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Episode 3. An Art Gallery in Athens
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Spurs win big, City win big, Chelsea...win big? Benny is in COVID quarantine. Jay goes to NYC. Devan goes on rumspringa.
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Global Art and Fashion - Louvre to Tie-dye Hats
00:00:00
Speaker
Ben, are you in an art museum? ah Yes. This is the Louvre. Nice. um I'm in a small gallery in Athens. That's what I'm at. This is like a shitty coffee shop in Athens right here. I like that you went second joke. I thought you were gonna be thought that was going to be the actual explanation. I need a hat. You put on a ton of hat. Do you have a ton of hat? Do I have a ton of hat?
00:00:33
Speaker
Look at that. That's atrocious. It's tie-dye Benny. I don't understand the, when the soccer team has the baseball cap, I just, I don't get it. I will say it's not, I don't see a lot of people wearing caps at matches, either on television or when we've gone like to the, to the
Safety in Sports Fandom - Jerseys and Semi-finals
00:00:52
Speaker
match. I think it's like a, it feels like it's aimed at Americans. It's like the where, where's Waldo? Where's the American?
00:00:58
Speaker
And then when they wear the jerseys, they wear, or the shirts, they wear them like under a jacket. I mean, I've heard now from two British people that part of the reason for that is so that you can zip it up on the subway. And you don't get the shit kicked out of you. Yeah, exactly. We've experienced some, some almost subway violence in England. That dude definitely was about to get his ass beat. For all of our listeners, ah the three of us attended the f FA Cup semi-final between Chelsea and Man City this past summer. Jay, who won that game?
00:01:24
Speaker
A Man City did. What was the, what was the score? Was it like one nil? It was, was it just that Bernard or Silvago? Was that it? I think, I think, I think you're right. I think it was, I think it wasn't one nil. It was not like a great, wasn't a great watch, but it was a great experience that we all. Great experience. It had good moments. It had some, had some yeah some peaks. Yeah. For me, the peak was the subway ride, the, I'm sorry, that did the tube, the tube ride home.
00:01:48
Speaker
ah Where yeah, that shell that drunk Chelsea fan almost got the shit kicked out of him by like six, probably equally drunk City fans. But they had the better City
Atmosphere Showdown - England vs. America Football Matches
00:01:57
Speaker
had the better the better songs and the better chants on the train, which I think is what won the battle, sort of like a rap battle, but it's like a chant battle. And City clearly won the rap battle on the- It's like where Nick Cannon comes in the middle and starts he starts starts officiating? Yes, yes. i I think it's like part of the culture is like, you know, if you can out sing the opposition, you win.
00:02:23
Speaker
with the loud singing and the giant banners waving, it was like, oh yeah, this this does come out of the sort of like medieval public spectacle in a way that I did not anticipate. Because you know, you go to like a Bill's game in 1987, right? As I did. And it does not feel like that. People are cold. Super specific. Super specific. I mean, this is my my first experience of sports. Bill's games have atmosphere now.
00:02:51
Speaker
There's a whole, there's a culture of Bill's fandom today that is wild. But what is Bill's fandom? Evan, you would never be a part of that. No, it's like jumping off the top of a truck and breaking through a folding chair. Well, I did a little of that in college. I'm sorry, folding table. Yeah, I did a little of that in college.
00:03:11
Speaker
The kind of stuff I saw, like I saw a guy pee on a Dolphins fan from like three rows up. Nice. That's what was going on then. Strong. OK. And it's like it's five degrees out.
00:03:25
Speaker
And he's going to freeze. Yeah. frozen Frozen P. Frozen P. We've discussed this before where, you know, in America, you you sort of grow up with a, with a couple different pictures of England and what England is and what England was. And one of the things that England was is, you know, you rewind the clock like 500 years and it's like a bunch of dudes with like banners that are very simple banners that are just like one half is.
00:03:48
Speaker
maroon and one half is blue and we're going to battle and these are our colors and we have our songs because we're from our place and you're from your place and you have your colors and your songs and you're and you know maybe you're the lions or whatever and maybe we're like the elk and we're going to battle and like yeah fast forward 500 years and like this is very clearly a proxy for that that like it it there's not really much translation that you need to do from like one to sort of from like that to to this whereas like sports in America very different even A match between two Premier League teams in America is very different, right? You went to that one in Philly. Is it Chelsea Brighton? Chelsea Brighton. That's right. Chelsea Brighton. A lot of Chelsea. For us not being Chelsea fans, a lot of Chelsea fans. A lot of Chelsea. Seen a lot of Chelsea. I think, Jay, how was New York?
New York Adventures - Guggenheim to Spurs Bar
00:04:41
Speaker
New York was unexpectedly magical.
00:04:45
Speaker
It was awesome. I got to eat a bunch of good food. I went to the Guggenheim for the first time and never been in Guggenheim. I'm like somehow made it to my mid-40s as like a dude who loves like modern art and architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright and goes to New York all the time and never went to the Guggenheim. I watched Spurs from a Spurs bar.
00:05:06
Speaker
in Manhattan, Flannery's on West 14th. I don't know what I expected. I may be expected to like show up and there'd be like, you know, 30 like respectful like Spurs fans just sort of like sitting there eating brunch and like ah cheering politely whenever like somebody made a nice pass. And it was like wall to wall, like scarves everywhere, the chants, the singing, the songs and it like it felt like being at Spurs Stadium, felt like being at White Hart Lane.
00:05:31
Speaker
And what a game, what a game to do that too. I didn't make it for the entire match, but got there for the second half and I was worried. I was worried that it was going to be a Spurs performance where it was like, okay, we look great in the first half. And then like Jay shows up to the bar and then we like give up two or we like give up one. And then it's a little bit of a heart attack for the last like 15 minutes that we win by one.
00:05:51
Speaker
And it feels like, eh, we should have won by more, but whatever. I'm going to, I'm going to skip right over the Romero goal, uh, which is the third goal in this match. So I'm also skipping over the first two goals because I didn't see him live, which includes a real howler by Jordan Pickford. We have to say.
00:06:07
Speaker
more. There were two, there were two this week. There were two this week. Yeah. And the city game too. But to see, to be amongst Spurs fans, when I normally just like watch the matches on my couch with, you know, my, with my wife or, you know, occasionally Benny, you're over, you know, it's like, but to be with Spurs fans, when like Mickey van de Ven goes like coast to coast past everyone with like the perfect layoff pass to sound for the, for the fourth goal.
00:06:33
Speaker
This place went absolutely ape shit. I was going crazy. It was awesome. It was a great experience. I was happy to be there.
00:06:45
Speaker
We stopped at Zay College on the way back from Pittsburgh this last time. Nice. Went to this restaurant. It was really good. I can't remember the name. It was run by AB Quakers. Oh. Maybe something similar. Bonnets. Farm. Weird. OK. Mennonite. Mennonite. Yeah, I mean, there could be Mennonites. But it was good. They had a, I have to find the name, but they had a soft pretzel. I've never had anything like it. It was definitely the best soft pretzel I've ever had, but it was it was just one of the best like little snacks like that that I've ever had is outrageous. Pennsylvania. It's the pretzel capital of the universe. The world.
00:07:25
Speaker
Yeah, at least I probably I think so. I think it's like what potatoships yeah is the competition? Yeah, like, you know, yeah, it's like, you know, Germany and then Germans moved here and now it's us. I feel like I say the word Mennonites and I have no idea what that is. If you show me like almost any picture, like 80 percent of the pictures and you said this is what a Mennonite looks like. I i i wouldn't even be able to argue. I just be like, yeah, sure. that Yeah, you're right. It's like Amish light. I don't even know what that means. There's not a lot. this I've never met a Dominican Mennonite. Don't know Mennonites in Jersey, North Jersey.
00:07:55
Speaker
Definitely not in North Jersey. That's going to be a rough trip for them. Really rough trip for them. Unless they're doing that whole thing. What what is that thing? When they're 18? The room spring. room spring. Then maybe that, you know. I did that a few years ago after the divorce. Room spring? Yeah, pretty much.
00:08:12
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but
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Speaker
Want to talk
Tottenham Tactics and Team Dynamics
00:08:22
Speaker
some football? Let's talk about football because it was a good, for it was a good weekend for all of us. I think, I think to be honest with you, we we should start with Tottenham. I mean, you you guys should have the floor. but it was It was a really good performance. It was like, what if the first 20 minutes of the first game happened for a whole game? Yeah. And then that's what happened. This is the club we were promised. I feel like we've seen glimpses of like full on, like a hundred percent Ang ball, like at the beginning of last year before everybody got hurt. Um, and then really not again for the rest of the year until the first half of last week. But this looked awesome and it looked awesome. I think for, for like a couple of reasons and you know, we can get into those reasons. I'll put a pin in like.
00:09:06
Speaker
We put Sonny on the left side and not in the middle. Why was that ever, why was he ever in the middle? he's He can't be in the middle. It just put him on a wing. He's always so much better on a wing. You're talking like a guy who supports a team with depth. Like he's not in the middle. We had an underperforming Richarlison. We had Kulesevsky who I love him, but the middle is not his spot.
00:09:33
Speaker
What like was it? Was it Solomon? Is it Johnson? Yeah, it was Harry Kane. And like I think I think yeah I think honestly, I think it's it's it might be like that simple. It used to be Harry Kane in the middle and he was the man, even if he wasn't technically the captain. ah And then he left and now like, you know, son is like the next one up in the Pez dispenser. And so like, let's just put him in the middle because he's the best offensive talent on the team.
00:10:02
Speaker
So he should be able to do middle stuff. And like, turns out he can't do middle stuff because he's like too small and like, he can't get like, you know, big center backs off of him. And it takes away his ability to cut in from the side and like get a shot off and, you know, do his like left, right stuff. But yeah, no, he played on the left side this time and, you know, he's a great creator from that side. And we also had like Wilson Odeber was overloading that side in the first half and like, he looked amazing. And yeah, even without Solanki looked like we could have scored a lot.
00:10:31
Speaker
I felt so bad. I felt so bad. like they were not like It was just an attack, an attack, an attack. People flying at defenders, balls going everywhere. All the things that you wanted to see, like you got them. All of it. Just everything. Just really, really, really impressive. i mean The back was like one guy. like We talked a little bit about this in the group chat, but we put everybody forward. We had a front line of like six We had two people right behind, and then it was kind of two people almost hanging back, but not really. I mean, you know, Van de Van came up, yeah notably. we I think we played with such confidence in the system and with so much attacking talent, which we just haven't had for a long time. We haven't had that much attacking talent since like, I mean, 2015, 2016,
00:11:26
Speaker
And no Solanke too. um then i like that to crat like I thought you looked this good with Solanke, but he wasn't even he wasn't even there.
00:11:38
Speaker
The very next thing is, is this sustainable? like Playing like that. Can you sustain that? Can you put miles on people like that? One of the things, you know, Devin just mentioned, like,
00:11:52
Speaker
You know, you're, you're a fan of a team with depth, like Spurs have been two people deep at the front for the last 10 years, basically. And then there's like, Larisse and like some cast of characters and in the in the middle, sometimes involving people who actually were pretty good, um but most often not like most, you know, a bunch of mediocre people.
00:12:12
Speaker
We saw this, you know, a couple of coaches ago when Spurs made the champions league that like, we did not have the depth to compete in Europe. Um, you know, we're in the Europa league this year, so hopefully it's like a little bit, a little bit easier, but like year two of Ange, it feels like there are enough guys in the squad week to week.
00:12:30
Speaker
that like we can pull five dudes off the field and put five fresh dudes on the field and like without much of a drop off and in some cases maybe even an upgrade because like somebody is like instant speed off the bench or like where Charleston is, you know, does what where Charleston does.
00:12:43
Speaker
You know, where we take like a gassed, like Madison off the bench and put on Lucas Bergvall. None of those options were available to us in the past. And like, look, I have no idea whether we're going to look like this from week to week because it is not like in the nature of Spurs to look like this from, from week to week. And I think that was one of the first- You're not going to look like this week to week. No, no, no, no, no. 100%. No, I think, I think there might be a, I think there's a version of this team eventually that looks like this week to week. I don't know that it happens this season. I don't know if it happens in the first half of this season.
00:13:13
Speaker
I think that was the frustration with last year. It's like, okay, we like, we're flying for at least a half, like in most matches, but the results never come. And, you know, that was certainly the frustration of week one against Lester is like, we look great in the first half, but the, you know, the ball didn't go in the net. We'll see. We'll see because I'm tired of like looking great and walking away with a two, two draw or like looking great and walking away with only scoring one goal in the first half.
00:13:39
Speaker
um Which is like kind of in our DNA. And I think that's like what Ant is trying to change, but hasn't changed it yet.
Chelsea and Man City - Star Players and Strategies
00:13:52
Speaker
The top of the EPO is super good. Like Liverpool look great. Arsenal look great. City are still city. Chelsea has 78 players.
00:14:08
Speaker
But they have but like of the 78, some of them are really good. did This Cole Palmer thing, this Cole Palmer thing is out of control. like I cannot believe he's incredible. He gets into those games and he is unstoppable. He's like Kevin De Bruyne back in early days.
00:14:29
Speaker
Remember, of Jay, when we were like watching, watching this Belgian guy's like, man, he's killing this. He's killing the United States like he's killing us. Twenty fourteen. Twenty fourteen. Yeah. And like and like he's like that. Like he has so much skill. He gets on that thing. And like every every week, every week at this point, like I'm i'm like, I got to watch. I got to watch him. I don't even like Chelsea, but I got to watch him.
00:14:51
Speaker
Yeah, Chelsea looked, uh, I mean, look, we've been clowning Chelsea for a long time and I was chief among everybody where it's like, what, what does anybody see in Chelsea this year? But so six, six is six. And like, you don't score six if you're bad. You don't score six six by accident.
00:15:11
Speaker
And yeah, Cole Palmer was right in the middle of like, what, four of those, five of those four, like he, he was, cause he scored one, scored one and three assists at the three assists. All he he assisted, all those metal wacky goals on the, on the hat trick. I think would think like that metal wacky goal was the same goal three times. It was just like somebody in the middle, like often on the right. Choose the best keeper from that angle.
00:15:31
Speaker
It looks like the same goal. I mean, he's turning a wing that has perpetually been underwhelming and awful. Just awful. He's been such a disappointment. And all of a sudden, he plays with Cole Palmer. And he's like, oh, I'm going to score a hat trick. Because he just keeps feeding him. And he puts other people in good positions. And you have to play him. Because if you don't, he'll chip the keeper. Or he'll have some wonder goal. And if he plays well, they're going to be super, super dangerous.
00:16:01
Speaker
Super dangerous. Like in football, you know, like a wide receiver is only as good as a quarterback yeah and you know, Chelsea's got, Chelsea's got QB one now and like, you know, you don't always need that QB one midfielder to win, but certainly doesn't hurt.
00:16:22
Speaker
I think it's time to start talking about City, though, really. I mean, can we get some love? I mean, no one talks about us. We're going under the radar. Just one of those small clubs, you know, trying to make our way. It was a tight match. It was a tight match. I can't believe that... It was tight for seven minutes. I can't believe it which scored first. How does that... I mean, I saw it. It was a dribbler. I mean, it wasn't like a worldy, but...
00:16:48
Speaker
The bravery that they have displayed now two weeks in a row to play high lines and push cities, I mean, push city for the, at least, you know, the first couple, the first 15 minutes and Liverpool, the first half, like, I applaud them. They are going to, they're going to get demolished for one if they continue to do this.
00:17:09
Speaker
But it was really nice to see. And you know, I've complained to the both of you many several, many times, many, many times watching these city city matches where we go into matches and they kick off the ball and 11 guys drop back and sit in the box. And they just sit and then you sit and then you sit and they wait for us to make a mistake. And then they have like one sort of counter attack thing. And then they just sit and they sit and they sit and they make these games unwatchable. And they didn't try they didn't do that. They were out there trying.
00:17:38
Speaker
They played like Burnley played last year. Yeah. Obviously, the problem is is that a year ago, you know they were they had to deal with the striker on Millwall, and now they have to deal with Erling Holland. He just absolutely swallows these small little clubs. When he gets the chance, he can't wait to play a newly promoted club and get a hat trick. He's just sitting there like, I'm going to score four tonight. And he just comes out there, and he's so aggressive. He now has this patient to him. like I think I mentioned it last week, where he he doesn't need to touch it.
00:18:10
Speaker
50 times, he just wants to know he knows that he's going to get four to five chances. He's going to put them away. Let's let's talk about Holland real quick for a sec, because it feels like this year, one thing he's also added to his game is like this sort of like, like deft touch in any sort of scoring position where it's like it it feels like he's becoming capable of doing whatever is necessary to contort his body or like put the ball and whatever. position if If he's in a scoring position,
00:18:41
Speaker
95% of chance, like the ball is going to be in the net and he'll do whatever he's got to do to make it happen. And whether it's a rocket or whether it's like a little tapper, I'm terrified for like what we're going to see this year from him. Because like last year, we you know, you saw him, he like missed a lot of those. Like he missed a lot of centers. He was still the leading scorer somehow. And like he, he missed probably what, 10 goals last year, all told from beginning to end. It doesn't seem like he's missing the ones yet this year that he missed.
00:19:11
Speaker
last year, and if that's true, he's going to score like 50 goals. I was looking looking up expected goals, and of course, Holland is first so far this season with 1.94. Second is Garnaccio with 1.55.
00:19:28
Speaker
tie for third at 1.28 for Jota and Luis Diaz. But Holland with 1.94 had scored two goals per match. Garnaccio has 1.55, but has not scored Jota and Diaz half a goal per match. So he's not only creating the most chances for himself, but he's capitalizing on the chances better than anybody else so far. We talked about Shaq last week.
00:19:49
Speaker
He's starting to remind me of more like a Zlatan, where it's like, you know, he's not going to, he doesn't have the skill of a Zlatan, but he doesn't not have skill. And he's got this sort of like striker skill that only kind of like activates when he's in like scoring range, where like if you catch him in the midfield, like he's not going to do those things that like a Zlatan would do. But if you catch him, yeah, like 20 yards and in, like he turns into like this like messy character where it's like he'll do, he'll just, so whatever he's got to do with his feet to get the ball and then he does it.
00:20:18
Speaker
And then we means to he's smart enough to get himself in the positions where that switch is flipped, right? He's not hanging out in the field. He's not drifting out. He knows where he's good and he stays there. yeah And the team is built around that in some ways. Yeah. Holland knows how to pick his spots, find the space. I mean, he's always in the right place at the right time.
00:20:46
Speaker
And then we close the game with a little guy we like to refer to as, uh, okay. Come to one comes back in and and ones yes what it's just the greatest, like, you know, Alvarez is gone folding. He's still not back. Roger is, Roger is, you know, guys got this injury. He's still not all the way there. And then like, man, we really need somebody like in the middle, like every great. And then all of a sudden we get come to one.
00:21:16
Speaker
And like, he comes in the game and he's just like, you just go, just do all the things you used to do. And you don't even have to be like the best at them. Just give us a good 25 minutes. If you can give us 25 minutes, that's one of the best signings. It's better than Savino signing. Kunda1 was always like, I mean, he was always my favorite player on City when he was around. I just feel like he's so smart.
00:21:42
Speaker
with such skill and like a real sense for the moment. It's like, he's like the best parts of Rodri and the best parts of Kevin's Aproina and like the best parts of Phil Foden, where like he makes the pass that you need him to make. He like scores the goal that the team needs him to score. He's never a distraction. He's never a knucklehead. He's like, you know, he's a second captain out there. Instant respect, like no haters. If you need a goal to be scored,
00:22:10
Speaker
pulling him off the bench at like 65 is like not the worst option. That's the Villa game to win the league. That wasn't exactly what he did. He was like, yeah, we need we need a spark and then they put him in the game. I think that one of the problems with City is going back to Spurs talking about like, you know, the the arc of one team versus another, the narrative of one team versus another. How many guys on the current City roster are like guys that you think this is a guy who scores when it matters?
00:22:39
Speaker
Like, Roger scores when it matters, De Bruyne scores when it matters, Silva scores when it matters. Like, Gundewand scores when it matters, Foden scores when it matters.
00:22:50
Speaker
You know, it's not just that, like, these are great players and it's not just the peps there. And it's not just they've won all this hardware. It's that they're full of these clutch players. Like when you need a moment to happen, here's a guy who's capable of a moment, even like Kovacic is capable of scoring when it matters. John stones. You even forget the John stones. Sure. Sure. Like at the back, like he said, some huge goals, he has some huge goals in the in those times. But this is what.
00:23:11
Speaker
that what we've built but what we built like we've built this team that just there's so many weapons there's so much diversity of talent there's so much overlap in the good way of talent it's just really fun right now the depth is depth is real high right now it's real high and and our system is plug and play at this point
00:23:45
Speaker
better than what's happening in Manchester United. I could tell you that right now.
Football Follies - Man United's Struggles
00:23:49
Speaker
To lose in that manner, you think you scored the winner, but it wasn't. And then they scored the winner instead. Like a second later, they're finding fun, new ways to to lose. I'm never really happy to be wrong, but so far I'm ecstatic to be wrong, to have been wrong so far about Manchester United because they look.
00:24:08
Speaker
real bad. I will love to come back to this moment eight weeks from now, 10 weeks from now. Are we going to be going like, man, just you're not is just not good or is it bright and it's actually really good.
00:24:19
Speaker
Like is Brighton good? I think Brighton are good. I think United are also bad. You know, like it actually much like the Spurs match, right? Like Tottenham looked great and you can't fake that, but Everton looked real bad. and Same thing with Newcastle. Like that same thought that you had with Everton, the same thought that I'm having with Newcastle and Crystal Palace. I thought those two teams would be better. I don't see. I watched a little bit of, of Newcastle both both times and I watched a lot of Crystal Palace both times and I just really thought that they would be better to just really look mundane. They don't look there's nothing dangerous about them. One interesting thing that like that I'm not used to yet as a Premier League fan ah but seems to not be the case is that like momentum doesn't necessarily carry over from season to season. You know we've we've seen like Brentford close a season out really strong or
00:25:16
Speaker
bright and close the season out really strong or West Ham close the season out really strong and make it up to, you know, European play. And last year was Palace. I mean, they didn't quite make it up to Europe, but like Palace looked like unstoppable in like the last seven, eight, nine matches of the season. pre-season
Liverpool's Form and Potential
00:25:30
Speaker
too right right And coming into this year, it was like, eh, maybe Palace, maybe there, maybe they'll be the scary team. And yeah, thus far, not so much.
00:25:45
Speaker
I have a question for the group. Go for it. Are we scared of Liverpool slash what do we think of Liverpool? I think that we are scared of Liverpool, you and me, Jay. I don't know that Benny's that scared of Liverpool. They could be in City though. Yes.
00:26:03
Speaker
yeah Not that they're going to win the league, but they could beat City in a game that matters for City to win the league. yeah That's true. I just want to see that what it looks like because on the clock, it was always so dangerous on the wings, but I just want to see see it more. i'm i'm not I already think, I mean, i I mentioned it before, I think they're top three, but I don't Can they win the league? Like, what are we saying? Are we saying that they can win the league? I don't know if they have the depth to win the league, but like they should have scored. I mean, I watched that game. They should have scored like seven goals against Brentford. Like it was two nothing. It should have been seven nothing. Like I i don't want any part of them right now. And it i I was kind of hoping that there'd be like a blip.
00:26:50
Speaker
to be like, okay, aren't slots there? He's playing a little bit of a new system from clock. Like, you know, it's going to take seven matches, 12 matches or whatever for them to start looking like Liverpool again, but they look like you're going to clap over pool right now. They look good.
Fashion on the Field - Adidas Kits and Visibility
00:27:10
Speaker
We need to talk about this arsenal kit. And I don't want to spend my first paycheck on all these kits, but it may just have to happen. If I didn't hate arsenal as much as I do, I swear I would have that third kit today. It's incredible. we've We've talked about this a lot that I am. I am a Nike apologist. However, Adidas is an absolute fire this year. I picked up two of the Juventus kits when I was in New York.
00:27:39
Speaker
One for me, one for you, Benny. If I was like a true neutral, I would buy the Bayern third shirt. I would buy the Chelsea third shirt, the one that's the black and pink. It's like the punk rock inspired one. Yeah. Bought the Juventus one. There are a bunch of kits that we talk about in in Italy from smaller manufacturers.
00:27:57
Speaker
There's the Venizia kits that are made by Drake's label, Nocta. There's the Empario Armani stuff. That's, uh, I think Napoli is EA seven. Bologna have a really good one. like something Bologna had like a good second kid or something like that. yeah I remember seeing, I remember seeing that one, the city of way Jersey is just.
00:28:15
Speaker
Burrs shirts this year, however. Third kit just got released. It's green. Our third kit last year was beige. The stats don't seem to lie that we performed worse in a kit that was like invisible or like made the players blend into the background.
00:28:32
Speaker
Like a beige kit might do positive loss on an optical illusion. Is that what you're just doing? right I'm not saying it's an optical illusion. I'm saying it's literal camouflage. I'm saying that we wore a kit last year that made it difficult to see the players and difficult to complete passes. And I think the numbers bore that out. And this year we're going with another third kit that despite the fact we have like good third kit green like Mojo going back to the 29 to 2019 Champions League.
00:28:57
Speaker
It's a green kit and it's a green field. And like, I worry that we came out with another camouflage kit. I i didn't even know that this angle existed. This was big on the Spurs subreddit last year is that, that why are we wearing a kit? That makes of your players like more difficult to see. And honestly, even if it wasn't, even if we didn't have last year to think about like, what is anybody doing with a green kit?
00:29:24
Speaker
Like it just intuitively makes sense that that would be a terrible idea. Have we seen other grass green kits in Premier League history?
00:29:37
Speaker
I don't win. one When there have been green kits, they're usually mixed with another color that helps set them off. Like Norwich city was around there that their last like prominently green team that I can remember. and Like they're yellow and green or, you know, yellow to highlight. yeah Yeah. That's right. Scottish Premier League with like, you know, with Celtic, like, you know, they do the one white stripes. Yep. Stripes are great.
00:30:00
Speaker
You know what you can see is stripes, but like a mushy textured grassy green. It's literally inspired by trees. Don't you care about the planet? yeah I love the planet. I love Spurs wins more.
00:30:22
Speaker
I don't like playing at Newcastle. Like that's a match you lose more often than you want to. That's a tough place to play. Yeah. St. James's Park is it really tough. It's like playing like the Raiders fans.
00:30:39
Speaker
Like, you know, it's like they're going to have like- In the Coliseum, not the not the current- Yeah, not like the Vegas Raiders, but like, yeah, the old like Oakland Raiders with like, or like even like ah LA Raiders with like the spikes on the shoulder pads and everybody's got their faces painted. Like that's what it's like going to St. James's Park. The majority of love out there. Let's go.
00:30:57
Speaker
It's going to be a tough game because Newcastle need to point or three from that. Like they can't lose that game. And this also feels like the game where you go up. This is the game you go up to to nothing and then it ends to two or three two. Or it feels like the game where we're down three nothing at the half. No, I don't think you're going to be down three nothing, but I feel like you're going to be up and then give it away. Can't wait. Absolutely give it away.
00:31:28
Speaker
Spurs football.
00:31:37
Speaker
Anytime we play Spurs, there's always some way difficult game and we're down to one. And I'm just like, how did how are we losing to this team? Seem is awful. Well, that'll be fun. That'll be fun for all of us. Oh, yeah. Should we go live stream that one? Yeah.
00:31:54
Speaker
Yo, yeah, definitely. Every time there there's the spur city match, we got to go yeah to live match. You should, I should work to get those on the schedule now. Figure out when you're on the come through. Yeah. Or at least, at least not have the kids. Cause usually I have like overall in your life or just like give them a, for adoption prior to the spur city match. That's right. You can get a good price for both of them on the black market for sure. We could go to the match if you sell them.