Celtic, Liverpool, Juventus, News of the World: Soccer Over There, 10.27

Live from The Brewhouse Cafe, it's Soccer Over There discussing the latest from Celtic, Liverpool, Juventus, Kairat Almaty, and the Picks of the Week. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Welcome Inn and it's time for another edition of soccer
over there on the sEH Network Live from the Brewhouse Cafe.
I'm Jason Lockschwortz John Nelson. We've got all kinds of
stuff to talk about. Actually had a rundown prepared it,
some research, had some notes ready, had some things I
wanted to talk about rather than.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Just rant about, and then Scotland decided to explode today.
I'm just gonna read you a tweet.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I mean, there's been a bunch like everyone I feel
like I see I think of okay, wow, that's that's
saying a lot, and then something else has said I'm like, WHOA,
that's even works. This is ridiculous. So Barry Anderson at
Barry Anderson underscore you're the football journalist at the Scotsman.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
This is the tweet from about.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
An hour half ago, as Jared Smith was going when
I mentioned Scottland a second, I'm going to read this
sweet first Celtic manager resigns, the club chief publicly savages him.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
The stand in manager says Hearts can win the league, while.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Aberdeen appoint a penguin stealing sports director who spent time
in jail and modeled for our money. That's enough for today.
You'll never be Scottish football. Jared Smith, What do you
think about all of it?

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, that's what you think about anyway. Oh, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
I missed the model for our money part on Woods Final.
I did not have that one of the pingo card.
I didn't know about the penguin stealing. Yes, I think
match fixing.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
That's true. Penguin stealing, match fixing. Also running uh not
successfully running uh Saint Louis City.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yea for three quarters of the season it was successful.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
It was then everyone everyone the problem. The problem is
everyone stopped passing them the ball right in front of goal.
There's that.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
I mean there was like Liverpool started the season this year.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Look if Liverpool wants their old standby back, Brendan Rodgers
is free. Wow, would not be my favorite timeline. So yes,
Scotland is dumb. I love that Aberdeen has done this. Aberdeen,
by the way, second from the bottom. The only reason
not at the bottom is because Livingstone is an absolute
tire fire god. Yes, but yeah they in a new

(03:00):
technical director. Rangers have clawed their way up to I
think fifth in the table. Celtic has second the table
eight points off of Hearts, managed by Scottish stalwart Derek McInnis.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, and they Jason, I think we you. I think
you might have watched some of it this weekend like Hearts.
Hearts didn't like just sneak up and snatch a win
from Celtic like that wasn't like that wasn't like a
smashing grab mm hm and so a lot, so a

(03:42):
lot of what this is hinges on the fact that
on the fact that Celtic has sold a lot of
players but they have not brought in as many, so
they they have not that and that that has been
Brendan rodgers chief complaint for years now, that they will

(04:04):
not replenish that that roster. It still does because I
think he made some coming the other day about like
doing a race in a in a in a Honda
Civic or something, which is the most tone deaf thing
he could have said, considering the rest of Scotland is
running the same race on a bicycle. Would you look
at how much Scotland is spending for most of their
teams versus the old firm.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, the amount of landing in that regard is a
little rich from mister Rogers.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
It's pathetic, but he eventually, like it came out today.
At one point they're like there's rumor he might leave,
and like two minutes I think after I shared it,
Celtic released a statement that he had like walked away,
Like oh no, he destrayed up left I love.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
They say, like, Okay, Martin O'Neill's going to come in
and be a caretaker.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Martin O'Neill has not managed since nineteen.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Well that's part of it. But this morning.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Hearts is going to win the league.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, yes, he said, is going to win the league. Okay,
that's who you want. It charges your tea for one game,
Like I know things I know, but really.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
He if you need us, I'm gonna I'm going to
ground you in the timeline a little bit here. I want.
I want to give you a like I want to
give you some sort of gravity for the timeline. Lot
Like Martin O'Neill when he managed Celtic, his key player
was Henry Clarson. Yes, it's been a while, it's been

(05:37):
a minute. Like that's like before Gary Hooper, before Jan
Vinegar of Hesselink, before Scott McDonald, before a lot of things.
And it's Henry Larson, like it's been a minute, he
hasn't managed his twenty nineteen. Then the Desmond Dermott, who
is I believe the CEO or like the he is

(06:00):
the public face, he is the public face. Uh, proceeded
to rent a megabus and drive it over Brendan Rodgers. Yeah,
what was up with that part?

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Explain?

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (06:12):
So they have been in war for a long time.
Rogers has bitched and moaned repeatedly, understandably so about not
being given the players he wants, and and there I
think they're they're Their approach to this is we're winning
without giving you all of the money in the world.

(06:33):
Why would we give you all of the money in
the world?

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (06:36):
And why would we not just generate more profits? There?
There is no motivation for them to do anything worth
a damn.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Right, And for people who don't know, like the Scottish
League has not been won by someone other than Celtic.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Or Rangers.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Eighty five.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, at least that's what I thought. I could have
been an incorrect but it's a long time.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, which is why I broke out the red wine
at six a six pm tonight, because.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
That kind of day, there's not much motivation to really
chase it, even though there is European ambitions. But you know,
why would you care because they don't. I think it's
kind of obvious that and it's you know, it's annoying.
And I get Brandan's frustration. I totally do. But also
the line from and I do not remember who was

(07:29):
on commentary yesterday on CBS Sports Network.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
I caught probably the last thirty.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Minutes of the match the line at the end of
how many players in the Celtic team would start for
Hearts and there's not many right now. That's a problem
that should not happen, even if you are spending less.
That is a massive problem. And Brendan's right, I don't
know how all of.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
This went down.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
He still should have not lost this game in the
manner that he did. But this is he's in a
firing just because of one loss. I think that's the
important element.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
It's being spun as he is walking away now, whether
that is they're telling him to walk away or not,
who knows. Uh. I feel like personally my personal opinion
on this as someone who is a recovering Celtic fan. Now,
as the older I get, the more of a Scotland
fan in general, just because that league is so drunk.
It's kind of hard not to appreciate how stupid it is,

(08:28):
so as someone who has watched it a lot like
this is a man who left in the middle of
the season in twenty nineteen when he did not have
to to go take the job at Lester. Yeah, that
Lester was willing to wait. Everyone was cool. He decided
to go actually created a butterfly effect for Celtic that

(08:52):
eventually led to Ojpastacagula. Because he left, they brought Neil
Linen in. Because Neil Lennon was like five feet away
and smiling and standing up and had a pulse. He
limped them to the title. They won the Treble travel
they gave him the full time job, and it all
collapsed and they failed to win ten in a row.
They got to nine and failed in the tenth. Then

(09:12):
they fired him and hired one. But yeah, man, like
this is this is so, this is only gonna get dumber. Uh.
The I think the fear among non old Firm fans
is that ship good if they actually Jared b Rogers wrote.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
It out, You're back now start over. I think the
old firm was coming.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
After you probably were, but the general consensus was like,
as longer Brendan Rodgers is there, the better it is
for Hearts. But now that he's gone, do they get
do they actually get a manager who does things? I
don't know if Martin O'Neil is that guy.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
I would be willing to bet that he's not. But
who is that guy?

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Mister Postcogla?

Speaker 3 (10:01):
I think it's the obvious. It's the obvious choice for
Celtics bring it was. But here's the thing. I agree
with you. How does his ego feel about that? Because
the man has washed out in England twice the first
time like he got a trophy at Spurs but it
was a mester. He never should have taken the forest job.

(10:24):
We've been over this ten times. But does his ego
allow him to say, you know what, I'm not going
to take England right now. I'm gonna go back to Scotland,
where I'm beloved and I believe a better job.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
I don't think he can get a better job right now.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
I don't like not after the way this ended at
not enforced even though like the ownership and the decisions
that Forrest made are a big part of this. He
shouldn't have taken the job, and he took a big
DNT to his reputation, but he can't get a better
job right now.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
I don't think it would fit with how they traditionally played.
But given that the most expensive signing in MLS history
used to play for him, I wonder if l a.
Sc picks up the phone on him.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, well, that's gonna get interesting in and of itself,
because Okay, so right now you have the manager of
Carousel spinning wildly.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
And multiple wildly.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
You have Uventus in the frail though it sounds like
they have Lucionaspaletti on speed dial essentially ready to roll.
That's not completely nailed down pretty close. See, I don't
know what is going on here. I've ever heard of
do this before where you're behind in like very strange ways. Anyway,

(11:47):
we'll try to figure that out, okay, there way, Yeah,
but yeah, you've got the Juventus in the market now,
it sounds like they've got somebody.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
You have now the Colorado Rapids and the New York.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Red Bulls in the mix to join Atlanta United and
others in Major League Soccer. Colorado and Red Bull's joined
the party today, you have Lac who will be joining
the party when their season ends, and you have the
reports out of the Athletic about Tata Martino and being
the way. It's weird because the way it was worded

(12:22):
in two different places, it felt like two different reports.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
The way the written article was from the Athletic.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
That Tata Martino was Atlanta's first choice, the way that
it was promoted on Instagram was more of you know,
this is close. Two weeks ago, three weeks ago, Argentine
reports had him with at a verbal agreement with LAFC.
There hasn't been anything that I've seen about that. I

(12:50):
believe he was at Newel's Old Boys here recently for
some different things going on at the club. There are
pictures that came out today, so I don't know where
that stands. Post of Congloo would be an interesting conversation
about Major League soccer. I think I think he'd be
a fascinating conversation about that. Giovanni Savaci has been mentioned

(13:12):
ESPN specifically, Jeff Carlisle reported that Giovonnie Savasi was in the.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Mix with Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
So yeah, like this could go a million different directions
and now, I do think as we're seeing players go
back and forth between Scotland and major league soccer, we've
seen some managers work on both sides of it. We
saw them here in his last stop, Ronnie Dila. I'm
curious to see how Red Bulls, Atlanta LA. I think

(13:43):
those are probably the three in this conversation. I don't
know if Colorado is quite into this conversation.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
I could be wrong.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Who else is still looking for a manager a major
league soccer? Let's see Dona Della was named, so that
took Montreal. Yes, uh, Saint Louis.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Saint Louis is one, Kansas City is one.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
They fired a front office guy the day. But until
they come out and say that he is the manager
for twenty twenty six, I'm kind of side eyeing you, Orlando.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Possibly they did not fire Luis me to be clear,
he let yeah, and that had been in the works
for a while.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
I'm there they there was not smoke. But there were
complaints by fans last year about Oscar and the fact
that he the fact that he basically ran it back
this year with just an underwhelming playoff performance. Until they're like, yeah,
Oscar's here in twenty twenty six. I'm kind of curious

(14:49):
about how that shakes out, because that's again that's another
great landing spot for somebody. It could be.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
I think they go Brazilian just based off some of
the connections, although that's not strong as it used to be.
You've got the Wilfs with a lot of money pull
in the streams. Now they could go big, they could
go and do an interesting direction. So I think when
you talk about Scotland and you talk about Major League Soccer,
and when you talk about Scotland in terms of Celtic

(15:16):
and look.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Scottish fans are probably gonna yell at me. I did
wear my.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Scotland jersey today. If it helps make anybody happy.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Celtic and the top MLS clubs are going to be
swimming in the same pond that they're going to in
terms of who they could be looking at player and
manager wise.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
That is reality.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
And look, that's because MLS has stepped up to this
level and is now in the conversation with that level
of club and that level of club and other places
in Europe.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Because when you start.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
To then can compare the dots between a Celtic and
a Ander Lecht. I think, you know, you could go
back and forth on that. A fight an order, you
could go back and forth on that, like this type
of level major league soccers and it smith. So it's
going to get really interesting. With the news today about
Celtic's job being open. What direction they go Atlanta Red Bulls,

(16:10):
I think is a very interesting one.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
It is very system specific. There's Jim Curtin in the
mix there. That would make a ton of sense because
he could.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Still be with the family close by, It wouldn't disrupt
their final years in school, and it could open up
some doors for him to go Red Bulls if they
wanted to.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
It's fascinating. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
The managerial carousel is going to be very very interesting
across the world. If you missed the Juventus one. I
talked about it a little bit on Morning Espresso because
it just broke as I was doing Morning Espresso. Eight
winless across all competitions. Igor Tudor was let go eighth
in Siria. They're six points out of the Champions League spots.

(16:51):
They've made five coaching changes in just over three years.
Lu Jonas Filetti, the former Italy manager, the title winner
at apply the title of before cult Day won this
last one.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
He is the front runner.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
There are some other possibilities, but I think what's interesting
as you look at how this goes, I will get
Jared back on in the next year in a minute.
I think you're having a very similar conversation with Celtic
and with Juventus, even though again I don't think they're
swimming in the same pool in terms of who they're
looking at. You have two clubs that have typically been

(17:28):
very very good and very very powerful in terms of
what they spend and their leads SIOF. Now you have competition.
The middle of the table is much stronger than it
used to be. I have Roma right now at the
top of the table with Napoli who has pushed their
way back up to the top at Atlanta Bologna. You
have quite a few others in the middle that are

(17:50):
now pushing these brund days. So it's not as easy
for you to just go buy some players and win games.
They have to actually be.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Jared.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
You could probably speak to this better than I can
about Scotland, but I.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Feel like there's still a gap, and there's still a
noticeable gap. But as we saw on the weekend. It's
not what it used to be. Celtic can't just show
up with expectable anymore.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah, the gap is different. I don't know if that
sounds better. The gap is closed, and not just other
teams spending more and trying to do a little bit more.
But I think they sense the crack of the armor,
especially with the place like Rangers where I mean, look,
Rangers won a title a couple of years ago, mostly

(18:40):
because Neil Lennon took Celtic, cut off its ham streams
and threw it in a river. Well there's that, but
but they have consistently underperformed. Now Celtic is not spending
and is underperforming, and like you're gonna have questions like,
hey did a did Brendan Rodgers lose the locker room? Oh?
Now we have a chance here and you're gonna get that.

(19:01):
But I think I have a similar complaint to one
that Nick would have if Nick were here to complain
about it too. It's that teams like Celtic and Rangers,
the bigger clubs, they don't often play their kids, they
don't often develop talent. They bring in talent. If it
doesn't work, then they're just gonna keep hammering that square
peg into a round hole until it gets stuck, or

(19:22):
till they decide they don't want to do it anymore
and they sell it do. I mean, it is just
kind of it's just kind of this dead end process.
They're gonna go to Europe, They're going to underwhelm in
Europe because they're not good enough. It all just feels
like a dead end process with leadership that is fine
looking at the bottom line and saying, you know what,

(19:42):
we're making plenty of money. We sold a couple guys,
we brought in a couple cheap guys. Maybe they hit
and we make even more money, maybe they don't, and
then we do it again. But we're taking minimal risk
and trying to go for maximum return. And it is
disheartening to see, especially when you look up and use
see how many we've been over this. How many the
young Scottish players have ended up in Italy?

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, or play their own young players. So the young
Scots go there, they get plited.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
Ye, well, I mean they will develop kind of like
they'll put kids through their academy, but then they loan
them out to other clubs and eventually they don't break
through that they don't even really get much of a
shot to break through. Yeah, they would soon bring guys in. Yeah, No,
they would sooner bring other guys like the last guy,
like Callum McGregor was one of those guys. James Forrest

(20:33):
has been at Celtic. It feels like since about nineteen
ninety two. You know, that's not entirely accurate, but James
Forrest is you know, he's played for the first team
since he was like eighteen years old. But those are
not consistent stories. They would sooner loan those guys out.
They'll play them on the fringe. They don't really get

(20:53):
a lot of confidence. They end up going somewhere else
and doing really well. But then they'll then they'll just like, ah,
this guy didn't work. Let's go spend a monchy, spend
a bunch of money, and bringing a guy who's going
to do a similar job costs more money and not
And to be honest, a similar problem that we've seen
in a certain Southeastern city. Sometimes you bring guys in

(21:17):
they don't care as much about the badge as you do,
or as you want them to, and it's an awkward
conversation sometimes, but it's a very real one and Celtics.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Celtic's a weird one in this sense.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Because you do have the very I.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Think unique element of Scottish football, with the old firm
and even rankers not being what they were before they
passed away in front of our eyes and were to reborn.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
As a zombie. They and Celtic can just.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Have the means to do things that the other clubs
in Scottland cannot. And then it becomes that conversation that
I don't understand why they aren't more forsive in the
sense of it's going to be the two of them
for the league and typically lately it's been Celtic for
the league. Okay, try to do some things that can

(22:10):
make you more competitive in Europe, because are you gonna
win the Champions League? No, you're not, you don't have
those kinds of resources. But can you make some runs
in the Champions League in the knockouts? Sure you can't.
I mean i ACS did it not that long ago.
I'd have to compare the financials between a Celtic and
i AX, but I don't think they're all that far off.

(22:30):
I could, I could be wrong, but I don't think
they're horrifically different. I think for a club like Celtic,
you're talking about, you know, competing for the Europa League.
You're talking about winning the Conference League, being in that
kind of mix and and having those European runs, and
I don't understand why they're not more progressive to go
for that. One way you can give yourself more more

(22:54):
outs basically is to develop talent and give them an opportunity.
Now for a Celf coordinate Land United. For other clubs,
you do have these conversations about when you get to
the thick of it, can you trust a young player
if you are expected to win a trophy team you
put them in a position and not overwhelm them.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
That's not an easy thing to balance.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
I think at times, to you you can get a
little too safe, and at times, usually because of necessity,
you can throw kids in at the deep end and
end up doing damage to them. So there's a there's
not a blueprint. It's a lot of field and it's
not easy. But I think clubs like this you raise
your floor when you develop talent and you have that

(23:39):
as the base of your squad. It often at this
level will not be the top end of your squad,
but it can raise the bottom end of your squad dramatically,
increase competition and maybe more than anything, create that culture
that you're talking about. You know, it doesn't always have
to be the best players creating the culture. Sometimes it

(24:00):
is the people who are there in the large numbers
and if that is your home around talent that can
create something in the locker room that can be very important.
Like Barcelona when they were at their best with the
Lamasio crew, Manchester United with the class of ninety two,
you got Booth, you got young talent and developed that
became the best players, but they were so important in

(24:24):
creating the culture of what it meant to be for
that club.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
John, do you have thoughts?

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Oh, I'm I was deferring to Jared at all this,
but I mean you look at you look at the
table currently in the SPOSOW and Hearts is on top.
I remember, Jared, how many years ago was it where
Hearts was basically trying to sell public shares to raise
funds so they could keep the lights on and not
go into either administration or liquidation.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
And you are.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
And shoot, if it wasn't it wasn't someone prohibited for
me at the time I was thinking about getting a
share too, And so they're right now at the top
of the table eight points clear. And then you're looking
at Celtic and Hibbs and then you have the group
from three to eight separated by four points right now,
and I know that you're nine matches in. It's still
Hibbs done, the Rangers, Falkirk who is behind on goal difference,

(25:20):
and mother will and kill Marnick right now, they're all
in that.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
They're all in that group from three to eight.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
And for financial sake, I went and looked up I
Access financials for the twenty three twenty four financial year
and it was a loss of nine point almost ten
million euro on a profit of thirty nine million year
of the previous year. That decline once again when you're
not in Europe and you don't have reduced transfer revenues
and lower European bonuses. So you're looking at that for

(25:51):
revenue roughly one hundred and fifty two million a couple
of years ago, but that was a decrease of forty
four so you're looking like revenue anywhere around two hundred
million a couple of years ago. So that's what you're
staring at for I ex financially, and you know, I
thought it was really interesting. You mentioned the statement that
came out from Dermott Desmond, and yeah, he basically did

(26:13):
take that. He took that megabus and went over Brendan
Rodgers came back, wanted to.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Check and see if he had a glass bottom, so
you could see.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
If he ran him over well enough, and then hit
him again coming back by, and he called him out,
saying that his conduct and communication in recent months have
not reflected the trust when they brought him back in
two years ago.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
And one thing he said.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
In June those CEO Michael Nicholson and I expressed to
Brendan that we were keen to offer him a contract
extension to reaffirm the club's full backing and long term
commitment to him. He said he would need to think
about it and revert. Yet in subsequent press conferences, Brendan
implied that the club had made no commitment to offer
him a contract.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
That was simply untrue.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
So you have that coming from one side, and then
Brendan on his way out the door, they said they've
me up with him regularly, regular dialogue, and every player signed,
every player's soul was done with his full knowledge, approval
and endorsement and insinuation otherwise absolutely false.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
So the board with the.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Largest public backer is trying to find him in an
intersection and try and run over what's left of the
body before he's out the door. They're trying to win
and they need to be focused on moving on. I mean,
just if you don't know the SBFL, well, just transfer market.
The valuations of the squads right now Celtic one hundred
and thirty two million, Rangers one hundred and four third.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
In Scotland, Aberdeen at twenty two.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
So like the gap is gigantic, hearts is the squad
valuation is eighteen points seventy million. Celtic again, one hundred
and thirty two point sixty five. It shouldn't be where
Britton Rodgers has to take some blame of that too,
but you have allowed it. I don't know, I'm gonna
I'm gonna use a word that I think is probably

(28:00):
too harsh, but I can't think of a better one.
You've allowed it to rot a little bit in terms
of you haven't freshened things up. You've moved more people
out that were impactful than brought people in that have
become impactful. Your young players have not become those impactful
players either, And you're in the.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
Spot where you are trailing and.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Getting beat by a club, and you would not have
more starters in a combined level than they have right
now in terms of current form, and their squad valuation,
which is not in perfect science, is a fraction of
what yours is. I mean, that's not easy stuff to
kind of deal with. I guess, Jared, it's the best
way to put it, Like it should be an easy

(28:44):
thing to fix because you've got more talent, But how
do you manage not just righting the ship, but actually
maybe charting a course for the ship, because I don't
feel like it has done right now.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
No, And the cynical take for for me this is
they don't care because tickets are still being sold.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yeah, well that's a problem because when you do that
and then you have these kinds of moments, tickets dry
up and it will happen. Now, look here's the flip side,
and we see it everywhere. The minute you start winning again,
the tickets selling, like you, you very rarely see the

(29:26):
entire thing go off the rails totally and never come back.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Is it sometimes harder to get it to come back. Sure,
but yeah, like right now.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
You're in a really weird spot and sure tickets might
be selling, but it's it's I think in this case
right now, where it's Celtic, is it's easier to make
a mistake with this higher than it is to get
the right hire done.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
If that makes sense. No, I think it does make sense.
I think it does make sense. And like I said,
I mean it's you're still selling tickets, You're you're competent
that over the course of a season you will reel
them in and win the league and you will win
maybe a cup with that. So two trophies. You are

(30:13):
losing in Europe, but you lose in Europe all the time.
And their argument will probably be like, well, we're losing
in Europe and we spend money. Yeah, you're using it,
losing it Champions League when you spend money. Yeah, like
Ange was taking teams into Real Madrid and losing like
two nil, three nil, but playing fifty five really fun

(30:34):
minutes before before like this that separation of talent, so
it really showed up. Yeah, and you went and you
tried to play. But now you're not spending money Yeah,
you're in You're in Europa League right now. You won
last week against against you know, you snatched victory from
the jaws of defeat somehow. But I don't think they

(30:55):
see an impetus to spend money right now. Now. How that,
however they do the manager spot, we'll see the wild part.
You talked about valuations. That valuations again, for those of
you playing the home game, valuations are not a hard
and fast truth written in stone. There's a non zero

(31:15):
there's a non zero chance that they sell dies in
Mayta over the winter for more than the value of
most of the teams they're in a dog fight with. Yeah,
like Mayta was player of the Year in Scotland last year,
was a revelation after Kyogo Fardahashi left and he's going

(31:36):
to more than likely feature with Japan's national team in
the upcoming World Cup. I think he's twenty eight twenty
nine years old. Just to imagine Japanese teeto, that's kind
of what he is, very very hot and cold with finishing,
but that same kind of can run all day, is
faster than you and will literally press you until you
drop dead, and you will drop dead before he will.

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But there's a good chance of sell him to England
for more than the value of some of the teams
they're chasing. And that's that's an amazing situation to be in.
And because then the fear is because he wants to go.
He wanted to go over the summer. They did not
let him Kyogo, remember Kyogo when the discussions were the
rumors were going on about oh is he gonna come
to Atlanta? Is he not? When Atlanta was looking for
a striker. Well that didn't happen. He left and went

(32:22):
to rend In, France. And I mean, the dude, just
like when word came down that he could go, he
was gone, like in a Champions League week.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
He wanted to disappeared, just left and they're like, oh wait,
where'd you go? Oh yeah, he's not here.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
That's a problem.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
And he is. He's fallen off a cliff by the way.
I think he's a Burningham city And it's been it's
been bad, and he hasn't been good when he's played.
But the which I mean again, you're not playing, you're
not going to be as good when you're out of fourty.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
But and thing and yeah, like I'm with you, Jared
in terms of this, like you're you're in the spot
where and we'll move into some other topics so I
want to get into but this maybe is a little
bit of a bridge to it where you could very
easily hire and I don't think you hired this person,
but you can easily hire someone of this ilk like

(33:15):
what they did.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
When they gave the job to Neil in It in
the past.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Somebody that's easy, somebody that again can right the ship
but not actually chart any kind of new course. And
I think that would be a mistake because I think
you would end up right back here, because I do
think that you're gonna get the Aberdeens, although I don't
know if Lut's is going to be the guy to
do it. And we'll see if you can stop seeling Penguin's.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
I think that all the time. Yeah, that's just crazy
headlines from Boots.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
I think Aberdeen will make more money and spend more money.
I think Hibs and Hearts and Dundee United like that
next group that's your only clubs with double digit valuation
in Scotland, like they're gonna bridge the gap a little
bit more to not gonna be able to gain to
show up and win. But I hope that Celtic gets

(34:06):
this right and decides we're gonna get somebody who, yes,
is going to win as we need them to because
that is what we do here, but is going to say,
you know what, we want more than just winning a
league where there's two of us competing. We want more
than winning the domestic cups, where again there's only two

(34:28):
of us that are favorites to win it every senior year.
We want to be more competitive in Europe. We want
to do more. We want to develop young players who.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Want to do these things.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
I hope they go that direction. I worry that they
don't and they just check a box and just get
somebody who is gonna basically get you to where you're
out talented people. It's gonna be all of the usual
blood of guts and be sound defensively and all the nonsense,
and it's gonna be crap soccer, and it's gonna be

(34:59):
ugly games. But they're gonna win them one mill because
they have more talent, and then they're gonna go get
spanked by anybody they find in the conference league. Maybe
Classic can spank them from the Faroe Islands and it's
just gonna be ugly, Like it's frustrating that a club
that has so much going for them is so unambitious.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
So one question.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Real quick that Abby had is why do they and
probably they is multiples and Celtic and Atlanta United and
other clubs like that, why do they not develop and
play their young players?

Speaker 2 (35:34):
What's the reasoning behind that? There's a lot actually, I
mean young.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Players are gonna make mistakes.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
You have to accept that. You have to understand that.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
You have to be in a position to where they
can do that and not hurt your results, which is
what it comes back to.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
That's not always an easy place to be. I think
Celtic is in a place where they can do that.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
I think they can do a much better job of
developing young players and putting that take place to do it.
But I didn't speak to you first, Dan from Aberdeen's perspective,
who was the left back that they ended up selling
Jarrett that they.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Made their record sale? Connor Baron, No, it's night before
that that Glassy had. Oh god, when Ferguson you know
who I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
It was talking about the one that they that he
played as an eighteen year old and he ended up
at the end of that season. Remember Stephen Glass lost
his job January or so of that season. At the
end of that season they sold him. I believe the
Liverpool for was it Ramsey. I believe it was a

(36:41):
record sale for.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Aberdeen at Calvin Calvin Ramsey point to the six and
a half.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
But by playing him, they dropped points and he lost
his job. And that's really what it came down to,
to the point that the the chairman said, after it's
let's see if I can handle this beer, I toss
right here. I even got the say sorry, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,

(37:15):
the NOFO around the corner blogger, the partnership with with
us and with the SDH new working with the Probot's Cafe,
with the SDH class, well you can see.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
Very cool stuff.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
So anyway, if you're gonna play young players at Lanta
United plays young players, some people say they should play more.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
But then you want to go by players because that's.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Sexy, right. You want to go buy young, exciting players
from other places because they're new and.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
They're fancy and what have you.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
And it's just a very difficult cycle to do. Celtic
is in the unique position, in my opinion, to where
they can play young players in small sections and still
have so much other talent on the field that can
help develop those young players and put them in positions
to succeed.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
And they don't do that enough, and they should.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
They have in the past though, right, Jared, I mean,
I don't think I'm wrong in saying, like, it's not
like they've never done that, they have. They should do
it a little bit, should be a little bit more
part of the plan going.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
If you're dominating your league, you should be if you like, Okay,
let's say you want to bring in let's say you
bring in the squad that like Brendan Rodgers had in
twenty twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, where it's like Scott Sinclair

(38:41):
was in that roster in one of his last big
stops where he was just an absolute world beater. Like
they went over a year without losing a game. You're
blowing teams out in the sixtieth minute, put the kids in.
It's a very least be doing that, but they did
not do that consistently.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Yeah, and I gotta it's just gotta be part of
It's interesting, like team building is not an easy thing,
as we saw here in Atlanta's that season, as we
are seeing a Liverpool right now.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Liverpool has lost fort or only.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
They spent how much in the summer five hundred and
seventy million.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Something like that.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
Yeah, let me let me kick the number.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
But I know they sold some and they brought in
like two hundred and thirty or.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Three hundred, like they they they spent a lot on
top of what they sold. I think their sales took
them to about five hundred and seventy.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
If I remember correct.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
After winning the league. Okay, that's ambitious, but it has
not come together for them. They don't look right, they don't.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
Look bought in.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
There's talk about them not being bought in. It's a
it's a fascinating situation.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
Right now with and I don't know how.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Arne Slott fixes this at the moment because he hasn't
really been in this situation, you know, Jared, we talked
about like players moving up league and level and stuff.
Arne moves up from Vian to Liverpool, he wins the league,
nobody expected it last year. Now the pressure is higher
on and he's never been in a situation where, yeah,

(40:26):
you can say, it's a lot of the same people
from last year, but it's basically a brand new team
because of all of these new faces that happened to
deal with him. He's never been in like a rebuild position.
He's always been in like an upgrade and bring one
new player in and bring it second new player in.
He's got to manage the group of individual and I

(40:46):
don't think he's doing a great job because it does
not look like it's very well organized right now.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
No, but even when he was winning games early in
the season, go back to go back to their early
results this season games, go look at what those results.
Go look at how many of them were like late
in the game, like free kick, set piece, scramble in
the gold mouth game winning goal is it was very
cardiac kids and bring he gets.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
His first ever goal for Liverpool at the dad to
give you up rescue three points instead of one.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
But that's all you were getting earlier. But that's it.
But it is it is tough. I know, like it's easy.
I think I think it is easy to sit there,
be lazy and say, well, just just you know again,
life is not a video game. You can't just just
build the team. It doesn't work that way, like like
go uh go go go, and I know they're losing

(41:41):
right now in the ninety second minute, Uh Columbus, go
look at well, how will for Nazi manages that team?
And go look at like the guys who they've moved it.
They moved a number of guys are now, but like
key guys who they've kept to maintain societies on the field,
to maintain kind of the culture, the cohesion. They'll have
an even bigger task next year, would know Darlington nagbe

(42:04):
which from which also makes me wonder if somebody from
Europe does a call Will for Nancy at some point
and if he doesn't pick up down he might be
ready to go, especially if if they crash out against Cincinnati,
he might be ready. I think maybe.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
I do. I don't trust Cincinnati all that much. I
think Columbus gets a win. I do think Cincinnati will.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Get three and three.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
I'll feel I'll field the home team win the game
so far to playoff. To answer your question, it was
the amount spent on inbound yea umbers four hundred and
sixteen thou four to sixteen million, two hundred thousand count
bunt dollars right, so let's multiplay that by five hundred.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
So yeah, that's three tints, you know, and I remember
my numbers from my recent one. Yeah, so like five
thirty five seventy, So yeah, you're a number five hundred
and fifty million dollars in bound. Frimpong, Vertus, Kirkish, Lambardo
Shpieli Eka tk Leoni who hasn't seen a whole lot
of activity in Alexander Esark. So two of those dudes
were nine figures to the left of the destinal. Well,

(43:12):
I mean, here's the deal. Kirkish and Frimpong, they both
go all the time, and when they're both going and
they're both high, and that gets exposed a little bit more.
I think everything gets exposed a little bit more. It's
we've talked about this plenty with the pressing not pressing
conversations that we've had over the years. If you're gonna

(43:34):
be a team, and this is the problem I really
have with Liverpool watching them, I don't think they have
their identity completely locked.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
In into what they want to be. Because if you're
gonna be a pressing team, that can't be a question.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
You've got to be a team that is everybody high
off the field, everybody ready to sell out, everybody gambling,
and right now you're getting these gaps with Liverpool and
they're getting exposed, they're getting caught.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
And show it.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
And then when that starts to happen, then you get
these other issues. Then you get set pieces, you get
long throw ins being an issue, and that's becoming a problem.
They were both conceded four times from set pce sequences
or second balls in their last five league matches.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
That's a massive problem.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
You're getting these these gaps in the way that they
press that are a huge issue. And then you're starting
to see some of the bad reactions and bad body
language and those sorts of things. It's right now an
identity crisis right now, it is now Can this be?
What is the spark to getting those things sorted? Sure,

(44:43):
it can't be. You've got to have a consistent group playing,
and that's been an issue. You've got just too many
revolving doors going on in this lineup. You've got too
many things that look unsure right now. It doesn't seem
like the players are all that bought in. You're starting

(45:04):
here at ADYE. Robertson on when Napole TV had some
questions about it.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
You got to figure out what you're gonna be.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Are you gonna try to continue to build and be
more possession oriented or are you going to be more
into the press and which way is it going to go?
The decision that artist lat makes is gonna be what
defines his tenure because if it doesn't get better, and

(45:30):
right now they've got arsenal Brighton Newcastle coming up here soon,
if it doesn't get better, like.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
It's dumb to talk about somebody who won the league last.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
Year being on the hot scene, but you've lost four
in a row in the league, four on five in
all competitions, five out of six I think in all
competitions to be accurate, because you lost the Galla Faster
and Championship. If it doesn't get right, there's the potential
that it gets very, very wrong, and that's then where

(46:01):
you start to have those difficult conversations about, yeah, thank
you for the unexpected trophy last year, but this isn't
working and I don't I don't know. It's a really
interesting game in the Gummy Bearer Cup on Wednesday, Liverpool
hosting Crystal Palace, and it maybes a game that is

(46:22):
a little sneaky here. Palace has been very good, although
they've started to actually lose.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Games they had not lost in a long long time.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
They have started to lose a couple. They are what
they are. They're nowhere near the same level of towel.
They haven't spent five hundred and seventy million dollars in
any transfer window and the history of transfer windows. But
they're not an easy team to be And if Liverpool
doesn't get that and then get crashed out of the
Gummy Bear Cup, and then you go into a weekend

(46:52):
where you're going back in the league, you had one
in four and the pressure continues to mount.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
I don't see the.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Way out of it for them right now. And that's
the scary part for a Liverpool Fani. I'll mention some names, okay,
and then randomly or do they have a point, No,
there's a point, okay, cool.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
I'll mention eight names and it's.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
All the top of the offensive output for Liverpool so
far in the season.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Okay, most of the.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
Law Cody Gakpo, Jugo ekatk each with three gold yeah,
Ryan Gravinbersch, Federico Kiya Say each with two golfs Dominic Sova,
Shalit Melos kirksh Rio, each with one goal.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Okay, somebody's missing. Who's missing?

Speaker 3 (47:36):
Alexander Esoch Well, he.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
Didn't have a preseason, John, I mean, he didn't, Like
I don't think why would you expect him to be there?

Speaker 3 (47:45):
I would just because of a paycheck?

Speaker 2 (47:47):
No, No, I would have thought.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
That if you were going to bring him over from
Newcastle with the expectations and putting him into the lineup.
I know that there's the adjustment period, but I would
at least think that he would have scored at.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
Least once in the Premier League this season.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
He had no preseason. I mean, I think that's part
of the issue is you haven't been set up here
to truly succeed. And look, some of that's down to
did you really need to go get out with Andreasa?

Speaker 3 (48:14):
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
I don't think so either, And they.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Went and they got at Katique instead, and then it's like, oh,
we can get a vote and we can play on both,
can you because I'm.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Not so sure of that? And then what do you
do with the other guys?

Speaker 1 (48:27):
If you've signed Florid verts hasn't looked as good as
he should. He hasn't looked as good as he did
last year. But for all of that, for just talking
about the offensive side, they've conceded fourteen goals. Fourteen goals
at nine games, like, yeah, it's less than two a game,
but Arsenal's conceded three four.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
With a second, which is wild. They've conceded eleven.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Spurs, Sunderland, Manchester City all conceded seven, half.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Of what Liverpool's conceded.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
Manchester Unit's conceded the same number and they're actually had
to Liverpool right now and that's shocking in itself. And
Emilo Skirtkesh is from Bournemouth and now part.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
Of Liverpool and Bournemouth is still having the defensive success
in there.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
I mean to define teams that have conceded more goals
than Liverpool in the Premier League. It's a smart it's
a short list. You're going to Brighton who's conceded fifteen
in thirteenth place. You're going to Burnley has conceded seventeen
in sixteenth place. You've conceded as many goals as seventeenth place.
Full of the all the relegated the teams in the

(49:30):
relegation spots, Forest west Ham and Wolves have conceded more goals.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
So if you talked about the short list, you talked
about the fullbacks getting forward so much. I feel like
I need to remind people that. And I love virgil
Van Dyke. He was amazing at Celtic because it's always
going to come back to Scotland. Before he went to Southampton,
he was a Celtic. He's thirty four and I think

(49:58):
he's still a good defender in like the moment, in
like a in a in a space where he doesn't
have to sprint as hard. I don't want to exposed,
but you're he's going to be exposed in the system.
But he like the board, like shifted an entire system

(50:18):
in Atlanta because he could not leave. Uh, Michael Parkhurst
exposed anymore because Michael Parkhurst he just didn't have ninety
minute legs and land goes on his pew as was
basically on a walk about for ninety minutes, not entirely
dissimilar from Jason's favorite walk about to discuss, which is
when Michael Bradley used to have to defend the entire

(50:38):
midfield for the US national team because Jermaine Jones decided
to go on a bear hunt every game.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
Just because that is.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
I mean most a lot of thirty three four and
those are the two names that a lot of folks
gravitate toward in Atlanta, most a lot of I know
he's gonna get the headline in a notes what a
lot of people have talked about. It's not the issue
is not books a lot uh. The issue is Virgil
van Dyke to a point. But more of the issue
is the unclear nature of the identity of what this

(51:13):
team is right now. And when you have so many
new faces come in and spend so much money for them,
and they're used to being the man and now they're
just one of the band, and some of them are
not playing like the band at all, you've got a
problem and it's gonna need some really key leadership that
you're not gonna learn from watching YouTube videos. And it's

(51:36):
not about training sessions. It's about how he talks to players.
It's about how he rallies players. It's about how he
convinces players. It's the other thing that a lot of
top managers will tell you, it's harder.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
To win the second time he won last year and
was unexpected.

Speaker 3 (51:53):
Easy.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Then you can be the you're the underdog, you're the
dark corse, you're the surprise. All that's easy for it?
Now what everybody is gunning for? You?

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Can you convince these guys, Hey, I really do need
you to run through that wall over there.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
We talked about it last year and you did it.
I need you to do it again.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
I know you made a whole fat stack of money
last year because of winning that title. That's great, that's wonderful.
I know you're fat and happy at the moment. I
need you to go run that wall again.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
No, boss, I'm good.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
Yeah, I'm gonna run to the wall.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
That's time.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
I'm not gonna run through it. And that's when you
start to get these kinds of issues. It's really difficult
to stay on top. And that's why squats turnover, and
that's why maybe was part of the idea here. Although
it feels a little bit like winning the lottery and
seeing all the shiny things at the store the checkout line,
and it feels a little bit like that with some

(52:45):
of the purchases, you know, Gloria Birts, No, Alexander Esock.
Maybe if you went ahead and not got an ekt
Q and just signed Esock.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Possibly if it's signing both of them felt unnecessary. It
just it is what it.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
Is like, it's not coming together and if it doesn't
get better, you're going to have the total crisis and
shambles and all the things that they could talk about.
I'm sure they're already being talked about.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
But it's gonna get work.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
It felt like to me, and I'm and I'm not
a liverer plan I'm not really watching the English crime Uh.
It felt like me from the outside, Jason did. It
was a team that went Okay, we won the league.
That was awesome. We kind of went above our heads
doing it, and we got everybody on the same page.
That was great. We need to stay up here. Let's
throw money at this problem and then we'll figure out

(53:34):
how we piece it together.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
In our pocket, we gotta we're gonna spend it and
then we'll figure it out later.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
Yeah, I mean, but it doesn't that's not always a solution,
I mean, how it works. Yeah, like we honestly, man,
we saw it with l A f C. They threw
a bunch of money problems the years they won the
year well they won the Cup, and it was not
good until they until cheap, until Steve Tarundela figured out
he could not play this this voltron of talent and

(54:03):
he had to pick his spots and pick how he
wanted to build a team that was going to be
the most effective, not the most valuable in the moment
or the most talented on the field in the moment,
because that talent does not always equal the best team
and accepted the guy comes off, which is so monumentally important.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Yeah, I mean he was lucky to Gareth like the golf.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
Well, that's what I mean to have guys, But no,
to your point, like, it's important to have guys who
understand that, like I need you to be this not
all of you can play ninety minutes, that all of
you can score thirty goals. Sometimes I need uh Zorosky

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in Columbus, Like Zeroski is uh, he's fust his manager's name.
It just jumped out of my skull and ran away.
Well for Nanzi, you know, talked about tonight. You know,
Zawotski is the first name he puts on that team sheet.
And Zawotski has played like.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
Five It's so funny that I remember saying that two
three years ago, and people looked at me like I
had three heads. I'm like, Sean Sawatsky is the player
and that team that I will look more than anybody
because he can play center back, he can play center mit,
he can play as an outside back, he can play
a little bit higher up the field. He does it all.

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He's smart, he gets it. He's a team first guy.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
He understands the game. Doesn't have to beat his star.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
No, he doesn't have to be And like, those kind
of guys are so so important when you have a
team the stars, it's it's tough to get people to
tie in, like, hey, Heed sacrifice a little bitter so
Jimmy's and Joe Sometimes yeah, I mean to a point
like that gets overdone a little bit. But you have

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to have the You need stars because going back to
what we talked about the salt, they have more talent.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
You need more talent. It gives you more opportunities to win.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
You can play like crap and you can win more
often if you have more talent and look, that gives
you more opportunities to get those you need them.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
But sometimes you need the right kinds of character.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
Mixed into your talent to be a handle those kinds
of ems, and that's that's the issue.

Speaker 3 (56:25):
So we'll see with them.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
I got a couple other bits of news before we
get into the picks of the week. Referee scandal in Turkey.
Eight over three hundred and seventy referees were found with
betting accounts. That's a lot of referees across all of
the professional divisions in Turkey. One hundred and fifty plus
actively placed bets.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
Remember Jose Morino called the officiating in Turkey toxic. You
got a lot of backups for that. I think he's right.
It's bad.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
Some forty two referees place bets on over one thousand
matches each, with one referee alone wagering more than eighteen
thousand times.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
How do you do that?

Speaker 1 (57:10):
Hopefully he was winning some Well, it just are you
looking at every prop that on the board and sitting
there going, oh, I want that, I want that one,
I want that. Literally he's sitting everything on the way
down the list.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
Of what do you want? What games? What games do
you want to bet on today?

Speaker 1 (57:22):
Yes, yes, all of them. It's a it's a problem.
Eighteen thousand, two hundred and twenty seven events. That's that's staggered. Yeah,
so it's it's probably I would guess he was winning
something that's going to be an issue.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
What else we got.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
On the Smorgas board of things to get into today.
Kirat Almani they have won the Kazakhstan Premier League title.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
They got a one to one draw with Astana.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
If Astana had won, they would have been the champions
of the fifth league title.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
For Kira our body.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
Their season is going to be definedut what they do
a champions league. If they get anything out of that
then it's great. But winning another league title, that's cool.
I do have a good Scottish update for you, Jared.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
I don't think we've talked about this one yet.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
At the weekend non league side ben Burb f C.
They're from govid go Val. I'm sure the pronunciation is
correctly there. I don't know where they accept.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Falls ben Burb FC.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
They pulled off a big upset in the Scottish cuff
and the reason they were able to do it is
Sir Alex Ferguson paid for their six hundred mile round trip.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
Away to That's cool. That's his hometown is Gold so
he faced for the trip.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
They go and they win in I don't know what
round we are in the Scottish Cup, but they go
the first first round Benburb over Colden Beef two to one. Okay,
and now they have oh wow, they have Montrose coming
up in round three, so they skipped from round London
and then.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
It's violent nod at Scotland.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
They don't It.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
Doesn't really be quick academy to get to round three
and when they can, yeah, so we'll be ben Burb,
Banks seven and pks and they have Montrose coming up
on the twenty ninth of.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
November around three of the scout. Okay.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
We have a new team.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
In Europe from Kazakhstan, Yella May. They finished fourth in
the league. They have previous international experience, but that was
in the Asian Champions League.

Speaker 3 (59:17):
In nineteen ninety six and nineteen ninety seven.

Speaker 1 (59:20):
Kicking many teams that have played in two different confederations Champions.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
Leagues or europe The Leagues or Conference League Brazilian League.
It's gotten a little while.

Speaker 1 (59:30):
Flamengo they lost one nill to fourth Delasa, who's in
the relegation call manas they dropped points in a scoreless
draw to zero.

Speaker 2 (59:41):
The gap at the top is one point. But then
you have two teams behind it.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
One of them is Marisol, who is not one of
the grounds anyway in Brazil. So the Brazilian League could
get very very interesting down the stretch.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
And then you have John Texter rearing his ugly head.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
John Texter was linked with a possible bid for Wolves today.
I take it with a giant grant sault because some
of the information in the reporting.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
I don't know if it was entirely, tinly or accurate.

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
He offered money and shares in something which could have been.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
From a Monopoly game. For all we know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Probably the money was from the Monopoly game as well.
But yes, he put an offer in for Wolves. I
believe they have said no. If they said anything at all,
they are looking for minority in selling.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
I hope they laughed and slapped in with sort of things.
I hope so too.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
The appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport is
still pending in terms of the money he owes at
Landing United for the Thiago Almada transfer. There's still the
infighting with him and with Aarry's management and with Equal
Football Group which he started, and he owns, but he
is not allowed to run because he almost got leone relegated.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
For his in France.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
Yeah, it's a mess.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
So he is bouncing around and one of.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
The club that he's been mentioned with is Sheffield Wednesday.
I mean, Abby, sure that sounds nice. He should have
to pay us before he can ever purchase anything. We
know legally, it's not how any of this works. Unfortunately,
he's got what he owes us tied up in an appeal.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
With the Court of Arbitration for Sport and we'll see
when that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
Gets sort of Yeah, basically what you're supposed to do,
and it's just protocol business acumen. If you want to
purchase or have a purchasing interest at a Premier league club,
you're supposed to kind of knock on their door and go, hey,
you know, I'd really like to perhaps have a say

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and maybe would you be interested. So you're gonna say this,
and then I'm gonna ask you about seven seven to
seven partners, which was completely and utterly fraudulent was approved
to buy.

Speaker 5 (01:01:52):
Everton, right, So you end up with knock on the
door and the folks who own the club that you're
interested in, they there and they either accept you coming
in the door or they sit there and go No.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
Texter apparently didn't even do that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Talking to Fosa, and he just basically said publicly in
work said that it's like, I'm interested in purchasing Wolves
and I want it to be nine figures and to
be like one hundred million in cash.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
And then another two hundred plus in shares.

Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
He didn't even go to Fosta and he just said
I'm interested, and Folsen was like, no, we're not interested
in talking to you because you didn't come to us.
So we're looking for other interests from the outside to
come in and you can just go, you know, sit
and ro take pix. That's basically what they told him,
but it was a little bit more diplomatic.

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
Okay, he's not.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
Buying Wolves, and he might try to buy a championship
club in Trouble if you can find them an opportunity
to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Sheffield Wednesday is one of those clubs.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
Administrators said today there are four or five serious fitters
looking at the club. They were very happy with their
match over the weekend, their first under administration.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Money they went into.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
Administration and they're happy because they're going to get rid
of their owner eventually through this. But yeah, they're probably
gonna have another points deduction. Yeah, they are almost certain
to get relegated from the championship this season, but they
might actually have a brighter day on the other side
of all of them. So all kinds of stuff going
on worldwide. We didn't get into long throw ins. That's

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kind of an ever great topic. We'll get into that
another time. But everybody's doing it everywhere basically, and it's
annoying but it's effective.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
So man, I don't like it, but it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
Is what it is. Do we want to talk about
before we go in a picture of the week? Do
we want to talk about Bolivia? Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
Yeah, I forgot I nei there was one more to
tell me about Bolivia, Jared.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
All right, I'm glad. Alex Pastine just rolled in for this.

Speaker 1 (01:03:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:51):
Yeah. In Bolivia, a Bolivian club, Club Aurora, has been
deducted thirty three points. It's a lot of point and
they are now mis s after twenty two games. They
are now minus five points, but minus five points. The

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reason this happened the Bolivian.

Speaker 6 (01:04:12):
Federation discovered that Uabriel Gabriel Montagno has been committing identity
theft for two years.

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
He was impersonating his deceased brother. His real name is Diego.
He is twenty five years old, not twenty like he
said he is. The president of the club has also
been suspended for three years. So a twenty five year
old lied and said he was a twenty year old
for the last two years and impersonated his dead brother.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
Okay, that's a little uncomfortable.

Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
I can't. I don't have I don't have any way
to editorialize that other than just to give you the
information and let you process it like a similarity. I can't.
But okay, thirty three point deduction because player impersonated his
dead brother. That's that's that's the hook. That's the I can't.

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It's just I'm there's I'm trying.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
To find other things to say about this. But that's
just that's out there, man. That that is out there.
That's out there, man, that is out there.

Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
That's also a SDH legend. The club always ready is
leading that league.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
Yeah, I'm still trying to find out how they came
up with thirty three points.

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
It's Bolivia. Man.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
Like one more from while we're going crazy here, one
more from South America. Go Keebo Undo, who might just
win the Chilean League for the first time ever. That's
where Carlos Carmona went at one point in his career,
towards the very end. They have a giant pirate on

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their badge. They're gonna win the Chilean League for the
first time. It looks like they are back in the
Copa of Earth the Doors for the first time in
like thirty plus years. Awesome pirate, give me, give me
the random cool stories we always come to. A Spanish
reporter says, in the Champions League, we have had a

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shield in the shape of a sheriff's star, but we
still lack one with a pirate. All the more reason
you should then go to the Eirth doors. They don't
have pirates in Europe. John, there's no clubs at pirates.
There are no pirate clubs in Europe.

Speaker 3 (01:06:33):
Tell me one. I don't have them. I'm just saying
it takes to be different, John.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
These are badges that have generally been around for decades
upon decades upon hundreds of.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
Years, and then you sit there and you try to
do something different to people get mad because you go
away them.

Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
So if somebody did a pirate badge all of a sudden,
like you were telling.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Them to, people would be upset. I'm not saying make
it your primary. I'm just saying you don't have fun.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
What are you saying. I'm saying, have fun.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
If you want to do a pirate badge, do a
pirate badge. If you want to do an alternate union
that's got the pirate stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:07:02):
On, then do that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
If you want to go out and walk your procession
with the pirate hats and look like Jack what's his
space from the What's this?

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
Yeah, the Giant Depp movies?

Speaker 3 (01:07:11):
Jack? What's Jack? What's his face? What's his face?

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
Yeah? You want to look like Jack Face from the
Giant Depp movies, and then go ahead and have fun
with it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
Don't make it your primary. Just have fun with it. Market.

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
Yeah, we're talking about the badge. The badge is primary.
There's not secondary badge. He's a secondary bank. It'd be
the first team ever to do a secondary bank. We
had to get the picks of the week, and John's
already Jack what's his names? I mean, what is happening
on this show? We should get into the Picks of
the week.

Speaker 3 (01:07:38):
I think Jack Sparrow, Yes, that's exactly who it is.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
Yes, did you look that up?

Speaker 3 (01:07:45):
Going to find me? Wise is going to find you
and hunt you down.

Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
Took me thirty minutes to figure out Jack Sparrow. I
couldn't remember Johnny Depp's characters. I didn't watch the movie.
You can see the series.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
I just need to keep Wait what Keith Richards ended
up being cast as his father?

Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
That I remember that? You remember?

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
Yeah, because it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:02):
Was so random.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
You couldn't remember its name, but you could reject what's
his name? And Keith Richards was his dad? Absolutely true.

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
Watch the movies. To watch the movies. They're delightful like
they have they have. They have no business being as
good as they are, considering it's a movie based on
a theme park ride.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
It's true. I'm not disputing the goodness of the movie,
and I just say that that's that's not my speed.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
It has no business being as entertaining.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
As all right, thanks of the way, we need like,
yeah we do trump fanfare or something.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
Oh wait, I think ales Is found the Pirate Club,
but they're not going to the Champions League anytimes.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
I can't pull it up. Bristol Rovers.

Speaker 3 (01:08:48):
Yeah, Bristol Rovers. It almost looks like Captain Morgan.

Speaker 1 (01:08:51):
I think if I remember, they're not going to any champions. Yes,
there's a pirate club. Sorry, I apologize for the pirate
floats are here? Uh, Bristol Rovers, I apologize there. You
know there's your Bristol Rovers.

Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
That's it. That's like the grip sword.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
Yeah, that's a different kind of pirate than the Coketo,
you know, firate. I think the cookbo would need a
birrate would slice that guy up into treads because I mean,
look at that sword. That's it's a little it's a
little swishy.

Speaker 3 (01:09:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
I bet you that's not even real metal that he's
that he's swing It's like here model this put one
foot on the soccer ball and take this plastic or
rubber sword and.

Speaker 3 (01:09:33):
Kind of wave it in the air. And they did
it like a still photo. And that's why the sword looks.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
The way that it does. You think that's a still photo.
I think it's a still photo that got converted, because
I mean, how are you going to sit there and
have that that sword look like that? And haven't been
have tried.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
To look effective, and I don't think it is effective
because I think your comba will be the combo Uneda guy.
I would take the Bristol rovers Pirate. Be really, you
can take him out back.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
The what club job?

Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
I was trying to say coquimbo unito and it came
out backwards.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
It went all in different places.

Speaker 1 (01:10:10):
To your point, I think that the coo Ndo Pirate
would take the Bristol rovers Pirate and it would be
like two falls.

Speaker 2 (01:10:17):
And you're done and forget it. The Bristol rovers Pirates
a cosplay pirate.

Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
All right, let's go in the picture of the week.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
Coming into the week, we still the name is the
gas that no kidding.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
We have not had a back to back.

Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
Winner coming into this week. The totals coming into the week,
so who.

Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
All had won? I need to track the win. Sophia
I won the first week on From there, Nick one.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
Drew one, and I was so Maddie and John had
not won. Everybody and everybody else had won once. Yes,
all right, so this is then round six. The totals
coming in Nick was on top of twenty one ninety,
Jared at twenty one forty five, so be at nineteen
twenty five, John at twelve, Baby Drew at eleven fifty seven,

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Maddie at six fifty and me at four to seventy five.

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
But I didn't have a win, so people siding.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
At the table.

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
First game last week was PSB and Napoli, and.

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
Nobody got it right.

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
Everybody started one hundred into the hole.

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
The second game was Chicago and Orlando and everybody got
it right. So everybody got to ninety six something good.
So first two games where it's o watch. Game three
was Flamingo and Rasing, and it was a late goal
for Flabingo and Marcos Rojo decided to smash by Santiago
Sol's face, which was not cool. They were on the

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same team, by the way. That's that's the kind of
frown upon.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
Marcos Rovo was involved and continued new goal as well.
It was a very bad day for Marcos Rovo.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
Noka drew quite a few bad days.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
The people who got Flamingo winning that one were Maddy, Sophia,
John and crew.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
Then game four was Malmo and Dinamo.

Speaker 3 (01:12:03):
Zagre and this is where it started to turn. It
was a draw.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
I was the only one who got to draw right.
I got to three twenty six. I was so tempted
to put a draw.

Speaker 3 (01:12:11):
You didn't do it. I know it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
You didn't do it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
Damn. Then Game five was the Malaysian Super League and
it was the win from the Calentin the Real Warriors
f S.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
I did not pick them, Nick did.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
John did so.

Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
John was in the lead through game five and then
Depression eighty four. I was second at two twenty six.
Jarrett and Nick were both at one forty six. Then
game six the serre B match between cala Essay and Ganetsia,
and my Marvel team won and I was one of

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the people who picked the Marble team and they won,
and I'm very happy about the win, and I believe it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
Was a very dramatic win that I.

Speaker 1 (01:12:57):
Am making sure I have the correct information for you.
Brow faster than you do, I dot any quicker than
you should. Just put your foot down. Yeah, Kyra SA
one in that match three to two over Vedezia, and
the winner came in the ninety six minute, Yes, ninety
six minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
A yellow part. That's fine if I too, get shirt
off because you gave me the PIX of the week.

Speaker 3 (01:13:23):
That's what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
Then Game seven was Napolie an Hinter.

Speaker 1 (01:13:28):
I got that one. Well, a couple other people, a
couple of pople got that. Then Game eight was Real
Madrad at Barcelona. I did not give that a raal
Madrade one half.

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
A few people did, but.

Speaker 3 (01:13:38):
I had a big enough win.

Speaker 1 (01:13:39):
Nobody got a prop bit right for Flamenco and Rossing.
So I won for the week with six seventy one,
the greatest total. Second place was only one fifty one,
and that was a nig. Third place was a time, No,
it was not. Third place was Sophia you can't read John,

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Fourth place was a die with Drew and Maddie. Fifth
place was John and yes, sixth place was John because
there was a die.

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
And then last place was you, Jared, You're the only
person in the negative at.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
Defense. In my defense, that entire stretch last week was
when we missed our flight coming back from Atlanta because
we got stuck in the TSA line. So like, my
entire day was then court like trying to Katie and
I trying to coordinate a flight to get back to home,

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and spending a day another day in Atlanta grumpily doing so,
and then getting back home. Oh God, I think we
got back home Monday night around three am Eastern time. Yeah,
that's not quite No got last week. Yeah, I just

(01:15:00):
looked at I half looked at him. I was like,
I don't care anymore, and so I'm so emotionally distraught
by everything. Also, that was like, oh, yeah, this was
the same day they're landing announced the managerial.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
Change to Yeah, there's last Last week took.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
Like two months out of my life, and it felt
like two months and I didn't have the crazy travels. See,
I think it half beer. I gonna get our beer.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
Yeah, you don't have an yet.

Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
I'm just saying because I went picked it the week twice,
so I got beer glasses. That's what.

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
That's why, Yes, Alex Seattle is probably gonna maintain eighty
two percent possession.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
For the rest of Yes, I was gonna say that
Minnesota has got like eighteen per whole through seventeen minutes,
and it's upsetting.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
Because thanks there's teams listen to a long brow good jobs.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Michael boxall with the long well and he hesitated.

Speaker 1 (01:16:01):
He waited for the player marking him to jump, and
then after the jump hits high point, then he threw.

Speaker 3 (01:16:07):
Well, that's the point, why would you throw. There's teams
that don't want the ball, and then there's the Minnesota Loons, Like, yes,
they have, they have redefined what it means not to
have the ball. But they have also they are also
like basically they're they're attacking setup is we are a

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track meet and on the two or three times a
game where we can trigger that counter good luck. Yeah,
it's it's effective.

Speaker 1 (01:16:36):
I don't like it. They have the ball now and
their confused. Let's move into the choices on the board
this week for Picks of the Week. I gotta picked
the entire board Picks of the week, and I took
us to two different places we have never been before
ever in.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
The history of Picks of the Week.

Speaker 1 (01:16:51):
Okay, first off, a game that has not happened in
twenty plus years. The Wales kind of dark, but not
really because they're not really rivals Wrexham and Cardiff in
the Gummy Bear come tomorrow the way. But they don't
hate each other, John, why are they booing? They don't
they don't care, they don't play. You would think that, No,

(01:17:12):
they don't think that North thousand South Wales. They don't know,
it's kind of like, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:17:16):
Remember there. Whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
It's kind of like it's kind of like Rangers and
Celtic trying.

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
To No, it's nothing like what It's nothing like Rangers
and Celtic. What is happening with You're just sitting tight.
They don't care what Rangers and Celtic care. They hate
each other.

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
I'm saying I was talking about talent acquisitions specifically. I
was not blessing about the matches.

Speaker 3 (01:17:36):
Talking talent acquisition.

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
What is going on? Just go with the match?

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
Jared did he like did he get broken?

Speaker 3 (01:17:44):
Sometimes? I don't know what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
I'm confused.

Speaker 3 (01:17:47):
Get the keyboard out connected hit no no no no
no no no no no no no no no, control
shift delete. What you're going to do is control shift deleite.
You're gonna clear the cash on him for all the
do you have to You're gonna have to reenter passwords.
Please don't actually do that on your top and and

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blow the show up. You're gonna have to. He doesn't
let me, He doesn't let me touch this.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
He doesn't get to you know, total of the points
up for Picks of the Weekend more and get to
touch anything with the equipment.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
That actually point being, Yeah, you're just gonna clear cash
on him.

Speaker 1 (01:18:28):
Okay, on, let me let me, let me explain. Wrexham
and Cardiff do not hate one another. It is nothing
like rankers because they hate one about. Well, I have
no idea what you were talking.

Speaker 3 (01:18:42):
About, because that's we're getting to the point where they
might hate each they might hate themselves as much as
they hate each other. It's kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
Lais a fair attitude of talent acquisition.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
Who has the who? Neither one of the Celtic and Rangers.
But what we're talking about rex in the Cardiff What
was your point?

Speaker 3 (01:19:00):
I don't know third base that was happening, right, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:07):
I don't have a num fearing alight, all right? Wrexham
and Cardiff rexm plus.

Speaker 3 (01:19:13):
One twenty like that. Somebody just heard all that and
you know what I'm leaving.

Speaker 1 (01:19:17):
Yeah, draw plus two twenty five Cardiff to win plus
two twenty Wrexham is hosting. They traded leagues after last season,
so Wrexham got promoted to the Championship, Cardiff relegated to
lead one. I'm glad you're laughing at ease. I have
no idea what he was saying, and I blame the
mountain dude.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
Wrexham.

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
As probably most of you know, we like to get
into the nicknames on the show. They are the red Dragons.
That is the most common nickname. They have the red
Welsh dragon on the national flag on.

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
The club's red kids. It's on the crest.

Speaker 1 (01:19:48):
They are one of the oldest professional sides in the
world and especially in Wales. They are known in some
circles as the Robins, which is interesting. They because they
were read so they're no.

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
That's their province.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
Some of the older supporters will call it that. Their
stadium is one of the oldest in the world. Cardiff
are bluebirds, so red and blue. Cardiff is blue.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
They're the bluebirds.

Speaker 1 (01:20:17):
This goes back to when they wore blue shirts and
somebody said that they looked like blue birds. A Belgian
writer has swung out at the time, or a playout
at the time that toward the UK and they called
them the bluebirds and it's stuck. Now remember a Cardiff
Vincent Tan tried to turn them for blue to red
at all and that did not go well no, and

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they went back to and Vincent Tan hasn't showed up
in Cardiff, since I think, no, he is not. He
is not welcome at all. He's what they refer to
his persona non grap if that. Wrexham's own archives says
they've played seventy seven times. I've read probably five different
articles and it's all like different numbers.

Speaker 3 (01:20:59):
It makes no sense. It's like a sundown. It's like
one of those things where sometimes they don't count games
played during war, I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (01:21:07):
And there's probably like weird Welsh competitions that some counts
up doll because that's where they used to play, as
in the Welsh Cup, or like Alabama claiming national championships
they have like nineteen apparently as opposed to like thirteen
or fourteen.

Speaker 3 (01:21:23):
That kind of thing. It is that kind of thing,
except didn't Auburn just claim a new one too, Like
it's just yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
And you can thank you can thank their new athletic
director for that.

Speaker 1 (01:21:32):
Yeah, stupid director for anything. Nope, no, no, the boss
is not either. So Wrexham in the north of the country,
Gardiff in the south. Wrexham two losses in their last
twelve Cardiff. They have beaten Swindon, Cheltenham and Burnley and
preparently they've beat them.

Speaker 3 (01:21:50):
I think up.

Speaker 2 (01:21:52):
Cardiff fans hate Swansea and Bristol City. Wrexham fans hate
Chester City and Shrewsbury Town.

Speaker 3 (01:21:58):
So there you go. They don't hate it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:00):
We'll see if they don't. You're talking about Shrewsbury. Yes,
Why are you wearing a Shrewsbury Tale? Because because I
needed a hoodie and it was ten bucks. Why do
you have a shrews Bred because it was ten bucks?
Because it was ten bucks and I thought it was random,
and I thought that I should have a random sweatshirt
from Wales.

Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
Fair enough, they're not from wherever shrews They're from Shrewsbury
or wherever they're from. Still I picked something. Oh, Wrexham.
You're picking Rexam.

Speaker 2 (01:22:33):
Of course you're fan of the show, are yes?

Speaker 3 (01:22:36):
I am about three seasons behind.

Speaker 1 (01:22:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:22:39):
And you you are a Swansea person, so you hate
Cardiff as absolutely?

Speaker 3 (01:22:44):
What are you picking? I'm taking Cardiff. I I'm just taking.
I'm taking Cardiff as soon as quickly as I can
to get us out of this into something else.

Speaker 1 (01:22:55):
I'm taking Wrexham. Maddie did send her picks in in time.
She rest all right, Wednesday. Good God, we're going to
Italy Juventus and Esa and I put this game on
the sheet before Juventus fired their manager, so that makes
it even more interesting, you they since we'd like to

(01:23:15):
go historical with our prep for these.

Speaker 2 (01:23:17):
They were founded by students in eighteen ninety seven. They
founded sports Club Juventus in Turret. The name Juventus comes
from the Latin word for you excellent.

Speaker 1 (01:23:28):
They were the first Italian club to win all major
international trophies nineteen eighty five. They also went through the chops,
be scandaled and got relegated to the Second Vision for
the first time in the history in two thousands. One
of Italy's oldest clubs, they were founded a year before.
They initially were founded as a gymnastics and fitcing society

(01:23:49):
pect Sense, formerly as a football club in nineteen eleven.
They've been pretty consistent in the top Fife. They haven't
won any of the major They finished fourth seven. They've
never won the Seria title. They've developed a ton of town.
They are known for developing guys, moving them on Mayan money.

Speaker 3 (01:24:10):
And the funny thing about this.

Speaker 1 (01:24:11):
One that I did not think of what I picked
in They both were black and white stripes, so it
is a Zebra derby of sorts. Juventus are known as
the Zebras, not all that often anymore. That was kind
of an old nickname for them, but are known as
le Zebrette, the little Zebras, and it's kind of like
an affectionate term because they're smaller than Juventus. They're the

(01:24:35):
little plucky underdog, little Dibras, So they are definitely the
underdog in this one, although Juventus fired your manager and
creates some interesting possibilities. Here you be minus two twenty
seven draw plus three ten the Little Zebras plus seven
hundred Jero, What do you pick them?

Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
In solidarity with my Paulton County brother, I cannot in
good conscience take you give me the little Zebras doesn't hit,
I don't care if it does. I'm I'm in great
shape for the rest of the week for me to
screw it up.

Speaker 1 (01:25:15):
What about you, John, I've got to you're picking the event. Yeah,
they haven't won an eighty I.

Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
Know new coach Bountain. It's not Martin O'Neill.

Speaker 1 (01:25:25):
No, it's not somebody who said that my team's not
gonna win earlier in the day. It's not that I
didn't put a Celtic game us. I probably should have
changed it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
I'm going to go with a draw here.

Speaker 1 (01:25:36):
I'm going to go with the little Zebras pullet and
draw the second game of the night on Wednesday, the
second leg of Rossing and Flamengo so Rossing founded in
nineteen oh three. They are the first Argentine club to
win both the Cope Libertadores and the inter Continental Cup,
doing so in nineteen sixty seven. Didn't they beat Celtic
in that Air Continental Cup here?

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
Yes, yes they did that games are I'm choking on water? Yeah?
That that game also was I think one of the
legs was marred by basically everything short of a silence.
It was marred by.

Speaker 1 (01:26:12):
Yes, anger got in the way. The arts and time
clubs were a little violent at that time. They were
not very well received by the.

Speaker 3 (01:26:24):
Well. Celtic was also high horse at that time, because
remember they just come off winging the European title. They
went and broke cottonacho. Yes, they beat the line. They
went down in that game and Lot had to lead
and Celtic came back and won it. Because juck Stein's
system was basically like the Dutch on caffeine with the

(01:26:44):
way they moved total football at the time. Where that
went for Scotland, god only knows. Yeah, but they were like,
we're going to play this beautiful, wonderful game. It's gonna
be fast, it's gonna be fluid, it's gonna be Why
does that team have multiple knives? Oh god, why are

(01:27:05):
they running at us? That's what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:27:07):
They did not actually have dies.

Speaker 1 (01:27:11):
It's funny that you mentioned that because the next Inner
Continental Cup it was It's Didiontes in Manchester United and
Dediantes was known for having little pins that they would
prick people with, so not knives, but they would hook
people with it.

Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
They were not ready for christ No, definitely not ready
for rossing.

Speaker 1 (01:27:33):
Back in the day before they beat Celtic in the
Intercomental Cup, they were known as Academia because opponents when
they went through their amateur era in the nineteen nineteen
thirteen nineteen nineteen hero and they won seven straight league titles,
people said they've played academic football, intelligent, stylish, technical and buddle,

(01:27:54):
So Academia Flamengo.

Speaker 2 (01:27:57):
They were founded as a rowing club, so we've got clubed.

Speaker 1 (01:28:00):
Were founded as gymnastics and fencing clubs and rowing clubs
and Flamingo started their football side in nineteen eleven. Things
Our Friends Italy one of the most popular huge in Rio.
Tons of trophies. They've never been relegated from the top flight.
They are the favorites in this one on the road
in Buen Sadre's plus one twenty the draws plus two forty.

(01:28:21):
Rossing at home is a plus two to twenty. Flamengo
won the first leg one. Neil John, what do you
pick Flameengo? You're picking Flamingo to go to Rossing and
win again? Yes, okay, okay, Jered, what do you pick?

Speaker 3 (01:28:36):
Don't care? Give me Ross. I'm picking Russing as well.
I'm going for it. I think they're gonna find a way.

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
They're gonna do it for Santi and they're gonna hold
up his jersey in front of everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:28:45):
That'd be cool. Tantis doesn't know his own name, No,
that's him. What his name was like Thursday or so.

Speaker 1 (01:28:50):
Yeah, he wobbled and he was gonna come back in
and I'm like, no, that's still the still photo that
was circulated.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
There were a whole bunch of still photos.

Speaker 3 (01:28:57):
They were all every time he looked like Leonards Finger
the eighth round. Yes it was bad.

Speaker 1 (01:29:02):
Thursday on Picks of the Week, We're going to Concork
Gaff Olympia hosting Oliwa Lindsay in the CONCA Gas Central
American Cup semi final second leg.

Speaker 2 (01:29:12):
The first leg finished one to one in Costa Rica
last week.

Speaker 3 (01:29:16):
Olympia.

Speaker 1 (01:29:16):
They were founded in nineteen twelve, originally as a baseball
club General during fifty Different sport Wee ten. They shifted
to football pretty soon Africa Olympia. They were white, they
are they have a lion in their crest. They were
inspired by Olympic ideals Olympia, purity, excellent Unity. Olowa Lindsay
founded in nineteen nineteen. They actually started as a soccer club.

(01:29:40):
They chose red and black inspired part.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
Lead by I mean laws right now.

Speaker 1 (01:29:46):
They said it represented passion and strength and that's what
they wanted their club to body. They were the first
Coasta Rican club to own their own stadium, the Estaudio
a Hundro Morena Sultan, built in nineteen forty and their
motto is and courtA so faith, court, courage and park
that's painted above the player's tunnel to say so two

(01:30:07):
Lion teams.

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
Less the Olympia and the Leones Negros.

Speaker 1 (01:30:12):
Of La Liga, which is kind of weird, Like I
always wondered about this, so I had to look it up.
Allow Linsay, they're known as La Liga, the league. They
they were founded as a Lega Deportiva Alawa Linz, which
is the odd LDE, but they're not a league.

Speaker 2 (01:30:30):
They were founded in nineteen nineteen.

Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
The founders, a group of local athletes and community leaders,
wanted the club to represent all sports in Atawa, not
just football, so they went league instead of club like
sporting club or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
Didn't really work it Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:30:47):
Liga Deportiva stuck though, so then they got called the
league and it kind of then turned the other side
because they win so often, they're like they are the league,
yet they won the league, so there, so there you go.
This one is in honk Durist was one one in
the first leg. The stadium they're playing in its intial.

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
It is known as the Lion's Cave.

Speaker 1 (01:31:14):
It'd be a tough one for one one coming into
the second Like, Jarrett, what are you picking Olympia.

Speaker 2 (01:31:19):
No odds on this one because it's.

Speaker 3 (01:31:22):
Seconds. Yeah, no one should there be This is beautiful chaos.
I think it's because we saw them before.

Speaker 1 (01:31:31):
Give me you're gonna go with Ladigo, all right, John,
home side Olympia.

Speaker 3 (01:31:38):
I'm going draw. It's gonna go to extra time. That's
gonna be so and so.

Speaker 1 (01:31:43):
Of course the week that he's picking all of the
draws and I'm picking like actual teams would beat the
week one all the draws. Good.

Speaker 2 (01:31:49):
I did that last week? And who won last week?

Speaker 3 (01:31:51):
John?

Speaker 2 (01:31:51):
I believe that would be you?

Speaker 3 (01:31:52):
Yeah, thank you?

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
Uh Friday Friday Friday Friday. No, that's years old and
we don't do that anymore, and you should stop it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:00):
It's not funny. He's not gonna stop it. No, he did.

Speaker 1 (01:32:03):
He forgot to do it the first two weeks and
then he decided to bring that, which is just back.

Speaker 3 (01:32:09):
It's very bad.

Speaker 2 (01:32:10):
Friday, we go to Guadaloup from the first time ever
the league.

Speaker 1 (01:32:15):
It is as Gaussier versus I think it's Dynamo, but
it could uh Lemon, it is.

Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
Actually it's Guadaloup. That's where we are.

Speaker 1 (01:32:28):
But it is part of the Coupe de France in
the Guadaloup zone in Group B and it's the final
of Group B. I'll explain as Gussia. They have a
leap title. They won it in twenty twenty. They won
again in twenty twenty one. They are known as the Rakin,
the Sharps, Dynamo or Dinamo Uh. The name was inspired

(01:32:51):
by the Eastern European teams when they were founded in
the seventies, like yeah, in Moscow, so they liked it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:59):
They went with that, they Dynamo or.

Speaker 1 (01:33:01):
Dino Lemoun now Guadaloupe. If you are not familiar with them,
you're not concacafee enough. But Guadaloupe is not an independent country.
It is an overseas department of France, so it's officially
part of the French Republic.

Speaker 3 (01:33:17):
It's just in the Caribbean.

Speaker 1 (01:33:19):
Their football federation is affiliated with the French Federation, but
also with CONCACAF, but not with FIVA. That's why they
don't qualify for a World Cup. But they can't play
in the Gold Company.

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
Which we have seen them in the Gold Cup.

Speaker 1 (01:33:34):
So because they are part of the French Republic, they
get to participate in the di Fron. They can enter
French domestic competitions. So whoever wins the Guadaloupe regional bracket
earns a place in the seventh round of the trans
That's where the.

Speaker 2 (01:33:53):
Overseas territories join the national draft.

Speaker 1 (01:33:56):
So they then travel to France to play a mainland opponent,
sometimes semi bro sometimes second division. The Federation covers much
of the travel expense, so the teams from Guadeloupe will
enter alongside winners from Martinique, French, Guiana, Rayonian may of
which this new Caledonia.

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
That's a long way in Tahiti.

Speaker 1 (01:34:18):
Each one sends a representative to the seventh round of
the Coop Diffrance, so this one is essentially a semi final,
so it's Group B. The winner will play the Group
A winner for the right to go into the tournament.
Neither one of these teams have ever made it to
the Coop Difrance. What are you picking, John, draw? You're

(01:34:39):
picking a draw? Yes, Because then apparently in the round
of previous there was a seventeen minute delay due to
a tablet problem.

Speaker 2 (01:34:46):
A tablet problem Dinamo. This is transferred. Uh, then Dinamo didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:34:50):
Keep their fans waiting along to celebrate a goal. Jordan's
Chavrion referee Blewis whistle to start the match, and then
luc Gi mouse with the ball is gently roll the
ball at the flat of his Chilian arioal just behind him.

Speaker 2 (01:35:03):
What was the tablet doing? I don't know, but it
was probably Jared, what did you want me to do?

Speaker 1 (01:35:09):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:35:09):
No, why was Why was the tablet delay? You don't
clear a cash on the tablet the same way you
would to the computer. He probably you would have to
go through individual apps to do it, but you could
do you think you can?

Speaker 2 (01:35:23):
Now this is this is from Guadaloupe, France. Until you
don't know what the tablet had to do with it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:29):
Look, I'm looking at the translation from the Google and
it's telling not telling me why there was a seventeen
minute delay.

Speaker 2 (01:35:34):
It's just literally the lead despite the seventeen minutes. The
tablets my brain and I'm going to assume that they
probably had the v R light kind of thing, the
v R in a box where they could use the
tablets for that.

Speaker 3 (01:35:48):
And that's my guess.

Speaker 2 (01:35:51):
Maybe not sounds sounds like so you're picking a draw.
I'm going to draw, Jared, what are you picking the
layering key or dynamo.

Speaker 3 (01:36:02):
Let's go see what the sharks big and go to
you're big in the sharks.

Speaker 2 (01:36:10):
They're at home.

Speaker 3 (01:36:10):
I'm gonna go with them, and it's I want I
want them to have to travel to the Mainland to
play a big, big club and then embarrass them. That
would be amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:36:22):
If they could somehow beat well John Text, that would
be amazing. The last five matches Negotiate have won two.
There are two draws and lee.

Speaker 3 (01:36:35):
That's five between.

Speaker 2 (01:36:35):
Yes, Okay, I'm gonna go with Yes, the whole team
of Sharks. They rack. All right, let's go to Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:36:41):
We're going to another place.

Speaker 2 (01:36:42):
We've never been picked.

Speaker 1 (01:36:43):
The week Botswana, the Premier League. It's Nico United hosting
the Township Rollers. Yes, third versus sixth. This is round
ten of the league. I don't think anybody's actually played
nine games. Could No, it's not the Base City Rollers,
it's the Township b teams have only conceided four goals

(01:37:08):
this season. I'm glad you had a reference.

Speaker 2 (01:37:10):
It was on bo That's good.

Speaker 1 (01:37:12):
Nico United has played eight games the Township Roles seven
and four. Nico United they are a club rooted in
Botswana's mining town tradition. They were founded in nineteen sixty nine.
Their colors are green and yellow. They are commonly known
as Mojombolo because it's too used for mining and in

(01:37:38):
where they are based it's it's a mining town.

Speaker 2 (01:37:41):
So Majombolo gets shortened to the Jombies.

Speaker 1 (01:37:47):
And then they're known as the baby john Bees because
they bring forth a lot of young talent through the
club wops. And then they took on the bops. Well,
I said, why do the whoops.

Speaker 3 (01:38:03):
Oops?

Speaker 1 (01:38:04):
What's peewe hermal keep going? You're doing pet references that okay. Yeah,
they took on the motto we are baby jumpies and
we don't cry.

Speaker 3 (01:38:16):
If they're resilience.

Speaker 1 (01:38:18):
I'm just saying we'reiling, we're resilient. They don't cry their
baby jumpies. The township Rollers also fascinating. They were founded
as the Mighty Tigers in nineteen sixty one. They took
on the township Rollers name in nineteen sixty five Tigers.
They were founded by workers of the Public Works Department.
The name township Rollers comes from the fact that these

(01:38:39):
workers were based in township areas of Gaborum and used
road rollers as part of their work. The badge even
features a mapping of early roads and that's what and
it has the rollers on it like literal rollers. The
nineteen eighties. They want a whole bunch of times. Twenty eighteen,
they made the group stage of the CAF Champions League.

(01:39:00):
First club for bots one ever do it? We have
no odds the Premier League. Serious, I know, I know that,
I know this is a tough one. The Baby Johnbies
don't cry an the other team's got like road rollers.
So I don't know who to go with, Jared, Who
are you picking Nico United the Township Rollers in Botswana?

Speaker 3 (01:39:20):
Oh my god, I don't know. I'm just so happy
that it exists. I really want Nico. You know I'm
picking Nico.

Speaker 2 (01:39:30):
They're the Baby Johnny's. Come on, I'm picking the Baby Johnnies.

Speaker 3 (01:39:33):
Like I'm going with that.

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
I need to find a Baby John b shirt if
they win. If they win, I will find a baby
Jomby shirt. I's gonna say your your your bootleg, folks.

Speaker 1 (01:39:45):
I might have to bootleg it myself. If we can
have the Baby john Be's get a win over the
Township Rollers.

Speaker 3 (01:39:51):
You pick would be a I think I'm gonna be
a worthless coward and pick a draw.

Speaker 2 (01:39:54):
You're picking a draw, Jarret, you are a worthless gower.

Speaker 3 (01:39:57):
John.

Speaker 2 (01:39:58):
Here you pick the last seven matches Township of one six.
So I'm going with the role. You're going with the rollers.
If baby Johnnies don't cry, they're gonna win.

Speaker 1 (01:40:04):
I hope.

Speaker 2 (01:40:05):
Let's go to the second game on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (01:40:09):
This is actually a really big game the Royal Sociadad
and Athletic Clube in La Liga. It's thereby Vasco, so
both from the Basque Country. For the longest time, neither
one played anybody outside of the Basque Country. Athletic has
stayed with that, the Royal Sociodd Club has not. They
actually signed John Aldridge and Irish striker in nineteen eighty

(01:40:32):
nine to change that.

Speaker 2 (01:40:34):
They met in the Copa del.

Speaker 1 (01:40:35):
Ray final in twenty twenty and it's one of the
more fascinating ones because it's the twenty twenty copadil Ray Final.
It was played in April of twenty twenty one. They
agreed to postponent until fans could attend because they both
made the final and it was a huge game and
it was the first major final between the two and
over one hundred years, the most respectful derby in the

(01:40:57):
world is what this is known as.

Speaker 2 (01:40:59):
So they delayed it by a year so they could.

Speaker 1 (01:41:02):
Have fans in the building and the scenes after the
match round sociodod won, they were consoling.

Speaker 2 (01:41:08):
The athletic players.

Speaker 3 (01:41:09):
It went viral.

Speaker 1 (01:41:10):
It was a big thing about Basque comunity Athletic Glube.
They are known as Los Laons we have more lions.
They were red and white stripes. They played at soun Momis,
the cathedral where Al Sociodid they were found.

Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
In nineteen o nine.

Speaker 1 (01:41:23):
They are known as the White and Blues in Basque.
They were blue white stripes, red and white stripes and
blue white stripes. The Los Leones athletic Glube. It comes
from the club's namesake, Saint Mamas. That's why they played
at Son Mommis, who.

Speaker 2 (01:41:40):
Was thrown to lions in Roman times.

Speaker 1 (01:41:43):
The okay where Al Sociodad they actually do get to
say gral it is royal.

Speaker 3 (01:41:49):
It was granted.

Speaker 1 (01:41:51):
They got the ability to use this by King Alfonso
the Thirteen in nineteen ten. When Spain became a republic
in the nineteen thirties, but are associadd temporarily dropped the
title and the crown from their crest and.

Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
They restored it only after the monarchy.

Speaker 3 (01:42:08):
Makes sense. There you go, Athletic Clube.

Speaker 1 (01:42:11):
They're one of three clubs in Spain who have never
been relegated, the other few in a rail. Yeah, An
Athletic has won the cocavill Ray twenty four times, second
only to Barcelona.

Speaker 3 (01:42:24):
So this one is very even.

Speaker 1 (01:42:26):
In La Liga, it's plus one sixty for the home
team where associated the draws plus two twenty Athletic clue
from Bill val is plus one.

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
Seventy, very very even.

Speaker 1 (01:42:39):
John, what do you pick since it's very very even,
I'm going for all okay, fair enough, Jared, what do
you pick it?

Speaker 3 (01:42:47):
Give me the whole team, give me associate Dad.

Speaker 1 (01:42:49):
I'm going with Athletic Clube because Marcello bi also works
there and he's crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:42:54):
Yes, that's true. That's what reasy. Not an inaccurate statement,
you know, it's true.

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
Sunday we go to the Lundesliga. I think for the
first time this year. That is true. Volksberg versus often
very even in this one as well.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
The Volsburg plus one fifty five often line plus one
fifty the draw plus two seventy.

Speaker 3 (01:43:12):
Volksburg.

Speaker 1 (01:43:13):
They were found in nineteen forty five as a club
for Volkswagen factory workers. After World War Two. Their name
the VFL and their name it means or it stands
for what means club for physical exercise. So they play
in the Volkswagen Arena. He's still having the Volkswagen logo
on the shirts. Makes sense that, you know for football

(01:43:35):
it's for physical exercise. Wow, yes it does. Yeah, Okay,
it's like the seventeenth different sport we've had today. Having
we do with the clubs, there are many others that
were founded for football clubers.

Speaker 3 (01:43:49):
This is another. I was talking just exercise in general.

Speaker 2 (01:43:52):
I wasn't talking about football Claber. Now they were founded
as the football old.

Speaker 3 (01:43:55):
Than the normal carry on.

Speaker 2 (01:44:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:44:01):
Uh, I'm just letting you deal with this because I
have two thousand miles of buffer. Yeah, did wolfe the wolves?
That's what their donuts?

Speaker 1 (01:44:13):
If buscres gotta stylized a wolf had, I mean, like,
what do you want the mascot is a wolf named
wolf feet?

Speaker 2 (01:44:18):
Like it's it's really not that rich. You're hitting all
the same notes the entire time.

Speaker 3 (01:44:24):
Let's go. Let's go. Well when you can, when you
can just hit layups all day long and it works,
you just I went to.

Speaker 2 (01:44:31):
Eagles Landing High School. We were the Golden Eagles. We
had to be the Eagles. We were Eagles landing. I mean,
you couldn't be the Alligators. Shouldn't be the landing.

Speaker 3 (01:44:47):
It's the last game, John, last game. Oftenheim. You don't
have enough bear for this. And you and I both
know it. I know there are.

Speaker 1 (01:44:59):
Uh the Oftenheims from a tiny village called Hoffenheim, populations
under four thousand.

Speaker 2 (01:45:06):
They were in the fifth division as recently.

Speaker 3 (01:45:08):
In the nineties.

Speaker 2 (01:45:08):
Like, do you do this on purpose or is this
like an act?

Speaker 1 (01:45:11):
I don't get Deep bar Hap was a local entrepreneur,
assuming I'm thinking to do the Iams wonder sometimes. Deep
Barhap was a local entrepreneur and co founder of SAP.
You've probably heard of them. They've made a lot of money.
Deep Barhap took that money and put it into haffen
Hunt the club, and he took them from the regional
leagues in the nineties all the way to the Buddhas

(01:45:32):
League by two thousand and eight. They really leaned into
analytics dated scouting from the science. They used technology to
identify talent like Roberto Fermino Nickolsula before big clubs found
They inspired other clubs to start doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:45:49):
They hired the youngest coach in.

Speaker 1 (01:45:51):
Bundesliga history, and Julian Nagelsman, who was twenty eight when
he was hired, saved him from relegation led him to
the Champions League in twenty eighteen.

Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
They are known and I am not good with my turn.

Speaker 7 (01:46:02):
They are known as the Crouch craunchcoul that the Crouch scouts,
which is referring to the region that they're from, and
people used it as kind of a like slam on them,
like you're.

Speaker 1 (01:46:17):
From under the place, call up the village club as well,
But then they kind of took that on and turned
it around and it became.

Speaker 3 (01:46:25):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:46:26):
So it is often high against every wolf cliche. You
can think of Fallsburg, What do you pick a jump draw?
Picking draw because you picked draws early, so I have
to make up for that balance and pick draws.

Speaker 2 (01:46:39):
You're actually not picking what you think is going to happen.
You're trying. That's what he does like and I keep
telling him, who's one, nobody not you.

Speaker 1 (01:46:47):
You haven't won anything with this strategy. You should probably
try to pick anythings go with it. But it's also
the last game on the board, and it's also the
highest margin on the board.

Speaker 2 (01:46:54):
So if I'm behind it, it's not the highest market. No,
but no there of those three.

Speaker 1 (01:46:59):
So again you're picking something based off of the board,
not what you actually think is going to happen. Because
if I'm trailing and I hit the two seventy, then
I have a chance to win the win. Again, you're
not picking based off what you think is going to happen.
You're picking just things.

Speaker 2 (01:47:17):
But if there're two even teams, that lends yourself to
picking the draw.

Speaker 1 (01:47:20):
True, it could, or you could look at it and say,
I think the road team is the favorite and they're
going to overcome by a whole fight, by a whole
five juice spies. Now you know how this works, John,
You've been through the sport many times. You've been through
all the sports. The home team always gets a little bomb.
So is that Oftenheim's the better team than.

Speaker 2 (01:47:44):
Wolf Wolfsburg getting a little bit of the home team back.

Speaker 3 (01:47:49):
I think Oftenheim's the better team. You're gonna go win at.

Speaker 2 (01:47:55):
That's a logical wrote down Jared, What.

Speaker 3 (01:47:58):
Do you think I'm sure is taking a moment to
process everything that is happening in front of me. I mean,
what abody now? Kind of like how Sandy Creek is
the Creeks, give me, give me Haffenheim. Happenheim's always herefore,

(01:48:21):
just because of all the things you talked about, if
y'all don't already know, like their rise from being really
just a regional, local, small thing to being such a
big deal is always a fun thing to kind of
cheerful if you don't have a dog in the fight
when German clubs.

Speaker 2 (01:48:39):
Hoffenheim's a club that has done some stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:48:42):
In the region.

Speaker 2 (01:48:43):
I've talked to some people from the club.

Speaker 1 (01:48:45):
They actually had a really cool community program that was
affiliated with the club. So that is part of why,
because I have nothing better than any other club in
Germany in terms of actually getting that's cool. Yes, I
like offline. Yes, I'm picking golf. I wrote that, then, Jerry,

(01:49:06):
did you pick off on?

Speaker 2 (01:49:08):
Yes, just the prop bet. We're going to the sun Belt,
oh boy, Friday night.

Speaker 1 (01:49:16):
It is the next last set of games in the
men's soccer league for the Sunbelt Conference.

Speaker 2 (01:49:22):
There are ten teams, not all of them are in
sun Belt.

Speaker 1 (01:49:24):
All the other sports that you think of, they are
in men's soccer because some of their regular conferences don't
have men's soccer looking at u SEC.

Speaker 2 (01:49:31):
Yes, and the Big twelve. So it is Georgia State
at Kentucky. It's Marshall at West Virginia, which is a
huge rivalry. There'll be a huge crowd.

Speaker 3 (01:49:41):
That'll be awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:49:42):
Old Dominion at James Madison, South Carolina at Georgia Southern
Old Friend Tonio, and Coastal Carolina at UCF Jared. You
know who the mascot of Coastal Carolina is.

Speaker 3 (01:49:53):
Right, the Shans Well the full name, oh.

Speaker 2 (01:49:59):
The Shaanton. And I also learned because it's not the it's.

Speaker 3 (01:50:03):
Not it's not the Chanta Clears. You my god, you
want to that is right up there with it is
if if you mispronounced Appalachian top, if you call it animation,
holy god, they start like vibrating through the computer like
the girl from the Ring.

Speaker 1 (01:50:22):
Yeah, it's it's like saying It's like saying Nevada when
it's Nevada is yeah in the battles facing Okay, yeah,
I know, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:50:32):
I just don't know that either. But yeah, it's the
Chanta Clears. You got to put some French on it,
yes you do.

Speaker 1 (01:50:37):
I also learn U having the U c F game
this weekend that they really do not like to be
called Central Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:50:43):
They don't go about are they just branding?

Speaker 1 (01:50:45):
There?

Speaker 2 (01:50:46):
You see it? So the prop bet is five games.
It's the next to last match day in the mid season.

Speaker 1 (01:50:55):
Combined goals in the five games, it's Georgia stated can
Tucky Yes, go Thursday. Uh, it is Marshall at Western,
the Old Dominion at James matt Is at South Carolina
at Georgia Southern.

Speaker 3 (01:51:06):
I'm sorry, I can't hear you from my perch up
on Conference to US a superiority with.

Speaker 2 (01:51:12):
Conference USA doesn't happen.

Speaker 3 (01:51:14):
Did they happen in soccer? Actually they do not they do.
I don't think they do.

Speaker 2 (01:51:20):
Kase you doesn't have a men soccer team, so I
wouldn't know.

Speaker 3 (01:51:22):
Kas Kase you had a men's soccer team, that would
probably implode on impact. It's very possible.

Speaker 1 (01:51:28):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:51:28):
Yes, U c F they are just U c S uh.

Speaker 2 (01:51:32):
And they're also the Knights now and not the Golden
Knights Nights.

Speaker 3 (01:51:38):
It's weird.

Speaker 2 (01:51:39):
Yeah, I'm like, like, I can't call the Central Florida No.

Speaker 3 (01:51:42):
Just you see if anyway call their.

Speaker 2 (01:51:46):
Football stadium the penalty home, No, probably don't allow that.
So they did have really so they had.

Speaker 3 (01:51:52):
Their cross day of all days too there John there.

Speaker 2 (01:51:57):
Their players all pronounced their names though, so I was
very happy.

Speaker 1 (01:52:00):
They had some tricky eight different countries I think, yeah,
a lot of French and I was really rolling with
all the French names. And then the connection to the
facility was dropped in the seven seventh boost.

Speaker 3 (01:52:14):
The rest of the game was not good. I'm once
again encouraging all and everyone who wants to ever learn
how to call games to go call a lower division
college games because my god, they're from everywhere. Ye also
also go pop over and call some games and Carkston
because yep, you will get some pronunciations.

Speaker 1 (01:52:34):
Yes, yeah, college baseball, early season, snowbird college baseball. You
can learned how to fill time. I think we were
talking about pronunciations, feeling time correct.

Speaker 2 (01:52:45):
Well, well, then you can fill.

Speaker 3 (01:52:47):
Time with college baseball. No, don't, Why would you want
to do that? No, that's you.

Speaker 1 (01:52:51):
You're forced to because of Traditionally the pitching changes seventeen
to two games that you have.

Speaker 3 (01:52:56):
During Snowbird baseball, and as Alex points out, directional schools
don't get to decide what we call them. But Florida.
He has more sway on this. Alex has a degree
from the University of Florida. He gets to talk ship
to them.

Speaker 1 (01:53:12):
No, I'm not.

Speaker 3 (01:53:13):
I don't think John your team can't talk about anything.

Speaker 1 (01:53:16):
It's I don't have a problem with talking smack to
them at all. But their notes literally said we are
not Central Florida. We are UCF, and we're not the
Golden Knights.

Speaker 3 (01:53:29):
We're the Knights.

Speaker 2 (01:53:30):
And I'm like, okay, to the.

Speaker 1 (01:53:31):
Point that I already done the open before I noticed
that thoughts on the notes because I didn't think about
it and I did the open. I'm like, I call
them central Florida, but I said down in Central Florida.
So I was talking about the literal place, not the
school name. So I was okay if it made them mad.

Speaker 3 (01:53:50):
Sorry. Also, yes, the people in Florida apparently don't know
how don't own a map because remember the USF, which
is University of South Florida. That always threw me off.

Speaker 1 (01:54:02):
Yes, it is in western Florida, sid it's like barely
in the south half of the State's yeah, it's like less.

Speaker 3 (01:54:12):
Like, yeah, I'm pretty sure you can throw a rock
to bush gardens or something.

Speaker 1 (01:54:16):
Yes, West Florida is a whole different place. Yes, that
is in Pensacola, and they are ranked number three in
Division two.

Speaker 3 (01:54:22):
And see, there you go. That's what I happened. I
know the head coach Sunday morning, and you know the
you know, the sister of the head coat. I do
we all do? Okay, we do? Yeah? Who?

Speaker 2 (01:54:35):
Kenley Noble? Her brother Caleb is the head coach.

Speaker 3 (01:54:38):
At u w F. Very nice, the argo very nice.
Why are they arganaus?

Speaker 2 (01:54:43):
That would be a question for folks from Pensacola.

Speaker 3 (01:54:45):
Okay, fair just Jack Nobody's business with the Turks.

Speaker 2 (01:54:48):
So no, it's not instant or constantinople.

Speaker 3 (01:54:51):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (01:54:52):
Combined goals in the five Sun Belt min's soccer matches
I'm gonna go with as a Sunbelt connoisse.

Speaker 2 (01:55:02):
You got a few kind of very boring defensive teams
in the mix.

Speaker 3 (01:55:07):
You got a few kind of wide open, crazy teams
in the mix. You did this on purpose? Well, yes,
I won.

Speaker 2 (01:55:14):
I get to do this on purpose. That's what happens, John,
when you win for the second time.

Speaker 3 (01:55:19):
You wouldn't know, I wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:55:21):
I am gonna go with thirteen goals in the five, Jared,
what are you picking?

Speaker 3 (01:55:28):
How many five I'm gonna go with. I'm gonna go
with eleven, eleven. Yeah, I think to your point, I
think you're gonna get a couple of like just slogging stalemate,
why are we here games, and then one or two

(01:55:49):
are gonna make up for it.

Speaker 2 (01:55:50):
Somebody's gonna go a little while.

Speaker 3 (01:55:53):
Yeah, somebody's gonna get a little bit loose coming out
of turn four.

Speaker 1 (01:55:57):
Yeah. Yeah, it might be toward this other and it
got some some good attackers. They're really good this year.
They come to Georgias Day for the last game of
the regular season. As he's asking the prices right question. Now,
it's just just getting it. It's plus one hundred to.

Speaker 3 (01:56:09):
Whoever gets So you can pick thirteen or eleven if
you want.

Speaker 2 (01:56:13):
What are you gonna pick up?

Speaker 3 (01:56:14):
Fourteen?

Speaker 1 (01:56:14):
You're gonna pack fourteen because I figured that the Marshall
West Virginia and the Old Dominion James and Madison will
be the lower scoring of that group and the South Carolina, Georgia,
Southern and State in Kentucky the higher scoremes so split
the difference in going fourteen. All right, that's your picks

(01:56:35):
of the week. Excel the league beneath that happen. Yes, Jared,
what did you learn during Picks of the Week?

Speaker 3 (01:56:45):
Oh my god, Well I learned that you can't payhim
a high school team.

Speaker 2 (01:56:53):
Landing, And well you could.

Speaker 3 (01:56:54):
It's just that no one has, no one has taken
that brave step to Lane. I faint that's something that
should happened, like Warner Robbins.

Speaker 1 (01:57:01):
Well, actually, you know what, it's probably the neighboring subdivision
to the to the Villages.

Speaker 3 (01:57:07):
It's like the Villages and the Landing. They're probably next
to each.

Speaker 2 (01:57:10):
Other in the central floor.

Speaker 3 (01:57:12):
The Villages is too busy trying to get through the
US Open Cup without getting kicked out of there.

Speaker 2 (01:57:18):
I'm gonna have to buff Yeah, really, as you should.

Speaker 1 (01:57:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:57:23):
Once again, gentle reminder for SDH. Lore Jason contributed to
the land to the Villages getting kicked out of the
Open Cup when they were everyone's darling because they cheated.
Everyone's like, oh, this is so cool, so great. Hey
they're cheating. Okay, they're kicked out. You're out, Oh my god. Otherwise,

(01:57:48):
what I learned about this is that we we need
to step up our efforts for other African leagues of leave.
Africa has the most countries of any cotton on the planet.
And this is this is a this is a promise
that I will on those on those.

Speaker 1 (01:58:07):
Very I'm intrigued by this. I wonder if they have
more FIFA members in Europe. I think it's pretty close.
Let's find out, John, they're both in the fifties. I
think Europe has the most FIFA members with fifty five.
Africa has fifty four.

Speaker 2 (01:58:32):
But yeah, you're like, you got a couple of there are.

Speaker 3 (01:58:36):
Yeah, but Africa has has an obscene amount of countries,
more so than I think we ever think about. So
I on the on the rare occasions that I do
win Picks of the Week and I kind of just
stumble blindly into the right light switch, I will try
and find the most unhinged African games I can, so
that we're hitting more countries over there, because my god,

(01:59:01):
either it's not correct, No, that's that's that's that's fine.
It's like, yeah, no, that's fine, but yeah, no, that's
that's it's It's interesting Africa has one fewer FIFA member than.

Speaker 1 (01:59:16):
Probably more total countries, although you might get into a
couple of tricky ones.

Speaker 3 (01:59:22):
Yeah, there's some of the some of those smaller countries
in Africa are like they're they're they're probably in that
same category of like they're a member, but it's it
like it's it's fifteen people and three goats, right, kind
of like some of those European countries are fifteen people
and three goats.

Speaker 2 (01:59:43):
What would be the equivalent of the goats.

Speaker 1 (01:59:47):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:59:47):
It's funny to steal it.

Speaker 3 (01:59:50):
We really do need we really do need to like
reinvigorate some like England versus Argentina and the Falklands.

Speaker 2 (01:59:58):
Sorry trading out for your classes, thank you?

Speaker 1 (02:00:03):
All right?

Speaker 2 (02:00:04):
Yes, uh, I learned a lot about.

Speaker 1 (02:00:10):
The Botswana premierly that I learned that a lot of
soccer clubs have been founded as different sports clubs.

Speaker 2 (02:00:17):
That was what I learned fixed of the week. Hopefully
you guys learned something.

Speaker 1 (02:00:19):
Hopefully you're entertained, and hopefully the Baby john Be's win
because that's my your favorite team, all right.

Speaker 3 (02:00:24):
But that's it's always a fascinating part about it though.
To your point is like I would.

Speaker 2 (02:00:28):
Have bought a dirty if I could have found it,
but they're very expensive.

Speaker 1 (02:00:31):
I have found some T shirts, but I'm gonna wait
and see if they continue to win pop.

Speaker 3 (02:00:35):
On pop on the Wikipedia page. For a lot of
teams you hear and yeah you'll find out. Even even
even clubs that you know, you'll pop on a Wikipedia
page or go look at their history. You find out, Oh,
this started as a gymnasium, like a gymnastics, yeah kind
of place, and then it involved all right, I.

Speaker 1 (02:00:49):
Got I got some news, and it's a good thing
that Nick is not here. Here up to Nick has
not done anything in like you, there's nothing new, nothing new.
I think Ny, Nicholas Beentner is not doing anything. Stupid
John might have been. He's retired, incredibly disappointing. Nicholas Sner's
not giving contes, not speeding anymore and getting his life.

Speaker 3 (02:01:11):
Someone has pulled the man's car away from him.

Speaker 2 (02:01:14):
But I do have an update from Calcio Mercato on
another one of our people that.

Speaker 1 (02:01:18):
We talk about, which all right, you're update. According to
Calcio Mercato, Milan manager Similiano Allegri wants to and there's
another app.

Speaker 2 (02:01:31):
Wow, that's a lot of ads.

Speaker 3 (02:01:35):
No, I don't want to jump into the app.

Speaker 1 (02:01:38):
Allegri wants to sign Maro Accardi Jerry. According to Calcio Mercato.
He wants to bring this long.

Speaker 3 (02:01:45):
This time is going to be different. Well, yeah, Belan,
he was an injured I know, but like sending him
back to the city of Milan.

Speaker 1 (02:01:52):
Sorry, it's a bad place for him. Bad things happened there. Yes,
just saying Milan wants to get him. His contract expires
at the end of the season. They would to bring
him in because if Cardi is the backup.

Speaker 3 (02:02:07):
To Victor a seaman.

Speaker 1 (02:02:08):
Even though the party sports go, Milan is also trying
to get Ken and Jai who's not playing.

Speaker 3 (02:02:14):
At Fire Munich.

Speaker 1 (02:02:16):
They're also looking at if they don't get him, they're
looking at Joe Gomez, Philmas Christensen or.

Speaker 2 (02:02:21):
Salt mario' guila, but they're looking at Malo McCarty.

Speaker 1 (02:02:25):
Also, Sonny is linked with a possible loan to Oh yeah,
the Land and Donovan.

Speaker 3 (02:02:33):
Is he going to do the Land and Donovan thing? Yeah,
the Beckham and or the Beckham thing without literally to
hopefully Sonny's achilles doesn't blow up, Yeah, doesn't explode.

Speaker 2 (02:02:44):
Yeah, that would be pat.

Speaker 1 (02:02:47):
Also, I uh yeah, I mean it was gold dot
Com had it's not completely in the well. They're reporting
it from time yeah, I'd seen this. Uh, Chelsea stars
are inso Fernandez caught up in love triangle after Malro
McCarty's ex wife, Juandonara sends flirty d M while long

(02:03:10):
term girlfriend competes on Celebrity Master show Boy.

Speaker 3 (02:03:14):
That's a headline.

Speaker 2 (02:03:16):
That's that's a that's a paragraph, right that one.

Speaker 3 (02:03:20):
Yeah, facts that all got thrown together against God's will.

Speaker 1 (02:03:24):
So rumors have been circulating in South America as Valentina Servantes,
who is Enzo's long term girlfriend, she is on Argentina's
Celebrity Master Chef that is being hosted by one Narah,
and reports have come out that Juandnara, who is thirty eight,

(02:03:46):
Enzo is not close. Wanda has been sending flirty messages
to inso Fernandez, and some of those surfaced in La Nacion,
who claimed to have been made aware of the the
question which read, I just saw you around the neighborhood
right to me if you want, yes, this is what's

(02:04:10):
happening in Argentina on Master Chef involving the national team
and mal rocards Valentina and Wanda.

Speaker 2 (02:04:18):
That that is I'm guessing Valentina she's gonna take no Christeners.
But they're from the same the same. Valentina says, I
don't know anything about it. I never saw anything about it,
and I never spoke to me about it.

Speaker 1 (02:04:31):
It's plain the Enzo said, Hey, I got this. This
is whatever Wanda said. She was just being black.

Speaker 3 (02:04:39):
So that's the word to use. Okay, that's what she said.
I'm just being polite.

Speaker 2 (02:04:43):
Hey, you know I'm in I'm in your DM, so
she's known. I'm being polite. Hey, reach out if you just.

Speaker 3 (02:04:52):
Want to talk. Wek wek nudge nudge. Had to do
what had to do.

Speaker 1 (02:04:56):
Just in case you are joining for the first Timeara
was once married to Max Lopez. He played for Argentina
and was Mara McCarty's teammate. Entered and Wanda That one up.
Wanda has since dated musician El Gante. That's the Margentine rapper.

(02:05:16):
Has also been romantically linked to Astra Affakimi for PSG.

Speaker 2 (02:05:20):
Well you know sure. She's been back at Argentina.

Speaker 1 (02:05:25):
As the host one of the hosts of Celebrity Master Chef,
and Enzo is with his childhood sweetheart Valentina Servants. They
have two kids together. They had separated for a little
bit because they were split.

Speaker 2 (02:05:38):
She was in Argentina, he was in London. They got
back again, but Wanda's trying to break them up whole day. Yes,
it's bad.

Speaker 1 (02:05:45):
So hopefully Enzo can avoid this drama as he tries
to go win the World Cup again.

Speaker 2 (02:05:50):
They just have Valentine to take care of it. That's
what I'm saying, Abbey.

Speaker 3 (02:05:53):
It is very confusy.

Speaker 1 (02:05:55):
But Wanda Nara is trouble number Yes. Maura cart is
also trouble number one. When you put trouble and trouble together,
you get more trouble. True, and we've seen that. I
don't know if Inso is trouble maybe a little. Hopefully
he's not going to be trouble here. Yeah, stay away

(02:06:15):
from that trouble. Yeah, absolutely true, that's all I said. Yes, please, Yeah,
I think that's the party stores.

Speaker 3 (02:06:24):
It's just Mara might be.

Speaker 1 (02:06:26):
In Milan and Nick's head mining's oh my god. No, yeah,
we'll send him over to Milan for the story.

Speaker 3 (02:06:32):
No.

Speaker 1 (02:06:37):
Shockingly enough, Minnesota and Seattle have not scoring goal. Yeah,
because Minnesota is allergic to having the ball. They are
every time they have it, they get confused. Yeah, it's
it's it's like the.

Speaker 3 (02:06:48):
Ball is what they're up to possession.

Speaker 2 (02:06:52):
Oh, that's probably why they're confused. Yes, they're like, what
is this?

Speaker 1 (02:06:55):
What are we doing?

Speaker 3 (02:06:55):
Absolutely well, this is the same consider I had for
them going into the playoffs, and you will see tomorrow night.
It is one of the similar concerns I have for Charlotte.
What are you gonna do in the playoffs? Team? Get
more pragmatic and don't want to play a wide ass
open Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:07:14):
Yeah, and you ain't got no Wolford I mean well yeah,
because he was sick. Yes, one of the first things
that the league figured out. You foull him his engine
runs not to begin with and keep following him and
those stuff like he did last time. Yes, if anybody
has any final questions, So the end of chat, because
we're about to go. I gotta finish my beer that

(02:07:36):
I needed because John's been absurd tonight. I needed a third.
But it's a Falcons glass though, well, there's other classes
that have been in circulation. I had STA's glasses the
last two. The Falcons glasses a little troubling right now.
But anyway, Oh, whoa, you can't say that on TV.
Branch menzer what he is saying. He dropped a word

(02:07:59):
with a letter that I'm supposed to say.

Speaker 3 (02:08:03):
Let the English language is made of words with letters.

Speaker 1 (02:08:07):
Really like, I don't understand how the English language works
in John's brain.

Speaker 3 (02:08:12):
Well I don't, but I don't know if it works
in sometimes either. And I think I think Brian Schmetzer
sees the world as one giant spreadsheet. Yeah, yeah, he was.

Speaker 2 (02:08:25):
He was running his quadratic equation and then he dropped
an F bomb.

Speaker 3 (02:08:29):
I was over two way correct. I have come around on.

Speaker 2 (02:08:40):
Said so many nice things.

Speaker 3 (02:08:41):
I have stopped my slander. I mean, he looks like
I'm still slander because I want to make fun of him,
because he looks like a pencil pusher and he looks
like he uses a pivot table to make decisions. He's
This is in no way, shape or form a criticism
of Brian Schmetzer, the manager who at this point his
reputation speaks more than enough for what he has done.

Speaker 1 (02:09:04):
No, I have stipulated on the morning show, and I've
asked multiple people, are we underappreciating I think he's kind
of floated out there that he wouldn't mind be in
charge of the national team at some point his career.

Speaker 2 (02:09:18):
Kind of wides down. That would be awesome if.

Speaker 3 (02:09:23):
People are going to be in a special hell when
Brian Schmizer, whether that happens or not, ends up like
in a really nice gig with Seattle, Like after he's
done coaching, he'll get like a front office gig with Seattle,
and then he like pushes the job to Gonzo. People
are gonna be in a special Oh, I know I'm
talking about I'm talking about other people. People, other people

(02:09:47):
you talked, You talked to Nico would ask him about Gonzo.
People adore him.

Speaker 1 (02:09:53):
I had these conversations with people. All right, that's gonna
do it. This edition of Soccer over there.

Speaker 2 (02:10:02):
Don't forget your your promos for the night.

Speaker 1 (02:10:05):
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locker here at the Brewhouse Cafe.

Speaker 2 (02:10:09):
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Speaker 1 (02:10:10):
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Speaker 2 (02:10:14):
The plan is to have them in cans and available
before the World Company, especially if you sell it. I
think we'll tell me good.

Speaker 3 (02:10:23):
It's very good.

Speaker 2 (02:10:24):
Are both hands in the here? Seattle once penalty, I
don't know if they're gonna get it, doesn't know what
they're gonna.

Speaker 1 (02:10:28):
Get in though, so soccer over there is powered by
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the lookout on Instagram for the team sheet, the three
games that we recommend you watch over the weekend.

Speaker 3 (02:10:40):
We'll have any good week things this time.

Speaker 1 (02:10:42):
The three games that you should keep an eye on
over the weekend that'll be on Instagram on Thursday, Sdham
every morning this week we have coming up this week
job caseu whye CACD is going to be joining us
at nine point fifteen tomorrow. In the conversation that we
had with our football consultant and one that Jason Stevens,
we discussed John Texter, we discuss MCOs. We discuss mafia

(02:11:08):
that are involved in owning Italian clubs as well as
clubs in Macedonia and Mongolia.

Speaker 3 (02:11:16):
And we all in mafia.

Speaker 2 (02:11:18):
Well, no, it's it is a it is a mafia.

Speaker 1 (02:11:21):
Group based partically that as part of their portfolio has
clubs in Macedonia and Mongolia. It's Italian mafia in Longoli, yes, okay.
And so we discussed this particular group and are they
involved in the Indian gambling None at the moment because
it's Sirip and Syria Chip So Nick knows about all
that stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:11:39):
Jason Stevens, we caught up with him today. That's gonna
run ten thirty. Case and White's going to join us
at nine fifteen, and we'll take the tour and find
out what else is going on.

Speaker 1 (02:11:46):
We'll talk about what's happening tonight in MAJORAGU soccer tomorrow morning,
starting night in Fiers.

Speaker 2 (02:11:49):
You got Charlotte tomorrow night.

Speaker 3 (02:11:52):
That is on the Apple TV.

Speaker 2 (02:11:54):
That is, and it should be I think it will be.

Speaker 1 (02:11:58):
Actually I want to see LAFC when they get started
in the playoffs as well.

Speaker 2 (02:12:02):
All teams have won every game so far.

Speaker 1 (02:12:04):
Minnesota might be testing that when it's still scoreless secure
late Wednesday morning, Chris Henderson's gonna speak to the media
from Marietta at nine to thirty. Madis of and I
will be hopping on at Sdham probably before and after,
definitely after, just depending on how everything goes in the morning.

(02:12:24):
We will try to hop off before and say hello.
That is, we'll be on a nine and or ten
or thirty ish, is what I'm thinking.

Speaker 3 (02:12:34):
Kind of our thoughts on everything I could said.

Speaker 1 (02:12:36):
I got Atlanta soccer tonight tomorrow night at ten o'clock
on ninety two to ninety game. Honestly app morning Espresso
every morning in the nine o'clock hour, typically except for
the day after the Atlanta Soccer time usually but sometimes
it still gets up into that nine o'clock hour trying
to do the Wednesday show that Wednesday Morning Espresso's as well.

(02:12:57):
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Speaker 2 (02:13:16):
We're around the quarter from everywhere as well. We do
on the SDACH network. Thanks for hanging out with us
this evening. Audios everybody soon