Jack's Encyclopaedia: Manchester derby XI's, Championship managers, and Premier League loyalists

0:01Every European stadium that Andy Brassell has posted on his Instagram in 2025. Any European stadium? Any European stadium? Plough Lane. St. James' Park. He lives in Newcastle. Correct. This is how I'm losing my belt. So he's definitely been to Spurs recently. He's 2025. Oh, in which case, definitely Spurs now. Correct. Surely he's been to bloody Bayern Munich in this time. Come on, don't be like that. Give me the ding. Oh, Luke's got the... Don't, don't. Come on. He's not right, I've won. He has. Oh, no. Oh, man. Dean Smith also says you're an encyclopedia of football. A what? An encyclopedia of football.

0:47I don't know what that means. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Football Ramble. It's Jack's Encyclopedia. I'm Marcus Speller. I'm Jim Campbell. I'm Pete Donaldson. And I'm David Cartlidge.

1:13Welcome back to another edition of Jackson Encyclopedia. Oh, it's been a while. It's been a while. We've been biddy-anting all over the place. But now we've got a full complement of four people going for a little bit of Jackson Encyclopedia fun. Lovely. Luke is away. Lazy little shit. He's in the room. He's in the room. He's in the room. He's all over there. He cannot be challenged for the Jackson Encyclopedia belt. instead it'll be a league fixture between Marcus, Jim and David. If you don't know the rules, they're simple. It's a game of categories. I'll give you a category and then we'll go around each of you to see if you can give me a valid answer.

1:45If you go too slow, you're going to be hearing a countdown timer. I'm looking at you, David Cartlidge. Okay, okay. I think you're a bit of a bad boy of these kind of games. I think you're going to push and pull at the very fabric of this competition. Nice impartial hosting as well. I thought you were going to say I'm a bit slow but I'll take it. Also, to add to this, Luke is in the room and he is wearing a hoodie that's the same colour as the curtain behind him. So to us, he's just like a big floating head which I think is a mind game. Yeah. He's like that manager in the main show who's watching you sleep.

2:22He's constantly there. Offer error. You familiar with the game, David? I am. It's the first time you've played but you are familiar with the game. I probably played it a while ago. I think I played it once a long, long time ago. But it'll feel like the first time. Touch for the very first time. Right. Jim. What a start. I'm going to start with you. I like being sat this side of the table. Is it Madonna singles? It's Madonna singles. Again, he sings like a virgin and goes, we're going to start with you. Absolute loose cannon today. Like a Jim Jim. What have we got? Every player to start for both teams in Man United's 4-3 win against Manchester City in 2009.

3:06Bloody Nora. Vish would have relished this. He would have, yeah. Wayne Rooney? He's not here, but he's not here. I've not even got me buttons. Wayne Rooney. He's in there. There's always one in there. I thought if you get a wrong one for that, that would be tough. Yeah. Let's have one, David. Patrick Sevra. Correct. He's in there. We have Ferdinand. He's in there. Don't do that. Little early doubts being sown. I'll go with Nemanja Vidic then. Correct. Edwin van der Sar. Surely. That's not a bad shout. That's the one. Not in there. Not in there. That's one of those ones where it's nailed on and then you look at it and you go, David, thank you for falling on that grenade for me because that would have been my answer.

3:54Bloody hell. Michael Carrick.

4:01Well done, Jim. Yes. That is mad. Solid. Michael, bloody Carrick, what are you doing to me? Yeah. Well, I mean... Got away with one there. Take it, Jim. Yeah. Take it, take it, take it. Let's hear it. Who played? Ben Foster definitely played. Oh! There we go. Anderson was in there. Carlos Tevez. Craig Bellamy. I had Bellamy, yeah. Darren Fletcher. Dimitar Berbatov. Gareth Barry. G-Sung Park. John O'Shea. Johnny Lescott. Corlo Torre played. Mika Richards Nigel De Jong Ryan Giggs Sean Wright Phillips Shea Given he's had a week Stephen Ireland and Wayne Bridge yeah nice to have another Wayne in there I've it's just getting the years isn't it they're all really obvious when you when Pete reads out who they are well because because you think in those years you think okay 2009 well who played for them obviously that's the key question but you think well like Champions League finals you know who started for those games and so on and so forth but yeah yeah Bellamy had down because of course Bellamy scored but Michael Owen came on and she didn't say because he got the winner it wasn't a starting birth was it yeah the score is that Jim you've got a point yes well done Jimbo well done David let's have yours what's the question oh yeah probably the question David you know what you could have just named your own category there you could have said Sunderland players from the 90s you could have done us all The top 20 goal scorers so far in the Premier League this season.

5:34The top 20 goal scorers so far in the Premier League this season. Igor Tiago. Correct. Thanks. Erling Haaland. That's a gimme, isn't it? Yeah. Antoine Semenyo. Correct. It's mad, this game, what he does to you. It is. Olly Watkins. Course he's in there. Course he's in there. Course he's in there. Marcus? Jean-Philippe Mateta. Ooh. Correct. Jim? Hugo Eketike. Oh, yeah. Yeah, nice. And correct? DCL. Ah, nice one. Morgan Rodgers? Mm-hmm. Kevin Sciada? Yes. It's naughty. Leandro Trossard. Ooh, okay. I like where your thinking's going, but it's wrong, unfortunately. Joel Pedro? Enough to get him on this table.

6:31I think he's scored a surprising amount of goals this season. I'm hoping enough of them within the Premier League. Enzo Fernandes? They were enough. And you are enough, Jim. Thank you. DC, you're out. Let's have one from you, Marcus. Nick Fulton, either. Correct. Harvey Barnes. Marcus gets the points. Yes, points in us for that. Marcus gets the points. Would Raul Jimenez be in there? Raul Jimenez was not in there. He wasn't. Okay, I thought he might have been. Jared Bourne is in there. I had to go down. Was Anthony from Burnley there as well? David and Anthony. No, not in there. Let's hear them.

7:04Yeah, let's just hear them. We've done our game. Let's have a three-hour show. Phil Forden. He's back on form and he's knocking them in for fun. Richarlison. I stayed away. I stayed away from him. Stay away from Richarlison. Basically, your mind is going around the club. I went, Spurs, no, leave them. Brian and Boomer. I had him in my mind. But I wasn't sure because the old Man United. Put him out your mouth for crying out loud. Man like Welbs. Danny Welbeck. Oh, Welbeck. Oh, yeah. DCL, as DC said. Eli Krupe. You could have had Harry Wilson. What Arsenal players are in there? I don't think there'll be any in there.

7:40Harry Wilson. And your friend of mine, Bruno Gemaraes. Bruno. I wondered if Gabriel was in there. Yeah, I wondered, but yeah. Were you thinking, what is the lowest amount of goals to get on that list? Yeah. All right, that round goes to Marcus. So it is currently Juanol between Jim and Marcus. David, you are yet to score a point in this new version of this game. Right, heads on for number three, start with Marcus. The top 20 players who have played alongside Michael Carrick the most at Man United. Right. Right. These are the players who have been on the pitch at the same time as Carrick. So there's no, there shouldn't be any, yeah, I'll start with Paul Scholes.

8:22And if that's wrong, I'm going home. thank you you know it to be true Marcus and a good start I'm going to go again with Wayne Rooney yes this time I'm going to go Edwin van der Sarge surely you can have it that's a shame it's going to be my next one I'll have Rio Ferdinand and I want that to be a ding please you can have your ding thank you okay and I'm going to go for Darren Fletcher oh yeah then you can have Darren Fletcher I'm going to go again Patrick Severo Ah there he is You can have him as well Nemanja Vidic This round would have been perfect for Vish Yeah it would have It's me now isn't it and I will go for I don't think he's been said Gary Neville Oh yeah Look at that guy That's an interesting one No Gary Neville Blimey That is a surprise It is That's a surprise Raphael De Silva Oh nicely done That's a deep cut He's in there Brilliant Well done I could be going mad Showboating No one said Ryan Giggs Have they?

9:29Ryan Giggs is in there How many left? Enough

9:37I'm going to go a bit rogue here Go on Nanny Oh He's in there Well done Well done David The agony of choice here Antonio Valencia Oh lovely That's a brilliant shout I like it It's like the Raphael shout And it's in there Come David Ronaldo was he there long enough he was there long enough sorry can we clarify which Ronaldo I just want to make sure this is you know what I obviously thought of him and I'm like is there some you know of course he was there bloody long enough I'll go for Ashley Young ooh that noise suggests he's not in there oh so David you've got to get one David I'll get one mate I think he's got it in him Because I've got answers here.

10:25Anderson. Oh, lovely. That's an absolute penenka of an answer there. It's a 1-1 formation as we head into the fourth round. I should have gone for Park G Sung, because presumably he's in the fourth round. Was Berbatov in there as well? Yeah, you should have done that, because he wasn't on the list either. Oh, right. That makes me feel a bit better. Yeah, yeah. Was Berbatov in there? Berbatov was not in there, no. He was another one I had down. Anyone else? Johnny Evans? Johnny Evans was in there. Of course. He knows the club. He's back at the club. Yeah. Fantastic. But you're wondering if he's played enough games.

10:54Yeah, Phil Jones is another one. Yeah, exactly. Who did we miss? Wes Brown, Phil Jones, Johnny Evans, John O'Shea, David DeHair, of course. Chikorito and Chris Smalling as well. Doesn't get enough mentions on the show in 2026. Chris Smalling.

11:16It's all level as we head into the fourth round. How exciting. Jim, I'm going to start with you. Cool. that served you very well in the first round can we have this is good this one every current championship manager I hate these I absolutely hate these second tier boys are going to have you for breakfast every current championship manager get any of these wrong I can't stress how much I hate they change hands as well quite often and it's so annoying because we look like such dicks or I do those boys might be brilliant at this Chris Wilder Chris Wilder things at Sheffield United Javi Gracia at Watford back at Watford well done for now and who's manager of Watford at all to be honest yeah exactly I mean yeah I'll have I'm going to pronounce this wrong John Monsigno at Portsmouth yeah I had to say that for Luke's sake yeah just take this trance off again doing this game in the shadow of Luke Moore in the room it's like Alex Ferguson Carlos Corcoran.

12:22Who did you say? Carlos Corcoran. There we go. I'm just going to get that over with. Absolutely throwing it. Lamps of Coventry. Damn it! Oh my God! That was my only answer! Oh, come on. Marcus, you've got this. You've got this. This is so piss poor. You've got this. This is so bad. You've got this, baby. I know, of course I do. Nathan Jones. Oh, they're in League One, Shelton. Oh, come on. They're not in League One. Do you know what I mean? This is ridiculous. What am I... It was the right answer. Valerian Ismael, Blackburn. Nob-off. Nob-off. Nob-off. There's so many names that just have been hanging around for a while.

13:03I know, I know, I know. Get Neil Warner out of your head. No. That's not fair. That's not fair. Brucie. Where's Brucie? Come on, you can't do that.

13:18Oh, this is so bad.

13:23Sometimes it may be good, sometimes it may be shit. How bad am I, by the way? Unlucky. Come on. Come on. David gets the point. David gets the point. Come on. Name them and I'm going to go. Of course he is. Of course he is. Alex Neil. Yeah. I'm not going to give the clubs. Alex Neil, Chris Davies, Eric Ramsey, Gerhard Struber, Henrik Pedersen, John Eustace, Julian Stefan, Kieran McKenna Kim Helberg Kieran McKenna Mark Robbins Marty Sifuentes who else you got Matt Bloomfield Paul Heckingbottom Phil Parkinson Philippe Clement Sergei Jakarevic and Tom Eckert oh yes and Vito Matos very poor I mean Phil Parkinson was literally talking on the television the other night after that no I couldn't I was trying to I've forgotten his name which is ridiculous because I know who he is it's how this game works it's how it works so DC could take this one.

14:13He's on match point, isn't he? He is. He's on match point. So it's Jim 1, David 2, and Marcus 1. Right, the final round. David, every player

14:26who has been with their current Premier League club for more than eight calendar years as of the 1st of January. Bugger off. Bugger right off. Mainstays. Football mainstays. Only players who are currently at a Premier League club are included even if they join when the club was not in the Premier League. So eight, Did you say eight calendar years? Eight calendar years As of the first of January Eight calendar years Oh my god You've got to have a cut off And time is Not circular in this Or cyclical in this John McGinn, Villa Oh, nice one Great one I like it What? Bugger me This is going to make Such a mess John McGinn's not in there This is going to be a bloodbath This is going to be a bloodbath I tell you who's definitely I tell you who definitely is there Tom Kearney, thank you very much Lovely Well done Disgusting I suspect this might go the way of John McGinn, but Bruno Fernandes?

15:14Oh, I don't like that at all. Thanks very much. I do not like that. I'll have that. Marcus, Marcus, Marcus. Tommy Kenny, goodbye. Checking it through to the tiebreaker. I am delighted. Delighted with that. Blimey. So yeah, I'll be honest with you. I had, I wondered if like Virgil van Dijk was an answer. He was. Yeah. Oh, wow. Jared Bowen? Jared Bowen. Surely not. I was not in there. No. I wonder if Bakayo Saka had been at Arsenal long enough. No. Oh, he's too young. Yeah, I mean, he's been there since he was seven or whatever it is. So Van Dyke was confident with, but you start thinking, Vladdy Nora, you know.

15:52Let's hear them. Yeah, rattle through them, old boy. I'm astonished by some of the Newcastle. Has Jacob Murphy been one of them? Oh, wow. I would have never guessed that. Yeah, Adam Smith, Andrew Robertson, Ben Davies, Bernardo Silva, Jamal LaSels, he's still hanging on there. Joe Gomez, John Stones, Jordan Pickford. Stones, Pickford. Lewis Cook, Lewis Dunk, Luke Shaw, Michael Keane, Mohammed Salah, Tick fucking dog, that nearly went, Phil Ford, Enrico Henry, Ryan Yates, Seamus Coleman, Solly March and... Seamus Coleman is such an obvious one. But I lucked out there, because as soon as that I thought, well, he was celebrating 10 years recently, I was like, I'll die.

16:29Jim, you are frozen out because you can't win. It's all right, I've got some personal admin to do. Do your taxes. Do you want to join my team? Actually yes I do Can I join David's team Pass him nuts We need to talk to Exon Right David and Marcus You could both bag this one How are you feeling going to the tie break round We rarely get to the tie break round I'm delighted to take it to a tie break I'm delighted to take it to a tie break And I'm delighted to get away with murder In that last round Alright then We're going to kick things off with you Marcus And we're going to go for every team to finish with 19 points or less in a single Premier League season.

17:11Oh, bloody hell. Every team to finish with 19 points or less in a single Premier League season. Derby County. Thank you. Thank you that I got to go first on that one. Yeah. Oh, man. Bing. Sunderland. I thought they must be in there. They must be in there. Sorry, the button's stuck. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Can we reset the computer? seems to be dinging a lot Marcus who've we got so now I'm not really that confident neither of any of these teams well indeed yeah they had a shocker Sheffield United 2023 to 2024 16 points what a honker Southampton yeah 12 points that's bad that is bad that's bad they're doing bad work we're in the dregs now Oh, dude, the name, the team's going through.

18:07I'm definitely going to get one now. Barnsley? Unlux. David's confident here. I can see that look in his eye. Marks went first on this one, so David. For the game, David. For the game, for the game. Ipswich. I had them down and I thought they were just above it. If that was right, I'd have been sickened. I've got two more, I've got two more. Back in. Marcus back in oh I've got three actually Marcus so no president I hear the rumours to believe Dave's got ten so I've got the choice of two they've been relegated so many times and they've been they've had Daniel Farker as manager surely at some point Norwich City had a shocker oh I've thrown it surely you've thrown it you can't get it right you can't miss two in the sudden death we'll see Swindon the Swindon lot It's going to a third round of tie break This has never happened before This is the other team I had Huddersfield Town

19:12Yes Come on Huddersfield Town 2018 to 2019 16 points You've got two left Sun and were relegated with Minute amounts of points twice We've got two left Can he pull it out of the bag? Can you pull it out of the bag? Go on David Coventry Coventry Max! Yes! Get in there! It was gallant. It was a gallant performance from David right at the dead. Took us right, probably the longest, the longest game we've had in a long time. Two left on Jacks. Was Hull one of them? No, no. Certain members of the production team today will enjoy that Portsmouth will relegate with 19 points after receiving a points deduction.

19:54So it's kind of fucked my scales there a little bit. but your friend of mine Aston Villa 2015 to 2016 17 points That's right How much things have changed That's right What were you doing in 2016 asks Instagram I don't want to talk about it and say that's a good idea Yeah so they were they were an absolutely diabolical Villa that season forgot about that Wild Well What a game What a game Well played David Well played Well played David is just saying everything about what it's going to be like to face off a loop taking you to a tiebreaker that far. It's going to be a bit of a clash. I think we can all agree.

20:30Lovely to have Jackson Cyclopédia back. Exactly. And what a day to have it back as we celebrate a belated birthday for Pitbull, everybody. The weekend is open. The tunes are playing. Don't stop the party until very late on Sunday night. And of course, get your groove on to Fireball. Which other hits of Pitbulls do you like, Jim? Fireball remix. All the Fireball remixes. The one about the hotel. Shake your ass. the Japanese import Japanese import of Fireball please yeah so there but you are actually a fan of Pitbull aren't you David oh massive yeah yeah really really big fan I shaved my head you know in solidarity good man good man well thank you very much for listening to the Football Ramble part of the Aircast Creator Network we'll be back on Monday to react to all the weekends football and make sure you're following us on socials at Football Ramble and subscribe on YouTube Spotify Apple or wherever you get your podcasts well done everybody Well done to me.

21:27Well done to Pitbull. Have a lovely weekend. We'll see you Monday.