It Mostly Worked Out

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Well, well, well, let me tell y'all. So we did
a great job in the Champions League.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
We didn't get the result we wanted, but god damn it, it's.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Fucking right there. It's right there, and guess o this
look we're going to get into that. But we're doing
things a little bit differently. Jammell wasn't tracking back on defense,
so he had to sit. He's starting this one on
the bench.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
We'll see just based on how the performance is just generally,
we may sub him in. We don't know, but it's
minute to minute. But this is ain't it foot.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
The truly series ending, not our series, the season ending
finale for twenty five twenty six, now that we've got
all the European competitions out the way and all the
season players Moments of the Season awards haven't handed out
by the Premier League.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Chris Martin, how are you man?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
I'm all right, mate, I just have to I was
thinking Jammel not being here at the start, which will
say is because he went to the studio and we're
recordings remotely, is very Sunday. It's very Sunday League. You wrong, Yeah,
you've got he's late. We've got we've got to kick
the game off the refs. He's got another game to do,
so we'll play with last players.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
He's praying, man, that's why he's late. Come on, just
a little bit more time. No, he's he's not.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, it is a little bit of it. Look, we
got it. We're gonna We're gonna get into it. So
Saturday was the Champions League Final. I flew in from
la to London to watch the final at the Emirates Stadium.
I was fortunate enough to have my shit together call
in some favors that I got to sit.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I was.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
I was roll one on club level, so I had
a beautiful view right.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
At the screen.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
And it was a fantastic environment. I have to say, like.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
The whole day, even all over London and people that
even like every there were so many kids in the street.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
I could not like people say that we're the biggest
club in London, but for.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Real, like I truly felt that way every I was.
I was joking with one of my friends, I'm like,
I bet you we won't go more than two minutes
without seeing someone in an arsenal kit or arsenal something.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
And that's how it was. The entire day. By Sunday,
it was there.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
There was barely a moment where you didn't see someone
in the distance wearing a kid. But got to the stadium,
had more than a few Asahis since that's the beer sponsor,
official beer of the Emirates, and then got to my
seat and the crowd was great.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
It was joyful.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
The DJ was playing good music, everyone was singing. It
was a really, really, really amazing time. And I'm just
before I get into the results, i just got to
say the environment was fantastic to be.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Around all the other gooners. Where did you watch? I'm
very jealous.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
I had to, I might mention, but basically because my
wife had to go back to the UK for some work.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
I had my two I had to go do shows
in DC.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
And I was like, I've just got to break my
two year old with me, and he was actually on
pretty good form. He was down for it. You put
his arsenal kits on. The issue was the main bar,
the Franklin Hall one you'd mentioned before. People like go
Together at nine kicks off at twelve and I'm like,
there is no.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Way pins Tarlington I.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Was written, but I was like, there's no way I
could keep it child entertained. So I had to go somewhere.
I was I'm gonna get somewhere. At eleven they had
a spillover bar. Got there and that was a line
out the door. So then it was actually quite a
lovely moment where I just saw I got off a
bus with my son and I saw some There was
suddenly this bit of DC where everyone was in an
Arsenal kip. I just followed these Arsenal fans and started
chatting them and we basically walked down I don't even

(03:49):
know which neighborhood. It was kind of a neighbor that's
mainly a late night neighborhood. There was an Irish pub.
It wasn't open, and I was like, this is school boy,
You're not having the game on. So we kind of
went on this little event and then we just kind
of happened upon this bar, which was actually optimal for
atmosphere and two year old. There was like tables full
of Arsenal fans, but it wasn't like so sardine based

(04:12):
that you were like, this is a nightmare. Son was
locked in sat with a lovely I want to shout
Eli Michael and Michelle let me sit on their table
with the little guy shoved.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Some sit on one of the stools because there was
no stools. Free was on the table.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
No oh, sorry the stools.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Sorry mate, come on, sorry yeah, sorry, justinglish, mate, That's
what I did.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
I'm a linguistic ridd.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
Me in with your American basic English.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
An antagonistic prick. Okay, I'm sorry. It's a joyful day.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Jamel's not here and you turned to ship Yeah yeah, sorry,
sorry sorry.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
He was the glue. Here was the glue that kept
us together.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
It turned up he was the Miles Lewis Skelly, just
knitting defense and attack together. But but yeah, game kicks off.
He's got his IT defenders on it.

Speaker 6 (05:04):
You know.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
The goal went in and I shook him.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
I shook him at a level that was like I
need to tell a pediatrician.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Like about this.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
I was just he had this funny moment in his
face where he was so happy that I was so happy. Yeah, yeah,
just you have a toddler and it just goes past
happy to and then he went I was scared, and
then he had to hug me.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
He is like, calm it down.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
And then about twenty minutes later he really hit the
attention wall, so extra time.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
I was watching.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
I don't want to go to extra time because I
have to just do more terrible parenting.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Give him.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
I told him the iPhone because he doesn't watch it.
We don't put TV on like on a phone or
any of that stuff.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
But I had to tell him.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
On the airplane for four and a half hour five
hour flight it only yeah works, TV works on the
plane on my phone, and I told him it's weird.
It works just in this one specific bar in DC and.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
The more believe every airplane and every airplane God is theirs.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
But anyway, he was, he was chill for the whole thing.
But it was it was. It was.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
It was the perfect environment for the scenario I was
in and a shame we didn't get the result.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
But it is what it is.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
I was jealous of you though I watch it anywhere
to the parade and I.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Was just my voice is cooked from this weekend. I
was screaming so fucking much.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
It was. It was crazy.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Was it the perfect antidote because even I didn't have
that and because Arsenal won the league for twenty two years, I.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
And I watched the final.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yeah, and obviously I'd love us have won it, but
really you can't argue no matter how bars nas Van
is we've been great to win it, but we like
we're not, they're not. They're not best team in Europe yet,
like as in PSG are a better team and they're
further ahead in their projects for various reasons. We all
know why. And I was watching going Arsenal maximized. I
think what they had, but they don't have the qualitative ability.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Of for PSG.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
We rang every drop out of that rag basically to
get what we we squeezed ever, you know how like
didn't Arteta did that thing too, wasn't it with like
a lemon squeeze? They have everybody's like, guys, I want
you to squeeze it. Do you think there's nothing can
come out anymore? And then give it to the next
person and they still get something out and they still
get something out. We threw that shit was dropped, We

(07:19):
got everything out and they were definitely the better side,
and especially I mean, given the tactics we had to
resort to to keep the match competitive, like we we
played to our strength and unfortunately one of our strengths
isn't in attack, and bou Kyle was a shell of himself.
You can just tell there's still things like holding him back.
I'm not like blaming anybody, but I can just see why.

(07:43):
I can see why we didn't get over the line,
so I can't feel too bad about that.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
And I'm like, weirdly in the first half, were you
just like I was just so comfortable, like as in
we scored. We definitely did that cliche thing of Arsenal
school too. They scored too early. Could I watch the
goal and what it was like with you? I was
watching you. He's square square to soccer, I'm go to
square soccer and then he kicks it and it took
it took a good three seconds.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
What is that? Yah Ah? Everyone in the Emirates was
like that too.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Everyone went like I was like, oh, he fucking just
roofed that thing.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Okay, I love it.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, it was That's the thing I will never forget
being at the Emirates when that goal went in, because
my god, the belief in there at like everyone was
was cheering like they knew this was going to happen.
That like We're like this is where we're headed, this

(08:42):
is exactly what we're all believing in is manifesting before
our eyes. And for that, and I was saying that
even AFTERNDS, even though we lost, I will, I will
hold onto that because the way I was screaming, bro
we were I almost broke this poor dude's arm behind
me because like we grabbed each other's hands and I
was jumping higher than him, and I think I almost

(09:03):
ripped his arm out of the socket because we were
just celebrating. My my friend went all up the eye.
It was just it was just so beautiful and yeah,
and after that, I was.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Just in that feeling just so I like to sit
in this feeling for a bit. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
I genuinely struggle to think of any moment as an
adult who does not play professional sport that feels as
good as just that explosion of joy where hugging. Yeah,
I love hugging a stranger. Mat It's my favorite thing.
It's just the most only time society that or if
you're on MDMA where you can just hug a stranger, yeah,

(09:36):
and they'll just.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Be okay, and I will thank you. Yes, It's what
I needed. Yeah. Yeah, there was like a bunch of tourists,
some dudes from like Malaysia behind it was. That was
the other crazy thing too. So I went to the
Armory the morning of.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
The fuckeruse I wanted to get a kid, you know,
like I wanted to get my champions kid.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
The line was crazy, Like I got there about.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Forty minutes before the Armory opened, like in eight twenty
and there was line about two hundred people deep before
like when I got there.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
By the time nine o'clock came around, this ship.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Was up Holloway Road, like it was crazy, and all
these people were like fuck, I thought I got here early.
And there were so many different languages being spoken like ambiently.
I mean, already London is obviously a very multicultural city,
but there were truly like there were so many people
who had just come out for the final and the

(10:28):
parade from so many places. It blew my mind, Like
I really, I'm really curious about what the data looks
like in terms of what the what the actual magnet
like the draw was of people into the area just
for that because I couldn't there was there were American people, Germans, Mexicans,
Korean people, Japanese people, Chinese people, people came from like

(10:52):
all over. It was and like not that people just
lived there, they were also like I also came here
all the way and everyone's like, oh shit, where'd you
come from?

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Where'd you come from?

Speaker 5 (10:59):
Where? Oh my god?

Speaker 1 (11:00):
And it was, Yeah, it was fantastic.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
So like a like a pilgrimage, isn't it like everyone
just fluck flock. It's something kind of yeah, it's quite magical. Really,
it's like a lovely Yeah, just kind of the last
two weeks has made me to be kind of earnest
about this is I do feel like since COVID on
top of everything is I do feel like and the

(11:22):
way the world is now with I mean, I know
it's good in a way. We can do this remotely,
but people spend so much time on their phones and
not experiencing stuff. There's something kind of magical about how
this brought people out of their shell to just like
just be just just chanting next to.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
And hugging people. It's just beautiful.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
What's about how how was the singing?

Speaker 4 (11:44):
Well, I did say the actual So this was the
first time I've watched in the bar where no one
sung for the whole game, which, again, if I didn't
have my two actually was like, it's like everyone was.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Like, there's a two year old. Let's just keep it.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
Let's keep the noise, let's keep the decibels below eighty five.
Theres haven't grown. But so I didn't mind it because
of my situation. But it was a bit bit of me.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
It was like, there's no chancing here. Andy.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
Just at the end of the game, a lot of DC,
a lot of DC gooners started chanting arsenal. But they
were chanting it Arsenal, Arsenal, Arsenal, And I was like, God,
you just got to break that word up, man, you
got to break it up.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Oh, because they're oh, so they're putting the little bit
of English flavor on the r because because I'll go, man,
there are times early on when I was watching this ship,
like in the early in the arts, and we were
like arsenal arsenal, and You're like, oh, come.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
On, no, they weren't going hard.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
It wasn't.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
It was just they just couldn't break the word. They
couldn't put them half of feet in the words.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
And it's like, come on, man, because this is what
this is. This is this is us at the emerge.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Perfect It's a perfect rendition do you put on an
English accent when you do it?

Speaker 2 (13:08):
That was in the ground. Oh you bro, I have
you know? I love accent man? Yeah, come on, god
no for all this, for all the chance it's all
because that's.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
What I Yeah, it feel. It feels strange, you know.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
It's like the same way puts stolen valor mile. It's
like singing a song, you know what I mean, Like
the same way, like like you would hear like Zeppelin
and be like these mother they're not singing like they're English,
like they're putting that sort.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Of like blues flavor on because it's just something. It's
like music in a way. It's like it to sound
a certain way.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
It's like if you ever watch pornography and it's not
an American accident. It feels like if you hear a
British accent in poor and you're like, just put on
an American one, mate, I don't want to hear you going.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Oh wow, that's I never thought about it.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
Sometimes I'm like, yo, that shit's interesting because everything yeah,
and I'm like, oh my god, well maybe it's because
it's not as exotic for you, but I don't want
to hear so I don't hear something.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Oh yeah, that's all.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah right right, oh sheep.

Speaker 5 (14:14):
That.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
I don't know if i've I don't know if i've
actually because I feel like that's the thing. Now we're
porn hub, everyone, a lot of people just refrain from
using words. There's just a lot of moan, you know
what I mean, Like, I think that's it's like the
mister beanification of international porn.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Is that what happens? Do you hear someone go, oh yeah.

Speaker 7 (14:48):
Someone, Oh it's a group of guys with pint bosses.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, that's the the pretty English orgy.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
When somebody climaxes, they all just throw pints in it.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
It was crazy.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
I forgot when I was when we were there. My
friend he will get to this, but he he was
like Ben White. He threw like all our pints off
the fucking upper deck. Okay, just once because it was
meant it was you know, as they say, limbs, it
was limbs man. And he was just first one just
threw straight up in the air and then just said

(15:34):
then the other one he just sent off the upper
deck and one of the stewards came but accused the
person next to him.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Amazing and We're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know, man,
we didn't see anything.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
We didn't see anything.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
But yeah, uh so the match, the goal great, then
a couple penalty shouts.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
Okay, yeah this do you know what something about when
I was watching, I didn't see the Saco one at
the offense and I was like, I'm surprised that a penalty.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Surprise, that was not a penalty.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
Yeah, so that's why, like the Madawak one, I was
watching it going absolutely mental. And then it was the
speed at which the ref just had no interest. Yeah,
because it looks in real times like you've got to
you've got that or release, but because he was so
emphatic about it.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
But maybe I I.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
I actually think ref should even stuff up, to be honest,
like if I think that's not the worst way of refereeing,
Like if he doesn't give the sac of one and
he doesn't give that one, that is kind of fine.
You can't I don't know, actually have a big problem
with that. If he'd obviously, like if it been two
penalties that he didn't give to Arsenal, then I think
that's not not good refereeing. But but yeah, he definitely

(16:44):
when he didn't let Sacker take the corner.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
I was like, that's not that's not a good sign.
That was.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
That was definitely wacky as fuck, and I think, you know,
they're saying that, like we we're spending too much time
with it. It's like, no, I'm sorry, that's it, but
you got to let him finish that.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Last play, Like whoa, what the fuck is that?

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, a lot of people were screaming about that, and
then the muscarra foul and then ballet. It was in
the beginning it was like one of those things you
watch and you're like, ah, fuck.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
I mean like you're like, wow, he fucked that thing up.
And then when the var replays kind of going, then
everybody started rationalizing, well.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
They got the ball and it's like he went through
the man to get the ball.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Oh yeah, that was.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
Never It was just funny to see like the levels
of denial sort of said it before was like, oh fuck,
we fucked it, and they're like maybe this thing and
then you're like, no, no, that's well.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
I didn't realize they kept checking it to see if
he should get a yellow and I didn't even know
he was on a yellow, and I was like, so,
you know, glass off fullows like that it is completely
fair enough penalty and apparently because of the new rule,
it shouldn't have been a yellow because the punishment was
a penalty, which is is a good rule, I think, right,
But then I was like, that's annoying. But then yeah,

(17:57):
it did kind of they just didn't really have like
they didn't have many they were no one.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
I didn't chances as much as they had all the ball.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
It did feel a bit like when Arsenal play a
lower level team and they just have the ball and
don't really create any threat.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
So I was like.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
Comfortable, I just wished again, and I think this shows
the difference in the projects.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Right.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
We talked a bit about Victor and Martinelli and none
as a front three. It's a very common topic amongst
Arsenal fans and neutral observers. But when they're you're front
three for the last part of the game, you're like,
that's not that doesn't feel me of confidence And Martinelli
missed it a kind of an not easy but like
a very doable swlot in yeah, just to pass, I

(18:40):
think with to Madawk and I kind of was thinking
it's getting too penalties and from about the start of
extra times. I don't like how few good penalty takers
we have. Like I knew Victor would take one. I
was confident as it would take one on the score, ironically,
but then I was like, I was going, I don't
think non is just going to take one, and I
I thought, yeah, I was getting less and less confident

(19:03):
as we go to depends.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah, yeah, it's I mean, it says a lot right,
like where when you look at people's team of the
season for the Champions League, we don't have a single
person out like that plays sort of in the final third,
even in the conversation like dec when Rice is the
closest we get to the middle third and even then

(19:25):
you know he's not He's not really like a ten,
but he's that's sort of like our biggest commendable person
who's not a defender. Otherwise our defenders all people are like,
you know, without without a doubt, they're like, this back
line is fantastic. And I think that's the thing we
the next level we need to reach if we don't
have someone in each third of the pitch that is

(19:48):
at a level where everyone is like that person is,
without a doubt, the best in that position. In the
Champions League and in the Premier League. Yeah, that's just
sort of the main thing that's missing. I was sort
of I was hard and by the fact that that,
again it spoke to everything we did. We were able
to really keep Paris at a sort of arm's length

(20:08):
just with our defense, and then that shows that we
have a lot to do.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
And I know that was like one of the things.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Maybe we talked about it last week, but there was
the or maybe we didn't. There was the Josh Cronke
interview like where he was on Sky Sports and he
was talking yeah, and he was talking about how like
after the final in Baku, he was like, what do
we need to do? What's going on here? And it's
clear he was like, we need to get so Gratius
and Mustafi the fuck at, Like we need defenders and

(20:36):
he went to Permurdasackers.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Like what do we do.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
He's like, you need to we need the best center
back in Europe and he's like, well, that's William Saliva
and that and he was signed like within two months
after that, immediately, because it was just like like they
clearly went like now, fuck all that, we really have
to address this. I don't think it's as severe, but
clearly that is a huge need going into the next season.

(20:59):
And that's it's not a secret, that's everything we're looking at.
It's I'm curious to see, like who we've identified and
who we're gonna become. You know, who we're gonna keep
be going after.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Oh and if you wouldn't know, someone is just.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yep, I'm seeing the assistant referees board come up right now.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, well numbers he holding.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
It's sixty nine, I believe sixty nine or six seven,
coming in.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Straight off the island.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
You are island gall People don't realize that he has
a tropical island animated backdrop with his beautiful blonde wig on.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
That's why he was like.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
That's why he was like, I had to get ready,
I had to get cute, and then I tried to
find oda guard shades.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Oh wow, well, I'm sure in the street. They're in
the streets of London, man, and never never to be
seen again.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
What I like is that you were running late, but
you were still like, I've still got time to put
on a wig and unless unless you traveled, unless you
traveled to the shoot.

Speaker 5 (22:15):
With this, I was on a one on one with
this on, man.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
You ever get pulled over? Do you get pulled over
with that one? Probably? You know from the back people
be like, hm, you know, well.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
They think something's wrong with me, but not in the
way that they want to get Yeah.

Speaker 8 (22:31):
Yeah, yeah, I don't want I don't know. I don't Again,
I'm good with that. His car is full of needles.
I'm not going there sewing needles for some reason. Uh
So this is Jamelle. You caught us at.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
A good well.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
We we just talked about the goal, talked about the penalty.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
What are your thoughts on our goal and their penalty?

Speaker 5 (22:53):
I mean, it was a great goal and I almost
thought it was too early. I'm like, is this goal
too early?

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (23:00):
Or are we going to score again? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (23:02):
That's where I felt confident in my two nil prediction.
I was like, there it is.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Now, let me see it one more and let's just
fucking let's get it even drunker right now.

Speaker 5 (23:12):
Two goals and we win. Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
That shows you.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
The thing, right is if if Arsenal I think had
better attackers in that game, state they have enough defenders
to play on the counter. But I feel like anytime
Arsenal upon the counter date. I never I can't remember
that many counter attacks Arsenal have punished a team on.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
So it's like like PSG.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
I think Satin like that against buying in the second
leg and they punished them on the break. So in
that game state you know, the Habits had a little
half chance just before the break. Yeah, again, it felt
watching it. He took it like a slightly a dodgy touch,
but you're like, just get our second if there's two
nail this game over. Honestly I don't see Arsenals into
but but yeah, it's it's we were in the privileged

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position of being champions of England, so it doesn't feel
as bad, but it's good. It's the it's the journey geist.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, it is the journey geist.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Uh play they played my favorite Journey album And then
how'd you feel after the debl penalty?

Speaker 5 (24:12):
It just was like the walls was closing in already. Bro,
they was on top of us. They had the ball,
they had like eighty percent of the ball and you
just I'm just watching, like, first off, I'm watching the
whole second half through the screen of a stranger.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
What do you mean?

Speaker 5 (24:28):
Anna wins Teacher of the Year okay, and is the
l A U. S D. Teacher of the goddamn year.
So they have So they have a banquet during the
during champions during a Champions League final. God, I say,
God's testing me in my faith. Yeah, this is all fine.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:49):
I get to the banquet. Everybody else at the table
has the game on. So now I'm watching it with
these kids. I don't even know it's one of the
other teachers who got teacher. I'm watching with her kids.
And who's that man in the wig you were watching
on just just a second? And so you have the
several Teachers of the Year, there's twenty four of them

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they got. That's different. I mean, I feel like if
she was.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
She got on the plane. She made the plane. If
you wanted to team at the season exact player of
the season, if you wanted to make an argument, you'd
be like, I'll come. If you're the one and only teacher,
say the ballon door. If you made the squad, you know,
if you made the squad, yeah that's cool, that's cool.

Speaker 7 (25:34):
You are.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
It's still good. But is it Champions League?

Speaker 5 (25:37):
So congratulations Anna, I'm thinking, Chris, I'm thinking, I'm like,
we're we're.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
All I'm saying all of this to the kids and
say these things I'm watching.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
I'm going to the bathroom for dozens of minutes at
a time.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
Is it sorry just to get Is it voted for
by the kids or by the sort of teacher writers?

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Is it like well, is it the gymists? Is it
the journalists of order? Is it the people?

Speaker 5 (26:04):
You gotta get You gotta get voted. You gotta get
a nomination from some kids and then you give and
then you get voted on by the It's like they
got like a teachers mix.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
It's a mix.

Speaker 5 (26:18):
You gotta do a whole thing. You gotta go. You
gotta do teacher Olympics to get it. Bro, you gotta
like write three essays and film yourself teaching and ship.
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
You gotta write more essays as a teacher.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
You're the one's supposed to be mark, I mean fat,
I mean the fact she even wrote three essays.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Well, they like school.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
That's a it's a personality type. They just love to
just stay in that mode.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yeah, then penalties came. We're kind of at the penalties.
You know, this is where I mean we described what
was going on, but.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
When did you think did you think we were gonna
win the shoots out?

Speaker 5 (26:51):
I thought if we made it to the shootout, we
had a chance for the.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
Whole second half of Like, that's when I that's when
I jumped on your.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
I was like, Jamel, man, Jamel was fucking right.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Even though afterwards, I'm like, motherfucker, you got it enough.

Speaker 5 (27:08):
I believed in Rya and Pins too, even though their
goalie headed.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, yeah, that is true though their goalie.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
I mean, if any of the missus had gone on target,
I'm sure the would have been goals because their goalie
just didn't test him. He just there's no way someone
with a top not like that is when when has
a goalie ever been good.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
With that hairstyle? Right? Never? Yeah, I'll tell you.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
When I asked when we lost both coin tosses, I
was like, man, the double sided coined us. Mate, Well,
what are the odds? What are the odds are losing
to in a row? Was there like a million to one?
But once once you go second in the shootout, and
this is not an excuse, but a bit is an excuse. Statistically,
it's much worse to take the second penalty statistically because

(27:52):
the pressures on you and then to take the like
penalty to keep you in the tournament.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
That's like to keep your hopes like that.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
That is a much higher missed penalty then to try
and win it.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
So once we.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
Lost the coin, Once we lost the coin tosses, I
was like, I don't like this. And then when I
thought about the fact that after your carez as A
and who else did we have on I was like,
I'm struggling, struggling declin, those are the only three players.
I was like, they could take a penalty, and then
once as A missed, that's not good. But yeah, when

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Gabriel steps up, I was like, I don't like.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
It.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Was like, holy, I mean, part of me is like,
damn you.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Sometimes you'll see a center back in a World Cup
final be like I fucking got this, and I had
to be optimistic. I'm like, oh, he's on that ship
right now. But then I'm like, what the fuck is
known he yet?

Speaker 4 (28:43):
I'm like, or even or Durian takes I've seen Jurian
take a good penalty or Saliba, but yeah, they take
shoots against Palace.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
But I was like, I don't know, Gabriel's taking this one. Yeah,
it was.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
That's where at the end, I was just like, ware,
uh shit, because you know the essay, man, I look,
you had a great season, man, but.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
There was something It completely fucked him up when his
stutter step didn't throw the keeper one bit.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
That run up bro, Oh my god.

Speaker 6 (29:15):
You knew.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
You're like, oh, he's all ship.

Speaker 5 (29:18):
Nope. Yeah, it's his first season playing Champions League. By
the way, it's his first year on the team. Yeah yeah,
first time ever in this position. And god damn it
if he didn't go for the the meme of the
year run up fu.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
When he says it's God's plan, I was like, I
did not like that plan. God, God, right there, can
we have a contingency plan?

Speaker 5 (29:43):
You know? Forgotten and all of this Martinelli did not miss?
Yeah miss there he is. I thought, you know what
was tough too, man? You would want oder guard or
Sokker in there.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
Yeah, that's exactly the penalties, you know.

Speaker 5 (29:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Er, what was the reaction like in the stadium, Miles, Like,
how long after everyone being like gutted did it? Did
people start singing or chanting or like was it just
everyone just just left angry?

Speaker 3 (30:13):
Once Bialdo buried it and they won. It was just
kind of everyone I think it was just quiet a
little bit and there was a lot of like there
were people who just cheered, you know, most people didn't
like leave right away.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Everyone was just kind of sitting with it and just
kind of commit.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
Like it was just commiserations going around and people just
kind of applauding at the big screens that were in
the middle of the pitch, but leaving people were bringing
themselves up again and we were singing, you know, Champione.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Just you know, the singing.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
People were kind of pretty quickly were able to pivot
to what a great season it's been. So it didn't
like really kill the mood at all. It was my god, man,
my fucking serotonin dopamine.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
They were fucked. The next day, I was like, because.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
I mean, man, I remember remember the fucking two thousand
and six final very vividly too, and that was fucking
destroyed after that because that run was so crazy, man. Yeah,
like especially when we beat like they're like real Madrid. Yeah,
you're not gonna beat like the via reality tie the Ventus.
There were so many there were so many moments along
the way you're not Uventus, but that it felt like

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we were doing something special and it felt like, oh
my god, like this is this is how shit happens,
this is how it plays out, like the things go right.
And so I definitely I think going into like everybody
really felt like we had a chance. I wasn't like
we got this ship, but I really felt like I'm
not going to be surprised if we win this at all.
I'm not going into this negatively by by any stretch.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
So people just took a second and then slowly went on.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
I took a minute and I just kind of sat
there because I had to decompress, Like I couldn't just
like get up and walk out. Also, I was drunk
as fuck, so I had to take a seat and
just be.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Like who.

Speaker 5 (31:57):
It was.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
It was rough, Yeah yeah, yeah, how about how about
that spite your records?

Speaker 5 (32:01):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (32:02):
It was because it finished at two thirteen and after.
I mean the spot I was at was quite funny.
Is they had no idea that like this poor woman there,
like they were open and they had paramount plusts to
have it, and you could see in her eyes she
just had fear, like it's a place that's like a
brunch spot that is like I think, like a gay

(32:22):
bar that normally.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
At like six pm gets pretty busy.

Speaker 4 (32:24):
Yeah, you could see she was just like I I ordered,
I ordered some chiros from I was doing everything my son,
giving him bluey and all this stuff, and then I
was like churros and he didn't even know what they were, like,
it's a doughnut with.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
You're gonna I want chiros.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
I was like, great, I ordered I swear to god,
I ordered them in the thirtieth minute and they came
five minutes before the end of extra time, and I
was just like, he's like I want chiros. I'm like
like that, and so like we just kind of got
out of there pretty quick. And then the people chanted
Arsenal badly and that annoyed me. There was there were
ten guys in there supporting p SG, like in that

(33:03):
sort of ship house way.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
It was like, you don't. You're not from Paris, mate,
you don't.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
And then you know, giving it the big one, and
I wanted to be like, you mean you like you're
you've support a soulless entity. So and yeah, then I
just had to say then then I'm a meet. Then
the quite good thing about being a dad to a
kid is you just have to immediately just get into
parent mode. You're like, go to a playground and he's
playing basketball, and then you know it's fine.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
It's it's a good antidote.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
And you're looking like fucking Escobar and those Narcos memes
and ship yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, just sitting swing.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
His dad gonn Is he gonna have a dad at
the end of this.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yeah, but so that yeah, it's it's the thing about
seeing it earlier in the day.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
You kind of had the whole day to sit.

Speaker 4 (33:48):
And then I did a show at night and that
was that was fun and and then yeah, then I
was happy, just like I feel like the perfect antidote
is the parade the next day. That like such a
cathartic experience.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Oh my god, boys, it was the best fucking time
of my life.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
The Emirates was fucking great, but I was. The crazy
thing is I was dead sober for the parade because
I was hanged hunged over okay after the final uh
and I woke up and man, I'm not joking, Like
my emotions were so fucked up. Part of me was like, fuck, man,
I can't go to no fucking parade, right now that

(34:27):
was so fucking difficult to fucking deal with. And then
and then I was like, man, shut the fuck up,
like this is this is the whole fucking point, Like
you came to be with everybody to do this shit.
And very quickly I was like, I got up. I
had one of the greasiest full English breakfasts I've ever had.
Destroyed my stomach, yes, And I was like, I was like, hell, no, bro,

(34:50):
I'm allowed to be at my feet for like four
hours straight and my stomach's doing loops.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Luckily I fucking held it together. I got on wa
on the full English. She go you get you get
a black pudding with that? Or do you go? When
you got bacon sort of crashers, Yeah, rashers, sauce, fried bread,
fried bread. No, it just came with regular sour dotels.
You went to a bougie, you went to a.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
I wasn't one whether tomatoes still have the green bit on, No,
it was it was just a crudely just hacked in
half A relative shipped.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Tomato on both sides.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
I was like, okay, I'll get down baby baked beans,
got bab beans on there?

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Yeah, you go? Do you chut some brown sauce on
that would you go? No, I just go just like that.
I let the yolk do the talking. Baby, just yoke
it up.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
I will go on.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Brown sauce is one of my top top three condiments.
It's in there.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
It's a quality sauce. But okay, it's the same thing.
But yeah, you know, if you're if you're local, you
can call it either. Mate, it's sort of a local.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
That's cool, bro. I'm just I'm just a tourist, you know,
I'm just But in my voice, I was like, yeah,
but you go into parade like uh, going in the tube.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Okay, So I got on it Covent Garden, so I'm
like four stops or five stops.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
From the Emirates.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
This fucking thing is on the Piccadilly Line, fucking rammed.
As I said, it was fucking rammed, and I was like,
holy shit, me and my boy, we just we had
to fucking just squeeze our asses in. I felt bad
for the three people in this tube car who had
nothing to do with the parade. They were getting smushed

(36:36):
to bits like fucked like absolutely there. Their day was
fucked because all these people are screaming, singing, the whole
tube ride meeting all these people. Was another dude from
like Dallas behind me. This dude came from South Wales.
Another guy came from New Zealand. And there's another moment.
You're in the fucking hottest, you know, tube car and

(36:57):
everybody's just like, ah, where are you from? Oh my god,
your accent, you'reright? Where are you from? Da We go
to the next station, Holborn, people couldn't even fucking get on,
and then yeah, we get to fucking King's Cross. Sorry, motherfuckers,
nobody is getting like it. You couldn't get on. After
I got on, it was absolutely cramped. And then uh,
some people, a lot of people got off at King's

(37:18):
Cross to start walking all the way to the stadium.
I took it all the way to Caledonian Road, which
is kind of the closest you could get, and walked
straight to Holloway Road.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Was sort of like, you know, part of me was thinking,
it's going to be crazy all over.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Do you go to the one side where like there's
gonna be less people so you can get right on
the barriers and see them, or do you kind of
want to be where it's where it's going to be earlier.
That way you can be done with the parade and
kind of start moving on with other shit and partying.
So we went closer to the beginning and it was great.
The Brass Andal band was there. I was right next
to them, so they were just playing full time and
it was it was so fucking like the energy was

(37:55):
just so good. And Jamel, you know American sports three
things that shit can get sketchy as fuck.

Speaker 5 (38:02):
Oh yeah, the car's getting flipped over, guy's gonna eat
horse poop. Somebody's gonna fall off of a really high
greasy light post.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
Yeah yeah, yeah, so you know, shout out to all
the youth and the old men who know how to
climb a light post in the UK one handed, like
or even no hand.

Speaker 5 (38:21):
When the guy on YouTube fall off a light post
actually get that high though, he got like that.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
The guys in the tree when they took the tree down, no, like,
what do you think of ship Taughtner.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
They fucking overloaded a tree and the snapped at the trunk.
It wasn't like too dramatic, it just went and they
just kind of went right off. But yeah, like this
is the band playing.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
This was just so dope.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
So the band is going the whole time, so it
was like, this is like two hours before the parade starts,
you know, and the moods just up and then yeah, man,
once the praise started, it was it was crazy because

(39:12):
you could barely see. Like, I'm not joking, I put
my phone up and was zooming in as far as
I could in either direction.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
It was all people, all people everywhere.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
And by the time the busses came, it was crazy
energetically what happened like because because you knew, like the
lead bus had the DJ shout out Sammy Virgie, who
was amazing producer DJ. I was like, this motherfucker's DJing
the parade and you could hear the coming from the
distance and people would just fucking start just screaming. Flares

(39:42):
are going off, so many fucking flares.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
It was crazy.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
Luckily where I was at there weren't so many flares.
I couldn't see the bus because there were some people
who couldn't see the bus because the flare smoke was
so intense. And yeah, by the time it got there,
I'm just my voice is cooked and I'm not joking.
Down the rice looked me dead in my eye, Okay,
I was screaming. I have the video evidence. He looked
at me. Uh and it was just so it was

(40:07):
just so great to see people from all over kids. Man,
people were like two or that babies. Man fucking brought
strollers and ship and it was all good. People were mad, respectful,
like you know, people like were like making space for
like people, you know, people were getting too hot, getting
on water if they needed something.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
He just felt like, such a.

Speaker 5 (40:24):
Did they have a zone for people with asthma, like
a no flare area?

Speaker 3 (40:28):
Hell no, hell no, you better come up with that
fucking World War two respirator gas.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
I was just thinking, what if you have like a
major health episode amongst people setting or flares, how do
you alert people?

Speaker 5 (40:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
I mean there were people who had like there were
people like rocking like kind of and ninety fives.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
I think there were.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
There were definitely people who I think were like maybe
I know, compromise whatever, doing what they could from afar.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
But it was just so that's the fucking standards. Yeah, yeah,
get there.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
I don't care guys if it's gonna kill you, okay,
inhale the smoke, guys. Emphysema guys, Yeah, and for see
you next season, guys. Okay, that's what's gonna happen, guys.
And so yeah, it was just it was just a
really great time. There was a socio.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
There's a sociological term for it called collective effervescence, and
I just want to underline that because that is one
of it's truly this is the feeling.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Okay, this is a meal Dirk him.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Okay, shout out people who took sociology intro to sociology
in college. And it's just that it's when that group
setting just creates a vibe.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Usually like that happens when you're playing music and ship
or like an concert or something. But for this just
to be around people like just yelling the word Arsenal
and like everyone's emotional. It was just so fucking beautiful
and it was yeah, makes everything worth it.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
So now, so now next year, when Arsenal gets Chemi
the league finally gonna win, we all go.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
This has got to be a group trip because.

Speaker 4 (42:00):
Yeah, I'm already gonna completely blank my calendar out and
tell my wife that I'm going to abandon her and
my son or they.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
Got to go, Like you got to come, I said,
where we go, but wherever I'm going or you're we're
all eye we but this is happening, this has to happen.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Yeah, so so worth it. But the fucking parade, man,
the the fun thing is, like I'm.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
It was maybe all all told forty eight seconds between
the first bus and then the last bus, okay, and
everybody's all right, man, let's get the fuck out here.
But that's what that's what makes social media so beautiful
because we got to talk about the real parade m VP,
which is one Benjamin White.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Benjamin drunk? Was he when you saw him?

Speaker 5 (42:45):
Bro?

Speaker 1 (42:46):
He wasn't I think he?

Speaker 3 (42:47):
I think he might have been on the other side
of the bus. I didn't see Ben White on that
side of the bus. I got to see he was
driving that Gabrielle Saliba, Ze Marino, Kepa, Gabby Ja just
like most of those guys jover and like the back
of Josh Cronky's head, and then like Chloe Kelly and
like Leah Williamson.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
It saw the like ladies team too. But the fucking dude,
all those clips of Ben White, sorry.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
Did you see the one?

Speaker 2 (43:14):
How like they went by this one burger stand and
they the guys from the burger stand were launching like
fifteen burgers at the bus to try and get one
of the players to like snager burger.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
Ben White the only one to catch it. He didn't
even he didn't even hesitate. He unwrapped that ship immediately.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
Uh it was I got I think there's someone someone
made like a clip of his day.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Where is it? I gotta find it.

Speaker 3 (43:41):
But yeah, it was crazy because like the people were like,
oh my god, Ben White was he ate our burger?
And the guy and Ben White found that account, he
was like it was fucking delicious.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
Man. He's like, that's a drunk man right there.

Speaker 4 (43:51):
Oh he just grabs who's snagging on on? Right, that's
the most drunk thinking ever. Due someone tosses you a burger,
you immediately put it in your mouth. Yeah, but he's
the he's the only player like fully injured, right, so
absolutely it is his right to be as drunk as
humanly possible to throw people's sunglasses to shout, jump up,
to shout, get your bum out like.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
That's I think Michel probably encouraged it. Guys.

Speaker 4 (44:16):
If you if you're two injured guys, you've gotta you
gotta show your dedication by having fifteen pints the night before, guys.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
I think, but yeah, I wonder if like Ben White's
kind of like the Dennis Rodman on the team.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
They're like, bro, this guy is weird as fuck. Man,
he doesn't even really like basketball, but he's good and.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
We need him.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
And then he's like, guys, he let him get drunk, guys,
and you know Ben Benjamin's going to do his thing, guys,
but they cap, yeah, get your bum out.

Speaker 7 (44:42):
Was so good.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
Through the flare smoke, boom boom. He also I think
he threw h hat he was snagging, snatching so many
people's sunglasses off. He's like, take them ships off, They're gone,
give me that ship.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
It felt like I think we I definitely have friends
like this when I was younger who got drunk and just.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
Did ship like this, Like, yeah, bro, what the fuck
was that? And it's the guy you guys, all you
and your mates know about that.

Speaker 4 (45:22):
He is the greatest guy in the world until he
has five pints and then you're like you then you're like, avoid.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
That man at all costs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. He'll
he'll fucking try he'll try and kiss your girl. You
don't know that. You don't know.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
I fucking you one time he threw a pint glass
at a fucking bathroom door.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
He is a liability.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
But yeah, it just I think it's also probably easy
to throw somebody's glasses when you're a millionaire, to be
like me, shut the fuck up.

Speaker 4 (45:51):
Martineo de God looked genuinely annoyed, and it was just
like I was thinking exactly the same thing as like, mate,
you could you could have fifth, you could have ten
ten in your pocket. Just keep bringing him out and
throwing them off again, because it's like.

Speaker 5 (46:03):
You know, o Guard, you know he's a sentimental value guy.
You know he got those shades like the last time
he hit a free kick right.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Right, He don't.

Speaker 4 (46:11):
He doesn't look like he spends a lot of money
at you. He's probably just no, he's just buy what
you need. Just by what you need, you know what
you want.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
And like whatever whoever sponsoring him, like he'll rock those right,
you know what I mean. Like he's like he's not
a fashion A lot of shit he a lot of
time you wear shit that's too baggy for his build.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
I gotta say, if I was styling him.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
Uh, but yeah, look at this moment where he takes
uh oder Guard's glasses.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
He really just like, what the hell kind of a
thing with his arm?

Speaker 5 (46:36):
Snap?

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Fuck up, dude, come on, what the fuck was that?
And I love random Kai Havertz header into the crowd.

Speaker 4 (46:44):
Did you did you also see oder god headed a
football and the face.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
He ducked out though immediately, And why did he not come.

Speaker 5 (46:53):
On, Martin, you blond enough to let him.

Speaker 7 (46:55):
Know that was you.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
You're gonna get arrested. Someone says, oh, yeah, that's Ben
White said that he's gonna get arrested.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
That was Ben White.

Speaker 5 (47:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
It sounds like Kyle was like, what the fuck?

Speaker 4 (47:14):
Man?

Speaker 1 (47:16):
What Ben White? You're the real MVP, man, you were
the real MVP.

Speaker 3 (47:20):
All right, let's take a break and when we come back,
just some quick just some quick rundown of some of.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
The season endings right after it, and we're back.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
Uh so, brother, Like I think all the season like
moments of the season awards have been handed out. I
think at this point we knew Bruno was going to
be player this season, Michel got manager Young Player this season,
Nico O'Reilly no surprises there.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Goal of the season Harrison Reed versus Liverpool. Oh, I
love that goal. You loved that goal. I remember when
we were talking, so Harrison Ree.

Speaker 5 (48:10):
Just so funny.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
He hadn't played in like two years or something. He
just comes up and I remember watching a guy is
he going to hit it from there? It was just
such a funny way of I believe equalizing against Liverpool?

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Right?

Speaker 5 (48:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (48:22):
Did you have Did anyone have a different opinion on that?
Even personally that you liked better?

Speaker 3 (48:26):
I thought the Tyler Adams long distance goal was kind
of fun. And then I think, because I'm a Homer,
I love that Zuber Mandy volley.

Speaker 4 (48:33):
I think it's got to be importance of goal is
the big one, right, so if you come up, if
it's a clutch goal, you get an extra like on top.
And it was just it's just something about it being
a guy who I'd never heard. Yeah, it's just like,
where do you use that bloke? He's got a last
name for a first name.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
When Neil Mellor scored against US, I think in the
FA Cup or Carling Cup, like the Liverpool youth player
and that's and that's all he's got in his highlight tape.
Save of the Year was Pickford against Newcastle that was yeah,
although for me the David there was a David Rayah
double save against Villa that also felt just fucking nuts, but.

Speaker 5 (49:12):
It was just the game was over by then.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah for sure.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Golden boot, fuck face, ugly doll looking motherfucker, golden glove,
David Rayah, Golden Playmaker Award, Bruno he broke the record
this season.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
They gave him the goal that he broke it with
was then own goal. Have you seen that?

Speaker 5 (49:31):
Yeah? I thought that was I know there was a debate. No.
I put it in a text group.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
And I felt like it like it bounces off a crossbar,
HiT's a goal in the back of the head and
goes in. But they he'd already it was one of
the things that he has already been celebrated. He's got
some trophy. Roy Keane had called him a donkey and
it was like, this is all it's a goal, it's
an assistant a goal, but it's a full on like
he's it's gonna have an asterisk next to it, mate.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Yeah, I mean he I mean they counted as twenty one.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
He's twenty one this so it's his watch.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
Any footage of roy of Roy Keane talking about how
how he hates that that is even a thing, and
it's so he's so he's sort of completely right, which
is like trying to try to play for us who like,
what the what's wrong with you? It was almost like
he almost acted like he had a mental illness. Bruno's like,
what's wrong without you?

Speaker 1 (50:23):
Put yourself first? Try to be the assessor to be
put yourself first? What's wrong with you?

Speaker 4 (50:28):
And any and any Instagram posts even a donkey thinks
it's a lion if And I was just like, I
love roy Keys just the most dead pan just such
like Carl Pilkington like but Irish, sort of.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
No nonsense bloke. And I one hundred percent agree with
him on that. Then transfer of the season was Laman's.
I mean, I mean part of is this because Oana
was so fucking bad?

Speaker 5 (50:55):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (50:56):
Is that all we're doing?

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (50:57):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
It's hard Like Zuberman if he just at the first
half of the season, I would say, with hands down
and then he just he got.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
Tired from too many games.

Speaker 5 (51:07):
But much.

Speaker 4 (51:09):
Yeah, there's just not There wasn't a lot of standout
like hit the ground running like like echitquet that in
moments could have been but not quite. And then yeah, yeah,
Arsenal didn't really have anyone creepy cuepyepy, creepy.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Creepy's up there baby.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
But yeah, I mean I think honestly, Shaka feel him
getting them from the europe moded to European quite like
that's crazy to me.

Speaker 5 (51:39):
Also, yeah, and then he got hurt and he had
to do all of the press. Yeah, when he got injured,
he had to do one hundred interviews a week for
the team.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Because also, I guess if you and if you split
it up in the season's first half, season would be
zuper mend you would get Transfer of the season and
then second half will probably be semennial.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
It feels like if we had to go that way.

Speaker 3 (51:58):
But either way, uh miss your Lamon's you get your
you got your you got your award.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
Good for you.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
And then there was like a there's an inaugural goalkeeper
Moment of the Season or performance of the year went
to Pickford in a match against Brighton where he was just.

Speaker 5 (52:13):
Absolutely man And that's some fucking World Cup propaganda. They
just want to get his dick hard before they fucking
ship them off.

Speaker 4 (52:20):
I was like, we also, we need we also need
to get like yeah, there's gotta be a kind of
a moratorium on how many just pointless. It's like becoming
like cricket. If you ever watch cricket. It's like, I'm
sure you've never watched cricket, because you know I've tried.
They'll be like, they'll be like, he's got the highest
score at this ground for somebody from the west of

(52:40):
the world at three pm.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
Like you're just like, all right, he just got a lot.

Speaker 4 (52:46):
There's so many qualifieres and you're like, can we just
you know, Golden Boot, Player of the Season, best goalie,
that moment of that what are we going to do
that sub of the season?

Speaker 3 (52:57):
Like I mean, because I didn't even realize his goal
of the year is like Guinness Goal of the Season
or whatever.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
I didn't use.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
That's what it's randed. It's look, this is how America
does it. You brand the fuck out of everything. It'll
be like, yeah, yeah, the fucking crypto dot com back pass.

Speaker 4 (53:12):
I can just I can just feel Roy Kane, the
Roy Kane in me course, moment of the season, the
world's gone mad, moments, moments I kissed my wife last night.

Speaker 6 (53:24):
That's that was a moment, like I hadn't kissed her
in three and sixty four days. Apologies for the accident.
Irish listeners this once on once on my birthday. Uh
and then finally, uh, goodbye to you, mister Slot. You
took off Liverpool, hath given you the sack And now

(53:49):
it looks like Erola is in And it looks like
they knew it was gonna be Arola for a while
a lot of people are like putting a lot of
conspiracy theories together, but like it feels like they tapped
your role up and kind of knew it, Like you know,
we're just so you know, slidin't going to be your
hare baby, and we would love to have you at Liverpool.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
And it's from the sounds of it, it's talks are
progressing rapidly. Yeah, that's happening. That's definitely.

Speaker 4 (54:13):
I mean, if you're trying to get more of a
clock style manager, he's your guy. Because of the pressing
the I did message my Liverpool fans friends and I
was like, for absolutely no reason, not no reason, but
I was like I was maybe sitting to Michael was
when is the manager from a lower team in the
Premier League gone to a big team and it worked out.

(54:34):
Can you actually think of one? Mmmm, because Potter to
Chelsea failure. Yeah, like just Roy Hodgson to Liverpool failure.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
Yeah, Thomas Frank, Thomas Frank, I mean, is that is
that an upward move?

Speaker 5 (54:49):
Though?

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Yeah? That went it never it's somehow just for some
reason that it's not for some reason.

Speaker 4 (54:57):
But Semnio in his interview to talk about how I
give you know, days off and it's great for Bournemouth
because they're like, yeah, we're like sure, we're like not
a big team, we.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Won't play like yeah, I can't imagine Van Dijt being
up for that. So we'll see. But he's he's clearly
a great coach.

Speaker 4 (55:13):
But it's just something about being at those big clubs
you need to have, like you need to have at Aura.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
But I don't know if he has it.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
But I think of, I mean think of, I mean,
we I think Michel, what's a lot of belief in
people like this motherfucker went from an assistant I had.

Speaker 4 (55:27):
That was my one example. I said, he's the only example.
But again he's he had some sort of he had
some big honey energy though that Man.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's there is just something
that I think for the like Premier league owners like
about it, guys like Man, because I think the thing
is that if he can get that done with that,
imagine what he'll do with what well we got over
here and then cut to all the added complexities of
running like a gigantic club with like a global fan base,

(55:57):
social media, expectations of the board, a way of working.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Maybe you're not used to chicken get fucking weird pretty quickly.

Speaker 5 (56:05):
I don't know, it seems like a good situation because
clop ended, I mean, yeah, he ended so bad, not
not clopp Schlott flat ended so bad. They're thirsty for
anything and not in like it being confirmed that they
can't get Jobby now. So it's like it's to imagine
the fan base is all in.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
They didn't watch Abby because he wanted too much control,
and and that I think is kind of like you,
well you kind of. I mean a lot of these
newer managers like they have such a vision that you
kind of need to back it. I do, like irolla
so I think I think it'll be okay. But there
is that sort of bit of like he does.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
He does seem like a lovely, lovely guy.

Speaker 4 (56:43):
I always find it quite weird when like quite a
likable manager goes to a team that's a rival quote unquote,
and I find it quite hard, Like like like Frank
at Tottenham, I was like, I just think he's a
nice man and then turns out he was the best
double agent of all times. So I don't know why
it felt like it needs I might be wrong. It
feels like it needs someone who's a bit more of

(57:04):
an asshole. I don't like Michel, whether you like him
or not. I think a lot of people think he's
got an asshole. He's got a bastard in them. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
so we'll see. But but yes, fire, Yeah he's fiery.

Speaker 5 (57:17):
Yeah, he's literally setting it on the fire at the.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
Non fiery he is fire. I feel fire guys like
that'll seem.

Speaker 5 (57:25):
Our man is a pyro fucking freakazoid. He's lighting stuff
on fire every time we lose a game.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
I can't wait for this documentary.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
That's you know, he's coming out the way they keep
talking about, you'll see, you'll you'll probably see, you'll probably
see you'll probably see what we were doing that ship.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
I can only imagine what kind of fucking weird ship.

Speaker 3 (57:44):
He probably got one of those weird masks from Mission
Impossible that made him look like another person.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
And he's like, guys, I'm not the president, guys, it's me.

Speaker 4 (57:52):
The guys, the Gabriel Hines that we've we were going
to find out the documentary. He was never there and
it was actually mckel the whole time talking to himself.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Doing a fucking crazy Tyler Dirton moment.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
We should.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
I feel like before we go, we've got to do
one shouts out to the meat man for winning the conference.
Say yes, absolutely, yeah, those shorts. I don't I think
he's he wanted to leave it.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
I hope he.

Speaker 4 (58:16):
I just think we need more players to have the
shorts that high in the league, and it clearly gives
him an edge.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
School you want the old school look to come back
wi your ball sacking and out one side of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's it's very off putting for the defense.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Absolutely, you don't. You don't want that coming at you
or backing you down. No, You're like, no, exactly, but yeah,
shout out your crystal Palace man. And Glassner bringing TUFA
back to back silverware for Okay, okay, we sees.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
You well, that is going to do it for us.
What a season it's been.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
We will be back next week because ship Man nine
days away from the World Cup.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
World Cup? Has the fever? Has the fever? Have you
got the fever yet?

Speaker 3 (58:57):
I do not have the fever, but I feel something coming.
I feel a timple in my throat.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
Yeah, I've got the same.

Speaker 4 (59:04):
I keep thinking I'm not gonna get World Cup fever,
and then I'm like, no, it's gonna come the second.

Speaker 1 (59:09):
There's forty matches to watch it once. I'm gonna be
a fucking heavy Yeah. And there's something like one hundred
format group stage match or whatever. All in I can't
do all that, but.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
Anyway, we'll be getting too the World Cup, previewing the groups,
some of our favorites, some dark horses. Maybe we'll adopt
one or two countries so we can really have some
big investment in some places.

Speaker 1 (59:31):
We've never heard of, like Curisal, maybe Jordan. I don't
know who.

Speaker 3 (59:34):
We'll figure it out, but that'll all be next time.
Anything to plug before we go, Chris jam.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
If anyone wants to.

Speaker 4 (59:41):
I wrote an article a blog about Arsenal winning the
league being the greatest?

Speaker 1 (59:46):
Will they weren't they have? Full time.

Speaker 4 (59:47):
It's on like Blue Sky, which is forward slash a
Chris Martin. I also put it on I've got a
substack Chris Martin. Type in Arsenal will they won't they
and you'll find it. But yeah, anyone who wants to
read it was I just felt compelled to write it
in the shower.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
Yeah I didn't write I thought of it in the
shower and write it in the shower a typewriter. Okay, yeah,
what abrate your mom.

Speaker 5 (01:00:13):
I'd like to promote the Arsenal Football Club. You guys
finally defeated Resident Evil four on professional Mode.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Great work, look at you.

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
Oh great? Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
We'll see you next time where we will be getting
into the World Cup.

Speaker 5 (01:00:26):
See then, bye bye