Jack's Encyclopaedia: Super subs, Brazilians, and Alan Pardew loyalists

0:26Hello everybody, welcome to the Football Ramble. It's Jack's Encyclopedia. I'm Marcus Speller. I'm Luke Moore. And I'm Bueno Pete Donaldson.

0:52It's Jack's Encyclopedia, guys. Still got your football boots on. Still got my football boots on. I'm quite sweaty now. They feel exactly the same as every other football boot I've ever worn. Anyway, we're not here to talk about the excellent football boot brand Bottomans. We're here to play another round of Jack's Encyclopedia. Yeah. It's back. It's throwing shade on me in the intro. It's actually Pete Donaldson's problem, not mine. No. He was the referee. I was the ringmaster. You don't blame Darren Bent for scoring a goal off a beach ball. No, you don't. You blame the referee in. He aimed for that beach ball.

1:20No, you blame the Son and Fano who threw the beach ball in. Partly that as well. I think, in many ways. That's dog to me, by the way. people are still DMing me about that now well you've had that and then the week after you almost got beaten by me I mean it's a checkered couple of weeks I feel like Liverpool getting the results you've got to come back after this international break and get something to quite front I am Mr. Referee this week and Luke and Marcus will be locking horns in what I'm sure will be another bloody feud if you don't know the rules of Jack's encyclopedia it's a simple 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 if you go too slow you'll be here in Gary Neville's orgasm and that'll leave you seven seconds Luke you are the lineal champion of both Jackson's I could be and my biddy and today though what a champ Marcus can liberate you from one of those bats he can and I think he's up for it as well I see it by his eye what I would say is people have been hammering me for the bueno thing the thing that's kept me going through all that period do you want to tell people what happened?

2:15well I said I'm not going to get it wrong way around I can't say so basically there's two players who play for Wolves called bueno I said bueno you gave me the point because there's Spanish players that have played yeah and one of them is Spanish and one of them isn't yes I think Hugo Bueno is Spanish and Santiago Bueno is Uruguayan is he yeah so I did for what it's worth guys I can look down the camera and tell you in all honesty I meant the Spanish one yeah well at the end of the day is the Spanish conquistador surely but what's kept me going for all this time as ever has been the strength the warmth and the love of the community of the Luke Nation the Luke Nation the Luke Community right okay I'm doing it for them as ever not doing it for myself for them no no no do you do anything for yourself no you don't even get dressed for yourself it's a life well lived market you do that for the police I'm doing it for them I'm not doing it for me no and hopefully their strength will keep me going through this one as well against a fierce opponent I underestimated Pete last week yeah without question 2-0 down can you underestimate me rope-adopt you it's not possible rope-adopt him like it alright well we're going to start with Lukey Moore hang on he's the champ surely I should start Okay, all right.

3:23You want to start? Oh, that's not how it goes, is it? Hang on. Give me the category first. All right, Marcus. No, you know what, Marcus? If he wants it, let him have it. You choose who goes first. I've got my B. All right, Marcus, you can start. Oh, no. That's as easy as to manipulate him, is it? And you're complaining about bueno. Can I just have the point? Last time we played, I got in trouble for saying a correct answer. Now, you're saying to me at the start of the game, can I go first, please? And he said, yeah, all right. Marcus! Yeah, exactly. We know where this is going. I'm not a belt now.

3:50The nation will not accept it. Round number one. Okay, here we go. The 22 Premier League players with the most goals off the bench since the 2000-2001 season. I'll give you a second to let that percolate. That is a fucking guessing game. An absolute guessing game. There are 22 Premier League players who have had the most goals off the bench since the 2000-2001 season. The turn of the millennium, if you will. Off the bleeding bench. Off the bleeding bench. Well, your mind just goes for all those who have started games. I mean... Guess so. Yeah. Bloody hell. You think, oh, no, he would start. I've got a tactic here, but I'm not telling you what it is.

4:27Can you give me a clue? No way. Okay. No way, dude. You want to go first? Suck it up. Yeah, you're right. This is backfired because I could get one wrong straight away. Off the bastard bench. I've got six written down. Have you? Okey-dokey. Which I think might... They should be okay. Do you want an early countdown, Marcus? You might have to. It's Torres to give Chelsea... If you want a tip, I would just say just name any striker. Sergio Aguero. Didn't always start. There you go. There we are. We're off and running. I think you might be thinking this one, Marcus. I think he is as well. I shouldn't fucking give you that tip, should I?

4:58Just name any striker. Named a big one. Lukey. I was brave earlier and it wasn't my turn. Danny Welbeck. Oh, I like that. You'd be right. Well done. Carlos Tevez. Oh, good one. Oh, I like it. Oh. But history does not. Marcus Speller. Pete liked it but that's not a point it's not to me whether I liked it or not I went second didn't I you went second Lukey so you've got to give us one an early point for Luke Moore I'll go for what should be a fairly obvious one Jermaine Defoe

5:32he's in there he's in there in there at number 12 alphabetically I had some others as well look do you want to give us them yeah I'll give them why not Peter Crouch Peter Crouch yes he was in there Michael Owen Michael Owen was in there yep correct Chicharito should be in there surely oh the little P yes see this is why I went for Tevez I was thinking that time obviously Tevez was more of a starter beautiful I went on one of my usual tactics which is just name a player who's played millions of games James Milner oh goals off the bench yes yes he's in there I was thinking about I was thinking that that wasn't going to be in there but you know what I had a few in my locker I was fairly beaten in that round so you know got to hand it to the Luke Nation Anthony Martial Carton Cole Daniel Sturridge Darren Bent Didier Drogba Diego Jota Divock Origi Robbie Keane Romelu Lukaku Solomon Kalou It doesn't feel like you need to have scored many to get on this league Divock Origi No Edin Dzeko Marcus Rashford Olivier Giroud Shane Long and Victor Andichiebe And the aforementioned Darren Bent mentioned him in the intro by accident It's good stuff Alright Round number two Lukimua you are taking a lead a strong lead I would say because Marcus has kind of beaten all ends up there It's always disappointing because you're an absolute trivia monster The man of man United players in there and Tevez wasn't in there.

6:47Yeah. Just slipped through. Slip through. It happens. Lucky man. Yep. You ready for round two? Every Brazilian player to make an appearance in this season's Premier League. Not this again. How many of them are there? There are 27. 27? Plenty. That's a surprisingly high number. Plenty of bandwidth. Every Brazilian player to make an appearance in this season's Premier League. Alison. Alison, and I want to talk to you. Casemiro. Casemiro. I like it. Evan Nilsson. Oh, I'm liking your work there. A lot of these having one name is great for finding them. Easy for you, yeah. Bruno Gimarez. Yes. Lucas Pacata.

7:33Oh. I like it. Joel Linton. Gabriel Martinelli. This is where the rubber meets the road. Martinelli. Do you know what? I couldn't remember his name.

7:48Who's that, Gabs? Gabrielle. Yeah, nice. Yeah, nice. That came as a pair for me. Uh-huh, yeah. Murillo. Ooh. He's Brazilian, right? He is. I can now shit myself then. I thought it was bueno all over again. The Spanish Murillo. It gets trickier now, doesn't it? It does a little bit. Who else have we got?

8:16It's Torres! Rodrigo Muniz Oh, well done Nice, like it Obvious one for you, that Strong round Igor Jesus Oh, nicely done Yeah

8:31Is it in the Premier League, did you say? Yeah, he did, yeah Premier League appearance I don't know if he's played I don't think he has Okay, I can't go You need to get this one, right, because I went first this time. Oh, Mateus Kunia. Well done. Nice. Very good. I'm really scraping the ground where the barrel used to be now. I think Andre Santos. He's in there. Well done, Luke. Esterville. Oh, fucking well played, mate. We spoke about him on the main show not that long ago. This is toe-to-toe. I'm really struggling now. I'm going to say a player's name. Right. And I'll happily admit, I can't even fully remember who he plays for.

9:13But I'm pretty sure I saw him come in in the transfer window. Right. And I'm just going to... With a little Brazil flag next to his name. Is there a player in the Premier League called Igor Julio? I mean, good God. Good stuff, Kevin. Oh, fucking hell, Marcus. Very underwhelming name, but I'm having it. Lovely. Straight away. Tapping that Fulham, minding that Fulham scene. Big time. they've got no more Brazilian players mate so you're out of luck now how many have we done how many are left must be over 10 yeah must be just over 10 there are a fair few left yeah my goodness me okay yeah I'm really struggling now it's Torres to give Chelsea a place in the Champions League final the headline I mean Edison he's not played has he yeah yeah that was right Did you have that going down?

10:08I had a question mark over, Edison. So you need one now. I've only got one more. Right. It is a Fulham player. Take a swing. I'm not sure if he's played, but Andres Pereira? He moved on, didn't he? Oh, he's not in there. Busted. Busted. So you're back in for another round? We've got one more go, and if we don't, no one gets a point. Okay, right. Oh, God, well, I've got nothing. I mean... Take a step back. Have a think about the teams in the Premier League. Yeah, I know how it works. Well, you don't. you haven't got one no I know well let's have a bit of Gary Neville then yeah it's Torres to give Chelsea a place in the Champions League final the headline has been written I've got nothing Marcus Richarlison yeah that was the one I had it written and I thought he can't say this this is my point it's coming to me Chuck the yeah had the bit It's one of those ones where I wrote down Andres Pereira thinking I'm not very confident.

11:09I've got nothing. Did that just come to you? No, it came to me after I got that wrong and I was thinking, oh my goodness, it's a sitting duck there. I mean, you've got the main food groups there, I would say. You've got Andre, you've got Douglas Luiz, you've got Igor Tiago, you've got Giacuna, you've got Gio Gomez, Gio Pedro. Gio Pedro. Lucas Perry. Oh, yeah. Luis Guilherme and Morato and Savinho as well. Savinho. See, you go around, man. I fell for this the other week, didn't I? When we did a category, and Mateus Nunes, I think, born in Brazil but plays for Portugal. Portugal, I remember that, yeah.

11:43And I was like, oh, no, stay away from that. Yeah, it's 1-0 then. Fair enough. I needed that. It was good. Marcus, that was excellent work. That was bloody mindless. Solid, yeah. Sheer competitiveness.

11:58Round number three at Marcus Speller. Ooh. The last 12 managers to have been sacked in the Premier League. No mutual exits, no stepping down. Yep. Sackings only. I want the manager and I want the club who fucking sacked them. Oh, no. Well, let's go for Nuno Espirito Santo at Nottingham Forest. Yeah. September 2025. Ange Postacoglu at Spurs. But my problem with this is I don't fully have a grasp at all on who was actually sacked. If Postacoglu was sacked, so Postacoglu. He's on the list. He's on the list. It can be slightly murky because people do try to redress what actually happened. Yeah. But this is, you've got 12 there.

12:39The 12 most recent that were reported as sackings, basically. On your Commoner Garden transfer market. Surely in the last 12, Eric Ten Hag at Manchester United. Has to be. October 2024.

12:52I'm pretty sure Graham Potter are a fan of some. I just wrote that one down. Scrub that out. Only one shot month ago. Um... Julian Lopetegui at West Ham. Yep. Wow, West Ham are really going for it. They really are going for it, aren't they? Good on them. Good on them. Steve Cooper at Leicester? November 2024. Very good. Well done, well done. Very good. Who was the previous guy? Gary O 'Neill at Wolves? Good. December 2024? Can I have Gary O 'Neill at Bournemouth? I didn't wonder that. You can have one on June 2023.

13:38Strong round, guys. You've only got four left. I've got one more. Sean Dyssa Everton. He didn't get sacked, did he? January 2025. Well done. Well done. Okay. So I need this one to stay in. You need this one to stay in, yeah. Steve Cooper at Nottingham Forest? I did wonder that. December 2023. Finally. I'm out now that's me out Maurizio Pochettino at Chelsea oh unlucky unlucky bring it home I haven't got any more I'm just trying to think I don't have any I mean we've done a lot more than I thought we'd do so in my defence um it's Torres oh right Paul Heckingbottom at Sheffield United bloody hell that's a shout they've got to be correct oh big point for Luke Moore correct because I went second yeah fucking hell was there just one we were missing you got one missing yeah I was desperate you might have gone Chris Wilder at Sheffield United oh was it Wilder at Sheffield United it was Russell Martin oh fucking hell of course Roberto De Zerbe left in June 2024 but did not get sacked it was by mutual consent David Moyes left West Ham by mutual consent as did Pochettino at Chelsea so that in mutual consent and it was Pochettino at Chelsea.

15:02So I was thinking, okay, right, because I was getting confused around the time frame. I thought it might have been sat, but it was too early. No, I think Pochettino would have been in there, wouldn't he? But he was mutual consent. Yeah. I'll tell you what, to be honest, I wasn't really focused on what you were doing because I was racking my brains trying to think of one so much. Fair play. Oi, good round though. Good round. Two rounds. Standard today, guys. Good standard. High standard. Compared with last week. Right. Round number four, Lukey Moore. Last week was a very high standard. Lukey Moore, you're starting this one.

15:29The 21 players, I think 21 blocks in a room, 21 players who have made the most passes in the Premier League this season. The 21 players who have made the most passes in the Premier League this season. My goodness me. This is an absolute crapshoot. I don't even know what position you'd sort of lean on. Midfield, I guess.

15:55Bloody hell. Okay. I mean this is proper guess I mean educated guesswork Elliot Anderson has got to be in there he is in there definitely Adam Wharton could be a quick win for Luke Moore gotta be in there oh no threw it away on the front foot I believe it Anderson was the one I had and I thought who's a passing but they're not possession heavy I had a tactic for this which would have been going for centre backs they're still asked to pass a lot so I had a few centre backs Lewis Dunk's always in there every year. Yes, he is in there, yeah. Calvin Bassie's always in there. Yep, he's in there. It sounds like Luke had this kind of thing tied up, to be honest.

16:36The other two players I thought were always amongst it, Bruno Fernandes and Pascal Stroik. Pascal Stroik. And Fernandes. Yeah, he's in there. But I was going to say Elliot Anderson, because obviously he had that thing for England as well. That's right. You got England cuckolded. Took your brain away. Oh, gutting. I was really up for a fight in that one as well. Yeah. Okay, should we break the tradition and say that this round, and count for three points. We should definitely do this round anyway. Yeah, I think so. Sorry, old boy. That was poor of me. That's all right. Do you want to hear some players that could have got there?

17:05Go on. You could have had Christian Romero, Declan Rice, Sobersla. You could have had Esri Concer, Gary Maguiles. You could have had Ibrahima Kanate. What about Jean-Paul Van Hecker? Paul Van Hecker is in there. Joachim Andersen. Lewis Dunk, Marcus Senesi. You could have had Martin Zubamendi, Mickey van der Ven, Moises Casado, Ryan Gravenberch, Ruben Dias he could have had Trevor Chalabar and VVD I had a few centre-offs down because Elliot Anderson I thought well I'll go Wharton but yeah not a position place and I've paid the price Luke has finally well done Luke fairly won the bill shall we do the final one go on then let's do the final one let's have a consolation for a bit of Donaldson yeah I think Marcus Beller the 20 players who have made the most Premier League appearances for Alan Pardew throughout his career as manager 20 players have made the most Premier League appearances for Alan Pardew throughout his career as manager oh this is vintage than this it is Stephen Taylor ooh a bad start I feel oh there we go he's in there check Teotay yeah rest in peace

18:18he was at Newcastle for a long time wasn't he Yoan Kabay yeah I had him is that right yeah and he played for Palace as well didn't he yeah yeah speaking of Palace I had one of the players he absolutely loved was Damien Delaney he's in there well done done

18:39Delaney only played he didn't play Newcastle played Palace ah Mila Yednak nah you don't think is that how I got the errors wrong surely not there long enough I've only got one other guess go on then for the 4-1 shellacking trouncing Hatem Ben Arfa never played enough for Pardew surely he was in and out the side that's a mega ring I thought of Ben Arfa I thought he surely didn't play oh fair enough I would have not gone for Ant Ben Arfa because they did have frequent fallings out I thought he'd sort of be in and out what were the other ones well I've been gubbed there I can't complain the one man who had a video game inexplicably Danny Simpson David Santon Fabricio Coler Colochini.

19:26Colochini. Jason Punchin. Joel Ward. Punchin was the other one I had. His name is Jonas. Oh, Gutierrez. Of course. The lanky, I think, last seen managing Gator. I think Mike Williamson might have got that one wrong. Moussa Sosoko. Pappy Cease. Scott Dan. Warshawler. Oh, Shola. I thought about guessing him. I thought he didn't play enough. I felt like that was a different generation, but clearly he did just stick around like a bad smell. Tim Krull. Vernon Anita. Wilfred Zaha. Zaha, of course. Wilfried Zaha and Jan Goufran. See, this is the problem with this game. I thought, right, who's a goalkeeper?

20:00Yeah. And I couldn't think of the... Because you go through the eras and it's like, oh dear. Timmy Krul was always playing. Timmy Krul. Well, Luke Moore, I have to say, after the ambiguity of the last time with Jack to start the Pediabelt, you put it beyond down there. Yeah. The Luke Nation will be very happy. Doing it for the nation. Unless I win and I'm doing it for myself. Fair play, pal. No, well done. Fair's fair. Well, thank you very much for listening to the Football Ramble part of the Acast Creator Network the three of us will be back on Monday to react to all the weekend's football and do make sure to drop us that five star review wherever you get your pods and of course if you do give us that five star review you are guaranteed to have a five star weekend the keys are in the lock the gate's open everybody get out there that's my party Luke a song please for the Luke Nation in celebration I would go with Don't Stop the Party by Pitbull I think you're absolutely right spot on see you Monday everybody

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