Sack City, Sack Sack City

This week your boiz take a moment to reflect on the Festive Fixtures and wonder who will get the sack next, City’s injury woes and load…management?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Oh, what's that? Arsenal's top of the table. But historically
we haven't been able to do anything with that. Now
we can just ignore that little bit. I will sit
in the joy of looking at the table and seeing
that we are six points clear as of this recording.
It's a beautiful thing. It's a very zen place to
be supporting a club where you haven't had much to
celebrate in a really long time. So I will hold

(00:24):
on to the scraps. But welcome to Ain't It Footy,
where we discuss match weeks nineteen and twenty. But first
I will go around to get a summation of the
past two weeks action, And because it's two weeks worth
of action, I will extend the character limit to now
using three to twenty words to describe how you felt
about match weeks nineteen and twenty. I believe I started

(00:46):
with Jamel last time, or go I start with Chris
last time? So I will go with Chris Chris Martin
three words to twenty words to describe the gotcha got
six words? Go ahead?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Three sections of the words, first one Harrison Reeds, second
one Calum McFarlane yeah, and the third one Stephen Ruiz,
which is someone who Jammel knows, which is he's not
a player.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
But this is the summer.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
You know, how you've watched a game is very important
how you feel about it. Behind at a child's party on
Saturday when the Arsenal Bournemouth game was on, I was
recording the game and there's like ten kids and their
sets of parents, and his dad is just ignoring his
daughter on his phone. He's watching a game and he's
and I'm xenophobic. So I'm like this, there's no way
this yank is watching a game that anything doing.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Like I'm enophobic. This guy is a terrible parent. He's Americans, man,
what the fuck is wrong with either way?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
He said he was going to listen to the podcast,
so I'm giving, of course, I'm not casting.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
I condone his parenting. Yeah, I'm not casting as versions mate.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
He's he goes to his daughter, we scored, and I go,
what game are you watching? And he goes is Arsenal
Bournemouth And I knew it was one all and I
was like, I was. I was recording the game, and
then I was like but now I can't. Now I
don't just exist see someone.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, So then there's a lovely photo of me and
I just met this guy, Steve and and he knows
Jamell Woodley from watching games and Lucky baldwins in Pasadena.
And there's a photo of me and him just huddled
around his phone while my son I just the screen
time rules out the window. We're watching the game. That's
Tacklon Rice, his best Kids part I've ever been to Anyway.
That's my long answer.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Birthday, Dear dec her name is Britney. Everyone's shut up. Uh,
what's an important game? Jamel Johnson Three to twenty words
to describe your feelings over the past two weeks of action.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Okay, I was prepared with two, but I'll extend it.
Oh no, no, no, you can do it too. No no,
no saying if.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
You eat it, it's there.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
I got a few more. Look, last one hired, first
one fired. Welcome to American business. Okay, I know a
lot of people listening aren't in the States. Here's how
things go. When an American person runs your company, you
will most likely get fired for no reason, and the
person firing you has no idea what the fuck they're

(03:15):
talking about, has never even been near the job You
do No, their dad gave them a company, and now
your ass is on the street.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, yep, yep. Welcome to America, fors exactly welcome, You're welcome.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
This is this is what.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Miles fires us both from this podcast. No no, no, no,
no no. I wouldn't do that on the air. I'd
find a way to really milk let pleasure.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
If I want to get fired by Miles, I'll just
say stuff like this. I'll just be like, you know,
apparently I'm a co host of this, but I got
hired as as the man running this podcast.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
That's what I'm gonna say. What I'm gonna say, Yeah, yeah, Yeah,
that's all I'm gonna say. That's how it's fired. I mean,
I wish I'm not a coach. I think manager been
the worst eight hours. It's been the worst forty eight hours.
And it's not a lot. I don't I don't say anything.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
But there's people in this podcast and White Night names
ruining my life.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
As I thought I.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Was running the pocost whatever.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
I don't know. There's some Wilcox guys giving me fucking pointers. Now,
who the fuck?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Who the fuck are you?

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Man?

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Anyway, let's see. For me, it's happy fucking holidays because
while we got to fucking excel and take the full
points that we needed, our fucking rivals dropped okay at
every possible turn, and that was a thing of absolute beauty.
Not to mention that as lifelong or at least for

(04:42):
me in half of my life long Arsenal supporter watching
United and Chelsea sack their managers, just being like, dah,
we fucked this up. At the same time, I'm like, yeah, baby,
continue to slip up. I love to see it. I
love to see it. But anyway, a pretty eventful week,
and I think we do have to start with Man

(05:03):
United because that was the latest news we got, which
was as of Monday morning. Yeah, as of Monday morning.
We find out that Ruben Amerm has gotten the proverbial sack.
We're in the literals. I mean, he's yeah, he got fire.
He lost his fucking job.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
This comes off the back of a draw against Wolves. Uh,
and then another against United. Shout out Brendan Aronson, fucking
uncle Sam out. There was just a pure hustle, pure
hustle gold.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
The most Brendan Aronson goal you could do, which is
run really hard.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
So hard, dude, Just try so hard, dude. It is
one of those things they say, like in like basketball,
when like a white guy is like out hustling a
black player, like, oh, all hustle this kid. This kid's
got hard because time oder aid in heaven. How in
heaven did you get out hustled like that? Bro? Part
of me is looking at you. I'm like, I know
why you don't play for us anymore?

Speaker 3 (05:53):
You know what I.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Meant Aaronson God squad.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
You know most Americans of that persuasion of big, big
fans of Jesus Christ, I'll save you.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
So did he feel did he conflict Heaven? He immediately
drops to his knees. Forgive me God, Yeah, forgive me.
I did not mean to violate Heaven like that.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
I didn't know he was Brazilian. Like no, he's he's
actually sad Aboth's different.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah yeah yeah, so yeah, the match whatever, It's not
as important as Reuben ammeron getting sacked. The photos we
saw of him this morning on Monday. As we record this,
my man couldn't look less bothered. He's like, good, yeah,
I got my three year payout, baby.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
He was smiling in a way that I thought he
just got the real Madrid gig or some shit before
inevitably having that fall apart, because that's also a curse
job unless you're like one of three people. But yeah,
this is pretty pretty monumental. Now I'm curious, like with
the goings on behind this. Apparently the club made the
decision before the draw with Leads on Sunday. That's no

(06:59):
true a meeting between Amerim and Jason Wilcox, the director
of football. This is according to probably what source the
club is telling the Guard. It said Wilcox had intended
the meaning to be a positive look at the evolution
of the team, but when the system was raised to
Amram's go to the fourth information, the Portuguese coach quote
blew up. According to sources, another one of y'all asking
me about three at the back or fourth there back?
What the fuck is this? And apparently after that it

(07:22):
was the felt that the relationship was no longer sustainable. Chris,
your thoughts what happened here? One hundred percent?

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Like I believe, I believe he's been an awful He's been.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
So bad, right, but yeah, the very thing is a
rival fan and by.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
The way, I feel like somebody needs to say on
this podcast, because I do feel like we are with
the most biased podcast that does there's a whole league.
But I was thinking, like in the mainstream media, they're
all biased. We've got Neville is the most progate, but
there's never there's not enough arsenal fans trying to give
general Premier League and football updates.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
You just lean into anyway, So we're leaning into it.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
So when I someone like Amarim a Man United screwing up,
it's just funny, right, Yeah, but he's been so his
record is so bad, but he's worst, right, funny and
sort of being like, I'm just being He's one of
those guys. I'm just being honest, man, I'm just being honest. Yeah,
like you are being honest, you're being a dick and
you're like not good. But the way they fired him

(08:20):
was because he just and I've Morescue has done the
same and they've realized no one ever quits, right, No
one quits because you lose the payout if you quit.
No manager will ever quit. But the way of doing
it is you just say some slightly shady stuff. You
basically like shit on your boss. Yeah, in a sort
of sneaky way, that's really obvious, and then they just
fired him for that.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Rather than the results.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
But the crazy thing, the four to three, the three
four three thing, is like they hide him knowing he
only ever plays that.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
That's the thing.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
No elite coach and no one has ever been elite
in the last twenty years playing through the back.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
So ha, yeah, yeah yeah, Jamel, do you are you
celebrating this? Do you shed a tear for United? Because
Ineos the ownership company, just can't fucking figure out how
to run a football club.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
I feel bad for any Os, man. I'm lighting the
candle for the boys and an Eos. You know, I
love Anyos.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
What's your favorite any else products?

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Oh? Man, somewhat. Those Manila folders they use, they put
a lot. They probably put a lot of good documents
in there. Man.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
You know, I like nice. I like nice. That one
team they got in friends oh nice?

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, they nice?

Speaker 2 (09:26):
They nice?

Speaker 1 (09:27):
They nice?

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (09:28):
Is this American ownership? Was I wrong to assume that?
If this is Jim Jim Rackliffe, he's very britchish. He
doesn't live that for tax reasons, so yeah, the same deference.
He's smart, he smart he's smart about it.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
I feel happy for Ameron. Listen, he took the job
and this this is something that has happened to me
in America. You take a job and when you're in
the interview, you kind of get the feeling and like, dog,
I don't think they know what they hired me for,
right right, right, I don't even think they know like

(10:05):
I write comedy jokes. You know what I'm saying. I
don't even know. I don't know if they even know,
but I'm gonna let this play out.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Did you read this?

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Check? Yeah? Right yeah? Comedy writer Jamel Johnson. I walk
into the interview. They're like, hey, we're looking for like
some like long form uh, we basically want to bring
back Bones. We're looking for like Bones type procedural writing,
but less jokes. Don't even you know how Bones have
a joke every now and again. Yeah, cut a couple

(10:34):
of those jokes out. We want this called Bone dry. Yeah.
They're like, okay, yes, I can absolutely do that. I
remember every episode of Bones and then I leave the
office and I'm like shit.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
I would say this is more like a different version
where Ineos knows that you can't write Bones and they
still hire you, and they're like, how come you ain't
writing bones And they're like, what the I played three
at the back, bro, I've never done anything different, like
nobody told you. And then they they so they're basically
they're saying, like, Okay, you figure it out with Eric

(11:05):
ten hogs squad, which is not built for that system
at all. So you're gonna get the worst version of
room and amrooms three four three possible. And then they
didn't back him in any of the transfer windows really.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
And then he still was top six, and then he
still was on the top half of the table. There's
teams putting up if more money, like the same amount,
if not more, that are behind them in the stands.
I don't understand why not let it play out?

Speaker 1 (11:31):
I think, do you guys think, like, so we're going
they hide him? He plays through? Do are we like
giving him too much credit?

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Right?

Speaker 2 (11:38):
So a lot of these we think these guys at
the top of their game and stuff his girls possible.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Girls so hot.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
That's why I'm giving him all his credit. Got to
be wrong.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, But he was like very he's on his manager,
you know, and you're not really paying attention to something
in the Zigus. I'd never heard of him until like
Sport England doing well and then Arsenal was going to
play them, and then he left and then he stopped them.
Well you got to consider an Amarin is good and
then people are just saying Amerm. It's like when someone
just becomes attractive, you know what I mean right here

(12:07):
about this Tobias Funke, Yeah, yeah, and you're like, oh,
and then you don't even really have an opinion yourself.
I just want that thing that everyone says is awesome.
And then I'm pretty sure they did that. And but
to be fair to him, he's been done nothing but
slag off the club and how bad the team is.
The whole time he's been at He's done nothing, but
he's just been like, yeah, we're not really good. Everything's

(12:29):
been like, what the fuck do you want me to
do with this ship? Yeah, he's like maybe he goes, sorry,
we'll be lucky if we win anything in the next
twelve years. But he couldn't be more honest about how
big a shambles is.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
But yeah, I think maybe they fell in love with that.
They're like, oh, he's sassy, the way he fucking clocked
my outfit. On the first date and like, no, he's
just out of his mind.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Maybe you know what I forgot that he got his
rep off of Arsenal welcome to the Bias corner. They
beat us and Saliba got hurt mid game. Yeah, as
I recall, Yeah, and that was his whole march that
one Champions League and they beat They beat Man City
for one just before he moved across and uh and
uh Victor scored at Patrick.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, that one his one goal solo goal was impressive
and then the penalty. It was anyway, it was ill
to say. I think everyone ended up Okay, I think
it's just yeah, now, good luck picking up the pieces
because now Darren Fletcher, I believe, is taking over in
an interim position. So come the man cometh the club.
May he gets May.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
There's nothing funny to me again as an outside when
these Fergie acolytes just they just I saw a clip.
You see all the like man new tacticos online and
they're losing their mind. The guy can't even describe like good.
He goes what happened with under eighteen? He goes, just
told them man nyways just just like run, you know,
just attacked with speed and you can see these tacticos

(13:51):
going that can't be his tactics, attacked with speed that
can't be his tactics. But you know that's those players
like Rio. Then none of them are, None of them understood.
They were just like what okay, just get shout out
and just try my best, all right.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
That's why like whenever Roy Keane speaks, I'm like, I
get so annoyed. Like he has very interesting insight, but
there are times when I'm going back to the very
famous clip of Tim Cahill defending Mickel Arteta after we
united in twenty twenty and Roy Keane being like these
guys fucking suck. What the fuck is this? And Tim
k Hill's like, dude, look at what he's trying to do.
He's going somewhere with this, and Roy Kean's like, I

(14:26):
don't know. Now, you're saying there's the next Bayern Munich.
He's like, I'm not fucking saying that at all.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
There's no there's no passion, there's no yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, And I get it. You love the shit on
Arsenal and baby it's all good, baby, It's all love, Roy,
It's all love. But yeah, I do see people do
the Fletcher thing like, he understands the club. He understands
He's got his two sons in the squad. What's the rules?
How i'd feel weird about that?

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Oh? Are they?

Speaker 2 (14:48):
They're the twin sons. Were on the bench the other day.
They were on the bench you have for the first team?

Speaker 3 (14:54):
Are they?

Speaker 1 (14:54):
That'd be so funny. They're a midfield pivot duo. He's
got the Fletcher for this. No, I don't know. I'm
just I'm just picturing peak coaches kids. They're like, yeah, man,
everybody says a lot, how this mid midfield is weak
as hell? Wait till you see my boys out there.
Okay they're okay, one gives you have one, So gives

(15:15):
you one. Pepa you call exactly and their little sister
that's Spinderella. Okay, that's a salt pepper reference for the
washed older people. Next one, Jamel's cringing to the point
I think almost broke his day. Oh boy, said Spinderella.
Let's car you on to another funny sacking. Yeah. So
Chelsea they had an interesting run. They drew Bournemouth to too.

(15:39):
I believe at the end of the match we didn't
even see Enzo Maresca we got Willy Caballero coming out
and he gave the post match apparently. I think the
excuse was he was healing under the weather aka a
rage quitting in real time. Yeah yeah yeah, Sam, fuck
is sick Brian coming in today? Man fuck that they
gonna fire me anyway. That's very that's the energy they had.

(16:00):
So then after that result he got the sack. And
also because we'll get to Man City, Man City also
dropped points against Sunderland. God bless God blessed the God
bless granted dropa bro. Thank you for holding the line there.
Thank you. So yeah, Enzo Maresca gets the sack, and
I know we were just joking like he might get
sacked before the next recording. He was in fact sacked

(16:21):
before the next recording. Again, Liam rossenr Is on the
way in from the other club owned by Chelsea Strasbourg
and France.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Uh, he's a company. How's he going to pass that interview?
Do you think?

Speaker 3 (16:31):
I mean?

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, the interview is, hey, man, you will to do
whatever the fuck we say, Yes, you got the job. Man.
Don't get any ideas because it sounds like it's a
similar thing with Maresca sacking, right, like he got a
string of results, felt like, look, bro, I'm delivering. Stop
fucking micro managing everything. I fucking do Am I a manager?
Or do I just pick an eleven based on the

(16:53):
players that the sporting director's pick because it's not philosophically
this goes against my own fucking way of playing. But yeah, similar,
similar situation, similar setup in like rigid sort of. I
think this is becoming more popular. It's like we got
the sporting directors who know what the fuck's going on,
and you just managed the fucking team. Okay, mm hmmmm hmm.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
This is definitely some American guys behind this one, right,
Todd Bowley. Yeah, because this feels like working at a
game stop. This feels like I I was the manager
of the new game stop. Everybody was coming in buying
use games. Every time we did buy two use games,
get one free. It was a fucking hit. We had
them ships flying off the shelves, and the fucking the

(17:30):
head of corporate just keeps fucking crawling up my ass.
He's like, you can't, I'm doing what you want. What
the fuck?

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, I'm making the line go up. I mean that's
the thing with Chelsea, right, The whole model is backwards,
and that since clear Lake took over with Todd Bowley
and the other dude who's a sporting director. What's his
bali bali? Yeah, yeah, that bedotic bali that they're just like, yeah,
you know how they do in the NFL. They signed

(17:58):
these dude these long ass much like what the fuck? Like,
you know, those first couple of contracts, you're like, you
sign them to a seven year deal, like and all
the all the football fans were like, what the fuck
is this? Well, who gives somebody a seven year deal?
This is absolutely unheard of. Like, well, with the amortization,
you can kind of get around all that. But their
whole sort of model is basically built on buy young talent,

(18:22):
flip it for a profit, and glory is secondary, you know,
And it seems like that's what the fans feel too,
is like you're just more interested in the profit, Like
the owners are more interested in the profitability of a
club like Chelsea rather than delivering trophy.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
I feel like they have enjoyment if they just paw
took in episodes of storage hunters, you know what I mean.
Like I feel that they get their kicks from just
finding stuff and selling it.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah right, that's the king. Right.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
You could just imagine tell bony neck bottle open up
one of them.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Oh is that go playing stuff? This is the first
Batman comic. Yeah, they should have been Yeah, another guy.
They should have been on. American Pickers I believe was
the name of the show. So who they are? American
Pickers were looking for a deal. There we should the

(19:18):
American Pickers aren't good at managing the team of the
Kickers here it seems yeah, there we go. I will
say this though, shout out to more black managers. Liam
were senior. I see you, he was.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Gonna say that stuff. Yeah when was the was a
loss on Chrish maybe?

Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (19:33):
I wonder yeah, yeah, yeah, still so wild that is taken.
Where are the premier leagues black managers? Please tell me
because you have two black men on America? Are I
laughed so hard? I'm like they do that?

Speaker 3 (19:47):
What's going on? Crazy? Well, because everybody's going into media,
like Michael Richards can't be bothered, he's hanging out.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
He'd be I don't think he'd be a good manager.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Though Liam is supposed to. He is supposed to be good.
But it's funny that you know, just like little things.
It's such a like it's the same as like comedy
and like acting. Really like just certain things can count
against you. The fact he was glasses, he's already getting
called a pee teacher before he's taken the job. That's
not a that's not a good starting point, right, just
to be called a pee teacher.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
No one wants to have that, I guess, no, no,
you know what he counts. Oh yeah, we're claiming. I've
seen that here.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Looks like the least like a pee teacher of all time.
On the side. Now he looks like he teaches fucking philosophy.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah no, no, yeah, yeah yeah, or a pe teacher.
And he's just like, man, do whatever y'all want. Man, Yeah,
he looks.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Like you find him in a cave at the end
of a role playing video game.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah for you. He's such a grizzled visage, as they
would say. But then seeing him in like a full
like training suit, it's like, okay, well there he is
Lim Rassini. The glasses.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Do we think they're real?

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Or are they just? Are they? Do you think they're
not prescription? Just to be like I understand, No, no, no,
he knows No, No, he's he has messed up eyes,
bad eyes. That's a very American thing. As I called him,
somebody sick dude, you got to call him. But in America,
I call that apology glasses. Oh and you you gotta

(21:13):
go and make up for some ship. Yeah, black men
do this all the time. Chris Brain's famously rocky eyeglasses
and being like, you know, because his raind was like,
you wouldn't hit a man with glasses, would you? Kind
of like, I'm a man with glasses. No, it happens
in court. You see this in court a lot. Magically,
somebody has his myopic, his near sighted. I guess these

(21:34):
are apology glass. I think that's a I feel like
it to me. I think it's a uniquely American thing.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
What if he just messes up and he has to apologize.
Does he put on the second paraglasses? He might have
to if he's an American to say everyone's coming in pasage?

Speaker 1 (21:48):
How bad? I want to slip up lenses like an outfield,
flip up lenses. How bad?

Speaker 2 (21:51):
As for this being his in his first press conferences,
manager he sits down before he takes a question, He
pulls the glasses of treads on him and goes caught
your sucking.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
He just carries on and everyone's like, what the hell, guys.
Everyone's like, yeah, they're like, oh boy, Chelsea is in
fucking trouble.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
You know.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
You know who would do that, guys, guys. Ye, he's
no do your research, guys. He's doing the Willy He's
doing the Willy Walker. Roll up the twenty vision guys. Yeah,
he got the cane, he got the chane. Do you
know who's blind all of you?

Speaker 1 (22:29):
I needed you know whose guys, guys, Michael Oliver, guys,
the referee guys. A disgrace, guys, disgrace. So yeah, that's
where they're at. The supporters right now at Chelsea are
pissed rightfully because, like, at least with you know, the
Oligarch Bramovich o g in charge. He was like, bro,
get me these motherfucking titles. I don't give a fuck.

(22:52):
But now with the American just profit machine and control,
They're like, what the fuck, bro, We're not even winning anymore.
This is you guys have just completely captured us for
your own financial game.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah. Yeah, that's what they do. They're gonna love it.
They're gonna love it. When Chelsea has a kick one
for cancer night. Oh hell yeah, that's very American when
they when they dropped the.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, I mean true goal. At least with us answer
the Kronkey's got the wild pyrotechnics locked in, nobody's technics
like we are you know what I mean, big claims.
But and you know Boldi's trying to do that at
Chelsea too. I mean most places are now, but so
right now the supporters are planning a protest before the
match against Bretford Brentford on Saturday. They're saying Chelsea supporters

(23:31):
are encouraged to come together in unity for a peaceful
protest on the model and strategy in particular Bedotic Bali
and CFC sporting directors. Uh, there's a subetter record spending,
a youth led recruitment strategy that has failed to raise standards.
Squad instability, unbalanced, inexperienced, ever changing squads with managers left
to carry RUSS responsibility. Next one failed strategy quantity prioritized

(23:52):
over quality, an aid of raising value to sell on
for a profit. Absolutely, Chelsea is not a richer Brighton
or red Bull. Oh I get that. Managerial chaos. Underwhelming
appointments chosen to fit the quote internal structure and project,
the same structure that has failed Grandpot or Mauricio Pacheccino
and now ends on Maresco. Yeah, at least they know.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
That's a broad, broad sort of charge sheet they've got.
It's quite very British. So like underwear, underwhelming performances is so. Yeah,
remember with the Kronkies, spend some fucking money your money. Yeah,
it was much simpler protest. This is like, you guys

(24:30):
are spending too much money in a bad way.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
That's not good.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Just terrible return on investment, a terrible return on it.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
I'm shocked they didn't show a little love of the
Cole Palmer in there, Like, hey, at least I got
Cole Palmer, right, Yeah, they got that. He nothing for
But is he doing well?

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Is he doing well? Because he's not. Because also they
took the thing with their strategy.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
I would be annoyed of those they got rid of
Nicholas Jackson, who actually runs forward and makes through balls
possible for him. But yeah, we should I feel like
we should be remiss of us not give a shout
out to the greatest new coach in the Premier League.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah, Callum of Fallen.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah, hey man, big boys putting on for the big boys.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh y'all didn't know. You didn't know about Oh come
on cal Worthing redheads, we love them.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah yeah, I thought they were going to lose four
Nill I was.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
I think we were texting before I said Holland, Holland
hat trick loading. I was like, no, there there got
to be a mess. And I think this was it
played right into it because I think city got pretty
complacent because they're like, bro, what the fuck are they
about to do? They're a mess?

Speaker 2 (25:34):
And even Rynders' celebration was a bit like this is
so easy.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, he was hit them hit an.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Unusual I've never I don't think I hit the most
inside of the post that some I didn't go in
shot ever.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, just on mathematically, like the only way you can
hit the post and it not go in. He found
that mathematical angle. Yeah, it was. I mean, look, you
had to to Johnny. That's somebody needs the name their
kid to Johnny out here in the United States. That's
a good name on that.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, yeah, I'm gonnactually changed my son's name to Johnny.
Gray scored in the forty second minute, nice little just
keeping it patient of the box, rolled the ball over
a couple of times, boom, left foot ripped it into
the roof of the net near post. Pretty lovely finish. Yeah,
really really nice goal. Uh and then it was a
fucking scrap for the rest of the match and it
got down. Then finally, Enzo Fernandez in the ninetieth minute

(26:25):
plus four, somehow just fucking gets at it, is able
to get his foot in there after a Mala Gusta cross,
and at that point I was the biggest somehow Enzo
Fernandez man that existed on the on the plane.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
You know why that played out like that? The first
half was the club's fault, and then the second half
was the players, like, dude, we can't. We can't go
out like no hose Man. We lived like bitches right
now and the Chelsea's gonna fuck up our fucking We
ain't gonna get no no love at the club after this.
We got to get this right.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
Well, eural sif agatt Alla. McFarland's famous for his halftime
team talks.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, of half time team talks defeats against Guardiola, Yeah, famous.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
For them, But yeah, no, that was you gotta you
gotta put them away. But City, you've got a consistent
thing of not playing well in the second half of games.
They have got Rodery back that does look like a
big difference making for them.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
But definitely in the Sunderland match, and he's going to.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Need some time. Yeah. Yeah, they kind of run out
of gas around eighty minutes because it is the thing.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Now somebody's having injury problems because Guardiall fractured his fucking
tibia in that match, No damn, and then Ruben Diaz
went off with a muscular injury. As of this recording,
not sure what exactly happened. They're still assessing it, but
it wasn't like, yeah, he'll be all right. They're like,
we're still trying to figure out how fucked we are. So,
I mean, that's that's a huge blow for City because

(27:52):
that's their Saliba and you know, Gabrielle pairing, like they
that's without that and you got Ake and uh, what's
the homeboys name from Dagistan? Oh Kushanov? Is it kusan Off?

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They like you look at those goals,
You're like, damn, I wonder if they score with their
back four intact, or at least of their two center
backs still on the field. It was funny.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
It was funny thoughcause I was I think I told
you guys before, but the Sunlander obviously has been a
bad to results for City Sunland away and I was like,
I know they're missing players AFC, but I was like,
that was a tough game up there, and I was
reading on Twitter some man citys just going like these
these Sutherland players are playing like their lives.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
What's what's wrong with these guys?

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, because the people were used City fans used to
teams just rolling over for them, but they didn't do
that anymore because the Premier League was stronger, be because
they realized City of unrule. But these guys, I think
they were just like, guys, what are you? What are
you even playing for? It's is insane, playing exactly Europe
dog they are.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
They came out dressed like Rangers, they fucking and they
were bowling. Bro, they might make Top four.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
This is fun. It's just funny to just see like
that attitude. Chris is definitely like you come you come
up to like a pick up game, Orcas and something.
It's like, all right, bro, why are you playing all
hard as ship? And it's like what because I'm.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
I literally have a friend like this, yeah yea, yeah
who asked the question why y'all playing?

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Why y'all playing?

Speaker 3 (29:10):
Yah? Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
He's like, I'm not trying to play that hard, but
also like, don't embarrass me, and I will. I would
use the attack of you are playing too hard. Actually
in the context of.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
It, it's funny when that like suddenly is such a
scene where you just play is diving in front of
the ball and just like it must be like, well,
just chill out, mate, it doesn't matter that much. You're
not gonna But they don't want to lose a game.
They've not lost a single game that stadium in line.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Do you think there's something again to like this idea
of how city players or just how teams react now
has something to do with like the early Arteta days
when we were having like peak park the bus accusations
and being like they're not even fucking playing and they're
just sort of like, yeah, motherfucker, because we can't lose
like we were like we had we're doing that out
of necessity, Like this is how this is working. This

(29:53):
was how we were stabilizing the ship to at least
not drop points. It wasn't attractive a lot of the time,
but it was effective. Then we again to encounter the
same thing where people are like, don't let them fucking
play like fucking We're not. We're not going to play
our game. We're going to make sure they can't play
fucking their game. And I think that's kind of the
balance that like managers have to realize too. It's like,
if they're not going to come toll to toll with us,
then how do we pick the lock of their idea

(30:15):
of how they shut us down.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
I did think the interesting being with Sudden was that
I thought they actually the first half they had a
lot of charge. They were going for like there was
a lot of op and then I think, is the
game once you hit like seventy minutes sixty seventy, they're like,
all right, that's just well drilled. Regius Libria, Regius LeBris.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
How do you say, I think it's Librie because Libri, Yeah,
he's just clearly a very good manager.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
He just he gets them his the nose, gets the
distances right, and they had they like want to die
for this little French guy. Yeah, and they were happy.
They got a good low block, got a good mid block.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yeah. It was just funny.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah, so that that but that result you could maybe
if you're City, you're like, all right, we lose that one.
It's not ideal, but four points and it's a hard
place to go home. Homes did Elsey though, who are
in disarray? That's that's the result. See Guardiola afterwards, he
did like the end of a movie like someone died screen.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Yeah, he loves those, he loves those big reactions.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
First off, I thought that the Sunderland game was at
the Eddy. I thought that's why they I thought that's
why Sunderland had blue one. But more importantly, talk about
some goddamn bias sky Sports. After Sunderland gets a point
off of City, everybody's like, hey, you know, that's just
a tough day at the office. Hey, sometimes it just
goes that way. Sunderland was playing so hard. I'm like, fuck,

(31:39):
that's how every time we drop points. It looked the
fucking commentators are on our ass. They're about to blow it.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Well, that's the interesting thing about the emphasis on like
how Arsenal plays. It's like, oh so now, y'all think
y'all good, then never lose. You just make the ship
out of every team, and it's like, what the fuck it?

Speaker 2 (31:54):
It's it very much comes down to as soon as
Arsenal win the league, which I do believe they will
and it might be this season, is then people change
their narrative because it's like their bottlers, the bottles, then
they're going to crack city here with champions.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Well, now I see it like if we if we
were able to win the league this year, it's next
season where they're going to be absolutely frothing at the
mouth at any any sign of a wobble and like
they're absolute mess looking and they can't do Like all
of that anger about us winning the league is going
to manifest into just over and hours. I mean it's
always like that whatever, But it's.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Crazy though that amount of hate, like the media bias
against Arsenal when you know City who have one hundred
and fifteen charges or one hundred and thirteen last time
I checked, that are still ongoing like it is with
like I think, like fans, like no fans outside of
city fans even can sit count Man city like league

(32:47):
when no one cares. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is weirdly
counts it. But like Arsenal winning the league I think
would be good for the league.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
And is it's like when Liverpool won in twenty twenty. Yeah,
you know, like it's good. It's like and people Liverpool
or what you know.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
I have I think narrow club to do things the
right way as much as they count and stuff, and
so it should be like celebrated. But anyway, we'll see,
just win it and then then deal with that afterwards.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
And one last thing, I hope my guy ed at
Lucky Baldwin's went back to the bar to watch City
draw against Chelsea. I had to watch half of Arsenal
Bournemouth with a guy and his dog. He walks in,
he's like a casual man City fan. He walks in
and he's like, oh, the City game's not on and
I'm like, no, it's Arsenal. It's fifty of us in here,

(33:33):
what do you mean yeah? And then he sits down
with his dog and he's like, oh, so you so
you're like Arsenal huh And I'm like, who's your team?
He's like, oh, yeah, yeah City. I've been watching him
for a little bit. I like that they win all
the time. And then like after we scored, after Ducklan
scores the first go ahead, he goes to high five me,
and I did high five him, but I left because

(33:54):
I wanted to punch him in the face. So shout
out to that guy, ed because you don't even like
it wasn't your fault.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah, he's he's probably that guy who I sent the
picture of the text thread. Who is that man? City
fans like American City fan here. I just got my
first kit and it's it was E Vincent Company Jersey
but spelled c O M P A N Y, And
I was like, yeah, yeah, for real.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
It's literally the that dog is a service dog because
he's he's he needs he needs help. Guys, that dog
is that dog is helping a man that doesn't understand spool.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
But that's pretty funny.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
But I'm now gonna go now that I've become friends
with Steven Ruiz, who's just that I like to say
the full name. I like to shouts people I really like,
and this this man him made him nothing better than
when you meet a random fan of your team and
you swamp numbers and we're texting each other.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
Now like we've known for years.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Literally, me and Ed is the exact fucking opposite. He
also took a ship on my neighborhood. He's like, where
you live, I'm like the island party. He's like, Oh,
it's kind of crazy over there.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
This is something there that is some peak Pasadena ass motherfucker,
that's some local Pasadena behavior. Bro, you live in Pasadena.
He's like, yeah, for how long since they ended redlining
or before because they didn't get rid of that shit
till the seventies. Okay, Anyway, one thing about the Chelsea
thing was similar that, like, apparently there's also just a
ton of like load management directives being handed down from rescues, like, bro,

(35:14):
I gotta play the fucking guys when they're don't tell me.
I can only get this much of time to da
da da da. Because I think that's when Cole Palmer
was subbed off in that Bourne Myth match and everyone
was like, what the fuck why are you subbing him off?

Speaker 2 (35:25):
And was like we would text the phrase is funny
when you never a phrase and then you suddenly hear
all the time. And I don't think I've ever heard
a phrase more than load matters managed three weeks and
we were we were joking. It does also sound like
a fun it's a fun innuendo.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
It's a good way of it's a good way to
describe gooning, I think, because I'd prefer that, you know,
calling it load management manage. All right, let's take a
quick break and we'll cast our gaze at the top
of the table right after this and we're back. Man, Well,

(36:09):
hats off to City and United Chelsea. Did you did
your part for making this festive period very festive for me? Here?
You fucking bums. Yeah yeah, hold that ship. But man,
we had two big games too. We had the Villa
Mass that was definitely like a lot of anks coming
into that one of like this is this is a
statement match, this is your last l you were handed.

(36:31):
Can you turn it around? Because some of the wins
haven't been super convincing, And by god, we did it.
For one, we went up four nil and I was like,
I was fucking floating. Okay, we got Gaby Maga yash
okay coming down the second half flying Zubit Mendy with
a I guess who's your favorite goal there? Every goal

(36:52):
was was tasty for a different reason. Like the map,
the Gabrielle goal was great because you got to see
Amy Martinez just be all flappy and ship throw the
ball down on the Gabriel's thigh and then go in
zubit Mendy just like I'm not expecting that run from him.
Trossard beautiful, Trossard finish and Jesus, just Jesus, baby, you're back.

(37:14):
You're back to me and me. But yeah, well, what
was your what was your favorite? Just just like in
bask in the wonder of that that.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Victory, they're all it's like, it's like kids, bro, because
the first one it was a little sloppy, but it's
also like your first kid, like, hey, we ain't know
what the fuck we was doing. Yeah we came back, kid.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Yeah yeah, And that was like it was sentimental to
with big it.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Was important he's coming back. But then the rest of
them are like, I mean, the second one is like
Arsenal football, come on, man, ticky and goddamn top bro.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Odi god, and that recovers the bull perfect ways to
pass and he's in the central zone, which he gets
accused of not being in enough.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
But yeah, that was that was picture book.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Yeah, I like that one and the and the Jesus goal,
both both kind of I think it's debtically the best,
but I will I'll be very honest and slightly vulnerable here.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
I was watching the game at home alone and I
think we were because you weren't.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
Miles was watching it delayed somehow, so I was delayed
hour after thread.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Yeah, we're like we're texting in our first half and
it's a very tense first half and Memory's memory. People
are actually like they like bossed it, but it was
they did pretty well for us twenty minutes aston Villa
and then I think there was when what's his face
went down? And then Artists is very good when there's
a big break in the game. This is what you
guys are doing, and so he shifts around. I think

(38:38):
Marino was getting run past too much. We missed Rice.
But then halftime something at the post halftime, like, I mean,
Callum at Farlane's talking about but Arteta says something brilliant
and whatever.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
So they come out. But the Gabriel goal.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Just that morning, I got some quite weird health news
about my dad.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
But it's going to be okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
My way of processing that was sat like everything's fine
and then I was on my own and then Gabrielill's
schooled and I celebrate and I just started crying.

Speaker 6 (39:08):
Yeah, I just let this be the reason. It's the
goal weeks out, give me a reason. So yeah, that's
that's my story of the goals.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
That's they gotta do. That's man. I was blamed. I
was blaming Kobe's death for like five years.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
I was like, man's fucking Kobe. Man, just random shit,
make me cry. It was I wasn't in touch with
my emotions. But yeah, this was Gabby's nineteenth Premier League
goal for Arsenal, most by any defender. Uh well, and
he's getting close because he also scored against Bourne. Myth
he is now, I believe, two goals away from matching
Lauren Koshellney's record in terms of scoring as a scoring

(39:47):
defender for US. Anyway, that was a great win. It
felt like the kind of win we absolutely needed to
sort of sort of shake off the narratives that were
really coming out in the media and also ship. I
was even getting nervous too. They were like, what's going on, No,
they're sucking up because I I've seen this too many times,
and yeah, I was panicking a little bit, But can
we feel like narrative, can we just revisionism and we

(40:09):
still know what will happen?

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Like everyone's kind of again arsenal, Can we not those
are that those games would have lost last season?

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yeah? Yeah, so there that we're.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Actually winning them and and and this time of year everyone,
you see what happens city, they're dropping points. It should
be scoring more goals like that. The day city in
Sunlan Drew, there was like four games and three nil
nils and one one all. No one's scoring ons.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
Quite with it.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
People had too much turkey that drunk.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
I don't know what's going on. It's the tired, the
whole thing. Load management they've been they've been.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
Probably managing your loads. Man, you've gotta got to manage
your load, guys.

Speaker 7 (40:44):
Yeah, loads, that's yeah, loads in the Triotlin Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Clin you're not managing loads.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
But yeah, so that narrative is if you look at
those rolls, a lot of those games you drew Drew
a lost points of last season, but yeah we still
won every game, but it felt tense and worse, but
still our defense.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Generally pretty good.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
And then yeah, and then that transitions to the Boemouth
game again was a bit tighter than you'd want, but
if you look at the XG generally, Arsenal have been
pretty consistently good apart from the Wolves game since then.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, this match Bournemouth two, Arsenal three
again away to Bourne myth. It's been that, it's been.
We've had highs and lows there. Okay, last year it
was a low Saliba's first season. What a high when
we were doing do Do Do Do Do Do Do
for eight straight minutes. If you can watch that match again,

(41:42):
go back because it was Actually I hold that match
very dear to my heart because it felt like that's
when things were starting to change in a way that
I didn't realize that were like, dude, I think we're good.
I think we're fucking I think we're good this year.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
I think is there something about the Arsenal fans down
south that they're like, they go where stra crazy? Because
they were also singing extra loud at the beginning of this.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
Yeah, I mean traveling is a good stag do town.
I've been on a stag Do. You got a lot
of a lot of titty bars. Bachelor bachelor party, as
it's known in American.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
On turned up. I see, yeah, okay, going back.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Is born with like a coastal English Vegas or Nashville.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Actually the Vegas Vegas of the North is Blackpool traditionally,
but oh yeah, they've got a board if he's got
and stuff and it's but Blackpool is like it's like Reno,
Like if Reno went to.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Something, Reno went bad. Yeah, okay, it's like poor man's Reno.
So then you go.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Bournemouth isn't quite in the Vegas mold, but it is
a very popular destination.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
That's sort of thing and quite a fight, is it.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
But because it's on the coast. It's on the coast. Yeah,
so you know when something about British people seeing the
sea even though it's surrounded by rocks and stones instead
of sand, makes us kept excited.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
I remember when it was a Brighton the first time,
I was like, the fuck is it is a big
Like I guess I'll be skimming stones. I'm like, what
what are all these colorful shacks over here? They're like
that's where people store their beat stuff. I'm like, and
they come out here. Okay, okay, I fuck with it.
I fuck with Brighton and whole Okay, that's my whole thing.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
And by that I mean jay Z which is the
Brison but three two, yeah that come Rice?

Speaker 1 (43:20):
Can we just talk about yes and then someone's not coming.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
I'm a huge I didn't realize I love seeing a
player kiss the camera. I don't know what it is. Yes,
I want more kissing of the camera lens.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
I was doing, Yeah, I was doing load management. When
I say, I say, you're gonna do it? Because you
kind of in my it's weird every type a player
kisses the camera. I go, are they gonna do it?
I don't know why. I think maybe because i've I'm like,
I work with cameras a lot back in the day,
and it was like a DP shit. I'm just like,
but don't you don't kiss the lens bro now when
somebody haven't cleaned that. But yeah, that's a very stupid

(43:51):
turn to have when it's your star player score. It
shouldn't be a yellow card. Shouldn't be yellow card.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Fool now, and now the knee slide is a yellow card, right,
you've seen that?

Speaker 3 (43:59):
That was that was a fake, that was it was real.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
Yeah, I was like, why would that be? Just send
him some AI ship.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
I felt was sending them. Yeah, I've been I've been
texting you from number do you know?

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Do you know how I feel like? I feel like
Ed and his dog?

Speaker 2 (44:15):
He so would believe that that pie.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
He's telling people that right now. Fucking man.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
But yeah, yeah, something about kissing the camera and then
I I some of the next day did it? He
started sort of the trend. I come up who scored
a goal on some on Sunday? After his goal? But anyway,
kissing the camera beautiful finishes. Gabrielle makes an error and,
as often makes up for the era.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
Yeah that all immedia.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
Oh fucking killed me. Man, that passed. I'm not gonna lie.
I threw my phone at the wall. Dang speaking speaking
about men dealing with their emotions through sports.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
How's the wall?

Speaker 1 (44:51):
Everything's fine, I do it. I'm old enough. I go,
I'm not going to give it the business right now.

Speaker 3 (44:56):
But he just you flung it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
I was like, fuck out of here and hit the
wall and I was like, part of me was like,
you're not that tough. But yeah, that was really it
felt Again I think because as a you know, as
a fan who's dying to win the league, and right now,
feeling things, feeling on a knife edge. That one gave
me such PTSD flashbacks to just self inflicted losses.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
Doing.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Thank god that was remedied within six minutes, because then
I was able to enjoy the match.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
Mada k hey mad Wa k came back ready to play.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
His his his build up for the for the Gabrielle
go was really good. He weirdly like a few minutes
before that, done loads of your stuff and then just
the worst even sacks, Like it's odd, they're not they're
even I don't know, they're just whacking the ball, not
really like taking care of it.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
When they're like the rice finishes.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
I was like, if everyone can just stroke it in
like that, so many more goals because but matter like.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
Trossary sort of strikes the ball similarly, he's like, let
me get contact on this thing clean.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
Yeah, let me just like corres or caress of the ball.
But it was It's kind of crazy. I feel like
it and other fans can leave comments on the right
in but I think other fans must look at the
arsenal scoading and we didn't start sack of Trossard or Jesus,
we brought on Jesus sacks cross.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
That was just a nuts.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
It's so crazy, just change in front three so pretty deep,
and then three one up. Me and Stephen Ruiz are
going crazy. My kid's getting strangled in a ball pit
and I'm not even paying attention. It's three to one.
And then and then we're chatting about Arsenal so much,
and then we don't we missed the creepy junior goal.
She was again? This guy we I feel like every

(46:34):
week and schools a banger.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
This dude. Yeah, and he's coming off the bench most
of the time too. It looks like, so you know what, Hey,
maybe you need to come home too. You know, we'd
love to have you.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
This is I feel like, you know, his dad's going
to be an intense dad. If anyone who gives us
son the same name as them with a junior, yes,
yes that's Jr. You got you got to do everything
I did, including right now.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Ah but yeah, good victory six points clear. I'm loving
it looking at the question.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
Can I ask a question? Do you think so they were?
That meant Arsenal seven points clear of city and sorry
asketon Villa fans. If you are listening, I think you're
doing very well, but you're not going to win the league.
And I would bet all the money in my bank
acount on that you're not. We've also seen what emory
emory if you've got even if you've got close, if
you were winning the league. Yeah, he would get really
panicked and that is going to start building up in

(47:26):
the corner of his mouth.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
The corner.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
But do you think the seven points have been at
because City have been putting a bit pressure on Arsenal
last couple of weeks as Going first, do you think
that because they saw the City players after they drew
the game, they were all on the floor like Arsenal
players were after the Villa and everyone was saying Arsenal
players a week or whatever. But what do you think
do you think that affects the players? Do they care City?

Speaker 1 (47:47):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (47:48):
No?

Speaker 3 (47:49):
You mean like affects us? Do you know?

Speaker 2 (47:50):
Do you think the City players like they seemed very
devastated after the Chelsea draw and they knew they knew
like that point gap difference? Going second, I think I
think I think in the second off they tightened up.
I mean they also go injuries and stuff, which doesn't help.
But yeah, I think the nerves got him maybe a
little bit.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
It's I think it's different in the sense of like
how many of these players have won it.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
It's what Holland and uh Silva.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
I mean, they have a decent amount of the team ak.
I mean like a lot of the cores there, you know,
you know, good amount voting like they have.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Who sneakily is the duties player in the league by
the way, Yeah he's just so filthy, but he gets.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
Him and Bruno look like their cousins. They have the
same Portuguese face. Like, I'm like, are y'all y'all from
the same town?

Speaker 3 (48:34):
Huh okay, So I got I got one question for
you guys about this game. Did either of you guys
clock that Arteta had Soccer sitting next to as on
the bench. It's mad madiks finally getting a turn to
get off the bench, And it felt very much like
Arteta went to Soccer and said, hey, go talk to
you man, go be with him, coach, just pat him
on the back a little bit right now.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
Read them Hey, can y'all read the Bible or something?

Speaker 3 (48:58):
Yeah? Yeah, fat them skirts with him because I'm not
going to let him play till like inter I'm not
gonna let him play till.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Till Woldsmith pull. Yeah, And I told I told him
what you know what it was when he signed up, right,
you know, I told him, I said, bro, just it
ain't you just it was way hard to get in,
but we could you ease you?

Speaker 3 (49:17):
And it's it's the pressure. Like they they're starting to
ask him in the pregame, they're like, hey, you're gonna
play as man. We were worried about that World Cup,
you know what I'm saying. And our title was kind
of like, hey man, he hasn't messed the most football
he played in his whole life.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
It's arsenal baby, fuck a World Cup? Fuck you talking about? Yeah,
I don't know. I mean that that is a little
I get it too, because especially if the performance in
the North London Darby, You're like, damn right, but Martin Odegar,
how the fuck Martin Odagard out of it? If he's
playing so well, that's not he's and that's.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
The seniority right there. People been thinking. I mean, I know,
as he made some defensive mistakes, but oder Guard also
has senorin He was named the captain of this whole project.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Order guard is playing out of his mind. He's playing fantastic,
it's just not he's playing off the.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Defensively, so he's he's gonna go those are the standards, guys.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
But no, as it will definitely get his chance. But
the thing about City is, I just think it's a
different kind of race for them because it's it's kind
of frustrating their situation, and it's like other seasons where
they're just flying off rip and they're just like, come
catch his baby. Like they've had a lot of starts
and stops, and I think that's probably contributing to this
feeling of how like delicate their relationship is to it.

(50:27):
I'm still fucking frightened out of my mind because I
still that's still the same manager and there's a lot
of the same players there that I think there that
are going to be able to get the thing over
the line.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
Potentially the host divorce change man.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
He probably doesn't even yell anymore.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Yeah, he just writes down on a piece of paper
his thoughts and he folds up and he slips it.
He just slips it in the top of the player
and he.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
Said read that later. Oh man. But yeah, I think
we're flying high. One thing is really interesting is like
we have zero players in the top ten for goals
scored this season, which is fine. People point to that
is like, is this sustainable to be able to score
goals from nearly every position on the field except for goalkeeper?

(51:12):
I think yeah, I mean like I would love the
idea that we had like a main focal point for goals,
Like that's always a nice thing to have in pursuing
a title. But again, this isn't an impossible thing. Like
pre Holland City was a team like that where they
didn't like they were spreading goals out across the entire team.
Maurinho's first title with Chelsea was a very similar thing.

(51:32):
So I don't know, I'm not I'm not.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
Yeah, right, we go to Mamdami Mamdommi effects and the
goals spread it spread it. Come on, now, we want
one one billionaire goal scorer, piece of exactly free pre goals,
free buses.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
Declins Declin's first brace of the year, if not first ever, Yeah,
the Premier year. And so after he scored the second one,
I said, cool, don't I don't ever want to see
you do a throw in again. Don't throw away nothing man,
the cartoon ass throws.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Oh man, we need somebody to come, like they have
to get an American to come help them.

Speaker 3 (52:08):
Michael Vick. You said it before the show Man, Michael Vick.
If you he was a throwing specialist, he could do that.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
But what what they're going to worry about the dog wins? Yeah,
you keep dog, Yeah, keep win out of here like
when when's when's winning a lot of different events.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
Now, guys, aren't there Rugby throwings like that are kind
of like that that are overhead, Like, yeah, you get
a rugby coach, did your did you a rugby guy?
You don't have to bring one of our freaks over.
Y'all know how to throw ball. But yeah, we got
harts about to come back in. It's slowly, I do
think just by the way, I think someone has to

(52:45):
kick on just to you. So like remember when asked
in the league in two thousand and two and Freddie
Umberg scored a goal in every game for like eight games.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Trost has a bit of that about him. But I
think Soka I predict he's playing well, got an assist
in this game. His goals and system haven't been super high.
Second off the season. I have a prediction. He also
came back from pretty bad injury and got another little
hamshring surgery, Yeah, Hamshire surgery, and then he had another
hamstring tweak in the season.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
I think second off the season.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
The tables set for him to Uh, he's had some
load management and now he's time. It's a feast and
I think he needs to be getting ten goals.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Got some load management and it's time to bust.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
Now, come on, man, let that time go bro, It's
time for that. Either that or mister jeans, mister big
jeans jeans, Hey jeans jeans, Come on, big jeans.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
We miss you elsewhere around the league.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
Man.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
There's the Fulham to Liverpool too. That was a fucking
that was something. Just the late drama. I thought my
boy Cody Gakpo wrapped up the three points like Santa
on the record.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
If I'm wrong, Uh huh. Every one of Cody's goals
goes down like this, Yeah, the lead and then it's
not immediately is that? Remember him?

Speaker 1 (54:05):
Did you see him at the end of the match.
He looked like he just got back from Vietnam.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Well, do you know what I do? You know what
I thought was funny about that. He gets the goal,
he thinks he's won it. He takes his top off, give.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Me a yellow. I've won the game.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
And then you find out you've not won the game,
and you got a yellow for just drawing. No, no, no, no,
you get fined for that as well. I think, fine
to reach yellow. That's five grand he lost, probably, yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
Fine for for a yellow card. This ship this look
at look at gag Ball just rubbing his face. He said, God, damn,
how'd I do that? Ship? Because like seven times your
dog is about to cry? He said, Oh god damn,
that's man.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
Oh no, he's fine, he doesn't get fined. All right,
he'll be all right, He'll be all right, he'll be
How funny was that though, because again watching it, it was
like I was again having to do some ChEls and
watch some of the game.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Had it off his scores.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
I think I have to miss some of it, and
then I go, I turn my phone on for the
last four minutes and I was just watching it.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
I mean, you'd be a fool to give Harrison read
such space. Yep.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Yeah, we're all we're all huge fans of Harrison reed.
We all know so much about this player who were
every PM figure? And I was thinking, my name is
Chris Martin, right, so I have two first names as names,
and people say, don't trust a guy with two first names.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Harrison read two last names. Yeah, please trust that's a liar. No,
that's a liar. Guy. That's even worse of a liar
because you looked at a list of last names and
you chose two of those and you said I'm gonna
go with those. You know what names were? You can
read it sounds it is a.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
Great name to work at the CIA if Yeah, Harrison
Reid has definitely been working behind the scenes overthrowing governments
for some time.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
Or it sounds like a piece of like kitchen where
like where'd you get that blender?

Speaker 1 (55:55):
What type of blended?

Speaker 3 (55:56):
Harrison?

Speaker 1 (55:57):
Girl, it's a good blender.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
But that's strike was Oh yeah, yeah, like I texted
by Liverpool friend guy, I mean, this is what happens.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
Didn't give Harrison read that much special inage of the books.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
But that's a one in that's a one in one
hundred shot.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
Right, I mean no, we know we know what he's
capable of. Like I said in the chat, I said,
foolish to leave him in space like Sandra Bullok, like
that to.

Speaker 3 (56:18):
Your goal of the last two weeks.

Speaker 1 (56:20):
Probably that was such a fuck just beautiful, beautiful shot.
Kiss the kiss the bar as well, which yeah, you
love that because it's like violent when it clangs in
off the bars, like fuck you throwing this ship in there?
The fuck you want to do about it? This may
be too old a reference for some listeners, but Harrison
Reid maybe the new Neil Mellor. And I bring that

(56:41):
up because Neil Mellor was a like a youth player
at Liverpool who famously scored a dagger match winner against
a two thousand and four like season right after the
Invincibles Arsenal squad, which aren't that great but we're still
doing all right, and then instantly became a nobody. I
was like, I'll never forget Neil Mellor because he won
that game and I was so fucked up over that
lost at the time, I was like, the fuck is

(57:02):
going on?

Speaker 3 (57:02):
Bro?

Speaker 1 (57:02):
We used to be invincible. Man, his motherfucking he scorns
ship like it's nothing, and then check's notes. I don't
know where he went. Harrison Reid could be.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
There too, but that's I love that I almost love them.
All those players are like, he hadn't scored in three years,
I think, and he's on the bench, and I think
the Fulham fans are but like, he's a player that
you like.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Is he supposed to hes kind of a.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
Squad player, But that guy that's going to be the
highlight of his Yeah, if I was him every every weekend,
I'd be sure I'd be showing that to my wife
just every night.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
Yeah member that yeah, look, yeah, we know, we know
he scored. There's someone who scores that all that after
the No, really, I have to go to the doctor.
If you remember the fucking last gasp equalizer against Liverpool.
I think the doctor is going to diagnose me with
a healthy dose of fucking ha man. I mean, there's

(58:05):
such a long list of those players who like do
that one thing and then you forget, Like I remember
like Facundo Poalistrie from like Man United.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
I was, honestly, you got me thinking all these guys
is like, who's the men in black.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
Who scored against Aston Villa? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
Oh man high Marie. I'm thinking of Marita is that
his name?

Speaker 1 (58:27):
Oh god? Because of m M scored against I'm sure he's.

Speaker 3 (58:30):
Going Villa or some You're not from Pat Maria.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
I'm not talking to I'm not talking about friend Marita.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
His name.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
It's gonna Federico Makada. That's what it was.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
There.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
We go people, big fans, e PL fans, premier this
name would been shouting at me for being a more
one forgetting the name.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
Well, I mean I think that's a good pull. I
think you know we did for Kundo Polistry. You know
we're not even United fans, you know what I mean.
I just did Neil Mellor. Okay, check the fucking technique, bro,
I just invoke Neil Mellor's name out of area in
the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 3 (59:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:01):
Neil law is also the same he was in the
Ladies season a Jack Ryan.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
How do you think Liverpool are feeling? They've got to
play Arsenal on Thursday? Big game for them. It's how
do they look they?

Speaker 3 (59:13):
I'm they still?

Speaker 1 (59:14):
I mean but a second goal yeah yeah yeah, yeah
that was odd too because it was like offside that
was then on side. Same as Harry Wilson. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll.

Speaker 3 (59:26):
Do it too for Florian. Yeah, he scored in nineteen
week nineteen too.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I I'll never count Liverpool out
in a match, especially one where like it did not
really go the way we needed last time. So I'll
give them respect absolutely. But in talking to my Liverpool
supporting friends, they are they're very dejected. They're like, oh
my god, Like, what's what's Slot doing? Like I don't know.

(59:51):
I mean like I can see us winning comfortably. I
can see us peeking one out too. You just don't know.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
But yeah, I feel like I feel like we have
a lot of weapons that's this year you can't underestimate.
But it feels like it could be one of those
ones where like they something annoying Eppenson or Arsenal just
to give him a bit of Villa justice a bite,
no right, if Arteta has us salivating like the cartoons
and training, you know what I mean, looking at the
fucking old tape and being like, remember they laughed at

(01:00:17):
us or playing anfield sound effects at training.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
He will they because they lost it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
He's pretty good at his his like vengeance game, revenge record,
his revenge record.

Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
He is full.

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
Liam Neeson, you've got my daughter, Yeah, he probably he
probably does kidnap every players daughter before the game discout that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
Or he'd be calling up the opposition managers like he
calls Arnie Slide, he goes, you have kidden up my
daughter and I'm going to kill you. And he's like,
what the fuck, bro, no time, Like, no, no, you're kidnapped.
He's like, I don't have you don't have a daughter. Man,
what the fuck is this? I'm going to destroy you.
Just kidnap my daughter. And they're like, this guy's lost it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
He high is a professional kidnapper to kidnap every players daughter,
then places them in every Liverpool players cinema room in
their house. And then the game he shows all the
players that's your daughter, that's your daughter. You want to
you want to say that anyway? You know what if
you win, I make a call. Yeah, everyone's released.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
You sound like a Russian bad guy rushing at that point.
At that point eastern the accident. Okay, So when he's
got the glasses, he's like, guys, you thought I was
from Spain. Guys, I'm from Katerinburg And you're like, what
the fuck? He never played for Spain and like, true,

(01:01:39):
it's true. He's always been suspicious, always been suspicious about it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
Yeah. He always wanted to play for England. Okay, so
full yeah, I mean, you know, long made the Harry
Wilson streak continue because I'm enjoying watching him. That was
while though he put it away against the old team
and he was like, yeah, bro, it was a lovely another,
lovely finish, lovely Fulham goals just yeah those Clint Nickel,
wasn't that like far posts, like at the top of

(01:02:04):
the box basically yeah, yeah, yeah, I just hit it clean,
you know, propably like five a side, finished across the
hit the water bottle, thank you very much. Boom Yeah,
love that and then elsewhere Villa Obviously we talked about
their last US, but they came back one three to
one against Nottingham Forest.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
Lovely, lovely stripe by Oley Watkins first go Yeah, there
was another banger.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
Yeah yeah. And John McGinn huh that first goal that celebration.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
What something is going on with John mcgehan. Is he African?

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
It felt very aft concoded, the weird crap wall. How
could you look at John McGinn and go, is he African?
But why has he acted like that? That's not that's
not a white guy moved to score and go low crap.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
You know, do you know what John McGain here's my theory, right,
you know I mentioned staggers in Bournema Thirdie, which he
is the guy who you could see he can't. He
thinks his celebrations are the funniest. He's the guy on
Saturday and he's cracked a bearro he's drinking a bear
at nine am and you're there's no way you're enjoying that, John,
and he's like, yeah, that's the What is that?

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
The official Villa channel called it. It was a stomp thing.
It looked like he was about to hit some kind
of West African dance dog. He looked. Because I think
why I was giving Afkhan is because I don't know
who joined him in the celebration. It's when you do
when you got some group choreography, you're like, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
Once somebody else does it with you, that's African.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
Yeah, who is okay? So mcgainn and who's teaming up with.

Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
Him is another white guy.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
Future brother in law Maddie and Cash Maddie Cash, there
you are, baby, Yeah, he would jimmel.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
I feel like j got some load. Manage you better,
you better practice your stomp celebration.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
What the fuck, bro, It's slightly better than his cheapid
glasses celebration for a second.

Speaker 3 (01:03:50):
For sure, that is true. The stupid glasses was whatever. Man,
I'm honestly frustrated that I still can't do stupid glasses.

Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
It's it's like a real actually have the pretty You
have to like warm your arms up to getting.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
You You're gonna strain your wrist like that. Man, you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
Strained my wrist. You have to finish it, you know how.
Sorry we called gooning my bad. Uh oh yeah, yes,
straight up.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
Now, John McGinn, you can tell if you are in
the canteen he's he's pulled more than one person's pair
of Traxi bottoms down for a bit bound to He's
that he's that energy, do you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's. John McGinn is one of
those players like this. I think for all sports fans
can recognize this. He's just like the second you see
him on an opposition team, like, I fucking hate this guy,
but he's I think he's one of those players who
if he played on your team, he's like, man, I
don't know if I fucking want this guy either, like
like Ron ar Test is a good example. This is
how I feel like Ron Artest and those players like

(01:04:43):
you hated playing against in the NBA, and then he
came to the Lakers. I go, I love this absolute
ship House Surrey nonsense coming out of this guy with McGinn.
I just there's something I think, because also he's had
a lot of laughs at my expense as an arsenal
supporter that I'm just like.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
Teress he's he's an arsenal killer. But the thing we
don't have to play them fucking nuts anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
Huh yeah baby, uh Marian Rodgers come home, you know,
so we could really just just do it to you
a little bit worse. And by that, I'm talking about
the little supporters. West Ham nil Wolves three. That's another
one just to talk about. It's first winner of the
season for Wolves. Yeah that but taste minnaked.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
He was electric.

Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
At one point I was like, what the fuck is
it all? They were?

Speaker 5 (01:05:31):
They?

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
Are they better?

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
Or were they just playing west Ham? That's the question
we go to.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
Nobody can tell whenever you play west Ham, nobody knows
which it can again, chicken or the egg. Yeah, but
since Wolves put in three with us, maybe not necessarily
against us. Right, they've been kind of getting into form.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
Yeah you ever played faif and you go, I am
so good in your some some some amateur mo.

Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
Yeah, I know it. That's what playing west Ham is
for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
Yeah, I fucking know. I should have known the defenders
were even pressing.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
Yeah, Jared Bone is the only one doing anything. But yeah,
I mean that's not good for Nun, is it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
I mean he he has he has this look after
every match they lose, like where he's like, did they
sack me yet? No? Oh? All right yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm the manager of this football club.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
I think he should just do what the other you've
seen Morescue's laid the groundwork, Amrim's done the same. Say
something a bit cryptic about the board and collect your
P forty five thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Right right right.

Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
I find it interesting that he hasn't already. Kind of
makes me think, no, no, doesn't want to be at home. Hmmm,
that's true.

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
Actually, so I just read as a P forty five
is I think what you get when you get fired
in the UK.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
It's like a tax, you guys, that's a probably gun
in America.

Speaker 3 (01:06:50):
Yeah, yeah, you get you get handed a beer. It's
called a bud ice. That's what you get handed when
you get fired in America.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
Yeah, and a handful of bullets. Yeah yeah, and do
with them what you want. America plays it well. We
should give Wolves a shout out, because they must have.
If you're a Wolves fan, you know that's what is it?
Eighteen games win and they finally so lout. I mean
they got their draw against United. That was that was
like when they were slowly being like, huh m hmm,
look at a building to this man, Okay, get us

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like that easily.

Speaker 1 (01:07:18):
And then they get this result.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
But yeah, and Robert was I'm not just saying this
because he's a very handsome man, but they have been better.
I mean, obviously we didn't play very well against him,
but it was a tight game. And then they get
the drawer and then they win, so that they seem
to have slow Do you do you think there's any
chance they could stay up? They're on six points, they
are twelve points from safety currently.

Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
That would go with the craziest same job of all time,
the craziest a scape job I've never I don't know
I would because the.

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
Team's playing well kind of outside there's there's there's like
four five and not in Forest playing backs, there's like four.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
It's pretty Forest and Burnley Forest them and west Ham.
Yeah yeah, they're it's currently on twelve, west Ham on fourteen,
Forest on eighteen before can they run?

Speaker 3 (01:08:05):
Yeah yeah, I guess so they could get Forest.

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
I mean they play Everton next, so if they can,
if they can somehow beat Everton and it's on, get
to get to nine points and you know, place United next.
Maybe they'll get that. Maybe United has that Fletcher bounce
and does the business to Burnley.

Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
We don't know. With the exception of Forest, they're not
catching Leeds Bournemouth. I think those teams are all safe.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
Yeah yeah, but it's crazy because is it fifteenth to
fourth place? There is only four points that separate them?

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
I forgot that right?

Speaker 1 (01:08:35):
Or yeah, well fourth place is thirty four points and
fifteenth is on twenty three points, so it's a love
hang on.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
No, it's changed then, but it was something insane like that.
There's pretty between sixteenth and tenth place, there's.

Speaker 3 (01:08:51):
Sixth less than ten. Yeah, between sixteenth and fifth it's
less than ten.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
I got it wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
So from four from fifth place, yeah, fifth place to
fourteen as four points that's crazy. Yeah, yeah yeah, it's look,
uh why not you know I'll invest in this uh
this great escape from from Wolf, something else to cheer
on in the yeah Wolves.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
Absolutely, Well then it's that's so funny. Western Nouna's got
a face forest in his next match.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
He's like, oh manh yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
They're gonna beat us. He's like, just so you know,
they're gonna beat us.

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
Marynaca's got some stuff playing for him too, and it's gonna.

Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
Get weird and oh yeah, he's a sweat and he's like, yeah, actually,
I don't think I can. I can make it today.

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
Today, I can't. This is it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
You're not doing a shift that. This isn't a shift
that fucking asda bro. What the are you talking about?
Your kid? Get forgot my kids having a party?

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
Your kids?

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
Your kids are thirty two? S bro?

Speaker 3 (01:09:45):
Hold on, your kid's got the same beard as you, man,
ship bro.

Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
That matches today? Oh ship bro? Yeah, keep kidding me.
That's today.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
My past appointment is today. I can't skip it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
You're not my daughter this weekend. That's a good one.
Possible appointments a good excuse on a Saturday. Hey listen one,
I don't know, expdeted, what the fuck do you want
me to do? And then elsewhere I guess this is
the other thing going along with just sort of quickly
no no's not performing well. Spurs also having a bit

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of a problem too. A lot of people are tired
of the the Thomas Frank era already and the away fans.
The fans are already booing. We've seen this evolution with
Tottenham before. It's like, when the fans start doing that, bro,
that's really when the clock starts stick. That's really when
I think the pressure becomes to the point where they're
going to do something and maybe get Thomas Frank out
of there. They're posting memes about like being jealous of

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Chelsea and United for sacking their managers. It's kind of
all over the place. I mean, they let Brandon Johnson
go to Crystal Palace and then in the next match
Caduce gets injured and the whole thing was like, we
don't need Brandon Johnson, we got we got, we got Cadouos.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
That's I mean, hits it. That feels like a matter
of when, right, So when when Joe. I mean he
gets booed every he gets booed every week, this guy. Yeah,
oh guy, I mean it does look as stodgy. I'm
trying to think back to like when Arteta came in
Arsenal and he did go defense first and just try
and look, you know a lot of sad to say, so, yeah,
you got I think it's not the worst way, but

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and he's had a lot of attackers out and I
actually just it's weird because you know, as an arsh,
I actually do like Thomas Flang. I think he's a
good coach, but I don't think they're going to give
him enough time because Tottenham have that sort of west
Ham thing of they want to be entertained.

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
They want it to be a certain way. Well for
the amount that they charge for tickets, they have to.
I get that argument too, because a lot of their
supporters like, bro, do you know how much money it
costs to go see Spurs and see this fucking dead
wood out there? Bro? And this ain't even the HBO show.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
I had no idea they had gotten rid of their
top three scores or their top scorer three years in
a row.

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
Yeah, every like from the previous season so the cane
ben Son and now Brennan Johnson, which Johnson.

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
We did that one time with Obama ying and now
oh they just keep.

Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
You know what the secret is, right, shoot yourself in
the foot. No, that's not the lesson there. How the
fuck did you get that? I mean, that's the other
thing that I don't see the patients. I just don't
know what club is ever going to be patient enough,
Like I don't know if like we were just dead
inside as a club that were like, I don't know, dude,
just fuck can he do it a little bit better?
But I think to have this character hit a charisman

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to it to like it like that, no one he
has this. He's a good salesman and he can get
people to buy in on a vision for the future
and and also to just for his to his credit,
at least we saw glimpses of it, even when we
were having just all over the place results, like we
would have these moments like oh shit, bro, if we
can keep doing that ship, we might have something. Whereas

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for Spurs, I feel like people are like, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
I also think that's not discount even football fans, even
straight male owners and fans people who are handsome give
away more ship yeatoos and some man amarm I think
any reason in pretty handsome started guy Tom Frank has
cuts and said it before. And his eyes are so
far into his head right now, you're gonna have to

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spelunk to get him.

Speaker 1 (01:13:07):
You just keep looking at his eyes, get further and.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
Further back, and when he gets out of that jump,
finally his eyes will be behind his e is.

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
Oh no, he'll probably recover and he's gonna look like
a beautiful, beautiful back out. Yeah, the recovery, it's gonna beautiful,
the ocular bounce back.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
His looking is like if you saw him walk into
a strip club, security would like notify. Oh yeah, like
people would, they would.

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
They would stop you at the fucking door, as if
you were wearing sweatpants or basketball shorts. Like it's no
questions need to be asked, Like noah, bro, are you
for real? Don't come in here looking like this? They
know look what your eyes all sunk in your trapped
on you again?

Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
Yeah, I don't want to see you do that shit again.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
Bro, you gotta you got a rusty box cutter or
some ship. Come on, man, what's the deal here, fucking
play with me. And then finally, I just do want
to talk about Everton to Brentford for it, because Igor
Tiago is he's got fourteen fucking goals this season. He's
five behind.

Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
Holland many yam lit yan elt yeah, yamut yeah, Aple
big assists.

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
A one two combo. Baby, you know you know they
John Mount you know you in trouble Yo.

Speaker 3 (01:14:17):
He's so hot, he's hugging whoever after he scored.

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
That was so funny when you said of him just
hugging Betto Yeah, oh I missed that clip.

Speaker 3 (01:14:29):
Okay, So after the after the uh, after the second
or third goal got cleared by VR, yeah, the third.

Speaker 1 (01:14:37):
One, he said, all right, bro, that's funny.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
Bet was like, get your fuck off me, Man Goods,
that's a very funny celebration.

Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
Hug yeah, hey, we said it right to cut the
fuck off.

Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
The one thing that I just doing some light research.
Beto is Portuguese, so maybe he just understands Portuguese because
Igor is Brazilian. I was like, did they come, are
they homeboys or something? Maybe they did? Maybe they I
don't know, but either way, brilliant bit of trolling from
Igor to embrace your op as the goal is being counted.

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
I wouldn't surprised if you play Champions League next season.
He is serious player. What just the sidebar?

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
One thing I wrote down. It made me laugh.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
I was watching the I only saw this on highlights,
but the commentator said, Damn's damns God.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
He's in a pocket of space. He loves a pocket
of space. It's funny. Who doesn't love a pocket.

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
Yet of space? Especially when I'm doing a little load management.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
Yeah, give me a hot pocket of space, baby. Like, yeah,
every player, I'm sure loves a pocket of space. Yeah,
no ship. That's why I just love that once I
read it football cliches, because like whenever there's some football cliche,
they just got to call it out, and that one
saying they love the thing that objectively every player needs
to be able to like operate well in like, oh

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he loves having it put on a plate for Yeah,
he loves an open goal. Yeah I'm an open goal.
Oh he loves the fifty to fifty Yeah. Well phrase.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
I didn't hear on the two goal commentaries of the
and they thought were very similar. The the Chelsea goal,
the Enzo goal, and the Gapbo goal. Both those crosses
were so perfectly in the corridor of uncertainty. Both said
the phrase corridor of uncertain one of my favorite footall phrases.

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
Yeah, that was to it. That's the frim Pong cross
was so uncertain, So corridor was so in corridor, so
certain right in the corridor, right course. I used to say, anyway,
so any other any other business before we bid the
listeners ad you I found Well.

Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
I was going to say that we when we text
before that we could have There's so much stuff happened
in the last week in football with just managers second
and we could have spoken for three hours. But I
feel like we covered the main the main issues. I mean,
obviously shout to Stephen Stephen Ruiz, Stephen Stephen making that
kid's party excellent for me.

Speaker 1 (01:16:57):
Shadow Casey the guard MC of the Gooners, brouh Kirk
Graduations like your kid too. All right, I think if
that's it, anybody got anything to plug should do?

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
Go see my man added Lucky Balwins.

Speaker 1 (01:17:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, give oh you know where you gotta
go once is have you seen silver Lake United? That
place they opened up. There's a spot right there, Uh yeah,
right across like in silver Lake by the Gelson's over there.
It's like a little like a football it's called silver
Lake Unite and it's like they're trying to be a
football first kind of thing. So y'all, there's an Arsenal

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match and it ain't at COSM. We'll probably be there
because I'm definitely gonna be at COSM for that. We'll
be there too. Hey, y'all get your tickets. We'll be
there because we like to watch on a gigantic screen
to pretend we are in England when we are in Englewood. Chris,
anything to plug No, No, I just think this club's
great and people like you, you know, do the the

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likes and the whatever. That's two weeks in a row.
You've done good housekeeping.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
Yes, I just like, please, you know, I mean because
I think it does. I mean, I have no idea,
but I seem it helps. I mean, like I said,
I was expecting to be running this podcast and I'm
just a co host and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
trying to plug down this podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
Yes, Jason will be emailing you after this. We will
see you next time. Ain't it footy check out? It's
at Ain't it footy, for the socials and ship. We
post sporadically. There will be more posts to come. We're
just getting into the swing of things. Happy New Year.
We'll see you next week. Peace