October 18, 2024 • 35 mins
Welcome to the London Club Council! The FAN's Brett Blakemore and Robbie Rosenhaus are opposing fans in England's biggest rivalry, and they break down Robbie's trip in a bonus episode.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
We're at it again.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome to another meeting of the London Club Council.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now representing Tottenham Hotspa.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
In this corner we do have Brett Blakemore and repping
Arsenal is Robbie Rosenhause.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
So boys, let the banter begin.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome into another edition of the London Club Council bonus
edition at two episodes in one week. We're making up
for lost Brown because we want to get into this
trip of Robbie's real quick on injury notes before we
get into that on my club side. Oh on, hello, Robbie,
how are you? Robbie's representing Arsenal. You heard in the intro,
I'm representing Spurs, Robbi, how are you not.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
As good as you Brett considering the injury updates that
you're about to provide.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, So the biggest one for Spurs is Sunny appears
to be healthy. He's training and says he's a full go,
so I expect to see him starting on the left wing.
The international break always good for getting your captain back
and ailing those healing those injuries. And Charleston appears to
be a go as well. I don't think he starts
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even if he's one hundred percent. We haven't I've seen
Richardlson as much as I have the Locknest Monster since
he's signed, so it's been few and far between. But
the biggest news is that the Skipper sunning is back.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, And on the arsenal side of things, as they
take a trip down to Bournemouth, Arteta is hopeful on soccer,
hopeful on Haverts, hopeful on Martinelli, but order guard looks
like it's going to be a couple of weeks more.
He did say that he's not fit for this game
and the next week will be crucial as they gear
up towards a European clash against Shaktar Janetsk followed by
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a big clash against Liverpool in the race for top
four and obviously for the league title. But those are
just a couple of notes. News and notes here as
we as we head into the weekend, as Tottenham will
kick kick things off, yeah with six thirty local time
here in Minnesota, but uh, twelve thirty kickoff, which I
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found out uh as I as I went to London
that they did not they nobody likes those Uh, nobody
likes those early kickoffs over there. The fans don't like it.
The vendors don't like it. You don't like it. They're
basically in and out and and they and the day
is done for them by you know, three in the afternoon,
and and all the businesses are you know, kind of
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everything kind of dies down. Yeah, when when they have
those three o'clock kickoffs or the or the five thirty kickoffs,
they have a lot more time for people too. Well,
let's just say it drink. And also you're not allowed
to drink in the in the actual YEP stands, which
I found out. So we'll get a little more that
one into my into yeah, into my into my trip.
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But yeah, seeing people going out on the concourse just
just to pound beers was a new experience for me.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, you got to down them in the concourse or
else you're in trouble. So yeah, I think that's your
inter report. You get born with the way we get
West tam at home hopefully hu hum victories that we
can talk about next week. But this is the bonus epsort. Yeah,
well maybe not hopefully for you, but I just thought
that to be nice. But this is the I always
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love that. This is the bonus episode that I want
to talk about a trip because I specifically told you,
don't tell me about your trip. I don't want to
hear about it because I want to save it for
this because I don't like burning segments because then it
feels forced. So let's walk through. How are the flights there?
What you were connecting? Is that? What was the connecting
flights for you? Into New York for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, into New York and ended up spending a few
hours in the lovely John F. Kennedy International Airport in
South That's I've never been there in sarcasm in South
Queens Now. It's just a huge airport. I mean just
getting for getting from gate to gate. It's just an
enormous property, an enormous airport. It's one of the largest
international terminals in the world. And I understand that. I
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mean New York's, you know, obviously the biggest city in
the world, and they have two different airports, and then
one in New Jersey Newark. But yes, I sat there
for a few hours. Was was a little bit hesitant
first time overseason quite a while.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
But when you do that scan, like when you're boarding, yeah,
the last flight and you do little face scan, there's
there's some nerves there, there's some like, hey, this is real.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
So that that was I did the face scan, I
believe when Yeah, I think one at New York. Yeah,
but I remember specifically doing one when I had gotten
to London to exit through into the airport, but before
I even got there, and just as a quick sports
side note, as we tape here, the breaking this was no,
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this was that. This was the night of basically me
sitting on it on a plane almost ready to turn
off my phone about I don't know, ten minutes before
we actually took off for London, because it was a
about a forty five minute taxi to the time when
we took off. I was following a certain baseball game
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that was going on in Milwaukee between the Mets and
the Brewers, and for those of you that don't know,
I'm a big New York Mets fan. And they ended
up saving their season and hitting a home run in
the ninth inning with one out that basically gave them
the lead and extended their season. And now they're in
the NLCS and in danger of being eliminated. But that's
not for now, But for that flight, that moment basically
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sent me on a high. I mean I could have
flown there on wings. I mean that's how happy I was.
Well you did, and yes I did. But what I
did have was oh about eighty text messages to land
to because I shut off my phone about five or
ten minutes after it happened. Then obviously they had to
play out the bottom of the ninth and it ended
the way that we wanted. And okay, and count me
(05:52):
in as who cares. Yeah, well some of the people did,
and in my inner circle, and I ended up landing
to a ton of I bet uh text messages because
I didn't Uh, I didn't get the Wi Fi for
the flight, didn't didn't feel like I knew I was
going to to get in some sort of nap, taking
some information, taking some information entertainment. No, I didn't. I
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didn't nap when we got there, but I did. I did,
uh sleep for a bit while we were on the
plane ride over there, And it didn't didn't. It didn't
affect me one way or the Yeah, I wasn't gonna
sit on the Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I want to if I ever go again, I don't
know when that's gonna be, but I want to get
some like medical grade ambient on the for the flight over,
because if you get a full like four five six hours,
you're set. That's your day. Yeah, so that to me
is the biggest.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's exactly what I I had gotten. I had gotten
about four hours. So yeah, so a little over half
the flight there, and uh, you know when when we landed,
I mean, yeah, I was, I was a bit tired,
but uh, you know, the the adrenaline pumps in and
and and we did a uh I was. I was
there with a friend of mine who traveled separately, and
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we met at the at the hotel and we ended
up going right to to Chelsea and touring Stanford Bridge,
which was great. Uh it was about an hour and
change tour.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You know what. Back we rewind a little bit yau
another like oh my god, it's happening. Moment is when
you land and you have to do the passport bit
where you have to like scan your password.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Like the one thing I did not have to do
is fill out a I didn't have to fill out
like any forms on the plane or anything like that,
but I did have to yeah scan, Yeah, you scan
your passport and they it.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Feels very like yes, you're like you're like in a cattle.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yes, while getting back into the States was just I mean, yeah,
that was that was just just just going through there.
I don't know that line at at at at ord.
I mean, I'm sure you were at the same location
that I was in Chicago, and it was just it
just was like line after line. I mean, it took
me about forty five minutes to an hour to get through,
but once you got up there, it took about three seconds.
(08:02):
It was just waiting, just about.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
To say that why is that line take so long?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Because there's so many people coming in off of these
different flights. It's not domestic flights. You know as well
as I do. If you're flying to Chicago or if
you're flying to London, there's gonna be hundreds more people
on that flight, hundreds hundreds more people on that flight
to London. But no, the flight there was great. I mean,
I'll tell you one thing. The Dreamliner that they take
you over there on, I mean you can't even feel
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I mean, it is such a smooth ride, just unbelievably.
That's something that I did not expect because domestically here,
when you fly on some of these planes, you get
the turbulence and I just didn't experience that whatsoever. Maybe
it was a weather pattern or whatsoever. But that was
really nice, especially for the little state time. No I
got the ended up getting the window on the way there,
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and the aisle on the way back, and on the
way there there was nobody in the middle of this
gentleman and I that shared the row, and we were
actually in the front row of coach, so we had
the extra Yeah, we were right the curtain, right by
the bathroom. So it was literally perfect.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
The one thing I did not do on the flight
there was eat that. I had no appetite. The flight home.
I was starving. I was eating everybody's food around me.
I mean, let alone mine. Yeah no, I mean listen,
they were giving it to me. They didn't want it.
I was saying, you know, bring it in, let's go.
I mean there was delicious some of the stuff that
was on there. I understand airplane food. You want to
roll your eyes. Some of the stuff on there was
actually tasty.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
What's the deal over the airline?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, exactly. See you know more Seinfeld than you think. Start. Yes,
we were but the h so you land, Yeah, I land,
we go to the hotel, we drop off our stuff,
so and we immediately go for the We immediately go
to the Chelsea Tour a couple hours later.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
How did you figure out? So you Lanta Gatwick, Yeah,
which is a little different most people when they come
from the States, Atlanta, Heathrow.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
How was that getting a train to There's so many
trains that go to different places in London. There's a
Gatwick Express that goes right into London Victoria, which is
not what I took. I actually took the commuter train,
which is a Tammeslink train, which took me into Saint
pancreas YEP International, which is just a huge complex simply
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similar to Penn Station, and then switch to a train
there to get us up near Wembley, which is where
our hotel was. Jamaica changed Change, Jamaica Change. Now that's
Long Island Railroad, not the London Underground. But no, people, yeah,
we really are. But you know what I'm trying to
(10:30):
I'm trying to get to the point there. But uh yeah, no,
the the transportation wasn't wasn't a hindrance. I will say
that we did take a lot of ubers around. I
will say we spent more than we probably should have
on ubers. I don't get that, but uh, that was
to save time and also because a lot of the
time we didn't know where we were going.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
So yeah, so I should have told you if you
if you just go on like Apple Maps and you
just say you put in a location, it'll literally tell
you like step for like go to this station, go to.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
This like totally no, totally understood. It was just it
was more for convenience purposes and the fact that we
were well yeah, a couple of times in the over yeah,
well we got stuck in traffic, so that was our
own fault. But I will say that getting getting from
way up to London was fine.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
So yeah, it was so straight off the plane to
the hotel to Chelsea.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah, and then right to Chelsea to to take the
tour of Stanford Bridge.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And how is it walking out of the tunnel. It
was with Liquidator, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
It was interesting. It was a cool feeling just to
uh kind of sense the history and just all the
all the players that have kind of done this walk,
the same walk that that I was I was participating
in and just kind of getting on the edges of
the pitch there and just kind of looking around, seeing
the visitors section, the away stand and and seeing where
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the Arsenal fans set up or the Tottenham fans in
your case set up.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And yeah, great players taking that walk, including you me, yeah, exactly,
my friend Jesse, right pretty much. Yeah, all the greats
have been there, Yeah, all the great What what was your
first oh my god, I'm actually here moment? Was it
when you saw the pitch at or like.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
No, no, when I when I was when I was
walking up to the Amirates, I started shaking.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Really Yeah that was bad. Yeah, that was bad.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Because at that point I knew it was real. I
had the tickets, I knew they were on my phone.
I knew they were real, So I knew at that
point I was I was officially going to see the Arsenal.
It wasn't Chelsea, thank you, it was thank it was
It wasn't that. It wasn't the amazing Italian dinner that
that we had in Chelsea Friday night. It wasn't you know,
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just kind of seeing Wembley, or I mean seeing Wembley
was kind of like a whoa moment when I got
out of the train.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
There kind of neighborhood I think it's kind of nice.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, it is. It's nice.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Granted I was only on the main street, so someone's
probably it.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Is nicer up there. I mean in comparison to like
East London and places like that, like, yes, it's it's
it's much nicer, yeah, or Tottenham, right, but East London
is probably the toughest part of town. I will say
though that East London. Yeah. The one place that I
did kind of sense that it was real was like
I said, when I was walking to the Emirates and
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then walking in. Yeah, so that that was kind of
the moment for me. The NFL game the next day
was gravy. It was awesome to be there for that.
But I mean, I see the Vikings here like it's
it's but it was so cool to see them there.
I'm just saying, for from if I had to choose
one or the other as to like surreal moments like
it was, it was the ars.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Let's let's back up here. So so you go to Chelsea.
Did they do the tour group bit that they did
with me where they're like, all right, where are you from?
Who you support?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Did they do I don't think so, No, I don't
pretty late, No, Nope.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Interesting, I just didn't.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I don't think. I don't think they did. Oh maybe
maybe they did actually at the beginning, now that I
think about it, where we were sitting in.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
There and sit you down in the lobby. Yeah, yeah,
So because that's my story, I think I've told.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Him yes, I know, yes, yes, when you admit your
Spurs fan and everybody, everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
The whole tour group just went no, right, no, no.
They were just like no, oh, I was gonna wait
the whole twelve second.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You know what, No, because you would have you would
have told me to shut up.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
So go to completion, Come.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
On, Rosie.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Anyways, so day what's the rest of day one? So
you're right by the way, Champions League trophies were happy
for you. You get to see those.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah, there was there was a pair right there.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, what would just do the rest of the day?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
One went out for dinner like uh, like you said,
we took about a mile walk to this Italian restaurant
that that a friend of a friend recommended that he
lives in London. Now he travels back and forth to
to to the States, and we ended up meeting up
with him and some friends went out for some drinks
and yeah, it was just a nice night overall. It
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was really really nice when, like I said, went out
for a huge Italian dinner. By about nine or ten o'clock,
I was shot. So I went back to the hotel
and crashed. He stayed out for another couple of hours
and partied it up, and yeah, came back to the
hotel room. We crashed till the next till mid next morning,
and we're we like I said, we were on our
way to the Emirates.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So describe the trip over. I know the that was
your first moment you got there, but like even going
on the well you ubered there. I think, like even
seeing people around, like your walk up to the stadium,
like was it just flooded with like with people in
arsenal stuff? And because typically what I found is if
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it's not a game day, no one over there wears
anything sports related, which here you can wear sports stuff
every day, and no.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
One Yeah, I mean you go on a pump cass
and holiday or quick trip, you see somebody in the
Viking staff, right, Yeah, So I get that. That was
something that I had been told before that not a
lot of peop will wear stuff to the games or
around the stadium. I ended up wearing an Arsenal a
zip up anyway. But I think in the stadium for
the yes, I agree, but I for the next time.
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You know what, here's the thing. It's like everybody who
goes unless you're really in disguise, like you know, and
you really want to sit there and not root for Arsenal.
Like everybody who goes, except for the people in the
ways in the ways stand. They're all there to root
for Arsenal. It's not like going to a baseball game
here or going to a football game here, let alone
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Vikings Packers where the place is fifty to.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Fifty yeah, or in Wisconsin Animates. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
So, but but more here because I think it's more
here because the Packer fans, I think like to come
indoors and get warm and see their team play inside
once in a while. But still you get a you
get a smattering of Viking fans obviously in Lambeau, especially
when they're when they're playing well. But as far as
the Emirates, like the yeah, there wasn't a lot of
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people wearing a ton of stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Were people talking around you like did people pick you out?
As because I got picked out pretty early. There were
people around me and they're like, you American. I'm like yeah, no, no, nothing, no, nothing.
They weren't mad about it. They're just like, oh, that's interesting,
but brings you here, you know, that was kind of
their thought.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Nope, nobody questioned me. Nobody kind of thought else wise
or yeah, or thought that I was a foreigner or
anything like that. But yeah, no, I didn't. I didn't
get that treatment from anybody's staff or fans or supporters
or anything else. I was in the Aspernton Army. I
was in the clock end, so I was in like
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the ultra fan section standing the entire match.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And it's weird the ultras are next to the away end.
Usually it's the opposite.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yeah, it's right there. I will say this though, there
was like there's like a section that's like in between
that's like not, it's like not as like. I was
on the left side, let's say, of the goal, and
all the way on the right side of the goal
if you're looking at the pitch, was in the corner
there where the Southampton Saints fans. So they had their moment.
I took a picture when they went down. As we
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get to the to the match and we and we
discussed the match at length. We don't have yeah, but
but just the you know, the the emotions. I I
never thought that they were going to lose, even down
one nil. I always I thought, again, I had told
you this, texted you both, our friend Jesse who was
in our our our group chat and and Brett. I texted,
I said, I thought they would one. Yes, I thought
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they would get one, not two. I wasn't excuse me,
I shouldn't say that I thought they would get one.
I wasn't sure if they would get two. I knew
that they wouldn't get shut out at home. There was
no way that I was traveling thousands of miles that
God was going to have this plan for me to
go there and lose one nil to a team that
just was promoted from the from the championship. That was
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not going to happen, not with this team, not with
this manager. Like maybe when they had Uniamory and they
put in some really poor results and they didn't have
the quality that they have now. Or the back line.
I mean they've given up two goals all year long. No, like,
what are we doing here? So the defense is good?
That goal was really well taken. It was against Leeba two,
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which if you saw was it was. It was well taken.
But so were the Arsenal goals, especially the first two
have RT's off the post and end, and then Sokka
with the beautiful fee to Martinelli on the short side
and puts it past the keeper for a two to
one win, and then they get and then they get
the late goal to make it three to one.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
But it just stinks that it was on the opposite
side of the stadium.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
It does, but it does, but not for me because
I wasn't looking up. Here's the thing, Brett, Yeah, I
wasn't looking. I was filming some things, and as you
would be at a game or you know, and just
looking down on my phone, texting, filming, and I'm not
I didn't watch all night. I can't say I watched
all every second of the entire ninety minutes. I was like, whatever,
look at my phone.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Whatever, Right, I've mastered the art of filming with my hands,
but looking not at my but at the actual what
I'm filming. I'm mastered that, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
But I was not filming when Haverid scored and I
was looking and I was, I know, but I well,
I filmed it like twenty seconds after you saw that,
you saw the reaction, But and I got my phone
off quickly. My side started to hurt. I saw him,
I saw him score. I saw it go in off
off the post, and I mean literally I was in
direct line with where where he shot it and and
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the ball going in, and like just the emotion of
that seeing that raw and just not with a phone
in my hand or anything else. Like the second goal,
I didn't ei. There was so many players in the
in the mix there, like I saw, like obviously I
saw them celebrate when I saw him kind of sneak in,
but I didn't see the ball going the net. The
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Havertz one off the post and in. I saw it
directly in my line of sight, and that was the
cool moment for me. It would have been cooler, clearly
if it was you know, thirty yards in front of
me at the at the net that I was sitting,
you know, twenty rows back of. But it was on
the other end. Unfortunately, the only goal that was scored
on my end was the Southampton goal. But like I said,
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seeing that first goal go in was awesome and nobody
will ever take that away from me because just having
having that, having that go through my system, just finally
seeing them break through and score and a nice, really
nice goal too, Like I mean it was outside I
think it was outside the box, and or it was
just maybe just inside the eighteen, but still, nevertheless it
was it was a finish worthy of uh kind of
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a tying goal. Wasn't like some garbage goal that they
kind of just you know, you know, kind of a
bundled in or an own goal that I think you
I think the first goal that you saw and the
Looting match was an own goal if I remember correctly. No,
it was, no, but there was an didn't you have
an all goal in that game?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yes, you did. You got to wander the first goal?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Correct? That was a goal, right, Yeah, it was a
good it was It was the touch line, yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
On the touch line, fire it and hope it goes.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
In and it went off off somebody's shin right right.
But nevertheless, Arsenal get the win and that was that
was the highlight of the trip. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
So I'm trying to think, did you went with a
buddy but you weren't sitting together.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
No, we weren't.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Did you meet at halftime? We did?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
We chuck we chuckd beers at halftime. Yeah, I met him, know,
I met him over there? We did, Yeah, we know,
we did. Absolutely. It was it was a solid beer
as well, and I was, but I was not in
a good mood because remember it was Neil Neil.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah, how did you feel good? Because you said I
didn't expect us to lose at all? Is that what
you were saying? As you were no doubt?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I thought that No, I thought that they would. I
thought that they would get a goal. I didn't think
they go I did not think they'd go down one nil.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
But it was one way. That's what actually pissed me
off watching from here, is that it was one way
traffic right at you all. Arsenal doesn't the entire half. Yes,
I just wanted him to break through once. For you.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
It was fine because I had the whole half. I
saw the whole half in my end, so you didn't.
Even though they didn't score, they got the win and
I got to see them up close for like forty
five minutes total, like the entire first half. Stirling right
in front of me almost scored. I mean Martinelli. I mean,
I'm sorry, not Martin Jay Seuss who wasn't great but
had one chance. Like it just uh, it was it
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was cool to see from from kind of both sides,
doing the clock in and the high and the North
End chants and things back and forth. So yeah, it
was fun to be there, looking forward to going back
next year, and yeah, it was just it was just
a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, I can't imagine. So right after, by the way,
how is it singing South London forever in the stadium
with everybody else. That's got to be cool. And that's like,
I mean, that's like me hearing the trumpet, you know,
in person, it's the best.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah, no, no, it was, Uh, it was fun. I
didn't have my phone out for the start of it
because I was just like so, I was just trying
to take everything in. I was looking at all the banners.
I was looking at them coming on the pitch, you know,
shaking hands and the refs and hearing the Premier League music,
and I forgot that.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I just Anthem is underrated by the way.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I know.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
We talked about the Champions League Anthem and Europa League. WHOA,
but the Premier League anthem is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yeah, it slaps yeah, and hearing that and then here
in North London Forever was a really cool back to
back kind of moment and everybody claps along and then
you know, and then they get on their way. But
they didn't score obviously until they went down one and
get the victory. But that song was was really cool
to hear live, for sure.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So immediately after the game, you're three to one winners,
Robbie does.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
We end up going out that night back to the
hotel to change and then to a friend's place where
it was like a going run where it was going
away party. Well, like I said, my friend is originally
from La so he's got some friends out there that
are connected in like Hollywood scenes and things like that,
(24:45):
and they just travel back and forth. And this one guy,
this guy named Liam, super nice guy, was ended up
hosting us and they were having a going away party
for a friend. So it was about twenty twenty five
of us at this huge flat. I mean it could
have been four or five thousand dollars apartment in Manhattan
or any big city. I mean, it was gorgeous, just
absolutely looking overlooking the tim's uh and down by Fulham
(25:09):
and Hammersmith down there, just a really nice area, yeah,
of London, So it was. It was a nice night.
So we kind of unwinded there and listened to some music,
kind of had some conversations, met up with a Spurs
fan who hates Daniel.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Levy, hates me and hates you.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah and yeah, and uh, it was. It was a
nice end to the uh, the first portion of the
trip before we got to the NFL work portion.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah. If if you found like someone on like outside
of the stadium that had the like end, does you
know the Homer Simpson gift, the end is near cardboard
and he's ringing the bell, I think that person is
more positive than the Spurson you found.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah, he was.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
It's pretty close.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah he was. He wasn't happy with with how things going.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Did you do any sight seeing, Robbie, Did you see
a big band?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
So here's the thing, like we we honestly didn't. We
There was no time. It was so short a trip
that we ended up doing the three events. I mean,
the the NFL game on Sunday took up basically the
entire day. We chose to go and watch NFL games
after that, plus we were exhausted after after three days
of being on the go. Uh, and there was there
(26:19):
was really no time and the only time that would
have been would have been potentially either Saturday or Sunday
mornings before each match. I mean, the the the NFL
game was at two thirty in the afternoon, so we
could have went in the morning, and the football the
Arsenal match was at three o'clock, so we definitely could
have went in the morning. We chose to sleep in,
So that was that was kind of what, you know,
(26:40):
and and and and we'll go back and I'm sure
he'll go back, and I'll go back.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
And he didn't even see it.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
No, I didn't see Big Ben. I didn't see Tower London.
I didn't see London match. Nope, didn't see any of
that stuff. Wow, So just kind of stayed on the outskirts.
Did see the three stadiums us but again, there's so
much to see. It's like going to Manhattan and not
going to the Statue of Liberty and like, oh, yeah,
I gotta go to the Statue of Liberty next time
I go go down to Ellis Island or oh I
got to go to you know, what's going to Well,
(27:06):
you have to go to l S Island.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
You don't have to do anything.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Okay, Well you.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Have to go to Ellis Island to go to back
in the day.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
To go to well, I meant you have to go
to Ellis Island to go to the Statue of Liberty.
That's where it.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Ellis Island was the anyways, we don't need a history life.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
No. I know.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
That's where the immigrants came in and that's where they first.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
That is where the Statue of Liberty is located on
Ellis Island. I think we need to get rid of
this in time. I'm stupid, Y're smart. Yeah, I was wrong.
You were right. You're the best. I'm the worst. Thank you, Adam.
You're very good looking. I'm not attractive.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Can you repeat the part of the stuff where you
said all about things? So let's move on. You go
to my stadium, my club stadium. No, we're leaving it in.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
And it's me that looks stupid, So I don't care
if we leave it in. That's you go to my stadium.
Is that If I toured the Emirates, it's one thing
I did tour Chelsea and tour Stanford bridgehen I was there,
but I did I stayed away from I rode under
the Emirates about one hundred times on the Piccadilly Line,
but I never saw it. I didn't get off on
(28:25):
on Arsenal or Finsbury Park stops. Okay, I did have
all spurs get up one time when we were driving.
When we were driving, when we were riding through, and
there was a part of me it's like, could be
in trouble here, you know, because I think it was
a match day at that point. But was it weird
being in Tottenhamhawsper Stadium knowing like I hate this place,
(28:48):
you know, That's what you said.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Not me. No, it wasn't weird being in there, not
at all. No, it really wasn't. To be honest with you,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
What about like outside the stadium, like you.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
See, I consider your arrival on consider you a threat.
There's a difference.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Okay, get off your let me know when you get down. No,
it's hard to hear you all the way up.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
But I praised your stadium. I thought I thought it
was really nice. I thought it was very No, I
don't don't be defensive. I'm just saying I wasn't kind
of weird. I didn't have any I didn't have any
trepidation about being in your stadium, like just kind of
looking around. I mean, you know, you're you go in
US Bank Stadium and you're a Packer fan, Like, is
(29:30):
it weird for you to be around all the purple?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Sometimes?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Is it okay?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah? I mean nine times out of ten. Well, the
difference is that was a Vikings game.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
So, I mean I lived in Atlanta for almost five
years and I used to I used to cover Braves
games as a Mets fan and go in the clubhouse
and see all the World Series excuse me, all the
division titles that they have. I know you have too, Yes,
I understand, yes, the Mets have two as well. So
but again, like just how many I got in the initials?
(29:59):
That was yeah, exactly yes, and that's a that's a callback.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yes, it is ahead.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Please go listen to Friday until eighteenth edition of The
Powatrip Morning Show Our three. Brett Blakemore makes his long, long,
long awaited Initially.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
How much did you buy at the stadium? And how
much can Daniel leeve you expect from your pocket?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I didn't buy anything. I was going to go. I
was going to go at halftime to buy some food.
The problem was the lines were too long. So you
had plenty of money pouring in from the people who
were there to take in the game.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
You know, you want to know a small world bit too.
Speaking of plenty of people there, John Kriesel, Power Trip
contributor was also there. He on his Instagram story was
at the Two Brewers, which was the bar, the Spurs
Bar that or Spurs pub that I went to after
the game, And you could see in his Instagram story
the Minneapolis Spurs scarf on the wall that I gave
(30:58):
the bar, Like just like, there's so many Vikings fans
they just took over the entire thing. So I'm sure you,
even though it was at Todd motsber Stadium, probably felt
right at home.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, it was a Vikings home game.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
It was a split.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
It certainly felt like it maybe seventy thirty eighty eighty
twenty Vikings really absolutely. Yeah. They had some fan groups
travel from New York, including one guy I know. But
he went home with a loss, and he's got a
broke and he's got a broken down quarterback, no coach,
and but he's got his receiver and a franchise that
hasn't won a Super Bowl since nineteen sixty nine. So
(31:30):
but again, who am I to talk because they haven't
won one yet either, although maybe this is the year
as we switch from from football to football. But no, no,
the the NFL game was great. The Vikings put up
a really nice first half. I mean they took a
nap in the third quarter. The Jet defense woke up,
but Rogers was missing people all over the field and
(31:52):
it was just fun to watch them kind of conquer
and get the quote unquote double that you were unable
to accomplish last two seasons ago when you went over
for Packers Giants.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Rogers OZ and two and that's yes, correct, yes, So.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
You saw him lose that game and then I saw
him lose this one, so we both saw Rogers lose
in your stadium. So we got that going for us,
which is nice. How do you feel you do think
about that historical factor? How do you feel that your
Twitter picture is of Tottenham hots state, that's that's a
reverse drink situation. Arsenal winning league this year, as I
(32:26):
told you, and that is just a just a kind
of didn't you take a picture of the Emirates and
oed Yeah, of course I took pictures outside the Emirates.
Inside the Emirates, I took a picture with Collecchi from
af TV, which we'll get to in a second.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
There, nice tease.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, I saw him at t's T E A S E.
Yes correct. Yes, I ended up seeing him at Gatwick
just out of the six thirty seven in the morning. Yeah,
I got I got my headphones on, I'm walking through
the terminal and he was in an arsenal kit. Well,
what's funny is I I didn't even realize that he
was in an arsenal kid. He was just so recognizable.
(33:03):
AFTV is Arsenal fan TV. It's been around for about
fifteen to twenty years now and it's run by a
gentleman named Robbie Lyle, who will be joining our podcast
next week. So we will have him to recap the
Shocktar match, preview the Liverpool match, and get a couple
(33:24):
of thoughts on Spurs, but mostly it'll be arsenal related
since he is the creator and owner of AFTV. But
Collecchi is just a contributor to AFTV. He's somebody who's
on there a lot does a lot of postgame videos
and things of that sort of game watches as well
when he's not at the stadium, so he was nice.
He was on his way to Nigeria for Nigerian Independence Day,
(33:46):
so yeah, so that was nice for him. And he said,
I only got I only got a couple of seconds.
I was like, I just need a quick picture, and
he was nice enough to grant me that selfie, which
I put up on Twitter. And that's how my trip started. Right,
think think about land. Right, you're getting off the plane.
My friend lands at Heathrow, which is million miles away
quote unquote, Right, I don't know where I'm going, right,
(34:08):
I don't know which train I'm taking yet. I just
get off the plane with my bags. I'm trying to
find my way, and there is a familiar face somebody
who I recognize, and he gave me the time a
day and gave me a picture that was very cool
and a really fun way to start the trip. And
it was an omen for things to come because no,
I was just in a green sweatshirt, so I was
(34:29):
not in arsenal stuff, although I thought about traveling in it,
which would have been obviously a giveaway that I was
a fan, but he ended up taking a picture with
me anyway, So my trip was a complete success and
I hope you uh and the listeners enjoyed the recap.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I agree, Well, that wraps up the bonus episode. We'll
actually have some hardcore football to talk about next episode,
and we got a special guest next episode, as you
just heard, Robbie from a FBV. Until then, it's been
one club count for
We're at it again.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome to another meeting of the London Club Council.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now representing Tottenham Hotspa.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
In this corner we do have Brett Blakemore and repping
Arsenal is Robbie Rosenhause.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
So boys, let the banter begin.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome into another edition of the London Club Council bonus
edition at two episodes in one week. We're making up
for lost Brown because we want to get into this
trip of Robbie's real quick on injury notes before we
get into that on my club side. Oh on, hello, Robbie,
how are you? Robbie's representing Arsenal. You heard in the intro,
I'm representing Spurs, Robbi, how are you not.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
As good as you Brett considering the injury updates that
you're about to provide.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, So the biggest one for Spurs is Sunny appears
to be healthy. He's training and says he's a full go,
so I expect to see him starting on the left wing.
The international break always good for getting your captain back
and ailing those healing those injuries. And Charleston appears to
be a go as well. I don't think he starts
(01:08):
even if he's one hundred percent. We haven't I've seen
Richardlson as much as I have the Locknest Monster since
he's signed, so it's been few and far between. But
the biggest news is that the Skipper sunning is back.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, And on the arsenal side of things, as they
take a trip down to Bournemouth, Arteta is hopeful on soccer,
hopeful on Haverts, hopeful on Martinelli, but order guard looks
like it's going to be a couple of weeks more.
He did say that he's not fit for this game
and the next week will be crucial as they gear
up towards a European clash against Shaktar Janetsk followed by
(01:43):
a big clash against Liverpool in the race for top
four and obviously for the league title. But those are
just a couple of notes. News and notes here as
we as we head into the weekend, as Tottenham will
kick kick things off, yeah with six thirty local time
here in Minnesota, but uh, twelve thirty kickoff, which I
(02:03):
found out uh as I as I went to London
that they did not they nobody likes those Uh, nobody
likes those early kickoffs over there. The fans don't like it.
The vendors don't like it. You don't like it. They're
basically in and out and and they and the day
is done for them by you know, three in the afternoon,
and and all the businesses are you know, kind of
(02:25):
everything kind of dies down. Yeah, when when they have
those three o'clock kickoffs or the or the five thirty kickoffs,
they have a lot more time for people too. Well,
let's just say it drink. And also you're not allowed
to drink in the in the actual YEP stands, which
I found out. So we'll get a little more that
one into my into yeah, into my into my trip.
(02:46):
But yeah, seeing people going out on the concourse just
just to pound beers was a new experience for me.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, you got to down them in the concourse or
else you're in trouble. So yeah, I think that's your
inter report. You get born with the way we get
West tam at home hopefully hu hum victories that we
can talk about next week. But this is the bonus epsort. Yeah,
well maybe not hopefully for you, but I just thought
that to be nice. But this is the I always
(03:14):
love that. This is the bonus episode that I want
to talk about a trip because I specifically told you,
don't tell me about your trip. I don't want to
hear about it because I want to save it for
this because I don't like burning segments because then it
feels forced. So let's walk through. How are the flights there?
What you were connecting? Is that? What was the connecting
flights for you? Into New York for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, into New York and ended up spending a few
hours in the lovely John F. Kennedy International Airport in
South That's I've never been there in sarcasm in South
Queens Now. It's just a huge airport. I mean just
getting for getting from gate to gate. It's just an
enormous property, an enormous airport. It's one of the largest
international terminals in the world. And I understand that. I
(03:59):
mean New York's, you know, obviously the biggest city in
the world, and they have two different airports, and then
one in New Jersey Newark. But yes, I sat there
for a few hours. Was was a little bit hesitant
first time overseason quite a while.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
But when you do that scan, like when you're boarding, yeah,
the last flight and you do little face scan, there's
there's some nerves there, there's some like, hey, this is real.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
So that that was I did the face scan, I
believe when Yeah, I think one at New York. Yeah,
but I remember specifically doing one when I had gotten
to London to exit through into the airport, but before
I even got there, and just as a quick sports
side note, as we tape here, the breaking this was no,
(04:44):
this was that. This was the night of basically me
sitting on it on a plane almost ready to turn
off my phone about I don't know, ten minutes before
we actually took off for London, because it was a
about a forty five minute taxi to the time when
we took off. I was following a certain baseball game
(05:05):
that was going on in Milwaukee between the Mets and
the Brewers, and for those of you that don't know,
I'm a big New York Mets fan. And they ended
up saving their season and hitting a home run in
the ninth inning with one out that basically gave them
the lead and extended their season. And now they're in
the NLCS and in danger of being eliminated. But that's
not for now, But for that flight, that moment basically
(05:30):
sent me on a high. I mean I could have
flown there on wings. I mean that's how happy I was.
Well you did, and yes I did. But what I
did have was oh about eighty text messages to land
to because I shut off my phone about five or
ten minutes after it happened. Then obviously they had to
play out the bottom of the ninth and it ended
the way that we wanted. And okay, and count me
(05:52):
in as who cares. Yeah, well some of the people did,
and in my inner circle, and I ended up landing
to a ton of I bet uh text messages because
I didn't Uh, I didn't get the Wi Fi for
the flight, didn't didn't feel like I knew I was
going to to get in some sort of nap, taking
some information, taking some information entertainment. No, I didn't. I
(06:14):
didn't nap when we got there, but I did. I did,
uh sleep for a bit while we were on the
plane ride over there, And it didn't didn't. It didn't
affect me one way or the Yeah, I wasn't gonna
sit on the Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I want to if I ever go again, I don't
know when that's gonna be, but I want to get
some like medical grade ambient on the for the flight over,
because if you get a full like four five six hours,
you're set. That's your day. Yeah, so that to me
is the biggest.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's exactly what I I had gotten. I had gotten
about four hours. So yeah, so a little over half
the flight there, and uh, you know when when we landed,
I mean, yeah, I was, I was a bit tired,
but uh, you know, the the adrenaline pumps in and
and and we did a uh I was. I was
there with a friend of mine who traveled separately, and
(07:01):
we met at the at the hotel and we ended
up going right to to Chelsea and touring Stanford Bridge,
which was great. Uh it was about an hour and
change tour.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You know what. Back we rewind a little bit yau
another like oh my god, it's happening. Moment is when
you land and you have to do the passport bit
where you have to like scan your password.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Like the one thing I did not have to do
is fill out a I didn't have to fill out
like any forms on the plane or anything like that,
but I did have to yeah scan, Yeah, you scan
your passport and they it.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Feels very like yes, you're like you're like in a cattle.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yes, while getting back into the States was just I mean, yeah,
that was that was just just just going through there.
I don't know that line at at at at ord.
I mean, I'm sure you were at the same location
that I was in Chicago, and it was just it
just was like line after line. I mean, it took
me about forty five minutes to an hour to get through,
but once you got up there, it took about three seconds.
(08:02):
It was just waiting, just about.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
To say that why is that line take so long?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Because there's so many people coming in off of these
different flights. It's not domestic flights. You know as well
as I do. If you're flying to Chicago or if
you're flying to London, there's gonna be hundreds more people
on that flight, hundreds hundreds more people on that flight
to London. But no, the flight there was great. I mean,
I'll tell you one thing. The Dreamliner that they take
you over there on, I mean you can't even feel
(08:27):
I mean, it is such a smooth ride, just unbelievably.
That's something that I did not expect because domestically here,
when you fly on some of these planes, you get
the turbulence and I just didn't experience that whatsoever. Maybe
it was a weather pattern or whatsoever. But that was
really nice, especially for the little state time. No I
got the ended up getting the window on the way there,
(08:47):
and the aisle on the way back, and on the
way there there was nobody in the middle of this
gentleman and I that shared the row, and we were
actually in the front row of coach, so we had
the extra Yeah, we were right the curtain, right by
the bathroom. So it was literally perfect.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
The one thing I did not do on the flight
there was eat that. I had no appetite. The flight home.
I was starving. I was eating everybody's food around me.
I mean, let alone mine. Yeah no, I mean listen,
they were giving it to me. They didn't want it.
I was saying, you know, bring it in, let's go.
I mean there was delicious some of the stuff that
was on there. I understand airplane food. You want to
roll your eyes. Some of the stuff on there was
actually tasty.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
What's the deal over the airline?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, exactly. See you know more Seinfeld than you think. Start. Yes,
we were but the h so you land, Yeah, I land,
we go to the hotel, we drop off our stuff,
so and we immediately go for the We immediately go
to the Chelsea Tour a couple hours later.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
How did you figure out? So you Lanta Gatwick, Yeah,
which is a little different most people when they come
from the States, Atlanta, Heathrow.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
How was that getting a train to There's so many
trains that go to different places in London. There's a
Gatwick Express that goes right into London Victoria, which is
not what I took. I actually took the commuter train,
which is a Tammeslink train, which took me into Saint
pancreas YEP International, which is just a huge complex simply
(10:07):
similar to Penn Station, and then switch to a train
there to get us up near Wembley, which is where
our hotel was. Jamaica changed Change, Jamaica Change. Now that's
Long Island Railroad, not the London Underground. But no, people, yeah,
we really are. But you know what I'm trying to
(10:30):
I'm trying to get to the point there. But uh yeah, no,
the the transportation wasn't wasn't a hindrance. I will say
that we did take a lot of ubers around. I
will say we spent more than we probably should have
on ubers. I don't get that, but uh, that was
to save time and also because a lot of the
time we didn't know where we were going.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
So yeah, so I should have told you if you
if you just go on like Apple Maps and you
just say you put in a location, it'll literally tell
you like step for like go to this station, go to.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
This like totally no, totally understood. It was just it
was more for convenience purposes and the fact that we
were well yeah, a couple of times in the over yeah,
well we got stuck in traffic, so that was our
own fault. But I will say that getting getting from
way up to London was fine.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
So yeah, it was so straight off the plane to
the hotel to Chelsea.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah, and then right to Chelsea to to take the
tour of Stanford Bridge.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And how is it walking out of the tunnel. It
was with Liquidator, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
It was interesting. It was a cool feeling just to
uh kind of sense the history and just all the
all the players that have kind of done this walk,
the same walk that that I was I was participating
in and just kind of getting on the edges of
the pitch there and just kind of looking around, seeing
the visitors section, the away stand and and seeing where
(11:55):
the Arsenal fans set up or the Tottenham fans in
your case set up.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And yeah, great players taking that walk, including you me, yeah, exactly,
my friend Jesse, right pretty much. Yeah, all the greats
have been there, Yeah, all the great What what was your
first oh my god, I'm actually here moment? Was it
when you saw the pitch at or like.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
No, no, when I when I was when I was
walking up to the Amirates, I started shaking.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Really Yeah that was bad. Yeah, that was bad.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Because at that point I knew it was real. I
had the tickets, I knew they were on my phone.
I knew they were real, So I knew at that
point I was I was officially going to see the Arsenal.
It wasn't Chelsea, thank you, it was thank it was
It wasn't that. It wasn't the amazing Italian dinner that
that we had in Chelsea Friday night. It wasn't you know,
(12:48):
just kind of seeing Wembley, or I mean seeing Wembley
was kind of like a whoa moment when I got
out of the train.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
There kind of neighborhood I think it's kind of nice.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, it is. It's nice.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Granted I was only on the main street, so someone's
probably it.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Is nicer up there. I mean in comparison to like
East London and places like that, like, yes, it's it's
it's much nicer, yeah, or Tottenham, right, but East London
is probably the toughest part of town. I will say
though that East London. Yeah. The one place that I
did kind of sense that it was real was like
I said, when I was walking to the Emirates and
(13:21):
then walking in. Yeah, so that that was kind of
the moment for me. The NFL game the next day
was gravy. It was awesome to be there for that.
But I mean, I see the Vikings here like it's
it's but it was so cool to see them there.
I'm just saying, for from if I had to choose
one or the other as to like surreal moments like
it was, it was the ars.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Let's let's back up here. So so you go to Chelsea.
Did they do the tour group bit that they did
with me where they're like, all right, where are you from?
Who you support?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Did they do I don't think so, No, I don't
pretty late, No, Nope.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Interesting, I just didn't.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I don't think. I don't think they did. Oh maybe
maybe they did actually at the beginning, now that I
think about it, where we were sitting in.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
There and sit you down in the lobby. Yeah, yeah,
So because that's my story, I think I've told.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Him yes, I know, yes, yes, when you admit your
Spurs fan and everybody, everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
The whole tour group just went no, right, no, no.
They were just like no, oh, I was gonna wait
the whole twelve second.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You know what, No, because you would have you would
have told me to shut up.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
So go to completion, Come.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
On, Rosie.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Anyways, so day what's the rest of day one? So
you're right by the way, Champions League trophies were happy
for you. You get to see those.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah, there was there was a pair right there.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, what would just do the rest of the day?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
One went out for dinner like uh, like you said,
we took about a mile walk to this Italian restaurant
that that a friend of a friend recommended that he
lives in London. Now he travels back and forth to
to to the States, and we ended up meeting up
with him and some friends went out for some drinks
and yeah, it was just a nice night overall. It
(14:59):
was really really nice when, like I said, went out
for a huge Italian dinner. By about nine or ten o'clock,
I was shot. So I went back to the hotel
and crashed. He stayed out for another couple of hours
and partied it up, and yeah, came back to the
hotel room. We crashed till the next till mid next morning,
and we're we like I said, we were on our
way to the Emirates.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So describe the trip over. I know the that was
your first moment you got there, but like even going
on the well you ubered there. I think, like even
seeing people around, like your walk up to the stadium,
like was it just flooded with like with people in
arsenal stuff? And because typically what I found is if
(15:42):
it's not a game day, no one over there wears
anything sports related, which here you can wear sports stuff
every day, and no.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
One Yeah, I mean you go on a pump cass
and holiday or quick trip, you see somebody in the
Viking staff, right, Yeah, So I get that. That was
something that I had been told before that not a
lot of peop will wear stuff to the games or
around the stadium. I ended up wearing an Arsenal a
zip up anyway. But I think in the stadium for
the yes, I agree, but I for the next time.
(16:10):
You know what, here's the thing. It's like everybody who
goes unless you're really in disguise, like you know, and
you really want to sit there and not root for Arsenal.
Like everybody who goes, except for the people in the
ways in the ways stand. They're all there to root
for Arsenal. It's not like going to a baseball game
here or going to a football game here, let alone
(16:33):
Vikings Packers where the place is fifty to.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Fifty yeah, or in Wisconsin Animates. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
So, but but more here because I think it's more
here because the Packer fans, I think like to come
indoors and get warm and see their team play inside
once in a while. But still you get a you
get a smattering of Viking fans obviously in Lambeau, especially
when they're when they're playing well. But as far as
the Emirates, like the yeah, there wasn't a lot of
(17:00):
people wearing a ton of stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Were people talking around you like did people pick you out?
As because I got picked out pretty early. There were
people around me and they're like, you American. I'm like yeah, no, no, nothing, no, nothing.
They weren't mad about it. They're just like, oh, that's interesting,
but brings you here, you know, that was kind of
their thought.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Nope, nobody questioned me. Nobody kind of thought else wise
or yeah, or thought that I was a foreigner or
anything like that. But yeah, no, I didn't. I didn't
get that treatment from anybody's staff or fans or supporters
or anything else. I was in the Aspernton Army. I
was in the clock end, so I was in like
(17:41):
the ultra fan section standing the entire match.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And it's weird the ultras are next to the away end.
Usually it's the opposite.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yeah, it's right there. I will say this though, there
was like there's like a section that's like in between
that's like not, it's like not as like. I was
on the left side, let's say, of the goal, and
all the way on the right side of the goal
if you're looking at the pitch, was in the corner
there where the Southampton Saints fans. So they had their moment.
I took a picture when they went down. As we
(18:08):
get to the to the match and we and we
discussed the match at length. We don't have yeah, but
but just the you know, the the emotions. I I
never thought that they were going to lose, even down
one nil. I always I thought, again, I had told
you this, texted you both, our friend Jesse who was
in our our our group chat and and Brett. I texted,
I said, I thought they would one. Yes, I thought
(18:30):
they would get one, not two. I wasn't excuse me,
I shouldn't say that I thought they would get one.
I wasn't sure if they would get two. I knew
that they wouldn't get shut out at home. There was
no way that I was traveling thousands of miles that
God was going to have this plan for me to
go there and lose one nil to a team that
just was promoted from the from the championship. That was
(18:53):
not going to happen, not with this team, not with
this manager. Like maybe when they had Uniamory and they
put in some really poor results and they didn't have
the quality that they have now. Or the back line.
I mean they've given up two goals all year long. No, like,
what are we doing here? So the defense is good?
That goal was really well taken. It was against Leeba two,
(19:14):
which if you saw was it was. It was well taken.
But so were the Arsenal goals, especially the first two
have RT's off the post and end, and then Sokka
with the beautiful fee to Martinelli on the short side
and puts it past the keeper for a two to
one win, and then they get and then they get
the late goal to make it three to one.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
But it just stinks that it was on the opposite
side of the stadium.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
It does, but it does, but not for me because
I wasn't looking up. Here's the thing, Brett, Yeah, I
wasn't looking. I was filming some things, and as you
would be at a game or you know, and just
looking down on my phone, texting, filming, and I'm not
I didn't watch all night. I can't say I watched
all every second of the entire ninety minutes. I was like, whatever,
look at my phone.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Whatever, Right, I've mastered the art of filming with my hands,
but looking not at my but at the actual what
I'm filming. I'm mastered that, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
But I was not filming when Haverid scored and I
was looking and I was, I know, but I well,
I filmed it like twenty seconds after you saw that,
you saw the reaction, But and I got my phone
off quickly. My side started to hurt. I saw him,
I saw him score. I saw it go in off
off the post, and I mean literally I was in
direct line with where where he shot it and and
(20:25):
the ball going in, and like just the emotion of
that seeing that raw and just not with a phone
in my hand or anything else. Like the second goal,
I didn't ei. There was so many players in the
in the mix there, like I saw, like obviously I
saw them celebrate when I saw him kind of sneak in,
but I didn't see the ball going the net. The
(20:45):
Havertz one off the post and in. I saw it
directly in my line of sight, and that was the
cool moment for me. It would have been cooler, clearly
if it was you know, thirty yards in front of
me at the at the net that I was sitting,
you know, twenty rows back of. But it was on
the other end. Unfortunately, the only goal that was scored
on my end was the Southampton goal. But like I said,
(21:07):
seeing that first goal go in was awesome and nobody
will ever take that away from me because just having
having that, having that go through my system, just finally
seeing them break through and score and a nice, really
nice goal too, Like I mean it was outside I
think it was outside the box, and or it was
just maybe just inside the eighteen, but still, nevertheless it
was it was a finish worthy of uh kind of
(21:29):
a tying goal. Wasn't like some garbage goal that they
kind of just you know, you know, kind of a
bundled in or an own goal that I think you
I think the first goal that you saw and the
Looting match was an own goal if I remember correctly. No,
it was, no, but there was an didn't you have
an all goal in that game?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yes, you did. You got to wander the first goal?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Correct? That was a goal, right, Yeah, it was a
good it was It was the touch line, yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
On the touch line, fire it and hope it goes.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
In and it went off off somebody's shin right right.
But nevertheless, Arsenal get the win and that was that
was the highlight of the trip. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
So I'm trying to think, did you went with a
buddy but you weren't sitting together.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
No, we weren't.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Did you meet at halftime? We did?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
We chuck we chuckd beers at halftime. Yeah, I met him, know,
I met him over there? We did, Yeah, we know,
we did. Absolutely. It was it was a solid beer
as well, and I was, but I was not in
a good mood because remember it was Neil Neil.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah, how did you feel good? Because you said I
didn't expect us to lose at all? Is that what
you were saying? As you were no doubt?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I thought that No, I thought that they would. I
thought that they would get a goal. I didn't think
they go I did not think they'd go down one nil.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
But it was one way. That's what actually pissed me
off watching from here, is that it was one way
traffic right at you all. Arsenal doesn't the entire half. Yes,
I just wanted him to break through once. For you.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
It was fine because I had the whole half. I
saw the whole half in my end, so you didn't.
Even though they didn't score, they got the win and
I got to see them up close for like forty
five minutes total, like the entire first half. Stirling right
in front of me almost scored. I mean Martinelli. I mean,
I'm sorry, not Martin Jay Seuss who wasn't great but
had one chance. Like it just uh, it was it
(23:09):
was cool to see from from kind of both sides,
doing the clock in and the high and the North
End chants and things back and forth. So yeah, it
was fun to be there, looking forward to going back
next year, and yeah, it was just it was just
a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, I can't imagine. So right after, by the way,
how is it singing South London forever in the stadium
with everybody else. That's got to be cool. And that's like,
I mean, that's like me hearing the trumpet, you know,
in person, it's the best.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah, no, no, it was, Uh, it was fun. I
didn't have my phone out for the start of it
because I was just like so, I was just trying
to take everything in. I was looking at all the banners.
I was looking at them coming on the pitch, you know,
shaking hands and the refs and hearing the Premier League music,
and I forgot that.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I just Anthem is underrated by the way.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I know.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
We talked about the Champions League Anthem and Europa League. WHOA,
but the Premier League anthem is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yeah, it slaps yeah, and hearing that and then here
in North London Forever was a really cool back to
back kind of moment and everybody claps along and then
you know, and then they get on their way. But
they didn't score obviously until they went down one and
get the victory. But that song was was really cool
to hear live, for sure.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So immediately after the game, you're three to one winners,
Robbie does.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
We end up going out that night back to the
hotel to change and then to a friend's place where
it was like a going run where it was going
away party. Well, like I said, my friend is originally
from La so he's got some friends out there that
are connected in like Hollywood scenes and things like that,
(24:45):
and they just travel back and forth. And this one guy,
this guy named Liam, super nice guy, was ended up
hosting us and they were having a going away party
for a friend. So it was about twenty twenty five
of us at this huge flat. I mean it could
have been four or five thousand dollars apartment in Manhattan
or any big city. I mean, it was gorgeous, just
absolutely looking overlooking the tim's uh and down by Fulham
(25:09):
and Hammersmith down there, just a really nice area, yeah,
of London, So it was. It was a nice night.
So we kind of unwinded there and listened to some music,
kind of had some conversations, met up with a Spurs
fan who hates Daniel.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Levy, hates me and hates you.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah and yeah, and uh, it was. It was a
nice end to the uh, the first portion of the
trip before we got to the NFL work portion.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah. If if you found like someone on like outside
of the stadium that had the like end, does you
know the Homer Simpson gift, the end is near cardboard
and he's ringing the bell, I think that person is
more positive than the Spurson you found.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah, he was.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
It's pretty close.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah he was. He wasn't happy with with how things going.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Did you do any sight seeing, Robbie, Did you see
a big band?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
So here's the thing, like we we honestly didn't. We
There was no time. It was so short a trip
that we ended up doing the three events. I mean,
the the NFL game on Sunday took up basically the
entire day. We chose to go and watch NFL games
after that, plus we were exhausted after after three days
of being on the go. Uh, and there was there
(26:19):
was really no time and the only time that would
have been would have been potentially either Saturday or Sunday
mornings before each match. I mean, the the the NFL
game was at two thirty in the afternoon, so we
could have went in the morning, and the football the
Arsenal match was at three o'clock, so we definitely could
have went in the morning. We chose to sleep in,
So that was that was kind of what, you know,
(26:40):
and and and and we'll go back and I'm sure
he'll go back, and I'll go back.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
And he didn't even see it.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
No, I didn't see Big Ben. I didn't see Tower London.
I didn't see London match. Nope, didn't see any of
that stuff. Wow, So just kind of stayed on the outskirts.
Did see the three stadiums us but again, there's so
much to see. It's like going to Manhattan and not
going to the Statue of Liberty and like, oh, yeah,
I gotta go to the Statue of Liberty next time
I go go down to Ellis Island or oh I
got to go to you know, what's going to Well,
(27:06):
you have to go to l S Island.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
You don't have to do anything.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Okay, Well you.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Have to go to Ellis Island to go to back
in the day.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
To go to well, I meant you have to go
to Ellis Island to go to the Statue of Liberty.
That's where it.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Ellis Island was the anyways, we don't need a history life.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
No. I know.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
That's where the immigrants came in and that's where they first.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
That is where the Statue of Liberty is located on
Ellis Island. I think we need to get rid of
this in time. I'm stupid, Y're smart. Yeah, I was wrong.
You were right. You're the best. I'm the worst. Thank you, Adam.
You're very good looking. I'm not attractive.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Can you repeat the part of the stuff where you
said all about things? So let's move on. You go
to my stadium, my club stadium. No, we're leaving it in.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
And it's me that looks stupid, So I don't care
if we leave it in. That's you go to my stadium.
Is that If I toured the Emirates, it's one thing
I did tour Chelsea and tour Stanford bridgehen I was there,
but I did I stayed away from I rode under
the Emirates about one hundred times on the Piccadilly Line,
but I never saw it. I didn't get off on
(28:25):
on Arsenal or Finsbury Park stops. Okay, I did have
all spurs get up one time when we were driving.
When we were driving, when we were riding through, and
there was a part of me it's like, could be
in trouble here, you know, because I think it was
a match day at that point. But was it weird
being in Tottenhamhawsper Stadium knowing like I hate this place,
(28:48):
you know, That's what you said.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Not me. No, it wasn't weird being in there, not
at all. No, it really wasn't. To be honest with you,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
What about like outside the stadium, like you.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
See, I consider your arrival on consider you a threat.
There's a difference.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Okay, get off your let me know when you get down. No,
it's hard to hear you all the way up.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
But I praised your stadium. I thought I thought it
was really nice. I thought it was very No, I
don't don't be defensive. I'm just saying I wasn't kind
of weird. I didn't have any I didn't have any
trepidation about being in your stadium, like just kind of
looking around. I mean, you know, you're you go in
US Bank Stadium and you're a Packer fan, Like, is
(29:30):
it weird for you to be around all the purple?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Sometimes?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Is it okay?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah? I mean nine times out of ten. Well, the
difference is that was a Vikings game.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
So, I mean I lived in Atlanta for almost five
years and I used to I used to cover Braves
games as a Mets fan and go in the clubhouse
and see all the World Series excuse me, all the
division titles that they have. I know you have too, Yes,
I understand, yes, the Mets have two as well. So
but again, like just how many I got in the initials?
(29:59):
That was yeah, exactly yes, and that's a that's a callback.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yes, it is ahead.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Please go listen to Friday until eighteenth edition of The
Powatrip Morning Show Our three. Brett Blakemore makes his long, long,
long awaited Initially.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
How much did you buy at the stadium? And how
much can Daniel leeve you expect from your pocket?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I didn't buy anything. I was going to go. I
was going to go at halftime to buy some food.
The problem was the lines were too long. So you
had plenty of money pouring in from the people who
were there to take in the game.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
You know, you want to know a small world bit too.
Speaking of plenty of people there, John Kriesel, Power Trip
contributor was also there. He on his Instagram story was
at the Two Brewers, which was the bar, the Spurs
Bar that or Spurs pub that I went to after
the game, And you could see in his Instagram story
the Minneapolis Spurs scarf on the wall that I gave
(30:58):
the bar, Like just like, there's so many Vikings fans
they just took over the entire thing. So I'm sure you,
even though it was at Todd motsber Stadium, probably felt
right at home.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, it was a Vikings home game.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
It was a split.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
It certainly felt like it maybe seventy thirty eighty eighty
twenty Vikings really absolutely. Yeah. They had some fan groups
travel from New York, including one guy I know. But
he went home with a loss, and he's got a
broke and he's got a broken down quarterback, no coach,
and but he's got his receiver and a franchise that
hasn't won a Super Bowl since nineteen sixty nine. So
(31:30):
but again, who am I to talk because they haven't
won one yet either, although maybe this is the year
as we switch from from football to football. But no, no,
the the NFL game was great. The Vikings put up
a really nice first half. I mean they took a
nap in the third quarter. The Jet defense woke up,
but Rogers was missing people all over the field and
(31:52):
it was just fun to watch them kind of conquer
and get the quote unquote double that you were unable
to accomplish last two seasons ago when you went over
for Packers Giants.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Rogers OZ and two and that's yes, correct, yes, So.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
You saw him lose that game and then I saw
him lose this one, so we both saw Rogers lose
in your stadium. So we got that going for us,
which is nice. How do you feel you do think
about that historical factor? How do you feel that your
Twitter picture is of Tottenham hots state, that's that's a
reverse drink situation. Arsenal winning league this year, as I
(32:26):
told you, and that is just a just a kind
of didn't you take a picture of the Emirates and
oed Yeah, of course I took pictures outside the Emirates.
Inside the Emirates, I took a picture with Collecchi from
af TV, which we'll get to in a second.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
There, nice tease.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, I saw him at t's T E A S E.
Yes correct. Yes, I ended up seeing him at Gatwick
just out of the six thirty seven in the morning. Yeah,
I got I got my headphones on, I'm walking through
the terminal and he was in an arsenal kit. Well,
what's funny is I I didn't even realize that he
was in an arsenal kid. He was just so recognizable.
(33:03):
AFTV is Arsenal fan TV. It's been around for about
fifteen to twenty years now and it's run by a
gentleman named Robbie Lyle, who will be joining our podcast
next week. So we will have him to recap the
Shocktar match, preview the Liverpool match, and get a couple
(33:24):
of thoughts on Spurs, but mostly it'll be arsenal related
since he is the creator and owner of AFTV. But
Collecchi is just a contributor to AFTV. He's somebody who's
on there a lot does a lot of postgame videos
and things of that sort of game watches as well
when he's not at the stadium, so he was nice.
He was on his way to Nigeria for Nigerian Independence Day,
(33:46):
so yeah, so that was nice for him. And he said,
I only got I only got a couple of seconds.
I was like, I just need a quick picture, and
he was nice enough to grant me that selfie, which
I put up on Twitter. And that's how my trip started. Right,
think think about land. Right, you're getting off the plane.
My friend lands at Heathrow, which is million miles away
quote unquote, Right, I don't know where I'm going, right,
(34:08):
I don't know which train I'm taking yet. I just
get off the plane with my bags. I'm trying to
find my way, and there is a familiar face somebody
who I recognize, and he gave me the time a
day and gave me a picture that was very cool
and a really fun way to start the trip. And
it was an omen for things to come because no,
I was just in a green sweatshirt, so I was
(34:29):
not in arsenal stuff, although I thought about traveling in it,
which would have been obviously a giveaway that I was
a fan, but he ended up taking a picture with
me anyway, So my trip was a complete success and
I hope you uh and the listeners enjoyed the recap.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I agree, Well, that wraps up the bonus episode. We'll
actually have some hardcore football to talk about next episode,
and we got a special guest next episode, as you
just heard, Robbie from a FBV. Until then, it's been
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