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Episode 66: Room 101 Number 2 - Electric Boogaloo!
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Southampton – We had so much fun the first time, we had to do it again! Making the most of opportunities to moan about things other than our beloved saints, we once again still this classic BBC format and find 6 more things in football we'd get rid of!
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Introduction to the Episode
00:00:10
Zak
Hello and welcome to the Daily Southampton part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. I am your host, Zackingo Finch, a man who has had to pass his theory test for the second time today within the last three years, because I still haven't got my driving license. I am joined by my perfectly good friend, Gregory Elliott. How mate? How is your Monday going? Although this will episode will be going out on a Tuesday.
Recording Challenges and Room 101 Revisit
00:00:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's been busy mate to be honest it's been let's not pretend that I didn't forget that we on right so
00:00:44
Zak
About an hour ago, I shoved out a text to Greg to like, hey, are we going to record today? And like the realisation is I know exactly how he reacted when he pulled up his phone in Asda going, oh, yeah, forgot about that, because usually we would record much earlier. obviously, i we've both been tied up today. So today we decided to bring back something we did last week, because for one, we' just we're just waiting for real football to start again, and it's upsetting, but it's not starting again yet.
00:01:11
Zak
and two, we enjoyed doing Room101 last week. So we thought, why not do it?
00:01:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
in one of my favourite episodes that we've done.
00:01:16
Zak
Yeah, exactly. So like why not do it again? it It turns out both of us both have strong opinions about many, many different things. so So yeah, want to go first or shall I go first, mate?
00:01:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know what we're thinking.
00:01:31
Zak
I'll shoot off with my
The Impact of Sponsorship in Football
00:01:32
Zak
first one then. So so my first thing that needs to absolutely, completely and utterly get in the bin. It's over sponsorship. Now, if you listen to our episode about gambling, you'll you'll hear me talking and making a couple of jokes about this previously. But like the more I think about it, the more it just makes me angry and just just just really grinds my gears. And it's the fact that why why do we have like a sponsorship for everything? It's like Southampton football teams
00:02:04
Zak
chosen windscreen wipers, Southampton football teams, energy drink, Southampton football teams, backup energy drink, Southampton football teams like baby formula. so It is is absolutely absurd and I think it kind of pulls more into the over-Americanisation of football and like where I'm at is if it means that we got charged less as ah ah as as fans, I'd be significantly happier for us to have all of these extra sponsors. If I had to listen to how the the the official Southampton self-driving car is like the Tesla Model A or whatever, but, hear me out, like matchday beers were slightly cheaper, well or like season tickets were slightly cheaper, or the bolt-ons are better, not a problem.
00:02:53
Zak
But when it's like every year, it's like we spent a tough year, guys, we're going to have to put the prices up again. And also, we'd like to introduce to you our electrolyte water and energy provider and also tarot card sponsorship. Like it's just like, hey, I'm just so.
00:03:10
Zak
It's so infuriating because it's like, I don't care. I'm really sorry. It's just going to get to a point where it's like F1, where there's just going to be a big string of sponsors and you maybe recognize it because you might see that you might, you but you won't know where from.
00:03:22
Zak
And it turns out it's from the side of an F1 car.
00:03:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
We don't get kits anymore, so we get liveries. I'm down for it.
00:03:27
Zak
Yeah, exactly. Just just a here you go. Here's every single, you know, we're talking about front of certain sponsors. What happens when they start double stacking, triple stacking, and you just get to a point where it doesn't matter. but Underneath all of the sponsors will just be, will be a club crest somewhere that even then will start, you know, especially if you go and buy some other leagues where teams are literally owned by like big companies that, you know, like, like sort of Yamaha and things like that and Kawasaki.
00:03:52
Zak
you know they actually own teams and the teams have that in their name it's like we're all waiting for red ball leads at some point anyway so yeah just but so so until it gets to that point like even if just just calm down everybody all right just just point your necks in slightly
00:04:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
I might be part of the problem here mate. I've got to be honest, I am more likely, if I'm 50-50 on a product and I know that Saints are sponsored by one of them, I'm more likely to go with that. I'm part of the problem. It's just a top notch consumer.
00:04:25
Zak
like Okay, Greg, so here's a hypothetical for you. You unfortunately have to choose between Lucas Aid and Monster, both of whom are supported, both of whom are the energy drinkers of Southampton.
00:04:37
Zak
What do you do then? Because then you're 50-50 stuffed because we we're supported by everything.
00:04:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
my they're different things mate right one of those is a drink to have energy and one of those is a drink for hydration and electrolytes come on a
00:04:44
Zak
Are they? Interesting.
00:04:49
Zak
Interesting, right.
00:04:52
Zak
either way the over sponsorship of football that is slowly turning kits into an F1 car and the fact that I can't seem to look anywhere in a stadium without being advertised to is is one of the things that I would love to get in the bin.
00:05:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well put it this way mate, it's probably slightly less controversial than goalkeepers so I think we might have a free pass there.
00:05:06
Zak
like
00:05:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
a
00:05:13
Zak
I will also point out that my caveat is unless you see that money being actively invested elsewhere. right like If they were like, hey, we've got this sponsorship, and by the way, this is what we're doing with that money, and like decided to hold themselves accountable for it, and why they've set up that sponsorship, sure. If it's just like, hey, we've decided to massively increase our revenue stream by getting a new like fencing panel provider, I just don't care. So yeah, that's my first thing that needs to get completely and utterly in the bin, mate.
00:05:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right. You want me to shoot with my first option?
00:05:46
Zak
Yeah, let's go for gold, mate. What's your first...
00:05:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right.
00:05:48
Zak
What do you hate, Greg?
The Trouble with Double-Barrelled Surnames
00:05:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I don't think we've got enough time to cover all of the options, but the first one that springs to mind from my listmate is one that hits really close to home at Saints, and that is double-barrelled surnames.
00:05:50
Zak
What do you what do you want to be removed from football other than...
00:06:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now,
00:06:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I'm talking about money grabbing.
00:06:10
Zak
yeah
00:06:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
These are just extra letters that you're gonna have to put on the back of kids shirts. Like, names aren't long enough. Like, you're charging by the letter and putting a double-barreled surname in.
00:06:20
Zak
oh
00:06:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's just taking the mic, mate. There's no need for it.
00:06:23
Zak
but Considering we're a team that famously had at one point what like eight outfield players that all had double-barrelled names you You say that mate like I usually get I've always since I was young I've got always got my surname at the back of my shirt
00:06:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know, it's ridiculous. Costs all of a sudden an extra 50 quid to get a name on the back of a kit. Not even enough room for it.
00:06:43
Zak
And I got married in 2019. And I unfortunately became one of those double-barrelled people. And I say, unfortunately, I love my wife very much. I'm happy with my name. But like my name was five letters privacy. My surname was five letters privacy. It's now 10 with a hyphen in the middle. Since then, it's caused me problems with the fact that, one, people seem shocked that I double-barrelled my name, which is that's a whole conversation separate unto itself.
00:07:08
Zak
I swear too that my wife just wanted to put me through it because if I had to put her out through the pain of changing her name, she did as well. Three, if we ever decide to have kids, it's entirely their problem to sort out what they're going to do with their surname in the future.
00:07:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's ridiculous where we go.
00:07:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
We go triple barrels. Look, let me tell you the main reason this subset, right? My son is a has decided that he is a defender, which ah ah at the under sevens level is frankly admirable.
00:07:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that's fine. But his favorite player is Taylor Harward-Bellis. Now, I don't know if you've seen the size of a six to seven year old Saints kit, but try squeezing Harward-Bellis on the back of that.
00:07:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's just not going to happen, is it?
00:07:49
Zak
but as i said mate doubling the amount of letters on the back of my shirt annoyed me so yeah with a parent of a young one that needs to try and whack a ward prowls or a harwood bellis on the back yeah i bet that is annoying but yeah it just seems and it seems like as well we just like to do it like you know whenever we we we you know walker peters we had maitland niles at one point as well ah good fun isn't it okay you're You're right.
00:08:13
Zak
i To be fair mate, I kind of agree with that because I feel like in society in general we should just find a better way of doing it.
00:08:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
the most uncertain thing about it is mate, it's that £1 you pay for the dash
00:08:21
Zak
what What's that mate?
00:08:26
Zak
that was That was my last point, right? Having that completely ruined my life because it breaks things like EasyJet and stuff like that. So to be able to like, someone booked a holiday and were like, oh, by the way, here's the booking reference. I'm trying to log in. I'm going back and forth and back and forth. And what what happened was because that dash breaks certain computer systems, they just removed it. But I was not aware of that. So I'm having to spell my name in about 30 different ways for finally just remove the dash in the middle. Oh, it worked perfectly fine.
00:08:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Uh, brilliant.
00:08:53
Zak
Yeah, so no, I agree with you for both logistical cost reasons and being a double-barrelled person myself, it's annoying mainly because my wife has to go, inga finch, and then they go, what?
00:09:05
Zak
And then she's like, just finch is fine.
00:09:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:09:09
Zak
So yes, mate, I agree. I agree wholeheartedly. With that, it turns out we've waffled enough to take us into our first little break here, mate.
00:09:18
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Americanization of Football
00:09:43
Zak
Good. Happy days. Rightio mate. So let let's let's go on with my why one. So i think I think we're both in agreement. Oversponsorship should just calm down unless the money's going somewhere. Double barrelled names.
00:09:56
Zak
I'd rather them just take on a singular name like Prince. oh or or just have THB. We all know who it is at that point. that's what we eat but to To be able to hit the character limits on Twitter, mate, I have to sometimes change it to that. so so yeah but my My thing is that so a risk of annoying an entire nation of people again.
00:10:18
Zak
yeah so and like Like last time, it's also for football manager reasons mainly, but it's it's it's the MLS. and um I'm sorry, Major League Soccer. you you You were once a great retirement home for many of our players. you You once gave Bradley Wright Phillips top scorer, you know? But it's it's one of those things where I don't understand you you you. You kind of act almost like you're American football, you have weird playoffs, you kind of play for a cup that isn't really the Super Bowl. And also what I don't understand is that I could play an Arsenal or play at a Man United and I could have tons of money and somehow I can't pry like Messi away from the American League.
00:11:07
Zak
Even if I offer him the same wages that he's on now, it's it's baffling to me. And I think that's the that's the main reason why. is like It was easier back in the day, Greg, to kind of pry him away from PSG.
00:11:20
Zak
right If you had the money, PSG is just PSG. Everyone knows that you're only there for money. But but it seems like into Miami, he's become this sort of weird retirement home for all the sort of Barcelona players.
00:11:33
Zak
Everybody likes to see David Beckham. yeah they're They're clapping off.
00:11:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
at
00:11:37
Zak
like losing in a playoff final and having celebrations it's a very it's a very bizarre league and i think to me to be honest it's very american and that's that's fine like that's we've we've we've discussed this before yeah though you're right it's but maybe ah maybe maybe you're right maybe
00:11:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think its main problem, Zach, is that at the moment, I'm going to tip it on its head.
00:11:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
that. It's not American enough. I miss the MLS where penalties were taken from running in from the edge of the box and in the one-on-one situation.
00:12:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
I miss goalkeeper wars. need that back. If it was a bit more American, I think it's fine.
00:12:09
Zak
Is it the fact that they've tried to try to kind of make their very American League more European? And also the fact that you've got a club called Into Miami, it's just bizarre to me.
00:12:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:12:21
Zak
Like just the name of it is strange.
00:12:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Just buy into your differences, except that it's wild.
00:12:22
Zak
just i would I would much prefer the Miami Flamingos, right? Like I love the fact that american like American football has all of the weird wacky names and like, you know, like Chicago Fire, cool.
00:12:38
Zak
but like, you know, the Chicago Phoenix's and stuff like that. Like, I love all that stuff. So yeah, you're right. Make it over make it more American and and and um let me primacy away from it to my feet on Football Manager.
00:12:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's not American enough. Yeah.
00:12:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
I want to, in fact, do away with penalty shootouts and the running from the box penalties altogether and just finish the game with goalkeeper wars, if need be, because I'm down for that.
00:12:52
Zak
It's not that much to ask.
00:13:02
Zak
Right, so let me go. The MLS in its current format because it's not American enough can get into room 101.
00:13:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right.
00:13:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, all right.
00:13:10
Zak
Gregory, what is your second mate?
00:13:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
My second is probably less controversial. I think it is semi-finals being played at Wembley from the FA Cup.
00:13:17
Zak
Interesting.
00:13:22
Zak
Oh, stung.
00:13:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
i I think that it lessens the event of playing at Wembley in one degree but that in itself is fine but actually I just think there was such a buzz back in the day about going to a really traditional ground with loads of heritage as your neutral round in the semi-final or even if it was like a hyper modern and you want to take it and go and you know play at the Tottenham Stadium with all of the hospitality it's still something different right it's a nice neutral ground it's a different away day rather than having to trek
Wembley Semifinals: A Loss of Prestige?
00:13:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
up to Wembley twice
00:13:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's just feels like it makes the final more important as the road to Wembley, as opposed to the road to, well, two games at Wembley, if you're lucky. It's just, you know, when we got to the final in way back in the day, when we lost to Arsenal and our semi-finals at Villa Park, that's great.
00:14:11
Zak
Okay, thank you.
00:14:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
What a great, fantastic, traditional ground to have a semi-final at. What more could you ask for?
00:14:24
Zak
See, this is this is why I like, this is why I'm quite happy to have like the two the two legs one at one because like ah ah the the night of us beating West Brom to get to the playoff final will live in my head rent free forever.
00:14:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
I just, I miss it.
00:14:39
Zak
That was that was absolutely incredible. I've never seen anything at St. Mary's like that. it It was very optimistic of them to think that they would try and bring that vibe to every single game this season, <unk>s especially the state of some of the results recently.
00:14:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
I respect it.
00:14:53
Zak
but like Yeah, but like I think even not even having to worry about a neutral round. I'd rather have those games over two legs in front of the the home fans. But like I don't understand why, yeah, if you're going to have a final at Wembley, why you'd also have like a semi-final there.
00:15:07
Zak
A semi-final, it's not a place for semi-finals. It's a place for finals, and it's a place for for England to play football, and obviously to watch Taylor Swift with your wife. So like those are the those are the three things they're there for.
00:15:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think that the downside of the home and away legs is that someone still gets an advantage, right? You play at home second, it's undeniably an advantage. And I think by making everyone suffer, by going to Birmingham, you're winning, right?
00:15:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah ah Everyone suffers in equal amounts.
00:15:33
Zak
That's that's true. That's true.
00:15:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
I guess to go to this beautiful traditional ground,
00:15:35
Zak
Or do we, do we have a dedicated? Do we have a dedicated semi final ground?
00:15:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've got enough football stadiums in the country. I just think any neutral ground, we've got enough football stadiums in the country that have a capacity and the ability to hold these massive games and these big, big games in a neutral way. We should be utilizing that.
00:15:55
Zak
That's fair. That's a fair point.
00:15:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
And yeah, like I can see the arguments for whether it would be a traditional ground like a Villa Park or a Hillsborough, or even if you wanted to hyper-modernize in it and go and do you know the Emirates or the Etihad or something, fine. Either way, it's an acceptable decision, but it's all slightly better than a Wembley in my opinion.
00:16:18
Zak
Yeah, ah so again, like I think my only other argument for that is it costs enough. If you go to a semifinal elsewhere and then you get into a final and you need to pay for two full away days, but I guess either way, it's just a lot of money. I think that's the only reason I'm also a big fan of like the the legs. like If you you can get the away fans, it will go to be the away support, and the home fans get to turn up. and it's you know it's Shout out to anyone that has the the effort and finances to go and do all of that and support all of that, because it's it's difficult, especially in current times.
00:16:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely.
00:16:47
Zak
But yeah, I'd say that. i like Again, for me, Wembley shouldn't be a place that you play semi-finals period. I'm there, mate, in 100% agreement with you.
00:16:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:16:56
Zak
Rightio, so it looks like we we we keep winding down the clock, mate, because it turns out me and you chat a lot. So we're going to head to a word from our partners at the Global Sports Podcast Network.
00:17:07
Zak
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00:17:26
Zak
Right, mate. so Heading towards the end,
Overused Phrases in Football
00:17:30
Zak
I'm going to give you my third. my third, I don't know how controversial this is. I don't know who this will upset. I don't know if I'm that bothered either way. I am completely and have been sick of since the phrase started to exist. Can they do it on a cold, rainy night at Stoke? How this one phrase is still persisting 14 years later after it was like an off-the-hand comment about the Ballon d'Or competition between two players is is baffling to me. I i'm so ah don't know what it is about, to be fair, fantastic PR for Stoke City. Probably the best PR they're ever going to have and ever will have. I understand that historically, they are a team that are difficult to break down. Or as you pointed out with your father-in-law, one of the most boring teams to watch in the world.
00:18:22
Zak
And we struggled against them not too long ago, but ultimately we beat them. And if we can beat them trying to say, you know, trying to say that a team made up of Lionel Messi and, you know, Cristiano Ronaldo with nine sort of 15 year olds would probably also be able to, to beat them. Likewise, to be honest, at the moment, they'd probably be able to beat a prime saints. So that's not, that's not saying much, but it's, it's just so weird how it just, it's just stayed in the cultural zeitgeist as like a, as like a,
00:18:51
Zak
And it just seems to be like one of those phrases that people throw out to kind of end an argument.
00:18:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
As a reason for it mate is because it's because Stoke is a horrible place to go and I don't mean in a football perspective I just mean as a place like you've got a deal with going there But no
00:19:06
Zak
like off the whole of the whole of stoke like to just mock up the entire city
00:19:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
but Why not? We've upset the Saudi league, we've upset America. No, I think that the main reason it sticks in the sort of the cultural zeitgeist, right, is because of...
00:19:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is a horrible ground and it seems to have, you know, traditionally they actively made it uncomfortable for people to play out and let the grass grow and whatever. But even without that, they still get the way it's placed. They have like these horrible wind conditions. And in fact, I mean, we had our own horror show there when Begavitch scored against us.
00:19:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
when the wind took the ball from his goal kick and left after Borrett's looking foolish.
00:19:49
Zak
You're right.
00:19:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I kind of get it, you know.
00:19:54
Zak
I, I, to be fair, I, I understand.
00:19:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Don't you know, we talked about going to Birmingham being difficult. It's stoke.
00:20:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's not exactly a holiday destination, is it?
00:20:06
Zak
Oh, poor stoke. Oh, it's just, it's just, I think that to be honest, is it's self-serving Stoke propaganda is where I'm at. It's it's managing to keep Stoke in the consultials like guys, but one of the problems is like, what happens if 10 years down the line, right?
00:20:22
Zak
Stoke Stadium modernises they become this incredible attacking threat and they are constantly haunted by the idea that they are they are this team like just in a windy city where it's rainy and miserable and nobody's happy and apparently if you if you take a professional football player there from another country they'll suddenly just collapse and forget what to do on the pitch it's it's fun it's fine I think it's served its purpose I would like us to hear better and more sound bites that are funnier however maybe that's just the state
00:20:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:20:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah it's just football heritage right in it it's just like hearing from Mahatma Gandhi that you don't back the early kickoff it's just culturally accepted
00:20:58
Zak
It's just the way it is, I'm aware. But it's one of the things that when I hear, I'm like, it's usually used as a way to neutrally end an argument and is a bit of a cop out. And I think that's what it is, is that I just wish that people would be able to resolve their differences without, but or use it as a point to say maybe why a player is bad.
00:21:16
Zak
It is insane to me.
00:21:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:18
Zak
This is like, ah, guy's amazing. Could he do a roll call really nice? Like, who knows?
00:21:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right, lazy point making I'll give you.
00:21:22
Zak
He's never going to because he's not playing in the championship, is he?
00:21:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'll give you, but it's too cliche.
00:21:27
Zak
Thank you.
Inconsistencies in Stoppage Time
00:21:29
Zak
Thank you.
00:21:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's fine.
00:21:30
Zak
Thank you very much.
00:21:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right, mate. Okay, well, I'll give you my my final point. And look, can you believe we've gone five whole points in room 101 and not mentioned anything even remotely referee related?
00:21:44
Zak
I'm very proud of both of us, to be honest.
00:21:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
So let me bring you to my third and final point, stoppage time and and specifically the inconsistency in the way that stopping in stoppage time is managed, right?
00:21:56
Zak
oh
00:22:01
Zak
Okay, go for gold.
00:22:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, we talked about it a bit in the last room moment on one episode with the goalkeeper's going down, how ridiculous that is. But the amount of times that you will see three or four minutes go up on the board and then someone will go down with cramp and they'll stay down for like 90 seconds and then they'll, you know, take another 10 seconds, take in the throw and whatever. And you're thinking, well, at least we're playing until five, maybe six, seven minutes here. And then it will get to three minutes and the ref still blows the whistle.
00:22:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
and It's ridiculous, it's insane.
00:22:31
Zak
I think they should just, when when the stoppage time occurs, they should just stop the clock. They should do it, they do it do NFL style mate, just stop the clock, and then and then wait, and then expect, not during the game, I'm quite happy for them to add it up, but when you're in stoppage time.
00:22:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:45
Zak
But then the problem is, is like, does that then detract from weight that the dark arts of football, if you will? We have probably also been able to time waste our way to a couple of wins in the past.
00:22:56
Zak
Do you want to ruin that? Because I don't know. it's it's this is This is a whole conversation about refereeing and rules in general, right? is that Just let it...
00:23:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think it's as much as anything, right? It's the consistency because we saw in our horror show against Ipswich earlier in the season, we saw that we played past the point of stoppage time because the game had stopped and that was fine. I had zero complaints about that particular decision in the game. That's fine, but it should be consistent across the board and it isn't. The amount of times it just gets blown up, it really is one of the things that annoys me most at football games.
00:23:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that's really saying something to be fair because I do, yeah, I love an opportunity to moan.
00:23:32
Zak
That's fair. You get annoyed about a lot of things, mate. but but yeah but i thought I agree. like and but From a personal perspective, you just have you'd stop the clock.
00:23:46
Zak
Somebody goes down, referee notices, clock stops, pause, hold games on pause, restart it.
00:23:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:52
Zak
Only specifically in stoppage time. But that would that would then stop people messing about specifically in those last sort of five, six minutes. But it it does also mean like what happens if someone's on the break and it gets to specifically 97 minutes and then they they blow the whistle before somebody is able to like launch a crossing. And and and how how do we feel about stuff like that? Because those are the moments that also technically can sometimes make football.
00:24:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right?
00:24:15
Zak
say
00:24:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because the tendency is to let the game play until a reasonable stop. Because you don't want... Specifically because you don't want to be called out with stopping it. But actually, the fairest part is, that's time.
00:24:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's done. I didn't whip the cross in in enough time. But you would never see that happen.
00:24:31
Zak
No.
00:24:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's crazy.
00:24:32
Zak
So say yeah, um um'm with you. I think we should change the way that that works because it's infuriating. And I think for as many times we've gained something from it, we've probably lost some time to it as well.
00:24:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:42
Zak
And the and the whole like, if if we're going to add if we're going to add to like, what was it? like England's game where we ended up having like the most stoppage time I've added in the International World Cup of the year, it's one of the two, where we ended up having like 11 minutes of stoppage time added.
00:24:59
Zak
And I think it was the World it was think it was the the world Cup. It was like ridiculous, right? Like 11, 13 minutes because their goal keep went down for a little bit. And yeah, like that then obviously, if there was like messing about in that 15 minutes, and then people just completely lose track and you're like, well, no.
00:25:16
Zak
If you're going to add every single individual minute up in the first 90, why would you not then do it after the 90?
00:25:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:23
Zak
So yeah, I agree with you. Consistency is key. That's the thing we've always thought. It's always all you want. What we'd really like in the game is consistency, but then also we'd run out of things to talk about.
00:25:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'll tell you what mate, you wouldn't get those sort of mistakes if we had AI referees.
Love for Football Despite Flaws
00:25:35
Zak
good Well, you know, I did wait out about, you know, what how long will it be before we have a generative AI sponsor in the front of every shirt? And now we'll also have like, you know, sky ref.
00:25:47
Zak
it will be It will be a drone that flies around and automatically picks up different different challenges it deems unacceptable.
00:25:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I wonder what Refbot from Robot Wars is doing these days. Get him in.
00:25:58
Zak
Well, so as you like to, Greg, we'll try and leave on a positive. I don't really know how, but I think that all of these things, as much as they're annoying, do not ruin the beautiful sport of football enough for me to be that upset about them. I have a sponsorship I can kind of ignore for the time being. the The MLS, I have no real personal stake in. It just annoys me in football manager, just like Saudi League. And when it comes to the phrase, can they do it in a cold rainy night in Stoke? I'm i'm not going to die if I hear it again.
00:26:27
Zak
i just I just lose a slight amount of respect if someone uses it over and over. Like if anyone over uses a phrase.
00:26:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
look the the positive i'm taking from this and our previous room 101 episode mate is that we have found six things each to have a moan about and none of them were about saints so that's a win
00:26:42
Zak
yeah That with the current like current way we play football and the current way our form is the trajectory of the games, the fact that we get to not whinge about where we are going as a football club is is just nice.
00:26:59
Zak
It's nice to have a complaint about something else.
00:27:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Last on Les Sports Republic really decided to go left field and fully Americanise us and move our brand over to the um MLS for you, or even worse, the Saudi Pro League.
00:27:02
Zak
You're very much right.
00:27:06
Zak
oh
00:27:11
Zak
They're already trying a franchise, so let's have that conversation another time. Never want to mug off our Turkish counterparts.
00:27:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:27:19
Zak
I'm very much glad for the the represent the development opportunities they give our players. Hey, Ho.
Episode Conclusion and Social Media Call
00:27:25
Zak
Right. This has been the Daily Southampton. I have been your host, Sackingo Finch.
00:27:30
Zak
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00:27:42
Zak
I think those are the three that I specifically remember all of the time.
00:27:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
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00:27:46
Zak
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00:27:56
Zak
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