My Biddy Aunt: Last-minute legends

0:02Vithushan Ehantharajah: Mario Mandzukic.

0:03Jim Campbell: So this is basically a guess. Dinamo Zagreb. Yes!

0:07Vithushan Ehantharajah: That's correct. He went off to Qatar after Juventus with Al Duhal and finished at AC Milan. Actually, short-stinted Milan. Oh, yeah.

0:16Marcus Speller: No memory. Short-stinted Milan.

0:18Jim Campbell: Do you remember that? I can see it now. Should have said it then.

0:25Jim Campbell: It's a wise game. It's quite difficult to explain, but you'll get it as soon as you start hearing it.

0:30Vithushan Ehantharajah: Hello everybody, welcome to the Football Ramble. It's Friday afternoon, it's my pretty aunt, I'm Marcus Speller.

0:37Jim Campbell: I'm Jim Campbell. And I'm Vinicius Hantaraja.

0:54Vithushan Ehantharajah: Hello everybody It's good to have you with us It's time to get competitive With Jim and Vish Locking horns today In my biddy aunt I am the referee of course Don't worry if you don't know the rules They are simple Each round I name a footballer One player will bid How many of their clubs they can name Their opponent can then raise the bid or challenge them to list their clubs. 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 wins. Jimmy, how you doing? I'm all right. How you feeling?

1:29Jim Campbell: Still all right? Yeah, nervous. Memory's not what it was. Yep. Death stalks the land. I get a lot of existential dread from this game otherwise known as Vish Vish how are you doing?

1:45Marcus Speller: I'm not death

1:45Jim Campbell: that's what death would say

1:48Vithushan Ehantharajah: how are you feeling Visho?

1:51Marcus Speller: yeah fine

1:52Vithushan Ehantharajah: you obviously were beaten by Luke last time you played I feel that you've got a good performance in you today I owe it to your supporter

2:00Marcus Speller: I have mentally checked out from the game but yes I'm probably doing a good one and probably

2:07Vithushan Ehantharajah: what is going on with Vish here Jim I think you're right to say mind games because we know that Vish is a naughty little sausage when he wants to be now today's theme is last minute legends okay last minute legends there's a clue there's a clue round one Vish I'm going to throw you a bone you're going to go first as you were humiliated last time let's see if you can get back on the wagon this player played for seven clubs clubs, Dayan Lovren. Yes, that noise, Jim, is the appropriate noise when the host says Dayan Lovren.

2:47Marcus Speller: Jeez.

2:48Vithushan Ehantharajah: Yeah. You see, in this game, ladies and gentlemen, what you want really is you want, ideally, you want a player where you think, okay, I can probably name a good amount of clubs that that player played for. there's maybe the odd guest happening there and you think I get off to a good start I can get up and running but oh the weather isn't always nice in my biddy aunt the pitch is not always clean and pristine Jim and Vish so I'm asking you to name as many clubs as possible that you can do of Diane Lovren seven clubs

3:25Marcus Speller: well three you're going three

3:27Vithushan Ehantharajah: yeah I think that's probably a sweet spot Jim Campbell can you do four I'd be very impressed if you can

3:34Jim Campbell: I'll be impressed if I'm going to try to do four are you going four? I love that I think Vish will get three so I think I'm throwing a point away either way is how I'm looking at this but I like that though Jim

3:48Vithushan Ehantharajah: if you're not that confident you're right, you've boiled it down and you're thinking, do you know what sod Vish, okay I'm going to bat on my own terms yeah exactly that's very impressive Vish, can I hear five from you?

4:02Marcus Speller: you cannot for the reasons James is saying

4:03Vithushan Ehantharajah: I thought Vish would sap out of it. Okay. Jim Campbell, to get us underway in today's MyBidiant, four clubs that Dan Lovren played for.

4:13Jim Campbell: He played for Southampton and he followed the well-trodden path from Southampton to Liverpool, as we know. So they're two I think a lot of people would have got. Everybody's going to have those ones. Right now what awards he's got. I am going to go for Dina Moza Greb. Started there. And Hadjik Split?

4:31Vithushan Ehantharajah: Hadjik Split, I'm afraid, is incorrect. I like what you did there.

4:35Marcus Speller: Yeah, I like that.

4:35Vithushan Ehantharajah: But no. So fair play to you there, Jim. Vish, did you have those three?

4:41Marcus Speller: No, no. I totally missed the Croatian angle. I thought you might have done.

4:46Vithushan Ehantharajah: So Inter, Zapieric. That was just a loan spell, of course. You'll be kicking yourself for not getting that one. For a moment, I was at Inter. I didn't know that one. I suspect Vish had Lyon down.

4:58Marcus Speller: Idiot, I didn't. I kept thinking of France,

5:00Vithushan Ehantharajah: and I was like, I couldn't picture the team. Okay. Vish, you've got the point, don't worry. No, I know, yeah. That's safe, it's in the bag. Obviously then Southampton, Liverpool. Zenit St. Petersburg after that and currently plays for Pauk in Greece. Ah, right. Yeah. So of course he's a last-minute legend because in 2016 he scored the winning goal for Liverpool in the Europa League victory against Borussia Dortmund over two legs, nine goals were scored and his decisive late header coming in the 91st minute was an incredible turnaround. The Jurgen Klopp era was underway at Liverpool. then they would go on to lose the final.

5:34Vithushan Ehantharajah: But that stayed in the memory, that goal. Right. 1-0 to Vish. Jim, you're on point. Round two. I don't think this is any easier.

5:50Jim Campbell: Oh, good. We've done every easy play. You had David Beckham the other week.

6:00Vithushan Ehantharajah: And I still didn't win. I got that right but I didn't win so it's not always good if you have easy ones maybe you kind of relax a little bit too much round two I mean you'll definitely you'll know we'd never give you a player where you know zero clubs

6:12Marcus Speller: we'll never give you a player you've never heard don't worry about that yeah exactly

6:18Vithushan Ehantharajah: round two play for eight clubs okay Dwight Gale oh there's the noise again yeah I'm sorry sometimes when you referee this game and you look at them you go I'm sorry lads Dwight Gale

6:36Jim Campbell: yes indeed I was talking about him recently with somebody as well did you talk about some of the clubs he played for I assume we would have done but I can't remember I think the conversation involved whatever club he played for most recently but I can't remember who that is so okay

6:54Vithushan Ehantharajah: so Dwight Gale we I mean only recently stop playing.

7:03Jim Campbell: Vish, what would you say if this was your round? Yeah. God, I mean... Dwight Gale. Have a crack at three.

7:14Vithushan Ehantharajah: Going to go for three. I think that's not a bad bid. It's not bad. Not a bad bid. Vish, can I hear more than three?

7:20Marcus Speller: No.

7:22Vithushan Ehantharajah: You're going to get Jim to name his three.

7:24Marcus Speller: Yeah.

7:25Vithushan Ehantharajah: Very defensive.

7:26Marcus Speller: I feel like he's got his three. No, but I just don't know four. that's how the game works isn't it

7:30Vithushan Ehantharajah: well I mean Jim had a go yeah that's the kind of thing that the crowd loves after your performance last time in this current performance I mean you're not endearing yourself to the public mate okay Jim can I hear three clubs that Dwight Gale played for

7:46Jim Campbell: I can't promise that you can right but I'll do my best so he played for Crystal Palace yep so that's your we know that one yeah and he played for Newcastle there you go so we all remember those And I now have three or four clubs spinning around in my mind where I'm like, do I, is there some residual knowledge here? Or is it just that these are clubs that loads of different players have played for? You're looking for the tickle. Yeah, you are. You are looking for the tickle. Like you're trying to charm a little fish from the pools of your own mind. Yes. There's a lot of little bellies swimming around out there.

8:21I'm going to take the plunge with my fingers.

8:26Jim Campbell: Come on, Jim. And go for Swansea City? Right, I was also going to say QPR. That would have been wrong. Bollocks. Yeah. The fish betrayed me.

8:39Vithushan Ehantharajah: Oh, Jimbo, I thought you had that one. Started at Dagenham and Redbridge. Unlikely to get that. Peterbury United. Then he went to Crystal Palace, Newcastle United. West Brom. Stoke City. Don't remember any of that. Derby County. Don't remember that. Hibernian.

8:56Marcus Speller: I had Hibs down. Did you? I also had Burnley and didn't have Crystal Palace. Burnley would have been a wrong answer. Yeah, I know, yeah. Yeah.

9:02Vithushan Ehantharajah: So, yeah, he also played for a couple of semi-professional sides, but that doesn't count. But of course, in a game famously dubbed Chris Stamble, Dwight Gale scored Crystal Palace's third goal to secure a draw against Liverpool after they trailed 3-0. The result had a significant impact on the 2013-14 Premier League title race with Liverpool missing out on the title by just two points. So that late goal made him a last-minute legend.

9:32Vithushan Ehantharajah: 2-0 to Vish. He's barely lifted a finger. I'd like him to lift a finger now when we move into round three. Vish, if you get this, you've won the game. I think...

9:42Marcus Speller: You can understand why I think it was funny if I didn't.

9:45Vithushan Ehantharajah: Yeah, I do think that. But I think that I wouldn't be surprised if every single person listening to this right now wants Jim to win. And I think you owe them a little bit of something.

9:55Jim Campbell: I'm totally fine with that. A lot of them haven't actually met Fish. So he comes across actually quite well on the podcast.

10:02Marcus Speller: You have to remember as well that none of those people listening are in the room and I'll never have to meet them. I'm totally fine with that.

10:09Vithushan Ehantharajah: You're going out to meet and greet this season with us. Right, okay. Round three. This man has played for six clubs. Bobby Zamora. I said recently that he nearly went to the 2010 World Cup if it wasn't for injury. Bobby Zamora six clubs Vish how many clubs of his can you name

10:29Marcus Speller: four

10:29Vithushan Ehantharajah: four that's a good bid and I'd be I'd be probably quite confident that Vish can do that but you never know Jim he would have messed up Dwight Gale Jim you've you've you've you've gone on the front foot so far in this game

10:44Jim Campbell: you're two nil down I can't name all of his clubs though that's the thing could you name five of them but oh he's he's gone for four hasn't he yes yeah I'll give it a crack, why not? Oh, are you going for five? Why not? Come on, Jim. Yeah. I mean, I'll be honest, it is turning into a little bit angiopostico glue here. Yeah, although, hang on, so you've gone for four of six. Yeah. Yeah. I think he's confident with it, though. Yeah, I think he is as well. He's doing that little swing in the chair he does when he's confident. Or it might be a bluff. He's not in a bluff. We all know he's an absolute snake.

11:14Jim Campbell: Yeah, and a slug.

11:15Marcus Speller: If it makes you feel any better, the four I have down are all correct.

11:19Vithushan Ehantharajah: So, Vish is showing you his hand there. Jim Campbell. Yeah, alright. Let's do it. You're going to do five? I am. Love that, Jim. Love that. I think you can do this. I'm confident for you here. So go on.

11:30Jim Campbell: Brighton. There you go. And Hove Albion. And that is two. That is two. That's all right. Even if I said Albion. Okay, so he's played for seven clubs.

11:40Vithushan Ehantharajah: He's played for six clubs. Brighton and all Brighton and Hove Albion. Both answers. Yeah. I would take as a correct one. You've got, you're off the mark.

11:48Jim Campbell: He played for West Ham. And he later went full Ham and played for Fulham. Yeah, there's three. Two more. I think he may have been one of the players who spent a bit of time at the Super Cubes. QPR. And this one is another little tickle. Bristol City. Meduction and Indonesia win! It's going to be Rovers, isn't it? Bristol Rovers.

12:14Vithushan Ehantharajah: Bollocks!

12:15Marcus Speller: Oh, wow!

12:16Vithushan Ehantharajah: He started at Bristol Rovers. You missed Tottenham Hotspur.

12:21Marcus Speller: Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah. I missed Fulham

12:24Vithushan Ehantharajah: I completely forgot he was at Spurs You've let Vish off the hook there I think it was at Spurs where the old chant when the ball hits your head and you're sitting in row Z that's a moron Jim I think you've got a lot of goodwill

12:40Jim Campbell: I've stepped in a bucket there at the top of a staircase and the thing I've had to steady myself on is a skateboard I don't know why people are leaving these things at the top of staircases but that's how I feel right now

12:51Vithushan Ehantharajah: You could have moved them out of the way, but I understand that you didn't. And yes, so Bristol Rovers, Brighton, Tottenham, West Ham, Fulham and QPR. Bloody Spurs. Yeah. Played for Bath City on loan, but they were semi-pro. But of course, in the 2014 Championship Playoff Final, he scored a 90th minute win of a QPR against Derby, creating one of the most iconic moments in Championship Playoff Final history. Lovely finish. Lovely finish.

13:13Marcus Speller: Richard Keogh, fuck up.

13:14Vithushan Ehantharajah: They were down to 10 men, I believe, QPR were. So yes, we're going to play the last two rounds to get a bit of pride on the score sheet, Jim. and maybe the last round will count for four. But Vish, you are 3-0 up. You have an unassailable lead. I think that you're probably feeling mightily relieved and lucky. No. Yeah, there you go. There you are. It's confident. Don't need to meet him to know what he's like. Round four. Round four. Jim, you are to kick us off. Ten clubs with that beautiful Uruguayan man, Diego Forlan. Okay. Ten clubs. Played a lot of football, this guy. He has. Lots of different places, hence ten clubs.

14:04Vithushan Ehantharajah: What a player he was in his day. 2010 World Cup. Oh, he lit up that tournament with those tough tackling Uruguayans. Those handballing cheats. As he cheats, it was only one, to be fair.

14:18Jim Campbell: Well, go on, Jim. I've got the luxury here. I'm confident with three. So I'm going to be three. Three.

14:24Vithushan Ehantharajah: I've got a feeling Vish is going to go higher than that. Yeah. Four. He's going to go four. Can I hear five? Nah. No. Okay, Vish. Four clubs. Diego Forlan. Take it away.

14:33Marcus Speller: Manchester United. Atletico Madrid. Villarreal. Independiente.

14:40Vithushan Ehantharajah: Independiente was where he began. Yes. Inter. Yeah, I had Inter, but not Villarreal. Inter, yeah. Yeah, Inter-National. He loved an Inter. so you've got in Brazil Independiente how do you pronounce that?

14:53Marcus Speller: oh so you meant Inter

14:54Vithushan Ehantharajah: Inter Milan you know we're not boffins here Internacional Cerezo Osaka in Japan Peñarol in Europe

15:04Jim Campbell: Peñarol was going to be a guest but I was 3-0 down so I couldn't be arsed

15:11Vithushan Ehantharajah: there's the killer spirit back in there Mumbai City and then Kichi in Hong Kong is where he finished I mean the 2002-2003 season he came off the bench to score a crucial last minute goal for Manchester United when they played Chelsea United won the game 2-1 and they won the title that season by five points last minute legend Vish didn't play his best football at Manchester United of course

15:31Marcus Speller: no not at all no no no but actually overcame a very current Manchester United start to his career

15:38Vithushan Ehantharajah: yes exactly yeah but I mean maybe maybe a forerunner for the whole not playing that well at Manchester United you go elsewhere and you flourish yeah he's a trailblazer Trailblazer indeed, Jim, as we're seeing a lot at the moment. Round five.

15:51Marcus Speller: Can it be a trailblazer if there's just all of them?

15:54Vithushan Ehantharajah: Round five, Vish. Nice one for you, this, to kick us off with. 13 clubs for Federico Makeda.

16:05Marcus Speller: Oh, wow.

16:05Vithushan Ehantharajah: Yeah, you can get at least one. You've all got at least one. That famous Italian man. Vish, how many of his clubs can you mention? Three. Three. Jim, you're not going to go higher than that, are you?

16:20Jim Campbell: Yeah, I'll do four. Yes, that's the spirit. Jim, do your four. Go on, Jimbo. Man United. Yeah. Sampdoria. Yes. Bristol Rovers. He played for Doncaster Rovers. Oh, God. Yeah, I'm afraid I can't give you that.

16:35Vithushan Ehantharajah: I was thinking them. Yeah.

16:36Marcus Speller: I have QPR and Cardiff City down.

16:38Vithushan Ehantharajah: They were both correct answers, yeah. I remember them at Cardiff, actually. Birmingham City was another one. Stuttgart. A lot of loans in here. Navarro. Yeah, Navarro back in Italy, Panathinaikos, a team in Turkey, Apoel in Cyprus, and Astero Tripolis in Greece. So there we are. And of course, he's a last-minute legend because on his Manchester United debut in 2009, he scored that goal against Aston Villa in a crucial victory where they won 3-2 and would go on to win the league by just four points. So not your best showing there on my Bidiant Jim, I think it's going to take a lot to turn this weekend around for me.

17:18Vithushan Ehantharajah: Yeah, I think, though, you won the hearts and minds of the public.

17:21Jim Campbell: Yeah, I mean, I'll take either. Yeah, exactly, yeah. I mean, the popular vote...

17:24Marcus Speller: He got four things wrong.

17:26Jim Campbell: He did, but he tried. Yeah, but people get stuff wrong all the time. Exactly. And they like seeing that represented. Yeah, I think people see themselves... I feel represented.

17:34Vithushan Ehantharajah: People see themselves in gym. They see the passion and compassion. Yeah, we've all had days like that. That's what people think. I think that's just a reflection of his glasses. You see, you're not making it any better for yourself, Fish. I think right now, right now, you're one of the most... You're having a little dig at my glasses from down there? No, I'm not. I'm not having a dig at my glasses. If there was ever in doubt, I think you're one of the most hated men in the kingdom right now. But there we are.

17:57Jim Campbell: The most hated man in football quizzes.

18:00Vithushan Ehantharajah: But that's what football does to you, everybody. It brings out the best and worst in people. Clearly, I can't remember much about it. And I think we've seen that today. So there we are. Thank you very much for listening to the Football Ramble, part of the Acast Creator Network. Jim and I will be back on Monday to react to all the weekends. Football, make sure you're following us on socials, at Football Ramble, and subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. The keys are in the lock. The weekend is here. Get out there, everybody. Vish, stay behind. I've got some talking to do to you.

18:28Vithushan Ehantharajah: But, Jim, have a lovely old time. It's the bloody weekend. Here's to that, and here's to you.

18:43Marcus Speller: The Football Ramble is a Stack Production and part of the ACAST Creator Network.