The Preview Show: All you need is smut

0:00We're pretty vacant everybody. Welcome to the Football Ramble Preview Show. Bad losses for Palace and Villa, but Forrest are back in business. It's Friday 24th of October. I'm Marcus Speller. I'm Luke Moore. And I'm Jim Campbell.

0:24It's Friday. It's blooming Friday. We've done it again. Yes! They can't stop us. Would you say it's the most beautiful day of the week, Friday? It's a toss-up between Friday and Saturday, because on Friday you've got the anticipation of Saturday, whereas Saturday, you're there. You've got the whole thing. Do you still call Friday crisp and dry day? You know I do. Like back in the 90s. We used to call it that, didn't we? Yeah, we did. We were there. Crisp and dry. The food stays crisp and dry. Ah, yesterday. Yeah. Now, speaking of yesterday, you know that Bruce Forsyth is a man close to my heart, or was, but I mean, he's with us in spirit, of course.

0:58Yeah. especially as that stuff we did at the the Palladium which he is said to haunt yeah how can he ever die when his comedy and his presenting and his charisma will always live on yeah that's what you've got to ask yourself did he do well yeah he really did well it's not just me who has been showing off my affection for the great man I was recently treated to a Bruce impression by none other than you Mr Luke Moore yeah I don't remember this and I was pleased to announce that we aren't gatekeeping this content anymore all you need to do ladies and gentlemen is get involved by signing up to the Football Ramble WhatsApp channel you'll get fun bonus content you get behind the scenes footage you'll even be treated to an image of Steve Bruce edited onto Luke's face yeah this whole I mean this whole avenue of content is making a mockery of me I think so we've got the Reddit for that but we we control this one we've got to supply them with something so all you need to do is just click in the show notes to join the Football Ramble community on WhatsApp it's a lovely old time You won't be bombarded with loads and loads of emails.

1:59I don't want people thinking, oh, I'm already in 850 WhatsApp groups. Make it 851, but it won't be as irritating or as overwhelming as some of the other groups that you might be in. Yeah, I looked at it the other day. There's thousands of people on it already. Yeah. Well, they know what side their bread's battered on, Jim. Communicating just with emojis. Just with emojis. You've got to get creative with that. It's good. It's a challenge. You just do the aubergine all the time, don't you? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know you knew that was me, but yeah. I was going to say, he does that, but only privately.

2:31We do. The combination of emojis we do is Jim does the aubergine, I do the splash, and Pete does your face. Yeah. Isn't it, Jim? It is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Does Sean Dice like emojis? Probably. Oh, it's a really good question. I think he'd have a limited amount of emojis that he liked. Some of them he would think were nonsense. A lot of thumbs up, I reckon. Yeah, yeah. A lot of thumbs up, yeah. Are you doing that ironically? Because you do that all the time. Sometimes it's ironic, isn't it? Most of the time it is. Yeah. But not always. because sometimes I like a thumbs up yeah that's fair enough yeah Jim's just giving me one there it's very dad it is quite dad yeah well hang on what am I you are a dad well you are a dad it's not necessarily a criticism is it it's just the most concise time efficient way of just moving on so I reckon Sean Dyche does a lot of thumbs ups thumbs down I think he does a thumbs down yeah I reckon so as well yeah but it's a really really good question I need some time to think about that I didn't expect that to be the lead into the Nottingham Forest game.

3:27This is really a mailbag question, isn't it? I'd say so. Well, Nottingham Forest 2, football club Porto, a zero. Yeah. Or Porto, as Andy Brassel likes to pronounce it with an Edinburgh accent. Sean Dyche, yes, his first game as Nottingham Forest manager. I mean, he's already pied off Poster Coggle. It's easy. What an absolute palate cleanser of a manager Ange Poster Coggle's turned out to be. Isn't it? Just one of those, you go to a posh restaurant, you have a little bit of a, a little bit of a, a bit of a wipe between courses. Yeah. And that's Ange. It's more like a box of wires where it's like, oh, this has got to get way worse before it gets better.

4:01Hang on, can we get someone else in to do with this? Do it for us, yeah. Get someone temporary in. Yeah. Ange Postacoglu is basically the waiter in a posh restaurant who's scraped all the crumbs off the table with that metal pig. And then the next course comes. The next course is Sean Dyche and it's Earthworks. Yeah. And you're going to fucking get a win. Although that was just... It's a lovely restaurant, but you are having a steak. You're having a steak for your mate. At full time, he has sent Sean Dyche Ange Postacoglio WhatsApp and it's just a thumbs up emoji cheers old boy yeah I'll take it from here I'll toss yeah instant impact Dyche has made the first clean sheet since April 20 games without a clean sheet straight in one training session against an unbeaten team yeah I think Porto no they're not champions are they but they are you know they're a European they've started amazingly they haven't lost this is the first game I've lost this season unreal I spent I wrote a column yesterday partly about Sean Dyche and I spent a decent amount of time watching Porto's highlights this season and thought, they look really good.

5:02I couldn't see Forrest winning this game. No, yeah, it's not like, oh, they're fourth in the Portuguese league and they're having a bit of a mare. As you say, they're winning, they're on for the title, as they always are. I appreciate that. But this is no mean feat. Well, it makes them tricky opponents, doesn't it? Because they're used to winning. That's true with the kind of really the three big Portuguese teams. But then I suppose the kind of flip side of that is that they've got Jan Bednarak in there, which is some sort of indication of the... Who scored, by the way. And it was ruled out. Yeah, yeah, he was very unlucky.

5:30I say unlucky, I mean, it was offside. It wasn't his fault. Yeah, it wasn't his fault. It wasn't his fault. But a clean sheet and a win. And I mean, the atmosphere, everything, it does feel so different at Forest. I mean, it seems like this, the early signs are very good for Dyche and Forest. Totally. The atmosphere, you're right to point out. I thought it sounded absolutely amazing, which is partly why I made the unfair Postacoglu palette cleanser comment because I think it was clear from quite early on that the fans were probably going to take to Daesh now I think that Daesh has probably hammed up this Forest connection quite a lot Has he got local privilege?

6:07Yeah well first of all he's not from Nottingham he's from about an hour and a half away secondly he's never made a first team appearance for Nottingham Forest but he did spend quite a lot of his time He remembers Cluffy's dog though doesn't he and so the point being that he lent into this Nottingham Forest connection in a way that Postacoglu was never able to. And indeed, of course, Nuno wasn't able to as well. He's brought some big guns with him. Yeah, that definitely helps. But it would have fallen down had they been absolutely tepid here last night. And I think it only goes so far. I mean, in his first press conference, after he got the job, we had a pretty good monologue on why modern football is basically exactly the same as old football.

6:43A diatribe about why he wears the best trainers of anyone in football. And then finished off with a lovely little Brian Cuff impression. Love that. Absolutely great. And away from the funny... I was about to say, all he was missing was like a post 10pm Elvis impression. He's my uncle at a wedding. Oh yeah. Would you like to hear a Wonderwall? Yeah. The point being, if they hadn't won, right? If they hadn't won last night, that starts to become quite thin draw quite quickly, right? What I was going to say about him, which I find quite refreshing, weirdly because it's such an old-fashioned thing in a sense, is that when Dyche talks football, he's just absolutely happy to talk about the type of tax they're going to play and kind of the theory behind it all.

7:22And you feel like you could probably sit down with him and just chat football with him for ages and he'd be really, really honest, where some managers try to obscure that. He's a bit smart, but honest as well. Yeah, absolutely, of course. But he's earned that, hasn't he? And yeah, it's a good fit. You know, I think it's been a turbulent time at Forest, like particularly the start of this season. Yeah. And it feels ready to settle down and it's, you know, it's an extremely different scenario from the season they were going into. but it feels like this could work very well, actually. Yeah, I mean, the impact is instant.

7:53And when you talk about the press conferences there, Luke, you are right. You know, as you say, Jim, you both said he was right. He was very honest and spoke about, you know, I'm not a football purist. I like to play a mix. Sometimes I like to play along the stretch to play and whatnot. And perhaps maybe a little bit last season, certainly this season, that doesn't seem like such a shocking thing to say. It feels like football's come around his way, I think it a bit more since he's been absent. Yeah, and you're always trying to gain an advantage and if everyone's been trying to play in a certain way, not everybody, but you know, you get what I mean.

8:26I don't need to go over that again. But with the press conference, when you say, well, if they then put out a tepid performance against Porto, but that's the confidence of the man. Yeah, I agree. I know, you know, he's had very, very limited experience in European football. Funnily enough, I think it was... 100 % record, is it? No, no, no, no. Well, they went out in the preliminary round his Burnley side. Of course, yes. And it would have been Marianakis' Olympiacos, of course, which is quite a funny one. But anyway, the confidence that he had, he sees that team and he thinks, as do a lot of Forest fans, if he goes in there, he will sort out that defence pretty quickly.

9:01Now, it doesn't always work because we thought that about Nuno and West Ham and look what they did against Brentford the other night. But that's what I mean, a part of that confidence and you can call it smugness, whatever you want. And it is, you know, yeah, he was trying to play the hits. But I think the Forest fans, it struck a chord with them and I get that because he comes in and then you see the performance and you go well absolutely in a clean sheet it was a back four much more simple and Dyche again after the game spoke very fairly and said you know these players have had a lot going on different styles and this that and the other he said I thanked them we've had three days we've packed a lot in they've beaten a very very good side who will fancy winning this competition Porto by the way and now Forrest might think to themselves maybe we might start thinking about that again as they should have been thinking about that at the start of the season which they would have done And it's tailor-made, it's been tailor-made for Dyche the same way it wasn't, it was completely a hiding to nothing for Poster Coglu.

9:50The whole thing's flipped on its head. It doesn't mean it doesn't deserve credit for getting off to a winning start and doing well, but the reality, I think, is that they aren't necessarily as good as they finished or as they spent the majority of last season as, but they're much better than they've showed in the last couple of months. And so if he can revert them to the mean, what are they? I think they're probably at their best a kind of lower lower upper half of the table Premier League side and a good tilt of the Europa League that's really their realistic expectation well as the season goes on we'll see with Dyche because again Jim it's the classic thing isn't it we've seen Allardyce is another one who comes in it's a bit of a mess people are not really too sure you've got a big personality comes in which does G the players up simple instructions like he said you know he spoke about Morgan Gibbs-White he said right we don't want to take his shackles off that's the kind of thing Gibbs what I want to hear and what's what the Forrest fans want to hear as well simple instructions you know when I say simple tactics I don't mean that as a dig do the basics right all that kind of good stuff at the start he will sort it out you would imagine it's just as the season then goes on if they are to get into the latter stages of the Europa League then do we start to see the limitations but I don't want to talk about that too much because it seems a bit unfair with what Forrest has gone through I think it's a very interesting development in Daesh's career because basically with the way that things ended at Everton you would think that really it's quite surprising he'd get a job this good right you would think okay where does he go next he's obviously been smart waiting for an opportunity to arrive there's real serendipity here absolutely and the situation that he goes into is tailor-made absolutely and the issue with Everton was that he just weren't scoring goals there were points where it looked like they weren't even really trying to score goals to the point where Daesh was like yeah I'll probably show my house you're probably doing this now it shouldn't be me doing it yeah it was kind of really extreme but if you look at the situation at Everton now, they still don't really have a first-choice striker, right?

11:45It's still kind of a bit of a shootout between Beto and Tieno Barry, who I appreciate is kind of still finding his feet. But the forward options at Forest, centre forward in particular, you know, with Chris Wood, Igor Jesus, and Tewo Awani, even, who's a really handy player in certain scenarios, that's really good. That's really strong. And so this is something that, you know, he didn't have available to him at Everton. So it's been really interesting to see how this blends. That's a fair point. It's the best squad you would imagine he's probably had. I mean, their first 11, even if you just look at what they played last night, and bearing in mind it will probably change a bit for when they go to Bournemouth at the weekend, but if you just run the rule over the 11 players that started last night, it's a good team.

12:22I mean, Matt Sells was outstanding. Yeah, he was really good. Murillo and Milenkovic are brilliant centre-backs. We know what they're capable of, yeah. They're almost like a shit version of 2010 Inter. They play exactly the same way. What's that shit version? Well, they won the Champions League. yeah I know but you've still said the word shit okay you've got Elliot Anderson and by the way a kind of unrealised Douglas Luiz yeah who played well last night who Nuno Espirito Santo apparently really didn't seem to want which is mad I mean Douglas Luiz has been linked with like huge clubs before he's moved to Juventus who obviously are huge clubs themselves so yeah that's I mean that's a strange one but obviously that's a really really good player in there along with along with Callum Hudson-Odoi Morgan Gibbs Elliot Anderson Elliot Anderson I'm telling you as well Alexander Zinchenko is a much better player than him never playing for Arsenal in the last season or so suggests his technical level is really high Dan and Doi who they signed for big money it was a proper salary recently so yes so I think they were good last night I thought they didn't let Porto really play I thought Porto came out with intent but couldn't really get anything going and of course two penalties are two penalties but they were both penalties and they were both put away.

13:38Great for Igor Jesus to score his first goal as well in front of the home fans, which is important. So all in all, it probably went as well as could have possibly been hoped for Forest fans last night. You have to say that. Yeah, and you're right. It was two penalties, but I mean, it's the guy's first game in charge. They're playing against the side who are in far better nick than them. But Gibbs White said after the game, I can finally breathe. The first thing the manager said last season, you had real structure. He spent the whole Posta Coggins tenure talking about how great he was. Now it's going to come together.

14:06don't worry everyone he was holding his breath by the sound of it outrageous he said last that Dyche said to them last season you had a real structure to how you played he wants to bring that in or bring it back I suppose and build on that which is I mean that makes sense that there's joined up thinking there finally at Forest but he is talking out both sides of his mouth Gibbs White there I mean he spent he was the one frotting up he said if I wanted to go to Spurs how come I never went yeah exactly what a weird thing yeah I mean apparently Sean Dyche was behind the camera with a gun to him as we know is the case now Well, you don't want to change too much too soon, do you?

14:39Yeah. I know. I'll tell you what. Speaking of things that Dyche wants to bring in, he's re-implemented his old rule that players aren't allowed to wear snoods or hats in training. Yeah. I don't mind this. I kind of get his thinking, though. He says, well, you've got to play like you're going to do on a Saturday. You can't go out on a Saturday. I don't want to play, like, make training as intense as possible. There was a time, wasn't there, where players could wear snoods during games. And it just, I don't know how else to phrase it, but it looked annoying. Aesthetically, it was just horrible. I know what you mean.

15:12Dyche's voice, though, after the game, you forget that you always think he's just a bit hoarse. But when he does sound hoarse, it's like, oh my goodness. It's just sandpaper in there, isn't it? It's just sandpaper. It's a sandy ball bag. It is. Well, yeah, indeed. It's the original sandy ball bag. I think he also, before we move on to the Bournemouth game, he's also I mean I find him relatively tedious as I've said to you guys before you're not a fan of his not a massive fan no but I do have to admit that we're living through an era in the Premier League of quite a boring manager of quite a boring manager I know what you mean you've got like I mean they're kind of interesting in an odd way some of them some of them are quite obscure still to us some of them are kind of really over it and can't be bothered to do that fun and game stuff like if you think of someone like Guardiola who's like nowhere near as kind of engaging as he used to be he's entertaining because he's odd yeah people like Glasner and Herzler they're quite obscure Eddie Howe's boring Reggie Labris is quite obscure and a bit boring Thomas Frank's quite common all gone it's only really kind of Vita Pereira and Daniel Farker maybe who are a bit kind of interesting Farker's just for the voice and the hair Farker's just the care bear isn't he yeah yeah so the fact that Dice is in there does mix it up a little bit at least yeah I mean we had Posta Cogli for a bit yeah and then he's gone oh she's back but Poster Coglu became almost like a tribute act to himself at one point Poster Coglu was answering questions about his previous job in his final press conference for his current job that's how bad it got with Poster Coglu well Forrest travelled to Bournemouth at 2pm on Sunday tough assignment really tough I mean Bournemouth beat them 5-0 in this fixture last season and obviously Forrest had a really good season last season so I mean I think it's very important that they had a good performance and a good result last night because Bournemouth are so good at the moment.

17:05They're really good at pulling teams apart. So if you're a bit disorganised, I mean, that is absolutely the ideal scenario for Bournemouth. But clearly, you know, Dyche's plan is working already. But I do think there's a definite element of a kind of exhalation after this game last night. You know, is the energy level going to be there? It's always difficult for teams to play in the Premier League after they've played in Europe, particularly if they're not used to that routine. And particularly on a Thursday as well. Yeah, I think Bournemouth should be big favourites for this mate. Yeah. Never count Dyson Forest out there.

17:34No, never count them out though. Absolutely. Absolutely. Bloody exactly. Deary me, Crystal Palace. What the bloody hell was that? What are they doing here? Zero, they got, but AK Larnaca got one. So one nil was the score. As a general rule of thumb, is it always bad to lose to a Cypriot team? I think so. I believe so. I think it must be. I can't really think of any kind of Cypriot team that lives long in the memory. Well, there's pathos now, isn't there, who David Luiz is playing for, who were in the Champions League but I mean you know you still want to be putting them away do you remember Tamori Kitspire his Famagusta was it?

18:08was that Famagusta? okay I was thinking of Nicosia maybe I might have been Nicosia yeah the fact is we're struggling yeah I mean Cypriot football went through a bit of a kind of period as being the hipster's choice of apparently being surprisingly strong for a bit didn't it? get your meme out but it doesn't it simply doesn't matter it simply doesn't matter did you hear this in a brew dog pub Jim? the best meme no you wouldn't find me in there The best meme Marcus does consistently is the one with the fashionista, neckbeard guy with the little speech bubble. I wouldn't say fashionista. What is he then?

18:36He's a kind of... Neckbeard is what you would have called a hipster, yeah. He's a guy who wears a beanie hat indoors. Yeah. That's all I could describe it as. It's the only meme I do. He would support AEK Llanaka, wouldn't he? He would tout them. And he'd be right. Yeah, he would be right to tout them. Because it's a great victory for them. Yeah. It was a bad night for Palastro, of course, in the Europa Conference League. Llanaka are fifth in the Cypriot First Division. They're not even a particularly good Cypriot team, accounts. Hence they're in the conference. It's still in Europe. Yeah. It'll have to be in Europe.

19:03Before the game, Palace fans unveiled a TIFO display in the journey to Leipzig, which is where the final is being held. It was coming up by the message, we are the boys who will win your little game. Backfired. Yeah. Yeah. Not very good, is it? This is a problem though, you see. You think about Palace, which a bit of a bit Dad's Army, it was. Yes, it was. For those who get that reference. Because the actual image looked like the Dad's Army graphic at the start of the TV show. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. With Palace, they like being the underdogs and that's their playing style as well fits to that but when they start going I think we'll lean into the way we're with the big boys you've got to be careful with that yeah Oliver Glasner was about as angry as you can imagine him getting yeah he said his message to his team was they need to be they need to be humble yeah and look I think we're going to come on to this but I think there's a little bit of truth in that when it comes to talking about Aston Villa as well which spoiler alert which we'll come on to well that was shocking yeah I think I didn't see this Palace game because I was watching the Forest game The chance, I mean, you know, it's the old thing, if they could play that game a load more times and Palace would win every time, but they don't get the chance to do that.

20:04The goal that Llanocca scored, I mean, it was a beautiful hit, great finish, but it ultimately came from a sloppy error from Palace. Well, it was J.D. Canvot, wasn't it? He's a very young defender, he's a teenager, so that's a real shame for him. Yeah, I mean, when... What's his name? J.D. Canvot. He sounds like maybe a solicitor's firm or a pharmaceutical company. Does something evil that's slightly obscured. Well, when he gives the ball away, obviously, Llaneker, you know, got a chance. But as Bych goes to take the shot, I think he can think to himself, he probably won't score. Oh, he's just...

20:38Oh, he has. 20-yarder in the top corner. Oh, that's not what we wanted. It's a shame, isn't it? They're from bloody Cyprus. They can't remember that era now. I'll tell you what, yeah, the Llaneker players, they loved it after the full-time whistle. They went over to the away fans and they were all sat down. It was a little bit like, you know that, That swoops upside your head when people get into a... Yeah, people still doing that, are they? I don't know, but you get the reference, but they were all sort of sat in a line, though. Not behind each other, but sort of in a row. And they were sort of, I don't know, like waving to the...

21:06It's a bit Roger Stewart sailing, isn't it? We are sailing. Yeah, a little bit. We are sailing. Maybe they were doing that. Yeah, it might have been, yeah. Maybe they're going to sail back home to Cyprus. Beautiful island nation of Cyprus. That's right. Possibly. The jewel of the Mediterranean. Yeah, exactly. Presumably one of the islands in the Mediterranean is called the jewel of the Mediterranean. Could be Malta. Should I look it up? Have a little look-see. Jewel of the Med Malta. Oh, there you go. There you go. Yeah, see, I've been to Malta. Oh, the Corfu are claiming it as well. So, you know.

21:33Corfu is very nice. Yeah. Okay, fair enough. Well, they were sailing. They were having a lovely old time after the game. Very disappointed for Palace. Palace, I mean, they should still go on and make a big impression on this trophy. This should go down as a blip. They should be the boys who will win that little game. Well, and they've still got all the chance in the world to do that. I mean, you saw them against Dynamo Keefe when they played them away and they really hammered them there. So a very frustrating one for Palace because their first home game in this Europa Conference League proper.

22:06Yeah. And it really was a damp squib. Do you think there's maybe a sense of just unfamiliarity leading them to play kind of within themselves a little bit? Because this doesn't seem like the Palace we've seen in the league. Glasner said they need to be more humble. So he's suggesting or implying at least they've been arrogant. So I think there's an element of that because they're in uncharted territory here in that they're in a cup competition where they're the big boys or among the big boys. Every Premier League side that plays in this, even if for some miracle, last season's Southampton, they won the cup and they got into it, they would still be among the big boys due to the financial clout that these teams have.

22:44So I think there's an element of that. But also just sometimes you have these games. you can see like you know Real Madrid in the Champions League once in a blue moon have a game like this where they get beaten by a very unfancied side so you just put it down to that they travel to Arsenal on Sunday so a chance to put it right there Jim could make it difficult for Arsenal couldn't they? based on their Premier League form absolutely they're a very difficult team to break down Mateta's obviously in really good form wasn't last night he feels well he yeah he wasn't last night but he does feel like the sort of player at the moment that side where he might only need a chance to bury it as long as it's not like in the 97th minute Arsenal just don't concede well yeah we don't concede chances at the moment but I think Palace are one of those teams to be wary of and to respect and going back to what you're saying Marcus you know there's no better place at the moment in the Premier League to be an underdog than being at Arsenal absolutely well that's what I was thinking because that's what Palace want soak up the pressure and then get Munoz absolutely pile driving his way down the right hand flank and Arsenal want to squeeze the play they want to dominate and play the game in the opposition's half which is what all the best teams do.

23:48So I think it's a fascinating encounter. And you also want to get, as quickly as possible, you want to get Mikel Arteta to start losing his mind doing something crazy. Yeah, I mean, that will probably have happened pre-match. So I wouldn't worry about that. Yeah. I reckon he might, do you reckon, what would he do to prepare for playing Palace? Could he pump some kind of, could he get him playing South London cage football all week as training? I reckon they'll get into the changing room and it will just be full of eagles who are confused and riled up. I don't know why they're in there. they're angry they're aggressive one for each player this is what you've got to fight off I think that he would say we're going to go clove pigeon shooting they'd be like that's a bit of an odd thing but fair enough anyway little do they know real guns and eagles up there that's disrespectful he's got a bit Ian Bowsom there well we all do at some point admittedly it's slightly earlier on in middle age than I thought never go full beefing what are you thinking coming up after this Aston Villa 4 to the mighty go-ahead eagles

24:58now it's coming back round to set pieces are in vogue and that's just the way it goes you know it's just a cycle skinny jeans flare jeans skinny jeans flare jeans my daughter hammers me about whatever jeans I wear so it makes the odds I think I got a bit of stick about me trainers I believe walking in the training ground on social media I couldn't believe that whatever my mates let me know that as they do Tom Ford but anyway don't like to mention it well back to the football ramble everybody just an absolute preposterous bloke yeah I cannot wait for him to manage England yeah it's coming yeah it's coming now before we get to Aston Villa did you see that Danny Roll is a new Rangers manager got in his feet are under the desk because he lost his opening match got rolled over yeah he got rolled over 3-0 away to Bran it's good to see him picking up the Rangers traditions from very early on is this a tradition what losing games it seems to be this season yeah it's a new tradition losing games against people you should be beating one they won't be enjoying are Brand a good team or no I'm talking with complete ignorance I have no idea Rangers shouldn't be losing 3-0 to them I watched the highlights of the game and Brand seemed pretty dominant and comfortable and very much looked like the home side who won comfortably 3-0 I'd be quite Jim worried as a Rangers fan I think it was all Brand it was all Brand Danny Roll went home and then he shit himself shit himself with the extra fibre there we are Danny Roll went over and apologised to the fans after the game not an ideal start it was an absolutely brilliant photo though the photo that was shared on Twitter is that all they have it was like do you know what it was like it felt to me like I've got to be careful I'll say this go on it looked like a quite new frontline politician absolutely pleading with someone some nasty bloke from his constituency that he will get around to getting the garden wall fixed for him as soon as possible.

26:48That's what it looked like. I think you tiptoed the line very well there, actually. It looked like a left-wing politician talking to a racist. Oh, okay. You didn't have to... Have I smashed the line there? Yeah. Yeah, okay. I thought I might, yeah. No one's listening to this for me to tiptoe the line, are they? That's true. Yeah. Go on, say something else outrageous. I'm not saying he's a racist. Celtic managed to win their first... Oh, Brendan. Brendan got really into it. Did you see it? The Celtic won. Yeah, they beat Sturmgratz 2-1. Yeah. and he got interviewed afterwards Rogers and he was absolutely itching to get a question that meant he could answer it by having a pop at his critics and the first couple of questions were quite benign about like players who'd got injured or whatever he's like yeah just get to the good stuff and then the woman interviewing him said something about how I can't remember what it was but you bounced back or whatever and he was like oh yeah well you know maybe some of these so-called experts is that what he said oh no or outside experts or something like that and then he was away and he was off it was classic Brendan after that he did annoy me recently Brendan Rodgers because when they lost to Dundee on the weekend last weekend he compared managing to managing Celtic to be given the keys to a Honda Civic bloody good car that yeah and also I mean Dundee in that analogy presumably some kind of collapsed out old banger now right horse and carriage yeah I was going to say pleading poverty after losing the Dundee I think it's pretty full on Also like the modern Honda Civics.

28:13Probably a lovely motor. Yeah. Yeah, good Japanese make that. Probably slightly less good than the Jazz. The classic Honda Jazz. I would be a Civic over Jazz. Vish and I often battle about this. Vish is not here to defend himself. He can't go down that road. I mean, it's not quite a Ferrari though, is it? No. Which is the point he's making. I understand, but... Although I don't know that you driving a Ferrari would make a lot of sense. Not in London. No. Anyone driving a Ferrari. It's 20 miles an hour everywhere. Yeah. Speed bumps. the engines well the aforementioned Tom Ford if he's driving a Ferrari fair enough of any car he's driving a Ford good point any car he's in he's a Ford I hate it when we do car chat on the show yeah I don't understand it no you can't even drive yeah I don't know neither of us are interested that is true I did do a driving test I presume that one of the I failed it obviously and I presume one of the reasons for that was at one point I mounted a curb and there was a lady in a mobility scooter on that curb she was fine everyone was fine but there was a moment where yeah that could have gone awry just starts writing yeah yeah just furiously scribbling that's that done that's 100 quid down the drain that's gone how early on into the test was that it was about halfway through it I think I probably failed with all the miners by then anyway but your money's worth though at least well exactly shall I just take it back now and the guy's like nah don't worry about it you've got an extra 20 minutes to disgrace yourself I'm interested I want to see how much worse this can get go round the block you might get her next time we're trying to get over years now Celtic travelled to Hearts on Sunday 12pm kick off the team in the Scottish Premiership at the moment the Jambos absolutely producer Rory's Jambos he's absolutely delighted cock a hoop if Hearts win they will go 8 points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership 5 points clear this is a season long narrative that I am absolutely jonesing for yeah I mean there is a verge Jim looks like the magnificent Gorgie boys are the only ones on it they're approaching it surely after all the years They're up on Calton Hill.

30:11After all the years service, Hearts fan producer Roy's given us. If they do lift the trophy, I think you should be able to run rush all over the running order. Oh, big time. Well, you know I'll be behind that. We'll do a Hearts special. Yeah. Because back in the day, when you were denying that you were a Rangers fan, you would talk about Hearts all the time. Yes. You've forgotten about that now. Yeah, I haven't forgotten about it. Okay, you don't mention it as much now. But now's the time to bring it back. Yeah. The magnificent Gorgie Boys. Exactly. Used to be a big refrain of yours. Well, exactly, yeah.

30:36So I'm all for it, Luke Moore. I can't get enough but all I wanted to know just before we move on from that is did you accept at the time did you accept Danny Roll's explanation for when he was remonstrating with you last night

30:54yeah I didn't and I'm still angry now go ahead Eagles sorry why are the potholes to do with asylums Jim have a bit of respect for go ahead Eagles sorry go ahead Eagles beat Aston Villa 2-1 Aston Villa lost away from home to the side who were 12th in the Eredivis very silly I was getting a huge amount of Pompey energy from Go Ahead Eagles oh yeah stadium was very reminiscent the sound was very reminiscent yes political views a plucky I don't really know what their politics are actually or not what Portsmouths are well Netherlands there's that you know what's his name but the but the the idea that they were almost treating this competition like an amazing unexpected holiday because of course the Go Ahead Eagles won the Dutch Cup same way Portsmouth won the FA Cup I was just getting a lot of a lot of pompier energy from it I enjoyed it it was their first ever home win in a major European competition yeah amazing Aston Villa were on a run of eight games unbeaten before this one and my goodness I mean they go 1-0 up after four minutes the chances they missed in that first half I imagine Unai Emery would be absolutely apoplectic how they didn't well how they didn't win the game because they should have been out of sight by half time did you see the Watkins chance where he just threw his Nike feather at it I thought that was one of the most arrogant pieces of play I've seen this season I think the worst one for me was Evan Gessand the second one quite shortly after he's got the first goal because if you make that 2-0 you probably kill the noise in that stadium to a degree and then you can control it and they weren't able to do it it was absolute sucker punch stuff and then obviously the Buendia penalty was a well that's it so they should be up and away at half time you go 2-1 down as you say the stadium's pumping you kind of go it's one of those nights where it's gone against us they get given a lifeline with a penalty and it was a correct call by the referee and by and dear I mean I know it was a bit windy but the gusts of wind tend not to go up and lift the ball over the bar Gordon Bennett what was he doing I just thought it was so particularly the first half an hour of course go ahead Eagle scored your poor half time which should have shocked Villa into kind of action really but I think particularly it was the first 20 minutes half an hour where that Watkins chance was just dreadful he just wafted his leg and that is not what a top level striker should be doing it should be like that is business time game over get it in the back of the net there's so many chances they had I just felt they thought oh if we just carry on we'll score eventually it'll be fine like even I'm not going to be unfair to anyone but like Jadon Sancho looked world class the first 15 minutes he had the freedom of the pitch it was a really really disappointing evening and you could tell actually at one point the camera cut to an Aston Villa fan he looked quite funny but that's not why I'm mentioning it when Buendia's missed the penalty it cut to him he was absolutely raging he was and he had like a lovely little grey box beard and a bucket hat on and he just looked really angry that should have been a really fun really memorable away day and I'm sure it was I'm sure the fans that made that journey still had a good time because that's the nature of these things but that part of it It must have been absolutely shit.

34:03It's ridiculous to leave. It was the most enjoyable... Terrible weather as well. Most enjoyable moment of the game when go-ahead Eagles defender Gerrit Neuber was booked while being stretched off. Yeah, that was pretty good. You don't see that often, but if it's warranted, then get your book out, ref. The holy grail is the red card while you're being stretched off. That's great. That'd be good, because you're thinking, oh, we can make a sub here quick. No, he's going for the card. Get him off the pitch. Now, Villa host Manchester City on Sunday at 2pm. Man City haven't lost a game since they signed Gianluigi Donnarumma.

34:31Isn't that ominous? I don't know why. I keep forgetting he plays for them. And every time I see them play, you kind of go, oh, easy. Oh, right, yeah, they'll be okay. I just love the fact that so much was made about Donnarumma not being able to kind of play out from the back with his feet. Now, clearly he can do it to an extent, but Luis Enrique, that was one of the reasons, wasn't it, why he got moved on from PSG and you're thinking, okay, you know, with Pep much was made you go back all the way way back to when Joe Hart was playing and that was one of the reasons there and so on and so forth and Guardiola after last season Man City they need to improve and he's thinking you know I do have my ideals I do have my philosophy but getting an enormous bloke in goal who will just keep the ball out of the net who is the best version of that in the world I think I think that'll do us first and also the rest of the league has just been an absolute idiot and obliged but we're just going to do long balls and long throws now.

35:32We don't actually really need that stuff anymore. So we'll all play like that. Right into his massive hands. Unbeaten in nine matches in all competitions. I was on the ripple effect, I think I mentioned it to you guys, on Wednesday with James Alcott and we talked about how Man City are going under the radar a little bit. Which is absurd, isn't it? But that is how it feels. Because there's so much narrative around Arsenal, are they going to finally do it? Liverpool have done their fair share of sucking the gravity in. And people have just seemed to have decided that Man City are no longer the force that they were.

36:00Which they may not be, but that still doesn't mean they can't win the league. Well, yeah, that's right. And that was my point that I said. I said they're not the side they were, but it doesn't mean to say they can't win the league. It's all over for Guardiola. He should go. Yeah, I mean, they're second. They're only three points behind Arsenal. I found it interesting, though, that game when they played against Arsenal. It was like an admission of, oh, yeah, we're not as good as these. It's maybe not at the moment or whatever you want to say. And that's why they played the way they played. and it felt a little bit like when Arsenal were trying to catch Man City under Arteta when they would play cautiously and they'd kind of be very happy with the points well Arsenal of course did play cautiously at Liverpool didn't they by their own yeah exactly so I think I think it's a fair point to make that they're going about it I mean Harlan scored in 12 games in a row so you kind of think oh yeah Man City it was August wasn't it the last time he didn't score a goal for club or country we're not talking about last time players scored now we're talking about last time they didn't score.

36:57Yeah. I mean, I'm a striker at the top level and it'll be easier for me to point out to you the last time I didn't score a goal. There's been a seasonal change since I last didn't score a goal. Exactly, yeah. Remarkable. And I think the sort of feeling is that, oh yeah, Man City are not bad, but they've still got Haaland. They've still got Haaland. Whereas, you know, you saw the game, I mean, even against Villarreal when they won 2-0, like it's a good performance, you know, you get the job done. but against a side who are inferior to Man City I still think there's a little bit of a vulnerability however when you plug that with Donnarumma then you've got an enormous chance and I think that's why it was such a canny signing I know people think, oh blimey, he's one of the best goalkeepers in the world, of course but if that vulnerability is still there which I think it is defensively getting him in Do you actually think that though?

37:49Because if you look back at their recent results and their recent performances, they've been really really solid I think a big part of that has been Josco Gavardio moving back to centre-back. So him and Diaz are looking like a really sort of strong pairing at the moment. And obviously Gavardio scores a lot of goals from out wide. They've got that elsewhere so you can just shift him back in and you're not really losing anything in the sort of general kind of average of the team. And I don't know. I'm not sure I agree that they look vulnerable at the moment. Oh, well, we'll see against Villa, won't we, Jim?

38:19Well, Villa have been improved but last night was a big setback. No, it was. And they're going to have to pick themselves up. It's an away trip in Europe except they've had less time to recover. It's a big examination for them to welcome Man City to town. Speaking of Guardiola, he revealed that he almost quit football to play basketball when he was 16. It pisses me off when you hear that. A lot of these players are good at all different sports. I'm a bit like, could you not have passed that on to someone else? Is that how it works? Michael Owen could have been a snooker player or a golfer. Yeah.

38:46I saw a video literally. Suitably boring. I saw a video yesterday. Oh, come on. I like both those sports but I do take your point. he seems more of a golfer or a snooker player than a footballer doesn't he yeah I think so yeah I mean obviously golf and snooker's loss was very much football's loss football punditry's loss what he really should have done was just chucked apples at bins I saw a video yesterday of a load of it's an American video of a load of basketball players being asked by a broadcaster to do as many keep-ups as they could and it's so funny because obviously in the US they're obviously not that used to keep-ups as a cultural thing so rather than doing how many keep-ups ups, they were doing it on a timer, which is quite funny.

39:24Then this guy called Steve Nash came on, and basically no one was very good at it. Steve Nash came along, he's older now, I think he's a coach, and he played in the NBA for years and years, but he basically did keep-ups for as long as they could do the show, and they just had to get to stop. Bloody hell. He was brilliant. Apparently, he was a really good footballer. Was he like Mr. Wu? Apparently, who's that? he was the keep up world champion from how am I going to know that Mr Wu's the all you can eat Chinese buffet in Chinatown was that right he was the sort of Billy Wingrove type you know where you'd know them as like trick players trick footballers well he was the world keep up champion and they did it by time because I remember thinking you can't have somebody counting it how long did he do I think it was 18 hours fuck off that's what I mean 18 hours he collapsed at the end yeah I bet he did yeah yeah yeah if we get I mean let's get somebody to check that.

40:18That's amazing. I mean, that was a number of years. That was probably about 25, 30 years ago. You could hire him. He lives in, you know, in New Malden in South West London. There's a huge community of South Koreans. I think he was living there, but you could hire him. It was like a grand for 10 minutes or something like that. But he would go out and do his stuff. I don't know if he's still kicking around. Steve Nash could have been a footballer apparently. I didn't know that. There you go. So it's always quite interesting because I guess a lot of the skills are transferable, aren't they? Yes. Hand to eye coordination or whatever.

40:47or that kind of thing. Good on Guardiola. Yeah, good on him. Good on him. So yes, Aston Villa v Man City, a good one on Sunday. Right, coming up after this, is it too early for a relegation six-pointer in the Premier League? Just asking.

41:14That's right, everybody. Wolverhampton Wanderers face Burnley at home on Sunday at 2pm. Wolves are rock bottom. Burnley are 17th. Will Burnley take any kind of encouragement and impetus to the fact that Sean Dyche is back in the league? What, you reckon by osmosis? Everyone was thinking it. Is it going to give them a boost? Well, maybe. I mean, they had a great win against Leeds. Imagine if Sean Dyche managed Forrest and Burnley the same time in the same league and he had to recuse himself when they played each other. That would be incredible. It would be against the rules. I'm incredibly disrespectful to Scott Parker.

41:49He just starts turning up. It's not an official thing. He just keeps turning up. You can manage them, Scott, when they play for us. How do we stop it? Well, look, Burnley, they'll be buoyed by their victory against Leeds United last weekend, of course. They're on seven points, but Wolves, two points from eight games. Yeah, they're the only team to not have won in the league so far. It's the Harry Redknapp ratio, isn't it? Is that right? Well, that's when Harry Redknapp came in for Wande Ramos at Spurs and kept saying the rest of the season, and two points from eight games, two points from eight games.

42:17Is that what it was? Yeah, that was his big thing. They've never had it so good. Exactly. Do you think Vita Pereira was going to say that? I mean, presumably Vita Pereira hasn't had a point for goodness knows how long. He must be absolutely parched. He must be spitting bricks. First the points and then the points. Yeah. But this is a great chance for them, Jim Campbell, to get a victory. It's a very important game, of course, because if they were to lose this and Burnley being in 17th, I mean, they would be at least six points from the relegation zone because Leeds and Fulham are on eight points as well.

42:48I mean, there's a long way to go, yeah. It's worth pointing out. They're actually a point better off than they were under poor old Gary O 'Neill at this stage last season. So there's nothing to worry about. There's a lot of road. And Vittel got a new contract as well, so don't worry about that. But you're right, it is important. I mean, this game does feel like a bellwether, doesn't it? Because obviously Burnley being in 17th themselves, they're someone that they're going to be aiming at to try and take points off of. and if they don't get those points and they don't subsequently get those points, is Pereira in trouble?

43:20Well, yeah. He signed a new contract about a month ago. He did, but that was to, I mean, there was... Oh, it was because Man United were after him or something, was it? No, West Ham. All right, okay, fair enough. I mean, remember who, he's Portuguese. Yeah. So who's his agent going to be? George Mendes. Right. Yeah. We haven't got Andy back, have we? I told you, Andy's not on there anymore. You can come out now, Andy. We've had enough of experts. Fine, okay. Well, Pereira, I mean, when he took over, all those clips started resurfacing of when he was managing, whether it would be in Saudi or one or two other places.

43:54And I thought, oh, this guy's a madhead. This is going to be good. But it was a number of years ago, as he mellowed. The head seems pretty calm at the moment. A bit disappointing. But this is the type of game when they're against a side, newly promoted side, who really they'll be thinking three points. if it doesn't start going well, we could see it start to bubble up. Which again, would be good for the Ramble. It wouldn't be good for Wolves. I think if you can't beat Burnley at home, with the greatest respect to Burnley and all who sail in her, you're in trouble. Big trouble. Now Burnley though, Luke Moore, Sunderland and Leeds have earned 29 points between them so far this season.

44:30That is the best start to a season for the newly promoted sides in 10 years. 29 in total, yeah? Yeah, how about that? Sunderland got half of them. Pretty much. 14 I think they've got. Almost half of them. Absolutely. but Leeds and Burnley chipping in with 8 and 7 respectively Burnley got two wins already haven't they? Yes exactly and Leeds have definitely had some good moments and actually I think the promoted teams are four wins away from the total that last season's promoted teams managed already they're back in a big way once they hit that point I think we should you know separate them everyone's talking about them like this kind of blob of three teams which is probably annoying for fans of all of them but it all bodes well but I tell you what though those newly promoted sides would have wanted Postigoglu just stay as long as possible so Dyches is in at Forest we expect them to get better West Ham down in 19th I mean we expected I'm starting to get a little bit I'm starting to get a little bit worried about West Ham well I wonder because Nuno going in there you thought to yourself ah okay fine but that honestly that Brentford game that was terrible it was so bad it can't get any worse than that it just can't yeah so you've got them and then obviously Wolves because above Leeds Fulham I mean surprised they've only got 8 points you know as a Fulham fan who watches them play I'd be very surprised if they were in a relegation battle they were very good against Arsenal I was going to impress for them yeah so it's a bit of a funny one there Newcastle nine points again like they're going to be you know going up the table at some point well I think also you might find a lot more out about West Ham tonight yes when they play league well that's a huge game absolutely right Luke yeah yeah yeah gets the Premier League underway I think we have to be mindful of the idea that there is you know managers being matched with clubs is a thing yes right you can't just assume I think sometimes we're too quick to assume, right, that individual there is a, quote, good manager because of what they did there.

46:14And that's the same with Nuno. Nuno had an absolute nightmare at Spurs. A nightmare. Yeah, he did, yeah. And so it's not... And West Ham is a basket case of a club. They're really badly run. Their recruitment's terrible. There's a lot to dislike about the way West Ham go about their business. And Nuno just going in there isn't a complete panacea to all their problems. And they started so badly. I think, you know, a Friday night game at Ellen Road, don't want to kind of descend into cliche too often on the show today, but that'll be pumping there. And Leeds will smell blood. And you know what they're like, Leeds?

46:50You know, they're fans as well. That'll make it really difficult. If Leeds go ahead early against West Ham tonight, it could be a disaster. One of the things that Nuno hasn't done yet, which is, I suppose, kind of on one level, understandable because he's new into the job and they're a little bit imbalanced as a team anyway, is he hasn't taken any measure to sort out their problem in the middle of the pitch. I thought that was remarkable. I was so surprised at that. He's playing Suchek again. He has to get dragged off because he's so bad. And he's not got the mobility to deal with it in the Premier League now.

47:21I just thought there would be... I just thought it would be better. I thought... Because under Potter it just clearly wasn't right. I mean, maybe West Ham are in that situation that Manchester United are in, in that. It's just so rotten to the core at the club. It doesn't matter who goes in there. Yeah, and also it's going to take a while to Unpick it all and see what the best Combination of the tools you have at your disposal is I really think that is the case at West Hampton I don't want to be harsh with Nuno Because again, like, you know And sometimes we want Or we expect the new manager bounce and just go in there And bang, suddenly you see an improvement As we saw with Forrest under Dyche I thought that's what we were going to see with Nuno But then, Nuno Yeah, Nuno But look at him, what he did at Forrest You know, he kept them up it wasn't until the next season boom they were away so maybe West Ham are going to be back in Europe next season I wouldn't have thought so no is that one of my poorest suggestions or predictions it's a pretty busy list it's a pretty busy list I think no Marcus I want you to commit to this one yeah it wasn't a prediction it was a question I'm just asking you are I'm only asking it as that reporter said to Jim McLean once before he got punched you get chinned yeah exactly so interesting oh now by the way going back to Burnley very briefly have you seen the episode 4 of Burnley's Ex Originals documentary Keeping the Faith dropped this week Keeping the Faith is the first Ex Originals content series commissioned in the UK Ex Originals really sounds like it's going to be a different type of content doesn't it porno yes did you say porno I thought the euphemism was funnier here I come with a sledgehammer I'll leave you to judge yeah you shouldn't go to comedy shows no not with a hammer not with a hammer not what he meant everybody I always get told that oh I say what as a punter well yeah in any capacity in any voice yeah so yeah he documents Burnley's return to the Premier League in real time across the 2025 26 season I respect why certain things have to go in this run in order because it's a community here and you know we have to work as a team prominent Burnley fans on Discord as well I could live a hundred years and never watch this I couldn't be less interested a hundred yeah I'm just saying if I live to a hundred I'll be fortunate.

49:34I promise you, if I get my telegram from whoever the monarch is then... Yeah. I told you not to use telegram. I still won't have watched this. All right, okay. Fair enough. Before we go, something that has caught the attention of the Argentinian public and our very own Jim Campbell. Mostly Jim Campbell. Yeah, exactly, yeah. Jim, never say that you're not represented in this running order because we've got to talk about this... I wouldn't. ...this nonsense and dare I suggest bordering on smut. There is smut. It's definitely smut. There's a place for smut in the running order. Yeah. It's been reported in Argentina that Wanda Riccardi slipped into the DMs of Enzo Fernandez.

50:13And to be fair, there is no suggestion that any smut has taken place. There is merely the... They're projecting smut here. Yeah, indeed. There is the potential for smut. There's smut hopeful. But there are certain connotations when a divorcee of a certain age slides into the DMs of another individual. Who's currently married. who's currently happily married. The drama around this is that apparently Enzo Fernandez's girlfriend is currently a contestant on Celebrity Masterchef, which Wanda Nara hosts. The confusion around, it's a very confusing story. Apparently at some point she sent a DM to Enzo Fernandez saying something like, seen you around, come say hi, something like that.

50:53I just saw you around the neighbourhood, write to me if you want. It's very unclear from the reporting. Well, you sound like that though, Mark. I like it as a suggestion. It's just a see his eyebrow. Yeah, again, it implies smart. You see, you're doing it now. You can't help it. Yeah, I know. Markers make it sound sexy. Do it again. Okay. In the sexy way. I just saw you around the corner. Write me if you want. Yeah, see, it's not sexy. So now I'm kind of like, that's innocent. Yeah, exactly. If someone sent me that, I'd be like, okay, cool. Yeah, have a nice one. And that's to share a recipe or something.

51:17Do your sexy one again, just so we know. I just saw you around the neighbourhood. Write to me if you want. Yeah, you go. See, I'm in. I'm bloody rigid here. I'm tingling. I'm absolutely rigid. Tingling. so the timeline of it is confusing it's very unclear as to when this message was sent have you seen Jim more animated than this I know he's a proper reporter about it he sounded like Jeremy Bowen details are still sketchy at the moment but we are hearing reports on the ground all I'm saying is I don't really understand what the drama is but Enzo Fernandez has proven to be a brilliant player for Chelsea and if she wants to bewitch him and ruin his life I'm all for it so she's an Arsenal fan basically head of the World Cup as well exactly it's the last thing he needs indeed I was just worried that now that Wanda and Marrow are finally like truly over it would seem that this sort of bullshit was going to stop happening but no no it's not the telenovela continues every time we hear about a potentially sexy DM in football DM in football we should get Marcus to read it tremendous by the way you've got me here because I don't like smut but I love a voiceover exactly so you know there's been no smut no smut has taken place.

52:26I do like a little sprinkling of smut, just not too much. Makes the world go around a little bit of smut, doesn't it? I mean, in a literal You're a bit, Marcus is Yeah, but Marcus is smut for me. That's hilarious to me. You cannot procreate without just a little bit of smut. That's the line, is it? Not what I meant. Marcus would go up to and including a carry-on movie. Yeah? Yeah. Alright, okay. That's smutty, that's smutty in the truest sense, in the original 17th nothing vicious is it incredibly sexist of course so it is a bit vicious yeah it's wrong but there's a smuttiness to it that I think you can get on board with I carry on yeah hello hello a little bit of hello hello the amount of times you've just been pissing past the corner a vintage seaside postcard yeah absolutely Marcus is very much the kiss me quick of the round isn't he to be fair Dalton's a dark web I'm very proud of my yeah yeah that is yeah one of the proudest moments that I ever had from my father was that time when we had a few people around and there was there was a bottle that needed to be opened yeah he had a little pair of a little pair of I don't know what it was like an apron sort of thing yeah it was yeah and pulls out a fake wheelie with a bottle opener at the end and goes yeah exactly very much the spell smut yeah fair yeah bottle opener is a cock smut isn't it or that time when I was on holiday in Cuba when there was a guy doing magic tricks.

53:54I think you mentioned this. Maybe a magician did it recently. And he sort of, he opened the palm of my hand and sort of put something in it and he closed my palm. And then he went like that. And as I opened it, a sponge penis just went, donk! That's amazing. And your wallet had gone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Passport. I made my way back to Britain on a small boat. No, you spent a lot of time in a Cuban prison and experienced a very different type of smug. Right, moving on from that. It's ended up with you in a Cuban prison. It was always going to go that way. Yeah, exactly. you didn't want to include this and look where we've ended up true enough yeah yeah it is so you might be justified pushing this through yeah absolutely Guantanamo Bay they called me B-A-E nice now let's have a my video preview Luke versus Jim Luke is the champ Jim you're going for the belt baby yeah I am I haven't played you for ages Jim actually yeah Luke has been played generally in ages Luke has been beating everybody by hook or by crook I've been in good form yeah so yes my video will be available to listen to later today make sure to subscribe to the Football Ramble in your podcast app so that you never miss an episode it's going to be a big game it is it is could blow the MyBittyAunt slash Jackson side computer community wide open if Jim gets a result it could and let me tell you something I've seen the players I've seen the clues right it's going to be a lovely one it really is going to be I wonder what side the host and referee Marcus will be on tune in to find out yeah it'll be Jim's thanks very much for listening to the Football Ramble part of the Acast creator network we'll see you later of course for MyBittyAunt and remember to sign up to the Football Ramble WhatsApp where there's some lovely happenings on there.

55:25Thank you, Jim. Thank you. Thank you, Luke Moore. Thank you very much. And thank you, Wanda.

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