My Biddy Aunt: FA Cup Icons

0:28Philippe Coutinho as soon as you start hearing it. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Football Ramble. It's my Biddy Ant. I'm Marcus Speller. I'm Jim Campbell. And I'm Luke Moore. He's the champ. Champion.

0:56Hello, everybody. we are back with My Biddy Aunt. I'm taking a timeout after my loss to David Cartlidge on his debut. Annoying. And I'll be reffing a biddy brawl between Luke and Marcus. Did Dave Cartlidge deserve a new bit of music? He had a whole new bit of music for his win. I think that Pete just had that in the back pocket. Yeah, there's a lot of weird internet stuff in his back pocket. So a reminder that Luke still holds the My Biddy Aunt belt as well as the Jack's Encyclopedia belt. So this is a big clash today. I'm changing my name to Luke Littler. Is that right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It rhymes with Littler anyway.

1:34Yeah. Why am I going way to that? That was just a natural reaction. Although I do, of course, look much younger than Luke Littler. It's really lovely to be able to simply move this on. If you don't know the rules, they're simple. Each round, I will name a footballer. One of Luke and Marcus will bid on how many of their clubs they can name. their opponent can then raise the bid or challenge them to list them. Only professional clubs count and the player must have made a competitive appearance for that team. If you fail to meet your bid your opponent scores first to three points win. How bad are you desperate to win this, Marcus?

2:10Be honest. You haven't won me for ages, have you? Very desperate. You haven't won for ages. They're going to write a comic book about me and call me Desperado Dan. You haven't beaten me for ages. It's a long time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely, yeah. Don't let him get in your head. I don't have that data in front of me so before I reveal today's topic if you ever want to suggest a theme and players for My Biddy Aunt the way to do it is not to DM one of us individually because then the questions become useless the thing to do that happens regularly the best one I had was on the AMA I did on Reddit when someone suggested a change to the rules of My Biddy Aunt which is obviously a game I invented and I didn't reply to it because there were so many questions to answer I just didn't get round to it and I saw them kick off that I obviously just didn't understand the rule changes so therefore I couldn't implement it just bizarre stuff yeah so if you want to get in touch with suggestions or criticisms it's at footballramble on socials or show at footballramble.com on email it means less admin for me so please do get in touch what what owns commented on YouTube saying I make my own game by muting the player name announcement and trying to guess the player from the clubs they list, I'm still shit even at my own game.

3:27Fair enough, though. I like the creative element of that. So today's theme is a really interesting one. And I'm thrilled I'm not on this game. I've got to be honest. It's a tough one here. There's some real doozies in here. Some absolute doozies in here. So today's theme is FA Cup icons. Which should be easy. It should be easy. but FA Cup is the oldest cup competition in the world he said icons it's basically going to be a player who scored one goal in the third round in 1984 or something I'm going to go with you first Marcus because I remember last time that you two were together on with Luke first so I'm going to try and keep that fair I disagree with that but I'm sure you do so Marcus if you're ready your first player in round one is Connor Wickham you being serious it's a tough one I think I'm going to be generous with my timings here.

4:22Because, yeah, Connor Wickham played for a lot of clubs.

4:28Yeah. Oh, my God. How are you feeling on an early bid there, Marcus? He played for 11 clubs. Yeah, we need a number. I'll give you that. Yeah, we need a number. 11. Bloody hell. I mean, Marcus, don't worry about it, mate, because I'm absolutely miles off this. It's a really tricky one. I saw this one even as the host and my heart sank. It's like 11 clubs. I've got to read all that. Go. God, I'm wicked. Marcus is scribbling. Marcus is scribbling. My 3D printed belt. Luke is putting the belt on. I'm going to say it's some sort of mind game. I'm not an expert on human psychology, but it feels like a mind game to me.

5:05Marcus is now slapping the table in frustration with his pen. You've got to get a number out of him. Yeah, I mean, it's been a while now, Marcus. I did say I'd be generous. I feel I have been generous. What are we going for? Let's get on the front foot. Three. Three. I mean three's decent for Connor Wickham what are you saying Luke I think I can do four I think I can do four alright let him do his four can you go five I've got to give you the option alright I want to hear four you don't want to do five no alright I want to hear four I have too many question marks around certain clubs well I've got four but what I mean by that is I've got four guesses right okay which are educated guesses now I'm presuming he is in this section as this category I mean because of the goal he scored against Watford in the semi-final for Crystal Palace That is absolutely correct.

5:47So, I mean, I presume that's you putting Palace through. So, Palace I knew, obviously. And then I wrote down a few other clubs and they were question marks next to them. I think he played for Sunderland. He did. 2011 to 2015. Was there for a decent amount of time, obviously. Yeah, I was fairly confident with Sunderland. I don't know if, in my mind for some reason he started here, but maybe he didn't. But he definitely played for Ipswich, I think. He absolutely did. Did he start at Ipswich? He did start at Ipswich. So, I didn't have Ipswich. It was just two years. The last one was a total guess.

6:14and it's just kind of digging around the back of the brain to think I might have seen him in the shirt at some point. My final and fourth guess to get the point is Cardiff. Correct. He played for Cardiff City. Yeah, very, very good. So I mean, this is... So the guy, he played against Chelsea. Was it for... I couldn't remember who it was against Chelsea in a cup game. Was it for Cheltenham Town or something? Who was that? It was not. So I'll give you his clubs. He started his career at Ipswich Town, then went to Sunderland, then went on loan to Sheffield Wednesday where he had another loan spell in 2020 as well played for Leeds United on loan then went to Crystal Palace was there for quite a long time Preston North End followed that he was then at MK Dons Forest Green Rovers Cardiff City Charlton Athletic and is currently at Dubai City which I couldn't get any of the other ones there's no one it's really really tricky ones in 2016 Crystal Palace won 2-1 against Watford in a semi-final with Conor Wachim heading in the deciding goal Palace would then go on to lose the final against Man United cementing him as an FA Cup legend in the minds of the absolute sadists who put these questions together I think of him as a Palace player do you?

7:22Yeah I do Palace and Sunderland I think I'd have got but past that as you say it's rummage around you got it I don't like doing that in my mind because there's some really horrible stuff in there so round two Luke you're going to go first because of all of that I don't blame his parents personality so round two Luke it's you up first he's played for six clubs again some doozies in here good question this one actually Gerard Delefeu bloody hell yeah okay I'm surprised he only played for six to be honest yeah he does feel like a player who is a bit of a journeyman doesn't he bloody hell Marcus you're not going to be very happy with me here but I think I can do five is that your bid?

8:09yeah I think I can do five Marcus has a look on his face suggesting he's I can't think of what the sixth one is I can't do six you can't do six no okay so I guess what your strategy here is to rely on Luke getting one of these wrong isn't it well that is the strategy which obviously didn't work last time and Luke is good at this game but the power of it you have the first bid if you blow someone up the water there's not really much you can do but Luke normally bids on what he knows yeah and so I'm confident Luke has his five and I'm scratching around here and thinking can I I wish I had the six.

8:39I can't think of the six. Five is high. How many do you reckon you'd bid on this? I don't know. When you got in front of this. That's a stupid question. Yeah, I think I'd be confident with three. Okay. Well, anyway, five is a bid. Do you want to hear it? I'm not going to do the six. He started at Barcelona. He did. He played for Everton. He did. He's definitely played for Watford. He has. He definitely played for Milan, AC Milan. And I think he played for Sevilla as well. Correct. That's very good. Very, very good. What's the six one? Udinese. So I obviously had Everton, Watford, had Barcelona.

9:09I knew there was an Italian thing in there. I couldn't remember. He went to Milan from Everton, didn't he? I had Osasuna down as his other Spanish club. He did indeed go to Milan from Everton. I mean, this is the champions. There's another stroll for him, isn't it? It's seeming that way. It's a tricky round, this. So in 2019, Watford got their semi-final revenge when they played Wolves. Despite going 2-0 down, Gerard Delefeu scored what would end up being the first goal in Watford's comeback. Lovely curled chip pass, John Ruddy. Watford ended up winning the game 3-2 in extra time I loved watching Delefay play great player to watch on song really really good player he's still playing isn't he I think he had a long break like one of those players who came out of that Barcelona era but just wasn't quite as good but was still like technically excellent a really really watchable footballer so 2-0 to Luke big one here I think this is probably the most competitive of all the players we have here it'd be good to have an FA Cup icon that's actually an icon wouldn't it I imagine so No, I imagine it would.

10:06So this next player is slayed for six clubs. Yeah. Sadio Mane. This should be basically World Cup, sorry, FA Cup cameos, not FA Cup icons. Yeah. Mane, six. Six clubs. This is where I throw it away. I mean, throw it away is harsh on yourself in this particular set of players, I would say. I'm not doing great here. six clubs Sadio Mane you know the rules Marcus is screwing up his face in frustration I'm not doing great here myself mate to be honest three three oh you absolute slag that is a sweet spot because everyone can do three what am I hearing from you Luke you going to put it all on the line or are you going to let Marcus have a free run here basically giving him three is giving him a point he can definitely do three everyone can do three there's you know contacted tribes in the Amazonian rainforest that can fucking do three Salihamane clubs.

11:07So I might as well give him the point if I'm going to give him three. So we'll have to say four. Well, indeed. I'll say four. Okay, then. All right. Marcus, do you want to do five? No. I mean, I'm playing very poorly here. Luke will probably find the fourth in his mind, but I am in such a way that I'd like Luke to do his four. Yeah. All right, let's hear him. He could have done a good bluff there. I think he played for Liverpool. Yeah. He did. I'll confirm that before the button. I'll tell you the three you've got. You've got Liverpool, you've got Bayern. And you've got Southampton. I wondered if you'd say Southampton.

11:36I know you don't like saying it. Yeah, unfortunately, I haven't got the luxury of being able to leave them out. So what's your fourth then? My fourth is a total guess and I'll just go for a French club and I will go... Do you know what? He's on such good form. He'll probably pull it out of his brain. PSG. Marcus gets the point. Thank goodness for that. I'm really annoyed that I couldn't remember his Saudi club. Yeah, well, it's Al Nasser, which is where he is currently. Do you know what? I knew it wasn't Al Hilal and I was going through them and I just thought, it's one of those ones. so I am delighted to be let off the hook there who's the French club so the French club was Mets and he also played for Mets B which would have counted as one answer and the other club who he joined after Mets was Arby Salzburg which is a tough one to get but it is one I remember that actually now so in 2022 Salihamane scored the winner when Liverpool played Manchester City in an FA Cup semi-final other scorers included Ibrahima Canate Bernardo Silva and Jack Grealish all of whom are of course FA Cup icons FA Cup icons fuck you now well look I feel like an England cricket fan which I suppose I am I'm just glad it's not a white watch yeah it's good I got away I mean I benefit from going first on that particular round but I was really annoyed I didn't remember Al Nasser yeah but I got away with it it's tricky if you name a Saudi club it's a good flex yeah I mean you knew he went to Saudi didn't you I know he was at Saudi now but I'm not very good at naming Saudi teams I don't know what many of us No.

13:07So the little score update is Luke 2, Marcus 1. So you've got a chance to turn it around here, Marcus. And it's really going first now, right? But it is indeed Luke to go first. So our next player played for six clubs, and he is an undisputed FA Cup icon. It's Dimitri Payet. Oh, for fuck's sake. Six clubs. None of, by the way, just so you know, guys, none of these players have even won the FA Cup surely Mane has has he oh Mane must have done yeah sorry yeah oh god this is going to go this is going to go to a decider this is going to go to a decider I've got them in front of me and I still think it's hard yeah what are you thinking numbers wise very very poor very poor it's a tough one it's a really really tough one

13:53I mean the guess is just going to be the number is going to be so low there's going to be pointless saying it I think you do need to say it I have to in the spirit of the game I'm basically handing the point to Marcus I can definitely do two I'm just going to go two Marcus can I hear three from you you're not handing the point to me at all three is hard this is so frustrating because we've both got the two and I mean I am going to have to say three you are because that would just be ridiculous as you did with Mane so it's the same situation with Mane there's a couple that I'm sure you're confident on but it's a tricky one with all six clubs in this particular case.

14:28I mean, look, two I'm confident with, three I'd be guessing, four I'd be guessing twice. Chances are I'm not going to get the point, so I'd rather give it to Marcus to guess a third club, get it wrong, and then win. So you can have three. By the way, the odds are stacked in your favor. I think the supercomputer's got me down to get two out of three here. So I'm doing three. I'm naming you. You're naming me three. So we all know West Ham United. Of course. And Marseille. Yep. They're the two I have. So basically now it's a guess of another French club is how I'm approaching this, which I don't think is unreasonable.

15:04And it's so mightily annoying that I've not got a tickle. Should I have a tickle? You can't ask me things like that, Marcus. It's outrageous. He pushes the boundaries this far. It's fucking outrageous. And the listeners all still think he's a good guy. Yeah. This happens all the time. And all you've got to do as a host is just go, no, you can't. so what you need to do is just repeatedly reinforce the rules not criticise him for it basically not criticise him for trying to cheat completely reconfirm every day that he's not allowed to break the rules I've not done a Gabriel Martinelli here Marcus I did say I'd be lenient on time with this because it's a particularly tricky round but I am going to need an answer from you very soon let's go for PSG oh no I had nothing oh no go on then who did I miss he also played for Nantes Saint -Étienne which I think might have given a little bit of a brain tickle but clearly didn't Lille and Vasco de Gamma Vasco?

15:59Second week in a row that Vasco de Gamma interestingly enough he's from Reunion Island isn't he? I wondered if his Reunion Island club would be in there but obviously it's not evidently not no so that means Luke wins we are going to do the fifth round just because it's fun isn't it? so I get to keep this belt around my stomach you do you absolutely do so actually he started playing at AS Excelsior but they play in a regional competition based in Reunion a French island in the Indian Ocean and they're not professional side so they wouldn't have counted it would have been quite something if you could have pulled it out I was quite sure he didn't play for Pistey but when you start thinking like did he play in his youth is there an obvious thing and they were a club that had a lot of that talent early on that's why I guessed that for Mane as well so in 2016 Payet scored arguably the best goal of his career when West Ham played Manchester United in the quarterfinal at Old Trafford he curled in a free kick from 35 yards out past David Hay in a game that finished 1-1 icon yeah who among us could ever forget that iconic moment for both all these goals by the way they're all in the match today montage at the start of the that's right that's right so yeah can we have Ronnie Radford or something where's Ronnie Radford if you could get Ronnie Radford I'll be impressed one club yeah so right score update is of course that Luke has won the game it's 3-1 but we are going to do this fifth round and for both your sakes I'm so pleased that the game's over because this one's outrageous this one is outrageous so how many clubs nine clubs Marcus first Marcus going first nine clubs it's Sol Bamba who?

17:31Sol Bamba fuck I didn't even hear what you said the first time Sol Bamba Sol Bamba Sol Bamba why is he a the late great Sol Bamba by the way indeed nine clubs blimey O 'Reilly yeah very very tricky obviously I would rather be these two are absolute jokers here Yeah, I know, yeah. I'd rather... Fucking Statler and Waldorf. I'd obviously rather be in a competitive position, but there is like 10 % of his thing. Thank goodness it's over. Yeah. Nine clubs that Sol Bounders play for. Nine clubs. Oh, blimey. My goodness me. I'm sitting here thinking, I hope he hasn't played for Pompey. Yeah, again, I'm going to give you some leeway on this.

18:08I'll go for two. Two clubs. I mean, that's a heroic effort, I think. Can I hear three from your loop? Well, just because I've already won, I'm going to go three. Yeah, go on then. Go three. Go on, name your three. You don't want to do four? Let's get this over with. For a bit of fun. No, I don't. All right. So I've definitely got two. He played for Cardiff. I knew that one. He did. Played for Leicester as well. He did play for Leicester. So correct. We're now in the realm of journeyman who's played for loads of English clubs. But this is funny. Can you name one? You managed to pick him out. I mean, obviously with Mane, you were a bit unlucky, but you managed to dig yourself.

18:39For some reason, the Spidey senses are tingling with West Brom. No. West Ham? No. No, so I'll read out the clubs you played for. I went on the West. I'll read out the clubs you played for. You're not going to believe this. From 2004 to 2006, he played for Paris Saint-Germain. Oh, for fuck's sake. Oh, there it is. PSG would have been an answer. You could have guessed that as a joke and you would have been right. Damn. From there. Easy to forget they used to be shit. Yeah. From there, in surely a world first, after making one appearance for Paris Saint-Germain, he went to Dunfermline Athletic in Scotland.

19:14Oh, blimey. Do you have any memory of that? going to Scotland I wouldn't have been able to pick out the club but yes that rings a bell him playing in Scotland he then moved to Hibernian then on to Leicester City Trabzonspor Palermo Leeds United Cardiff City and Middlesbrough so quite an interesting career sort of very kind of interesting journeyman career that he had 3-2 then so yeah 3-2 it's got some respectability well indeed goal difference wise it's not the worst result a win's a win but that's not a round that's going to live long in the memory for me I mean, yeah. FA Cup icons. I really need to brush up on my FA Cup knowledge because clearly there are a lot of icons in that competition.

19:51These two need a slap. That's what needs to happen. So pleased with themselves at the moment. But ultimately, the champ prevails. Vish can't come back. Yeah, it is. Vish can't come back soon enough to try and knock him off his perch. Vish must be back soon. He must be back in a week or two, I think. Yeah, he might go via Singapore and take a couple of weeks out there. Ashes is finished now. His holiday's over. Yeah, well indeed it has. It was six sets and four frames they lost it by, wasn't it? Yeah, it was. Yeah, a couple of got 180s though. Right, oh good. Yeah, yeah. There was a 147 in there.

20:17Great. Australia won it with a hole in one though. Yeah. Thank you very much for listening to my video. The weekend is officially open. The gateway to your weekend is wide open. Pitbull's playing. Luke Moore's swinging his belt. Playing fireball. Yeah, absolutely right. There's the belt. Hold it up to the camera, big boy. I'm just going to carry it like a wrestler. Of course you are. 3D printed belt that Pete did for us. Not the worst thing he's ever 3D printed. He did a whole bust of you once, didn't he? Yeah, Marcus and I. Yeah, okay. Because he scanned our heads on his phone one day. We forgot about it.

20:46And then there were just 3D versions of our heads in the studio. Sitting on spikes by... The entrance. Have a good one, everybody. We'll see you on Monday. See you then.

21:12Thank you.