S15E32 - The Game When We Play Them Lot

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1:39It's the fighting.

1:43It's the fighting. cock it's a fighting it's a fighting cock a camel churn ricky it is fucking it is currently i checked my because i try to drive let's drop the kids off and drive back to the office to record this it is three degrees yeah it's cold isn't it right why have you got a hat on and and uh what is that an hoodie yeah it is yeah and a hoodie underneath and a t-shirt hoodie under the hoodie yeah yeah right what do you is it necessary given the fact that you have a fully functioning heating system for you to be layered up in such a fashion well i do i don't put the heating on so it's i know i know listen hold on hold on hold on hold it on hold it on when no one's in the house when the girls are at school when my missus is out working it's only me in the house on my own i'm in my little fart box room recording and doing you know working from home so as long as the temperature in this little office says 18 degrees i'm sweet right natural body heat and stuff like that it's fine my missus came home from work at lunchtime and came in through the front door and she said this house feels like the windows and doors have been left open it's ice cold how can you work in this house i was like as long as it's 18 degrees in the room it's fine but the girls will be coming home at half four the heating goes on at four o 'clock so they come into a nice warm house it's just me that likes to suffer they don't know they're born them girls i know they need to they need to sit in the cold for a bit i think yeah um this is how i know i'm old lads because like my whole life i've never wanted to put the heating on in fact when my mum used to put it on when i was a kid i'd be like oh it's too hot and i'd be around the like house in t-shirt and shorts and then like as you know as i got older and i had my own flats and stuff i'm like you rick i'm like don't need to mind just get under a blanket fucking wrap up it's fine yeah yeah i get too hot never mind all that i'm about to turn 40 right in a few weeks okay so apologies john first winter where i'm suddenly feeling the cold right which is very very old man coded right it's very much like you know like my my grandparents in the summer they'd be wearing like like full suit big oh it's a bit chilly it's 24 degrees what i'm on my journey to becoming an old man because i'm starting to feel the cold it's mental

4:29boys my son I was talking to my son earlier and we were talking about ginger people and he said I look a bit ginger right and I'm looking at this picture and I do look ginger I mean I'm not Kulisevsky ginger but I do does it matter in the modern era ginger still get laid don't they I love gingers what that you'd like to if we went to a ginger minge yes yeah yeah definitely yeah no did i ever tell you about the mad the the mad woman no when i worked at mother care when i was 17 oh yes yeah we used to go down the pub on a friday night have a couple of pints and then just mad lips each other off and in a pub in marble arch there'd be music playing just me and her just getting off of each other in the corner of the pub like mentally you don't see it anymore not enough the lads do you see two people getting off in a pub anymore back in our day any youngins listening to this back in our day going mad lipsy in a pub was the one maybe a little hand wonders all that yeah she was crazy she joined the army but knows what happened after that just getting off of everyone just that's why there's been no wars because she's just getting off of everyone so they're just like that's no point we can't fight anyone you are right though like i haven't heard the phrase get a room in public for like a decade i used to do that every other week you know like when you're at school and people be kissing get a room and like you go down the pub and there'd be a couple and i'll get a room no one said that no one has said that phrase for 10 years in the uk disgrace no they did say it then but i couldn't get a room i couldn't stand up because fucking mad mad erection in the middle yeah mad recce i was gonna say recce central there's nothing but So an unrequested erection is something that I don't have to worry about now as a middle-aged gentleman.

6:27A bit like a North London derby, really. I don't really ask for it, but it comes every now and then, maybe twice a year. And I could pull on it for hours and nothing would happen. Yeah. Very occasionally, it'll be a satisfactory ending, but most of the time it ends up in disappointment. Yeah, hating yourself. Let's start with Mawani. Mojani rub your tits all over my body Mojani Mojani rub your tits all over my body He's in training Oh He's on grass Rick Fucking hell He's not just training He's on grass And guess what He's got a specially fitted face mask Yes I saw that I thought he'd done his jaw I think I just assumed it was like lower jaw But maybe I'm like It's the top part of your jaw And that's why he's got the mask I think what you're thinking is it might be like Harry Kane mask, which is what we're all hoping.

7:22I don't think of that. I think it's just a complete new plastic skull that fits on top of his own skull that he's going to wear. It's going to come in like Kane, you know, like from wrestling. It's going to be amazing. Your boy, like MF Doom, is that just a full mask? Oh, my God. Can you imagine if he comes in with an MF Doom mask? Just fucking bowls and everyone's like, who the fuck's that? It's like Smurana. Yeah, it's fine. As long as it's Tottenham colours, he's fine. So he's just got it branded. That'd be fun. Yeah, the FA have signed it off. Brilliant. It's really jagged. Are you sure? Going up for heavy.

7:56Looks like it's made from steel. Is that steel? Yes. Right. There's something about that boy. I don't know what it is. I think we've all been saying. I haven't seen many people coat him off. I don't know if you have, John. But me and Rick have been talking about it for a while. There's something about that boy. Yeah. I mean, he makes a French squad every single time. If he's playing, if he's not. Deschamps loves him. So, I mean, I did a podcast, the Lab podcast with Rob Daly, and it was fantastic. Rob is a genuinely lovely human being who, for all of us who enjoyed Bilbao and other moments in the last four or five years, the greatest moments that you see, if you look back through Spurs player or any kind of footage that was released by the club, you'll hear the dulcet tones of Rob Daly.

8:45and what was I talking about? Why did I start that? Mawani. Why did I start that sentence? Something about Mawani. Did Rob say something nice about Mawani? Do you think he's a good player? I don't know. Was it, I remember during the, I've listened to Halfway Through the Pod, you mentioned that he does commentary on a lot of kind of international football and you drop the name Mawani in there. Yeah. It was an old game. Yes, yes. That's why you're here, boy. And other stuff as well. And other stuff as well. Yeah, so he was putting out a – he was covering – Rob doesn't just cover Spurs and commentate on Tottenham, which is a bit sad.

9:26He actually has jobs elsewhere, which he needs to – in order to feed his kids and pay for his mortgage. However, he wrote out a team sheet. So the thing that I learned is that I thought some people would be privy to team news before the fact, especially people like Rob, who have to talk about it in a way that satisfies the very people he's trying to serve. So if, for example, Mouane was to make a return tomorrow, on Sunday rather, against Arsenal, that he might get the heads up. Right. So he can prepare, right, in his notes. Yeah, yeah. He finds out who's on the team sheet when everyone else does.

10:04So if there's like a surprise, like you've got a youth player starting, like D-Mani starting on Boxing Day against Everton in 2004. Yeah. he's like shit I've got to work out how to how to do that anyway he was covering France and Mouane was on the right hand side and the team was fucking disgusting Mbappe and you're like Dembele's there and and Elisa now and Mouane still makes a squad so there's fucking something there boys I'm convinced of it I'm absolutely convinced of it um okay so it is a North London derby although as i've said before it's not a north london derby there's no such fucking thing as a north london derby there is the game we play them not that's all it should be called yeah north london derby is marking from sky that's all it is and you know they say oh well you you're not from north london you're from middlesex you know what they're reducing it to there is is borderlines dictated by local government we haven't moved you cunts yeah we haven't moved we're in the same fucking space you tried to buy film and then you made your way up there and what kind of super club would tottenham be if there was no fucking arsenal all them weird look actually don't want i think they would suddenly not become weird little gremlins that they are at the moment yeah we would have them weird little gremlins we would have a fucking stadium on the side 100 000 we'd fill it out but they all went to that dirty little scummy football club um how are you feeling about it John you know we've won two games in in uh since since the stadium opened and you know things aren't on the pitch you wouldn't say they're on a parity at the moment how do you feel yeah I mean look I even when we had amazing teams and they weren't particularly great I never felt particularly great about this game because I just kind of feel like there's often whoever is performing well sometimes gets served up a little bit so in this way actually I'm feeling I mean I'm always optimistic even with this game but I usually have some trepidation this time around I do kind of feel like whilst they're very um they're very consistent and they know how to get the job done they're very professional this is very very far from like a vintage like scum team or a vintage any team right that I think like the way they're going about being pretty successful in the league is a pretty um agricultural way of playing and to be fair we're not currently too dissimilar to that and so there is a world where basically on the day it's like we could end up getting a result just by this battle of set pieces right and that isn't a a form of domination like previous like tactical masterclasses in the past so it does make me feel like in any game we can get a result and we have shown like even under frank's short reign when we've needed to get results we are capable of doing that so i don't know i feel like everything goes out the window doesn't it in this game form kind of goes out the window tactics all the rest of it so it just i think we'll learn a lot about where we're at uh in this game but i don't they just i don't have the same fear with them lot as I have had in the past I just think they're a bit more they're horrible they're a bit more kind of rough and ready but I feel like there's an opportunity for us to get something I always feel optimistic about games so you know I feel like we can get something in every game but I don't know I'm mixed emotions I guess I just don't really know how to like predict this game because I think we're also quite a hard team to predict what do you think Rick well it's the international break and normally i'm fucking clucking for a bit of tottenham action and uh this time i am not i am it's like fucking hell it's why does it have to be that game can we just not be eased into something a bit more easier instead of the gooners away it's like oh man like there was a period uh it may have been a very short period but um where we'd we'd be playing them and i look at our team i'd be like fucking come on then you fucking want some like be proper we're gonna win this we'll get something out of this game i don't fear you at all now like what john was saying i don't fear them in the fact that they're playing scintillating football that they're gonna play us off the park but it feels like it will be a game of attrition where it will be throw-ins set pieces like someone's going to get a nick on a corner and and put it in what whatever it might be I just hope that you know when we there was the kind of uh the quote that Frank's teams are hard to beat that no matter what happens we are hard to beat and I just the one wish I have is that on Sunday we are hard to beat I can I can I can take a one nil loss one or draw whatever it might be but just don't get pounded I think look if we if we have to even consider a world like just for a second as uncomfortable it is if we have to consider a world where we get pounded something's gone drastically wrong like if you could definitely I went into the games with certainly last season the second North London W away from home against Arsenal won the post I was genuinely fearful that something bad was going to happen and I think we got beat pretty well but I was all in my mouth.

15:43I can't remember what it was. I think it was bad. All I can remember is Archie Gray and Spence being penned in constantly. That's all I can think about. It felt like we were doing that for 80 minutes. But if you look at this without the emotion, the two teams playing against each other without all of the history and the subtext of it being the North London derby, you've got a team who is excellent or has been thus far in the league excellent away yeah you've got a thomas frank side who you may have many criticisms of his style of play but setting up according to the opposition's abilities and then maximizing that opportunity away from home he's excelled at at tottenham he also excelled that with with brentford you know reason why he is tottenham manager is because of his ability to to perform above expectation Otherwise, Brentford would have been relegated and he wouldn't be Tottenham manager.

16:40And players like Mbwemo and Visser and Ollie Watkins and Ivan Toney and others in his side just wouldn't have excelled in the way that they did because the expectation for them would have been something else, something much more medium. And so if things happen in football, anything can happen. You have mental results. And after 90 minutes it goes by on Sunday, we may have to have a different discussion about what Frank is and what he isn't. But what we can say on paper is that this will be competitive and we will be in this game. And that's how I'm approaching it, I think. I'm not scared. I'm not fearful.

17:28I'm fucking a bit aggy about it really I'm like I think they think that they're going to walk us over this is going to be easy I think that's what they think I spent some time with one of them this week a couple of hours in their company and it's almost difficult when they're a decent one when they're their usual ilk you know just a bit greasy and weird just a bit odd odd human beings right when they're like that like it's like it's just something it's fine i understand what they are i grew up around them i know what they're like when you get a decent one you're like oh you know what's going on here you caught me off guard you bastard stop saying nice and decent things about my football club anyway he but but despite him being very measured he was you could tell there was an undercurrent of i'm very comfortable with this so i'll tell you what we need to make it fucking uncomfortable for them and that is paulina smashing through a couple not fouling them hurting them but winning the ball at the same time that's what i can see i can see challenges from romero i can see challenges for paulina i see ben tencourt hopefully doesn't lose his head in the way he did for uruguay in the week because that was a fucking straight red if ever i've seen one but that energy that bite if we can keep it in check to enough where we disrupt their play.

18:55Not that they're free-flowing attacking footballing side anyway. They can play that way. But without Gabriel as well, he's injured. He's dominant in the defense and in set pieces as well for both sides in attack as well. I think that's a massive loss for him. Massive loss. So much so, actually. I'm just looking as I'm speaking here, boys. there's two points I want to make about this so Gabriel is rated as the best centre-back of two in Europe's top five leagues according to who scored the best centre-back in all five top divisions is he 100 % out? yeah he's out for at least between one and two months is what they said what do you reckon Liz that sounded like the yes from Napoleon Dynamite.

19:48Yes. Yeah, apparently years out, it said one to two months, which is a little bit nebulous, isn't it? Can I tell you the other centre-back? Yeah, go on then. Who do you think it might be in the top five divisions? If it's Gabriel on one side, who do you think might be on the left-hand side? Imagine buying your kid a toy only to find the batteries aren't included or buying furniture, but missing the tools to build it. Frustrating, right? Now imagine the exact same feeling, but you're paying way more. That is what buying business software usually feels like. Fragmented, disconnected, and incredibly expensive.

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21:52Must be physically located in Illinois. TNCs apply. In-app only. Ooh. Top five divisions. Top five divisions. Premier League. Anywhere. If you can't give me a guess, I'm just going to tell you what it is. Yeah, go on. it's a Tottenham player who might be oh Romero no Van Der Wijn no no is it is it is it Jed Hotep Spence no it ain't Porre no what the fuck alright this is this is the the second not only is he the second not only is he the second best defender across the back four he's actually rated better than Gabriel who's the who's the So I said he was the best. I made a mistake. Big Kevin Danso?

22:41No. Palina? No. What the fuck? A doogie? The highest rated centre-back in European football is Vuscovic. Ah, you 7.10. You trick question. You little snake. Let's celebrate the fact that one of our players who doesn't even play for us, he's like six years old. He's the best centre-back in Europe. Vuscovic has an average rating of 7.38. Gabriel has 7.30 you know there's I don't know if you saw this clip on TikTok of these lads I sent it in actually to the WhatsApp group and the lads going you know they're talking about Vuskavich I think they may be from I'm going to say Serbia yeah right I think they may be Serbian or certainly they're from the Eastern Old Eastern block and they they were saying that Vuskavich has ceiling as high as someone like Leni Oro who's captor France.

23:39I hope he's better than Leni Oro, but that's impressive, isn't it? Yeah. Do you know other names in this top, this first 11, top 5? European leagues. Laminio Mou, Goula of Real Madrid, the Turkish lad, Nico Paz, who we wanted to buy, Mbappe and Kane. Set it back as Vuscovic. how good is this kid gonna be that just fucking how good is this kid gonna be i mean he's gonna be amazing isn't he um i just like just to make a quick step in it he is definitely croatian not serbian just fyi did you google it i had to i when you said it i was like i thought he was croatian then i didn't want to do like a no i knew i knew he was crazy it was a test just to check if you know what what ricky just went yeah that's right yeah no no i was saying no it was not it was a serbian i was saying it's right that they were uh talking about him all right well why didn't you nice correct me while you leave speaking of like that you owe me an apology two apologies now why why why what's the second one just said no of course not it's croatian i would go no yeah of course croatian i don't know what my brain was doing so you just let me sit in this failure mate that's what happened at the beginning of the pod were you trying to you know the rob daly scrambling around and i was like oh yeah no you're right there you go i've always got you i know have you okay no not you know no you have you have you're a good friend you're a good friend i very much love you um yeah so uh yeah i mean who i don't know how you preview an Arsenal game in a way that we will be doing on Patreon.

25:20Patreon.com forward slash The Fighting Cop for a full preview tomorrow. Yeah, but I don't know how you kind of really sort of sit down and talk about this in a way that isn't other than just fucking go and do them first. Find a way, make it competitive, make them uncomfortable. You get a point and that is a proper, that's damaging to their title challenges. Like if Man City go away to Newcastle, which is what, do we actually, this is a question for you. do you want Newcastle to Man City versus Newcastle would you rather Man City won and took it down to one point which may G up Arsenal or Man City lose and they relax and they're less intense than they would be or would the loss of Man City mean that they're G'd up to get that extra points or what would be better better if Man City won right yeah Man City win get as close to them as early as possible.

26:17Pressure. Then the pressure builds. Exactly. Then come 40 minutes, nil-nil. Come on. What about all the billion pound we spent? What about six years of believing in Arteta? You haven't scored a goal in 40 minutes. That's what we want, that energy. I think there's a lot of potential momentum shifting on this game that involves a lot of other things. So, for example, if we get a result here, like a frank masterclass right suddenly people won't won't give a shit about the style of play anymore they'll suddenly be like oh okay there's a plan here maybe this is worth getting behind and i think it could buy him more time and more grace from the fan base if we start like turning up in those sorts of games so that's one momentum factor two i also think that like arsenal if you look at the last couple of seasons they've been fucking smashing everyone to bits until it actually mattered until the pressure actually came on top, until other teams started putting a run together or when it actually meant that they couldn't do anything.

27:17If City win, that pressure is going to be there. If we beat them, I think you'll see a couple of bad results from them. They are the kings of can't handle the fucking pressure. They're great when things are good. They'll do really well. So this is a really good opportunity for us to fucking trip them over. You know when there's a big bully on the playground? and like if you try and have a scrap with him like face to face you just smash your head in but if you just do that little thing where you just like clip someone's ankles as they're running past you they just go tumbling that's what we could be doing we could just be laying down a little ankle tap on those fucking horrible slags and just watching them tumble and scrape their face on the asphalt i just what you just said i had horrible i was just transported back to when i was in year eight at hybrid growth school and there was a lad called lorenzo when i say lorenzo you can imagine somebody's fucking hard as nails right just sounds hard yeah lorenzo he was the same age as me but twice as tall and already fully developed and we were playing on so people anyone who knows hybrid the hybrid fields there used to be hard uh five-a-side pitches there and I've just gone to slide tackle to get the ball forgetting the fact that in my school you have to be careful who you were tackling it wasn't a normal game of football it's like some kids you could tackle some kids you weren't allowed to tackle yeah unless you wanted your head fucking bad and I slide tackled him took him out completely and expecting him to go this might be the worst moment of my life even like at 13 years old you know action and consequence most people don't at that age I knew at that stage I'd done something really bad uh luckily he turned around and saw this tiny little boy and decided not to kick my fucking head in.

29:04But his head did hit the asphalt, as you said, John Boy. You know, we were talking about getting erections on unwanted erections. I didn't have one then. Just talking about Lorenzo. What kind of weird people are smashing their faces on the asphalt. What kind of weird kick would that be? He's wanking in one hand and rubbing his hand on asphalt. you know like you could you sometimes can't get an erection you know when you was a kid you get an erection on the bus the old buses used to vibrate mad yeah why did they vibrate so badly when when they stood still these buses and you put your head against the window yeah you used to get a mad rocker what i can't do at my age at 44 is is uh is take advantage of that situation by gaining an erection and uh that's where med express comes in so do you know that one in five men in the UK experience changes in sexual performance as they get older.

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30:38Now it's like two in the morning, then three in the morning. Finally, she gets there at four. So I'm absolutely exhausted. I'm in the house. She gets there. I love this story. And as she's like sort of like straddling me on the chair, I just see this little mouse go running by the lounge. And I'm like, fuck, there's like a mouse in the house. So then we're like getting to it, right? And we're like, there's a mouse in the house. There's a mouse in the house. And then we're like getting down to it. So I'm like starting taking clothes off. And then like, just as I'm like, you know, about to, you know, I'm on top and I'm about to like get down to business.

31:10This thought enters my mind that what happens if while I'm on top, this mouse goes up my bum. That would be like climbing Mount Everest for the mouse. Yeah. I'll get Richard geared in my own lounge. so then i was like the thought of it just wouldn't leave my and then i thought what about if it goes on her or goes like goes on me and then her and she thinks that i've got mouses coming out of me like the whole situation just completely put me off and then i just couldn't get it out my head and i just couldn't i couldn't carry on so i sort of started and couldn't finish and she was just like you're right and i'm like i had to say which was partially true i'm tired but i couldn't say i was worried a mouse is gonna cut my bum so i can't get it up uh so there are many reasons why you might experience erection issues and medexpress understands you have a short online consultation with a uk-based clinical team and suggest the right treatment for you the best part is obviously it's online so you don't have to go talk to your gp it's no awkward situations no one needs to know that you're serving yourself up and it's hard obviously to uh to feel like yourself in those intimate situations where you just want to get a boner and make love to your beautiful partner.

32:24Yeah. So visit medexpress.co.uk to check your eligibility and get 30 % off with the code TFC. If you're listening and you're on Twitter, then the link will be not only in the description of this podcast, but also as the link tweets on Twitter. Let's do some questions because this is supposed to be a Q &A podcast. And we've asked, do you know how fucking shit Twitter is, actually? I sent a tweet out and it just didn't send. And then when I logged back in, it decided to send. And it's like, we've already started the pod. I've seen that musk lad taken over. It's all gone tits up. It really has. I know that's not the worst thing he's done in the last couple of years.

33:06It's the one that's frustrated me the most. So, yeah, down with Trump. not Trump the other one they're the same aren't they B &E says which member of the fighting cult do you reckon lost their virginity latest hard mode you can't choose the little Danish one

33:27well we know that Mark grew up on an island in the Nord region with there was like 36 men and one woman which oh god I want to make the joke but I probably shouldn't it wasn't Mark's mum no it's funny with Mark because even though I know he's got two kids I still think he's a virgin actually yeah he does give us that vibe looking at him straight away whenever I look at his face it's like the noise that he might make making sex close to you know explosion yeah I think it's a it's like the mouse in John's house yeah Yeah. But I'd still rather the mouse enter me than Mark. Are we happy to disclose right now who lost their virginity at what age?

34:22Yeah. I don't mind showing mine. I was 18. 16. Oh! 17. Rick Dogg, little sugar. Oh, fucking hell! Yeah, Ricky's little brown buttocks just up and down like that. Bam, bam, bam, bam. For 3.7 seconds. Was it the first time? Was it quick for you, boys? yeah oh god yeah yes i did it twice it was so quick well that was the good thing wasn't it you like the the reload time was really short it's like there's you know you just pressed your finger on the trigger and it goes off but you could reload that fucker like relentlessly whereas now it's like i'm squeezing all day and then eventually something comes out and that's it for a month so it was good in some ways having that yeah it was got another question here and it's which of the current Spurs squad would be best to share a joint with would be best to be on pills with would be best to take shrooms with and someone's answered the question it's Alfie Whiteman I did actually reach out to Alfie to see if I could interview him for the lab now that he's gone proper artsy and that sort of stuff but hasn't responded yet But I think that is the answer, right?

35:35He's sort of in touch with himself. Yeah. Also, music guy, isn't he? So, like, in those scenarios, if you, you know, you had the right accompaniment musically, you're going to have a better time. So, makes sense. So, what was the question? Who's the best player? In the Spurs squad, Pills, Mushrooms or a Spliff?

35:58Oh, that is an interesting... I mean, like, you could go route one on this and be like van der Vend for a spliff, like the Dutch connection. Yeah. And then Mushies, you need someone quite chill, wouldn't you? You wouldn't want someone that's like all over the shopping. You wouldn't want Pirate. They're grinning all the time. No. No. Or Bissouma. No, I was going to say Bissouma as well. No, yeah. Lads, did you see Troy Parrott? We didn't talk about this, but he bagged five goals for Ireland. They beat Portugal 2-0, and then he went away to Hungary, and he's got a hat-trick in Hungary. I don't know if you saw the emotions that he had after the game.

36:49He was breaking down in tears. It was really lovely to see. This is a player who Spurs fans really wanted to see more of and demanded from Jose Mourinho that we see him because I think Kane got his ankle injury and we wanted Troy Parrott to start up top and Sonny next to him. I think Mourinho's answer was to play Sonny through the middle and everyone was like, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Not Sonny through the middle. He's not. He plays on the left, doesn't he? Anyway, and we're demanding Troy Parrott and he played Troy Parrott, didn't he? And then he went, see? He's not ready. It's such a Mourinho thing to do.

37:29Like, expose the lad. He's not ready. I told you we ain't ready. Let's ruin a kid. But he did score those goals. And now the narrative around it is that we've dropped a bollock by letting him go. How do you feel about Troy Parrott? Should we make every effort to bring him back based on those two performances for Ireland? Or is it just a flash in the pan moment and we were probably right in the first instance? what I will say that interview that you mentioned I probably watched it 10 times it was I was just like through them scoring and that interview I just kept watching it over and over again because it's kind of like sometimes you get lost in what football is nowadays like modern football and ticket prices atmosphere and stuff like that but then when the purity of when something like that happens even though it was you know Ireland um I was just like this is fucking amazing look look what it means to everyone it was absolutely quality and then again with Scotland as well fantastic stuff I love football amazing with Parrot I would probably I don't think I don't think we dropped a bollock personally I think you make a decision on how that player is and how they're um how they've kind of reacted in getting first team opportunities and how they're conducting themselves and you make a decision at that time you know you could wait five years after and they're playing for someone else and smashing goals in but it's like when you've got a young player like that and maybe they're not um excelling as quickly as you'd hoped they need a new environment whatever it might be but do you really want to hold on to a player for x amount of years because they may or may not have potential you you act with whatever's happening there so i think we were probably right to um i think we're probably right rick i think we absolutely were correct.

39:38Right, okay.

39:43Don't get me wrong, I've loved the story. Like you say, I watched it a couple of times. Didn't watch it a hundred times, but I watched it a couple of times. We've got a mutual friend in Zeus who is an Irish lad. And, you know, absolutely adores him. I get it, but it's like just reshifting the, or not accepting the reality of the situation that probably Troy Parrott is, if I had to guess, and that it's hard because he's scoring goals for fun in the area of a jersey. Yeah. A area of a jersey. That is probably, if you're being really kind, a lower level Premier League striker, but if you're being realistic, a championship striker.

40:19So the idea of him, of us dropping a bollocks because we didn't sign him is fucking nonsense, in my opinion. Yeah. Didn't make it through. Sorry. Why can't we just be happy that we produced a player who's playing in like one of the top leagues? They don't have to be at Spurs or we hate their guts, right? with Troy Parrott it's like I'm just glad that he's associated with our club he came through our academy played really well for us and is doing well for his country and he's playing and like you said if he ends up playing championship football or lower half premier league football and everyone knows who he is that's a good thing for us as a club to be associated with I don't think we get drawn into this every time a player leaves and does okay or should we have kept them well like unless they go on and are better than what we currently have then it's not even a conversation for me so yeah i really i really like the story i really like the story and you know it's nice to see i always you know enjoy patriotism of all kinds so that was nice to see and good luck to him but he's not good enough to play for us otherwise he'd still be playing for us probably um ornstein put out this uh article or headline basically a bournemouth may be powerless to prevent simenio at sale in january contract includes 65 million pound release clause available It was all clubs, but they must trigger it by a set date.