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Daily Southampton: Episode 145: Room 101 RETURNS!
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Southampton – With no saints action this weekend we left our minds to wonder on what other parts of football we want to be rid of! Do you agree with us? Anything we missed? Let us know!
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Introduction & Team Gathering
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Southampton, part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. My name is Greg Elliott and today I'm joined by the full Southampton team. how we all doing after a nice refreshing weekend without having to watch Saints?
Weekend Reflections & Local Boxing
00:00:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oscar, how are
00:00:25
Oscar
Yeah, good. all good, thanks. You?
00:00:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
you doing? Yeah, I'm feeling good. And Zach, You were feeling odd to feel like this on a Sunday, right? Not had your weekend ruined completely by by Saints.
00:00:40
Zak
Not having my weekend ruined by Saints has been nice. It's good to see that Garner got the win over the weekend from a boxing perspective.
00:00:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:00:48
Zak
That was really nice. Local lad.
00:00:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Big shout out.
00:00:51
Zak
Yeah.
Room 101 Theme & Football Quirks
00:00:52
Zak
I guess it's kind of, it's it's refreshing to not get excited and then be absolutely crushed by the end of the day.
00:01:01
Zak
It doesn't mean that I don't miss it, won't you?
00:01:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Don't worry. but and There is plenty of time to get right back into that positive headspace before we face our obvious win at the weekend against Liverpool.
00:01:05
Oscar
Thank you.
00:01:11
Zak
yes
00:01:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
But until we get around to that, we have got some free wildcard time to have some fun with our episodes. And today we're going to revisit an old favourite.
00:01:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're going to go back to some Room 101. So for those... for those Young enough to not remember, Room 101 was an old comedy show on the BBC, yeah hosted, I think, by Frank Skinner, where, I think there was a more modern iteration than that, but I'm not having it, where people would bring their items to talk out why they want to get rid of them from life, and then someone decides if they go into Room 101 or not.
00:01:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, yeah, that's how we're going to go. So we're just going to get straight to it. We've all worked. got plenty. Going to preface at the start that we've banned any talk of VAR.
00:02:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
We talk about referees enough on this podcast to step step away from it for a minute and try and poach out some of the even weirder stuff in football. So, Oscar, let's go to you first.
00:02:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
What's your first point for Room 101?
00:02:19
Oscar
it's more of a sort of uh i don't know if it's like double negative but teams taking away goal music and obviously southampton have added it back this year and i love it i think it's class like norwich whenever they score and they play they play the old the spanish music and uh i i personally really like it so that's my first one i'm going to start with bit random but
00:02:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I like that. Thoughts, Zach?
00:02:48
Zak
Yeah, nice. Agreed.
00:02:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think that's a real solid start. Zach, go on then. Throw your your first option into the mix.
00:02:59
Zak
ah ah say As a mainly mainly football watcher on the old telly box screen things, I've already discussed, i think in a previous episode, the blackout rule, because I thought it was ridiculous.
00:03:13
Zak
But a thing that has effectively made my Sky Sports only subscription absolutely useless is just the sheer amount of football that is on multiple channels at this point.
00:03:24
Zak
The fact that you need to be subscribed to TNT, Sky, Amazon, talk of potentially in the future even Netflix...
00:03:34
Zak
It's just ridiculous. it's It's annoying for everybody. It means that I'm not allowed to Sky Sports anymore. And not because... it's, you know, one of the main reasons that I managed to sell it to my partner, and my my wonderful wife, is that the idea that I'd be watching, I've used it for NFL more than actual football because I can't watch actual football on it because, yeah, okay, there's the odd game here and there, but because we don't have the TNT package, I miss out about 50% of the game that Saints are on anyway.
00:04:04
Zak
And it's like, it's really weird to me that if you live abroad, you could just sign up to a package to watch football all of football and just watch all of football. But for some reason, for UK viewers, it needs to be, oh, no, you need to sign up to the full sports package in Sky, and then you need to pay £40 a month for TNT, £40 a month for Sky Sports. Don't forget your Boxing Day watches of Amazon Prime.
00:04:30
Zak
It just kind of gets to a point where you're like, wow, you're pricing people out of watching it at home as well as the stadiums? You're going to end up, you know... it's it's It's absolutely insane to me the sort of expectation on football fans, both and in their own homes and outside of their own homes, is, yeah, just absolutely insane.
00:04:55
Zak
So i would I would very, very much like there just to be the football channel. I know that's not how it's going to work, but it's all I want.
00:05:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. We, we look were on the precipice as a country, to take a slightly political stance where all of these streaming services need to remember that they only exist because they're slightly more convenient than pirating things.
00:05:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's only a matter of time before the Premier League in its infinite wisdom comes out with their version of the the Premier League subscription.
00:05:28
Zak
Just get with it. Just get up with it. that That way we can have multiple commentary teams that aren't just the singular ones that we get stuck with for each particular game.
00:05:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
I bet the price point's absolutely disgusting for a year's subscription to to Premier League. I would be very surprised if it's not on like a pay-by-game basis as well.
00:05:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right? You've
00:05:49
Zak
So what I'm hearing is that I'm doomed either way.
00:05:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
got to make the money.
00:05:54
Zak
How do you feel about Oscar?
00:05:56
Oscar
I wouldn't worry too much about it. We won't be having to pay for the Premier League one for much.
00:06:00
Zak
yeah Yeah, you're right.
00:06:01
Oscar
and
00:06:02
Zak
if i
00:06:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:03
Zak
It might actually get better.
00:06:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
You're right.
00:06:04
Zak
And as one of the quote-unquote more exciting championship teams, we did get the first sort of season I had Sky Sports.
00:06:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:06:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:06:12
Zak
I was able to get far more use out of it. But this season's been, to be fair...
00:06:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Next season, they're showing something like 900 EFL games on Sky Sports, so you'll probably get 70% hit rate on being able to watch Saints.
00:06:25
Zak
do i want that Do I want that at this point, though?
00:06:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's your selling point.
00:06:28
Zak
princes are we going get any better that's an argument for another time but yeah i i think i guess what the actual answer is broadcast agreed uh and that is never going away unless i change the human psyche but i think we can all agree if it was possible we would get rid of it right there you go there you go so that's
00:06:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, absolutely.
00:06:47
Oscar
and
00:06:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
See if you can watch slightly more football for slightly less cost. than day Okay.
00:06:51
Zak
that's that's all i actually want ifs i'm happy to pay like 40, 50 quid a month get to watch at least all of the games for my terrible team.
00:07:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
well Well, look, as well as being famed for being the optimist, I'm sure some of our listeners will know that I have some notorious opinions.
00:07:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
but I'm going to come back and save my first, maybe not that wild opinion.
Sustainable Sports Gear Discussion
00:07:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
I do have a really wild one, but I'm saving it for the end after a message from our partners at Bionic.
00:08:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we're back. Okay. So my, my, I'm going to go with my safer one first. Uh, save my outlandish one to, uh, to, to after, but, uh, cutting holes in the back of your socks as a player, right?
00:08:23
Oscar
I've got the same one. I've got that as well.
00:08:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
It, uh, I know that it's a tiny thing, but it winds me up. Like, it's just so wasteful. There's no way you're reusing that pair of socks. Like,
00:08:36
Oscar
And I just don't understand why. What does it benefit?
00:08:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:08:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, and all, yeah, I suppose it's compression, but, but yeah, it doesn't make any sense to me.
00:08:40
Zak
compression, right, I think is the argument.
00:08:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's nonsense. And, but also why hasn't any sock manufacturer seen this and just like pre-cut socks, you know, we've got like ripped jeans as a thing.
00:08:51
Zak
Made eat them with holes in them.
00:08:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Pre-cut football socks is surely only a half a season away.
00:09:01
Oscar
Well, they have it as well from from a coaching perspective. you I work with a lot of lot of local players in grassroots environments, and they obviously all want to copy it as well. And as a manager of like a grassroots team, it's an absolute nightmare because you're constantly having to rebuy socks, not just cutting the backs and holes, cutting the feet off the bottom so they can wear grip socks.
00:09:20
Oscar
It's just absolute carnage. I really don't understand, certainly the holes thing, mental.
00:09:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:26
Zak
Is it a symptom of the, like, there's just the where the game's going in the sense of, like, years ago, and I'm not saying I can understand why you have separate shirts for each game and stuff like that, but when you start to think about sort of just the waste that's produced, you know, if you had to have your own shirt and take it home and wash it every day, i think it would be extremely humbling.
00:09:45
Zak
But the idea that you couldn't just get a new pair of socks, you put on your socks the next game, and you pull them up, and all of a sudden, because they've got holes in, they rip, and then you just kind of have to deal with it. Yeah.
00:09:55
Zak
and And again, like, or if you're not, if you're not going to do that, just make them with cuts in them already. Like you could have them stitched and or even adjustable. You could have little zips on them. Just something that's a bit more like conscious of like, like we have all of these inventions.
00:10:06
Oscar
Thank you.
00:10:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, I think you think you're taking a step into something I hate even more if we're going to fashionize football socks.
00:10:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Maybe yeah maybe that's what put in.
00:10:16
Zak
I'm not saying fashionised football sucks.
00:10:19
Zak
I'm saying, like, well, for starters, mate, you're so far behind that with boots anyway. Like, you know, that boots aren't all just, like, one regular colour. It's not like you're forced to have, like, a club standard pair of boots. Maybe that's an idea, to be perfectly honest.
00:10:32
Zak
But, like... the
00:10:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
would upset us so many people.
00:10:35
Zak
Oh, yeah, but also it would be good for sponsorships for each club. And i could all all I could think of is, was it Kukurela who had that problem with his socks, with his boots, and threw them in the bin after he had a dodgy half?
00:10:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:10:47
Zak
But it's one of those things. It's not from a fashion perspective. It's just like it's making sustainable products that are adjustable, that are useful for sports players, rather than putting on your pair of socks and then just immediately cutting them, getting into the changing room.
00:10:59
Zak
And then it sort of resolves a problem where you don't need to put with the wash. and just chuck them straight in the bin. And it's like, man... Come on, guys. You're earning tons of money. think you can just throw stuff away? Anyway...
00:11:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. No. I hate it, and I want it to stop. yeah And you're right, e especially from the grassroots level, so that must be an absolute disaster. Yeah.
00:11:19
Oscar
Yeah, carnage. carage
00:11:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay. Uh, so I'm going to go back around the table. we've We've had our first one, some, some fantastic opinions. Uh, Oscar, going to throw back to you, uh,
00:11:33
Oscar
Yeah, I think this one will be, i think this one's a fairly fairly obvious one, but I noticed it the other
Player-Fan Relationship & Responsibilities
00:11:39
Oscar
day. i went with a friend of mine earlier in the season to watch Saints Liverpool and he wanted to come off and and meet the players at the end. All the players, bear in mind they just won 3-2, walked straight past all the fans, shouting and screaming, got straight back on the coach.
00:11:53
Oscar
Like for me, that that is pathetic. Like if you've if you've lost and you're getting absolutely battered, fair enough, I sort of understand it. But yeah, so getting on the coach without even acknowledging the fans or just walking past with your headphones in and your Louis Vuitton wash bag, take five minutes out.
00:12:10
Oscar
So, yeah.
00:12:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:12:12
Oscar
yeah
00:12:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Zach.
00:12:13
Zak
they Stay humbly.
00:12:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:12:17
Zak
Yeah, and i mean I'm in full agreement with that. I kind of find it... I can understand if you've had a tough game and I can understand, but it's it's one of those things where it's it's part of the job and you kind of...
00:12:29
Zak
I think if you want to get into football at a professional level, whether you like it or not, unfortunately, part of that job description now is like role model.
00:12:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, like,
00:12:38
Zak
and And I think that that you have to accept that that's going to be a thing and like, you know, don't be... Don't be... How do I put it without swearing about it? You know, it's like when you hear those stories about people like Roy Keenan being like, oh, well, you know, I don't want to meet fans. of this area that It's just like, bro, you guys are paid so much money. Like, these people consider you to be their absolute heroes. You know, sometimes you just want to meet them, have a conversation with them.
00:13:04
Zak
you know you don't know the difference that makes in a person's life and yeah i get it but it's part of your day like job right if I had an eight hour day which is my shift I consider that to be part of my work day I don't consider that to be you know and I think that maybe they should think about it a bit more and I can understand like from a human perspective as well these people aren't machines but also like just just just do it just get just stop being a wet bag about it go and go and go and wave to the kid and sign an autograph it's not hard
00:13:24
Oscar
Yeah.
00:13:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. they yeah They need to accept that the reason they're paid as much money as they are is because it is entertainment and that's what comes with entertainment. You you go and you you know you shake the hands and just, you know, 10 minutes of effort and that's You know, yeah.
00:13:49
Oscar
I especially think for an away game as well.
00:13:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
100%, yeah.
00:13:51
Oscar
Like Southampton pretty good. You I don't I don't go and travel and see them away that often. But at home, they'll always come out the back and go to their cars and usually stop. You get the occasional one that sneaks out.
00:13:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
hundred percent Yeah. Yeah.
00:14:00
Oscar
And be fair, I had the the Russell Martin charity game. a few the That was bit disappointing as well, because, you know, that is you see players you haven't seen for ages and some of them sneak out the back and quickly jump in their car and drive off.
00:14:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:14:14
Oscar
But, you know, for for Liverpool fans that have travelled all the way down to Southampton just for a two-minute, like, little... And I know it's, you know, I know it's, as you said, it's it's the end of their working day and they probably can't be bothered. It's the last thing they want to do And I understand, like, being out in public, that's different. I don't think, like, you should have to give up their time out in public if they're their families and things. But in that situation, surely that's part of it.
00:14:39
Oscar
That's what you get you the big bucks for.
00:14:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no, I fully agree. And I will say, yeah, Saints are normally pretty good. We stayed behind a couple of times with my kids and we've got signed shirts galore and all sorts in the house because of it.
00:14:47
Oscar
yeah yeah And just on that as well, having not not to go massively into it, but having two team coaches as well is nuts, which Liverpool had on that night.
00:14:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
But...
00:15:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:02
Oscar
That's crazy too.
00:15:05
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00:15:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okey-doke. Over to you, Zach. What's your second entry to Room 101?
National Team Representation Debate
00:15:38
Zak
I upset last like people last time with... I say upset people. I don't think so. actually I actually think a lot of people agreed with me with just you deleting the entirety of the Saudi Arabian League. Because, quite frankly, it's it's ruined the transfer market forever.
00:15:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank
00:16:02
Zak
But this one is is one of the ones that i often i often think about. And... I think it is making rules, as in FIFA making rules, more transparent about the ability for players to change their national team.
00:16:16
Zak
If, for example, I know that that' is quite they're quite decent with it. Like, if you've represented some of the U21s, but say you get, like, 10 caps for England... at 18 and then all of a sudden it's decided that no one likes you again but you're a dual national with like the dutch team and you start to get really good later on and then england for whatever reason don't want to pick you back up and you can't just switch the dutch team and i think that it would make things far more exciting it makes people far more accepting and it's understanding that people have dual heritage and you can want to represent two countries at once not just forcing someone into a box of well you know you you
00:16:52
Zak
you've played for this one team once and you should have to go. and Yeah, that so that's proper rambling, that is. But it's one of those things where I think that people are well too harsh when people switch national allegiances and act like it's do or die when i think, and I understand, and we're all football fans, and we obviously probably all support England, I'm assuming, at like the Euros and that kind of stuff.
00:17:19
Zak
But it's also like... being the way that people are about like, well, he played for Ireland in the under 21. So now he's moved over and, you know, disgraceful, shouldn't be allowed near it. And then they get a lot of stick for switching and stuff. And I think it should just be like, no, actually there's a lot of people with multiple heritages. And, and if they don't make it in a national team and they should be frozen out forever because they played like a couple of games when they were like 21, because they weren't, because it was in the senior team, right? Like,
00:17:45
Zak
Yeah, I just think that we should allow people to to represent multiple parts of their heritage if they want to. Like, if if you're somebody who who has Moroccan heritage and French heritage and you played for France, you should also then, if you want to, switch to Morocco because they're both, I guess, as part of your national like purs people as possible.
00:18:05
Zak
Yeah, I don't know. i feel I feel... I guess it was almost a weird argument for more like inclusivity in football when it comes to that kind of stuff. And... I think it's difficult to kind of force people when they're quite young into making quite a big dramatic decision for something that realistically they could change later on down the line. And if you have players that feel like they've been a bit disrespected because of who they are, I look at like sort of Lukaku at Belgium and stuff like that.
00:18:33
Zak
Why not give them the chance to play for the other team that represents them as a person? right rather than trying to sort of be like, no, you're our player, but also don't play for anyone else because we'll make you feel terrible, but also we hate that you're our player.
00:18:45
Zak
and You see that sometimes with international players. It's very very bizarre, but more controversially, just slight scrap international football entirely. apart from when the World Cup's on. Apart from when the World Cup's on.
00:18:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:57
Zak
To be clear, when tournaments are on, fine.
00:18:58
Oscar
Yeah.
00:19:00
Zak
And then what you have is a bit of a long break before the tournament starts where they can pick a squad. and But but like what's the point of having they have like the international friendlies coming up? So I've actually stolen and had two, I guess, Greg, so I apologise, but it's me and I rant a lot.
00:19:14
Zak
But when it comes to like international football in general, The per team they pick now probably isn't going to be the team they take to the World Cup or Euros. And it's going to be a friendly against a country that we're not bothered by and they're not bothered by playing us.
00:19:28
Zak
So who cares? And what's the point?
00:19:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, you're right. Get rid of it completely. Just World Cups, maybe Euros.
00:19:36
Zak
It'd much cheaper, much, much cheaper to have an international manager on like a one-year contract than a four-year retainer where they're sitting about thinking about the players that they're going to pick now.
00:19:46
Zak
And quite frankly, nine times out 10, they're not going to pick the same players later on down the line, right? So what's the point?
00:19:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I feel like that's a good one.
00:19:53
Zak
Anyway, I guess, sorry, there's two there. Pick which one you care about.
00:19:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's a good one.
00:19:59
Oscar
I agree. on On your one with the international inches, one thing I would say is something that does and not irritate me, but irk me a little bit, is players that play for a country that they, well, they seemingly have very little link with.
00:20:12
Oscar
So I'm thinking Che Adams in Scotland, Che McAdams, and our our our very own Mr.
00:20:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:19
Oscar
Brereton Diaz, who just plombs.
00:20:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:21
Zak
Look, there's somebody found out through Football Manager and I think that is at the best use of Football Manager so far.
00:20:22
Oscar
Who's the judge?
00:20:28
Oscar
It seems to me that he's just plonked the Diaz on the end of his name. and Maybe that's controversial. I don't know. but And so he can play for Chile. Because I'm sure he used to be Ben Bereson.
00:20:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:40
Oscar
Yeah.
00:20:40
Zak
But yeah, i think I think when it comes to that, I guess that, you know, this is probably the only time we've ever disagreed.
00:20:45
Zak
is It's one of those things that, why why isn't a person allowed to explore multiple parts of their heritage? If they've got family and friends from Chile and they and they theyre get they get a chance to get into that squad, give them a go.
00:20:56
Zak
But if all of a sudden he becomes wild and amazing, and then he decides he wants to try and play for England. He's also as probably as much English as he is Chilean. So it's one of those things where...
00:21:04
Oscar
Yeah.
00:21:05
Zak
I think that there should be a bit more understanding rather than forcing these people at a young age to commit to a decision which by the time of five years later, they might not like feel as much affinity to.
00:21:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:21:19
Zak
But then I guess, yeah, the, okay.
00:21:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
I kind of agree with what you're saying, Zach, but can you call it celebrating your heritage if someone else found it out about you through a video game? Uh-huh.
00:21:28
Zak
Well, no, what happened was someone else found out through the video game and then told the Chilean national team and started a massive campaign to get him.
00:21:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
All
00:21:38
Zak
And then he actually got called up. Whereas I think previously he wasn't as bothered.
00:21:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
all right.
00:21:42
Zak
So I guess you're all, we're both right.
00:21:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:46
Oscar
To be fair, I think there's well with it if you've got if you've got these nations, but like these bigger nations, so us included, where we've got thousands and thousands of players, good international quality players that can't get in a team because obviously the international teams are so strong.
00:21:46
Zak
I'll take, as I said, I'll take it as a controversial one, put it that way.
00:21:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay. I like that.
00:22:03
Oscar
It gives maybe it's it's a double benefit because some of the lesser or smaller countries, should we say, then get better players. But... yeah
00:22:12
Zak
Yeah, think that way it makes it makes it it more competitive so you don't end up in like sort of weird situations when it comes to big international cups where you know that other teams are going to get walked over.
00:22:23
Zak
But then also, I guess the you know the flip side, and I'm contradicting my own point here, is like you know poor little Saudi Arabia when they beat Argentina. That was the biggest thing since sliced bread. And who am I to deny around a random Saudi Arabian player his Rolex and Rolls-Royce from a Saudi prince?
00:22:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:41
Oscar
Might
00:22:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Quite right. Okay. Uh, and I'm, I'm gonna cap us off. i I know what you're thinking. Uh, how can it be more controversial than in previous episodes, calling to ban, uh, Pep Guardiola completely, or get rid of goalkeepers, which I think was a previous one.
Revamping Football Competitions & Listener Engagement
00:22:59
Zak
Yes, it was.
00:22:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Uh, uh,
00:23:02
Oscar
have come back about that one.
00:23:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it might it might not be as controversial as that, because I feel like some people might share my opinion. But the thing I would like to put in Room 101 is the Carabao Cup.
00:23:15
Zak
yeah
00:23:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now, it comes with a caveat. Obviously, it's it's not a cup that anyone particularly takes seriously until near the end anyway. And it's exciting if you do well, sure. But I...
00:23:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
I want to caveat it with it's because I have a better alternative that I thought of and wondered why nobody's done. And, you know, we have the FA Cup for the cup competition and we've got the league.
00:23:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Why aren't we doing like a championship between cup between Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England as our third cup?
00:23:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
It would improve all of them. I mean, It would save the Scottish football having to do Celtic and Rangers three times a week to draw any money. like
00:24:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've heard Wrexham and Cardiff and Swansea all going back to join the Welsh Cup, so they've got half chance of getting to Europe. The Carabao Cup comes with a European spot.
00:24:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just make it more interesting. like A Scotland or a Wales away day would be a much more interesting prospect than the Cup in its current format.
00:24:26
Zak
Is it damaging to lower league clubs that probably would not get as much of a look in? Or are you thinking that like Eastley are going to go and play, insert random Welsh town name, because I don't want to get it wrong.
00:24:38
Zak
on On an away day, is are you thinking look like, you know, is it going to work in a similar way? I'm genuinely intrigued by the idea.
00:24:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, I mean, the EFL Cup, like, it has it's only the EFL teams, right? So it goes down to League 2. could do the same with with sort of Scotland and Wales and go down to their sort of second and third tiers as well. And why not? be Think of it. It would be great.
00:25:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Why not go and go to a lower league team and have, like, Port Vale versus Port Talbot?
00:25:05
Zak
i just like I just like the idea of, like, the Arsenal team bus has got lost in the Outer Hebrides trying to find this back like backwater Shetland team.
00:25:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:12
Oscar
yeah
00:25:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Great.
00:25:18
Zak
They seem to have found a field of sheep instead of an actual football stadium.
00:25:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Perfect.
00:25:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's exactly what I want from football. That is the entertainment levels we're after. Tell me that's not a better idea.
00:25:28
Oscar
Are you including Ireland as well?
00:25:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, absolutely. If they want in.
00:25:32
Oscar
would say.
00:25:32
Zak
To be fair, about imagine the seeds of Celtic knocking out Manchester United. like
00:25:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, Exactly.
00:25:38
Zak
you're right You're right.
00:25:38
Oscar
would
00:25:38
Zak
Maybe you're right, Greg. Maybe you're onto something.
00:25:40
Oscar
It would finally end the age-old debate of where Celtic and Rangers would finish in the Premier League as well. And I'm not going be parted on that because I imagine that will rattle our big old hornet's nest.
00:25:45
Zak
Yeah.
00:25:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah And the really upsetting part about it is you would still end up with a similar set of semi-finals and final as we get where it's still just the same teams in the same positions because
00:25:51
Zak
Yeah.
00:26:05
Zak
You're right, there is a lot of money in football, Greg. And a lot of people is this is focused in a lot of small areas with a lot of big owners.
00:26:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
it?
00:26:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah. So that's yeah that's my entry. The Carabao Cup, but only because my idea is better.
00:26:19
Oscar
Yeah.
00:26:20
Zak
My specifically better league.
00:26:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:26:22
Zak
but
00:26:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
So anyone from the FAA, Scottish FAA, who's listening, wants to hit me up, give us a tweet. I'm down for it. allla like can I'm sure that we can come up with some sort of sponsorship. The Global Sports Podcast Network Cup.
00:26:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's what we'll have. It'll be amazing.
00:26:41
Zak
can't be as bad as the Papa John's trophy, right? like
00:26:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Okay.
00:26:49
Oscar
That'll always be some paint for me.
00:26:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that's it. Fantastic. Okay, well that...
00:26:53
Zak
You'll never win that.
00:26:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's it. 100%. 100%. The Saints fans' humour will never cease to be one of my favourite parts of any match day. 100%. Okay, well that is just about all we've got time for. Thank you for tuning in today and listening to our slightly out there opinions. I hope that it gives you to some perspective on where we come from looking at the game of football.
00:27:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I hope you've enjoyed it. We will be back tomorrow with some more wildcard content. I'm sure we've got something lined up. Until then, Zach, Oscar, thank you for joining me.
00:27:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you everyone for listening. Let us know in the comments or on the socials what you want to get rid of from Modern Football.
00:27:39
Oscar
Thank
00:27:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
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00:27:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Until then, we'll be back tomorrow. and We look forward to seeing you then.