Rogers SINKS Man United, The Most Skilful Premier League Player & CONTROVERSIAL Christmas Dinners!

32:24So going back to,

32:26Nicky:it's all them cogs in the machine. And I think certain sports in the world, if you look at American football, rugby, if you get to it into football, bring that into football a little bit, and I'm sure they do nowadays, it's like, know your limits and know what you're good at. And that is a skill for me. That's a massive skill. But it's like what you said when you used to be training, like you say, you and the lads at the back could do your own little sessions, you'd stay on a little bit longer. And it is like that, like that thing with Rodman. I remember, I'm not into basketball, but I remember watching the Michael Jordan documentary and he talks about Rodman that players like him helped him, but they weren't the ones who'd take all the glass.

33:03The last dance. Last dance, that's it.

33:05Nicky:Michael Jordan was, he wasn't, he was a defensive player. He was a defensive, all-time defensive player. Michael Jordan was? Yeah, he was a defensive player. I don't know if he was going all the time. He was, I think it was eight years in a row I think it was eight years in a row or seven seasons in a row he was a defensive player but yeah but if you look at all sports rugby American football everyone has their little dynamic and then it's only football before probably the last ten years it was all everyone trained the same no I'll go and train the same with Scholes we'll all do it's mad and if ever I go into football I'll be looking at other sports and going know what your roles are know what you're good at and you're all little cogs in the big machine if that little cog moves then that next one moves and the machine moves forward but if you have one little cog that thinks like I said I did when I went to Newcastle I'm going to start doing what Paul Scoles does and nip the ball 60 yards it doesn't work so going back to your question the skill is knowing what you're good at and knowing what you're expert at.

33:57I think the unit stuff has come into it a lot. Some managers I've done probably followed the rugby league but you've got to be careful then of going almost like we've done our job fucking hell what you do you know that sort of you create a little bit of division as well don't you?

34:14Nicky:like that so if you look at other sports probably don't even see each other for the for most of the most of the week until match day they'll have the defensive bit they'll have the mid bit that but football will it's always gonna be together in it we always train together you might have a little 20 minutes here and there where you where you um the manager will put you into your little units i'm pretty sure that does happen um but football's it's more of a everyone together everyone do a little bit at the end of the game then one go and do a bit before a game yeah beside whether it might be that's when you know you've got a bit of division in your team if you're like say if you've scored a couple of goals you come back to the halfway line and we concede a goal and you're saying to the forward at your midfield player any chance of them not fucking defending keeping the ball out in the goal do you know what I mean because that can happen and then on the other point of that if we can't score any chance of you not fucking scoring that's what I'm saying how many times did we say that when we were just kids to Nev so Nev walking back any fucking chance guys we were in midfield fucking any chance Nevin it was good Casper it was only youth team that were back there and they were like 30 yards off us and they'd be shouting at us going

35:12Nicky:fucking watch the runners you're playing against one player 3v1 step up and you'll be round about like 20 yards in between but yeah I used to say that I'm doing fucking fucking running I'm playing against two players you're sat there you can't mark one that's what it is usually it's 1v2 at the back well we're talking about more skilful player in the league which leads me on nicely to the good the bad and the football 2025 football awards I'm going to give you the categories lads I'm going to give you some players, and it's up to you to pick who gets the award. So we're going to start off with best player in the league.

35:51That's a big hit. Best player in the league. Names on the list. Declan Rice, Gabriel, Semenyo, Eze, Cacedo, and Harland. You love me pronouncing these, don't you? I'll tell you I keep saying wait till you see me in an Italian restaurant I'll forno del exagno please del exagno del exagno and a sinzerno to wash it down with Harlan for me Harlan definitely for me

36:25Nicky:just what I was going on about he knows what his job is he knows what he does he doesn't want to do anything other than score goals and he does it to the it's ridiculous the amount of goals he's scored and the goals how he does it remember the head that he scored he just thinks it over remember we were talking about Van Nistelrooy doing it not Van Nistelrooy did it no Van Persie did it in the Championship headed it over but not when Highland did one at the start of the season just clever like the key was coming out most people would try and bring it down and go past keeper he just nodded it over his goal scoring record ridiculous so for me I'd go Highland straight in with that it's the most effective he's not the best player is he?

37:06Not the best footballer Do you know what I mean? We are looking for the best player

37:11Nicky:Well let's see who gets player of the year at the end of the season then Well Semenyo's been unbelievable you think the team he's in he's been unbelievable Declan Rice has been really good Will he stay at Bournemouth do you think Semenyo if he carries on like this No he'll be gone in January Yeah Which leads me on I'm not going to say it yet I tell you Ez is the best footballer I just love that type of player number 10s the only thing about Eze that maybe lets him down is he's not enough goals right okay right well you you've gone for Eze you've gone for Haaland we can only have one so we can have one each can't we fucking hell we're not made of money we've got to get these awards to these lads Haaland's the most influential in his team you'd have to say Haaland Haaland right okay that's that one so best player 2025 goes to Erling Haaland right best signing Xhaka Eketike Cherky Calvert-Lewin Mbumo and Zubamendi well they've all been good aren't they the one that stands out the most it's got to be Granit Xhaka for me do you know what I read that first and in my head I thought it's got to be him what he's done in that team is incredible it's a really young team it's brought real experience quality to it it's got to be him it's got to be on it right there you go Granit Xhaka best signing and do you know what I reckon a lot of clubs will allude to him and a lot of managers and go why didn't we get him like how's he ended up shoulda woulda coulda no disrespect to Sunderland because I love watching Sunderland but how's he ended up is he 30 31 33 33 I think I wonder if he's gone I'll show you I think he's got that he looks the kind of guy you want next year in January he looks like a good bloke he looks like he's no nonsense doesn't take no shit yeah is a leader and he's got his experience and he's played at the highest level with a top club for so many years but captains his country is what I think don't they?

39:11Nicky:Captains of his country Granny Jack but yeah he's gone there and I mean they've done amazing as a team they've been brilliant interesting one player and this is why I asked you about Semenya before player who you'd most like to see United sign ooh what a realistic one or anyone well let's keep it Premier League let's forget Europe and everything let's just go Premier League did you say realistically yeah realistically to sign or just like your dream sign from a Premier League anyone if you could just bring someone in we'll have a dream and we'll have a realistic alright yeah not a dream but something I think they need is that probably a Declan Rice yeah that's what I was going to say Declan Rice and a realistic one I'd say to Mennon or low where does he play for Man United does he play as a wing back more of an attacking player than I just don't see where he fits into that Mbremo Cunha Sesko Diallo do you know what I mean realistic one for me

40:21I think he's more durable than anybody yeah a lot of people have talked about him going to City I don't see him as a City player really yeah I just don't it's a Man United he'll spend too much time on the bench and all at City won't he do you know the thing might come for him now Liverpool with them injuries

40:38Nicky:a realistic one if Man United get back to going and bullying teams and going and buying their players their best players I don't mean Arsenal or City but the next ones down which Man United you should always do at least go to Tottenham for example and get their best player Morgan Rodgers go and get him oh yeah that's a good shout isn't it where does he play though with them two number 10s I'll just play him anywhere he's better than what we've got in the minute for me this is the thing I think Villa because they're up there at the minute and people are talking about you know in the same realms of like Arsenal and for winning the league and what have you and City I think Villa fans now will be fucking sweating on Rodgers they will be because they're going shut up Nicky's got a good point because we did go and get the best player we went and got Dwight York from Arsenal the best player Tottenham, Berbatov Robin van Persie from Arsenal we used to go and get their best players I'm not sure were in that position at the minute but the next ones down which I would say Villa are no disrespect they're amazing what they're doing but as a club and financially they're probably the ones just underneath the arsenals Liverpool's the cities which are going to be hard to go and get players from now but I think Villa might be if Rodgers goes to the World Cup and he has a good World Cup is that him at Villa then do you think he's gone as well they're not a selling club Villa are they or are they I don't know what their financial model is I don't know how I mean they seem so well run at the minute If he carries on the way he is and he has a even if he carries on the way he is and doesn't have a good World Cup big clubs have got but look I'm not saying Aston Villa are not a big club of course we love Aston Villa great tradition great ground but he's going to have to go to the next level where he's thinking of Champions League winning the league every year he can't stay at Villa Remember Doug Ellis Doug Ellis Villa he used to sit with us we were only younger in England he'd sit with us and he'd talk to us about Villa I think he was deep down a little bit of a Man United fan as well or likes the way the club was and tradition we used to sit with the couple of guys and talk about Villa and stuff so I'm on Scoles I've got a soft spot for Villa I think it's a club everyone likes yeah I like Villa yeah exactly exactly no one goes to Hank's for his spreadsheets they go for a darn good pizza Lately, though, the shop's been quiet, so Hank decides to bring back the$1 slice.

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44:49Nicky:come on me I just think he's a good character good person personality fantastic footballer got that little bit of a cheeky chappy vibe to him apparently likes a night out as well yeah well not after schools he says he's not skillful with football no i didn't say he was skillfully his own way jack i love you jack you're not familiar jack i just think you know i'm in trouble i think he's got a cheeky chappy kind of yeah yeah yeah in a different way i quite like to have phil folder on me yeah i love watching with football you don't see a lot or hear a lot of him do you? Got to say a little bit disappointing you've gone with two ex-City lads I know I thought that who else what United play come on?

45:31Bruno do you know when you talk about Bruno talks a lot I'm trying to think of somebody you don't see an awful lot of when you were saying about Phil or Jack coming on here which we'd fucking hell we'd love that but you don't see a lot of modern Premier League players doing stuff like this you get them on

45:48Nicky:most of the film he's done in the morning and all the sponsorship stuff they're in business and then you've got City's Training Ground is only two minutes I mean I wonder if they'd like to come on like if they're restricted by their agents and everything else let's be honest how honest can a footballer who's still playing now how honest can they be on one of these shows it's really difficult you'd have to give them the questions up front and everything what about an Anxford footballer we'd like to come on we have already but who would you like Eric Eric oh yeah Eric that'd be good wouldn't it because he would he'd say exactly what he'd say obviously I'm talking for someone who's only met him a couple of times but is Eric a good like chatter storyteller no quiet but if if you ask him a question he'd answer it and you know I'd love to you get something good you get something good yeah there's some gold dust about but I'd like to ask him about how his mindset was around obviously the kung fu kicking getting banned and but even before that he got banned from the French FA as well didn't he and he was very that's why he would never go back and play there or play for France and yeah I think he'd be very interesting and he's charismatic and he's cool reminds me of myself a little bit to be fair do you know two who I'd like firstly just because I love him anywho I'd like Roy Keane yeah Keane's good he's just so he's he has that persona but I'm pretty sure Roy yeah I just Roy, Gaz and he's such a piss taker as well I love that about him because he does it and you think has he had me over there or what you're never quite sure what you're doing and for goalkeepers union I'd like to just have a chat with Barthes Fabian Fabian he's a funny bloke because imagine the stories and stuff he'd be a character do you remember we used to have a little players room not like now when you're on the own boxes we used to have a players room probably no bigger than this after the game and your wives or girlfriends or parents would be waiting there, wouldn't they?

47:47Nicky:I remember walking in and honestly, I walked in and I went, can you tell? There's like these four or five supermodels all lined up there. Like, real supermodels like Linda Evangelista. I can't remember all the names of them, but Fabian was seeing Linda Evangelista. Oh! I remember when she used to be going out with her. I'm right in saying that, aren't I? Is that her second name? Evangelista. Yeah, Evangelista. Honestly, there's four or five of them. She's in the George Michael thingy video. There's about four or five I have him lined up there and I'm like going like that. I was just going, this is like, fuck.

48:18Nicky:I hope you're not getting him in trouble. That was when, he was actually, I was seeing her, he was with my girlfriend. But then I think that was when, What a treat. That was when football changed a little bit and all the Supermores that all popped there and Victoria was in there with the Spice Girls. Yeah, so exciting. And it was just, you could just see it change. It used to be, all the mums or dads in there having a drink, or a free drink before you go home after the game or you'd meet your wife in there or your girlfriend or whatever, a partner and you get in the car and you're gone but then it started to change a little bit I've got to say I prefer the supermodel bit then you start seeing the change in football obviously it's got a lot more how tall was he Bart he always looks quite small about 4 foot 2 I think about the same size as you I'll tell you no he's smaller than me was he yeah honestly is he a 5 something I think he's about 5 or 9 he was brilliant 5 or 9 5 or 9 what a goalkeeper no he's a he's a racing driver now do you know that yeah is he he's a racing driver do you remember when he came on pre-season as an outfield player was it in China or something he came on didn't he I think he was always minding the manage come get me on get me on I think he came on centre forward I can't remember if he scored though he had a great left foot didn't he like you were saying a few podcasts ago the keepers strike a ball so nice apart from Paddy he couldn't fucking kick you I'll say he'll give you a present as well I'm only kidding Paddy I've seen you you're brilliant well done cat the cat the cat 52 lads you know I'm trying to it rhymes with cat I'm trying to

49:44Nicky:but his latter would be a good can I just ask you about not that I'm obsessed with goalkeepers with Barthes how's his English can you have a good crack with him no that wasn't great oh fuck I think he was one of them who he knew a lot more than he let on oh really I heard something once he loved his sick as well I was going to say this might be an urban myth so you two can put me straight on this that when Sir Alex were doing his team talks, sometimes he'd have headphones on. No. That must be an urban myth. If that happened, he'd get killed. Right, okay, fair enough. So you could be a little bit of a character, but there was a...

50:20I actually remember a bollock and a lad got, he missed a penalty at Celtic, Lewis Ahar. Right. And the manager afterwards says, fuck, I saw you before the game, with your fucking headphones on.

50:30Nicky:That was a not, so I'm like, you see them all going in now, with their headphones, and walking, it was like a fashion thing. We would never, lads, wear headphones. Can I just say, we're in a world of your own, listening to what you're fucking it's all about you I don't like the headphones and again I might it's an old fashioned way of looking at things but and I get it this day and age camera phones social media and they're bombarded and they're so protected now modern footballers because of everything being misconstrued but when you get off that coach and you walk through them fans kids whoever's there I think headphones off you can't possibly sign every autograph but let onto people do with the odd one I think personally that's not going to do anyone any harm I'm not so much before a game I think after a game and you do as many as you can but before I wouldn't like to do it before a game you are getting loaded no but you can say hi kids I'm not saying stop him for a chinwag but I think the headphones on I'm like these people here paying you wages yeah it does feel a little bit rude doesn't it yeah I don't like it a smile and a wave Dave's not going to do anyone anyhow.

51:37Everyone prepares for a game. Definitely. A lot of sponsorship as well. A lot of sponsorship. AJ came on the other day, didn't he?

51:44Nicky:He had his beaks on. So a lot of it is sponsorship as well. So I'm an old grumpy and I think the best way is we used to have to wear a suit, away games, you have to wear your blazer and you walk off. Lovely. Reminds you, if anyone put a cap on, you'd be dead. Literally get your cap off and you'd be in the club. And that was going for an airport. Time's changed. It makes you feel like a team and all that. Even when I used to go on sportsman's dinners on Sunday League in Bolton all lads have got your ties on you just feel like you're a part of something we were big on that weren't we looking right everyone looking the same the manager was massive on that a bit of discipline for your supporters hey just a little bit of a tangent because it is a festive episode what's a Christmas typical day like for you two we don't have to talk about Tom Cruise on this Christmas Day everyone's around at my house Christmas Day we actually are you cooking yes we go out for something to eat Christmas Eve about 4 o 'clock we're going for a nice Chinese actually this year Chinese or an Indian on Christmas Eve heaven so we've got Claire Claire's mum and dad Aidan obviously Alicia her boyfriend Aaron his girlfriend we'll go for a nice Chinese Wednesday night and then we'll come back play games and kick off fight like fuck with each other I love a game and an argument then we'll have some M &S nibbles about 9ish fucking hell hey hey I'll make it rain I'll make it rain was that a drop that hey I've already got the deal that's why we're waiting for the fucking offer a discount code a discount code a discount code yeah hey I tell you with our sartorial elegance sartorial I'm telling you M &S man needs to be putting us three as the poster boys imagine us in the nits watch this space boys we'll do that Christmas Eve right Christmas morning we'll make some breakfast So is everyone staying at yours as well?

53:35Everyone's staying at mine, yep. That's lovely, but it's a bit of a, who's in the bathroom?

53:40Nicky:You know what I mean? I've seen Scaldi's house go out to nine bathrooms. I've got a few bathrooms. I live in Oldham. What's the fucking difference? He's on about M &S. Stay Canadian for my life. Jesus Christ. I've got a strawberry pavlova. I'll do a bit of breakfast and then... I like how he does the cooking, though. He's got this. Do a bit of breakfast. so we'll clear it up a little bit. What's your signature part of a Christmas dinner where you've got, I have to do them? I love sprouts. Weirdo. Weird. I love sprouts. Oh, I love a sprouts. Oh, sprouts and pigs in blankets. Pigs in blankets are mine.

54:14Oh, pigs in blankets. I like sprouts with ketchup.

54:16Nicky:You know what I think of pigs in blankets? That's a bit weird. Ketchup and gravy. Oh, dirty bastard. Fucking hell. In fact, if you were at mine on Christmas Day and you started putting ketchup on the dinner, I would fuck you straight off. That would be you gone. You know what I think of pigs in blankets is when they're made and they're in a... I had about eight before you start me dinner. Yeah, that's a problem. I'm picking around and you get slapped. But I'm with him on the sprouts. I love them, though. Boiled within an inch of the life. Dead soft. I do, and loads of salt. Yes. Do you actually, when I used to go to my nana, we used to go to my nana's house when I was a kid, all the time, fucking loads of us.

54:49I love that as well. She used to, you know, obviously the juice, she used to tip it into a cup and drink that as well, the sprout juice. My God. Like cabbage water, if you do, have you ever had cabbage water? I'll tell you what, good job the fucking social services didn't get a wind of this back in the day. All the kids are out there drinking Sprite water. No, none of my kids love it. First, open presents, then make the dinner. Lovely. How's your, it's what I've always wanted face on Christmas Day? Are you good at that? No, fucking rubbish. I am. I'm like, oh. I try not to open until everyone's gone at night time.

55:28When I say them, there's only a few. No, I know, but I do that. I always go, I don't want to open it yet. I'm going to save it. That's the thing that pisses me off at Christmas. Get too much presents. Everyone gets too much.

55:39Nicky:Yeah, it's all over top, isn't it? Yeah, fuck it. You just get one selection box, one present, maybe two. Yeah. Just when I think I've got you both kind of like softened up, you hit me with something like that. Oh, fucking presents. They're shit, aren't they, presents? That's what Christmas is all about. No. I love I'm like I'm sitting down having dinner I do all the cooking and what's nice with the kids now is they'll all they'll try a little bit of everything so I do a little bit of turkey cut from they love a Yorkshire pudding my three absolutely love it I don't think that goes on a Christmas dinner though see I do I do I'm with you Yorkshire pudding on Christmas dinner absolutely goes on a Sunday dinner but not a Christmas dinner you're right it's a roast beef Yorkshire pudding it's not really but it's just what you like isn't it it's what you like what's amazing about this the hard face on him he's going Yorkshire puddings shouldn't be on a Christmas he's covering his fucking sprouted tomato sauce I know that they've all got they've all got they've got sprout water and the wine glasses cheering at each other I actually I actually like ketchup on Yorkshire puddings as well oh he's dirty oh Scorsese come on have you tried it don't knock it until you try it I was watching some of you know I'm a food and drink guy I like watching I watch them sat in the kitchen what do you have a cranberry sauce Do you know what someone said to me today?

57:00Nicky:What's wrong with cranberry sauce? Yorkshire pudding. The chef said it on one of these cooking products. Yorkshire pudding with jam. Yeah, I've heard that. With syrup. I've heard that. Aaron and Claire haven't heard that. I might try that. No, it's not for me. I've heard that. I've heard that with my cabbage water on, my sprout juice. Not sure. Right, for me, this is what's on me dinner. Mash. Roast is. Straight away, no. No, what are you talking about? Mash is guaranteed. Roast potato. You don't have mash on a Sunday roast. You're both. You don't, it's too much. You're both. I'm telling you, calling everybody.

57:32Nicky:You're wrong. There's no mash on a Christmas dinner. Paddy, I'm Wednesday. He's took the words out of my mouth. I was going to say you are absolutely, categorically wrong. Go on, Paddy. Mash, roast potatoes. Go on. Mash, roasties. I like the old croquet. Croquet? They're called croquet, the little potato things. When you were in Bonn, you didn't fucking have them. Fuck off. Croquet. You know what they call croquet? You don't have theirs. What are they called? Croquettes. You just have it. Croquettes. Croquettes. Croquettes. Croquettes. That's a croquettes game, innit? We love a game. Basically.

58:06Nicky:Croquettes. Basically, all those Paddy's Christmas dinner is different selection of potatoes. Chips on that as well, Paddy. Chips. I've got my faces. Right. The croquettes are optional. I admit you're optional. Who the fuck has croquettes? I've got my thing. Again, I can't accept anything after the tomato sauce. One meat turkey. I'm not into this ham beef fucking yeah I'm not but all them are they want me to make beef as well oh no it's never it's always a bit too dry do you know what else I cannot stand these people who have six birds in one I'm not on about that I'm going to say

58:45a pheasant in a turkey in a sparrow

58:48Nicky:no lighting so I do my turkey and then do you cut your turkey the night before yeah yeah yeah I do that let it settle and then and then it's absolutely cut your mum's eyes have a turkey butty the night before Christmas a little bit of stuffing and I go I go sage and onion stuffing what's it called what's the other one what it eh pack so pack so I do that and then I do the old granules gravy I can't make my own gravy I do all that and then that's it load of cranberry sauce or jelly sometimes a little bit of mint sauce a little bit left field I mean seriously mint sauce I can't even eat that with a lamb it's horrible I like a mint sauce with lamb but not with a fucking turkey it's disgusting I mean it's a weird mint jelly well hang on a minute right I've done mine and I've got to say mine's pretty normal let's fucking hear you two lads right go on you go first what's on your plate mashed roast potatoes pigs in blankets oh I forgot pigs in blankets they're on mine as well mashed roast potatoes pigs in blanket are you doing the goose fat with your spuds yeah duck fat me what do you do them in then?

59:58I just buy the ones like Marx's Marx's yeah Matt Ebeness fucking hell oh so hang on when you say you do the dinner you put pre fucking cooked trays in the oven I make a mash I do the mash oh that's good mash chump have you got a ricer? sometimes we have a little bit of red cabbage as well

1:00:14Nicky:that's weird that's potato ash red cabbage isn't it? carrots and swede fucking horrendous carrots and swede mashed together with butter salt and pepper roast parsnips you've got all roast parsnips on no no perfume carrots fuck that perfume carrots yeah that's it gravy ketchup very posh me so I have goose we don't have turkey of goose oh fucking what what he's taking a piece we have a goose he has pulled me up for a croquette fucking he's having a goose we have a goose fuck no no we don't no we don't that's good you know you're shooting it in the morning no it standard turkey roast potatoes yeah roast parsnips fat on the potatoes yeah carrots the safety no piece of your kids yeah a bit of veg made a bit of broccoli like a bit of broccoli oh no you're actually putting goes in the middle so you don't have any plate just help yourself to york's pudding oh that's controversial cranberry sauce on the side yes what about a soup I forgot my mum used to always do starters but I ended up getting too full did you ever have a prawn cocktail with the triangle brown bread and butter yeah it's like she tries to be posh and it's like I get too full I like to enjoy my dinner and that's it I have a bit of pudding we have a nice vegetable soup do you my mum did what yours did she was very posh we're having a tomato soup first and now we're fucking done enough because you have about six bread with it yeah it's messy as well isn't it do you know what we've all got in common though pigs in blankets we've all agreed on that and I bet you there's a few left in the night you have a few more at night time as well brilliant in fact my ex missus's mum does have you had that coca cola ham yeah I've had that oh that's good on butties the gammon yeah that is delicious put it in a slow cooker in a slow cooker yeah oh you on the butties boxing day heaven don't like gammon though me do you know what I do I plate up an extra dinner on Christmas Day, put it in the fridge, the Boxing Day, I have it.

1:02:16What a treat. I'm into that. Yeah. Have you ever done a fry-up? With your leftover Sunday dinner? Oh, fucking hell. I mean, this is... A fry-up? What, with your fucking sprout juice? Yeah. No, not juice, no. So you put everything in together, so you've got your roasters, your mash, your sprouts. Like a bubble and squeak kind of thing. Oh, it's a bubble and squeak. Is that a bubble and squeak? I thought you were on about you were throwing everything in the fucking frying pan, right? You fry it. all your cold stuff gets fried up again all your cold stuff the day after gets fried up again it's like it's almost like a big omelette like a big Sunday dinner omelette you all have an heart attack after that as well I love it mate put lots of ketchup on that again as well ketchup I tell you what I bet they're making a bit gassy round his house on box everyone's like fucking hell everyone's got home by then it's just something Boxing Day's my Christmas Day I love Boxing Day because of football Boxing Day's my Christmas Day Boxing Day's football his Christmas Day is unbelievable by the way

1:03:11Nicky:my boxing day tell us about your Christmas day what's your Christmas day see my kids in the morning do their presents lovely and then I'll go have a bit of very normal then I'll have a bit of food at my mum's house standard still normal and then I'll get me Christmas jammies on and I'll be in bed watching all the TV about half, five, six that's where he goes who gets in bed on Christmas day at five o 'clock because Christmas day again it's like obviously I'm separated from my ex and stuff so my Christmas day boxing day so all I've done is flipped it one day I don't fucking believe in five of Christmas I'm not going to start crying on Christmas Day kids are watching but literally Aaron and Alicia still believe oh bloody hell Boxing Day is my Christmas Day so I have everyone with me on Christmas on Boxing Day and that's it 26 is just different to 25th and he said cabbage juice is weird fucking in bed at five of pucks he's flipped he didn't say he's five I said half five six he said five oh he's from six he's from half an hour crazy bastard I'm not going mad I'm not going mad I'm not going mad I'm not going mad I'm not going mad I'm not going mad I'm not going mad Let me tell you it An eggnog and a wank Merry Christmas

1:04:25With his pyjamas still on

1:04:28Nicky:It's getting weird It's getting weird No but literally We were talking about it before Christmas for us On a serious note I don't remember ever having a normal Christmas from the age of 17 to probably I don't know 36, 37 because of playing the game it's not now all of a sudden I've gone oh I've had 30 years of this amazing to be fair you used to get a five year old card you used to have Boxing Day quite a fucking lot you by the way not every year that was like every other year timing was perfect I'd have to wait and see what Christmas see who we're playing away Boxing Day I'd be on the beach in June when the fixers come out and I go work out my bookings but literally it's not like you've had like 30 years of this amazing Christmas.

1:05:10Nicky:We had, obviously, the most important for me Christmas is the kids. I used to hate leaving the kids on Christmas and go to training for two hours and then you go away. I used to quite like it for a couple of hours. but I didn't like it. I didn't mind the evening time when knowing the family's all at your house and it gets like five. So you said you had to do a little training session on Christmas Day? This morning. You'd have, you'd get it. I quite like that. They used to leave the morning. Sometimes we did it at night and then travelled to where we played. A lot of the times you'd train at Old Trafford.

1:05:33If it was at home. Christmas day? 6-7 o 'clock Christmas night.

1:05:36Nicky:If it was an away game, you train at Old Trafford then you get on the coach and you go away. So away games are actually better for us at Christmas because you have all day with your family. Usually it would be, the kids would get up at like 7 o 'clock anyway so you do your presents, you'd have to get into training for half nights, you'd be leaving the kids, you go and do your stuff, you go back, you'd have food and then you'd go to the hotel. Well most of the time they let you have the morning with your kids. Did they tell you, like, Luke, don't eat this, don't eat that? Or could you do what you want Christmas?

1:06:05I just, exactly the same, but just not as much. Yeah.

1:06:08Nicky:All right. I'd eat a full Christmas dinner. I'd have a little bit of, I love a cheese board on Christmas. I didn't say that, did I? I love a cheese board, mate. Love a cheese board. I prefer a trifle. No, you're a chocolate guy. No, no, you like chocolate, don't you? And shit, tweaks and stuff like that. You know what I like? A cheap trifle. Oh, I love trifle. Oh, a couple of ladyfingers in the bottom. Cheap trifle, hundreds and thousands on top. and the dream topping when you say cheap trap do you mean the ones you make out the box no I'm on the shelf at Tesco's wherever I've had the Marks and Spencer's like he fucking keeps throwing Mark Spencer have you got a deal with him and left me out there's a deal gone on here with these two I've got to say the Marks and Spencer's love is very strong on here best Christmas song best Christmas film I don't know Christmas song I think Fairytale New York no I don't get people up and at them that fucking does where I'm from No, you've got to go Slade, Merry Christmas, everyone.

1:07:01That's like just instant. Everyone knows, oh, Mariah Curry, all I want for Christmas is you. And I'm going, I always say either the holiday or nativity.

1:07:09Nicky:Have you seen nativity? It's the funniest. You must have seen nativity. He goes on about us with Marks and Spencer. He fucking mentions the holidays. We've mentioned that since we started podcast. I know, you're fucking in it. He's obsessed with the holiday. Cameron Diaz. I know, yeah. Do you know what? I'd like to say over Christmas, I want a little picture off you both I want that lit in your house and I want you knocking up a little candle there and everyone walking when you've got the sprout juice on the go like that in the kitchen I don't even know what flavor it is you'll need it like that with all the farts from your fucking cabbage juice and all that it's a calm and quiet place yeah remember when they came on the scene Yankee Candles it was like ooh these are posh yeah that'll be on all day Christmas Day from the moment I go love that we like that nice and bonny I'm not being funny now I'm very grateful but why have I got and make me own and he gets one that he fucking made.

1:07:57Nicky:What's that about? Is that because you're M &S crew? No, no. You're more cultured than me. No, and also we did 10 minutes on fucking wax melts and making them brilliant. It is, I thought, right, there you are. Get that. Let's see the proof in the pudding. Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day. Pick you one. New Year's Day and New Year's Eve can get in the fucking bin for me. I've never been a fan. No. You go out, You get ripped off left, right and centre by every pub and club you go in. Taxi drivers are trying to shaft you with a bill. Everyone, it's just horrendous. Tissures to get in places, yeah.

1:08:35Yeah, it's horrendous. I am, no, I'm, leave out your book here. New Year's Eve, I record the fireworks going off in London and I'm in bed at 10. Why record the fireworks going off?

1:08:46Nicky:I like seeing them day after. Same fucking every year. It's the same fireworks every single year. They go, pshh. Record the fireworks? Record the fireworks. lads that is weird I don't know if you've seen it it's a fucking 30 minute firework display it's absolutely world class I like fireworks but 30 minutes that's painful isn't it well you know you watch it on the telly it's like everyone's there at the Thames I like that I just don't you can do that anytime you want now you know that don't you so you're a Christmas day aren't you then basically what you're saying I love Christmas yeah Christmas day yeah do you know Boxing day I love Christmas day and Boxing day for different reasons one of the reasons are like Christmas Day and Boxing Day is you know no one's knocking on your door it's the one day DPD are turning up fucking people mates relatives no one's you're in and that's and I love the thought that pretty much most people are all doing the same thing on various different levels but you're doing the same thing and I love that Christmas Day is family and Boxing Day it's just football all over for me do you know what I used to like doing I do football in the pub.

1:09:54On Christmas Day as well. It's a bit weird, this, a bit stalker-ish. I used to get up on Christmas Day and I'd go out for a little walk. I used to like walking around the streets looking through people's windows. That's fucking hell. No, no, it's weird. No, because I used to love the... Is that why? You see, like... Why? You know, because everyone's doing the same thing. You see a train and the kids are doing the... You're not walking, so you're not doing the same. No, I'm doing it when I get home, but what I'm saying is I was a little... Just a little half hour and I go, oh, look at this, it's nice.

1:10:21Nicky:You know what I used to like? you don't see the kids out on the bikes no more at Christmas I know yeah I used to see them on a BMX oh yeah in a wheeler all out I got a BMX for Christmas and I thought it's the best thing I ever got right the best thing I ever got I found out about three hours later it must have been the worst BMX my dad could ever have got me because I did one stunt on it it snapped in half completely broke like that in half the crossbar completely went snapped in half yeah what stunts did you do on a BMX remember what they were called a bunny hop bunny hop kick out endo 360s Endo.

1:10:51Nicky:Endo. 360. I remember we made a ramp in the back. I jumped. Oh, ramps, yeah. We had our mates lying down. I landed on the last one. I did that. I landed on the last one. Do you know what? I sort of forgotten that with kids now. Building ramps. Yeah. Building ramps. We used to go out and get a couple of scaffolders boards. Mushroom grips. Mushroom grips. Stump pegs. Remember you stump pegs in the back? Do you never remember the things where you put them on each other like a motorbike when you rev'd it? No. Then you put a cart in the back. You put a cart in the back wheel. You put a cart in the back wheel.

1:11:18but he'd take all the rubber off your tyres after a while. I used to love a skid as well. Skid. I used to love a skid. I'll tell you what, I honestly think our age, we had the best era for being kids. Yeah. Out playing, having fun. You had no choice.

1:11:35Nicky:Your mum and daddy said, mate, you get out of the house. The only time they got a bit of peace and quiet, I loved going to be on his house. Did you ever play Kirby? Kirby all the time. I used to love playing Kirby. I had a great street for Kirby. Oh, it's fantastic. And if you caught it, you could get a bit closer. Yeah. I love Kirby. Double points, isn't it? And then you get to the middle. Yeah. I love Kirby. Brilliant. He's obviously not a fucking fan. Christmas episode. We did the presents. We did a fantastic crew. Got a secret Santa stuff. Here we go.

1:12:08Nicky:We've not gone. Nice of your nan. Lend us the bag as well, lads. Fucking stains. A nice little bag. That's a nice little bag. Right, hang on. It's better than the Iceland bag, isn't it? I don't know. Let's have a look. Have you got names on? Paul. Thank you. From Secret Santa. Very light. Look at all, he's got two in. Ah. I reckon one of them's a Turkish delight. There's mine. Here we go. Are we opening them all together, lads? Are we opening them all together? Let's open them. Here we go. There's two Turkish lights in there. I can feel them. They are a bit squishy, aren't they? Yeah. We've got...

1:12:43Oh! For the cramp. BP.

1:12:48Nicky:oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh next to the bed that's going next to the bed say it like that a pack of three but there's only two that's it oh do you know it's nice that they take notice don't they yeah it's lovely thank you thank you very much for that thanks very much bye and if the people from dp are watching again with more sponsors dp and max and spencers golf superstore What? Clubhouse golf? Got me card, got me Tyson. What's that? Is that tea? What's that? That's it. The island of tea. Alright. So. What's that? Is this for a puddy? No it's for you. Is it? Can you go with your Turkish Delight? Oh right, thank you.

1:13:34Oh of course, yeah, thank you. What do you mean? Well you did the story about your tea didn't you? Don't stir it and all that shit. On a Friday night I used to have a cup of tea and a Turkish Delight. Right, so. Boxing Day very exciting because it's never happened before this the good the bad and the football are taking on the overlap in a Christmas quiz it will be available to watch on YouTube on Boxing Day and a gift has been sent over for Nicky oh this ties into the quiz I've got an idea what this could be from Saturday heavy that are we allowed to have a guess what it's about I think it's something to do with Pictionary oh oh my god if it is Pictionary let's have a look Pictionary without pictures Nicky please let's have a look and mark a pen you'll have to watch this on Boxing Day if it is because that is so controversial good effort oh what is it drawing for dummies oh very good who sent that don't don't say what why this has been got for Nicky you've got to watch it on Boxing Day and I'm telling you now you'll be fizzing I'm not being funny but the person on their team who was doing the same thing probably had the same book probably has for a bit of luck yeah but to be fair to that other person he tried they did put a couple of fucking things on the thing he didn't say past 14 times no he didn't and throw his marker at the fucking board and walk off leaving us all in the shit.

1:15:14But anyhow, we're over, Art. We're over that little round. That's the end of today's The Good, The Bad and The Football. We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and don't forget you can see us all taking on the overlap on Boxing Day on YouTube. God bless you.

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