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Daily Palace - Lapses of Concentration, The Birth of the Romain Empire and Shane Long's Debut Album 'Debut'
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As they do everyday Wale, Joe, Alex, and Dan discuss the latest goings on at the Mighty Palace
In this Episode: Joe and Wale discuss Palace's disappointing home defeat by Brentford, before Joe grills Wale on Mariah Carey, Federico Macheda and a stint in Doncaster... It's not the tabloid scandal that sounds like.
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Introduction to Daily Palace Podcast
00:00:00
Wale Bakare
Bye.
00:00:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Welcome back to the Daily Palace podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. I'm Joe Lodge, coming to you stuck in a holding pattern trapped between fear of failure and fear of hubris, condemned to comfortable, shapeless mediocrity for time immemorial.
Crystal Palace's Mediocrity and Recent Performance
00:00:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
With me today as well, Avakari. How are you doing, mate?
00:00:31
Wale Bakare
um All right, Joe, great to see you. How are you?
00:00:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Very well, very well. Great to see you too, mate. um Those words about mediocrity were remarkably not originally written to describe me. Rather, it was a description of Crystal Palace written by The Eyes sports reporter George Sims after the Eagles' 2-1 home defeat by Brentford.
00:00:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
He also asked why do palace actually exist and who is this all for? All questions which I feel a bit rich coming from the eye, but when we react into that game today Was it as bad as all that while they what what went wrong?
00:01:14
Wale Bakare
Well, you know, so there are three points or one point. If you're getting zero, then it was bad. So if you look at it like that, then it was bad. If you also look at the fact that that was Brent for doing a double over Palace, then it was bad. If you also look at the fact that they've done a double and it's not because Palace have It's not because Brentford have been particularly better than Palace you know over the two games. So it was it was it wasn't a great result. Palace were were at home.
00:01:46
Wale Bakare
It's been a great run of results in the last 12 games there about in the Premier League. The game against Brett Ford at home was one that I personally was open, you know, Palace would consolidate on the recent run of form. But then, you know, the the losses are set back.
Fan Concerns and Player Execution Issues
00:02:05
Wale Bakare
And unfortunately,
00:02:08
Wale Bakare
There are teams who use a game and is it's quite easy for their fans to say to themselves, but that's a bleep, that's a setback, we'll get the next one. Palace isn't that sort of team, I'm sure there's a lot of Palace fans now or, you know,
00:02:27
Wale Bakare
scratching the head and thinking things are just i know you don' know I know all of a sudden you know you're not feeling very confident again as a Palace fan and that it wasn't a great result it wasn't an entirely poor performance, but it wasn't also a great performance. It's something we've said a lot of times, you know, this season. We've said it over and over. ah Whatever, wherever Palaisar this season, it's not for a lack of ah desire, quality, it's not because they've not
00:03:02
Wale Bakare
played well. it's It's not because they've been poor in their games. It's just at crucial moments. Palace have not just been able to you know get over the line, to to put you know ah but the particular game in context. Palace just couldn't have the decisive final torch. The final pass just wasn't great. Decision making wasn't great. Eze decided to shoot at some times when maybe he shouldn't.
00:03:31
Wale Bakare
a couple of other players pass that sometimes maybe they shouldn't. Lacroix, of course, dangle the leg when it shouldn't. um So yeah, anyway it it's just those decisions. It's just that that bit of decision making that wasn't there against Brentford. Brentford maybe edged it a bit.
Brentford's Win Over Crystal Palace
00:03:50
Wale Bakare
They wear the better side. And it's particularly painful because this is a Brentford side for all their brilliance this season. It's been at the G-Tech stadium away from home.
00:04:00
Wale Bakare
They've been chamberlain just like every other team. you know If they are far away from home is anything to go by that will be you know struggling for relegation. But they've come to sell us and they've gotten a win that was relatively straightforward. ah they They never really got threatened per se. um They it did look at some point like they were the more more likely to score. They got the goal.
00:04:26
Wale Bakare
ah you expected Palace to come out and maybe put, you know, Brentford, you know, just have them defending. But Brentford still kept creating chances and they got that second goal. Then Palace came out and got what turned out to be a consolation goal. But the fact that it was, you know, debut goal for Roma and ASA, but it wasn't really a great time. It wasn't really a great result, con considering, you know, the results that Palace have been having the last couple of weeks.
00:04:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah, I think that that about sums up. Well, as you say, it is disappointing, particularly given Brentford's pretty terrible away from all season. I think we all thought it was a good chance for another three points for Crystal Palace. It was, as you say, a little bit hard to put your finger on. It wasn't anything disastrously wrong. I think it just felt like a team that was a bit low on energy and focus. The game was pretty deadlocked really up until that Brentford penalty. I don't remember either side creating any great chances and then
00:05:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Palace what should have been fairly easy to defend the position of the box, get themselves in the right mess where Jay has kind of booted the ball at Hughes' face. Hughes has then maybe humbled it and got away with it. And then that ah the quad, sorry, has dangled the leg out and conceded a bit of a sloppy penalty. So it wasn't, yeah, it was mainly a lack of sharpness, I think. and The game was a little bit,
00:06:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was a lot more turgid than we expected.
00:06:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
I remember confidently kind of predicting, oh, yeah, there'll be goals for both teams, which there were, but with a sense of anticipation that this could be quite open, quite transitional.
00:06:12
Wale Bakare
in.
00:06:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I don't know if it was an eagerness from both teams to survive the reign. That meant they made it a bit more cautiously or something.
00:06:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
It took a few less risks, but it was really quite a cagey game of football from start to finish. Maybe it's that Brentford are playing a bit less, getting away from home, trying to pick up more points there. I
Defensive and Midfield Struggles
00:06:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
don't know. But it was, yeah, it was surprisingly turgid and probably a story of Brentford being better in the decisive moments in either box, really.
00:07:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But yeah, I mean, were there any bright sparks for Palace for you while they didn't even play particularly well? Or do you want to single anyone out? As I always like to give you the opportunity, would you like to single anyone out for criticism, abuse on this platform?
00:07:21
Wale Bakare
Well, it's it you know it's difficult to... so as As you said, it was the the the performance just lacked energy. um A lot of players seemed non-existent. Smiler software, a large part of the game.
00:07:39
Wale Bakare
oh In fact, there was a point I thought he had been substituted and then um he was complaining to the ref about a foul. And I thought, oh, you're still on. Because that was out. Absolutely was you know at some point. um you know A couple of other players didn't do too well for themselves. Tyrik Mitchell was back to what it felt like at the start of the season where it felt a bit tired, where we started raising questions about whether there was a need for, you know, a competition in that right wing back position. It just wasn't at the level that he's been, you know, in the last couple of weeks in that game. um Same could be said for Willie U's, same could be said for the entire defense line.
00:08:29
Wale Bakare
um You know, it's about the very best offenders. um They will concede goals here, but they will make um important decisions at very critical times, you know, in a game. It's alright if you concede the odd goal when your team is four-goal up or you're two-nil up and then you consider goal.
00:08:54
Wale Bakare
know It happens, but when the game is 0-0, when you're playing at home, when um your your attacking line is struggling to find the momentum, you need the defense to and to be solid. You need them to say to themselves, whatever happens, we're not letting one get past us. And to then allow a penalty, to then give away penalty when the ball could have been cleared.
00:09:24
Wale Bakare
wasn't so great. Lacoix knew almost immediately it' it's wonderful how players can throw two ends up just right after you know filing someone but he did exactly that but he knew that he was in trouble because um you know the you know was It was beating to the ball, apparently, ah by the Brentford player. And the the entire defense line just didn't have a great game you know for for me. um There were so many sloppy passes out of the back. There were a number of times when decision making just wasn't at the level that it should be.
00:10:06
Wale Bakare
Palace just didn't perform like a team that was at home. Brentford, as I've said, ah I've not been great you know away from home. And to come to Celos and have a relatively easy game isn't something I'm sure even they did not expect. Yes, the last couple of minutes, maybe. See, even after Romanese got the the consolation goal,
00:10:32
Wale Bakare
Could you say Palace applied enough pressure on Brentford afterwards? No. In fact, the the last action of the game was a wayward ball into the box by Mike Gay. That was picked up by Flecken. And and the referee blew his final whistle. And it just summed up you know the then entire afternoon. Pass has not been released when they should have been.
00:10:55
Wale Bakare
you know and yeah Just poor decisions there and there, and the entire backline for me didn't have a great game. um It's difficult to say, oh, someone did play a well, maybe Eze, maybe. you know But then he did the easy things, got the ball, drove past players, but the decisive things never really did well. He did have one or two team attempts at goal when, I personally feel, maybe he shouldn't have shot at goal, but then um players as they get to do that. Well, there's the other part of the fact that the young man came on, made his debut they made his debut, got to go with his first touch, but did he do anything afterwards? Did he do anything to get you excited afterwards? it was Of course, difficult circumstances to make your debut in. ah the The weather also didn't help.
00:11:48
Wale Bakare
ah there were two goal down but he got the goal maybe maybe just to be nice say maybe that was on bright spark but as i said it's difficult to pick out anything anything really from a game where you really should be getting something out of and Brentford have left cellos with three points
00:12:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, um I mean, like I think Eze does deserve some credit on the on the day. I think he was at least constantly creative, constantly a bright spark. You're right, his shot selection wasn't great, all game. But then there is something to be said for when nothing's going, just getting some shots off and seeing where they ricochet and where they go. And he didn't manage to do that. He managed to like six shots off on on the game. and I've rattled the woodwork on one occasion. I think he made so like six key passes as well and that included lots of clever little moments like Palace's best chance prior to Essay's goal off the bench was that Mateta one where he strikes it on his left foot
00:12:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
um flicking gets a good hand to it and and that comes from a really smart little flick to almost leave the ball but just slightly redirect it into a really nice channel for Matata to run onto. So I think hed think he did genuinely have a good game and otherwise yeah I'd say it was not like you could sing about that many people who were astoundingly bad, just a bit sloppy in moments.
00:13:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think you're right that Paz really did struggle to move through in the midfield. I saw on the stats afterwards, hadn't really noticed what a nightmare was having in the game, but Lerma did one half a game really well in his defensive G really well and got about, but I think he had like 54%, something like that, pass accuracy, which is not
00:13:43
Wale Bakare
yeah Give the ball away a couple of times, yeah.
00:13:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, one of two centimetres in a team in the prem. You're going to really struggle to exert any kind of control, influence, fluidity on the game if your centimetres are struggling that much to move it through the lines. But speaking of moving through the segments, we'll have a little pause there for a word from our sponsor and then pick back up our discussion in the game.
Scoring Challenges and VAR Controversy
00:14:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, so you've spoken a bit just there while they're about the defense from Palace. Do you have kind of longer term concerns? Did it make you raise questions in this performance about how they are coping, how they will cope with Chellabar's absence, for instance, or whether they're just generally slightly losing their their kind of call and focus? And they what your thoughts was that was that particularly concerning in the long term sense?
00:15:19
Wale Bakare
not Not really, to be honest. um i'm I'm not entirely confident if Shalva was present, whether it would have been a major defense maker.
00:15:32
Wale Bakare
a difference make um we've We've seen you know the Palace defense perform like that in a couple of games this season. and Even games that Shalva have been... We've seen Shalva give away a couple of passes as well.
00:15:46
Wale Bakare
so um It does seem like the team is not able to maintain a certain level of energy every game, ah although they've been able to do that and you know for for a run of weeks now. But as I said, that that that performance on but performance yesterday ah you just reminded me of the the start of the season, the the couple of games before October.
00:16:13
Wale Bakare
um you know, the performance against Brett Ford in the first leg West Ham against Leicester until, you know, the Palace got those equalising goals. So, not necessarily because Charlotte was left. Yes, you you you you cannot necessarily say you worry long term because if you look at it, Palace have considered, I think, 28 goals there about this season. um That's seven, that's seven more than you know Liverpool and Arsenal will have considered the fewest goals. I'm sure Palace are relatively up there as far as you know the better teams in the league ah regarding goals conceded or goal concession and is concerned and it will
00:16:58
Wale Bakare
it's It hasn't been you know the the goals that Palace have been conceding. it's about is the the the The major issue has always been creating the chances. I just want to make sure that at the right, the right figures as well. Yeah, well, 28 before that I came against Brentford, so 30 now as they've conceded. book the The team has a minus four goal difference. There's 26 goals that the Palace have scored, even Wolverhampton Wanderers and Relegations have scored six goals more than Palace have done this season, although they've considered 52 goals.
00:17:34
Wale Bakare
bull yeah but um um I wouldn't say I'm um'm worried or you know long term, but um those performances cannot be a constant. um Even in games, the Palace of One, in the and in that run of games,
00:17:55
Wale Bakare
that that we talk about since October when the team got the first win. You could argue there's been games where, you know, Palace were there for the taking. The defenders gave passes away and the scene actually.
00:18:10
Wale Bakare
you know, save the team a number of times. In fact, I think it's made, you know, one or two penalty saves this season. It's made some fantastic saves in games this season. You know, saved on Bermos for a penalty. um Sadly, Gae was encroaching and...
00:18:28
Wale Bakare
you know, that that meant that the penalty had to be retaken. So um I'm not particularly concerned, but it's something Glass not asked to look at. There has to be a reason the team is unable to maintain that energy level, you know, week in, week out. It's a Premier League, it's difficult though. We see teams unable to replicate performances. um I was watching Fulham United yesterday.
00:18:52
Wale Bakare
about 60 minutes into the game, I just woke up and realized that I'd been sleeping for about 20 minutes. the fact That was the the type of game that was playing out, you know, because for some reason, United where? Because regular. but though They were just there. They were not good. They were not poor. They were just being united. Fulham normally with the kind of performance that we've seen them put out could easily have been better. But for some reason, the energy level just wasn't there. So it's it's not just palace. It's difficult in the Premier League, especially with the amount of games that players have to go through. But then if
00:19:37
Wale Bakare
Although the the team's playing in the Champions League, the Europa League, and the likes have got more quality. They've got, you know, mouse-cord in death. We've seen what's happening with Tottenham. They, all of a sudden, you know just a couple of points above the relegation places because of injuries. And, you know, players not being able to keep up with the energy level, they got the goal against Leicester.
00:19:59
Wale Bakare
couldn't keep up with the energy level and lost the game eventually. So Glastner has to look at it, whether it's about recovery, whether it's about planning better, whether it's about rotating the squad more. I know it's difficult, it's easy to say, but there's a reason he gets the big box. So it's something he has to look into and something his background staff need to be looking into.
00:20:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think you're right. I mean, I'm not i'm not majorly concerned about the defense. You say it's realistically in this game. The penalty was a bit a bit messy, the concession of it, and and defending of it, to be fair.
00:20:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And I wouldn't say there are any major errors for Shada's goal. Mitchell can maybe be a little bit quicker to get across to Dam's guard, but he does get across pretty quickly and he does it does wonderfully. It's kind of a perfect cross and a really strong header um and that was my aim for Brentford's chances really so the defence still perform pretty well um it's just yeah Brentford were clinical on the day um and the choir
00:21:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
That penalty, I think, was a bit silly, but also you almost have to be thankful for his tendency to do the occasional thing like that. Because if it weren't for the odd lapse of concentration, he should be playing for Real Madrid or something.
00:21:25
Wale Bakare
More.
00:21:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's good. That's a price they have to pay for him to play for Crystal Palace. And I think that can take the odd stopping penalty of season. um Yeah, so that the most dramatic moment as we touched on there of the game, um most dramatic, most contentious maybe, ah came when Umbermo missed his first penalty attempt, it rebounded back off the post.
00:21:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah like gayhe came in really quickly to clear the ball before Envermo could strike the rebound, which led to a VAR review where the penalty was retaken because Gay he had been encroaching. Big bad Bol Brian then buried the retake and some Palace fans were unhappy about the decision in the stadium. Should they have been?
00:22:29
Wale Bakare
Well, ah straightforward. he He was in the D. He encouraged. um If someone else had got into the ball ahead of him, it wouldn't have been an issue. But he got ahead of the ball. It's just a situation of ah players a player's offside is interfering with play. If he is, then it's offside. If he's not, then it's not offside if someone else has got the goal. So but that's a simple explanation.
00:22:55
Wale Bakare
um if And you you can't even go on to say, oh, maybe you should have known better. Because if he wasn't where he was, maybe you wouldn't have made that clearance anyway.
00:23:08
Wale Bakare
It's just...
00:23:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
he didn't He didn't actually have to make the appearance, it turns out. might My first response was, Yeah, he's done absolutely brilliantly there.
00:23:18
Wale Bakare
Yeah.
00:23:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's like stolen it and he's reacted so quickly and nicked it away from Humbermo. But I believe, one, he was only there so quickly because he was inquiring. And two, because the ball came off the post, I don't think Humbermo hasn't actually got a touch to it on review.
00:23:34
Wale Bakare
long
00:23:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
It meant Humbermo couldn't have struck it anyway.
00:23:37
Wale Bakare
Yeah.
00:23:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's why he was acting so slowly.
00:23:39
Wale Bakare
but but but then But then it happened so quickly, it wouldn't be thinking of that.
00:23:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
It smells right.
00:23:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, no, no, no.
00:23:45
Wale Bakare
not not not Trust me, I had to you know say to my pal, you know, I told him, saying to him, yeah, he can't strike the ball because it came back off the post and it kept going really wide.
00:23:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:23:56
Wale Bakare
so it's it's It it was you know was something he did instinctively, you know, to be and
00:24:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:04
Wale Bakare
you you can't really be garage them.
00:24:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:24:06
Wale Bakare
The issue was the fact that a penalty was given away. Going by in Bermo's records, it really should be scoring actually. So I'm sure it was expected to bury the penalty. So you it's it's it's unfortunate what happened with Gabe or the referees done the right thing.
00:24:24
Wale Bakare
What I do not understand is, why they take so long you know in making a decision, it was quite clear.
00:24:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:31
Wale Bakare
It was quite clear.
00:24:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:33
Wale Bakare
It was in the D, got to the ball first, except someone saying, well, Umbermo can't eat the ball, but It was quite clear. I don't know why they take so long if you're going to eventually come to say, well, yeah you know, ah it should be a replay a couple of times. I just wonder why they take so long. But honestly, you you can't really be, yes, you'd be disappointed at at the outcome, but particularly the what happened was exactly what you would expect. I'm sure if it was the other way around, you know, I'd i'd be the first asking for a replay.
00:25:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no, I i completely agree. I think I guess the Palace fans frustration is probably understanding a bit more about, as you say, the length of time that it takes and the general nature of VR in terms of removing um those moments of shock and joy.
00:25:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
There was it was quite a moment of excitement shot in the arm for Pilots because when Burma always never misses penalties. But at the end of the day it was it was the right decision if they are getting to the right call and it's it's kind of thing it's useful for.
00:25:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it was a nice lesson on the rules around penalties.
00:25:47
Wale Bakare
Mm.
00:25:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
At the risk of turning myself into a lewd soundbite it was a nice and rare reminder of what the D is for. And yeah, nice to also think about, I never really considered that a player can't strike the ball after it's come back off the woodwork, but of course they can't.
00:26:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
So yeah, nice to have some of those rules clarified, if nothing else.
00:26:09
Wale Bakare
Yeah.
Football Debutants Quiz
00:26:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
um There we'll take pause for a quick word from the network and then finish up with a quiz.
00:26:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
So one bright spark from the game Palace, as what I mentioned earlier, was Romain Essay coming on and scoring with his first touch on his prem debut before failing to find a net with his subsequent five.
00:27:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
um So with that in mind, I am going to give you while they a quick quiz on debutantes.
00:27:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Are you ready for that? We've got three questions.
00:27:21
Wale Bakare
Okay.
00:27:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've got three questions. And um if you get all three right, remain essay will mow your garden in the summer. I think he's agreed to that.
00:27:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've not checked the ah the DMs, but I think
00:27:34
Wale Bakare
but
00:27:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think he's nailed down for that. um So first question it is about the king of the debut, Jermaine Dafoe. He scored on his original debut for six of the seven clubs he played for, not counting second debuts, which he had a fair few of. um which of So he played for seven clubs, scored on his debuts for six of them,
00:28:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Which of the clubs that he played for did he not score on his debut for?
00:28:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
If it's helpful, the list of clubs that he played for were Bournemouth, West Ham, Spurs, Portsmouth, Toronto, Sunderland, and Rangers.
00:28:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
So one of them he didn't score on his debut for.
00:28:29
Wale Bakare
Rangers?
00:28:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm afraid that's wrong, really. It was Sunderland. It was Sunderland.
00:28:38
Wale Bakare
but I can't remember when he made his Sunderland debut, but and I know he scored. I could think about these other teams and I can think. Yeah, I know he did. He definitely scored when he went to the US on his debut, so.
00:28:50
Wale Bakare
Anyway, that's.
00:28:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know Yeah, I'm not sure when it's Sunday, David. It was it was just come back, and when I want to say, it must be mid-2010 sometime, or 25th or 25th.
00:28:58
Wale Bakare
Yeah.
00:28:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
It just come back after being catfished by Drake and they, for, he told him to join me on, I looked like I wasn't going to end it.
00:29:04
Wale Bakare
Yeah, yeah.
00:29:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, decided, actually, life was better back in the prem in Sunderland. Really, for your second question, Willy?
00:29:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Federico Makeda's fame peaked in 2008, much like beloved institutions like AIG and Goldman Sachs, after scoring a dramatic late-winner against Aston Villa on his debut for Man United.
00:29:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Which of Lee's clubs did he not go on to play for? Was it QPR? Doncaster Rovers? Burton Albin? Panafinaikos? Or Apoel? Which of those did he not go on to play for?
00:29:54
Wale Bakare
has to be one of the...
00:29:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:29:57
Wale Bakare
What was the second option again?
00:29:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Doncaster Rovers?
00:30:01
Wale Bakare
and And what was the option after Doncaster?
00:30:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
But now I've been.
00:30:05
Wale Bakare
Barton Albion.
00:30:07
Wale Bakare
It's a Barton Albion.
00:30:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
That is correct.
00:30:10
Wale Bakare
Yeah. a
00:30:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Never played for the Brewers.
00:30:14
Wale Bakare
he
00:30:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
And they're still trying. He's 33 and he's still playing out in the outing.
00:30:19
Wale Bakare
um I remember him well, because that see the that that season, I think it was, that season was the season Liverpool were going for the league. And then he got that goal against Aston Villa.
00:30:30
Wale Bakare
And I think he scored a winner again the next game after the Aston Villa game.
00:30:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah
00:30:35
Wale Bakare
Oh, man. At that time, I just thought there was something about Feige. Like, I just thought, how is it? It was a terrible season for Liverpool.
00:30:45
Wale Bakare
I remember that.
00:30:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it was it was bizarre, like you managed to get two moments of genius out of a plan to go on to have 15 years.
00:30:53
Wale Bakare
Yeah. and he And it just did nothing else in his career. Nothing.
00:30:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah They'll always be remembered and I'm sure he'd take that. He'd take that. um and Lastly, but i ah which singer won international acclaim with a debut album called Debut, which came out in, I guess it would have been around the first season of the Premier League, 1993? Was it Tupac, Bjork, Beck, Mariah Carey, Paul Gascoigne or Shane Long?
00:31:28
Wale Bakare
It was definitely not two-pack, that I know.
00:31:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
nice are you considering shane log guitar that's why i included him but i suspect he must be about seven
00:31:35
Wale Bakare
No, no, no. It was probably training to be a rugby player at the time. Didn't he play rugby? I think he played rugby before.
00:31:51
Wale Bakare
Was it? Creepy gas coin.
00:31:56
Wale Bakare
No, Merak.
00:31:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I'm thinking this is around the time that Gato released his music.
00:31:59
Wale Bakare
Is it?
00:32:03
Wale Bakare
Yeah. Was it Merak Harry?
00:32:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
It wasn't, no, it was Bjork.
00:32:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was Bjork.
00:32:09
Wale Bakare
Ah.
00:32:11
Wale Bakare
Yeah.
00:32:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
This point went well, one out of three ain't bad.
00:32:14
Wale Bakare
Well, at least I knew it wasn't Tupac.
00:32:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Just about keeps you up for most seasons, 38 points.
Closing Remarks
00:32:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
You tell me what.
00:32:22
Wale Bakare
Yeah, it was a La Croix-esque performance, I just...
00:32:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, thank you for joining me today, Riley. ha
00:32:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, you know, I mean, mostly, I suppose, yeah, it would be the choir-esque in 90% of the podcast, you're excellent. And then a small lapse of concentration at the end, but time take that.
00:32:44
Wale Bakare
Exactly.
00:32:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Thank you for joining me today.
00:32:50
Wale Bakare
Cheers, well, always a pleasure.
00:32:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
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