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22:37Adam Hurrey:Yeah. But I haven't seen it en masse in pubs or no. So if I stumble now I've got no lager, it'll be that. But not really in order. I think there's so many good ones out there. I'm not playing the game. I mean it sincerely. There's so many good ones out there now that, you know, if you're going to a free house, you've got a choice. You've got a choice. There's that many good ones. The thing with the vitamin G as well, why you're so good now, is it's chilled as well, so you can have it on a hot day. You know, we made a joke on my socials. You know, someone came back and said in Scotland they have vitamin T for tenants.

23:04Adam Hurrey:That did make me laugh. Do you know what, Nick? Ultimately, this is actually quite mesmerising content. This is the exact level of detail I wanted them to go into about the availability of certain beers and which one was Daishi's favourite. I'm yet to hear his missives on Madri and where he stands on that. And it's, you know, provenance. But other than that, I'm quite happy with his opinions here. So the tone of the discussion, the shades of the, was it Tanzendon and McCoyst, the team of animals? This seems to have that kind of same level of earnestness, but also slight, you know, kind of, you know, we know what we're doing here kind of thing, which I quite enjoyed.

23:43Just overdoing the vitamin G. Yeah, yeah, drop it in, fine, but come on, we get it. We get the joke. This is it. This is what I've pinpointed as classic Dyche now, Dave. when he gets a little thing that he finds funny, but just can't pull it off consistently because maybe it's self-awareness. I don't know what it is. Maybe he just really likes it so much, but he can never quite just sort of breezily chuck it in. But yeah, vitamin G is absolutely perfect for him. He couldn't make up a better little catchphrase for him. I like the fact that he called it a free house, which is nice. You don't hear often pubs called free houses much these days.

24:20I'm going to take issue with his putting Kingfisher and Cobra on a pedestal. I don't think I've ever had an enjoyable pint of Cobra or Kingfisher. They're massively overrated. Like when you're having a massive heavy curry and then they plonk down a huge pint of Cobra next to you. It's not enjoyable. Kingfisher and Cobra are pure context. Nobody knows what they taste like. It's all about when you drink them, quite obviously. They don't take any different to any of the other ones, let's face it. But yeah, I was mesmerised by it and how much he appears to care about it, Nick. And it doesn't feel entirely put on.

24:55Adam Hurrey:No, I don't think it does. Can I use this platform to issue a plea? Because I obviously have been fascinated by Daish's last few months since his late forest. And I have submitted an interview request to him on this very subject. And he was initially reluctant because he didn't believe that I was genuinely interested in the newsletter. So I would like to use this to say, if you're listening, Sean, I genuinely am interested in your newsletter and all of your oeuvre over the past few months. So if you did want to talk to me, then let me know. You've got my number. An actual come and get me plea.

25:29Do we think the last five minutes will have increased your chances or not?

25:34Adam Hurrey:I will confess it was a gamble, but, you know, got to shoot high. I think we're acclimatising to Dice's new existence now. If anything, we've burnished his reputation. Okay, that's the ultra topical matters taken care of. We'll be back for part two very shortly.

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27:47Welcome back to Football Clichés. It's been a tremendous month for Dreamland. We put out episode 27 for free for our listeners because we loved it so much, didn't we, Dave? Watching football on holiday. I thought it was the right time to pick an episode that we loved so much just to give people a flavour of what Dreamland is all about and what better episode to do that than episode 27 watching football on holiday yeah very enjoyable i reckon i've got enough for a part two as well there's plenty more anecdotes where that came from the flood of the flood of examples from people just like people who are on the top deck of a ferry or something trying to get five lives so they could a lot of ferry a lot of ferry watching yeah in the replies yeah one of my favorites though incredible story from a guy on reddit who said when he was 18, he left the US for a two-year religious mission for the Mormon church, for my sins.

28:34They weren't allowed access to any sort of technology, although they had an iPad for digital scripture reading. Every Tuesday, they had the day off and he scheduled that Tuesday to go and visit his barber because he knew that it coincided with the Tuesday Champions League games in Europe. Wow. And yeah, so he would just sort of sneak off and go and watch a bit of Champions League at the Barbers on a break from the Mormon church. Fair play. Sensational. Yeah, take the action whenever you can. Episode 28 was hot on the heels. Voices of Football featuring John Motson, Steve McManaman and Roy Key.

29:04Not on the episode in person, just to be clear. That's out now. You can sign up for Dreamland for just£5.99 a month. You'll get ad-free listening of all of our episodes, plus two episodes a month of Dreamland, our exclusive show and lots of other things as well. Just go to dreamland.footballcliches.com. About, I think, 24 hours or so after we published the episode where we had a look back at John Motson's career, featuring many commentary clips. Somewhat ironically, the man who voiced Zippy passed away. Yes! Oh. Oh, sad news. Some things are just too perfect. But yeah, RIP the voice of Zippy, together again.

29:41Right, let's pick up on some pre-season slash transfer window bits that took my fancy over the last week or so. First up, this came from Oli. Here is Manchester United conceding early doors against Atletico Madrid in the Snapdragon Cup at, crucially, the Strawberry Arena in Stockholm.

30:00Adam Hurrey:And Atletico Madrid hit the front. A cross of real quality from Arnaud Ortiz. Flipped home to give the visitors a 1-0 advantage. They're not the visitors, Dave. They can't have that. Well, I mean, they are visiting in a way, aren't they? Well, because Snapdragon and Manchester United sponsors, as therefore they are the hosts of the tournament. I don't like that at all. Innocent mistake. Manchester United listed first in the fixture and therefore he went for the visitors. You know, it's good commentary shorthand for the other team, I guess. They were being booed there, weren't they? A little bit by the quite sparsely populated and seemingly quite young sounding crowd.

30:41Right. So maybe that was a bit of muscle sort of memory kicking in. Yeah, maybe. Other rustiness on show. This came from Rory Hayes, Nick. It's from Liverpool's 4-2 win over Sunderland, during which one observer said Federico Chiesa, great finish from an abrupt angle. Rory Harris saying, I'm trying to figure out what that would be. I'm assuming he means a cute tight angle here. You wouldn't comment on it otherwise. He scored from exactly 90 degrees.

31:09Adam Hurrey:Does seem to fall into that category of obviously wrong but also you sort of know what he means. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, it's a bit of a tap-in in that sense, Dave. But what kind of angle would be abrupt for you? You're shooting from there. that's a bit abrupt from you isn't it oh yeah i guess right on the right on the touchline yeah maybe um maybe it's maybe it's like before if you you have you have the ball and you're in a position to shift yourself to for a better angle but you shoot early anyway you shoot abruptly maybe okay yeah that's all timing and angle combined more nuanced angular chat now sydney FC versus Tottenham down under.

31:47And Alistair Gold tweeted, another Sydney leveller before Robertson curls home a fine spot kick. 3-2 to Spurs. Phil says, can a spot kick be curled home? Dave, I thought about this a lot on the drive home from Wales. I spent five hours thinking about whether the spot kick could be curled. Obviously they can't, but why? And it's just because there are two things, really. It's not enough distance for the curl to become, to be manifested, essentially. You can't curl it 12 yards unless it was really obvious and not really a penalty situation. And two, I don't think there's any benefit from curling a penalty.

32:21You know, that sort of classic Shearer penalty where he used his instep to bend it away from his body and that took it away from the goalkeeper's dive, that's different. That's not curling it. But curling it around a goalkeeper, it's neither possible nor beneficial from a penalty, is it? There's not enough time or distance for it to start outside the post and come back in. That's going to go wide. but you can like you said that's a good example you can curl it away from the keeper like you can put a bit you know you could put a bit of something on it and it's just going away into the side netting so it doesn't feel right to say curled home you still do put a bit of outside on the ball don't you okay

32:59Adam Hurrey:in Harry Kane's kind of suite of penalty techniques now because he mixes things up a little bit I can't remember the exact one but he does he has done in the past a sort of it's not a Penenka but it's a kind of it's a similar idea to a Penenka in as much as it it goes aerial he doesn't hit it with much power straight down the middle and there is a version of that where he curls it and it doesn't obviously doesn't curl around the goalkeeper in the traditional curled it into the corner kind of sense but it starts out sort of just sort of right of centre and then curls back into the middle. But does the curl have any purpose in that situation or is it just a by-product of how he's hit it?

33:35Adam Hurrey:Yeah, I suppose you could argue that if the goalkeeper dives one way, he's curling away from the goalkeeper, so you can't have a kind of Stuart Pearce in Italian 90s situation where the goalkeeper almost accidentally saves it with his feet. Yes. You get situations where you end up curling it into the goalkeeper. If you're right-footed and you go bottom right, goalkeeper's left, and if you don't get the technique right, the ball ends up just coming back in enough to give the keeper a chance. Yeah, maybe. Maybe that is a thing. I'd love to see a penalty where the ball starts outside the post and goes in.

34:10Is it physically possible? I want a TV show out there to prove whether it can or not. Feels like something that maybe at some point, like a football robot will be able to do. Like it'll be able to generate enough, the precise amount of power to get it outside the post and back in. Yeah, yeah. Love to see it. Next up, Alan Nixon tweeted the news, Nick, that Wrexham are after a second midfield general. Burnt Turnip says, can a team have two midfield generals in their side? It feels like a recipe for confusion. I mean, at military level, you're allowed more than one general, right? There's not just one general.

34:45I mean, I know there are famous generals that probably took over, Alex Ferguson style, but you can have more than one general involved, surely.

34:52Adam Hurrey:Well, I mean, there was obviously more than one general in the army, but do you have more than one general in a skirmish in a battle or is that the not maybe maybe they get assigned wars each yeah i don't know but in a footballing sense dave can you have two midfield generals i suppose in the era of double pivots they could have the same sort of status in terms of what a midfielder needs to do yeah although i think really it's more likely that you would have had two midfield generals back in the days of you know just 4-4-2 and having two box to boxman roy keen and paul The Lynts will have played central midfield together plenty of times for Man United.

35:29Were they generals? I think so. Yeah, I think so. We've opened a different can of worms here. Are they not generals? What are they then? Well, OK. No, well, let's get into this. What is the top? What is the main first thing in a midfield general's inbox, Nick? I would have thought it's kind of tempo setting, which Roy Keane did do a bit of. But I don't see rampaging as necessary in the midfield general's remit. I think it's authority, isn't it?

35:54Adam Hurrey:Yeah, it's a sort of aura thing. The midfield general to me is Brian Robson. But he scored goals. Like goal scoring was part of his repertoire. I don't need my midfield generals to score goals, Dave, at all. Yeah, no, I get that. I don't want them arriving in the box. That'd be like turning up at the front line. You don't want them there. You want them back in the control room telling people what to do. You just want them to control everything, right? Yeah, I think you want them to be in charge of the situation. You want them to be a muscular, authoritative presence in the midfield. That's what you're getting from your midfield general.

36:28To go to maybe an extreme example, was Vinnie Jones a midfield general? Is he too hard? I don't think he was. Is he too much?

36:36Adam Hurrey:I think there is an element of skill to be able to control a game. So Roy Keane, in that example, would qualify. But Vinnie Jones wasn't technically good enough, I don't think. So is Rodri a midfield general? I think he is. I think probably, yeah. Elite quality, tempo setting, can put his foot in. But is he vocal enough to be a midfield general? That's the issue. He hasn't got it in his locker, I don't think. Maybe he has. Too tall? Too tall to be a midfield general? Like Napoleon? Right. Could do a whole episode on this. Next up, Nick, I'll come to you on this because having had the pleasure of editing a lot of your writing in recent years, you do like a sort of colourful turn of phrase when it comes to teams being beaten heavily.

37:22I don't know if it's an East Midlands thing, but you do have a sort of surprisingly large repertoire of words for this. And over to the BBC we go. This came from BeatConsistent6428 on Reddit from the BBC's report of Hearts' Champions League exit at the hands of Sturm Graz. And it says, after their Champions League toweling at the hands of Sturm Graz, a few questions were being asked of the Hearts players. Toweling! As in being hit with a wet towel, whipped with a towel.

37:46Adam Hurrey:That to me is like a kind of, it's a sort of alpha slash bully move in a kind of US teen drama or something like that. whipping a weedy boy with a towel so yeah i think i mean i think it i think it works i can see you using toweling can you insert toweling in your next piece please even if it's for infantino infantino being handed a toweling by the welsh fa it's interesting that that's what your mind goes to it's for toweling like being whipped with the with the towel in the dressing room whereas the first thing i thought of was just sort of being rubbed down like being rubbed down yeah maybe because maybe i'm doing quite a lot of that at the moment with my my young child bath time but it's like i just thought of someone being wrapped in a towel and sort of being gently rubbed dry dry it off ridiculous i mean who knows with the scots who knows it could be anything but yeah i don't know does it if we go with the first definition nick safely which is a whipping with a towel how what kind of win is i think it was a six nil aggregate defeat for hearts do you think that's that's the benchmark for a toweling six nil uh aggregate defeat i could get not sure it's a toweling is quite like the word isn't quite emphatic enough for a 6-0 single game defeat.

39:00Adam Hurrey:If it was like a 2-0 or a 4-0 over two legs, then maybe that qualifies. A 2-0 aggregate score as a toweling? No, no, no. As in like a 4-0 in one game, a 2-0 in the other game kind of thing. I think 4-1 might be a toweling. I think mine's better. I think mine works better. I think it's like having your tummy tickled it's like you're just you know it's too protective it's too nice they've got us right where they want us they just got us there they're just they're just rubbing us down gently we're giving them we're giving them no resistance that's mad in your scenario i want to be toweled that's a good thing tell me next up um nick where are you with john stones doing the shoulder thing um he's done it in his unveiling video at intermelan so i'm just trying to work out how many documented performances of John Stones' shoulder there have been.

39:55We had the original with Declan Rice in the dressing room after the Mexico game. Mexico, yeah. He had the follow-up with Harry Kane on the pitch after... Norway. Norway. He did it at the Ibiza Super Club Ushuaia, and now he's done it again. At what point of those four did it become too much? Maybe even the second one?

40:12Adam Hurrey:Yeah, I actually wasn't aware of the third one of those. So when I did see this, that he did it, it's two things I thought when he did it in the interim unveiling. a are the italian audience across this was this is this is this is a social media phenomenon that went beyond the england sphere so i was i thought i thought it was a gamble to to do it uh but the second was i thought yeah okay fair enough don't do that again so but the the introduction of a third one that i didn't i wasn't across that complicates things like dave as a spectacle does it have enough about it to be performed four times in high profile situations i i've just watched the the ibiza version and he's like in the dj booth with a cap on to the point where the video that i watched it on had a had to have an arrow like and text with an arrow saying john stones like if you're in the club i don't know if you're necessarily going to recognize that that's john stones he does get the timing spot on though so i think that's the the big issue with the inter milan unveiling video is that the timing's off he's he's not he's not on the beat he looks knackered it looks like, oh, all right, yeah, I'll do it.

41:17Whereas the first one, the brilliant thing about the first one was he pulled it off so well. It was just, and it wasn't, it was really subtle as well. Like he was barely moving his shoulder when he did the, when he actually, when the beat dropped and he did the little arm thing. Like that was great. And then, okay, doing it in front of the fans against Norway, fine. That's a nice moment. Draw a line under it there. Like Crouchy didn't do the robot every single time, did he, back in the early days? i think i think it's a very good parallel to be drawn nick the robot isn't it i watched a clip

41:47Adam Hurrey:of crouchy doing the robot this weekend i can't remember where it was from so he you know 20 years on he's he's uh thoroughly milking that the other thing about the original one was that there was there was enough time beforehand like declan rice really hamming it up beforehand whereas with the inter one it's just like you know camera on him one two seconds this is it with every repeated performance the build up gets sort of withered away a bit more because people are too impatient you've got to keep the patience job that's what it is at this stage of a career you need to understand that so that's the fatal flaw of it but I'm glad we covered this it was a very important issue of the summer

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44:06Enjoyed this? Rick's eyebrow was watching Chelsea vs Spurs in their Sydney friendly. Kevin Danso was sent off after just 49 minutes, Dave. And in customary TV style, the red card appeared above Tottenham on the score bug in the top left-hand corner. But so too did the minute that the red card was issued. That is a touch of class, and I can see TNT stealing that for the new season. Yeah, that's nice. What happens in multiple red cards? We'll have times on them. What's wrong with that? Yeah, just a little line, just a little row of timestamps at the top there. Yeah. If you were walking in from work, Nick, and you'd seen a team had a man sent off, I think it's useful information.

44:45I don't think it's, you know, surplus information, is it?

44:49Adam Hurrey:Crucial context. Yeah, if you come in after like 70 minutes and the score's 1-1 and you can see that there was a red card on like 17 minutes, you've got a fair play. Back to the wall. exactly they've really held out for long enough now yeah yeah I'm a big fan of this what scenario are you walking into work and watching a match now walking back back from work getting in from work the classic situation of getting in from work generally speaking are people getting aren't they getting home before the match train delays I don't know listen a few pints after people aren't doing nine to fives anymore Dave people are doing shift work Damn it.

45:25Love this from Cole Palmer. Lots of other people did too, Nick. Talking about his injury issues at Chelsea, he says, was surgery an option? Yeah, I went to Sweden or Denmark, one of those countries to see a doctor. I feel like Cole Palmer is one of the few players who can just get away with just saying that and that'd be fine. Barely watched England at the World Cup and barely knows his Scandinavian geography.

45:46Adam Hurrey:The nice element of this is that you know that he's not doing it knowingly. He's not kind of leaning into this. This is just, he is, no, he is, he's a man who exists in his own sphere completely and doesn't give a fuck about anything else. And it is a little more for him. Dave, I don't want to go all pampered footballers about this, but can you imagine being in a situation, a space in your life where you don't care or know which country you're in? I guess, I mean, fall asleep on the plane, headphones on, not listen to any of the announcements. You still know where you're going. You got on the plane in the first place.

46:22I suppose so, yeah. You booked my holiday, mate. Kidnapped for a stag dude. That would happen to you. I feel like you're not above that. Yes. Surely that's happened. Surely you've been involved in a stag dude kidnapping at some point. I guess you could travel overboard or in a van or something. By accident. Oh, yeah, I suppose. Whoops. I'm in Denmark. Love that. Love that a lot. Chelsea are in talks, Nick, to capture Aston Villa's highly rated set peace coach, Austin McPhee. And a couple of questions about this. They'd already signed a set-piece coach from Brentford in 2024, Bernard Cueva, for 750 grand.

46:58Do you think this will be the first million-pound set-piece coach? Surely McPhee costs more than Cueva.

47:04Adam Hurrey:I mean, yeah, he's a celebrity and the fact that he was at the World Cup as well. He's Portugal's set-piece coach as well, so that burnishes his CV further. Have they signed him just because he was good at the World Cup? Please, please be the ultimate transfer of all time. Portugal's got a couple of very smart free-kick goals against, I can't remember who it was, I was at the game. Was it Uzbekistan? Uzbekistan, yeah. Lovely header from the little diminutive midfield general, his name I've forgotten. You say smart free-kick goal, there was just one where Ronaldo looked like he was going to take it and then Nuno Mendes took it instead.

47:38Austin McPhee all over it, had his fingerprints all over it. Classic McPhee. Classic McPhee, yeah. Dave, do you reckon Austin McPhee is allowed to take his kind of set-piece laminated folder with him, like Jerry Maguire's clients or does he have to leave it? What do you think? Is it his? Is it like us taking a podcast away from The Athletic? I don't know. It's a good point, yeah. Who owns, what's the IP? Who owns the set piece routine data? But regardless, Aston Villa's players aren't going to just forget them, are they? Oh, shit! Oh, what was it? Oh, no! Oh, dear. Oh, man. But also, just a further complication to this, Nick.

48:17Bernardo Cueva is still at Chelsea And he's moving away from a touchline role into a more behind-the-scenes position. He's going to be director of set pieces. He's not going to be on the front line, the cold face anymore. He's moving upstairs. Yeah. How many people do you need? Better vantage point, I guess, to watch the routines from, if you actually do move upstairs. Oh, Austin. Austin, are we allowed to do this corner? Or do you want to ask Bernardo first? If Austin McPhee was Jerry Maguire in this scenario, that would be him having like a late-night crisis of conscience and renouncing set pieces, writing a dossier saying, we've gone too far, we need to get back to what we know, and then wake up in the morning, oh, fuck, what have I done?

48:57Oh, no. Renouncing set pieces. Do you think he'll get booed back at Villa Park, Nick, Austin McPhee? I mean, this would be a sensational situation. A set piece coach getting booed upon his return to his former employees. I mean, why wouldn't it happen?

49:15Adam Hurrey:Well, they've got a chant, I think, haven't they? Villa that references him. And he's also striking looking enough to because if it was just some anonymous looking bloke then you wouldn't spot him. But there's this guy with long lustrous blonde hair. Somebody should throw a cabbage at him. Like they threw at Steve Bruce. I really hope something. What's the Figo pig's head situation here? Like a cone or something? I love this. I absolutely love it. Right, next up. The Sweeper podcast, a delightful podcast, never afraid to explore their niches. They tweeted, Dave, that we need a football competition at the Commonwealth Games.

49:58Why are we being denied Nui versus Nigeria and Tuvalu versus Montserrat? Perfectly good points. I would be very happy to have football at the Commonwealth Games because it's generally, the Commonwealth Games is generally held in places that quite like football, so we might as well have some. So their focus naturally was on the little nations, the smaller nations, playing a bit of football at the Commonwealth Games. But what if there was football at the Commonwealth? What would England's team be? Because that's more chance of that happening than a Team GB at the Olympics happening again because there's no friction.

50:29You could just have an England team at the Commonwealth and that would be fine. Would they be like legit? Would they be able to wear the kit? Would it have to be like a sort of separate England team at the Commonwealth? Would it work? I know what you mean because it's weird when you see the English athletes in the Commonwealth Games sort of wearing slightly, you know, wearing the sort of red and white as opposed to seeing them in the GB that you're used to in the Olympics. Whereas, I don't know, you could go down the route of, you know, is it just like the under 20s or something? Yeah, that would be a classic move.

51:00But that doesn't feel very satisfying, does it? England under 20s is always a bit of a weird one because I feel like they fall between the cracks of the 21s and the sort of 18s and 19s. So they could be an option. But Nick, I was thinking we could just send the England national game 11, aka England C because that feels quite Commonwealth Games level I feel like get them to battle it out

51:20Adam Hurrey:with your Tuvalus and things like that yeah it does feel like there is there is like a a level of player who probably might have got like two or three proper England caps but would either be genuinely enthusiastic about this or talk themselves into being genuinely enthusiastic about this like james give me a player yeah james garner wow oh you've aimed higher than i expected there but yeah i guess you've got national pride like could you turn it down the commonwealth games call up england see dave haven't played since 2024 though so they're rusty when they beat nepal 2-0 in order shot so that was basically that's like non-league england right yes would you do an england pod watch along for england at the commonwealth 100 yeah yeah big time Ali Maxwell doing a tactical preview of England versus Turks and Caicos.

52:12I was suggesting to the lads that we cover the... I saw a clip the other day of the England over-75 team playing Germany. Oh, yeah. We should be all over that. Do you reckon, on that note, do you think if you just simply carry on playing football, could you, Adam Hurry, if you carry on playing five-a-side semi-regularly from now and you're still playing at 75, are you going to be good enough to get into the over-75s England team? I don't reckon so. I don't reckon so. to be good? Or do you think you simply just have to still be able to run? There's physical capability. I think you have to be well above average physicality-wise in the over-75 category and having had played a bit.

52:48And I couldn't guarantee the former, unfortunately. But I don't know. Would I back myself at the edge of 75? Could I be arsed? I don't know. But it's a good question. Who out there thinks they'd qualify? Ask your granddad if you don't know. Love it. Get football at the Commonwealth for this reason alone. I want to end this episode with a couple of footballers' names in things. First one comes from the Reddit. Here is a Welsh farmer on BBC Radio 5 Live who has Alan Shearer's voice. Tudor Roberts from Abigail in the county of Conway. We're on well water and the well's dried up and we've got one spring going.

53:22I've been carrying water up from the local town up to help supply the cows and things. No, it's really getting really desperate for water now. There are touches of Shearer there, aren't there, Dave? Pressure. Pressure's for tyres. Oh, he's done the accent. He went for it. But Shearer's a good name for a Welsh farmer, Nick. It works.

53:43Adam Hurrey:Yeah, there you go. Excellent. Yeah, I would have liked to have heard some either pressures with ties or pressures with privilege, but you can't remember anything, can you? Finally, this is from 2025, actually. Here's European MP Lucas Sieper speaking out for trans rights. It's not allowed to impose hate speech in this parliament. And I can tell you're calling transgender people crazy. for being what they are is nothing more. So I ask you to not say that again, and I ask you, Ms. President, to stand up against hate speech like that in this parliament, because we represent all the people and not the people that you deem correctly.

54:22Thank you. Please, Mr. Farantouris. Making his mark on the European level. And then taking on the world in 2026. Fair play. To Ferran Torres. Great stuff. Good to have a little footballer's name and things at the end of an episode. We're almost caught up with the summer. We've got a bumper adjudication panel well on the way for Thursday as well. Thanks to you, Nick Miller. Thank you. Thanks to you, David Walker. Thank you. Thanks to everyone for listening. We'll be back on Thursday. And so will Keys and Grey Corner. See you then.