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Wildcard Wednesday - Who Am I? (Episode 3)
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Today I'm asking Daniel to guess 3 past Brentford players and giving him 5 facts for each. Play along at home and let us know how you do!
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Lydia Batalona
Daniel Toppin
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Transcript
Introduction & Guessing Game Setup
00:00:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the daily Brentford podcast with me Lydia. where Today we'll be playing a little game um as we've done a few times before, but this time I'm a charge and Daniel's going to be guessing. So we'll be looking back at Brentford players of our recent past and um Daniel's going to be guessing who the player is based on five clues. So we'll see if he can do better than me. I think I've got two out of three both times. So I think we can improve on that definitely.
Podcast Support Request
00:00:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
and How are you today?
00:00:43
Daniel
I'm good. I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to putting my knowledge to the test. I've not had to do any preparation for this podcast. I've not had to make any facts or look up any facts.
00:00:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:00:54
Daniel
I'm i'm looking forward to guessing.
00:00:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's nice to be on the non-guessing side. I feel like there'll be less pressure for me, so that's always good. to do um Just before we start with the game, everyone,
00:01:01
Daniel
Yeah.
00:01:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
As you know, we are a new company, so you're looking for your support and um make sure to give us a five star review or let us know any other, let other Brentford fans know about us and yeah, share the podcast. So um in case you haven't listened to the other episodes of this Who Am I Game?
Guessing Game Rules Explained
00:01:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah There's a few rules. So I'll be giving Daniel five clues relating to a mystery Brentford player of the modern era.
00:01:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And after each clue, Daniel would get a chance to guess who it might be. and Make sure you're playing along at home, message us if you do better than us, or worse.
00:01:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
And um to clarify, we're judging the modern era as post 2008, starting from the year we won league two, i which has sort of led us to where we are now. So are you ready for the first one?
00:01:52
Daniel
yep ready fifty so that is a season and a bit so they were probably
00:01:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay. Number one, clue number one, I made 50 league appearances for Brentford scoring five goals.
Round 1: Player with 50 Appearances
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Daniel
around for two seasons five goals means they were a low scoring midfielder or a defender fifty fifty appearances
00:02:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Okay. I like the thinking. I like the thinking.
00:02:20
Daniel
um I'm just going to assume they're not from too far back because I know that you that you're not too familiar with a lot of the players from around 2010.
00:02:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. You have to think the about people I'm going to think of, yeah.
00:02:32
Daniel
so
00:02:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay.
00:02:33
Daniel
50. I want to just guess, even though it's going to be a random guess, 50 games, 5 goals. I'm trying to think of somebody random who might have got those numbers.
00:02:48
Daniel
And it's quite hard to think on the spot.
00:02:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
To the next group.
00:02:52
Daniel
um give me 10 seconds don't think I will I just if anything I just say somebody random like actually there move on move on ah up got one of i head
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Global Sports Podcast Network
OK, maybe 10 seconds.
00:02:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
You better not get it but straight up because then it's going to be ready.
00:03:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
OK, move on. um I was born in London and capped by England at the under 18 level. But I now play for Ghana internationally.
00:03:25
Daniel
Ghana cat by England Tarek Fosu I've got it I've got it yeah I think yeah he probably still doesn't play right because he's um isn't he hat at Northampton now
00:03:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
well what but Yeah, that was great. That was good. That was speedy. That was speedy. Maybe I should have left the Ghana one last. Too late.
00:03:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that was going to be the third one. I was a product of the Reading Academy and now at Northampton Town.
Discussion on Tarek Fosu
00:03:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
My two goals in the three league games, so we nominated as fans championship player of the month in January 2021, but he didn't win.
00:04:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then, oh, the last one was going to be, I left the club on slightly bad terms and left to play at Stoke City.
00:04:08
Daniel
What was the last one?
00:04:17
Daniel
I think, I'm surprised he only scored five goals. I thought he would have scored more than five goals.
00:04:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:04:21
Daniel
That's why I wouldn't have ever said that, even if I had thought of somebody to guess. um It wouldn't have been like good and wi a winger. He was an attacking player, really.
00:04:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. So i when I saw that, I was like, kind of also two of those goals were in three games. So the other three were like, yeah.
00:04:37
Daniel
Yeah, I guess he didn't start very often. A lot of those appearances are probably off the bench. Was it two seasons or was he even there for longer than two seasons? He might but he might have done two and a half, three seasons, but he just didn't play all the time.
00:04:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he didn't, his last one, he literally really didn't play at all.
00:04:51
Daniel
Yeah, Thomas Frank didn't fancy him in the Premier League.
00:04:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:04:54
Daniel
He just stopped playing, really. But yeah, he was all right in the championship era.
00:04:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, good, I think. um Yeah, that was an impressive start.
00:05:02
Daniel
Very pleased with my start but in this game.
00:05:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right, we'll have a quick ad and then onto the next one. Let's see if you fare as well.
00:06:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, on to
Round 2: Player with 122 Appearances
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Global Sports Podcast Network
round two. ah Let's see if people at home can do you as well. ah Number one, I made 122 league appearances for Brentford scoring three goals.
00:06:20
Daniel
That's a lot more games. so That is probably a defensive player, although I didn't think Fosu would have been a winger.
00:06:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:29
Daniel
And that is probably four five sit four or five seasons. That's if they played regularly.
00:06:39
Daniel
122 scoring three goals. Let's just pick a random defender. Center back maybe. Let's pick
00:06:51
Daniel
Um, who is any, uh, Harley Dean.
00:06:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, but they did have some overlap, so, right, sort of time frame.
00:07:01
Daniel
Okay. Okay. Just got to think of his defensive partnerships now.
00:07:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
um This is another time indicator. Number two, I won the 2016 Player's Player of the Year award.
00:07:16
Daniel
Now I'm trying to think back to when we did the Brentford team with the season, a team of
00:07:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:21
Daniel
the last 15 years because he we probably spoke about him at some point.
00:07:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think we probably did speak about him. We probably did.
00:07:26
Daniel
um Who would have won it? So it could be. There's several people it could be now.
00:07:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:07:35
Daniel
It could be somebody like Alan McCormack. I want to go with that.
00:07:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah incorrect but i think but honestly it could have been the same year but yeah yeah sort of
00:07:42
Daniel
I think he won it at some point, though. I do think he won it at some point. It might have been the fans one, not the players one.
00:07:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
obviously same time. um I received my first red card for of my entire career playing for Brentford with a scuffle with the Sheffield United goalie after winning my players player of the year award.
00:08:08
Daniel
i wonder if that was that game where wasn't it like three two or three all and we ended with nine men and they ended with ten men it wasn't that game but you know what i'm talking about ah that could have been the game did we end with nine men i'll let you have a look whilst
00:08:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, it was it wasn't that game. It ended with a draw. Yeah, I know what you're talking about, but this one ended with a one-all draw.
00:08:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Um...
00:08:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
I love doing some mad research.
00:08:38
Daniel
Who would have played back then?
00:08:43
Daniel
See I'm now thinking of Harley Dean's defensive partners over the years.
00:08:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Uh, let's see.
00:08:57
Daniel
It's alright if you can't find it. um
00:08:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, they, we ended with, um, no, we didn't end with nine, but both, in that, like, scuffle, both this player and the other goalie, they both got sent off.
00:09:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
I was gonna say his name then,
Discussion on Ryan Woods
00:09:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
but...
00:09:15
Daniel
Let's go... Tony Craig.
00:09:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
No. But I, from what I remember of this player, I do remember, like, random outbursts, if that helps.
00:09:27
Daniel
and about this it's there's So is it one of the two players we signed for Warsaw?
00:09:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, um I'll leave the really obvious one for last. Okay, number four, I support Warsaw.
00:09:44
Daniel
And Rico Henry must have played more games than that. Or has he? Or has he just been injured for so long?
00:09:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, is that gonna be, yes.
00:09:51
Daniel
and
00:09:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
One of line of thinking, you were correct, he this player,
00:10:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
was a product of the Warsaw Youth System.
00:10:06
Daniel
2016 though, that was very early. That was pre Henry and Sawyer's wasn't it?
00:10:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's when they won the players player.
00:10:18
Daniel
That's why I think it's too early for Henry and Soyuz. They're the two that obviously came from Warsaw.
00:10:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, this one, the fifth one, like, I think this will be a dead giveaway.
00:10:28
Daniel
um
00:10:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Or do you want to make a guess?
00:10:29
Daniel
let me tell i'll I'll make a random guess, but I don't think it's Henry and Soyuz based on the time, I think they would have been slightly later than that.
00:10:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
You'd be correct to think of that.
00:10:41
Daniel
and Who else came from Warsaw?
00:10:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
They didn't directly come from that. They came, we signed them from True's route town. If that helps.
00:10:56
Daniel
Shrewsbury town.
00:10:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
But was, their youth career was at Warsaw.
00:11:03
Daniel
Shrewsbury town. Youth career also.
00:11:11
Daniel
2016.
00:11:17
Daniel
um
00:11:20
Daniel
ah You have to go to the last one.
00:11:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
like Okay, the last one, like, you're definitely gonna get it now. I have been called the ginger parlor by some fans.
00:11:29
Daniel
I was almost going to say him a minute ago.
00:11:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Really?
00:11:32
Daniel
Ryan Woods.
00:11:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Dang.
00:11:35
Daniel
We signed him from Shrewsbury. Maybe we did, yeah.
00:11:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:38
Daniel
I didn't really know that he started off at Orsel. I think he's back in league one now. He's with Exito, I think.
00:11:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah, he's with ecstasy now.
00:11:45
Daniel
I are genuinely almost said him in the last game, and I wish I didn't.
00:11:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
like i knew i was like i have to say with the ginger one to last because that's a dead giveaway i don't think have we even had any other ginger players i guess sepp is kind of ginger but i don't remember anyone else probably ginger yeah that was hard yeah no no i do believe you i do believe you though i think the the timings was a bit confusing but
00:11:58
Daniel
Yeah.
00:12:01
Daniel
I don't think so, no. yeah That was a bit of a giveaway, that one. But i so I wish I said it now. I almost said it. You're not going to believe me, but I did almost say it.
00:12:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
you were right with your, I love thinking.
00:12:19
Daniel
Yeah, well, I think some of my guesses weren't far off. Like they probably did play a similar number of games.
00:12:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, they weren't. Yeah.
00:12:26
Daniel
And I can imagine someone like Tony Craig getting sent off for fighting with someone.
00:12:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. And like, it's all, I think that's all really funny. And I've seen them, when I was doing my research, saw a little clip of the fight and I was like, I wasn't surprised that they both got sent out, sent off.
00:12:43
Daniel
Yeah, that's quite a good one, that's quite a good one though.
00:12:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
OK, right, another ad and then on to the final round. Let's see if you can redeem yourself.
00:12:50
Daniel
Yeah, three out of three, let's go.
00:12:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
You better get this one. OK.
Round 3: Player with Arsenal Background
00:13:03
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00:13:51
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Okay, onto the third and final round. Clue number one, I made 144 league appearances for Brantford scoring 12 goals.
00:14:01
Daniel
okay so that again is quite a lot of games so quite a few seasons 12 goals a fairly attacking player that could be someone like sawyers let's go remain sawyers i
00:14:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, going for the main story is incorrect, but timeline, similar.
00:14:20
Daniel
have it's in my mind after the last one
00:14:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. yeah um Okay. Number two, I was, oh. Okay, this might really give it away. Let me, I'm gonna switch it up, right.
00:14:37
Daniel
Oh, she's switching it up.
00:14:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm switching it up because I want to continue. I was Brentford's only ever present player during the 2016 to 17 season with 49 appearances and six goals.
00:14:57
Daniel
Played every game. I would have been in the same team with people like Ryan Woods. ah
00:15:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:13
Daniel
Who?
00:15:15
Daniel
How many goals? Six goals in 49 games.
00:15:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
and goals yeah So, I don't know.
00:15:19
Daniel
So it's not that many.
00:15:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:23
Daniel
Nico, you Norris.
00:15:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, correct. That was very good. That was correct.
00:15:28
Daniel
Genuinely, I can't believe it.
00:15:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Genuine. Okay. And I literally changed that one so to make it harder. Oh, nevermind.
00:15:37
Daniel
I mean, I didn't know it, but he fit like the.
00:15:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. He does fit that.
00:15:40
Daniel
He's like the Yannell of that time. Yannell now is always available and always plays and he was kind of that back then.
00:15:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah I didn't realise as well, Michaela Norris is actually still relatively, well not, he's younger than I thought he would be. He's like 30 now.
00:15:56
Daniel
yeah Is he still in China? He went to China.
00:15:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that was going to be, that was going to be another, um another clue. I was born in England and was eligible to represent four nations, but I played for the Chinese national team, which I didn't realise.
00:16:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
I knew he was like half Greek Cypriot.
00:16:14
Daniel
I know he signed for a Chinese team when the Chinese were trying to do a super league and it didn't really work out.
00:16:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. yeah
00:16:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
when it turns out um his mum's trying these so I think that's probably part of me and then if you really were struggling I know there was going to be another one I was in the Arsenal Academy and then also joined Shrewsbury town yes
00:16:23
Daniel
Yeah.
00:16:33
Daniel
I would have got the Arsenal Academy bit out. I wouldn't have remembered his time at Shrewsbury.
00:16:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
and then the really easy one was going to be my first name rhymes with the current Brentford left back
00:16:45
Daniel
Riko Nikke.
00:16:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:16:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
But no, ah you didn't even need that because you got last.
00:16:51
Daniel
That's good. I'm very, I'm very impressed with that one actually. I'm very impressed with myself there.
00:16:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that was impressive. That's good.
00:16:56
Daniel
I just wish I got the second one earlier on now.
00:16:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I think we need to hear if any of the listeners have beat our two out of three school.
Game Summary & Listener Engagement
00:17:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
I wonder if anyone's got three out of three.
00:17:08
Daniel
I got three out of three.
00:17:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
So last.
00:17:11
Daniel
I got three out of three.
00:17:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, yes. Wait, did you get it? The second one.
00:17:16
Daniel
Yeah, I did. But after the last clue, and i I should have got it.
00:17:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh yeah, I know you did, you did.
00:17:20
Daniel
Well, I almost said it the go before.
00:17:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh yeah, you did. You got it after the pin jump. Okay, I take that back. Actually, you have got three out of three. Ignore that. I was just projecting myself. Okay, so let's see if Lao Snow, people listening at home, if you also got three out of three.
00:17:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
And if you did, if you got them any earlier than Daniel, because I think the first one and the last one, they were pretty quick. So that was impressive. um Thanks for listening everyone to the Daily Brentford Podcast. We hope you enjoyed today's episode and once again, we'd be extremely grateful for your support as this will but enable us to go bigger and better moving forwards. Make sure to follow us on X, Insta and TikTok under the handle GSPN Brentford and we'll be back tomorrow for our crossover episode. Until then, from myself and Daniel, thanks for being with us. See ya.