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3:42This one's for all the glue sniffers out there. Well done, son. I'm crying. Welcome to the Football Ramble. It's Monday 4th of August. I'm Pete Donaldson. I'm Luke Moore. And I'm Jim Campbell.

4:06Yes, it's the Football Ramble. We're back once again. And I'm proud to announce that Lukey Moa and Jim Campbell both went to the Oasis gig at the weekend. and Jim, quite adorably, was using Luke as some kind of beacon in Wembley. Yes, I could see Luke sat in his seats. So I was stood in line with one monitor and in line with Luke at the other angle. And the system worked. It just worked. A bit of serendipity. He had a busy shirt on. Can I just jump in? It was useful. I had one seat, not seats. I'm not like I don't have to have more than one seat because I'm so big It's nice to beat your feet up though isn't it And what Jim's not saying yeah what Jim's not saying there is the way he was able to he was able to orientate himself because I was so keen that I was sat in my seat at 5pm exactly Yeah Well you don't want to miscast Neither did I Although they didn't play they didn't play Guiding Star did they which has the get up get up get up line that they change to skin up, skin up, skin up, at last to be that time, therefore creating one of the most 90s things.

5:12But you can't have everything. You can just have most more 90s things later than that. More of those, yes. I was in London on Saturday evening and it just seemed like there was a lot of Oasis fans in bucket hats, resplendent in their fisherman gear. They very much kind of, they seemed to be in town way too late for me. What time did the gig actually start? This is a football podcast but I'd quite like to know. Yeah, I mean, they're probably the most football band so let's allow it. The gig, well, the doors opened at five, cast came on at six, Ashcroft at seven, then Oasis at 8.15. So the thing is, if you wanted to get into the front standing section, which I did, you had to queue up and get a stamp and then get into a separate queue to get into that where you've got a wristband and et cetera, et cetera.

5:57So a lot of people were there really early because getting down the front was a bit of a palaver and you had to do a specific thing for it. Right, I get you. I mean, those classic rule breakers from Oasis, obviously very into rules and breaks. Exactly, exactly. Got to get your stamp. I always stood very, very close to a Ramble listener the whole time as well, who messaged me later. His name was Sarav, who was having an absolutely brilliant time with his mates as well. So we get everywhere, turns out. Love to Sarav. And love to you, Jim. And love to you, Luke, who had the time of your lives. Fucking unbelievable.

6:31So good. So, so good. I'm just honestly as an oasis dodger for all those years I'm really happy that everyone's happy oh I cannot I cannot imagine what it must be like to be sitting in your living room knowing the experience me and Jim about and just literally saying to yourself quietly under your breath yeah I prefer pulp I wasn't sat in my living room I just I just thumbing your pulp CD and different class CD and just flicking through yet another Jarvis Cocker interview. No, and he's probably at Oasis as well. I was having, and he was, it turns out. No, I was in London Bridge having a bottomless brunch for two hours.

7:12That's not better. That's actually more depressing. A lot of Prosecco had to dip out for some rennies. Two hours of Young Min. That is too much. Too much of Prosecco. Sun Young Min has announced he is leaving Tottenham. He's set to leave the club pretty much now after 10 years. 454 appearances, which really sneaked up on us I think it's fair to say and 173 goals and it turns out he's apparently going to be signing for LAFC in the MLS leave the Premier League before the Premier League leaves you I can't face Leeds again he says I'm out of here they're going to kick me up in the air Luke, what a servant for the Spurses Yeah, you've also referred to them as the MLS again so you're going to get pelters for that but that's your problem big boy Fair enough I think we should do it I think it's the same way that we use Sporting Lisbon's proper name.

8:03Yeah, correct. We should use the Major League Soccer's proper name. What was the question again? Oh, yeah, son. Right. Yeah, amazing servant. Premier League, Premier League legend, Spurs legend. Incredible, you know, end to his career at the club. You know, lifting that Europa League trophy as captain. First time they've won a trophy in a long old time, as we know. First time they've won a European trophy in a lot longer as well. he's a player that if you haven't been to Spurs very often or you've not been at all he is a player that has a very very strong connection with the fan base they absolutely love him I think he would probably be even more loved if his tenure hadn't coincided almost exactly with Harry Kane's kind of rise to prominence who clearly obviously their all-time leading scorer and England captain has stolen a lot of the gravity away from what Son has contributed But nevertheless, I think Spurs fans, to their credit, have always been very supportive.

9:01His son, I've always loved him. He's developed, like I say, a really strong connection. He's one of those players that every time he comes back now, like an ambassadorial thing or to turn up to a game when he retires or whatever, he's going to get an incredible reception. His numbers are good. At his best, he was a sensational player. Really, really good. But I think the sad real politic of football says that diminishing returns, probably not an improving player. looked a bit leggy last season, missed a bit through injury as well. And Spurs are pretty well covered on that side of the pitch. So I think it's kind of a bit sad that maybe in retrospect for Spurs fans and Son himself perhaps, or maybe Son did know, I don't know, but Spurs fans and the club couldn't perhaps properly mark the occasion.

9:50Because I think if they had known the Europa League final was going to be his last game, that would have been a really kind of much more emotionally charged affair. But having said that, the type of player Sonny is, he's always been a pretty good team player. I imagine he wouldn't have wanted it to be all about him anyway. And it's right and proper that it was about the club and them lifting their trophy. Spurs fans will wish him all the best. I mean, I've seen an outpouring of emotion on all the Spurs fans. I follow them, Instagram accounts and all that kind of good stuff. So yeah, look, incredible Premier League performer, incredible Spurs player.

10:22hope they can do a lot better in replacement for him than Matisse Tell. I mean, I mean, Luke, your favourite memory of Son has to be, I mean, most people probably say that Pushkash winner against Burnley, which is insane. Yeah, that's unreal. But four goals against Southampton. Oh, yeah. That's basically secured it for me. He was always going to get an amazing amount of praise for me as soon as that happened. But look, I'm joking about Matty's tail, by the way. We'll talk about him a bit in a minute, I expect. But Spurs are well covered. They're moving into a new era now. I think, according to reports, Jim, Son informed Thomas Frank that he wanted to move on when Frank basically came in.

11:05So it wasn't a case that Thomas Frank was coming in and saying, right, we don't need you anymore or anything like that. It very much came from Son himself. Yeah, and I think it is probably the right time, isn't it? It goes out on a massive, massive high. The thing that they've been kind of craving for a long time. he's been a big part of that achievement and I think it's interesting what you say about Harry Kane Luke because I do agree but I do think you know those who watch them both will kind of have them together really in terms of legacy because they were such a big part of each other's game and such a big part of what made Tottenham such a sort of irresistible attacking force when they were at their best and really exciting as well that's something that even when they've had seasons where they've kind of not kind of managed to do what they wanted to do They've always been a really exciting attacking force.

11:48And those two were a big, big part of that. And they're very reliable. Their goal contributions one season was 47. And the second was prolific was 36. And that was Drogba and Lampard. So that record will stand for a very, very long time. Because you don't often see those kind of partnerships anymore, do you? I think one of the legacy things will certainly be, though, do you guys remember, and if you don't remember, you should go and remind yourself, and people listening should too, the most unlikely argument of all time in All or Nothing between Son and Hugo Lloris when Hugo Lloris was really pissed off his son at half time for not tracking back for a goal.

12:25And it was quite odd to watch. It was like watching a fight between two canaries. Right, okay. Don't expect them to be aggressive. Two very non-aggressive animals. I mean, you say that because did you see the shot? I mean, we'll come into the match. They play Newcastle in the, what's it bloody called? The Premier League Super Sessions. Summer Series, have a bit of respect. The Premier League Summer Sessions Series. West Ham Bournemouth last night, woeful. I know, they still managed to win West Ham, thank God. There was a shot of Son's dad in the crowd and good God, that man looks serious. Very severe looking man, Son Wung Jung.

13:04I thought, what's his story? And obviously he was a footballer out in Korea and he was fined last year for violating child welfare law at his soccer academy. in South Korea, he hit a child with a corner flag. And if you can't handle son's dad attacking your son with a corner flag... What a fitting tribute on the Rambles to son. Well done, mate. Great career. Well done, kids with bloody corner flags for crying out loud. Yes, I mean, an incredible performer at the highest level. But yes, they did give him a guard of honour, both Newcastle and Spurs when he was substituted after an hour in their 1-0 draw in Seoul last night.

13:47Yeah, I don't think a guard of honour in the Premier League summer series is quite the same as having a guard of honour maybe in the Europa League or something. I think maybe they should, I'm sure they'll find a way of doing this, they should bring him back and have him waving around on the Premier League game. Give him a half-time hero send-off. Yeah, when he gets fed up with MLS and starts talking about the fact he's really injured and he doesn't want to play, he'll come back for a bit. Do a bit of training there. Do a bit of training. Yes, it was. Do a bit of training And that Real Sociedad.

14:13In that football match. Pope probably the busier of the keep, as has to be said. But he still managed to keep Tell out, as you discussed, Luke. There was a one-on-one that took place in that match. He had the whole pitch for himself, pretty much. And he still managed to rattle against... He tried to give Pope the eyes and then rattled it against Pope's legs. Let's be clear. I'm not sure if you are attempting to give Nick Pope some credit for this, but a goalkeeper made entirely of rice paper could have kept that out. It was, I've never seen a one-on-one where you think the forward player is less likely to score.

14:50It was, if I was a Spurs fan, I've said what I've just said about Son, it was absolutely chilling. If that guy is looking to start football matches for Spurs this season, I would be chilled to my core if I was a Spurs fan watching what I saw there. because you're 20 years old, you come with a big reputation. The one thing you should really be is have your confidence through the roof. You're 20 years old. Remember how confident we were at 20. We had nothing going on, right? He should be able to produce a slightly better return. Maybe make Nick Pope have to make a difficult save rather than a really easy one.

15:30He just never looked like he even wanted to be in the one-on-one situation, let alone score. He robs his man on the halfway line, runs for absolutely ages. And you think, well, he's obviously in a brilliant position to score here. Does one step over and effectively just passes it. Massive step over. Yeah. Real big telegraph of a step over. It's the biggest step over since Phil Neville did one for Man United. Literally telegraph. And then another one and another one and another one. Look, I think clearly he's got time on his side and maybe Thomas Frank can get a tune out of him and he's got a good reputation.

16:02and he came to Spurs on loan with an option to buy for a lot of money but weirdly enough, Spurs were able to negotiate that right down, right? So they got him for a far better deal than they thought they were going to. And to put it diplomatically, he doesn't currently seem as if he's someone you can build any kind of attack around. But we could be wrong. It's only pre-season. Maybe it's a little tune-up. Maybe it's the Austin Powers shirts. He just can't get past it. He just doesn't like wearing the weird spooky shirts they've got on. Oh, yeah. But then it doesn't explain last season's contribution, does it?

16:38Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, he's a young player finding his feet and we're seeing a lot of these friendlies that teams just don't look quite ready, do they? I think there's a good chance that Tel will be a successful player for them. Yeah. Well, I mean, it was an interesting sort of end to the match. Obviously, the highlight of the match for me was certainly Harvey Barnes' great goal at the near post. Absolutely whipping that in off the post. Love to see that. but yeah James Madison stretched it off with what looks like a rather severe looking injury not ideal for Mr Frank Bruno Gimoresh seemed to try and throttle Christian Romero but he escaped a red card probably would have been one in the Premier League I think it's fair to say yeah Jim you say that but am I the only one of us here who thinks that he didn't throttle him for long enough yeah no you're not he didn't go on for that long and the same way that you know people should be able to have a little tug on Mark Cucurella's hair you should be able to give Christian Romero a little bit back.

17:31I mean the amount of stuff he's dished out over the years. Yeah I think so and also this is inevitable isn't it? If you put Bruno Gimaraes and Christian Romero together they're going to be like Japanese fighting fish that will just kick off. So let's embrace that. I also think what I liked about it I say that he didn't throttle him for very long. It's very much like a pre-season throttling wasn't it? I'm just practising this. Yeah yeah. In the Premier League fixture I shall be doing that for a lot longer. Yeah. This is about a 60-70 % throttle. Yeah, that's absolutely fine. Kind of a case of one good, one bad for the Spurs midfield.

18:04James Madison, as we said, stretched it off with a pretty horrific injury. Hopefully he won't spend too much time out for that. But in more positive news for Spurs, they have confirmed the long signing of João Pellinier from Bayern Munich with an option to make it permanent next summer. Jim, how do you see Spurs' further acquisitions at this summer transfer window? Do you think they need more? I think they are already looking at an attacking midfield signing by all accounts. And obviously James Madison being out will just exacerbate that further. So I think that essentially they will just speed up their plans for that.

18:41But I think actually, quietly, Jaupelinha is potentially one of the signings of the summer. He's an absolute tackle monster. and we touched on it recently that that is something that certainly last season Spurs needed very badly and obviously they will be different under Frank, but that's not to change what a kind of transformative midfielder Perlini can be. He gives you so much security, the amount of successful tackles he makes. It's a real throwback actually. It's just streets and streets ahead of anybody else in the Premier League in seasons where he's played a full season. So I think this is genuinely, I mean, it could be like league positions in terms of difference if he can stay fit.

19:23Yeah, I agree. I think he's a big asset to them. You know, he'll make a huge difference in that area of pitch where they do need a calf. I mean, I talked about it on Friday, Benton Coeur and Bissouma. And, you know, he's a slightly different player to both of those players, but he's an upgrade for sure in terms of his ceiling, particularly since Benton Coeur's had some serious injuries. and on the Madison thing you know they were trying to get Morgan Gibbs-White weren't they he would be a massive again slightly different player but he's more versatile and a massive upgrade on Madison in my view and they weren't able to do that but I imagine they'll go into the market and try and find someone else again we don't know how serious Madison's injury is as Pete's already said but I think it is worth pointing out that I think it's the same knee that he injured before so there might be reason to be pessimistic about it I mean hope not I don't really like Madison as a player but obviously I don't want to see him get a serious injury.

20:11So fingers crossed he'll be OK. They're making moves. And the good thing is for Spurs, of course, is that they can't really be any worse than they were last season domestically. So there's a chance they can improve a great deal. But I think there's a really, really good chance they'll improve at least a bit. Well, speaking of attacking midfielders that Jim wants to see at Spurs, Andros Townsend is signed for Thai League at one side. Kanchanaburi Power FC alongside Abubakar Kamara and Gerson Rodriguez. They were pictured holding their shirts on their announcement footage over the bridge over the River Kwai.

20:49They were over the River Kwai. They were on the bridge over the River Kwai. Great way to celebrate you joining a club at the site of World War II atrocities. Well, the thing is also Gerson Rodriguez himself has been guilty of some atrocities. So, I mean, I wouldn't be... Right, OK. It kind of makes sense. Gerson Rodriguez, the guy who could have had some kind of career he wasn't the world's biggest dickhead and committed some horrific crimes Andros Townsend is having a lovely having a lovely end to his career he seems to be just you know I've done what I want to do now I'm going to go and just have some interesting times on holiday what I would say though is he needs to make sure his internet connection is good enough so he can still do his talk sport stuff from Thailand it's a good point I mean he's kind of he's always I've certainly recently seen him are doing like a handstand, sorry, a headstand on Instagram because he's got into Ashtanga Yoga.

21:43So this is just the perfect sort of little gap year sojourn, you know, post career, just have a year there and just find yourself a little bit. Fantastic. Big fan of that. Yeah, he's gained quite a lot of praise, hasn't he, for his commentary work. So I find it interesting that he's gone, nah, you know what? I think he's quite insightful. I've got one last gig left in me. Fair play. Very, very good. I don't imagine he's going to find it hard to play in the Thai League One. Probably not. You know, he's not going to find that difficult, no matter what age he is. The most difficult he's going to have is trying to keep away from Gerson Rodriguez.

22:15Probably pretty good advice, to be honest. All right, well, coming up after this, more transfers and proper football is back. It's happening. Russell Martin's not enjoying it, though.

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25:38Hi, I'm Linvoy Primus and you're listening to the Football Ramble. Welcome back to the Football Ramble. We've had some more correspondence after last week's mailbag episode about the most 90s things ever. Andrew Gilbert said I was listening to the uncut offering on the free feed for us plebs and Jim mentioned his quest to find the most 90s thing of all time let me share my offering of an eau de toilette from the 1999 Tarzan movie this was found in a cupboard, why did they bother? surely it must smell like the jungle or something surely, musky a musky musky this was found in a cupboard at my work when doing a clear out a while ago but I have no idea where it came from originally can confirm despite its age the fragrance is still not bad not a classy gentleman andrew gilbert yeah i mean andrew it's a really great missive and we really appreciate hearing about it and it's a fantastic candidate for one of the most 90s things ever i don't know why you would have ended your message to us by saying the fragrance isn't bad don't say that it makes you sound like you stink no you you have to try that come on you've got to give it a You need to see what it's like.

26:43You've got to try it. It might be one of those discoveries. If your floor is so low for fragrances that you think a promotional eau de toilette from a 1999 Tarzan movie is quote-unquote not bad, it says something about you. That's all I'm saying. Don't let that put you off emailing again, though, Andrew. It's great to hear from you. No, do get involved. Thank you. And do sign up for the Patreon. Thomas Egginton says, just wanted to bring your attention to the most 90s thing of all time. I bring you the Windows 95 user guide presented by Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston. And yeah, it's just basically a video of two actors from...

27:17It's a bit of an internet sort of cult classic, isn't it, this? Yeah, two stars of the TV show Friends, and they've basically just gone through the features of Windows 95. I reckon they would have hoovered up some Bill Gates bank for doing that. Can you imagine how long that? North of a million each, has to be true. They were getting a million an episode for Friends. Yeah, yeah. I think the fact that it's Windows 95 brings up a really interesting aside on this quest to find the most 90s thing of all time. Because Jim first brought this to the table and I made a representation of Jim that I think for it to be the most 90s thing of all time, it kind of has to have happened in 1995, bang in the middle of the 90s.

27:57Bang in the middle, right, yeah. I think that's important and this is therefore ticks that box. The Rolling Stones doing that song, Start Me Up, for the start button for Windows 95. That's great. I think it's even more nice. I've got one from 1992, if you're interested. Yeah, okay. Go on. It's at the Brit Awards. The KLF are nominated for Best British Band, and they're performing, but they're joined by a band called Extreme Noise Terror, which no one knew they were going to do, who sound exactly how you'd imagine they sound. The KLF then fire a machine gun full of blanks into the audience and dump a dead sheep outside the venue that's booked for the after party.

28:33And they won the award, but they had to share it with Simply Red. Ah, wonderful. Extremely 90s. That's a very 90s addendum to that story. Yeah, very enjoyable. That's brilliant. But guys, before we move on, can I just also give a special shout out to Paddy on the Ramble Discord, who was crowned officially our Discord's 2025 Jack's Encyclopedia champion over the weekend. Great performance by him. Fantastic. I listened to one of the earlier rounds and between James and someone else. I can't remember who it was. And I was absolutely stunned by how genial and collegiate the atmosphere was on the mics.

29:15Not at all in keeping with the Ramble tradition. So please do smarten that up for the 2026 Jack Encyclopedia Championship in the Discord. But apart from that, congratulations to Paddy. And if you want to be a part of that, if you want to make your own entertainment as well as listening to us and get on the Discord, plus getting, of course, the aforementioned Football Ramble Uncut every week just sign up to the Ramble Patreon for $5 a month like I say you'll get uncut on a Wednesday as well as ad free episodes of not just the Ramble but on the continent and up front plus early access to merch which I think we're launching fairly soon and any future live tickets head to patreon.com forward slash football ramble to get involved I think there's a special offer at the moment as well for a discounted yearly rate until the end of August so you can sign up for the whole season for a cheaper rate even than the $5 a month so do do that to get all that extra shit.

30:07I was going to press the applause button for the Jackson Encyclopedia, but I won't because you said shit. We mentioned it last week and the most walnut gear knob signing of the season of the summer has now been confirmed. Aaron Ramsdale will join Newcastle on loan for the season. Jim made it very clear that he wanted some clarity in the world of Alan Partridge references. Yeah, we've been misusing the walnut gear knob reference. so essentially we thought it came from a meeting between Lynn and Alan where she tells him that she's managed to negotiate a walnut guillanob for his car and then drops the bad news that he's got to close down his production company and sack everyone in it and then he goes still good news about the walnut guillanob we're wrong what he actually says is still good news about the chocolate oranges because he's managed to get a bulk load of damaged chocolate oranges to give away on his show and to friends and colleagues.

31:02So just want to clarify that. I think Warnock-Gianov still works, though. Yeah, I think we should stick with a Warnock-Gianov. I like it. Essentially, it's an underwhelming signing, isn't it? While all the bad stuff happens. It's an underwhelming signing, yeah. Eddie Howe signed Ramsdale when he was at Bournemouth and Ramsdale said that working under Howe was a big attraction. Can Eddie Howe keep that lad calm? Because I do worry that he's going to be at a loose end in your castle and he's going to go even more wild. Stir crazy, if you will, Luke. It's hypocritical of you to bring that up. What do you mean?

31:36Chaos merchant himself. Listen, Aaron Ramsdale conceded 66 goals last season, apparently, in the games he played. You've done that in one game planning goal for your Sunday, Simon. And I'll do it again, thank you very much. Normally, you only play a half in goal. Is he going to play? I don't know. He's a different kind of keeper to Nick Pope. Clearly, we've mentioned this in other context earlier this summer around teams that are going to be in the Champions League. A lot of games, a lot of things to cover off. He's experienced. He has performed well in the Premier League before playing for Southampton.

32:10His biggest shortcoming, in my view, is that he appears to have rocks in his head and he can't choose good moves. I'm hoping he's chosen a good move here for Newcastle's sake. And from Newcastle's point of view, look, get bodies in. You know, it is a Walnut-Giannav sign-in. we can officially call it that but you've got to get bodies in particularly in keeping You need gear knobs You need gear knobs You need those knobs Yeah So I mean do you how do you feel about his position in the squad Pete because you would think when a goalkeeper's coming in off that profile they're probably going to start He made more saves than Nick Pope last season quite significantly but obviously he was in that horrendous team so he faced a lot more shots and on that he had a lower save percentage than Pope Ramsdales was 65, Pope's was 71%.

32:56So it's kind of hard to really kind of take anything from that. But he made almost double the amount of passes that Pope made. And I think that might be significant. Obviously, Russell Martin and Eddie Howe set their teams up in very, very different ways. But that does suggest it gives an option that Newcastle haven't had before. Yeah, and Pope has got an injury in him. He does spend a little bit of time on the sidelines. So it might be a good sort of period of time to sort of kind of bed him in a little bit. I've kind of come around to sort of thinking that, you know, Pope's delivery and Pope's sort of ball confidence, I think, is pretty poor.

33:33He shanks a lot of sort of unchallenged kicks into the crowd. So it might be that they just want a little bit more quality from either dead balls or from sort of dropped goal kicks. So we'll see how it goes. But Luke's right, just need bodies definitely in a Champions League campaign you need we might be playing them up front at this point yeah exactly speaking of Newcastle United forwards West Ham have signed former Newcastle striker Callum Wilson on a one year contract he said he was excited to be joining a massive football club like West Ham I imagine that a club that shares a similar passion to mine hard work dedication and I also strive for success so I'm glad to be a part of it the counterpoint to that is listener Luke Bright who got in touch Callum Wilson to West Ham after regularly mocking the club and openly taking the piss out of our only trophy win for decades not to mention scoring against us every time he played us could it be any more of a West Ham situation I mean the main thing here Luke is surely just his agent being friends with David Sullivan yes come on yeah that's possible I'll tell you how the news has been received by West Ham fan website hammers.news if you want I'll just read you the headline for a starter Callum Wilson once mocked West Ham's only major achievement for 45 years.

34:51Now he's signing for them. The article includes the following quotes. The move is already stirring controversy among our fans, many of whom haven't forgotten his many past digs at the Hammers. This is a character who has always rubbed many West Ham fans up the wrong way. Wilson is 34 next season and injury prone, and his arrival would jar with Potter's stated transfer policy. It was confirmed by a top spokesman that Potter didn't want to sign any new strikers. How do you become a top spokesman for West Ham? Yeah. What's the ranking system? You're just a 34-year-old spokesman that's come from another club, but one would suggest.

35:28But, I mean, two things. He's not going to score against them, which is good. He's friends with quite a few West Ham players as well. Oh, that's fine then. That's funny where the banter comes. Just get him in. No, but that's where the sort of banter of... Yeah, because he did a podcast with Michel Antonio, didn't he? Yeah, exactly. Exactly, so yeah, and he looked fucking good in his press shot, so I'll never not be, I want Callum Wilson in front of the cameras, but it feels, for a West Ham fan, a very Robbie Keane kind of situation. Yeah, it's heavily incentivised though, so he gets paid different amounts based on whether he's in the squads and in the team, and I think if he scores goals as well, so that's very West Ham in that there's a lot to suggest it won't go well, and if it does go well, it costs them extra money.

36:11but it sort of it feels like a bit of a backup signing it's one of those signings where you think this might look better at the end of the window depending on who else they bring in they've been pretty quiet so far haven't they a couple of full backs coming in and one or two other bits of business they've done but yeah it's a really interesting one this because he was at Newcastle for five years and he missed 114 games in that time it's a lot of football so it is a gamble and also obviously he's replacing his friend Mikel Antonio but I think from what I've read Antonio encouraged him to take it so it might look a bit sad in that sense but I don't think there's anything to that Sorry to cut in Jim but I also feel like what is Potter going to be able to do with a player of that age with that injury profile who we can't really rely upon and I always think of Potter as quite a systemic coach and I've defended Potter and his record at West Ham on this show regularly, chiefly just because I think that coming in the way you come in is tough, right?

37:14And you defend a guy and you think, right, he's going to spend pre-season doing stuff properly, working in cahoots and being aligned with West Ham's transfer guys, which may not even be possible because West Ham are a basket case in the transfer window. But then you see this signing, you think, I mean, how does this fit in? How does this actually fit in? It doesn't feel like his choice, does it? Yeah, it doesn't feel like it at all. It doesn't feel like a grand pot of signing in any way. So look, what will happen remains to be seen. The other thing I would say is that Mikel Antonio has missed football as well for various reasons, but Antonio was a proper occupier of defences and when he played, even though he didn't contribute a huge amount of goals, he was just the absolute dictionary definition of nuisance value and strength and hard running.

38:03And I don't know if Wilson's body can stand up to that, So, I would be disappointed if I was a West Ham fan, but then West Ham fans are always disappointed, especially when it comes to strikers. So, you know, who knows? He's going to be the 56th one to not work or whatever it is. The numbers are crazy when it comes to West Ham strikers. Well, a lot of West Ham strikers, obviously, there's just a place to ruin your career, isn't it, going to West Ham if you're a forward player. But Callum Wilson's pre-distressed. It's like a pair of jeans that have been, you know, scuffed up him. Get yourself to the club.

38:32Yeah. Well, football is back. Competitive football. Anyway, League 1 and League 2 began this weekend. I saw the results coming in on my phone and I was like, where are we again? It seems like it's been absolutely endless. Swindon Town conceded a late winner against Walsall in League 2. A supporter was seen throwing an object at the goalkeeper, Myles Roberts. And it was a bit of chair, I think. I think they've thrown a bit of chair at him. A bit of chair on the opening day of the season. I know that you've conceded. I'm so angry. a last minute winner in appalling fashion against 10 men right but the counterpoint to that is you support Swindon Town so that will happen and it's the fact trust me I've been to Swindon Town loads of times that does sometimes happen secondly it's the opening day of the season yeah you've peaked way too early there for protest you're doing chairs on the fucking 2nd of August he's not allowed back in the he won't be allowed back in the stadium what's he going to do for the rest of the season I know He spent all that money on a season ticket, Jim.

39:36Holloway's quotes were quite astonishing. He said, I'm disgusted by whoever that person was. Whoever you are, you're not a Swindon fan. I'm not having you and I hope you get caught. That is absolutely horrific. How dare you put a club in the situation you've just done. We don't want you in football. So it's the opening day of the season and the manager has essentially demoted you from fandom. Like you're dumb. You've been sacked as a fan. This game, by the way. How dare you do that? Got them all. How dare you do that? Who the hell do you think you are? That's absolutely disgusting. How dare you do that?

40:05I don't want you anywhere near us. Who the hell do you think you are? How dare you do that? I don't want you anywhere near us. I don't want you anywhere near us. By the way, that's not a manipulated quote. That's exactly how Ian Holloway said it.

40:18We shouldn't make light of a man being at work and having pieces of chair thrown at him, first and foremost. Unless they're a wrestler, because that's part of the job. Yeah, and that's part of me. There you go. That's the only other button I've got on my thing. Secondly, this was a pretty good opening day of the season game. I mean, first of all, from what I can make out, obviously finished Walsall 2, Swindon 1, because as I said, Walsall scored a last-minute winner despite being down to 10 men. But Walsall lined up with a 3-1-4-2 and Swindon lined up with a 4-3-2-1 Christmas tree in League 2 on the opening day.

40:52Lovely stuff. Bringing it back. There was a rugby tackle in there which got a straight red. There was, like I say, a last-minute winner where the guy waltzed through the defence and just scored. It was a brilliant advert for League Two footballer unless, of course, you're a Swindon Town fan. It was really good stuff. Or you used to be a Swindon Town fan but were fired by the manager. Yeah. In retrospect, he can now enjoy that because he no longer supports the club. Exactly. How dare he do that? The Scottish Premiership also kicked off this weekend. It's a spicy weekend for a lot of teams. Rangers drew one all under the new coach Russell Martin, who was not happy with the performance.

41:31He called out two men on the pitch who want to do what they want to do. And they said that some of his players have to drop their ego. When the game's not going well, we have too many players that want to do their own thing and slip into self-preservation. It's not me blaming the players. It's a default here at this football club to revert to type. Strong words. Opening day again. Opening day. Yeah. Already got enough. But you know what? I do understand the kind of frustration there because this is the third season in a row they've not won on the opening day. And in a league like, you know, the league in Scotland, you're playing catch-up straight away and that must be absolutely infuriating.

42:08Yeah. Yeah, because Celtic, because from their point of view, Celtic all played on the Sunday and they kind of huffed and puffed and then scored a winner quite late on. And also you need to have a bit of respect. I mean, Motherwell finished eighth in the Scottish Premiership last season. Not an easy place to go. But I think what the real, that was a joke, by the way, guys, Fell flat, don't worry about it. What really happened, though, is Russell Martin was absolutely apoplectic because his side only had 62 % possession, which is not good enough for his style of play, particularly when you're Rangers in Scotland.

42:42Yes. They should be having over 80 % of the game apart from Celtic. Yeah. Completely agree. It's a bold tactic, isn't it? Be interesting to see if it works. It's the sort of thing that backfires very, very badly if that just annoys the players. but I guess we'll see how it works out it's worth pointing out that James Taveney has scored his 131st goal for Rangers in that game and he is a right back and that is just phenomenal isn't he Jim any thoughts about seeing Kieran Tierney celebrating a Celtic win I'm thrilled for him I hope they win every game they play where he's involved cards on the table well coming up after this more pre-season jokes and gyps and a football legend signs for a new club at 58.

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45:19Welcome back to the Football Rumble. Man United won the Premier League Summer Series after a two-all draw with Everton last night. I didn't even realise it was a competitive trophy, but the trophy was lifted. And it kind of looks like the old-timey kind of Premier League trophy or Zemp picked a little bit. It looks like it's been kind of squashed in the middle. So it did look a little bit... If you squinted, you could kind of make out that it could have been the Premier League trophy. But Man United are nowhere near winning that. But it was pretty underwhelming. Look at the photo I've shared with you guys in the WhatsApp group of the Man United players ready to lift the trophy and how pleased they are.

45:53It looks like the scene in The Usual Suspects, where they have to do the criminal line-up. Yes, I flip you. You're right, this trophy is comically small as well. Kobe Mainu looks gutted, just absolutely gutted. They won it after drawing 2-0 Everton, right? And the Everton second equaliser was the most 2025 Main Utter you'll ever see. Ahmed Diallo, who, lest we forget, was pretty good for Main Utter until he got injured. Yeah, tried to clear it, smashed it off Aidan Hever and they just rolled into their own net. Yeah, it was something else. It was worth digging out that one. But Ruben Amorim, the manager of Manchester United, said over the weekend that he travelled to games last season fearful of what was going to happen to his team.

46:39There was a big interview in the New York Times and Athletic and a few other places. It was sort of syndicated. But it was quite amusing that one of the things that Amorim said was that apparently Ratcliffe sends Amarim a load of GIFs on WhatsApp. Yeah, I saw that. It's funny. What do you reckon is GIFs he's sending? That's what I want to know. I reckon it's pretty thin, gruel. Basic stuff, yeah. I don't reckon it's the kind of level of GIFs that you're sending around, Donaldson. No. Is it the man with the yellow suit going, hmmm? Yeah, or Homer Simpson backing into the hedge. He's just a scum with that one.

47:10Yeah, definitely. Leonardo DiCaprio recognising something in Revolutionary Road. Or Great Gatsby doing the cheers. Yeah. apparently he's just sent Ruben Amarin on the WhatsApp the badger badger badger dot com on our website you do get the impression that Jim Radcliffe thinks most people don't know about gifs and that this is going to blow Ruben Amarin's mind and he calls them gifs definitely yeah I also liked in that interview that Ruben Amarin said that he regularly tells Jim Radcliffe that he's talking bullshit yeah I like that yeah I mean we'll see how that one sort of pans out I mean he does he did say at one point if you don't train the right way I have footage to show you and I show you in front of everybody so I'm always on top.

47:53Sounds like one of our YouTube comments. You don't say stuff the right way. We've got footage to prove that you're on the internet. By the way, I also read that there's a new six-man leadership group at May and I, which is all the rage now. So all the top clubs, you have a captain, of course, a club captain, but all the top managers now have this kind of leadership group type vibe and United are no different under Amerim and Harry Maguire and Tom Heaton are part of it. And I get that Tom Heaton's old, right? And he's had a good career. I mean, he's basically never played. In four years, I don't think he's played a single league game for Man United.

48:33I think he's played a couple of times in the League Cup and that's just about it. Like, is that really going to hold water with some of the young players? They're not even going to really know who he is. is it a little bit a bit like the younger generation not knowing the lyrics to Wonderwall yeah a little bit like that which is definitely like I said which is something that happened to me on Saturday night unacceptable you're bringing the vibe down lads what were they singing how did you know that they didn't know the lyrics to Wonderwall because like their girlfriends who were very enthusiastically singing along kept trying kept trying to cajole them into doing it yeah okay and they wouldn't do it and one of them was looking at the lyrics on his phone yeah Why embarrass yourself?

49:12I made that up. He wasn't doing that. Oh, my God. OK, right, fine. All right. Well, owner Jim Radcliffe, the Jiff Meister himself, he's hit a snag in trying to build their... The Jiff Radcliffe. The Jiff Radcliffe. He's hit a snag in trying to build their new super stadium that was announced a few weeks ago, a few months ago, in fact. There's that big circus tent, wasn't it? All that nonsense. Part of the land for the proposed site is currently owned by another company, Brookfield. United value that land at£40 to£50 million. Brookfield want£400 million. It's like, it's like Ezek, isn't it? Yeah, it's quite the discrepancy there.

49:42Is Jim Radcliffe just going to keep insisting it's actually worth 40 million? It seems a mad sort of galaxy-brained billionaire tactic that I have no experience of understanding. I mean, look, land's relatively cheap depending on where it is, but good God, if you know that Manchester United want it and you know how high their financial ceiling goes, you're probably going to bump it up. It's a Man United tax, isn't it? It literally applies to the floor.

50:10Oh dear. What he needs to do is he needs to get that particular piece of land and not select it for a few squads for a while. Stick it on the bench. Stick it on the landline. And then try and convince Chelsea to get it for cheap and then buy it back off Chelsea. Makes sense. It's like there's that little piece of ground outside St James' Park, isn't there, Pete? That's just owned by like some guy. Like who's obviously going to make an absolute fortune if and when Newcastle kind of renovate this stadium in that same area. Smart. You quite simply have to hold tight. You can't just sort of panic with these things.

50:49It's a devious way to live, isn't it? It is. Land baronage. Like that bloke in China who refused to sell his house and had to build the highway round his house. Yeah, it happens quite a lot. The nail houses of China and certain other places. I don't know why a despotic Chinese government doesn't just flatten it, but maybe they respect that sort of behaviour. Who knows? Well, we were talking about Oasis, obviously a big 90s act. Another 90s act. 58-year-old Mexico legend Jorge Campos has signed for Mexico FC, the Spanish fifth-tier side. I mean, he's 58 years old. He was one of the most flamboyant, mainly due to his dress sense, footballers of the sort of early 90s, sort of late 80s.

51:33And it's the first time the legendary goalkeeper has played for a club outside of North America. He might even play as a striker, as he's occasionally done throughout his career. He was obviously one of those kind of footballers who would take penalties, he would do free kicks, and he would spend a lot of time out of his 18-yard box, Jim. Yeah, he did, and he was also, because he was quite a handy striker, genuinely, they'd often sub another goalkeeper on and he'd go up front at the end of games and quite often scored goals. So he wasn't just one of those guys who took free kicks, like Rogério Sini and stuff like that.

52:04But yeah, I mean, he is genuinely a 90s icon, very much in the spirit of the type of 90s things we've been talking about. Five foot seven as well, which simply cannot be repeated enough. Phenomenal goalkeeper. It's a really interesting project, this. Kind of essentially a European base to develop Mexican talent and build a kind of dual identity squad within Spanish football. Very unusual and odd. I mean, he is 58 years old, but again, it's the fifth tier. yeah he'll play against Andrews Townsend next season yeah how old's King Kazoo he's got to be up there hasn't he he's got to be cracking on for 58 but yeah well done that man well you've also got to factor in that it's the season for old players carrying on doing their thing because the great Jamie Cureton is still playing at 49 that's right yeah you know he I think he's playing for Canterbury City as player manager I remember him I'm pretty sure I remember him tearing Pompey to pieces when he was at Reading like a long time ago But he's still doing it.

53:03He's been part of the youth coaching set-up at Arsenal in this time as well. So he has a separate coaching career while also being a player, which is amazing. And this will be his 32nd successive season as a football player. Wow. Enjoyable. Some people just can't leave it alone. Some people just want to go on forever. And good on them because it makes me feel a lot younger. Exactly. We should have left ages ago. But we are going to be leaving you now. Thank you very much for listening to the Football Ramble, part of the Acast Creator Network. We're going to be back tomorrow for a brand new mailbag.

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