Best of 2025/26: Part 2

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2:55For 20 % off your first purchase, that's B-O-M-B-A-S.com and use code audio. Hello, everybody. Pete Donaldson here from the Football Rumble back again. How many voiceovers are you going to get me to do, like? Production team. Anyway, we're back for part two of the Football Rumble's best of the 2025-26 season. If you haven't heard part one yet, what are you doing with your life? Load that episode up from your podcast player and come back to me when you've listened to all of it. And I mean all of it. This episode will take you through everything from January up until June. So basically the second half of the season, if I've done the math correctly.

3:31We start part two with us finally avoiding that awful ramble curse.

3:49Hammer's been sacked. Oh! Fucking what? Keep that in Keep it in Keep that in We're going back Come on Reuben Amarim's been sacked

3:59Luke Moore: Come on Live news Reuben Amarim What a falling out Wow Explosive stuff Get him up to Celtic As sporting director See how hard you think the job is Thank you Manchester United Incredible Thank you Who's reporting it Who's reporting it though Who's reporting it We don't trust the productive team Hang on hang on A man's lost his job Yeah Shots of fucking respect. Wow. Yeah. Goodness. Fabrizio Romano's reporting it. Romano's reporting it. We want Ornstein. We want Ornstein. We want the BBC main news website page for crying out loud. I'm texting David Ornstein right now. While you're doing that. Ornstein's done it six minutes ago.

4:41Yeah, I see. You know it's true.

4:43Luke Moore: It's probably what made Romano message it. Immediate effect. After 14 months following a breakdown in relations, Darren Fletcher taking over get your songs in D Fletcher get your songs in the former player not the commentator no we don't know that we don't know that Fletcher and Savarin Sav's busy at least he's doing alright Sav isn't he is he manages his team yeah but he used to play for Man United he used to play for Man United he's part of the golden generation exactly oh my goodness wow that's absolutely wild that is wild isn't it I think we kind of said really what we I just want to get back to the hearts here you know You are not dragging this back to the heart after receiving news live on the show.

5:25I've just messaged Ornstein. Can you confirm it's Darren Fletcher, the player, and not the commentator? I'll let you know when he comes back. He's probably busy. Probably. When he comes back with you. What a strange time. They must have just had a terrible meeting. He said, I want to be... Is he getting fired so he can reapply for the manager's job rather than coach's job? Is that why that is? First thing I'm doing. the meeting the meeting's gone like this Ruben thanks for coming in we didn't like the press conference yesterday no Jason over here is in tears yeah he's upset can you turn down the taking back Sunday please can you change your LinkedIn to head coach because it's head coach not managing

6:04Luke Moore: the US helicopters are outside you're off he's got a bit of blowfoil and the old earmuffs on where am I going he's like have I got a character this ain't character why am I don't normally do this Why am I RF Prize Norton?

6:22They've renditioned him back to Lisbon. They've got Burnley in two days' time, so enjoy that. So you are going to be buried at sea because we don't want it to become a shrine. They escorted him back to Lisbon.

6:37Luke Moore: Make sure you've gone. Ruben's gone. Oh, dear. He should stick around because, as I say, that West Ham job might be up for grabs soon and he nearly took it before. West Ham's up for grabs yeah what else could be up for grabs hopefully not Chelsea Chelsea come on that hey the managerial we've never had it so good he's gone straight to the Mandarin Oriental and Park Lane that's what he's doing a big tods there Ruben that's it two weeks time come in and sit down you big Portuguese fuck I don't know why he's cocked me he's American I don't know why he's trying to blend him

7:11Jim Campbell: with the locals I've got an hotel

7:12Luke Moore: you went Uncle Avi I've got Uncle Avi you've got Uncle Avi come in and sit down you a big Portuguese fuck. Let's talk about the back three at Chelsea. Go on to Chelsea. Go on to Chelsea. Chelsea were beaten 1-0 at home by Newcastle United, dropping points in their fight for the Champions League. But the moment of the whole event happened just before the game, of course. Chelsea players huddled around the centre spot, huddled around the ball to respect the ball. Referee Paul Tierney didn't move. He was protecting the ball as well. There's a lot of people very concerned about the football. What's happening here?

7:46In a multi-ball situation as well.

7:48Luke Moore: It's not one individual ball. Paul Tierney stood his ground. The Chelsea players stood their ground. It resulted in a very strange but wonderful image of the Chelsea players gathered around Paul Tierney who stood there and that glance he gives to the glamour. That was iconic. Martin Freeman in the office. That is not put in the football museum in Manchester. I rated it. I rated the look. The sardonic smile is perfect. So whose side are you on in this? It's a really difficult one. If you have to take sides, and by the way, I know you don't have to, but you have to, but you've got the Chelsea players, they're doing the huddle, but some were saying, what's Paul Tierney doing?

8:27Luke Moore: He's being precious. He should get off. When I sit in this seat, I have to take a side. Yeah. As soon as I leave the studio, I can just not think about it ever again. But it's funny because I don't naturally feel like I side with referees that much. I don't feel comfortable doing so. But I also hate corporate away days. And so I don't want to side with Liam Rosinia either. Well, he said it was the players I did, not his. So you would be siding with the players, not Liam Rosinia. Yeah, but he also said loads of stuff about the culture and all this kind of shit. Yeah, well, that's a bit. But my take initially, so I was away this weekend and I watched this game completely aside from Twitter and all the other shit.

9:04So I didn't really know what everyone else's takes were until this morning. and my instinctive take was the referee should just tell Chelsea players to get into their half they want to do a huddle they can do it they need to do it in their own half and the referee will say I'll stay by the ball until we start the game

9:19Luke Moore: Has that been a bit too officious though? Maybe maybe but I don't see what the reason is for Chelsea having to do that and I thought they were being kind of quite deliberately obnoxious in doing so especially when you take into account that a couple of weeks ago Rosini was chipping off about players warming up in his half

9:36Jim Campbell: He mentioned that in the post match as well. So to me, listen, I'm just pleased it happened. Come on, mate. Don't try to analyze it too much. Just be very happy that it happened. This is... What do you think, Jim?

9:47Luke Moore: What a weekend, Jim. We're talking about a 16-year-old who scored, Spurs in the relegation battle, and now we're talking about a huddle with a referee in the play.

9:56Jim Campbell: I mean, what a weekend. Firstly, I think any Chelsea fans listening are probably pleased that we're talking about this more than the actual result. That is the story. It must be an extremely frustrating result for them to have suffered. I think, so, ultimately I side with Paul Tierney and I'll show you the working out, right?

10:17Luke Moore: If Tierney had chinned through them, you'd have still sidelined.

10:20Jim Campbell: So, I do think it's weird that he simply hasn't got out of the way of it. He has made this situation happen. He doesn't have to get out of their way if he doesn't want to. It's simply very weird that he doesn't. He can move. Yeah. So up to this point, I'm actually on Chelsea's side. Right, okay. Carl Palmer giving him that little hug and that little blanket to the camera is equally funny. That's a big part of the maelstrom of this. It looked like Carl Palmer was saying, I'm also really confused about this. I really know why this is going on. He was the Gareth Keenan in that kind of situation. And you look a bit like my dad.

10:56Yeah.

10:56Jim Campbell: I don't know why this is happening, but let me show the working markers. it gets to the press conference and Liam Rossini, I don't know why he's doing this, that's mad. It's like, I'm on board so far. It's like, it wasn't my idea, it was the players. Okay, fair enough, again, you're blameless in this. And then he says they were doing it to respect the ball. And I simply cannot get on board with that. How do you disrespect a ball? Yeah. If anything, kicking it really hard, it's disrespectful to it. Absolutely. If they all stood around like spitting on it, or the opposition, it's like, that's out of order.

11:29I'll tell you what, Wesley Vafana disrespected the ball for Newcastle's goal. Letting Gordon just run past him. That's true.

11:35Jim Campbell: You're speeding your car. Look at your speed now. Do a little dink. A little pre-dink as well. You love speed, apparently. You love it. Yeah. Put a referee behind him. Listen, put a traffic officer behind him.

11:49Luke Moore: That's what they should do. They should have someone with a miles per hour sign. Yeah. Just get it in his eye, like, woof. Why are those speed guns? There you go. Marcus, do you respect the ball? I always respect a Paul, as you know. To be fair, Marcus does respect a Paul.

12:00Jim Campbell: And how do you practice that?

12:02Luke Moore: Just being a normal human being. I don't need to do some weird ritual. But I did enjoy, for all the wrong reasons, Rosinha talking about this and said, you know, but if Paul had focused more on his job, which was to make the right decisions, we'd have had a penalty today. Which I loved on Match of the Day when they spoke about that. Because you think about that, you think, that's a big moment. That's going to be a big moment. They literally, they showed the replay, went, do you think it was meant? No, I didn't think it was meant. No, I moved on. And I'm sure they did that To mug him off a little bit was quite enjoyable.

12:29But I've got... Paul Tenney's face was an iconic face. Great mug to the camera. That shows a bit of showbiz DNA in Paul Tenney, which I didn't expect. Well, I like that.

12:39Luke Moore: Was it as good as the look to camera that that fella does when he's reaching for that bottle of beer? On... Was it New Year's Eve in Manchester or something? And he was... He's like one of those Greek gods. Oh, yeah. The line on the pavement. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a Renaissance painting. The Renaissance painting, exactly. Exactly. Not Greek. Yeah, yeah. Because he's looking at the camera, isn't he? I think it's up there with that. I have made that connection. But it also was a look of a man who was like, I literally stand there every game. This has never happened to me before. Why is this suddenly happening now?

13:11Nothing's prepared me for this. No, no, no.

13:13Luke Moore: I don't know. But look, he didn't move. He didn't give a foul for Chelsea. He mostly booked every single one of them. That would have been sensational, wouldn't it? Rosini would be straight on the pitch. Yellow car for you as well. Can I break character and blow my own trumpet for a moment? Yeah, why not? It's been 10 minutes. As long as 10. Yeah. Oh, bloody. I've let the side down. I do love Vish's Instagram with all the food and everything and he had a... But he never replies to anything I said. He's very aloof generally, Vish. Yeah, I suppose so. Yes, yeah. What is going on? You had a lovely photo of a marvellous selection of, I assume, posh jams.

13:55Oh, yeah, I saw that.

13:55Luke Moore: Did you get my reply to that? Do you want to read out to everyone? Would you reply with jam that up your ass? Did you want something like that? Vitushin Hantara Jam. That's nice. But you didn't reply to that? No. What am I going to say to that? We don't know how good we got it, do we? That's the kind of stuff you get and you're not replying to it. Thank you, Luke. How funny are your other friends? I'll bet half of them. Not that funny. I'll tell you. Just some selections from Marcus along the similar theme show. Hit me with them, yeah. The Tushin, a Hunter Rajam. Yeah, that was good. You're not going to do more than that.

14:30Chris Mutton rolls. I took a photo of the Gabba and then he replied, the Jabba more like. Yeah. So basically, this is essentially a pattern of behaviour, isn't it? Do you know what? I see why you haven't replied. I took a photo of a pink ball ahead of the day night test at Brisbane. Mr Pinkerton, someone said you was dead.

14:55Luke Moore: Why didn't you read this out on the show? It's good stuff. It would have backed up the reason why you wouldn't have replied. I arrived in Australia and went to a cafe called Stella, and he replied, good to see you're already on the Stella. Not as good. Not worth it. It was not worth it. Ah. Yeah, maybe I should have read it. Yeah, sorry. Oh well. Oh well. You know what? I reckon there'll be other opportunities to do so. Yeah? Yeah. 12 clubs Andrew Cole 12 yeah my goodness my biddy aunt biddy biddy okay doing well to get these down because there'll be a few yeah playing with that pressure now well you've got up to 12 if you've got 13 names down there you've gone wrong too many gone too far let's have a bit old boy yeah alright give me a second there's 12 to choose from I'm going to write them down you're 3-0 up oh my goodness me alright 6 6 6 Jim can I hear 7 You can hear 12 Oh he's going 12 Get on you Jim Jim what we're doing here Are you actually going 12 Yeah I'm going for 12 Good for you mate I love that Let's just enjoy the show Tell you what This could be Do you get this That it's 3-0 If you get this It's James, BT and Christian Vieira Adriano all over again It's up there It's up there Jim I love this This is it You hear this Arteta This is what you gotta do Can you do all 12 Yeah Okay cool I'm confident with this one This could be quite simply magnetic.

16:22Luke Moore: I'll be honest with you. I think if it was me, I think I would be confident with about 10 of them. I'm surprised, actually, you went quite low there, Luke. But you've won the game. You'd give me time to write down the clubs. But you... Can I hear more than... No, I can't, because he's done all 12. All right.

16:36Jim Campbell: Jim Campbell to name all 12 of Andy Cole's clubs. Now, this... I expect this might even be controversial because of the way Wikipedia sometimes lists things, but he made a solitary appearance for Arsenal, So he should count for Arsenal. So if this was a crucial round, I'd have been really nervous about saying that. So I had it written down. I knew that as well. What, did he play for the League Cup? One appearance off the bench in a League Cup game. I was aware of that as well. So it counts. Okay, fine. The only other London club he played for was Fulham. That is correct. Very nice. Now, there's an interesting thing about Andy Cole, which is that he played for a lot of sets of rivals.

17:14Jim Campbell: Right. So he played for Newcastle. Andy played for Sunderland. Well played, sir. He played for Man United, and he played for Man City. Halfway there. He played for Blackburn Rovers, and he played for Burnley. Yeah. He also played for Birmingham City. This is good. He played for Bristol City. He played for Nottingham Forest, and he played for Portsmouth. Ladies and gentlemen! Come on! How did you know that? Just by rote.

17:42Luke Moore: Okay, right. That is sensational stuff, that. Very, very strong. I'm surprised you got Pompey.

17:47Jim Campbell: Yeah. It wasn't a massively memorable... Presumably you had that, yeah. How long was it there for? Because I actually don't remember him playing for them. I just know that he did. A year. So why have you got that committed to memory? That's incredible. Just sometimes they stick in my head. You know, there's certain players where I'll just kind of... I don't know, just Google them sometimes. A lot of them... The thing with Andy Cole is when you remember that rivals thing, a lot of them are just there for you, right? Yeah. So as I said, I think I've got about 10. Bristol City, I've been a bit hazy on it.

18:14Jim Campbell: Because he played for Birmingham City and Manchester City. that I've sort of tagged it in my head like that with him. I wouldn't have got Burnley, definitely.

18:21Luke Moore: The Birmingham City, yeah, maybe I'd have got... I had Burnley. I had Blackburn, United, I had May United, Newcastle United, Arsenal, Pompey and Burnley on my six. Yeah. I'm probably going to chuck the company in there, maybe. Do you know what, though? If I was playing you there, Jim, I'd have probably been maybe eight or nine and thinking that should be enough. But my goodness, Jim Cam. There we go. There we are. What a play. That's a wonderful round. Not a whitewash. Not a whitewash. But incredibly impressive, Jim. And of course, Andy Cole in the 1990-2000 season scored an overhead kick in the Champions League against Marseille to begin a Manchester United comeback and they went on to win the game 2-1.

18:50Luke Moore: What a comeback from 1-0 down. He did love... From Manchester United as European champions at the time. He did score a fair few overheads and bicycles and spectacular ones or whatever you want to call them. But not for England? Not for England. No.

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20:56Why are we trying to blame everybody else? It's disgusting. They want to find me good. They want to ban me good. Do it. Have a look at yourselves, every single goddamn one of you. It's absolutely disgusting.

21:10Luke Moore: And whether I get another game or not, I don't really care anymore. Welcome back to the Football Ramble, everybody. Thanks to Friend of the Ramble, the Chunky Gruffalo, for sending us that clip. You can become a friend of the Ramble too. Search patreon.com forward slash football ramble. Or click that join button on YouTube to get involved. The Chunky Gruffalo? Yeah. I think Ian Holloway sounds a bit like a Chunky Gruffalo there. Ian Holloway, yeah. So in case you didn't hear that before now, Swindon Town, the team that Holloway is currently managing. It's always good to know where he is. Yeah, he's been at Swindon for a while.

21:41Luke Moore: He has, he has. And it's always things like this that let us know where he is at anyone's house. Exactly, yeah. Exactly. This is what we hear about him. Yeah, well, Swinertown were fined£1 ,000 for fielding Captain Ollie Clark in an EFL trophy match, which they won against Luton in mid-January. And they fielded him because they believed that his seven-game ban that he was subject to at the time did not apply to that competition. He received that initial ban from the FA for committing, and I quote, highly violating an intentional foul play on two opponents' private body parts in Swindon's Carabao Cup defeat by Cardiff City in August.

22:18Luke Moore: So seven game ban. I'd love to know what the FA officially determined makes a body part private. I think we know. Yeah, but what's the cut off? The bum? Is the bum private? I think the bum should be private. I think it goes knob all the way around to the bum. Yeah. And anything in between. Including, yeah. What about bum hole though? Yeah, obviously. But is a bum cheek private? No, yeah, I think so. You can't have that. It's indecent exposure if you see that. Okay, nipples. Are they private body parts? No. Very sensitive. No, because players take the tops off. Basically, if we see an arse during a football match, that's noteworthy.

22:56Yeah, yeah. If we think he's noteworthy, it's private. I would argue. You're missing the cutoff. He's got a noteworthy knob. Because the nipples are okay to see. But if someone tweaks your nipple, that's very, very sensitive. I would put it in the same bracket. So that makes it a private body part.

23:14Luke Moore: No, because pulling armpit hair, which is the old Vinnie Jones and all that kind of stuff, I think it's in the same bracket as that. We're getting off topic. Yeah, lest we forget what Ian Holloway was... I want to fill the blanks in for the listeners. Fine, but that's a sideshow in this whole Ian Holloway business. I'm asking the questions they one answered. Well, what happened is on Friday, the day before their game against Barrow the next day at 5pm on the Friday, having trained all week and planned their team and all the rest of it, Ian Holloway was told that his captain had been given a one match suspension for that game and he was furious I mean this is Oliver Glasner stuff the day before a game one of my crucial players is taken away from me so Swindon could also face further sanctions for using a substitute who had not been named on the team sheet as well and Holloway was just going mad as you heard I mean that clip I would say that was probably about a quarter yeah my favourite bit of it was when he was talking about his female colleague who remains unnamed who made the mistake on the portal yes Yeah.

24:07She's made a mistake on the portal. I don't blame her for that. And he said, you know, if you just press the wrong button on the computer, and they're about to take over the world. Yeah, I know he does say that, yeah.

24:17Luke Moore: Yeah, we claim computers are going to take over the world. Honestly, if you haven't heard that in all the way around, please seek it out. But I do have some sympathy for him because the Friday 5pm thing is poor form. It is poor. That's pretty poor behaviour, that. Yeah. But that's also... That's the portal, though. Last email before you clock off for the weekend. I don't really want to see the reply. Send at 5pm. That's what it is. Close laptop off the pub. Let's let a BBC journalist after the game deal with this. But I suppose the counterpoint would be that he knew that there was a chance that was going to happen, so he should have made plans.

24:46Luke Moore: No, I think it came out of the blue because they thought... It was the original mistake, wasn't it? But the original mistake came from the woman in the portal. Yeah, but they didn't know about it. They thought that he was okay to be fielded in that competition, so they did it. And then suddenly, bang! I think we could all agree that it was disgusting! Yeah. It's so funny how... You do it, man. Fish, you do it. Disgusting! He thought it was okay. He didn't know it applied for that competition, having applied in the league. The competition does literally have EFL in the title. Yeah. Might be worth double checking.

25:20Ian's got big, big highfalutin ideas that he's in some kind of European competition. True. By the way... Don't worry, listen, mate, you're back for the Champions League.

25:29Luke Moore: Tonight, Burnley hosts Darren Fletcher's Manchester United. he will take charge of course of the game as interim manager he said he spoke he said he spoke to Sir Alex Ferguson oh god straight for the teat straight for that teat and the rest give me some of that milk Sir Alex I'm going in Jesus Christ I was waiting for Pete to make a milking noise there and I'm glad he hasn't I'm really really there's still time there's still time can we twist your arm Pete can you twist my teat ah I mean, jeez, it's just all so depressing. Is it depressing? Yes. Why? It's depressing. Go on, let's show you're working.

26:10This man's very long shadow. Oh, Ferguson. I mean, what's coming out of that teat is red wine. Let's make that very clear. He loves a bottle, doesn't he? Maybe that's the problem. Yeah, maybe that's the problem. Can someone get Sir Alex Ferguson off the red wine? I was going to say, all of the managers who are going to suckle at his teat, come back. we're a managerial fetal alcohol syndrome

26:29Luke Moore: exactly PJ because that's a problem and you know there'd be a problem the milk reserves have run dry and it's just pure red wine and horse racing it brings up another key question for me do managers still share a bottle of red after game it feels a very 90s very nice all these Man United managers have been sharing a teat for a while a big bottle of fucking hula won't it

26:52just imagine Sir Alex Ferguson it's like who's that big fat monster in Star Wars. Jabba the Hutt. Jabba the Hutt. And he's got a bikini lady with him and he's got a copy of the racing he's got a copy of the racing post to correct the drips. Who's the bikini ladies? McLaren? Steve McLaren? Yes. Steve McLaren in a bikini with a brolly. He's going to ask AI to make a good punch of this up after as well.

27:17Luke Moore: With a brolly. This is the my reasons. I'll ask Grok the day. He's remember him frozen in ice now. Is that what he is? Oh dear. Yeah. if you could suckle on the teat of one manager, past or present... Just one. Let's start off with one. See how you like it. One manager, past or present, who would it be? Steve Bruce.

27:41Jim Campbell: Steve Bruce. So the way I'm reading this question is that if you suckle on the teat of this manager... You get the knowledge. You get the knowledge and you get some of the power and you get some of the essence, essentially. Again, Steve Bruce. Yeah, so with... My answer is still Steve Bruce. In the Caribbean. Yeah. When he's finished diving, come out the water, give me a suck. You old romantic. Or I'll give you a suck. You old romantic. In my younger days, I'm hooking right onto Sven. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. As they all did. Yeah, indeed. In the younger days, you're not going to get the knowledge, though.

28:16Depends how young you're going.

28:17Jim Campbell: My younger days, not his. Oh, okay, right. Sven at Lazio and all that kind of stuff. Yeah. But I'm talking about my own younger days. Yes, of course. A bit of right wing milk. Get some of that charisma. Not from Sven. No, that's it. I know. I just wanted to say. I wanted to say. Well, listen, I was driving past Steve Bruce's teat earlier. Yeah. It's a landmark, isn't it? I just wound the window down. I just went. All the way through. Sockle away. So I think you've got to look at Jose Mourinho, right? You've got to absorb some of that charisma. You never let you forget it. That ability to just suck money towards yourself.

28:51Luke Moore: Poison it or something, Jim, to teach him a lesson. But you get really depressed. Yeah. Also as well, he would like, I don't know, he would put some sleeping tablets in and go, shut up, here you go. I'd make Mourinho wear that. I thought of him sabotaging me. I'd make Mourinho wear that gold shirt that Bobby George, the darts player, made when he hit that 180. Oh, no, you're talking. Just flapped it down. That's decent. You have to put that on socials if you haven't seen it. Yeah. He hits a 180, Bobby George, and he just flaps a shirt. Have you seen it? No. He flaps a shirt flap down, just shows his nipple off, and flaps it back up again.

29:21Luke Moore: that should be the uniform for the managers you often say and rightly so a lot of people would agree with you of course that Ferguson greatest club manager of all time surely it's a bit of a cue to get there but you'd you'd have a go yeah I think Ferguson would be right at the top of the list for me if it's going to be some kind of elixir of life yes type vibe I definitely want to have a go on that big dinner plate I think

29:44Jim Campbell: if you're looking for pure nourishment in wings in wings pure nourishment it's Ferguson possibly Guardiola I'm thinking I'm thinking pure nourishment at the moment. Daniel Farker, surely. You'd feel so safe. You would. The problem is, I think, if you start getting involved in it and you're not ready to receive it, it could have some kind of hallucinatory quality. I think if you're not on the same intellectual plane football-wise as Guardiola, and you have a sucker on that,

30:09Luke Moore: it's going to be like a bad trip. I was going to say, Guardiola.

30:11Jim Campbell: You just become enthralled to them.

30:12Luke Moore: I think you would. Oh, it'd be like Alice in Wonderland. In a bad way. It'd be all over the place, I think. I think I'd probably go for Ancelotti. Yeah. Would he have a cigar on the go? at the time. Solid, solid all round

30:22Jim Campbell: the ranchalotti. Do you know what I mean? And you can already do the eyebrow, right? Exactly. I mean, how far could you get it if you had some of his milk in you? Maybe it's where I got it from, Jim. Maybe. I could like the idea of his cigar ash just dropping on your head while you have another good old slurp.

30:35Luke Moore: Oh, yeah. All the baby manuals, that is. Use your baby's head as an ashtray. It's not what it says. That's what everyone did in the 80s. It's like the old infinite chip bowl helmet, but for cigarettes. Very much Pete Donaldson's idea, of that, not the advice that the NHS give you. No. So I think Ancelotti... They simply won't return his email. No, they won't. More's the pity. So I think Ancelotti as well, again, if you saw him later on, I think he'd be embarrassed. I think he'd be like, ah, I remember you, you were a good sucker. Yeah, how's it going? Did you see in the news that former Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been dropped by Marseille for reportedly spraying a staff member with a fire extinguisher?

31:14Jim Campbell: Marcus, when you put it like that, this sounds like it's going to be a little bit of a silly story but the actual details of this are sensational far away um so obviously marseille have been in pretty terrible form lately they're having a real kind of basket case of a season um habib bay is their current manager so as a reaction to this he basically forced the players to stay overnight at the training ground now there's quite a bit of debate in france about whether this is even legal um which is a great start because like could he be done on kidnapping If Marcus, if the producer said to you, Marcus, you weren't at your best today.

31:52Jim Campbell: You have to sleep in the studio. What would you say to that? You go, well, you can't make me do that. I grab a fire extinguisher and say, have something like this. Well, there you go. So yeah, in the context of this, 36-year-old Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang decides he wants to liven things up and he basically throws a party with about 10 other players. So they're running through the complex. he grabs a fire extinguisher and he sprays it over a fella called Bob Tari who is in bed at the time all over poor Bob and all over poor Bob's belongings now Bob is part of the sporting administration of the club he's a former world championship medalist in steeplechase so he's a very accomplished presumably quite serious man and he was specifically there to enforce the curfew Right?

32:40So,

32:40Jim Campbell: Aubameyang, as the senior guy in the squad, is going, ah, forget all this. We're going to do the exact opposite of why we're here. Also, you know, because they're sort of there against their will too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So a bit of protest which is perhaps in some lights not that unreasonable. It's amazing stuff.

32:56Luke Moore: Do you admire just a tiny bit the rebellious spirit in Aubameyang? I love it. Yeah, a little bit. It's a good old prank. We don't get enough of it. Absolutely. I don't know why, but I'm just picturing the Breakfast Club. Yes. They're in detention and they're running about and the teacher's looking for themselves. A little bit like that. I'm picturing that for some reason.

33:12Jim Campbell: It feels like they are students on their first trip abroad. They're standing at the Hans Brinker in Amsterdam, notoriously no-frills hostel, that's full of absolute chaos and they are just running wild. Just making their own fun.

33:28Luke Moore: Marvellous. Francis William Gallas. David, can I have a bid from you? I've only got three. Is that your bid? That's my bid. You're going three. Peter, can you bid more than three for William Gellas? I think I've got three. I've definitely got three. I'm not sure about the four. If you name four, you take the tie. I'm going to name four. Oh, he's going four. I'm going to name four. He's going four. David, can I hear five from you? Oh, he's thinking. Oh, hello. Can I hear five from you? Or do you want Pete to do the four? No, I can't name five. Pete Donaldson. Go on. Four clubs, William Gallas. It's better that I win the tie rather than David Giffshmi by fucking up his fifth.

34:17So you're confident then? Oh, well. Put your bollocks on the table. Why did it make me?

34:24Luke Moore: So soon after the last time. All right. Can Pete Dalton do it? Have you got even one? That's not a confident start, that. Right. Come on. Marseille very good he ended his career or certainly he was one of those players who floated about wherever the money may have been right and he was in Australia was he give away something with your face at least which Australian club would you like to go for I would have gone for Perth Glory oh my goodness yeah no way come on no way I can't believe alright Peter there's some answers in that tombola as well I didn't say Peter two more clubs Arsenal and Chelsea for the first time ever

35:17Luke Moore: there it is everybody he's done it and I'll tell you what he bloody deserved it he did it with Perth glory as well he did Pete I have to hand that to you I really really do I honestly think we've got another round to play goal difference and all oh yeah sorry I need my paper again don't worry no do that He's ripped it up and thrown it away. I forgot about the fifth round. I don't care. I take my hat off to you. Yeah. I think on that form that you've shown today... Couldn't beat a Jim Campbell. No, I think you'd have been a match for anybody. You reckon? Genuinely. You reckon? I think with David Luiz, I don't think anyone's getting more than six.

35:54Luke Moore: What did you do for Koczeski? You got four. I think Koczeski maybe, like Vish, Luke. But Koczeski, it's the Essex connection. You've been on the edge of a victory for a while, I think. I know you've deserved that. I'm glad it happened with friends. So this... It's not difficult to beat Marcus or Pete. At least one of those men he's wrong about. He's so rude, isn't he? Isn't he rude? Isn't he rude? I reckon you will be so mightily relieved to have got this done before this round. Because round five with nine clubs was Ryan Bertrand. And I think if it was too all going into this... He did everybody.

36:31Luke Moore: We might have had a Jack Butler situation. He did everybody. I think you are rather relieved that you're home and hosed. Nine clubs, Ryan Bertrand. Is it my turn? You are to go first. I can maybe do three. Let's finish this sorry round of Ryan fucking Bertrand. Fucking hell. David, can you do more than three to get a bit of pride back for Sunderland? I've got none, Mike. None. As in pride. Yeah. Not the clubs. I mean, that is piss poor. I'm going for you. David. Come on, man. Alright man, I'm digging deeper here. I'm digging very deep. Dig, baby, dig. Go on, I'm going to give you four. Go on then!

37:11Peter? Fuck no. Fuck to the fuck no. And you know what? I don't care. Because I want to bloody my biddy amp. Pete Donaldson wins! Exactly.

37:22Luke Moore: That button has never been. I'm surprised it's still in the system, to be honest. Well, I tell you what, I think it might be getting used a bit more often these days. You're finally over the line. Yeah, I imagine the baubles just keep coming after the first one. But anyway, we have round five to complete here. David, four clubs, Ryan Bertrand. Yeah, the caveat being I think two of them are wrong. Go on, Ed. One of them's called Nike Air Max. Right, Southampton. That was his big one, wasn't it? That was his big club. He didn't stick around anywhere for very long, but that was his big one, wasn't it?

37:57Oh, yeah, he went to a bigger club than that.

37:59Luke Moore: Go on, Ed. go on you've really thrown me there my games my games he wants the point Palace Crystal Palace oh David

38:13Luke Moore: that's a stinker but anyway we've come to the end of the show and of course Pete Donaldson won his first ever MyBodyAid what a victory 4-1 only taken an entire two, three seasons to do so we just had to put a Sunderland fan in front of him and you were thinking to yourself not today not today I've never seen such a lit as a focus for him. He really had the bickering. Everyone in my life is going, fuck. He's got concentration in him. I remember playing my video the last time I played against you and I was one of those ones where I just happened to bid first on a certain game and you had the same amount and so on.

38:48Luke Moore: Whereas that performance, I think we're going to see more victories for Dalton. My memory is terrible but visually, what I like is I like when players go to India or Australia for a bit of cash. Yeah, so I always remember them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dirty little money moves. Right, we're off to the train station to see if we can get up to Leeds for a punch-up and an enjoyable game against Burnley. Thanks to... Sorry, thanks to... Thanks to our friends from Raytheon. Yes. So there we are, everybody. Another MyBodyO comes to an end. But another weekend begins. Thanks to... Well, not thanks. Thanks to you, the listeners, to listen...

39:25Luke Moore: Sorry. Ah! I'm having a meltdown. Stop being thankful. Yeah, I know. yeah. Right. Let me do that again. All things bright and beautiful. There we are, everybody. My bitty idiot.

39:39Luke Moore: I think you've got to the point where it's getting put at the end of the show now. Do your Michael Jackson dance. That's what I should just do, shouldn't I?

39:50Don't finish the show and just do a Michael Jackson dance. The listeners know that we're thankful that they were along. Patreon.com for a football rambled. Marcus, do your Michael Jackson dance.

40:00Luke Moore: No, I'm not doing it. Come on, do a little Michael Jackson dance for the weekend. In a minute. Thanks for listening to the Football Ramble, part of the ACAST Creator Network. I'll do one. We'll be back on Monday to react to all the weekend's football. It's all that. Make sure you're following us on socials at Football Ramble. If you want to suggest a theme with some players for my video, aren't. Get in touch with us on Instagram X, in the comments on YouTube, or email us show at footballeramble.com. We'd love to hear from you. There we are. Come on. Just a quick one. There's not enough room. There is enough room.

40:39Luke Moore: Dance for us, Marcus. Just a quick one. Dance. Dance piggy. We've got the wide. Stand in front of there and do a little, because you're going to see your bottom half anyway. So it'll be fine. Just stand there. Dance for us, Marcus. Dance. Come on. Come on.

41:02What a day. Batters sausages all around, that's what I say. Thanks for joining us here on the Football Rumble throughout last season. You've been wonderful. Quite frankly, we've been fantastic and we can't wait to do it all again for you in the next one. See you tomorrow for the highly anticipated return of my film club. If you haven't watched the Bert Troutman biopic The Keeper yet, then you've got 24 hours to get it in your eyes and your ears and around your tonsils. Ta-ta!

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