Grimsby’s HISTORIC FA Cup Win STUNS Football Fans Everywhere – PLUS Manchester United v Liverpool preview.

In episode #232, the Squeaky Bum Time podcast, your host Laurent Courtines is here to review the mid-week FA Cup and Premier League action and preview the upcoming weekend’s fixtures. Here’s what we’ll be discussing in this episode:

PART 1: FA Cup 5th Round Up

  • Grimsby makes it to the Quarter Finals for the first time in 84 years
  • Tottenham’s chances of silverware are all but ended by Sheffield United

PART 2: Arsenal’s 4-0 win

  • Arsenal’s emphatic win against Everton
  • They win their game in hand and go 5 points clear at the top of the Premier League table

PART 3: Foden’s back and Man City vs Newcastle

  • Foden and Alvarez reignite City’s attack as they beat Bristol
  • A closer look at Manchester City’s performance ahead of their lunchtime kick-off with Newcastle

PART 4: Liverpool Vs Man United

  • A highly anticipated match where Liverpool is chasing a top 4 spot, while Man United hunts down the top two.

PART 5: Chelsea Vs Leeds

  • A preview of the Chelsea vs Leeds match
  • Discussion on their respective performances leading up to the fixture

PART 6: The rest of the weekend’s fixtures

  • A discussion on the rest of the weekend’s fixtures
  • Our predictions for each game.

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Transcript

hello and welcome to the squeaky bum Time Podcast presented exclusively on

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the chop Sports channel of the premiere streaming Network we are recording this

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on Thursday March 2nd I'm your host Laurent Court teens in this episode Harry the haddock and

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Grimsby make history Arsenal thrash hapless Everton and the Rivalry rivalry

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is renewed as Manchester United and Liverpool face each other in the league

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but first I'm having a sports crisis so sport why do we do it why do I pay

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attention it drives me nuts before that a little bit of housekeeping

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please like subscribe share the show we're on squeakybum timepodcast.com

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where on Laurent corteens on YouTube and you can find us on WhatsApp by finding

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the squeaky bum Time podcast on Facebook join the group tell your friends share the show and let's get to it okay sport

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I know this is a little bit outside of the bounds of this but you know this week was a little bit of a drag on this

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on the season and a little bit of like trying to get up for it you know we had the bad Liverpool game

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against Crystal Palace City sort of thrash Bournemouth and we're in a little bit of the doldrums after the World Cup

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we're now sort of running things and I get these moments every once in a while where I'm just like why do I bother

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I do two hours of podcasts I do two hours of sports and I do struggle with

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the I don't know how else to say it the kind of like why am I doing this why do I follow

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Sports what is it for why am I driving myself nuts and I often go into this when I think about

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you know should I be doing more should I be doing this should I be learning how to shoot a bow should I be learning how

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to fix a car and I go well I do four I watch a whole day on Saturday four hours

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of Premier League football then another three hours to four hours a week on the

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podcast what could I be doing with that full day of sport dedication and I think

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to myself man could I be more could I be less and I and I do ask you know why do we follow

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Sports what does it do for us is it the Endeavor of seeing incredible athletes

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doing incredible things is it there to make us feel to like why is this thing

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grabbing me why am I sucked in you know sometimes in the abstract you watch TV

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and you watch sports you might be on your phone you kind of lose the moments but then you get sucked back in and I

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just think about the uh final game of the season Aston Villa being up two

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goals and City pulling it out with ilki gundogan scoring two goals in five minutes and City winning the league and

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those are moments where you you chase them they become like a drug like a like like heroin like well how do I get

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that Sports fix again and I guess I'm missing that at the moment I feel it

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once in a while I hope the Champions League rekindles it I'm not jaded I'm not like oh why do I bother but I do it

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is something that creeps into my head and I wonder that everyone else felt the same way you know how do you how do you

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keep your sport love going how do you keep uh caring about it how do you keep matter how do you keep making it matter

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and for me it's been this podcast it's been the WhatsApp group Manny John Alex

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BJ Salerno just keeping everything going keeping the names the faces Christian

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out and in in Nottingham bringing photos of forest to our games uh Redmond uh

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bringing me shots of his running across New York City uh and and Chari telling

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us about what's going on at top so the gang that's regularly in our group keep me going keep the show going and I

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wonder what keeps everyone else going you know is it is it just to be part of a group what do we do it for what it

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what is it what is it giving us uh and I do wonder about that often anyway let's

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get to the show first we will go to

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the FA Cup and I'll give you the scores before we get into the Great and

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Powerful Harry the haddock um so we have the FA Cup fifth round just

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finished and we had some really good upsets first um Grimsby town in the second division

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recently up from Northampton uh from the northern leagues beating Southampton two

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to one this is not the giant killing it sounds like yes it's a Premier League team yes it's a good win but uh

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Southampton did play a weekend side and if Southampton is a relegation team and

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they went young and they played a week inside you can imagine how poor they were but let's get to the rest of the

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scores Brighton Advanced to the quarterfinals defeating Stoke on a nice goal by Ferguson from matomo they play

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well looked good for me Blackburn defeat Leicester city Leicester still listless not playing

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well they Advance City defeat Bristol City not too much to ride home about

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this one a good foden game but Bristol City didn't really give much the aforementioned Grisby Town Harry the

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haddock defeats Southampton at home Mighty Burnley defeat Fleetwood Town who

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were down a man they left it late into the 85th minute Fulham defeat leads on a great Paulina goal uh leads not really

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showing too much United leave it to what squeaky bum time to defeat West Ham uh

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3-1 garnacho with the beautiful goal there and mighty Sheffield United on a change team defeat Tottenham uh and

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advance to the quarter finals so our round eight looks like this

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um round eight looks like this city let me just get the draw sorry about that I

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thought I had it up but I missed it uh the draw looks like this the weekend of March 18th City play

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Burnley Vincent company returns to Man City meant at home man united at home get

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Fulham not an easy game United Sheffield United versus Blackburn Rovers we will have a non-premier league side uh in it

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and then Brighton draw Grimsby at home all Premier League

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teams at home that's a big payday for Grimsby town and we go to see the

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Mariners of Grimsby and their giant killing Grimsby Town very small club uh I knew a woman who I

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worked with that tops who was from Grimsby an awful red-headed but let's not talk about her

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um but yeah Grimsby are in Lincolnshire way out in the middle of nowhere um had some early history uh were

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participants in one of the largest attended games and FA Cup history 100

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000 at Old Trafford in the 30s uh but had been in hard times and had fallen

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out of the league so last season we've talked about wrexham a lot Grimsby town were the team that put out wrexham

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Grimsby were in the National League as we know from watching wrexham a very

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tough tough tough Division and Grimsby got out of it through the playoffs

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um uh Sully home Moore's I believe got it went up on their own is that right I could have beat I could be wrong but

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doesn't matter but Grimsby defeated um defeated rexham to take their spot and Grimsby went into League two but

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Grimsby have a lot of history they've been up and down the Premier League they're a small fishing Village uh in

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the Northeast sort of about 100 miles south of of um

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of Newcastle in the kind of like that Eastern side of England where no one lives everybody lives in the center in

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the middle and in the western sides the Eastern side's all Marsh and kind of weird and so it's a little bit more

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isolated Grimsby is a well supported where they are from but a small town uh

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they get past uh Southampton who are really poor and just didn't really put

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up much of a fight on two penalties now to be fair to um Southampton they took like 20 shots

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and just could not get the goals they needed to uh defeat the mighty haddock

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yeah 22 shots three on target listen Grimsby only had three shots on target two of them were penalties it gives you

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a sense of where this game was yeah um not much for them but the big deal for

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this is that this is a League two team making it into the FA

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Cup quarterfinals this is what an open system of football looks like in the

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United States we have the U.S open cup they don't even know the schedule until two weeks before it starts it starts

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really regionally it doesn't really manage the country really well to be fair to the US Open cup it has been

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around since 1922 but it's been all over the place so the United States does have this but it doesn't carry the magic of

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the cup I mean we prefer a team like Grimsby town you know we know that the FA Cup starts

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with 792 teams and to be Grimsby town at

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the bottom of League two in 16th Place not in a relegation Zone they're not going to go down to the National League again but to be

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in the last eight for this team it makes their season now would they have rather had United sure because that's a bigger

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payday because they share the gate but they will get Brighton they will have a

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chance to show who they are uh none of these guys are big name players but for their division

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um they're pretty good like Gavin hollahan who did score the two penalties took two penalties he showed uh Harry

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Kane how it's done um on either side of the half

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you know as a guy who plays in a national league Republic of Ireland so this is an Irish kid immigrant playing

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in the freaking swamps of Grimsby in a fishing town and uh they just get a

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chance to move on what's great about Grimsby is they've got an amazing mascot called uh Harry the haddock people carry

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around plastic fish people wear fish masks at the stadium uh just a little

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bit of a weird thing that you pick up from these local clubs and these are what make the FA Cup so fantastic it's

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just this opportunity of learning about another team learning about a small team

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and it's what works for football it's what makes it such a fabric of people's

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lives these folks out of Grimsby are going to have a day they're gonna go

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down to the South Coast they're going to go to Brighton uh they're going to go to a real place unlike Grimsby uh I'm just

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hammering on it because you know it's fun and they're gonna find out about how well they can go in the FA Cup so it's a

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really big deal to them it makes a huge difference their manager uh Paul Hurst should feel a lot of credit uh and they

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should feel really good about where they are in this season so cool for them

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cool for everyone else I'm just going to give a little bit of conversation around

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other FA Cup items Tottenham

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another opportunity for silverware goes wanting against Sheffield now Sheffield

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are a good team they're not as good as Tottenham uh Tottenham should not be losing

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to Sheffield United now did

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Spurs start Harry Kane in this game no but they should have enough I think the

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key thing here is that rich Allison isn't really doing that well he's not been able to

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um replace the goals and and give the production that I think Spurs were looking for uh so he doesn't score and

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Tottenham just sort of whimper out of this one goal drought they still haven't won

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a trophy since 2008 and that was a League Cup so they're hurting

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um you know they do still have the Champions League they're not going to win the Premier League so the darkness for uh Spurs

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continues um for United this is a nice win a

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little squeaky bum time a little energy they keep the momentum going the 10 hog Revolution is still revolutionizing I

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think veg horse again is the leader of the

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cheerleaders within the context of this um these matches so it is cool to see uh

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he's still part of this club he's still driving him forward he leads the celebrations

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there's something about veg horse that I think United fans probably really like they know that he's pressing they know

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that he's putting in effort they know that he's not really supposed to be there he's a he's a weirdo he's a little

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bit of a gangly guy and he gets to be playing Striker for for Manchester United and I think he

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knows that and I think it shows in his play and it makes it for a nice story around about veg Horst and the rest of

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the boys um from United uh other things around the FA Cup

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City again not really a problem they move on more interesting in that you

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know it didn't hurt the team uh Rico Lewis back in the side not really too exciting the biggest thing is that we

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draw Burnley and we get Vince and Company back uh playing against Pep Guardiola exciting stuff there and a

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little bit on Burnley being sort of crap but this is an opportunity for certain teams to win more trophies it's an

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opportunity for you know the favorites now I've got to be United in City uh Manchester Darby could be the final

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pretty easy to have happen you never know with the draws but uh that's where we are there now we change gears away

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from the AFA cup we had two midweek games of two teams uh on different

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spectrums but we had first we go to Arsenal uh they played

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Everton first 40 minutes of this game not really much in the way of anything

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uh wasn't really exciting I thought really Everton played well they played

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their game they did what they were supposed to do then a bit of real magic from Saka the pass and the turn into

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space Saka just fires it in from zinchenko if I remember zinchenko fires

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it into Saka Saka takes it on the half turn spins gets into a tricky area you

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know near post on the goal side and fires it in top bins it's very much

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the Aguero goal around my cat gotten away go

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uh very much the Aguero style top bins and once the goal came then Martinelli

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got another one on a mistake by uh that Saka actually created on a mistake by

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gay so Arsenal win in level two nil and then I think Everton were cooked uh

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odegard with a really nice gold deflected in and then Martinelli with another one off his right foot and

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Arsenal Cruz three nil really not a problem sorry fournil really not a

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problem they cement this is the this is the world famous game in hand that when you're charging for the title you need

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it so they are now clear of unite of City uh Five Points a

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goal a draw and a loss so not that much but it just means that you know they

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have a loss that they can give um there's gonna be tougher games but I

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think the blip that we saw from Arsenal was righted they had the issue

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at Aston Villa that big comeback really made a difference on the two games they lost then you have the Leicester game

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which was so easy it was so weird but Arsenal back in the driver's seat back

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moving again got everything in line there's a lot of georginio love coming

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there's a lot of uh trust our love coming I think one of the things that I find really interesting about that move

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was we heard them wanting mudric and

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um who's I don't remember the other Center they were in for somebody but they clearly had another plan pivoted

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quickly went to trussard boom boom oh then they got uh georginio boom boom

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not a problem like they had contingency plan they probably had like five or six names ready to go and that's the sign of

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a good club I think if you remember uh United would get into trouble with this

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they would have one Target and just Chase Chase Chase Chase Chase and we saw that last off season in the transfer

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market with the Young The Young The Young The Young The Young and then they get casimiro and we were like oh what's this is this just a bad deal and it ends

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up being working out but it was a weird transfer market and a weird process on

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how they got that moving and so I think about that and the way um Arsenal did their business and they

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recharged I think the trussard move is really good it sort of solidifies the

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Saka Martinelli otogard group with trosard as a strong three Jesus will

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come back does a little bit of refreshing a little bit of push uh on the

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Everton side they need goals um Neil mope is just

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he was a problem for Brighton in scoring goals and now he's not even taking shots

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uh Brighton created more than enough chances for him to score now he's just

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fluffing he had a couple chances to get in on uh didn't take a shot took extra

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touches chances went longing and he got pulled so the issue for the Great and

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Powerful Everton is you know it's nice they played okay they had opportunities

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they didn't have like a bad goal difference they had a XG of 1.2 which is decent even though they gave up one

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extra point three they shot themselves in the foot so that's fine but um they need to score goals uh they put five

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shots on target which is a good number for Everton when they put five shots on target they need a goal out of that so

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that's where they are and when we go on to our friends at Liverpool uh this was

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a tricky game I thought uh sort of quiet for a while let me just make sure I got

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the right game there are games that pop into my head and then I forget I forget what actually happened in them

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yeah this game was left late it was nil nil Van Dyke with the goal then Sala

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late yeah um and Liverpool huffed and puffed I thought they created chances I thought they played well I think for

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Liverpool these these clean sheets are good um they have two clean sheets in a row and their problem was Defensive they

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were giving up too many goals and too many opportunities and they really didn't give wolves anything only one shot on target so good baby steps for

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Liverpool moving into sixth getting themselves in a position for

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of the top six now Liverpool in sixth

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um Newcastle and Spurs

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feel weak to me and Liverpool is right on their heels now Liverpool can take one of their

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spots uh they're six points behind Spurs but their goal difference is the same

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their quality is the same they're both a little bit flawed at this point I think

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uh if you look at the underlying numbers the XG difference against Liverpool's

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stands at 10 uh Spurs is at four at six excuse me so in terms of quality

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Liverpool are the best of the group um aside from Newcastle who's was much

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higher but theirs is mostly based on defensive numbers uh Liverpool's

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actually right in line with where you'd expect they have a goal difference of 12 their XG is 10. so they're essentially

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playing as you'd expect them to um and then Newcastle probably are in a dip and form I they're

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probably a step away so it's really between Liverpool and Spurs and I think

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in the long run you trust Liverpool to find a way um especially with jota coming back

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especially with Diaz a couple weeks away I think all those pieces that Liverpool

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have been missing getting them back I mean as I like to say if you've listened to show for the long time

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you know football's a weak link Sport and it's not always a direct issue

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that can help you right like getting jota and Diaz can actually help the Liverpool defense because of the way

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they press the way they change things if you look at what's happened that a good example is look for what's happened that

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man united getting rid of Ronaldo and replacing him without Vegas has completely changed the value of

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Fernandez and rashford because he's doing all the work he's doing all the running he's doing all the pressing and

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creating problems that creates attacking opportunities that score goals or stop a run from actually getting to a defense

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so you can defend from the front and the more options Liverpool has up front to defend the less times their defense is

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going to be exposed the less times the Midfield has to be the one challenging so maybe you know this a stronger link

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up front will change the way Liverpool can score and and they'll move forward um because I don't see much from Spurs

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that's gonna pick them up I mean it'll be tight I just think I trust Liverpool's

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institutional DNA to get them out of their Funk and cover the six points uh

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ahead of Tottenham that's just my own thinking now on the Tottenham side they could be going well Sun hasn't scored

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any goals yet so why are you saying why are you saying that uh why are you why

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are you pushing that um that narrative so uh yeah I do think about that and then before we go further

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into um the man united preview of Liverpool I

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want to do I do want to touch a bit more on the um on the Bristol City result for

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City uh this is a foden Alvarez attack fodin and Alvarez are really good really

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young City getting into gear getting themselves together do have Newcastle on

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the weekend uh lunchtime game will be difficult um the 3-3 at St James's Park Forest

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City was a watershed game it was the moment that pep decided we're not going

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head-to-head with people we're not playing up and down we're not just going to kick the ball to Holland we're going

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to control games and that was a moment where City season kind of contracted a little bit and we decided to be more

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defensive and that's when he started pulling people into the Midfield more uh than playing a back four and just going

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up and down he got scared of Newcastle uh but this is again this is a week in

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Newcastle coming off the um League Cup that they'll be completely

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disappointed about uh and now going into a game where they really can't create anything uh City are a good opponent for

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Newcastle because Newcastle want to go on a break but if City or get more pragmatic like they have been they may

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just sit deep if they get an early goal and just be like okay I have Newcastle try and break us down uh because they

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can't they really can't so um that's really where we are and interested there now

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I'll take us on to we talked a little bit about

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Liverpool talked a little bit about United in their West Ham game now the two meet

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in their Premier League Clash on Sunday

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this is a much much much bigger game for Liverpool than it is for United United are living

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on their League Cup um they're ahead of schedule as well they're pretty ensconced in the top

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three I don't think they really think they're going to um

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go for the title this year but for Liverpool uh winning a game away is it

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away uh let me just make sure just gotta check I think it's on Sunday

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I have it in front of me and then I lost it so these are the sort of things that happen when you're recording live it is

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at anfield so Sunday late um the crowd will be wild uh Liverpool

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at anfield taking on Man United I mean it's Advantage United for sure

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but if Liverpool want to get their season moving in the right direction

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this is the game they absolutely must have

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um you know we know how these two teams play we know that Diaz Tiago are out

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um Joe Gomez still doubtful Erickson and Marshall still out looks

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like Sancho's out might not come back we'll see

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um and Luke Shaw looks like he picked up a knock against West Ham and we'll see

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where these two teams go but it's closer than you'd expect young basitic is going

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to have to play more of a role he's going to have to handle casimiro's sabitzer and Fernandez and we'll see how

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this goes I think that I think that we see real Liverpool come

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out uh it'll be one of these things where

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if United can survive the first 25 minutes against Liverpool and not

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concede then I think their win but if Liverpool can score a couple early or a

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goal early put pressure on United then then I think the crowd at anfield will

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push them on um I don't I don't view this as a

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as a real Madrid situation where where United can come back they're not

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quite at that level they've been winning good games I get it it's nice it's a good story rashford on form but

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Liverpool at anfield against United is different gravy this is a different

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thing um klopp will be into the boys to try and find a way forward and get this thing

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done Van Dyke being back is a big deal um but we'll see what happens there it's

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six versus three there's a ten point gap one thing that's interesting historically is how

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Liverpool and Manchester United are never great at the

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same time it's like there can only be one red team that's really good at the same time I'd love for it to have happen

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one day where it's Liverpool and Man United being in the city Liverpool spot or the

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man united Arsenal spot where they go head to head for five years but they're really good I don't know if those days

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are ever gonna be back I don't know uh how those days will come back uh because

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it would mean that my team's in bad shape but um it's a huge deal for

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Liverpool and speaking of old time matchups we have

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Chelsea versus Leeds one of the great rivalries of the 60s and the 70s I don't

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know if you know this but we'll go in the history machine leads represent Yorkshire and working

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class and Chelsea in the 60s represented swinging London they had rest in peace

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Raquel Welch was one of their fans and there was a moment in the 60s where Chelsea were fashionable in the King's

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Row in London and there was a famous clash in the FA Cup Final 1970 where it

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was just pure violence and uh while Chelsea was the flash team leads and

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Chelsea played the same way they were both heavy defense heavy you know getting stuck in kind of style and when

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they win against each other they were just kicked the out of each other blood everywhere shins cracking and just

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rough housing stuff and only until it was only until leads went down in 2004

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that that rivalry really ended there was a there's a couple of polls and you can look them up on Wikipedia around Chelsea

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and leads just having this eternal connection between them now neither of

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these teams come in in great form we know about leads they're in their relegation Zone but they keep playing

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well but not putting anything together on the other side we have Chelsea that

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is just a complete mess um Potter has got to win these games I mean

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if there's a must win for Potter it's got to be this I mean we cannot say it

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enough and now that Thiago Silva's out for Chelsea

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this is a massive massive game uh Potter has to find a way to win I think if he

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loses I think if he loses he he's got to get fired I mean it's not

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like Bully is some kind of altruistic guy it's just he has to fire him

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because the team's a mess we like what's happening with Audrey Gracia at Leeds

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he's going to bring some stability maybe that will be in Chelsea's favor but this is about as must win a game as you'll

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find uh there's nothing from the board from Chelsea that's saying they're going to fire him but this is one of those

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things where Boley is going to very quickly learn that the fans are a fourth estate in football and if they don't

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and if Chelsea have another bad performance at home versus leads in the gorillaigation zone They will riot they

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will throw at him if Potter thinks that his family is getting harassed and

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attacked and uh and getting terrible notes sent to them now wait till you

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lose to leads one of Chelsea's historical Rivals and anyone who knows

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anything about the club knows that this is a big one and knows that this one matters and knows that this is a fight

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to the death and knows that Chelsea are now sinking and falling apart and if

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Potter does not find a level of aggression that he can convey to his

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side that this matters he should get out there and start kicking guys in kneecaps because it's time for Chelsea

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to show that you are a team and not a bunch of mercenaries there for a

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check play for the match that lion means something have hearts of lions

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you know that Leeds is going to bring it every one of those guys who plays for leads the fans at Leeds demand that from

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the players and Gracia gets that he's a football man he'll

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convey that to the players and I think Ellen Road does lift the team so the players know even though they're going

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on the road to Stamford Bridge they'll get that feeling I don't know if the Chelsea players are connected to the club enough to feel the sort of pain of

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the of the fans but there's a couple other uh games I'd like to go through I'll just run down

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the schedule early on Saturday I'll be up at 5 30. no I won't City go a host Newcastle in a

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big game Arsenal get Bournemouth at home about his Cakewalk as a cakewalk can be Aston Villa and Crystal Ballas at Villa

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Park Crystal Palace need a win too many draws too many draws Aston Villa flying

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playing well the aforementioned Chelsea host Leeds United Brighton play West Ham

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that should be a good one I'm kind of interested in how bright and play against West Ham West Ham still need a

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win uh the mighty powerful wolves take on Tottenham at the molineux I do not

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want to watch this game then a relegation six-pointer uh Southampton V Leicester Leicester need a good result

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after just being terrible uh against in the FA Cup and against Arsenal I should

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mention Lester beat Southampton twice 9-0 or once could be bad then a real relegation six

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pointer at home Nottingham Forest first Everton Everton desperate for this game tricky trees

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slipping back down into the relegation Zone they need their home ground I could

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see this being a nil nil or one one then Liverpool Man United at anfield

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late on Sunday and we have a Monday nighter Brentford at home

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at night versus Fulham Brentford at home at night that's just

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about his money in the bank as a game you can find but uh yeah that's the schedule let's

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just make sure that we cover off our FA Cup so in two weeks time we've got the

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FA Cup quarterfinals City versus Burnley man united Fulham Sheffield versus Blackburn Brighton vs Grimsby

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and we have this weekend what I just read there's so many games going on then we'll have more European games we'll

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have more games games games games ugh football man football is crazy football

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makes you feel football keeps you on your toes

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um I think that's all I've got for today trying to think of anything else that's

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out there in my brain as I think about where we are for the Premier League

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where we are in the FA Cup where we are for Chelsea and Leeds where we are for

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United and Liverpool where we are for Arsenal Arsenal with a five-point lead

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taking it down the stretch I did hear a stat you ready for this only three teams

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with five point leads after 25 games have ever blown the title Newcastle 95-96

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Arsenal 2003 2002 and then they became the invincibles and one other team so

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it's about as close to being locked up as possible but

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it's City chasing you City are tough City will come I'm

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looking at city and feeling good about where they are now so title race continues games continue and uh I am out

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of here okay that was the squeaky bum Time Podcast with Laurent courteans we

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