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Contrasting Outfits and Daily Routine
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Welcome everybody. You may be wondering on this episode of the daily Premier League podcast why I'm sitting here in a great big woody jumper and Nick's sitting there looking like he's on the beaches of Hawaii.
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NB
one
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ah Why do you look like you're on the beaches of Hawaii, Nick?
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NB
ah Because I'm broadcasting tonight from the beaches of Hawaii.
00:00:31
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Wow. Wow. Or you've just come off your treadmill that we can see in the in the in the background.
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NB
I've been on the treadmill, a quick shower and ready to go, my friend. Ready to go. No,
00:00:43
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you all fresh and wearing me just kind of dragging myself in from the office to do this. And only haven't my tea. Have you had your tea yet?
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NB
none and no, no, no. No, no, I'll cook that after. Don't worry about that.
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You're
Premier League Focus and Contact Info
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good.
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NB
We've got more important things we're worrying with our team, mate.
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That's nice.
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NB
We've got to keep listeners entertained with Premier League chat.
00:01:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
We do. So let's get on with it. Let's get on with it and before I die of hunger. We are here, obviously, in the Daily Premier League podcast towers to bring you everything you need to know about the Premier League every day.
00:01:16
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And if you want to make contact with us, you can do that because you can email us at dailypremierleaguepodcast at gmail.com.
00:01:21
NB
Thank you.
League Cup Discussion
00:01:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
What we're going to do today is take a quick spin, as Nick adjusts his set, a quick spin around the fourth round ties in the, ah what do they call it now?
00:01:24
NB
hundred take
00:01:33
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The League Cup, as I call it. Carabao Cup? I don't know.
00:01:36
NB
kind leeka It's the English League Cup, essentially.
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English League Cup.
00:01:39
NB
So those of who don't know these things, there are two domestic ah cups here in the UK.
00:01:40
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Essentially, that's what it is.
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NB
One is the FA Cup, one is the League Cup. The League Cup is seen as the lesser of the two, but it's
00:01:51
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that is That's because it's the lesser of the two.
00:01:54
NB
It is the lesser of the two. But, you know, it's a chance to get you, as Newcastle found out last season, it's a chance to get yourself a trophy that you might not ordinarily have.
00:02:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Indeed, indeed, indeed. um So my name's Ken Davies, just so everybody knows. Nick's name is Nick Britton. ah Just so we've got the introductions of who's involved here.
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NB
Eight.
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So let's have a look at some of these games.
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NB
public
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Global Sports Podcast Network
There were, it was the round of 16. So Nick, mathematics, how many games were there?
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NB
eight
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Correct answer.
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NB
and Thank you very much. Is that Can I go home yeah
00:02:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Seven of those games involved Premier League opposition. There was an eighth game. We'll quickly pass over that one. Nobody's interested in the the Welsh game between two Welsh teams, and which they which the better team lost.
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NB
home now?
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Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Let's get to the Premier League ones.
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NB
I think you find the better team won, and they were the lower league team, and that was Cardiff City, against your beloved, not-so-mighty Wrexham,
Match Performances: Wrexham, Brentford, and Fulham
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NB
who toss the way tossed away a chance of a glamour tie against Premier League side.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
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I know.
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NB
And yeah by but a rather insipid display, I've got to say, I was unimpressed by them.
00:03:00
NB
You keep telling me how brilliant they are and how amazing they are, but I was unimpressed. That's awesome.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I was unimpressed as well.
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NB
awesome.
00:03:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
OK, so let's have a look at the the the the seven games that do affect Premier League teams. First one, ah two of these obviously happened not last night, but the night before.
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Grimsby against Brentford. Brentford, they looked clinical. They looked classy. Premier League quality, sharp.
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NB
but
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Quality opposition wasn't great, but Brentford just liked looked like a team full of confidence.
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NB
Yeah, they did. And they are a team full of confidence. they've just come off the back of a magnificent win against Liverpool. ah Grimsby obviously conquers the Manchester United. mean, it makes that result look even more ridiculous, doesn't it?
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Global Sports Podcast Network
It was.
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NB
But Brentford played, ri but they were very professional. They're very clinical.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
what
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NB
it was an It was an easy game. It looked exactly what it was, which is ah Premier League side versus League Two opposition, he says. League Two, isn't it?
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NB
League Two.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
I think they are, yeah.
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NB
so
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Global Sports Podcast Network
And they looked it last night. Brentford, some of the finishing, some of the quality standard finishing thought was excellent. But yeah, Grimtree didn't look great. ah Brentford press was all over them. They were panicking a little bit at the back and they yeah thoroughly deserved it.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
ah
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NB
I thought Brentford, actually their approach to the game was absolutely spot on because they're a team that, as we know, didn't start the season that well and they've come into form of late. They've started picking up some important results. They beat Manchester United, they beat Liverpool and you want to keep that run going. You want to keep that momentum going.
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NB
And it'd be very easy to sort of mentally for the players to switch off or only give 90% against a League Two side. And we found out, you know, Manchester United tried that, what happened?
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NB
And I thought they went about their jobs really professionally, really well. And they got their just rewards, which is a 5-0 win. And they'll go into the next league game at the weekend full of beans.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, they are. I mean, theyre look really solid right now.
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NB
um
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Global Sports Podcast Network
And they look at attacking threat. And they've got plenty of running. got plenty of pace. It's got plenty of physicality. They just look like a decent team. So all our predictions of... ah Brentford ended up with six points at the end of the season, something like that, um are not founded. these did they They look a decent team.
00:05:14
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Which brings me to Fulham. Because I thought, look, watching the Fulham game, what a contrast to Brentford.
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NB
And
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Global Sports Podcast Network
ah They conceded early. the they they They're obviously the better side.
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NB
I think that's
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Global Sports Podcast Network
They created a lot of chances. But they're very wasteful in front of goal. And I thought the interesting comparison between Brentford being very clinical and Fulham being very wasteful.
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NB
change
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Global Sports Podcast Network
And you can just see the two levels of confidence in those two teams, even if in a different competition.
00:05:41
NB
and think And I think that's exactly what it is. It's confidence, isn't it? It's confidence because that's what Brentford have got at the moment. That's what Fulham don't have, which is why they hadn't won for four games.
00:05:52
NB
fact, think they lost four games in a row, if I'm right in thinking.
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NB
And yeah, so they're needed they needed something. They needed to get through the game. They got through it.
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Fulham, yeah.
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And they got through it. They got through it. But it's it you know the performance was, again, comparison to Brentford game, was a very different kind of Premier League performance. They were hanging on.
00:06:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Or they certainly weren't imposing their style at really.
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NB
I don't hanging on.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
they were. Yeah.
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NB
I don't think they're hanging on. i thought they were the better side, but they wouldn't.
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anywhere
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NB
ah didn't They didn't look amazing. But these games you know these games can be very difficult. They can be very difficult going away to a club like Wickham. who make it you know like They got a goal early, didn't they?
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NB
Woodrow scored after four minutes.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
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NB
So that puts Fulham on a back foot straightaway.
00:06:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Keeper was at fault for that. I thought that beaten at the near post.
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NB
Yeah.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, keep, keep the shocker there.
00:06:38
NB
yeah Yeah, we're going to come on to keep us up in shocker in a bit, I think. And so, yeah, fair play to them. they came back I thought they were the better side. Winning on penalties, think, probably about the the right result. Maybe if they'd won in normal time, it would have been about right. So, the right team went through, I think, on the night.
00:06:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think so. Uh,
Championship Challenges and Arsenal Analysis
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So Brent, the right team, went through on Wednesday.
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NB
The right
00:06:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fulham, the right team, went through on Wednesday. Cardiff, the wrong team, went through on Wednesday. And on Tuesday, I should say, Tuesday, all these things happened on Tuesday.
00:07:03
NB
No, let's just try that we?
00:07:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, they did.
00:07:08
NB
Yeah, the third of three games. Wrexham of the Championship. Much fated. We all know that they've spent billions and billions billions of pounds. We all know they bought one National League, they bought League Two, they bought League One.
00:07:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
trillion Trillions, trillions, trillions.
00:07:20
NB
Can't buy the Championship because there's ah there's there's rules in place around your spending, which there aren't in the lower leagues. So they can't go out and just buy... players who would normally play in the Premier League and pay them more.
00:07:31
NB
So there's a bit more of a level playing field and they're getting turned out a bit now, and they?
00:07:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh my God, here we go.
00:07:35
NB
They've had a decent start this season, but you thought they were going to win the Cup.
00:07:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Here we go.
00:07:40
NB
You thought they were going to beat Cardiff easily and they didn't at all.
00:07:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, it was depressing.
00:07:45
NB
They lost with a division.
00:07:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was depressing. It's not been a great season so far, but anyway, ah moving on.
00:07:48
NB
with an p
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NB
but you i mean i know it I know all Rexton fans are like Birmingham fans because they've come up from League One. They're owned by very, very rich American owners. think, oh, yeah, that's no problem. we'll just throw a load of money at it like we have been doing already.
00:08:02
NB
And it'll work. Don't yawn at me. And it it'll work.
00:08:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Hmm.
00:08:06
NB
But the Championship is a really, really difficult league. If you don't know the Championship, it's an unbelievably competitive league. Some say, and I'm kind of Dubai into this school of thinking in some way, that it's the most exciting league in the world because anybody can beat anybody.
00:08:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:08:21
NB
It doesn't matter whether your top doesn out of your bottom. um Anybody can beat anybody on any given day. It's a very, very competitive and hard-fought league. So I think Wrexham are doing okay. I think the they there ah should have set out the season really with...
00:08:34
NB
avoiding relegation as their main aim and and looking to see, you know, if they can finish sort of mid-table if they can, great.
00:08:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think so. Consolidation. 14. Quite happy.
00:08:41
NB
i have been Yeah, 14th through, I think they'll represent a really good season for them. So don't worry too much.
00:08:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:08:46
NB
But yeah, Cardiff are a league below and did did beat you quite comfortably.
00:08:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, this is true about the championship. The championship, the standard isn't great, but everybody's the same standard. So it's it's just, you know, anyone can win it any anything. Right, third game I want to talk about is Arsenal against Brighton.
00:09:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
and don't know if you've seen the game or watched the highlights of that, but it's a really interesting game, actually. Brighton had so many chances in the first half, so many chances. I think I counted three in the first 10 minutes, and there was another big chance at the end of the first half.
00:09:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah I mean, Arsenal look really shaky first half, hung on, nil-nil, and then obviously Arsenal much better in the second half, second on the hour, the first goal on the on the hour mark, Saka scores 15 minutes later, game over.
00:09:26
NB
All.
00:09:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
But for the first 45 minutes, Brighton were right in this.
00:09:40
NB
Yeah, they were. And look, Arsenal made 10 changes. They put out completely new team.
00:09:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:45
NB
And they included 15-year-old, Max Dowman, and a 17-year-old who goes by the name of Andre Harriman-Anout.
00:09:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:52
NB
So there there needs to be, I think that first 10, 15 minutes, Brighton did exactly the right thing and just tried to rip into them as best they could. and But they found Kepa, who was playing in goal, in good form.
00:10:04
NB
And he made some good save. And... After that, you know, when Arsenal get 1-0 up, everybody just goes, in okay, then fair enough. At 2-0, the game is over. So, think...
00:10:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah,
00:10:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah that lad Sackham, look, he's got a good future on the head of I reckon.
00:10:17
NB
don't know. I don't know. to be honest with you, don't really fancy him. i don't I don't think anything's going to come of him. So, yeah, I mean, if you bring on the big guns like Saka, then they'll do that to you.
00:10:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:10:28
NB
yeah, look, Arsenal have just got that air about them of being invincible at the moment, haven't they? They've got that air about them. Whatever team they put out, we'll put out a team of kids. I mean, they weren't all kids, but, you know, 15-year-old 17-year-old.
00:10:40
NB
And I'm pleased for Max Downman because he's kind of come off the bench here and there. And I'm glad for him and I hope he really enjoyed the experience. Yeah, they just look, but just I mean who's going to beat them?
00:10:51
NB
Who's going to beat them and how when they make 10 changes and play Brighton, who are a good side? Yes, that Brighton made changes as well and still won 2-0.
00:10:59
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Yeah, theyre they're they're clearly the outstanding team in the Premier League and in this competition at the moment. Right. As we know, in football, it pays to get team selection right because here at Global Sports Podcast Network, we spend a lot of time delivering our... No, selecting our delivery partner. Not delivering our selecting partner.
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00:11:54
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Okie dokie. Oh, hello, Nick. Where where did you go?
00:11:58
NB
I was just checking the connection to my microphone and my sound desk because I was getting a little bit of funny sound coming through. So I was just making sure.
00:12:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
that's never That's the sound you'd normally make, right? That's the normal odd sound that you make.
00:12:11
NB
um Yeah. Thank you.
00:12:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, no, I think that does that does sound better.
00:12:13
NB
but
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NB
I can still hear it. So I don't know what's going on.
00:12:18
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There's little bit of a squeak, isn't there?
00:12:19
NB
Yeah. Yeah. but don't know where that's coming from.
00:12:22
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It's your budgie. Bertie the budgie.
00:12:24
NB
Oh, he's dead though. dead though and He's dead.
00:12:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's dead. He is dead.
00:12:28
NB
east
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Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll come to that in another episode.
00:12:30
NB
We all know who killed him.
00:12:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's dead.
00:12:31
NB
Yeah, we all know who killed him, probably.
00:12:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right. So,
Liverpool's Struggles and Man City's Victory
00:12:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Liverpool against Paz what? Again. Ah, the car crash continues. The slow, relentless... Car crash continues.
00:12:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Palace have got the ahve they've got the the thing over Liverpool, haven't they? Liverpool had their chances. ah Then Palace scored. What was Gomez doing exactly?
00:12:53
NB
and Well, was about to say, everybody's got their thing of Liverpool the moment, haven't they? It's not just Palace. Anybody can beat them, it seems. Yeah, I mean, we we said actually and on the podcast, didn't we, just a couple of nights ago, what do Liverpool need to do? well They need to get Gomez in the team and and give them a run games.
00:13:08
NB
And um look what happens when they do.
00:13:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, 1-0 Palace.
00:13:12
NB
you go. ah lot they go
00:13:16
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I'll tell you, it's very impressive at Palace. Well, they were playing a pretty full-stretched team, as you would. pet Pina and Saar just look look great, don't they, together?
00:13:27
NB
Yes, a style selection player. Yeah, they did. I mean, they made what, maybe three, four changes?
00:13:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:32
NB
Benitez was playing in goal. Canvo was playing as part of the back three, but Lecoye and Gahy were in there, and they're normal starters. Munoz, who normally plays wing-back, was playing. Hughes and Kamada the midfield. So, Hughes in for ah Wharton, but you know that's not a bad sub to make, is it?
00:13:47
NB
Just bring Will Hughes in.
00:13:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, he's good player.
00:13:48
NB
Not like he's a weak thing there at all.
00:13:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've seen him many years.
00:13:50
NB
Sosa on the other side. And, yeah, I mean, a front three of Saar. Pinho and Nketiah. So, but Mateta dropped to the bench for this. Well, they did come on for the second half.
00:14:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:14:02
NB
Nketiah started the game. So, Palace did play a strong side. Liverpool, on the other hand, I mean, who knows? I was i was watching the comments come through on a WhatsApp group for our colleagues at the GSPN Daily Liverpool.
00:14:14
NB
And to say they've got Gallo's humour at the moment would probably be a bit of an understatement. They were getting quite angry now, actually, i think. They were getting quite angry.
00:14:22
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They're turning on him.
00:14:22
NB
and
00:14:23
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They're turning on him, I tell you.
00:14:23
NB
Yeah, the team was happy.
00:14:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
And when the Scousers turn on you, you're in trouble.
00:14:29
NB
And when they saw the team coming out, certainly, they were just going, what on earth is this team?
00:14:33
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Yeah.
00:14:33
NB
And then I think the surprise, the biggest surprise the night, perhaps, wasn't wasn't the fact that it it was the team he picked, because everybody's made loads of changes for this these games. That's what they do in the League Cup.
00:14:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:14:44
NB
But the fact he had no experience on the bench whatsoever. Not everybody else had the big guns who normally play who weren't playing, just had them on the bench.
00:14:47
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No.
00:14:51
NB
But you look down...
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What's that the thinking there?
00:14:51
NB
elizabeth you know think
00:14:54
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what' What's the thinking?
00:14:54
NB
the
00:14:54
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say You're not going to win against Palace playing playing that team, are you, really?
00:14:59
NB
No. No. Well, look, he doesn't choose a team that he thinks is going to go out and lose. He chooses a team that he thinks is going to go out be competitive to and try and win, whilst also managing game time for the players that normally play and managing game time for those who don't.
00:15:14
NB
And Gomez is a great...
00:15:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Glassner's doing that as well, isn't he? Glassner's doing that as well, but he just did it better.
00:15:16
NB
If you look at... they've just got a much bigger squad, Liverpool. That's why they've got more players in there that they've that they've got to please, I think, more than anything else.
00:15:25
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That's a... Yeah, but I mean, at that cost, though, of getting batted 3-0 at home in the lead court?
00:15:26
NB
Because it's basically a team of
00:15:33
NB
it tells it it tells me, and probably everybody else for that matter, he wasn't too bothered about this cup. He just wasn't too bothered.
00:15:39
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No.
00:15:40
NB
He's got Real Madrid coming up. He's got Premier League games. They've got to win. um i mean, looking at the team here, ah back five. looked like a back five. It was a back five, wasn't it? Kerkes through to Ramsey with Endo Gomez and Robertson in the middle.
00:15:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:15:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:15:54
NB
I mean, i was I was watching some of it. I couldn't quite make out the what the shape, if that makes sense. There's a 5-4-1, I think. but But, yeah, players...
00:16:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
but but But isn't that part of the problem? Isn't that part of the problem? The fact that that it's all a bit of a mess, isn't it? We we've talked we were talking about it last night and the fact that the o Liverpool swap and change, swap and change, swap and change and all the time in games.
00:16:09
NB
and
00:16:13
NB
Well, we also said yeah we also say they have they have to make themselves harder to beat.
00:16:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, sorry. Hmm.
00:16:17
NB
They have to stop conceding goals and therefore they need to get the defence sorted out. He's tried to do that, clearly, because he's changed shape and he's given the defence more protection at potentially the cost of going forward because Chiesa, as a lone striker, I mean, nobody nobody really thinks that's a good idea, I don't think.
00:16:25
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Hmm.
00:16:33
NB
And it didn't get to.
00:16:33
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Kez is a player. But but yeah but but bit but you know it just wasn't working at all last night for Liverpool.
00:16:36
NB
He's a groupie player. I think he should get a lot more game time than he does. think
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Liverpool's defence looked look shaky against the Palace press. ah Palace, big physical team. We were talking about that again yesterday. that you know When you're up against Palace, you've got to be at the races in the physical contest, haven't you?
00:16:53
NB
it's more.
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And they just just weren't quite...
00:16:58
NB
100%. Well, Mateta will bully you. he's not i He came on for the second half. He will bully you. I'll tell you who came on with 20 minutes to go, by the way. My old mate, Wellety Lucky, who we mentioned.
00:17:06
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Oh, he came on, didn't he?
00:17:08
NB
but He's not really my mate. I just think he's got the best name in football.
00:17:11
NB
And I was hoping he'd come on yesterday. And he did. He came on ah with about 20 minutes to go for, I think it was Robertson, I think. I'll need to check that.
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He asked.
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Yeah.
00:17:20
NB
So, yeah, I mean, whatever he tried, he did.
00:17:22
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But when that's the highlight of the game from a liverpool Liverpool fan's perspective, the actual name of the person coming on, you know, you yeah these these ah these are sad times at Anfield.
00:17:33
NB
Well, I'm sure that i'm sure the the actual Liverpool fans, of course, I'm not a Liverpool fan. I just find it a great name. I'm sure they weren't bothered. They've got bigger things to be worrying about. I think the question is now, after last night, lots of mitigating circumstances, but where does Slott go from here?
00:17:50
NB
What's his next move? I'm not suggesting, by the way, that he needs to be replaced or sacked or... anything like that. But this can't go on before you get a situation where, you know, another three games, you lose another three games, then that's nine out of ten defeats.
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This cannot go on.
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easy The ice is getting thin on the River Mersey.
00:18:07
NB
but Yeah, it is, isn't it?
00:18:12
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It's thin ice on the River Mersey. And, uh, yeah, everybody thought this was impossible, but this is a season where weird things are happening and, uh, something weird could definitely happen at Anfield.
00:18:25
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Uh, okay. Uh, Swansea against Man City. Swansea take the lead. Great finish. Great finish. I if you saw the first goal.
00:18:33
NB
it's
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what What a goal.
00:18:34
NB
I
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ah Could have made it two. ah But then eventually class and clinical finishing. ah Mamouche scored a great goal.
00:18:48
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ah And it kind of won out in the end. So City, big sigh relief, but never really in massive danger, I don't think.
00:18:56
NB
don't think so. Quality came. I mean, it was two late goals, wasn't it? It was about 13, 14 to go and then one injury time, 94.
00:19:00
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Yeah.
00:19:02
NB
Yeah. so Yeah, it wasn't it wasn't a surprise. Again, Man City, bit like Brentford, controlled most of the game. Swansea needed to score first goal. it did score the first goal.
00:19:14
NB
City were a bit lucky with their equaliser, deflection, but you take that. And from that moment on, there was only one winner in the game, I think.
00:19:24
NB
Swansea needed to get the second goal. They needed that.
00:19:24
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Yeah.
00:19:26
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Doku continues to impress. I do like him.
00:19:29
NB
He's great. He's had a great season, yeah. Yeah, he's had a great season.
00:19:31
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He's good player. He's good player. So Man City get through to the hat. By the way, Nick, the wanted bit of information i should have had for this podcast and don't have, which you might want to look up for me, is ah what is the draw for the next round? Because I think it's been made, but I don't know what it is.
00:19:46
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Okay.
00:19:46
NB
ah do know that I do know that term Newcastle are at home to Fulham.
00:19:52
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and Okay.
00:19:52
NB
know I know that much because my wife, who is a fanatical Newcastle fan, told me when I woke up this morning. was the first thing she said to me.
00:20:00
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Right.
00:20:00
NB
All right.
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Okay. Well, we shall look that up as we yeah as we continue.
00:20:01
NB
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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00:20:10
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00:20:46
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Thank you.
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um
00:21:00
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right ah Two more games to talk about quickly. First one, Wolves against Chelsea.
00:21:04
NB
first one
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That was a drama-filled game, if ever I saw one. Lots to pick over on um that one. Wolves looked as weak as, well, as weak as a baby lamb ah on a balsa wood bridge.
00:21:18
NB
Okay.
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That was how weak they were, because both of those things are quite weak.
00:21:26
NB
Okay.
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And they were down in 14 minutes.
00:21:27
NB
so
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3-0 down after another terrible mistake at the back. Chelsea were just playing through Wolves like they weren't there. ah And then there was a second half.
00:21:42
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But, i mean, what was your first take of West Ham's abysmal first first half an hour?
00:21:47
NB
Well, i know that I know they're bad. They're not that bad that you can call them West Ham. I thought wo Wolves were very typically Wolves.
00:21:51
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Oh, sorry, Wolves.
00:21:53
NB
this is what we're getting used to now. Dreadful starters, dreadful ah first halves, conceding goals, then coming back into games and not quite managing to to get anything out of them. ah It's kind of rinse and repeat from the weekend at Burnley when they were 2-0 down, came back to two two and lost 3-2. It's the same sort of idea, really.
00:22:13
NB
It tells you several things. It tells you that they're rubbish, but we knew that already. ah But it also tells you they've still got some fight and some spirit because and we've been talking about Vito Pereira quite a lot recently, haven't we?
00:22:27
NB
And he hasn't... shown I mean, that when you're 3-0 down, you could easily just completely down tools as a player and give up.
00:22:32
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That is what you expecting to be 5-6-0, don't you, at that point?
00:22:33
NB
but Yeah, exactly exactly. But they really came back into it and they do credit for that. they obviously dr And I think the players, you can certainly see the players are still playing for the manager. they've not he's not lost the dressing room because they came out and gave it a really good go. The problem is you can't keep doing that when your 2-0 or 3-0 goal is down.
00:22:49
NB
You just can't do it.
00:22:50
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Hmm.
00:22:51
NB
and
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No, they are putting themselves behind the eight ball all the time, aren't they, Wolves?
00:22:52
NB
element
00:22:55
NB
You know, I'm thinking, right, where does this leave Pereira? And I'm thinking, well, it's obviously done in most of the time.
00:23:02
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The Wolves take something from that game, something positive from that game.
00:23:03
NB
and buts ah That's what I'm saying. It doesn't it doesn't do him any favours because they lost the game. But i don't think I don't think it damages him either because or makes his position worse because they've given it a real go.
00:23:10
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Hmm.
00:23:15
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Hmm.
00:23:15
NB
But ultimately, the Wolves fans will look at and go, well, yeah, we gave it a go, but you know we gave three goals away in the first half hour at a game. So it's all very well giving it a go, but it's just not good enough.
00:23:26
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Because they really had the chance, because to get it back to 3-2, De Lapp gets sent off very stupidly.
00:23:31
NB
Yeah.
00:23:33
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I mean, there's a thing. There's a story there, isn't there, in terms of Chelsea and red cards. I mean it's just every week. Hmm.
00:23:40
NB
Well, Maresco was talking about it afterwards, wasn't he? And saying that when Dallap got booked the first time, he was literally shouting him, shouting him, shouting at him, telling him to calm down, calm down, calm down all the time.
00:23:51
NB
He said it it was impossible because when Dallap's out on the pitch, his head goes. ah Well, not his head goes. He didn't say his head goes. He said he kind plays for himself and obviously he's in the moment. But he learns he needs to learn that maturity because it was his first first appearance is August.
00:24:04
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Yeah.
00:24:04
NB
He's on the pitch for 20 minutes and gets two yellows and he's off again.
00:24:07
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and Absolute madness. But you saw it in his eyes.
00:24:08
NB
Yeah.
00:24:09
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I mean, he was clearly a second yeller because, you know, he put his arm right in the face of the defender.
00:24:14
NB
His arm's up. His arm's up. Yeah, I mean, there's no there's no getting away from it.
00:24:16
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Yeah.
00:24:18
NB
His arm's up and and into the other player's face. So, yeah, course he's.
00:24:21
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Yeah. Absolutely crazy. But, I mean, is it just coincidence it always happens to Chelsea?
00:24:26
NB
Yeah.
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Or is there something something there?
00:24:27
NB
this
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Yeah.
00:24:31
NB
I don't know. i kind of think that it's just individual mistakes. I don't think there's a culture of ill-discipline. No, I don't think that. if that's what you're asking, I don't think there's a culture of ill-discipline. Because when you look at the red cards that they've had, it's not like they're just going around whacking players and elbowing them and kicking them and all that. are They're just individual moments of stupidity and and sometimes a bit of misfortune.
00:24:56
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yeah i wonder i wonder if they couldn't be doing more in terms of maturity in terms of saying yeah yeah
00:25:01
NB
Well, they can't alllthough they can do. I mean, look, we've talked about Chelsea being a very young team and that's um part of the problem is they're a very young team and therefore they don't have that maturity. So, yes, there's absolutely more they can do. But ultimately, when you're a football player and you're out pitch, the coach can't do anything about it.
00:25:16
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Mm-hmm.
00:25:16
NB
The culture can't do anything about it. It's whether or not you as an individual can keep your head.
00:25:22
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Yeah, interesting, interesting.
00:25:23
NB
I'm sorry. trans
00:25:24
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And two finally,
00:25:24
NB
the
Newcastle vs Spurs and Upcoming Games Preview
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to the the final game, Newcastle against Spurs.
00:25:29
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Newcastle 2, Spurs 0. A couple of things from that. Newcastle, I thought, looked quite crisp, quite sharp. Spurs didn't.
00:25:35
NB
So... so
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Spurs didn't really seem to offer much of a threat, to to be honest. I still worry about Spurs up front. I just don't think they've got enough, anything like enough up front to be anything like contenders in the Premier League. And Walter Mardin got his customary goal.
00:25:52
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ah Newcastle, good good value for the win.
00:25:55
NB
Yeah, they were i mean I watched the whole of this game, obviously, and it was just a very comfortable win. thought Newcastle were they weren't great. they weren they weren They were proficient. They did the job. They got it done.
00:26:08
NB
was nothing terribly exciting. Tottenham were under the weather. I don't think they played particularly well, but I've said it before, I'll say again. If you're relying on Richarlison as your number nine, then you might as well go home because he's he's he's just not up to the job at all.
00:26:20
NB
Talk that Solanke might be shipped out in in January because Frank doesn't like him.
00:26:24
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Because Solanke's not going to do it either, is he?
00:26:27
NB
He's a much better player than Richarlison, but he's been injured. He's constantly injured.
00:26:30
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Yeah.
00:26:31
NB
there's There's a suggestion that there's been a kind of falling out with a manager. And therefore, you're not left with much. I mean, they need two strikers, I think, in January.
00:26:41
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Yeah.
00:26:42
NB
Two proper number nines, two proper front-line strikers.
00:26:43
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Did you? And Miles off. that I mean, they're remarkably well to get where they've got to and score the goals they've got score.
00:26:46
NB
You've got talented players around you.
00:26:49
NB
um really They've got some good, talented players. You know, I like Bergvall. I like Simons. I think he's been a good signing. and Yeah, they've got Mohamed Kudos who comes off the bench.
00:27:00
NB
So they've got they've got plenty of talent to sit behind the nine in a 4-2-3-1. But what they need is the one. They need that that player up top who will spearhead them.
00:27:10
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Yeah, it was shot.
00:27:13
NB
um And that's... that's That's what they're lacking. But to last like yesterday, they just they just were missing that. they weren't They weren't just quiet at the races. I mean, it was gifted second goal by an appalling goalkeeping era.
00:27:28
NB
Kinski, he's just come out. to try and get to Volta Marder. He's gone the wrong side of him. He's just nowhere near the ball and the net is just wide open for Volta Marder to head it into.
00:27:39
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Yeah, it's dead
00:27:40
NB
mean, he's a good header and if Kinsey stays in his line, he might still not save it, but at least he'll give himself a chance and give Volta Marder to think about. i just don't know what he's doing. He's a real rush of blood to the head, charging out to try and punch the ball.
00:27:50
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easy.
00:27:51
NB
He was never, ever going to get anywhere near.
00:27:53
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No, it wasn't. Volta Moda took it well. Volta Moda looks a class act, actually. So just to bring you...
00:27:57
NB
but know he does us yeah No, he does. i like I like him. And every time I see him, you know i like watching him play. and yeah the first um mean, the first goal was that was actually the controversial moment of the game, wasn't it?
00:28:08
NB
When Newcastle had a corner and they'd had a corner a moment before that had been adequately and actually easily defended by Tottenham. and But as they got this corner, Jed Spence was near the corner flag where they'd taken it, tying up his laces.
00:28:08
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Hmm.
00:28:23
NB
And it took him a long time and the referee just ran out of patience and essentially just then allowed then allowed to the corners to take place. And Shah, who Spence was meant to be marking, ran in and headed into the goal.
00:28:35
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Yeah, took it well.
00:28:37
NB
I don't know what your thoughts are about that because if a player is tying a shoelace and takes an absolute age, A, is the referee right to allow him to take his position on the pitch for a corner?
00:28:47
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Yeah, it is. Absolutely It's an injury.
00:28:49
NB
um or or or Or it's not injury, is it?
00:28:53
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No.
00:28:53
NB
No, I mean, what saying is, should he wait for the player to do his laces?
00:28:55
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No.
00:28:56
NB
And then, I mean, my sense is it's not an under-7s game.
00:28:56
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No. Exactly.
00:28:58
NB
So, just, you know, there's a corner against you. Just sort yourself out and do your laces, you know, afterwards.
00:29:04
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Exactly.
00:29:04
NB
i'm But also, when this corner comes in, deal with it better. and They didn't deal with it at all.
00:29:08
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No, show it the easy header.
00:29:09
NB
Yeah.
00:29:10
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And he's good in in those circumstances. Just checking the yeah the draw.
00:29:15
NB
Yes, so the big guns obviously have been kept apart. So Man City aren't playing Arsenal. A couple of tantalising games. i don't know that's the right phrase. There aren't really, are there? Because Man City are home to Brentford.
00:29:29
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Palace is the pick, innit?
00:29:30
NB
Arsenal home to Palace. That would be a good That's the pick of the games.
00:29:34
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Yeah.
00:29:34
NB
Cardiff, Chelsea is not the pick of games. Could have been Wrexham, but it's not.
00:29:38
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Could have been Rex.
00:29:39
NB
ah Newcastle at home to Fulham. I mean, get my crystal ball out there. You're looking at Arsenal, Newcastle, Man City and Chelsea, aren't you, for the semis?
00:29:46
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Yeah, which which is great. Great lot of semifinals, really.
00:29:50
NB
Yeah.
00:29:50
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So ah great. So that's it. That's been today's Daily Premier League podcast.
00:29:54
NB
Yeah.
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you want to get in contact with us, as I mentioned earlier, send it over to dailypremierleagepodcast at gmail.com. I think we're due to do a... yeah I think we're due to do a post-bag one on Saturday, actually.
00:30:08
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I think that's the plan. And I look forward to that. Thanks for joining me, Nick. You can go back to the beach.
00:30:14
NB
see would meet them I'll go back to my Hawaiian picture. Mind you, Hawaii's not a good choice to be at the moment, is it, with all the storms and all that?
00:30:20
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Oh, yeah, there's a beach storm, isn't there?
00:30:21
NB
I'm glad I'm in Derby. And tomorrow we're doing previews of the weekend's games, are we?
00:30:26
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Yeah, looking forward to that one. there's some oh There's a lot to talk about.
00:30:30
NB
Excellent. Good stuff.
00:30:31
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Look forward to that. Have fun, everybody. And we'll see you next time.
00:30:49
NB
All right.