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3:26Pete Donaldson: Hello everybody. Welcome to the Football Ramble. It's my Bidion. I'm Marcus Speller.

3:33Jim Campbell: I'm Jim Campbell. And I'm David Cartlidge.

3:50Jim Campbell: Hello and welcome back to My Biddy Aunt. That's right, it's the first My Biddy Aunt of the 26-27 season. Marcus will be facing David. You know how it goes by now, but if you don't, each round I'll name a footballer. One of Marcus or David will bid for how many of that player's clubs they can name. Their opponent can then raise the bid or challenge them to name them. Only professional clubs count. We're sticking with that. 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. Today's theme is Premier League ones that got away.

4:30Jim Campbell: How are we feeling? We're excited to be back in the hot seat with my bid, Ian, in a competitive fixture, no less. Whoa. I don't know. I was terrible last season. Well, so was I. I've got nightmares of you beating me with Alexis Sanchez. I still think about that. Well, I think I did alright in that one, though. So I think, you know, it's a new season. There's a lot of biddy aunt to play. I thought you did really well on that one, Jim. I think you should both be coming into this, raring to go. To reiterate the themes here, this is players who nearly signed for Premier League teams. David, you were to go first.

5:05Jim Campbell: Six clubs. You know, none of them are Premier League clubs.

5:10Pete Donaldson: I suppose there's a slight helping hand in this, yeah.

5:14Jim Campbell: It's Robert Lewandowski. Oh Six clubs How many clubs Robert Lewandowski Can you name How many of them Will I Be able to pronounce There's a clue

5:32Pete Donaldson: This is This is in David's wheelhouse He's on On the continent You see that like I am saying that

5:37Jim Campbell: I think about how you won Won the belt last year What's wrong with that It was international World Cup football Right Marcus Speller special Again, all that information is there for everybody else to know. Here we go.

5:51Pete Donaldson: Same as all of this. David just glared at me there. Proper eye of the tiger. I think I'm going to be put to the sword today. I don't think I am. I scored a piece in this game. I don't know where it is. I want a number from you, David. Yeah.

6:05Jim Campbell: See, I literally respect me. Three. Three. Three, okay. Marcus, are you going to go four? I'm going to have to go four. I think you've got an opportunity there. Because I know he's got the three. I absolutely know he's got three. Sure. So I will go four. Okay. Can I hear five from you, David?

6:20Pete Donaldson: No. Okay. Marcus, give me your four for Robert Lewandowski. Okay, so the three that David has are Borussia Dortmund. Correct. Bayern Munich. Correct. And Football Club Barcelona. Right, so there's your three. Yeah, there's your three.

6:37Jim Campbell: Now, sorry, they are more than a club, but they do still only count as one.

6:41Pete Donaldson: Right, good to clarify. So Lewandowski. Oh, hang on. Okay, so I've had a very unhelpful club pop into my head. I'm thinking, where's that come from? So I think it's obviously going to be a Polish club in there. But I don't think he played for one of the big Polish clubs. I think he played for quite an obscure one. So I don't know, or do I go for the obvious one? I think there's another German side in there as well, potentially. Gonna need a club Yeah Can I have a clue?

7:23Pete Donaldson: No you can't This is so annoying Because I am going to go for I think This is going to be so annoying I think that the Polish club Is something like Katowice Go on

7:41Jim Campbell: Unfortunately not Zenich Pruskov yeah okay I apologise if any Polish speakers if I mangled that Lech Poznan oh so that I was thinking Legia Warsaw yes of course but I thought

7:55Pete Donaldson: no it wasn't it was more of an obscure one and who was there another one he is currently at Chicago Fire oh man I've got two of them yeah well you're alright you got the point yeah you got the point anyway I didn't know he was at Chicago I know but like oh so he didn't play for

8:07Jim Campbell: he didn't play for another German he didn't play for another German club oh okay so I was right not to die so those are the clubs he started his career at Delta Warsaw in 2005, but they played in a semi-professional league. Which is why I didn't mention them. He also played for Legia Warsaw 2, but never made a first-team appearance. Sam Allardyce once said that Lewandowski was set to join Blackburn Rovers in 2010, but the Icelandic volcanic ash clouds that were hovering about at the time suspended all flights in and out of the UK, so they could not get him here. So, yeah, Marcus, nil, David, one.

8:37Jim Campbell: Marcus, it is your turn.

8:39Pete Donaldson: So it was important to serve first on that one. So I've got to make the most of my chance here. Can we have Lewandowski again? There's a lovely one here. More prepared for that now.

8:51Jim Campbell: We're going to move straight on to round two, I'm afraid, mate. Seven clubs. Marcus, I remind you, you are to go first. Roberto Baggio. Oh, Robbie. Seven clubs. This is pure Spella. This is pure Spella.

9:04Pete Donaldson: Oh, Robbie, Robbie. Seven of the Buggers. How many of them can you name though?

9:15Pete Donaldson: Come on, I'm sure I can do more than that. How many?

9:20Jim Campbell: How many are you saying? I'm going to need a number from you saying. I'm going to have to push the boat out a bit here. Five. Five. That's a lovely little pushing of the boat. David, can I hear six? No. Oh, the pain on your face. The pain on David's face. I've absolutely nailed on and got four. I'm 100 % all on but... Okay. Marcus, can I hear five? Okay.

9:47Pete Donaldson: So I've nailed on four. Maybe I shouldn't have gone for five then. An aggressive game is a good game. Yeah. Juventus. Bang! AC Milan. Correct. Brescia. Correct. Bologna. Absolutely. Oh, I'll go for another second. Fiorentina. Correct. Did he play for Inter? He did. Oh, okay. Suddenly I panicked on Inter and I remembered actually there was a big hoo-ha when he left Fiorentina. Oh, sorry. I could have gone. Was Verona the other one?

10:18Jim Campbell: Vicenza. Oh, Vicenza. He started his career at Vicenza then went to Fiorentina, Juventus, AC Milan which was presumably controversial then to Bologna then to Inter for two seasons and finished his career at Brescia. He was there for four seasons and in 2008 he was rumoured to be close to joining QPR on loan in the wake of Les Ferdinand's departure. Thank goodness he didn't do that. The deal never went through and instead they signed Mark Hately, QPL, relegated that season. I was going to say. I don't know how true that, if there was ever much of an element of truth in that room.

10:51Pete Donaldson: Do you know what the funny thing was? I wrote down Inter actually and then suddenly I panicked and then I remembered the hoo-ha when he left you on Tina.

10:57Jim Campbell: Yeah, I mean, there are surprising amounts of players who've played for Juventus, AC Milan and Inter. Yes. And he is very much one of them. So Marcus won, David won. David, you are up next. Lovely to hear about Paggio on IPDR. It's just lovely to think about the divine ponytail. What a guy. Okay, so round three. Six clubs. David, you are to go first. It's Wesley Schneider.

11:23Jim Campbell: Six clubs.

11:28Jim Campbell: Wesley Schneider. You need a number. I do, because I am filling time here. Okay, right. Three. Three. He's gone low. He's gone very low. Marcus, can I hear four for Wesley Schneider? I know he's got three. I'm going to have to go. This is Lewandowski all over again.

11:43Pete Donaldson: I'm going to have to go four. Can I hear five from you, David? Three. No. Okay. Come on, Marcus. Okay. All right, here we go then. Where's his slider? All right. Suddenly I'm going, have I mixed him up with another Dutchman? We will find out. Inter. Correct. Real Madrid. Correct. Galatasaray. Correct. And obviously there's a Dutch club in here. I think he played for Ajax.

12:11Jim Campbell: And you'd be correct. Get in there. He also played for Nice in the 2017-18 season. And they were signing everybody. Al Garaffa. The following season from that. So yeah, in the summer of 2013, Wesley Schneider was close to joining Liverpool, but he claimed that he had chosen Galatasaray instead because they were playing for prizes, whereas Liverpool at the time weren't as great as they are now. A confusing, confusing criticism.

12:35Pete Donaldson: Who did you miss of the four then? Who did you have? You presumably had Inter, Real Madrid and... I blanked at Real Madrid. Ah. This is what I mean. This game does do things, doesn't it? It does.

12:48Jim Campbell: And it's impossible to practice it really. Yes. Annoyingly. So that's Marcus Tugel. It's going a bit random. Yeah, well, I genuinely do that. You told me before. Once it's a blue moon, it works. But it's a really inefficient way to do anything. And to spend my time. Yeah, true. This one is an absolute doozy. Oh, no. I'm thrilled that I'm not doing it, but that you two have to. So it's Marcus's turn. The score is Marcus two, David one. It's round four. It's seven clubs. It's Axel Witzel. It's a great name. And a great head of hair on the man as well. It's a brilliant player.

13:27Jim Campbell: Two. Two. Three. Oh, okay. Can I hear four, Marcus? No, you can't. David. I mean, it's an opportunity to draw it level with a low bid, but a smart one. Zenit's in Petersburg. Ah, you knobhead. I'd let it go Madrid. There we go.

13:42Pete Donaldson: Correct.

13:43Jim Campbell: And Borussia Dortmund.

13:44Pete Donaldson: Bang! Yes! So I thought I could guess a Chinese club here. I thought David's gone blank. I'm going to just see what he's got. Evidently, it was quite an easy point for David. Yes. It's obviously Dortmund at Leti. And I was like, who else? Am I guessing a Belgian side? I was just, you know. How do you guess the Belgian side? I mean, Anderlecht is the one you go for.

14:06Jim Campbell: And standard Liège would be up there too. And standard Liège are the team he actually played for. So he started there. He then moved to Benfica before he moved to Zenit. He was there for four years. Then he went to Tianjin-Kuanjian. Yeah, well, there you go.

14:18Pete Donaldson: It wasn't even one of the more well-known Chinese.

14:21Jim Campbell: Of course it was bloody Tianjin. And then he went to Dortmund, followed by Atletico Madrid, and ended up at Girona. So it's just signed for Nice, but he hasn't made an appearance yet. So they don't count yet. and in 2016 Axel Witzel came close to signing for Everton with Ronald Koeman preparing a£30 million bid for the Belgian midfielder instead he remained at Zenit and then signed for Chinese outfit Tianjin as we all remember so clearly it wasn't even

14:46Pete Donaldson: a grand zoo no it wasn't

14:48Jim Campbell: it would have been great to see him in the Premier League who knows maybe he will so David you are up here we go first here for the game we've got a legend here have we though the way you're smiling Yeah, we do. We do. It's a tricky one, but it's a good one. He played for eight clubs. It's Michael Loudrup. Oh, blimey. This is proper spell of this, Thor, man. All these old boys. Yeah. Eight clubs. Eight clubs, yeah. Pair of footballing brothers, which is also, oh, sorry, is always enjoyable to see. An absolute legend of the 90s.

15:26Pete Donaldson: Yes, Michael. Michael, yes, Michael. Michael, Michael. He played in the program for a very short period.

15:32Spell is going to do me here, man. I have to go one more. I have to like take a punt here.

15:40Pete Donaldson: I'm really struggling here. Right. Okay. I'm going to go four. Four.

15:44Jim Campbell: Four for Michael Loudrop is good. Yeah. I think. Can I hear five, Marcus?

15:52Jim Campbell: I should know more. Although his heyday was really before. His heyday doesn't matter to the name of the game. Can I hear five?

16:01Pete Donaldson: I'm going to get David to do his four. No, what, really? I thought you'd have more. No, mate, I'm... I'm worried about the last one. Oh, fine, let him do his four. Okay, I'm really disappointed. Honestly, I've... I'm shocked.

16:17Jim Campbell: Well, Marcus, you had the opportunity to... Biddy, biddy.

16:21Pete Donaldson: Go on, David, far away. It's over to me then, yeah? Stuff it up for me, old boy, would you? All right. Bronby.

16:27Jim Campbell: Correct. Ajax. Correct Barcelona Correct Juventus There he is He's done it He has done it So Both of you will be kicking yourselves Because Michael Laudrup Is one of the players Who famously played For both Barcelona And Real Madrid I had Real Madrid as well So I was sitting on both them And I thought So I had Juve

16:50Pete Donaldson: Real Madrid Barcelona I had a question mark I'm pretty sure he played for Bromby I wasn't sure about Ajax Because Brian Laudrup Also played for Ajax And I kept thinking am I getting him confused with Brian?

17:01Jim Campbell: He finished his career at Ajax as well so he was only there for a season late on.

17:04Pete Donaldson: So who did he?

17:05Jim Campbell: He started off at FC Copenhagen who I think were known as KB at the time. He then moved to Bromby then to Lazio where he sort of kind of made his reputation a bit I think then on to Juventus Barcelona Real Madrid presumably controversially Vissal Kobe and then finished his career at Ajax in 1991 KB and B1903 merged their professional football teams and formed FC Copertagan. So I was wrong in my assumption there.

17:33Pete Donaldson: So FC Copertagan would have been incorrect then?

17:36Jim Campbell: But it would have been accepted, is what it says here,

17:39Pete Donaldson: which I think is fair enough. Well, look, David's done it. Fair play to you, mate. I'm happy with that. You should be very happy with that. Well, Luke's going to take the piss out of you badly. Yeah, he is. That's an opening day defeat. That's all right, I've bounced back. Yeah, well, there's a long time to go. As I say, as I proved last season in Jackson's Encyclopedia, it's not how you start, it's how you finish.

17:57Jim Campbell: and I'm trying to finish this little anecdote about Michael Loudrop in 1983 he left Bromby and agreed to join Liverpool on a three year deal but two weeks later Liverpool changed the offer to four years Loudrop was disappointed saying an agreement is an agreement and people should stick to what they decide they've got too much faith in me four years who do you think I am brilliant really weird really quite weird there we are Jim there we are a good start for David great start for David David flies into a lead at the top of the table. I'm happy with that. She'll be very happy with that. But you've got some points on the board as well.

18:33Jim Campbell: Well, exactly, yeah. Goal difference does count, as we know. And it's a win for me because I didn't have to do a quite hard game.

18:39Pete Donaldson: Well, there we are. Thank you very much for listening to the Football Ramble, part of the ACAS Creator Network. Make sure to hit subscribe wherever you're watching or listening. Do follow us on socials at Football Ramble. Get in touch with us on Instagram X in the comments on YouTube or email us at footballramble.com. We love to hear from you. It's Friday. and get your pit ball on. Thanks very much. And we'll see you on Monday for the review of the first weekend of the Premier League season.

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