Episode #225 – Manchester City in Hot Water: The Latest on Over 100 Financial Charges – Premier League Match Week 22 Review

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[Music] 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 I am your host Laurent

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corteens we are recording this on Monday February 6th in this episode

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daish destroys Arsenal in a master class Liverpool predictably slip again like

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Stevie G and City Sleepwalk in London but first

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ffp for Man City again okay

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um I know that the title of this is about ffp and my feelings as a supporter

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and frankly it doesn't really get to me anymore uh I

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used to feel this sort of com compulsion to defend the club as though man city

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was me or that I represent the club or that

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that I should protect them but as I think about what

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the purpose of some of what the uh Shake man sewers

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purchase of city is for is so that he can buy the

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institutional strength of the community of a football club and I'm not going to give him that

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I don't care about my owners I don't care about Sheikh Mansour I don't care

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about kaldoon I don't care about pep I don't care about any of it I care about

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the club Manchester City how they do how they play what they make me feel inside and

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one of these days you you feel shitty you know it's it's it's sad it sucks

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um and it doesn't feel good but let me go back and sort of for what you're looking for is like what happened

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what are the what are the who what wins and whys and where's so uh Manchester City as we know purchased by Shake

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Mansour and the United Arab Emirates he's a if not a state

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and essentially begins modern Manchester City history but there are a hundred

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years of History before and that institutional memory is still with the club so hold on to that

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um and from the beginning uh City spent lots of money uh State Sovereign wealth

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fund uh robinho famously comes in on the transfer window he didn't even know he

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was signing for Manchester City and there's a build and a build over two years first Marques then Mancini uh and

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that core group of players begins to grow company zabaletta

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clichy nazri Silva Yaya Torre koralev

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Nigel Dijon um Gareth Barry Julian lescott all those

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and Mancini just driving the club on to amazing levels of Madness if alienating

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everyone he was a complete um but in that process City

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had to break rules that's a fact that's not to

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be denied there were rules put in place I don't know the exact date of ffp but

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somewhere around Chelsea being brought in somewhere around a couple of clubs

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going bankrupt in Europe there was a concept called Financial fair play which was brought in essentially it is a

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system by which a team may only spend may only spend double what its revenue

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is essentially so if your Club has revenue of 500 million dollars you can

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borrow against that up to a billion and what does that do it locks in its

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regulatory capture so rich teams were pulling up the moat saying oh we're rich we can borrow up to X money since you're

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new there's no way you have Revenue that can match that and so you can't possibly spend your way to the top this was

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specifically designed to stop Manchester City PSG Chelsea and at the time uh QPR

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was one of those clubs with Fernandez but he actually got swept up in it and City wanting to be a winner wanting to

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take on Manchester United understanding that in football winning

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requires money and winning is what brings you contracts and money and Glory

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broke the rules they hid money they inflated um inflated

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sponsorships so that a five million dollar sponsorship became a 50 million dollar sponsorship because that meant

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then they could spend 100 million dollars instead of 10 million dollars so multiply that out by every single

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sponsorship you see and City whatever City had breached we did get a transfer

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fine we were clear to that on city were moved along and we kept going we never

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got a ban uh and then there was another attempt by UEFA to take out city after

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sports Portuguese hacker and that was all leaked to build which is in Germany

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which is notoriously Pearl Bayern Munich and Germany is the most sanctimonious country in the world

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and they slowly Whenever there was a Champions League game that City had to play Bayern they'd release these cables

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of things that city did and City to their credit or to buy their right would just go in with billion dollar lawyers

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and fight these things okay City got clear to the last one uh there was a 50 million dollar fine and city fought it

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down to 10 million based on leaked emails okay this latest uh thing is that City

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an investigation by the Premier League so they passed all the European things and now they're with City now they're

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with the Premier League and the Premier League's process is there is no statute of limitations one of the ways that City

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got off with from weifa and went to the court of sport in Europe was that there was a statute of limitations and

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financial irregularities could not be reviewed and there was no Double Jeopardy we couldn't be banged for the things we had already paid for so this

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is a new trial based on uh members of the Premier League saying hey this isn't

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fair eight teams as Pep Guardiola said and essentially there's a hundred different Financial irregularities

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um a lot of them are basically misstating revenue and repeatedly misstating it the issue as some of you

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you have the lie in it and you keep moving it forward you simply have

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nine years of the lie so it's this one lie leading to another lie so all the financial irregularities all of it are

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just extended through time the fundamental question that the Premier League is asking through an independent

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Arbiter is have Premier have Manchester City as a

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team as Executives knowingly misstated all of their financial information over

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those nine years and essentially that's the question they're going to ask can they prove that

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City knowingly obstructed and lied about their revenue

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and those worth a hundred there's five there's there's something about hidden money to Roberto Mancini there's something about hidden money to Yaya

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torre's agent there's something about you know lowering the cost of things and inflating the value of other things very

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I a modern analogy is this is very Trump you know the way Trump would say oh I

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didn't pay any taxes because my because I went into debt and then inflating the value of something when it's into beats

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uh suits his um benefits for City fans I just spent time listening to the great esteemed

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company Stephen mcinerney great guy one of the best city bloggers and probably the only one I listen to vloggers excuse

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me YouTube channel is fantastic esteemed company link subscribe love it he's the best always positive doesn't mix his

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identity as a husband and a father with his supporting of the club never yells

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gets upset gets happy is joyful but never loses his mind and he's great

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um he said I don't care it doesn't bother me it's not me I'm not

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ashamed not ashamed to support City I'm not ashamed of my team or my club or

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what happens yeah we fight we talk but some rich guy bought my team and he's

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talking and he lied and he cheated if City go down City go down I was gonna follow

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City no matter what this is just how it is um now so what could the ramifications

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of this be based on a a

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um a clubhouse chat that I listened to on Twitter today from an accountant who worked for City the previous owners and

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is a very honest guy he was this is very serious um City are in trouble

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this is a black and white issue did City lie and knowingly cheat

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and you know is there a leak you know this is about financial and accounting malfeasance

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um is it a big deal to me no because the rules are there for regulatory capture

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so that real Barca Manchester United Liverpool Arsenal

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and Spurs could just stay Atop The League forever and they didn't like when a Nouveau Rich team kicked down the door

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and and PSG kicked down the door and these weird moneyed Arabs took over

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their little toy that they could play for in Europe and who God knows what these people in their turbans are doing

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turbines they're not turbans so there's a little bit of a of a foreign

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anti-forign anti-immigrant anti-oil anti-arab thing going on and that's okay

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I'm not in Europe I don't live in Manchester I it's not my thing but the so the case has been presented

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by the Premier League it now goes to the arbitration of sport a third party three member panel in

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arbitration and they ultimately decide what happens it's completely unprecedented this has never happened in

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the Premier League and this committee independent committee

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essentially has unlimited power they can do whatever they want there's no guidelines there's no say City could get

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Point deduction City could lose transfers City could be kicked out of the Premier League

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anything good is possible um my guess is that

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it will be harsh and it will take a long time so all of this is private everything will be behind closed doors

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they'll pop out and we'll get a message in two years or a year of the ruling and

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that's what will happen so City just have to live under that spell in that damage in that world for

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the next year or two and it kind of explains some of the malaise that cities been under if they knew indeed that this

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was going on and that it was being felt and was floating around within the context of the club but you know as a

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city fan this is where I am you know this is what has happened this is where we live now and we just have to deal

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with it we have to take the of your cheaters you're this you're that no one likes us and we don't care ultimately

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you know no one likes City we're Nouveau riche we're gauche we're

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gross we're we're The Unsinkable Molly Brown we're the you know where The

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Beverly Hillbillies of football so who cares you know you don't like us anyway so I'm not gonna kiss your ass

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to to to to make you feel good so you can go pretend you won your titles

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because City one you can have Liverpool and Manchester United can say they won titles when they when we know that City

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kicked their ass all those Seasons so now I'm starting to get angry but um it's gonna suck and that's where it

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is um I just have to eat it but let's go to the actual football even

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though it's a little less interesting than this story

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um we have to go to Arsenal before this story popped up and sort of ruined my

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day um the story was John dice taking over

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four four um for Frank Lampard

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and just getting in there and really just kicking the teeth out of

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Arsenal it was amazing um

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Everton were strong Everton had energy Everton prevented Arsenal from playing I

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watched and shared a tifo uh IRL video on it and it was just great to see

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um Everton play with fire and fight and have that team show up uh gay dekure

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Onana in the Midfield with power and strength owoby uh on the wing and it

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just be a complete fight to the death and you just saw what the power of a

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good coach is Everton completely deserved this win completely they

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created more chances they roughed Arsenal up Arsenal never really

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created anything there was an early chance from inkettia but really this was about

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you know the power of a collective the power of a

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group The Power of grafting this was the real deal this is what you get with

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daish um I think we're gonna find out I think this is a real moment for Sean dice I think we're gonna find out what a good

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coach he was um yeah he stayed at Burnley all that time and he did go down but I think like

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Eddie Howe he was actually a better Coach than he

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showed because he was at such a small budget team and to do the things that you do at that level

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and getting the best out of your players we're gonna see from daish with better

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players because do not get me wrong and I said this when Frank was the coach Everton are good

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they have good players this team is not a relegation team Frank was that bad of

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a Coach Frank Lampard I know all the pendants keep saying what a nice guy we care about him they feel like they have

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to make a caveat he's not a good coach and he got good jobs and he

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underperformed at those jobs daish over performed with poor teams and now he's

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in charge of Everton and you're going to see Everton knock the teeth out of people and um and do really really

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well uh for our for Arsenal this looked like a big drop they are going to be over the

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moon with City losing and what happened to City for them it's a blip for Arsenal it's about okay we got knocked in the

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mouth um we put a little blood in our mouth actually you know similar to how they

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took that City game a couple weeks ago now they're on two losses in a row on an AFA cup now one in the league but I

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think Arsenal will feel okay uh again it's about the reaction for Arsenal can they get back on it they have to play

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again they've got to get back on the schneid even now though with City losing and we'll get to that after this it's

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really fine they'll move on they're not going to have any problem getting past

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this I still think Arsenal are on track to win the league arteta has always had a hard time at goodison Park just

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something that's normal something that Arsenal will have to deal with they weren't going to only lose one game all

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year it feels like yes they lost to a team in a relegation Zone but Everton are not a relegation team they had a

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relegation manager now they have a real manager and all of a sudden you know basically Everton should probably finish

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I'm gonna go from 15 to 10 uh at this point they're better than where they are

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and we move on to um as much as as much as um Mike will probably say oh

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no one cares about Harry Kane and Harry Kane should have been the story we should call out Harry Kane uh in the

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city game Harry Kane breaks the record for

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goals from a Tottenham player a massive a massive deal

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um Laura massive Club they've been around for a hundred years they're the London

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Club along with Arsenal uh to be fair historically Chelsea were not a big Club

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up I mean they were but they weren't as big uh they along with Arsenal Spurs is

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the London club and so to be the London Club

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all-time goal scorer is huge and he's passed Henry for goals in London

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um I think his next big milestone will be Alan Shearer's goal record of 267 in

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the Premier League they do not count Alan Shearer's goals when it wasn't the Premier League don't ask it's

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weird um but I do want to give a shout out to Jimmy Greaves

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um Jimmy Greaves is the

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70s and 80s equivalent of Charles Barkley he was a massive player one of

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the greats of English goal scoring of all time played at Inter Milan in the 60s when English players did not do that

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um Greaves started at Chelsea then went to Tottenham uh he's also Chelsea's all-time scorer I'm not even kidding or

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he's up there or he was maybe maybe Frank Lampard so Jimmy Graves is a massive goal scorer all-time up near 400

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maybe 360. I could look it up but he's more famous for having been on the

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equivalent of matches of the day uh very funny very Cockney a silly guy that

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people knew most people in England know from his time on television versus seeing him as a player he's on the 66

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team but famously did not play in the final I believe he was hurt

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but uh a great and all-time great like uh you know just someone that should be

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remembered not for as as a massive goal scorer but again as what happens to some

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players they go on television they become more famous for having been on TV he's your he's a Terry Bradshaw type

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right like no one remembers Terry Bradshaw but now we remember him because he play he was on TV for so long

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um famously you know Jimmy Greaves actually played for Chelsea Spurs and

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West Ham all three London clubs and Barnett another London Club but he played for ages and ages known for

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winning the title with Chelsea it with with uh Spurs in 61 so he does get a

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title with Spurs something that they are uh still still hoping for uh actually

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didn't win the title he's not on the Spurs winning title he won the FA Cup twice a European Cup winners

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cup and finished runner-up uh with Spurs and he's on the World Cup 11

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um for England did finish third on the Ballon d'Or in 63. so someone to think about someone to talk about Jimmy

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Greaves and I don't want a short shift Harry Kane what a player uh I think what

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I think about with Harry Kane is he reminds me of Albert Pujols so for those

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of you who are English Albert Pujols as an American baseball player Dominican

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came into the league immediately hit the ground running and essentially

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played at a best 11 level at a world top class level ball player for his Hulk for

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15 years straight just 300 320 35 home runs 120 RBIs every year

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to the point that we take him for granted that he's great that he was great and so I think that's what's

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happened with Kane you take for granted that he's metronomic he's good for 25

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goals seven assists seven to ten assists had amazing Seasons two years ago I

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think the Mourinho year he was 21 and 15 like just absurd numbers uh Mike could

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tell you better and he's always you know feeling like he's um he's short drifted but you do think about it now I mean

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Harry Kane is now on year 15. I mean year 10 of doing it and he's just an

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amazing goal scorer um that is forgotten and I think

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I think we all respect that he stayed at Spurs a club that are not a historically great

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he's in some sense hurting his legacy uh because he does

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not have that moment of lifting a trophy I know that's unfair I know that's

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terrible I know that we shouldn't play in Ring's culture but moments matter

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and so Cain does not have a moment he doesn't have it he does not have that

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trophy lift now if he does do it it will mean more

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there's no doubt about it he could have come to city and won the league no doubt about it no problem but you know as he

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is now he's on 200 and 300 games an incredible number uh four Spurs on 267

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that's the number they broke so two Milestones on the same go getting 200 a double century and then breaking Jimmy

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Greaves record in all competitions an amazing player Harry Kane just doing it

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on year 10 20 goals a year boom boom boom boom non-stop

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non-stop so we've gotta love him uh just an amazing player that we cannot

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for get um before I get into wolves uh and

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Liverpool um I just want to you know sort of

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Powerful um wolves um I just don't know what to do about

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our friends in Liverpool anymore this was disaster class level stuff from

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from Liverpool just the first 15 minutes was was comical

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um I don't know where Liverpool go at this point we've probably talked to death

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what has happened with Liverpool we've talked about the Midfield we've talked about injuries we've talked about The

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High Line we've talked about the pressing we've talked about the intensity we've talked about the mental

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anguish of playing all those games we've talked about all those things we've

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talked about the back room staff sort of losing some of their bigger players and names and guys coming and going all that

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stuff there's one person who has not been questioned about their responsibility in

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this and at this point we have to start looking at Jurgen klopp as well like do you change do you do something

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different with your team and do you have responsibility to change

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uh in the face of this team not working uh listen I shared with the guys in the

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WhatsApp group you know where

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where does klopp go from here the identity

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of him himself of what he believes in philosophically he cannot question it because the second

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he tells his team to drop off play deep and not press and we're gonna try and

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sit back and play on a break the second he loses this team this team is designed to press harass

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and play Heavy Metal football and if they don't

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who are they then klopp should leave it's the same way with pep if pep is not playing possession control

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football what is he what is he

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um I realized I went into Kane and forgot to talk about the city game so we'll we'll flop it around and I'll talk

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about this wolves Liverpool game and then get into City I think in my mind I wanted to pair the two teams together

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um City losing to uh two Spurs one nil on Kane's goal but wolves and beating

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Liverpool and I think that sort of pulls everything together these two teams that

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have spent the last five years giving every ounce of Blood Sweat and Tears to

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battling each other almost a yin and yang of

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clops energy love and optimism versus peps robotic

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technocratic um precision it's almost as though you have a

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a a perfect technological Machine versus a

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virtuoso artist and yes I do give Liverpool the virtuoso artist it's more on feel and more and less on numbers and

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cities are just this perfect German precision as Spanish as as pep is he's

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German on the inside in a weird way so these two teams battling each other and I think that the the

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the slip of one has caused the slip of the other uh it's as though they can't

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seem to muster up the fight one more time after giving everything uh to each other in

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this sort of weird dances of Fate um I don't know why nobody watches this but

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they they have this kind of thing in uh The Legend of Korra which is something from the Avatar cartoon you can see how

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much I've watched these shows with my daughter but yeah there's just an integral intricate connection between

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these two teams and an intricate integral Connection in how they're failing they're both lacking a desire to

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kick on Liverpool's is this inability to press anymore or to find that half a

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yard and cities is an inability to be free uh City play with the handbrake on

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constantly they were afraid to have a game be out of control uh and

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and they play that way City will hold on to the ball go back and forth and sideways and hold on to it and hold on

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to it in this game against Spurs Holland did not take a shot you have the greatest striker in the world and he's

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not getting the ball and pep is messing with the players no de bruyne uh can

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Salo out so everything is this sort of control thing where pep wants to control

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everything and everything with klopp is where where are you where where is your passion where's your feeling where's

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your energy and so between these two teams sitting losing to Spurs for the

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fourth time in a row at new whitehard lane and then Liverpool's inability to put a good performance in on the road I

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don't think any Liverpool fan thought that this was crazy I don't think that any City fan thought that we'd pull this one out I thought enter I thought

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for the city game I thought that

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I thought that City would find the energy because of Arsenal's loss because

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it historically whenever someone slips they'd grab it and at this time they just weren't able to find a way forward

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um in that space at all and uh I just couldn't believe it just could not

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believe it let's just go to some of our other friends United defeating

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um United defeating Crystal Palace at home not really a difficult performance

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Crystal Palace are fluttering right now but uh I will give the only thing to come out of this was casimiro's red card

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from um hands on the throat but not a choke in my opinion a VAR check they got a VAR

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penalty so two vars VAR giveth via our thinketh way I hate VAR in case anyone

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didn't know uh John good luck with VAR uh again Marcus rashford just killing it

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scored a goal right in the middle of the goal I don't know what the hell I don't know what the hell Crystal

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Palace was doing but City but um yeah United see it out in the end a

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little bit of pressure at the end when they scored a really nice goal uh on a flicking but you know United cruising

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they are now one point behind City quietly methodically moving up the table

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I don't think that they have a chance to catch um

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Arsenal Arsenal are too good and United aren't ready they don't have the depth

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they run the moment they have the moment they see a chance to be part of the title race they'll drop points the next

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game that's what happened last time maybe it'll happen this time I do wanna um give a little shout out to our

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friends at Forest um playing leads they have killed Mr

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Jesse Marsh um Jesse Marsh fired after the loss to

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Forest um Brendan Johnson strike was incredible and again Steve Cooper you absolute

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Legend uh did just I think forests are now top of the table since

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the World Cup breakdown 11 points just I mean when you know football you know how

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good Steve Cooper is and you just know he's going to turn his team around you know 30 players sign could give a

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you know they're staying up they don't care they've got it they've got this thing in the bag wolves defeating leads

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and Jesse Marsh being fired what is the marsh firing mean it means that

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it means that the English still don't respect an American coach they don't get us as optimistic uh positive people uh

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it doesn't seem real to us uh to them they're used to dour uh negative

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football they want daish daish is a football man Pardo is a football man adodice is a football man polish is a

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football man Jesse Marsh is not a football man that's that's just perception

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um now Leeds fans do not like Jesse Marsh uh I think there was

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a feeling that he was full of uh a feeling that he didn't understand what was needed defensively

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um the underlying numbers flatter leads it looks like they have a

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good uh goal difference but a lot of the XG that they accumulated was when

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when leads weren't behind and they were one of the worst XG against teams from open Play basically

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they were good in middle of the pack in almost any game state but from open Play leads were the easiest team to get a

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chance against in the league fans noticed that again XG is not everything but it gives you a look at what possibly

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happened so if you go into the table for from open Play open Play being non-set piece non

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um you know non-set piece goals non-free kick goals just from play leads were the

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worst um at preventing XG so or up there pretty bad

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um and so they were relegation level defending and the chaotic nature of the

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way Leeds wanted to play did not make fans feel like there was a plan or they

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were in control or that the plan they had Marsha's plan was chaos believing

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that his players could run longer than yours because they were younger and fitter and it didn't work

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while they had fun games and while they put shots on target they just weren't

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getting wins it's ultimately about results and Jesse Marsh knows that they had lost they have they were windless in

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nine and I think you know he knows how football is even though Leeds were

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playing well they weren't getting three points way too many draws way too many

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forced comebacks and just missed opportunities and I think it's unfair and it's too bad

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um for Jesse Marsh but now the US Men's National Team is in the front view

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mirror for him he can take that job the second he raises his hand he'll get it I did find the timing weird

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so it seems like the

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transfer window closed and it brought in more players for marsh to

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play how he wanted to and he lost one game and then they sacked him so it's

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all Marsh players three Americans and Marsh and now they're just there so hopefully the next coach uh kubran from

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um from West Ham is a potential player who turned West Ham around from you

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guessed it Steve Bruce another coach another Frank Lampard

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thank you men in Blazers baby men and Blazers the tingling old school

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until March goes and that is that for Mr Marsh he's gone he's lost we've lost him

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and um we say goodbye uh you know another American coach gets

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his shot and gets shot down um we do I do want to go through some of

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the other scores let's see where we are let me just check the time here uh 35

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35.50 other scores let's look through the football table and get a little bit

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of juice on this one our friends from Brentford spank Southampton Southampton are going down uh Brentford with the

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home win not a problem there uh embuemo with a goal uh nor guard with a goal

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then super kataro matoma and Brighton take care of Bournemouth at home

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matoma's pure box office I love him I cannot deal with how good he is

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the second he leaves Brighton and he's on a bigger team you're gonna see like the greatest uh Mass Asian Love Fest for

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Cairo matoma ever he scores in the 87th minute on a header that he had no right

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to be there for he's in space he flicks it in Bournemouth also our friends are

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going down Bournemouth Southampton those are my two that I know are going down

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um uh then Aston Villa weird loss they go up they they score two goals this game was

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up and down in the first half there were five goals scored but Lester showing a lot of fight uh defeat the mighty and

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Powerful Aston Villa unai Emery's not gonna like what happened in the defense here Watkins to go ahead then Madison

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draws them level sooner on an own goal then to bring Aston Villa up to one then

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nacho on a nice finish then new boy tetteh that dude is fast with Dennis

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Pratt finishing it off in the second half so there are five goals in the first half one in the second a really

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Bonkers game and look at that Lester made some transfers they didn't get a new goalkeeper I don't like that but a

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really good um a really good fun up and down game unai Emery is not gonna like that one at

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all they do play City next uh I don't like unai Emery on a lost

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playing City I don't like where my team is at all uh and then West Ham draw at

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home against I'm sorry Newcastle draw at home against West Ham

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a tricky little game here Newcastle looked really powerful like they were gonna blow West Ham out of the water but

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they give up a goal West Ham do come back into this game Declan rice bosses

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the Midfield gets a little control and West Ham score a goal from pakita in the

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first half both coach scored in the first half Callum Wilson scores the goal early but uh Newcastle are having a

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little trouble scoring goals the quicker they can get ASAP back the better they need Bruno grammarish back in because he

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does all that creativity so look at here with Newcastle they've got 10 draws but

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still only one loss they had the least loss in the Premier League that's nuts but 10 draws is just way way too many

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they're gonna feel like those are all drop points um and they just need a little bit more

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creativity to score the goals they need and move themselves forward

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wow um let me just just note it one more time

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just get one last little summary here just so we're all on the same page I'll

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run through the scores one last time just so you guys have the scores look

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like this the early game Friday one one Fulham versus Chelsea I didn't

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even cover that game Chelsea with all their players with Enzo Fernandez with the whole gang there

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still a draw from Fulham Fulham were better uh Grand Potter still has a lot of work to do it just seems like they

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don't know each other there in in Chelsea and they're gonna have to keep working their way back into it despite

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the fact that they spent half a billion dollars where's the ffp there I don't know weird then we talked about Everton

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one Arsenal nil Challenge on no because City can't handle it Brantford through Southampton

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nil Brighton won Bournemouth nil and then Manchester United defeated Crystal Palace at home 2-1 wolves defeated

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Liverpool three nil that was weird then Aston Villa Two Leicester four Newcastle

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1-1 I just talked about not even Forest one nil over Leeds and City the last game lose to Spurs one nil but let's go

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to the table shall we I'm gonna read off some things that you can just look up online uh Arsenal still retain their

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five-point lead with a game in hand City on 45 but they could get a 15 Point deduction who the knows uh United

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on 42 but only a plus eight I don't like that Newcastle on 40 with Tottenham

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sitting in fifth place one point behind but they have a game ahead they're on 22 Games Live uh City United and Newcastle

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on 21 so they really are getting behind with Brighton with a game in hand on 34. oh they could they're pushing in six

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Brentford in seventh Fulham Chelsea London London look at all that London Tottenham Brighton Brentford Fulham

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Chelsea all in London six seven eight nine Chelsea worst team in London that's

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weird Liverpool in 10th Aston Villa 11th Crystal Palace oh no they're the worst team in London in 12th Forest

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Lester wolves West Ham or West Ham too leads out of the relegation Zone 11th

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12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th respectively leads out of the relegation

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Zone on goal difference only so some of that play by

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Jesse Marsh was not all bad Everton in the relegation Zone on 18 Bournemouth on

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17 and Southampton cut a drift I think that we'll see Bournemouth and

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Southampton go down and out of wolves West Ham leads and

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Everton leads are the weakest because they don't have a manager

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we know nemoy's is not letting his team go down lopategi was managing Real

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Madrid two months ago and um Leeds is the one that still don't

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have good Defenders it's still a championship defense so leads is the weak point uh Le we know

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that Steve Cooper with Nottingham Forest is not going anywhere and he's six

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points clear of the relegation Zone that is very very very impressive so I hope

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that Everyone likes and subscribes to the show we got through City I didn't cry I

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wanted to cry but I didn't sorry Manny sorry John uh I didn't cry about my team

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losing I did almost get very upset but I held my nerve

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anyway that was the squeaky bum Time Podcast I

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