, Oh, forget city. yeah you know it yeah Is that team just to fuck up accumulators? That's what city's there for you back seats. They're going to win. And then they draw and lose. And then just to fuck up with humidity. yeah It messes up and even the most like, you know, rarest find that you're like in terms of betting that you think, Oh yeah, this team will be this team. You get it, but it's city lose.
00:21:58
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, it's just like, God damn it. Yes. I want to kill them all. But, uh, hypothetical question. I want to hear your opinion on this cause I'll, for my mind made up if Chelsea win the league, I call Palmers on the farm. That is on. Would you say called Palmer for Ballon d'Or? Yeah.
00:22:17
Speaker
Yeah, I think when the league, because conference league is not part of it. If they win the league, which is the one that counts. I know the FA cup is great. I think so. Yeah. I think so. I don't think there's any bit. There's been anyone that great out there. I mean, let me your mile and stuff like that. And maybe he'll, he'll probably be top contender, but you know, as far as everything's going this season, like the Harlins and stuff like that, obviously I don't think he's going to be up there. Vinnie, I don't, I don't even think he's going to get voted again, to be honest with you.
00:22:44
Speaker
no no just from the bullshit, just from the bullshit that came up and, you know, him playing the victim cards and, you know, blah, blah, blah, whatever crap. It's like, no, just get a fucking grip, man. Grow the fuck up. And you did the wrong thing. All right. Like you used, you use the race card the wrong way around this time. So yeah, it didn't work this time. Yeah. It didn't work this time. I'm afraid. So, you know, try out and next time, but, uh, but yeah, yeah, I think so. I genuinely think so. And, uh, there's again,
00:23:07
Speaker
The same could be said on the reverse of that is if Arsenal do win the league, then you've got the suckers and the older guards who can't potentially be yeah up there because the yeah game changers, Cole Palmer game changer, you know, that's why these people at Le Mignon mile game changes. That's why these people get voted and win. That's why I just don't feel Roger was that guy because Roger is not a game changer. It just isn't.
00:23:28
Speaker
right now, because I'm sorry, right? But it's not the, it's not the team's fault that the manager is incompetent without a CDM like a rogerage. You know what I mean? That's okay. We'll just find your Achilles heel, mate. That's it. We'll just destroy your CDM and then you can't do anything about it. Clearly, clearly you can't, you know, that's it. You're locked up same as Barcelona buskets. You lock him up. Nothing would have happened. Yeah. messy who you know I mean, it doesn't matter at that point because there's no one, there's no one pulling the strings. So again,
00:23:54
Speaker
Yeah. I just, I just don't think, I don't think, uh, like obviously work' work on on the Roger thing, I just don't think that was the right decision to give him it. to be honest with you. I hear what you're saying. For me, I think they just gave it to him because he won. He won the treble. There was nobody else. They're usually trying to give it to players who win trophies. And then they just thought, oh, that's one of the reasons Georgina got picked that year when they were like Georgina for Ballon d'Or. Won the Euro, literally won the Champions League with Chelsea. And everyone was like, oh, okay, Georgina, the best player in the world. But I'm realistic. Like, no. Well,
Potential and Achievements in Football
00:24:29
Speaker
okay. I mean, then you, they should have something along the lines of, you know, every, every month or every week or whatever it is, it should be given out little grades or awards to players across Europe, like proper, like proper stuff. Do you know what I mean? Proper way for rankings and stuff. And then by the end, it's like, well, okay, but this guy's won 15 man of the matches. So that means that he was a clear game changer in these matches. Do you know what I mean? at least 10 of them. There's no reason, you know, there must be a reason why he got voted 15 times. I'm saying so. So that's, that's the type of stuff that maybe they should be looking at where it's not just a random vote because all he won the treble. Yeah. All right. Nice one. But so did the Grealish. He won a treble, but he was, he wouldn't class him as a game changer in that man's city side. Would you? So that's, you know, it's, it's a bit, it's a bit daft the way that they, they decide the ball on door, to be honest. I think it's, it's too much. It's too based on team performance rather than individuals, which is like, well, didn't the individual is winning it. The team's already won whatever. That's fine. But now the individual, whoever did the best, you know what I'm saying? No, no, I get 100 percent. It just makes it a bit more a bit more interesting.
00:25:41
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the team want to treble because, you know, well, yeah, because they had a De Bruyne, they had silvers, they had the gundaguns in there. who They had everyone in there. They all chipped in. Do you see what I'm saying? So why didn't the gundagun or De Bruyne win it? But fucking Rodry did. Are you kidding me?
00:25:54
Speaker
anyways whatever right um it is what it is money being paid standard you can quote me yes i'm just going to apologize to you right now because editing this video in this this episode is going to be a nightmare with a coffin fit that happened i don't know if you've been saying because i'm let's go into this i do apologize but i don't know if want to continue or not but because i'm trying to cough into something so it doesn't make it you can muffle it even as i'm talking um You take ride take a time right or take your time. Don't even worry about it. It'll be edited out. But yeah, look, Rick, if you don't have anything else to to add on Chelsea, we'll ah you know we'll we'll have a little chat about my team about the not about North London. Yeah, the red side of it.
00:26:38
Speaker
Well, we seemed to own North London right now. We went to Spurs, 1-4-1, 4-2, 4-3. Can't even... What did we even... I'm joking. What did we even win by, man? By the way, can I just say how the story... Wait, wait, wait. Hold on a second. Before we end up, now I'm taking the mic. Before we finish, right? On Chelsea, not before we finish completely. I've watched the last goal. And again, I watched the highlights again to be like, did I miss anything? Jean Felix lets Madison go by him. So easy for that third goal.
00:27:06
Speaker
for that final goal by Spurs. Yeah. Yeah. Squaring up to each other. You know, he's going to go inside, you know, not inside. So you know, he's going to go down the line to the bar line and look to go inside for a penalty or something. So Felix is like, yeah, whatever, mate. And I'm like, no, not whatever, mate. Like, this is your chance for you to try and get into the manager's ideas of I can start the next game for you, Gaffer. And not with that attitude, not with that kind of like not at all. just And he's just made me think like, This is just pointless. This this is absolutely pointless. Have a Jean Phoenix in the team. Keep him in the conference league. Keep him in the early rounds. He should be team right there. That's what that is. That's literally team right there. So, um, the poor man's Griezmann. That's who he is. He's the, uh, wish.
00:27:53
Speaker
like way love do he is speaking of Did you see that guy who plays for, is it Brent? My wife, right? when we watch that Because they played Arsenal a few games beforehand. So we were watching that match and that's the first thing she said. She was like, oh my God, that's Grealish but from Wish, literally. And then it came on me afterwards. I was like,
00:28:14
Speaker
She's on top of it. she She knows what's going on, bruv. She's more astute than I give her credit for. You know, she's out here talking to me about tactics and shit. It's like, what? She loves it. What happened? what up Yeah. Honestly, she's like, oh, how am I doing this? Or have you been doing this? I'm like, have you been listening to the pod? Or are you just you go straight off the dome, spitting straight off the top of the dome? Love it. Anyway, love it. Anyways. Come on. I'm done on Chelsea. You know what I mean? Happy with the performance. i don't want to I still don't think we're in the title, by the way. Very quickly. I thought they were to title i switching simply because of how, uh, how, how easy we can be turned over. But we'll see. I think if we, by end of January, not January, by end of Christmas, if we're still where we are second, third, second, third, or joint, second, joint, third, whatever, you which are not third, joint, third joint second with with you boys. Uh, and then I, then I would admit that, okay, we're in it now. Let's go and win it.
00:29:06
Speaker
you know what I mean? But for now, I'm just happy where we are. Hopefully we just get top four this year. That's, that's my main goal this year is top four. My main goal is to win it of course, but I mean, I'd be very happy with top four. It's a realistic goal. Yeah, obviously. But, um, um, yeah, I think when we were approaching the halfway point, so I think you could probably start yeah but yeah we yeah i mean like dad dreaming matches or something like that. So yeah it's always, it's always nice to have a little hope, a little faith in it. And you know, I'm an Arsenal fans. So that's all we have. You get me? I've got got loads of that. I've got loads of that to spare by the way. So if you want me to send some hope and faith your way, please do ask. And the PO box is, you know what I'm saying? It's all good. It's all good. Look, look, speaking, speaking of my team, speaking of Arsenal, um I don't really want to talk too much about them because
Arsenal's Challenges and Strategies
00:29:55
Speaker
most of the stuff that I'm going to say I've said before, and in terms of performance,
00:29:59
Speaker
Um, we are doing very, very well. And, uh, today, just like Chelsea, we just started off very, very badly and you know, conceived the goal in the first nine, 11 minutes, whatever the hell it was.
00:30:13
Speaker
yeah him. And as he, he literally will go down as the strikers that score against Arsenal with the, caminos with the drug buzz. Do you know what I'm saying? Like that is the guy who will always go like with the body, he's with the canes. He is there on that hall of fame of strikers that score against Arsenal. And he did it again. So Yeah. And this is the third, it's, it's the third time that we haven't managed to be full. And by the way, in the last two seasons, including this one, this time we haven't yet. So must you always beat or one loss, one draw last season, and we're going to draw the season. So we have not beat them in two years and they're becoming quickly becoming like a, you know, like one of those teams where we're just sort of frightened. back like like ah like a touttenum to city solving you know, like sit, yeah. like toten to So right so yeah it's, it's frustrating. And, and the thing is we follow them, you know, they're not a bad team. They haven't been a bad team for a very long time. They've got some good players. They've got some good tactics. Marco Silva, isn't it still like, I haven't missed out on it yet. So I respect him as a manager. I think he's really good. He's, you know, maybe not ah a winning a title winning manager, but I think he's very,
00:31:25
Speaker
capable of of keeping a team in the top 10, you know, sneaking up to a, to a top six, like a cheeky little conference league or whatever it is. Just cheeky one, obviously. Yeah. Not a proper one. Just cheeky conference league, man. Come on now. Don't go crazy. So yeah, it's every time a match like this with Fulham comes along, it's never a case of Oh, this is going to be easy. This is an easy win or whatever. It is not the very tricky team because they lock up and they've got place to hurt you, which him and us has proven to do on many occasions. So for for me, you know, watching it, watching it today,
00:32:00
Speaker
Yeah, poor start. Um, like I said, good golf by him. And as you just, you know, just snuck it past the keeper. What was your starting 11? Cause I heard your genius made a start today. So I'm sure. So Georgina started, um, I believe that's because he wants a little bit more control. And to be fair, um, our right backs in Ben white,
00:32:21
Speaker
Um, and California obviously for the left back. So that's why timber was playing on the left and party was playing on the right. So, you know, move party out and he wanted a bit more control. And that's what judging your junior office, but the problem, the problem that I found with your genius on a couple of occasions is when that guy puts his head down to run, it's like, it's like he's going backwards. It's game over. It is game over. It doesn't matter who's running down that wing.
00:32:47
Speaker
it is game over. And he did that a couple of occasions. And luckily it looks, awful you put your head down. That's it. It's like, right. You're not going to get more speed like that. I don't know what you're trying to do. Trying to break aerodynamic, you know, protocol. Cause I could still to this day visualize him running down the wing when Spurs were having a new stadium built and Sartan ran past him yeah on the wings. Excuse me. And, uh,
00:33:12
Speaker
I was just like, what's he doing? And honestly, it's like, as if someone passed him as if he wasn't even there, but he was stationary. His limbs, ah his arms are moving really fast, but his legs don't. He's body game moving. I know. I know. And he did that again on two occasions today. And luckily nothing came from it. But other than that, obviously, if he's not forced to face his own goal and defend,
00:33:38
Speaker
which is a weird thing to say for a defensive midfielder, you know what I mean? It's a very weird thing. But if he, if he's not asked to do that, he's very good. Do you know what I mean? He is excellent. If he's not asked to do that, like I said, caveat is unfortunately in the game of football, you will be asked to do that because that is your position. So Yeah, it's a I found that hilarious But I think that was probably the only reason and if Ben white or but sorry not by my cuz obviously he's had surgery but if Calipari was fit or a Tommy Astor was fit then timber would have been on the right and I mean Zinchenko play and then timber on the right just like he did against my United Zinchenko played didn't against my you know, I think you got a knock He got a knock was you mean he got a knock? I Think you've got a knock, bro. I think I'm laughing. I'm coughing and it's going to make it. I'm just thinking of you really. continue i'm sorry and that I can't help it. I can't help it. It is literally a laughable situation. What do you want me to say? It's like asking about Reese James. Where was he? Oh, you know, I'm sorry. All right. It's, it's, it's natural. It's a natural thing. It happens. We've got our own problems. We've got our own problems and fall back. So, you know, it's not really, yeah. Like,
00:34:51
Speaker
trying to think is he just there to when college you he comes out he's like how injured oh that's a good point do you know what that actually works out very very nicely because you know but was not GTA sorry was it black ops 6 7 6.6 believe was And then all of a sudden he's injured. It's brilliant. um Look at his YouTube channel. Does he have a YouTube channel? Maybe he's got some videos. I'm making more money on Twitch than I am when he is. So let me move, run down the wing, James, run down the wing, Reese. Come on now. Yeah. Well, that's it. Yeah, literally. That's it. That's what I said. But, but yeah, so I think that that was the whole reason why, why Georgina was, was there. And like I said, he usually he's
00:35:34
Speaker
85% of the time that he plays starts, you know, he is very good at what he does and what he's asked to do, but. Yeah, that other side of it, which is actually quite a big chunk. I'm saying 85%, but it's a big chunk of defending that needs to sort out. That 50% is significant. it's It's huge. It's huge. so But obviously, that's why you know Rice gets involved. And luckily for us, Rice is the type of bloke that you know he runs up and down. And he's a nice guy. He's he's a nice geezer. He'll help Georgina out in defense. Rice is a great sign for you guys. that kind of stuff. Oh, fantastic signing. Um, and it's not even just, like I said, it's not even just the, the defending that he is able to do, but even then corner deliveries are just absolutely on point. I know people say Saka, you know, he's got great delivery, but you look at race of delivery, they are more precise and more frequent than, uh, then Saka's, uh, you know, he's got this ability that just sometimes you think,
00:36:30
Speaker
If everyone just leaves it, it doesn't touch it when it goes in the box, right? It's actually going to go in. You know what I mean? It has that arching effect, and then you have that. It's just fantastic, it really is. Well, I watched an interview of him very quickly on rights, and he was saying that he asked him, is he practicing?
00:36:48
Speaker
And he said, not really. Of course we do trade it and so on. He says, I'm not doing extra on it. I just seem to know how much to put on it to go from post and how much I need to put on it for it to go back post. So it's and's yeah it's it's a gift. It's a gift. He's got that like Beckham had it. You know, when you look across his backside and all these Carlos had it, Roberto Carlos could ping a ball from one area to the other and make an incredible delivery.
00:37:11
Speaker
So Figo is another one, but yeah, Declan Rice has got a very very good cross on him. very I think it's just a cross, I think it's generally a good passer of the ball. He can show us his end-long from the matches that I've seen and sometimes I'll be honest I've only seen highlights which is probably why I see Declan Rice pinging the ball around because it's a highlight. way does it well it does matter it's mean it's it's it's like a comp complete storie it's already football ah It's a compulsory pinger of the ball you know for the match of the highlights that's why. usually It's part of his contract, it's part of his contract. when you sound
00:37:46
Speaker
Yeah. Every, every match we needed one finger and that's it. That's what they call it. You know, they they text him that actually saying finger. And he's like, Oh, I'm on it, bro. But yeah. So very, very good. Obviously very good player. Yeah. Shit. We know that about Declan race. It's not like we're talking about anything brand new, but, but for me, what I'm, what I'm really, really enjoying and just absolutely loving to see.
00:38:07
Speaker
is the partnership between Odegard and Saka. I think it is just a beautiful one to watch. We had Sanchez and Ozil, obviously, you know, not so long ago. Then before that we had, we had a burcap and Henri, we had Henri and Perez. It's it honestly, for me, I love to see that because again, it reminds me of playing football with your mates.
00:38:30
Speaker
You know, if me and you were on a team, which we have done many times before, five or seven side or whatever it is, you know, we've got a connection that yeah not many people on that pitch have, like, you know, well to look or an eyebrow raise or, you know, we just ah ah i speak in Albanian, you know. to usually confused lucky we are usually confused But you can't do that. You're like i in the Premier League, you go and tell fucking the Spanish players, lads, lads, lads, lads, lads. It's Stoke City here. We don't talk that shit here. We don't talk Spanish here, mate.
00:38:58
Speaker
I don't remember signing anything going into into the five and side pitch or seven and side pitch to say that I can't speak my own language. What I remember is me paying. That's what I remember. I remember. be paid and i Also, sir, if you do push me on this, I will actually get you done for racism. So take your pick, whichever one you want. Right. Good. Thank you very much. but You're right, though. It's nice to see that. And that's all this is going on. I watched the Man United game as well. SACOM and all the guys just seem to kind of be of the same thought as if somebody is controlling them.
00:39:26
Speaker
And telegraphic it yeah, wonderful, wonderful understanding. Really, really clever. And you throw in a bit of habits in there, which all the garden habits are actually very close friends outside of outside of the pitch sort of thing, you know. So they do hang around. From what I've seen anyway, obviously, again, I'm not stuck in mine. I'm not stuck in mine, all right? I'm not standing. What is this one doing? I'm not standing. say like like From what I've seen on on social media.
00:39:53
Speaker
i'm I'm sorry. All right. I just drive at past. He's got a massive window. I can see inside. What do you want me to do? Close your blinds. Close your blinds. Martin, come on, man. Stop, stop me from standing on you. But, uh, yeah, so it's, it's, it's nice to have these little relationships on the pitch and off the pitch because it's just a bond. You know, again, I know it sounds very rudimentary of them, of us going, Oh, well this, when they sat around having a cup of tea or whatever it is, they're talking about some tactic. Yes.
00:40:20
Speaker
Yes, that's what they do. That's exactly what they do. You know what I mean? They're maybe not watching the matches back, but that's exactly what they're doing. like Oh, do you remember that match that we played yesterday? Oh, you made that run down the left, make it down the right. now gb Whatever it is. you upset and the try So again, it's, it's those little things and you know, football for, it took a while to realize, but football is a psychological game as well as a physical game. So, but it took a long time for that to to be realized. And that's why obviously you get these old pundits going, Oh, back in the eighties. Yes. Back in the eighties, you were all pissed, mate.
00:40:51
Speaker
You were literally fucking pissed coming straight out of the pub but having a couple of pints in the in the dressing room and that's it play literally going to play football with with your Sunday pub team or whatever the fuck yeah yeah So, know, that's why you don't you know, like most of them don't really care for this side of football, you know, psychology, like, oh, just put your boots on me and go run down there. No, it doesn't work like that, right? If you want to be winners, if you want to be literal winners, then you need to think of it differently. If you've got to think of something else that kind of has that edge or to have that it perhaps a slight advantage into something. Excuse me, slight advantages.
00:41:24
Speaker
part the ship partnership partnership and obviously for Arsenal more specifically is the corners that that they've developed. Like you said, are some kind of difference. Incredible. It's the thing is, the thing is hises me yes it does. it And it pisses a lot of people off. And, and this is what I don't understand is because corners have always been there. Like they've been part of the game. and part of the beginning like Unfortunately, unfortunately, it's it's different you know different managers will will utilize them differently or not utilize them at all. And then maybe they just go through the corner training as, you know, just go into the motions. All right. yeah Yeah. Stick it in the box. Someone jump up high and see if we can get it in. tall All right. stickle on the to la Who's a tall one? Who's a tall one? and and know I think it's fantastic. I love it. I was having a chat with one of my mates today during the match, actually, made up for a bit and we had a coffee and we were just talked and then I was like, talk to him. I don't know if you heard that joke and it was made. I think it was Thursday night. They were talking to different fans. I think he was a Chelsea fan. and he referred to Arsenal as Torque City yeah and then an Arsenal fan came on afterwards and gave it a bit of a lippy to Gabby about ah
00:42:27
Speaker
Villa, and then the joke became Rory Delabes been seen at the training ground, Tony Pulis is helping out, et cetera. You know, like i have anything to do related to Stokes. But I was thinking to it, I was like, I would love for that to be Chelsea. I would love for Chelsea to be every time we get a corner to be like, yeah, we'll probably go an 80% chance of scoring here. All teams, every single team in that league, every other league would have won. No, no, I get you. I get you. to week Just for my team. But I can, you're right. Every team would want it. Why not? and like Every single team.
00:42:53
Speaker
A dead wall special is to just come into it and just bang it in and just should give you give you the 80% chance of scoring, 100% out of the all day. The difference is like for people obviously who may not know this but Stoke City, right? Stoke City have never ever been any title contenders. And I don't even think they've got any league titles in the history. Maybe one random one somewhere along the line, whatever it is. I'm sure somebody will tell us in the comments. The thing is, yeah, these comments, the thing is with Stoke City when they would do in the corners is because that's the only tactic that they had because they had nothing else. yeah tony corners are The long throw in. Yeah, of course. The lap. Again, that that is, that is the guy who used to do that. And
00:43:32
Speaker
And that's why we're getting compared to Stoke City. However, the difference being that we've actually got players who will score and have scored and who are scoring through open play. Do you know what I mean? When was the last time you scored through open play, by the way? That's because I'm taking the pace. Again, we've established that I'm a big fan of the corners and stuff. When was the last time you scored through open play? I think when, when the Man United was got two of the corners, the game before that, the game before that. five Yes. On a kasaka Scott open play. 22 goals, 22 extra goals from corners on top of what what we already Scott. All day, every day. And you know what? All the other fans who are bitching about it. Like, look, I understand you're mad. I get it. no But at the same time, it's good. That's the only thing we're mad about. But at the same time, it's like, okay, surely there is enough video evidence out there to go and review how I'll take corners. Like there was against man United. and why yeah
00:44:26
Speaker
Yeah. I bet. Please. Yeah. If you got, sorry, if you got a defender like McGuire, then unfortunately you stand up. That is my favorite video that I've seen this week of him defended when they, yeah, when there's literally no one around him. He's still out. Like, Oh my God. Travolta, John Travolta meme where he sort of like walks into a room and he looks around like spinning. like ah And that's literally what it reminded me of. That's what it reminded me of, because it's like, dude, do you put your arms out to feel if there's anyone around you? Everyone just ghosted you, fam. And then the balls are in the balls at the back of the net, and his hands are still out. And when he feels the balls at the back of the net, his hands come down and be like, oh, what the hell just happened? What is this guy doing? I'm sure he reacted in such a way where he's like, oh. at all. What are you guys doing? It's like, what are you doing? What are you doing? It's hilarious. Obviously my brother-in-law, he's a Man United fan. So yeah, I, yeah, he loved it. He's a Man United fan. I'm sure he's a great guy, but yeah, it's a Man United fan, him and all the rest of them. Fuck him. Oh, fuck him all. Was it Ruben Interim? I love that, by the way.
00:45:36
Speaker
Ruben interim. Again, the internet wins all day every once in a game. So, so look, so look, yeah, with, with the corners, with the corners, right? Like I said, it's something like with against my United, um, when you look back, I think it was the second goal, I believe, or the first, I can't remember. Basically California runs alongside Gabrielle. he's blocking off the other players. Obviously the, the, the, the Miami native defense, he's blocking them off. So he used the sort of like the Oreo in between that, that little, sorry, he's the cream in between that little Oreo, right? You get me. And so that's, that was one thing that I've never seen before. Like I've never seen that run. It was basically run like an American football tactic.
00:46:18
Speaker
Do you know what I mean? And that's, that's, and I was like, Oh my God. Yeah. Mind blown. Like, why wouldn't you not not use it like that? yeah You know what I mean? And there was, there was a, I think it was one of the commentators. I can't remember which match it was, but he said something like, Oh, sorry. It was second race. Oh, he made up a lot of ground, like carrying the ball forward. Even though the ball like sort of went out, it said carried a lot of ground. And I was like, shit, that's American football. That is literally American football. That is what they yeah yeah yeah yeah make makeup ground. And I was like, huh?
00:46:48
Speaker
Now I can kind of understand why they call it football in America as well, because again, when you look at the tactics, they're kind of similar. Do you see what I'm saying? And that's exactly what I felt like I was watching. I was like, Oh my God, this guy's actually literally taken American coaches and he's, and they're showing him how to do this type of stuff. Do you know what I mean? Again, that was one instance working.
00:47:10
Speaker
It's working great. And Nicholas over, which is brilliant because the guy, I love the guy even more now because he pissed off Gary Neville because Gary Neville literally went, Oh, he's the most annoying block of football. That guy. And I'm like, I'm pretty sure you take that crown. You did the same. honestly You did the same thing against sporting. I think the week before, whoever you played before sporting and that gets united and nobody seems to have An explanation for it. I know there was one ex-footballer going by the name of Dean Saunders trying to explain it how not jumping off two feet and jumping off one foot and all just some boring explanation. A bit like a a James May with cars, but not even that interesting. That's tactics, probably. I don't know what the hell he's talking about. but oh me It was so boring. It was just like trying to listen to it. I think everybody started taking the piss out of it. But there's got to be somebody out there who just got to sit there because I'm sure there's a solution to defending it. Maybe go mankind. Don't let them run. If they run, you run.
00:48:01
Speaker
Absolutely. Do you know that? Create a circle around them. Create a circle around them, mate. Yeah, like literally do a circle around them and then just... And we're not touching them, ref. Because the thing is, they're running. You run with them. You run the circle around them. Then what are they going to do?
00:48:15
Speaker
but so well this is i'm just saying i was football in here but yeah like i'm sure somebody with a bit more credentials than what we have we've just en coaching back to this stuff can come up with a solution but so you're telling me you're telling me watching football for twenty five plus years or however long it's been that doesn't you know credit me with coaching buges is that what you're telling me is that you you are you waiting you are you e for b right now you are close to getting the job good I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying I need an invitation for that, please. I think if they go man tight, it might make it more difficult. Cause if key thing is for you guys again to get in a run and jump, rent somebody's jump stitch. There's enough space left for Gabriel or Saliba to to make that run and jump. Like you said, to get the hype, but yeah, once if you man tight,
00:49:02
Speaker
because then the other problem is Declan Rice's delivery like how how do you so stop that like because that delivery like you said if nobody touches it it goes in the back of the neck because the curve of the whips the the pace it's perfect teleised physics concepts but the thing is sorry if you look if you look at the way Arsenal take them corners from Saka to Rice, you know, one goes front post, the other one goes back post, right? Now, the thing is, there's enough evidence, again, there's enough video evidence out there to know what they're going to do because of how our players are lined up in the box. Do you know what I'm saying? If they're lined up closer to the front post, guess what, mate? It may be the front post that you need to look at, and vice versa, you know what I mean? So again, there's enough video evidence out there, and don't get me wrong, I hope none of none of these guys watching, by the way, like, I hope you all go blind. I don't care. But my, my point is that there's no reason for opposition teams and fucking pundits, childish pundits like a Gary Neville. Do you know what I mean? To, to react the way that he did. Oh, that's a shit corner that well, it wasn't, was it? Cause this God solved. kind of defeats your, your, your opinion there. So that's but i yes because hes he's a tool. He's a tool. So I don't really care. I don't really want to speak about him to be honest, because he just gets me really angry. But again, my point being in that there is no reason for them to get pissed off the wit to the point that they have, because again,
00:50:19
Speaker
do some research that there's a finite number of tactics that are Ted and Nicholas over can use when it comes to corners and set pieces. You know what I'm saying? Like there may be, there may be 17 he's using 10 of those, right? Work on those 10. Do you know what I'm saying?
00:50:38
Speaker
just watch the metallic one. I think it was last season when I started playing, started playing good. And again, there was maybe the corners right at the beginning. Do you remember when the pundits sort of slowed the match down and they were talking about order guard moving his socks up and down and you know, making signs and stuff like that. So again, that's fine. Brilliant. If that, if that's what they were doing against something different, but it's not illegal.
00:51:01
Speaker
You call it the dark arts, you call the dark arts all you want, but it's part of the game. That's not dark arts. that's You just try to get a message across to your team. Do you know what I mean? like they do that not all games Exactly. Exactly. It's like I said, it's psychological as well as physical game. That's what it is at the end of the day. So, so yeah, if Arsenal are taking advantage of the physical, of the psychological side of things, brilliant. Let them, let them crack on. And it's not going to be, it's only going to be a matter of time before the other teams catch up or find out what's going on. Do you know what I'm saying?
00:51:27
Speaker
And that that's why I get a little bit pissed off with the whole reaction because like, guys, it's out there. Literally me and you could spend two days watching the Arsenal corners from the past, from the season alone. And I'm pretty sure we can come up with some patterns. Do you know what I'm saying? Both arms go up. One arm goes up. Shit. Look at that. Maybe there's something there. Maybe there's some of them. bro yeah why you held no I'm just, I'm just, i'm I'm sorry. Like I said, my point being that no one should be that pissed off because it's not like they're using a secret code or anything like that. Just fucking work it out. You can clearly work it out. If they're shouting something at each other, guess what? The players that are on the pitch, go tell your coaches that I heard them shout Excelsior before the ball came in. Do you know what I'm saying? Whatever the hell it is. Go tell them that. Now there's a movie and the bar American football, I don't know what it's called. And this guy, this player brings his brother.
00:52:17
Speaker
into the locker room, training ground, and they're watching tape, as they refer to in over the pond, they're watching tape, so they're watching video analysis of a game and he says, he's gonna run it. The guy speaks and he's like, shut up, what are you talking about? He's like, look, F-22, he's gonna run the ball. Every time he took his top, he runs the ball. And then they're like, okay, play the game from last time, play the game from the game before, and the game before that, and the game before that. And he says, I'm just saying, and somebody goes, well-spotted kid. So what you're saying, the video's there,
00:52:43
Speaker
somebody just needs to sit down and do their homework. Yeah. Find out what's going on. Again, it may be a bit as a long code to decipher, but once you decipher that, that's it. You don't have to work on that anymore. Then you stop in, you stop in the team. Do you know what I'm saying? And then if you're, if you're Chelsea and you've just worked out how Arteta is doing this, guess what, mate? You don't need to show the other teams, like send them a manifesto and be like, Oh, this is how they do it. No, you just crack on. Crack on, you do the same thing, see if it works. Make tweaks. Again, that's how the game evolves. And try to beat that team at their own game. Exactly. Rick, the thing is, as much as I would love for arsenal Arsenal's corner tactics to go on like they have,
00:53:25
Speaker
Unfortunately, the game will evolve where all the teams are doing that. Maybe not next season, season after that, all the teams are going to evolve to ah do in that type of stuff. Like they did when Pep Guardiola started. He was like, you know, you know, inverting full backs to midfielders. All the teams are doing that. Yeah. So Chelsea, Liverpool all doing that. Like the bigger teams. Yeah. and I mean, so again, you use play with your feet, play with your feet. Yeah. Okay. He brought that in. Everyone started adapted to it because again, the game evolves. That's why city would so good right at the beginning because no other teams could come up with a solution. Yeah. With solution. Like how are they doing this? How are they moving the ball so fast? Like, Oh, we we can't give them that much space. Okay. Cool. Everything changes. It took a few years, but yeah everything change the game's evolving. The game's evolving. That's just the way that it's going to be. And, and um like I said, unfortunately for me as an Arsenal fan, this may go on for another three months, maybe, maybe for the rest of the season before someone catches up.
00:54:16
Speaker
Brilliant. That's great. Like I said, that's an extra 40 goals from corners. I'll take that all day long. Yeah. how those goals are game see else yeah yeah Yeah. You want to see goals and that's what you want to do. So all open the game without obviously giving too much to the opposition because, you know, my coaching badges.
00:54:32
Speaker
But yeah, that's ah that's how I feel about the whole corner thing and I made a note about it like, you know but After the Man United match. oh No, not a paragraph. We've been talking for about 15 minutes on corners. What do you mean? You made a note on it? Well, no, it was just Yeah, we yeah like i need to start putting these videos on the internet people need to see our face especially your face right now would you like way more I But did I write? I don't even know what I wrote. Oh, yeah. um Well, I did write at the end. I'm a room wanted to end it all. But, you know, that's that's how they you know that. So speak of bobin did you hear it right now? You said wanted to do it all. Did you watch that interview where he sounds like that interview. So it's that trading session, that clip. Yeah. he Sounds like a group like is it grew or something? It sounds like grew from the minions. Oh, that's it. Yeah, that's right. that's Yeah. Yeah. steve carella is it super that's its play Yeah. Yeah.
00:55:24
Speaker
Actually, it's too funny, man. But like, yeah, with Amorim, hilarious, hilarious. But yeah, sorry, but real quick. Although it was a 1-1, like it was, I don't think it's a major setback. I think lots of teams have dropped points. Granted, Chelsea won and we're two points ahead. But like I said, you but like wait wait we're a little pony in this title race. If it's a title race, we are a pony to the two horses. I think Mourinho came up with that quote a while ago.
00:55:45
Speaker
but we we need a goalkeeper for us to be serious contenders. We need a goalkeeper to play the way we play. And we need a striker who can nine times out of 10 score or at least hit the target nine times out of 10. And with Jackson at the minute, although he's decent, he's not been excellent. no not at all And not really a prolific goal scorer. You need a prolific goal scorer. A goal partner's great, but if he gets injured, then what?
00:56:10
Speaker
But the thing is, but that's it. You've, like you said, you've got cold Palmer, but like to win the championships and to win trophies and stuff like that, you need more than one person who's called goals. And the thing is with, with Arsenal, yes, granted Sacramento, get 35 goals by himself.
00:56:24
Speaker
But if that wealth is shed around eight, nine players or the full 11, like Gabrielle Saliba of Scott, timbers scored, Jeremy, Ben white, the Scott. So again, the whole team has scored and I wouldn't much rather them get like three a piece when he average it out and three a piece throughout the whole team. Then one player get 35. Yeah. Yeah. Because like you said, once our superstar gets injured, like again, with Salah, obviously he's he's doing good so far. You don't want to wish injury on a great player like that. But once it gets injured, guess what?
00:56:54
Speaker
You know, it's not going to be the Liverpool that that are going to be high flying like that anymore. let's start but it's other way so It's also the way like, say, Palmer's our main superstar at the minute. But once he gets man marked. He gets my mark. Yeah, it happened. I think it happened at Liverpool, where Jones one marked him and then Grover Burchman marked him. So it became very difficult for him. And it's happened in the past as well, where and then Hazard got my mark. And I'm sure great teams of our players who've been marked. And the game is going to be ineffective because all the tactics seem to revolve around that play. So I am with you on that. I'd rather have a a collection, a collection, a collective
00:57:28
Speaker
team of goalscorers from defenders to midfielders to attackers rather than one superstar getting a you 50 goals a year. Because look at Thailand. He got 50-60 by the maze doing nothing. Absolutely nothing. And that's it. And you're only going to get judged from your from your best season, which was three years... Sorry, two years ago. Last season? but Last season, wasn't it? Last season. Yeah. father yeah yeah so again but Sorry, his first season was excellent, wasn't it? In first season was last season, wasn't it?
00:57:53
Speaker
Wasn't it? No. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because that's when they won the trouble. His first season, they won the trouble. Are you sure? You sure it was the second season? Oh, I don't say that. I don't know now. Are you sure? OK. We're about it. Do you know what? It's city who gives a shit. But yeah, you're absolutely right. I think for Chelsea, just to obviously bring this episode to an end, for Chelsea to be true contenders without any doubt, you know, a keeper needs to 100%. It needs to be sourced from somewhere, to be honest with you. So yeah, it's... You know, it's scary for an Arsenal fan because now we've got two teams and to sort of, you know, to fight and Man City wants to start coming back to life, wants to get a bit of life in them. Once they get a bit of life. Yeah, they're going to be a bit of a...
00:58:37
Speaker
a bit of a challenge as well. So yeah, Rick, be interesting. Be interesting. I've got nothing meant to say. I just apologize to you right now. Once again, cause it's going to be a flipping nightmare. Do you know what? Just send it out. Let me cough on it, bro. Like I will, I will, I will, I will compress it down. Don't worry. People will not hear it. But actually, you know what? Before we do leave though, um congratulations to McLaren for winning the championship.
Racing Celebrations and Incidents
00:59:00
Speaker
Yes. It only took him 24 years only. So 98 was actually the last time they won it. Obviously we'll make a hack in it. And I think that was, that was probably the first season I started watching Formula One or maybe, cause I'll always remember Jacques Villeneuve. I'll always remember that name. So maybe 97 was probably the first year I watched Formula One for the first time, you know, with my dad. Anyway, it would have been 2000.
00:59:28
Speaker
Yeah, 2000 obviously, you know, because Ferrari and I was like, yeah, my boy, did I started to watch it like in the 2000s, Ferrari and so on. But I didn't watch anything in the 90s, like Formula One. I didn't even know what it was in the 90s. Again, don't get me wrong. Ninety seven. um I was six. So it's not like I couldn't tell you the full grid, but I'll always remember. you mean you were gonna be yeah yeah I'll always remember Villeneuve's name and Eddie Irvine as well, because he he did race with Ferrari during that time. So there you go. Um, anyways, anyways, uh, yeah, congratulations to McLaren. I think, uh, I think it was very close in this race because of obviously, you know, Piastri crashing out at the beginning. Oh, here we go. Here we go. There's no other word to describe him. Like he was just naughty. There was no need for him to do that.
01:00:17
Speaker
And what I don't like is how the media keep covering up, saying, like, oh, well, he went for it. He had to go for it. By the way, none of the media are stuck up for Max, by the way. None of the media. Not for the first three laps. Is it Martin Brundle? I send a voice note to the room manager. He was like, well, he had to go for that. And Piazza maybe should have let her out more room. And Piazza should have this. And then after four or five laps, he was like, Max should not have gone for that. And I was like, where were you? I heard, like, literally, where were you seven minutes ago? Because let's see. I heard that. Let's have a minute.
01:00:45
Speaker
I heard that from Martin Brundle, right? That the retraction that he he yeah said, you know, Oh, maybe you shouldn't have gone for that. So, and that's when I posted something on threads, right? And, um, which is like Twitter, by the way, I think I've explained that before. Yeah, look at every episode. Yeah. So, uh, cool. So literally I put in max is still a racist driver. He made a move on PI street. Didn't go well. Got the penalty. Martin Brundle saying it wasn't fair for max. So what, what really made me Well, I'm not gonna say mud by the way because you know shit you've already been meant if you I've been mad today after about by sunday You must have had a mud Sunday. I had to paint I had to paint the patch of the wall. So don't I am mad bro. All right, okay ill get you i was like what ball like youlu wall Behind the behind the ah was behind the bin it was like Fucking never been painted. So literally I took some sandpaper sanded it down cleaned it off painted it over. It looks pretty nice well So yeah, I'm sorry. It was good
01:01:39
Speaker
But, but yeah, sorry. With, with that, with that comment, I think what really struck struck me was the fact that he said it wasn't fair for max. So that implying that, Oh, well, max has already won the championship. So why is he trying to do this? Right? Let's just be honest, right? Max does not give one flying fuck about McLaren and Ferrari's title hopes. Like he just doesn't give a shit who wins the constructors. Right? so a And B is the fact that, well, Red Bull is still fighting for points, you know, that could end up second. And second, that's a lot of money coming from them, but coming to them. It probably was never going to happen. It was never going to be realistic, because obviously, check up errors. Let's face it.
01:02:14
Speaker
Well, so I think it was unfair from Brundle to say that about Max, because it's like, look mate, at the end of the day, right, when you look, when you actually look at the on board from Piastri, Piastri never even looked at his left mirror. It's like, how are you not looking at your left mirror when you have a left first turn on, on your first lap of the race? Like, what do you think? What do you think the other cars are going to be? It's going to be behind you. So look, I understand. I understand the- There's enough room there for him to keep staying tighter to the line. He did not need to take the race in line when the other guy had to wait. Because if the argument is aware, Max,
01:02:43
Speaker
It's the argument where Max makes all the time. I had the racing line, so therefore that I'm going to wipe you out. And he's done it many times. He's taken people out. And this one was, he was trying to force himself out. He was trying to push his elbows out. he With Piashri though, the thing is with Piashri, it's just a dick move. There was no need for him to do that, to be fair. I understand he didn't want to jeopardise his one face. Now, of course it was because he wants to win all the time. I know. But the thing is, the thing is, he made no, no, he made he made the move, which is fair enough. The move itself was a bit like it was a bit ambitious. Let's move was ambitious. It's already cool to be on. However, however, I want.
01:03:17
Speaker
No, but that's what I'm saying. However, though, like for Piastri, because Piastri's thing was like, oh, well, you know, I wasn't going to back down. It's like, OK, mate, you're not going to back down. That's fine. But what you've just done there, you've just ruined your own race, right? Because your race was never with Verstappen. Do you know what I'm saying? Your race is with the Ferraris to get up there. If Max is a racing driver, why wouldn't then? Piastri is a racing driver. So Piastri can't back down. The person that needs to back down is a person who's not got the racing line. And his wing was... The person that needs to back down... Whose corner was it?
01:03:45
Speaker
the person that needs to back down is the person that's got a lot more to lose. And again, max has got nothing to lose in that championship. He's already wanted me. and but What I'm saying, what I'm saying to you is like, okay, look, the look, the move was ambitious. I agree with the penalty points. I'm not saying I don't, I don't agree by the way, a hundred percent. Like, cause again, it was ridiculous. Yeah. ten However, however, to lay all the blame on max, it's like, okay, nice one, Piastri. However,
01:04:07
Speaker
you could have looked at your left mirror. If you looked at your left mirror, you would have seen him lunging at you, right? You could have avoided that situation and you would have ended up in a better position in that race, which by the way, was very close because one mistake from Norris at the front.
01:04:22
Speaker
That's it for McLaren, gone. yeah no exactly So again, I feel more towards Piastri jeopardising his own race rather than Max jeopardising it. I'm in disagreement with him. I think Max jeopardised, because he's saying he should have looked at his own mirror, but Max saw it with his own eyes. He was an ambitious move. And then you pull out of it. You realise it's not happening. You realise you can't make a 90-degree turn without having to go wide on that turn. And going wide on that turn, there's a car.
01:04:48
Speaker
on your right hand side. And it's the same thing that it, do you know what it max reminds me of? It reminds me of those footballers who pretend I'm hard as nails me, I'm hard as nails and go cross and tackles them then they piped down and Lewis did that exactly and this is what I'm trying to say to you like Lewis did it and he was like he does that to everyone else and now we did it to him so he can fuck off but this is it nobody else is doing it to him so that's why I felt like he can do it and granted he's a tremendous driver four-time world champion all up blah blah blah amazing but today he was in the wrong condition I've done that he should know I apologize by the way. He apologized to Piastri. Yeah, he said. He said I would never. So he apologized. Yeah, he apologized, but this is a thing. No, no, you're right. It's very quickly going to get a character. Yeah, it's an empty thing. It's an empty apology because, again, ruined his race. He ruined his race. He could have got a, could have got a Napoleon. Could have been a great finish for the team. One, two, et cetera, et cetera. And it could have cost the whole team. Yeah, absolutely. So I agree. Look, I agree. It's just, I just don't think, sorry.
01:05:49
Speaker
He is a racing driver. I've been watching that Senate documentary and if the gap is there, you're going to go for it. You know what I mean? That's the moment you don't do that. Then you're not a racing driver to quote the great, but the thing is, if you're going to just back down in front of ah behind someone and be like, Oh, okay. I'll let them go. It's like, well, what is the point in you? You might as well just go to the back of the grid and let everyone pass. But look, yeah like like I said, like I said, for me, what really made me more mad was the fact that, um that that brun yeah, that Brundle was like, oh, well, that wasn't fair for Max. They said, well, dude, again, Max does not um give a flying fuck about, he doesn't care about what, what Piastria and McLaren need to do. Do you know what I'm saying? McLaren have been literally, they've been the number one, um what is it? Contenders.
01:06:32
Speaker
against, against Red Bull this season. So, you know, they have that history. Obviously Norris and Verstappen three, three races this season. They've come, they've come to heads. yeah So, so yeah, look, it was, it was so disappointing for me, Charlotte clerk. I think, you know, he had, obviously he had to start from the back of the grid. He did very well. He did fantastically well. Like I genuinely think of Charlotte clerk as like, as as like a younger brother, as in like, you know, but but obviously your younger brother. Yeah. of course my But I mean yours is what cuz he's young he's younger than us, but I don't obviously know You might like a sibling sibling. You just meet I thought you meant sibling sibling like cuz if you came from the same moment You don't mean that you mean like he's young so you feel like okay now I'm with you So I mean so um I will explain that I will explain that by the way we will become very clear in a few seconds When I say like a little brother, I mean like, you know you cuss him out when he's doing so much stupid like you, but soon to do something well, you're like, yes, come on, dad. Yeah. I knew you had it. You know what I mean? So that's what, that's, that's what I'm saying. Like for Charles, that's how I feel about him. And it's like, if I feel like this about you, right? You cannot be a champion. You are not championship material. Cause I never felt that way about fucking Michael Schumacher. You know what I mean? Or I couldn't or Alonso for that matter or better or never once. It's like, you know, charlo I kind of someone has to look after you, mate, like a little puppy.
01:07:49
Speaker
So, but he, but today he did, he did fucking brilliant to to to get on the podium podium. I didn't even realize he made podiums third. He was 30. Wow. So he obviously in qualifying, he had a lap time deleted, which would have actually, which put him a provisional poll. He got that deleted, which dropped him to fourth on ninth, I think. And then he had a 10 place group penalty, which dropped into 19. Why was it deleted? ah Because he overran the white line.
01:08:17
Speaker
on, uh, on exit, he, this car went over the white line. Again, we're talking millimeters, but obviously but like bar basic to rules. Yeah. Rules are rules. So fair enough. You know, that genuinely was, you know, that wasn't like, Oh, it was unfair. No, it shit around wide. Don't remind you. So that's where the little brother thing comes out. It's like, come back, come back. You little fucking better. Why? Because so wide. Yeah. You wanker, why do this? Oh, oh, podium. Oh, very. Do you think he'll get better than next year with having Lewis in the team? um I think it very much. You're saying they'll just kind of hinder his performance in his progress because he'll, Lewis will outshine. If, if that's the case and Lewis outshines him and he feels that pressure, then I think that is the final year of Ferrari for him, because for him to change. Oh, well, not for him, ah for Ferrari need to change because let's face it. Yes, he's got podiums. He's had a few wins. I think he's like,
01:09:05
Speaker
16 wins or 15 wins in his Ferrari career. Yes. Nice one. But you've been there for coming up six years now, right? And you haven't won a championship and you've come close. Well done, but you haven't won a championship yet. And unfortunately, the formula one is a sport where you win championships and to last. So I think next season, if Lewis outshines him in terms
Speculations and Future in Racing
01:09:27
Speaker
of qualifying pace with Charles. It's actually quite strong, but if Lewis outshines him there and then in the race, I genuinely have no reason. I would have no reason as Ferrari to keep Charles any longer, any longer, to be honest with you, because I just, I don't think I don't.
01:09:40
Speaker
Again, I don't think he's championship material. I think he's too soft. Um, I'll personally, I would have kept signs over Leclerc in, in this little changeover. And as Rick obviously coughs his lungs out because he smokes 40 a day. It's bad for you, Rick. It's bad for you, man. You know what I mean? I don't know why I started. I don't know why I started. It was only recently as well. Like it was only last week that you started smoking 40 a day. It's crazy. It's crazy, man. I'm just smoking crazy. So you decided what? So you decided to spend more money on smokes. Shit. That shit's like 13 quid for one counts.
01:10:10
Speaker
you fa is kind of follow it anymore even they've got up to like 16 quid now. But so yeah, so yeah, it was, I thought it was a good, good little last race. It was very entertaining. A few stuff to obviously meet up that we discussed already. But yeah, for me, if that's the case for look like next season and and Lewis does better than yet, it's time to go.
01:10:29
Speaker
I genuinely should have just kept science. like i I look back now and I'm thinking, damn, science is so good. Science is very good. at one because You keep yourself, but anyway, whatever. maybe sharp'll bring something to them I'm excited. I'm excited for the team as well, for the way the player is doing. So with the two boys, Lando and Piestri. I'm more of a fan of Piestri than Lando and I think yeah so I made that clear on the point because of that commenter.
01:10:52
Speaker
louis like sort Well, it was a comment to Lewis. It was a comment to Ricardo. Maybe it was that bullshit. Yes. Yes. Yes. i was battle against marx I don't know what that bullshit was. What what was it against Max? Oh yeah. When, when he came back from in Sao Paulo, he came back from 14th to win. He was like, Oh, there's, there's no talent involved in that. It's just luck.
01:11:11
Speaker
Oh, wait a minute. And you're the same guy that says that you have the fastest car on the grid and you still haven't won. I don't understand your problem. I don't get where your problem goes. Where's it going here? Yeah. Yeah. Whatever. So, so I think, yeah, so those three things, it's like, I'm not sure about you, mate. I'm not sure about your character here. So yeah, yeah, this is what it is. Now I think he's going to go next season. I would say next season, if McLaren carry on with the, uh, with the upward trajectory that they've had this season, I think I genuinely think Lando or Piastri will be world champions.
01:11:41
Speaker
I can't see, I genuinely don't see Red Bull winning next season because Mercedes will, will have upgraded by, ah by next year because obviously, you know, it's the last year of of these regulations. Ferrari's already come close. Obviously, you know, constructors, this at the end of the season, and McLaren have obviously jumped, jumped up. So I just don't think, I don't think there's much from Red Bull.
01:12:04
Speaker
but yeah There's not much to come from Red Bull and the fact that Adrian Newey's less as well. I was just going to say that. So where's he gone? He's gone to Aston Martin, hasn't he? Aston Martin, yeah, yeah. That's like and a million pound a day salary or something. Yeah, similar for a second or something like that. You know, he draws two lines and he mentions them and say, whoa, five mil, what? Aerodynamics, what? Wind. The guy's literally getting paid for nature, bro. That's what he's getting paid for. I love that. He draws two lines. Five mil, done.
01:12:35
Speaker
but That's all it is. That's all it is. And then then they call it a sketch. Yeah. All right, mate. So anyways, anyways, look, yeah, it's ah it's going to be an interesting interesting season next season. i'm I'm looking forward to seeing the rookies as well. There's a few rookies um who start next season as well. I did actually see Arthur Leclerc, Charlie's actual younger brother.
01:12:57
Speaker
ah like nothing you no he had ah he he had the ah was it practice He had a session in free practice one, and there was a bit where they sort of came to the last turn, the both brothers, you know, in in the two Ferraris, and they sort of started waving at each other. And then the Arthur goes to the the pits. He's like, oh, I'm just waving to my brother. And they were like, oh, we saw it. That was really nice. And do you know what? It was one of those moments, like, that's pretty sweet.
01:13:22
Speaker
that's where face yeah yeah I'm a bloke and now I've got spit. but i was ah speak like um So yeah, right. I'm going to go smoke 40 a day now and yeah go cause I need, I need to, I need to nurse. it fuckinging We will leave you there, Rick. And if there's nothing else that you want to add, my friend, um it's been a good end to the F1 season for for you and your team. It has been. It has been. Fantastic. And it could be a great end to the season for your football team as well. So you never know. You never know. We're here to help Rick as much as we can. So unless people out there want to start paying us, then you know we'll cover it as much as we can and whenever we can. So we'll come back whenever we want.
01:13:57
Speaker
Yes, when we decide. When we decide, right? Go, yourselves. No, I'm just kidding. But yeah, Rick, all right. Yeah, we'll leave it there, mate. And we'll chat to everyone on the next one, whenever that will be. So just stay tuned. Stay, keep your eyes peeled. Your ear's open. And yeah, stay safe. Catch you on the next one. All that, and that as well. Before you say it to me. No, no, that's it. You've already involved you. You've already involved you. But yeah, Rick, sorry. Is there anything?