The Daily Zeitgeist - Back Four For What?

Episode Date: December 30, 2025

This week the fellers chat the skin tight title race, Calafiori’s awkward absence, broke Barcelona behavior and the signing of the season!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There's a question for you guys. Is there going to be a problem between him and Cervigno? No. Like, I feel like their names is too close. If I'm Cimio, I don't want to, I don't want a Cimio around. I'm Cévenio. Especially how white British people pronounce names. Cereggio.

They're like, wait, which one did you say? What's what you say, Cereo. Oh, hello. Look at us. Getting back together before the year ends. Getting back together in the midst of all. the holiday revelry amidst the festive period, as they have branded on the television, where we have, what is it, 40 matches in 16 days or something like that?

We're in the think of it. We're not taking a break because we love this fucking sport. This is A-N-A-Footy. It's match week 18. It's time to go around the horn. That's a new thing we just branded for this show called Going Around the Horn. We're asking all the panelists today, our guest co-host, our co-host, just going around the horn, two to 17 words

Slim Yancey, aka Jamel Johnson to summarize this week's action two to 17 words. Friday, the movie. The movie Friday.

You remember that scene where Smokey's mom asked him to go get her some cigarettes? Yes. And she hands him like a dollar and he's like,

yo, that's not enough. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And his mom goes, make it enough. Yep. And just shuts the door on him. And then gets back on the phone.

Yeah. standing is right back on the phone. That is this week. Make it enough. Arsenal gets another own goal. Tottenham wins on some bullshit. Villa winning despite the low XG. People pulling stuff out of their ass.

Make it happen. Yeah, make it enough. Chris Martin. You've been in the news. I've been in the news. Yeah. Well, the other Chris Martin, but... What is the other one do?

Do you see the Coldplay lady was trying to be like, and Chris Martin should have said something to me? I saw a really funny thing about how like only a white... woman could cheat on her husband and then make it like a boo-hoo story my life's been ruined by me cheating on a

with my boss yeah which is Chris Martin and also Coldplay owes me a statement but how about two to 17 words for you Chris to describe the weak section I was just I just do I have you you prepare for something and you hear someone else's thing and you're like I've not prepared as well as that person

yeah that Jamel I was like this guy give this guy the Oscar for that This is Billy Madison when you had to play the clarinet following up that violin solo. This is the first time I ever prepared as well. He's good. I just went with 2-1, just because later games were 2-1. Love it. Love that, love that, love that.

I was trying to think about something creative, and I was just like every game was 2-1, so just 2-1. To each their one. And also, for me, skin-tight, because what the, It's just copycat City. Skin tight copycat City. Those are my 5-2 through 2 to 17 cards to describe that. Stop copying us.

Stop just eking out wins, trying to be like the top of the table like us. But let's get into it. I guess we'll go kind of in order. The first, in terms of the title race, the first match we had was Forrest versus City. They were hosting City. Forest one, City two. Shout out Omari Hutchinson, the young Gunner, scoring a goal that almost made it seem like,

like oh maybe maybe do something and then fucking turkey beef jerky coming through with the fucking 83rd minute winner um there's nothing new to say about city i feel like every week i'm like yeah okay all right okay well they can't get touched though they do let in the goals here and there so there is that there is that uh but jesus christ man it's they're they're humming along and am i tripping a little bit yes i am i am i am when i look at sort of what arsenal is doing and the sort of the lack of the fire we've got right now I feel a little bit freaked out but

Jamel how'd you feel about that that 2-1 city went over for us I mean nobody will remember that it was zero-zero at half and Forrest also had some pretty good chances in that half I mean truth be told I think the best thing we could have hoped for was a draw because Forrest was never going to win

all of their chances lined up with city having better chances draw was our best hope. And I don't think Forrest wanted to win because the owner of the team probably would have made them go to a brothel if they wanted to. It would have definitely gone. It would have turned into some sort of mob type scene

that nobody was interested in. Yeah, yeah. Maranakis would have been like, what do you mean, Omar, you're a virgin? No, I'm saving myself because I'm Christian. You're another priest. Get over here. I'm going to hook you up, bro. Please, please, Mr. Marinanis.

I'm a good Christian boy Maranacus probably got him scared to win and lose yeah exactly they're like bro I can't go back there that's why draw is in their best interest at all for us yeah absolutely absolutely

I just realized because of their downfall this season that's the first mention we've had of Maranakis which is a crying shame so we did it in some of the test episodes but the people won't know about those genius recordings

that are special patrons that exist yeah exactly our own self-critics But yeah, that's true. I mean, for people who, if you're somewhat new to the league, I really recommend you just looking up the Wikipedia page for Maranacus, the owner of Nottingham Forrest.

He is a full-blown gangster. And when you juxtapose that information with the weird Morgan Gibbs white transfer that was not Tottenham, you're like, oh, yeah, he's straight up threatened this guy's family or some shit. He owns a shipping company, which I think is that just means. Mafia, right? When you, no one, if you, if you have stuff to do with the docks, there's no way there's not some, uh, some shady stuff happening at the docks.

How do you think shit gets in and out, baby? At the dogs, we've seen the wire. You know what I mean? Yeah. I was basing that old season two of the wire as well. There you go. Yeah. That's good.

Hey, look, as long as you have an HBO based knowledge of street crime. Does that count as one of my, does that count as one of my black, black shows or is that kind of is that like a, it's a mix. It's a mix. Yeah. Season two, I picked the white, well. the whitest one. Yeah, that is the white

I like it. I like it. All the white people I know don't like season two because it's a white. I like, I like because I'm like bring me to your white world

of crime. You know what I mean? I felt like, let me see how y'all do it when you have your hands on the levers. Um, yeah. City,

whatever. Uh, buckle up, y'all. Buckle up. That's all I got to talk about Ryan, Ryan Cherkey because, uh,

we were saying before like, it feels like some of the players are listening to this podcast. because we were giving him a lot of a stick. We were giving him a lot of stick for being a bit too heavy at the weighing. And he obviously weighed the correct weight for PEP, goal and an assist.

Yeah, exactly. And the goal was a sweet one. Nothing better than that. Is that a foul? Would you, is you think that they got much of a case for a foul on a Morgan Gibbs White as he gets pushed to the ground,

kind of, kind of wheat. In the prem, you're not going to get that. Yeah. I mean, as I biased ourselves, it should have been. Something should have been given. I saw Wayne Rooney say Gibbs White actually kind of started that. He kind of, he's doing a little chicken wing.

He's holding his arm, kind of tucking it. I was just going to check in on Wayne Rooney's hair plugs. Oh, yeah, take a look. They're all right. I mean, they look wet. They're at the point where they look wet. He got the early ones, right? He got them early.

He got him early, but see, he did the thing where he hedged his bets and thought the shit wasn't going to blow out in the back and just addressed the front. And then he started losing it up in the back. And they're like, bro, what the fuck? What is this? So he had to go back to kind of fill everything out. He's got two generations. Yeah.

Yeah, look at LeBron. I like the fact that he's an ex pro in the modern era and he has unashamedly just become quite large. Like he's like no, no attempts to just fight his genes there. That was his. That's who he was always meant to be. It's just being a professional athlete, just put that off because it's true. Everything was like your training.

They've got dietitians and shit like that. he's meant to be a guy who's like a regular at a chicken shop or something. You know what I mean? Starting fights saying I used to play for the Everton youth team or some shit like that. Very Charles Barkley coded for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, probably replete with throwing a person of color through a window like Charles Barkley did. Have you heard that whole story how these white women were egging him on to do that, apparently?

No. I need more context. There's a famous story about Charles Barkley throwing some dude through a window. And everyone's like, everyone's like, yeah, dude, he fucking kicked this guy's ass. It wasn't like, Charles Barkley is a absolute monster for doing that shit. Like when you read the actual account of what happened, this guy was minding his business. And like, these women are like, he's a dick, Charles. You should fucking do something about it.

And he was, like, all right. Through this little dude, he was like a, like a newly immigrated person to the U.S. or some shit through his ass to a window. Yeah. The guy he was just doing like handing out summonses or whatever Like Just getting served you

Oh God Serving these ladies And subpoena Anyway this is not a basketball podcast But Chris You should know more More Charles Barkley lore If you need to if you want to

If you want to be at the cookout You need to know a little bit more about Charles He'll come up again Yeah And look into his time with the Sixers too Really storied period This is probably one of the more toxic things about me I kind of like that city is back

because it's going to feel that much better when we fucking beat these fools when we win the league this year nobody's going to get to nobody's going to be like oh it was broke down Liverpool oh you beat all you be yeah yeah yeah yeah

yeah yeah we beat it we went to toe to toe with the real city yeah or we shit the bed completely out of which it's going to be you're a terrible British person as a British person I want them to be deducted 50 points and even with that

I'm still terrified in the league right I want to be deducted points tomorrow. And I don't care. It's not the way to, I want to win it. I don't get how you win it. Give me that title.

Yeah, exactly. I've been waiting 22 years for the title. Chris, I'm not going to lie. When this season started, I was like, I was kind of like, I'm waiting for that point deduction announcement. You know what I'm saying? Like, let's get that. Let's start the year off right.

The season long VAR decision, you're just like, just give me a, yeah, give me that points deduction, baby. Please, please. Oh, we won two, we won two titles, actually, two as a result of that? Great, thank you. What if they win the title by two points and they get deducted three points, the evening of winning the title? I love that. Oh, so doing like, yeah, doing the La La Land Oscar, basically, and then saying...

They're doing the Poznan to celebrate, and while their backs are turned on a screen behind their backs, it flashes up, right, points deduction. I like that. I love that, where they're like, actually... Actually, no, it was Moonlight. It's Moonlight, y'all. It wasn't La Lala. It's Arsenal.

Oh, what the fuck? And I'm Barry Jenkins. I'm like, oh, okay. Yeah, I'll take that. Moving on. Or anything else on... Well, I don't know. I mentioned to Igor J. Zeus.

He got a pretty good game. Welcome to Arsenal. Yeah. Igor J-Zus and I put him in the... What's the Brentford guy? Igor Tiago. Eagle T. The two egos.

Yeah, two Eagles. They're big. The two genders, the two eagles. They can hold the ball up. Do you think Diaz should have been sent off? Oh, I mean, listen, in a world that's truly fair, yeah. Yeah. Definitely.

It's one where he's like, looks like he's just running, so it's like accidental. But he definitely knows what he's doing. He knows what he's doing. Yeah, for sure. That's a super educated foul. But that's why they didn't, they were like, listen, it was a soft foul. Yeah, he did it on purpose. He acted, he acted well enough that they gave him.

They were like fair props to that. Pro foul, professional level fail. Now looking up the table, first place, we have Arsenal. Beating Brighton 2-1 at the Emirates. Martin Odegaard with a goal, look, when Martin Odegaard's scoring, I feel like we usually are winning those. I'm like, when he's scoring, we're playing well. Great assist from Bukai Osaka. Then another goal for the homie O.G.

Owen Goleus. Owen goal, I think, is what they call them on the Arsenal subreddit. Sorry, who's signing goal in goal. We've signed Owen goal, Georgineo Rudder with the own goal. And then, as you said, I think preparation H time. Is that what you... I call it preparation H time when it's like...

When Diego... Romis scored? Yeah. Yeah. It was fucking, as they say, a nervy affair. A nervy affair. But thank God for... I'm trying to work this out. Is it nervy? And I heard something like this on the Arsecast,

which I do listen to. And they were talking about it, is it nervey because we are all nervy. Do you know what? If you were just watching it, if we were like third versus fifth and you're just like, not really going to wait, you're just be like, all right, that's a period in the game where they get some, because Arsenal battered them so hard in the first time. Yeah, it was crazy.

I think they had like 15 shots to zero shots in the first half. It was wild. And so you're like, this is, and then they just had a period. And then, and then, right, if you actually think that the last sort of after that amazing Raya save, they didn't really have many chances, But I think it's because there's, because again, city breathing down the net, you're just like, it's, it's just, it's our own, we're manifesting a little bit more hemorrhoids than we need to, maybe. Yeah. Oh, for sure.

We're giving ourselves the yips for sure. Big edge. Big edge from everybody watching, everybody involved. And it's so different from the first title race. The first time we were in the race, I feel like everybody's energy was like, listen, bro, just do whatever you can. We're going to back you. It doesn't matter. and that has in three years

that has turned to you better fucking score man yeah yeah yeah exactly man I think the other reason why I felt so nervy too is because we're in a title race and we are it feels like we haven't had like a real comfortable win in a while

like one so long like at least not in the Premier League you know what I mean we've had some great performances in the champions etc but like it's been a minute Tottenham was the last one Tottenham was the last one. We were flying and then there was the Byron. Like there was just, there was like that run. And then the injuries hit and we needed Owen gold to bail us out of more like fucking every match basically.

Like if we go back, it was Palace. We had an own goal even before that. So I think the thing where it's like, okay, we're dominating, which looks great. That first half, I was like, yes, exactly. We're pinging the ball around. We look like we're taking shots and things like this. but the inability to turn that into like okay now we've we've turned you over it's 3 nil even if you score one we're not sweating um i think it's that part that i think for me personally like especially with that martinelli chance that was right in front of the goal you and i'm like you fucking that's the difference in my mind i'm saying this is the difference between a team that is lifting the trophy at the end of the season and one that's going fuck man like like you would get our shit together in front of gold that one side one sack one-on-one as well.

Yeah. Yeah. He needs a goal, bro. He needs a goal. So, obviously, at the moment, I think it's nine expected goals in the last four games and Arsenal players have scored one out of nine. So playing Aston Villa on Tuesday, which will be later today as this gets released, when they're overperforming, the Rogers is banging him in from distance.

So if you're Artetta, and we all love Arteta's, and even if you're not an Arsenal fan, I think you find Artetta's methods fascinating and probably take the piss out of them quite a lot. Yeah. What is he doing? What is he doing right now to make the players finish their dinner? What is he doing? Well, he needs to stop making Califiori eat dinner.

Maybe skip. Maybe California need to skip dinner. Yeah. Wait, so did he have diarrhea? Oh, he got diarrhea. Yeah, dude, he got diarrhea. That was the thing because I remember Arteta said. He's listening to the podcast.

He got diarrhea. Something very strange, right? Isn't what Artetta said. Something very strange. That is strange. Very awkward. He shit his pants on the training ground, man.

Exactly what he did. In the warm up. He was in the warm up. He was in the warm up. He said, oh shit. Miles. Yeah, man.

Yeah, yeah. Suit up, bro. Suit up. Miles. Show us your underpants. All right. You're in. You need to have your pants too, right?

I would check his pants too. Let me see him inside out. Inside out, motherfucker. Bend over. Like we, like, this is jail. Squat and cough. Okay, good. You in.

You in. No, I'm not lying. This motherfucker shit himself. This guy. You can't, I feel like it's, when he's been very strange, he's never had to make a decision before. But if someone goes to you, I've shit my pants. I feel like I don't think you should be playing again. If you can't control your own asshole, there's no way you can control the football in front of 60,000 people.

Come on, man. Guys. Guys. Guys. This one thing, guys. If we can't, if we can't control our sphincters, guys, we're not going to control the game. Yeah. How do we control?

To have to have loose asshole guys, we have lose. defense, guys. Coach, I agree, but don't make me eat ramen two hours before the game, bro. Okay, then just eat the powder. Just eat the spice pack powder. Just eat that with a little water, guys. That's it. But get the flavor.

I think that's what it was. Coach, it's too much salt and shit. Yeah, man. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, like, part of me, the whole thing, it's like, it's almost like if I was going full-blown Artetta and I had just every film technology, available to me, I would be doing like inception of these people and I would be running them through

so many traumatic memories where they were, if they had just fucking got it together in that one second, maybe grandma wouldn't have got hit by a train. Maybe your dog wouldn't have fucking exploded. Or maybe whatever it is. So they fucking got that shit burning in their mind

and then give them a little taste and then then I will fuck with them. Then I'll put them in the match. They're suddenly in a match and like the chances are right there and just run that over and over and over. create a traumatic event, bring him out, be like, okay, you ready? Nice. That's like the opposite of therapy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. So, too, too, too. So scared. I'm Hellraiser. Yeah, yeah, I'm pinhead. You're like living in, okay. I mean, I wouldn't be, I was going to.

I also didn't grow up in a nurturing home, so I think that's the difference. So my mind, I'm like, yeah, yeah, respond to that tough love. Yeah, you motivate them with the threat of hell. That's so funny. Yeah, like he's going to, you go, you go full.

King Richard on them and just like yeah yeah yeah which yoker they already did that the yoker is man you got you know what I'm saying he in a long district relationship now no friends yeah yeah we read that thing right he said he said he said he said in this quote he goes I've got no my girlfriend's not with me I've got no one here I've got no friends I've only got football and it's like well mate you need to be yeah more balls and the goal of you that if he was like I've got a toddler I'm so tired I'd be like I'm a single parent yeah I understand yeah you've got no you he's literally gone i've just got no i've got no i've got in the opposite of excuse i'm just lonely and he's actually very lonely on the field as well he's got no he's not

connected to any players he doesn't do any wall passing or anything he's just sad on his own doesn't get the ball sacker doesn't even give him the bull he's a sad boy interesting stat though about how when he's not on the field the teams press much more aggressively because like that was always a thing that the unspoken part of his game is that him being there forces defenses to respect us a little bit because when it was Marino they're like bro, I'll run a foot race against this dude backwards and beat him. Whereas like with Yacquerez, that gives us a little more freedom on the, on the periphery, like on the wings and things like that.

So he has like he definitely has this gravitational pull. But yeah, the finishes like Gary Lynn, I saw a quote from Gary Linneker talking about how he's like, his runs are very like static and they're not very, he's not, he's not sort of. the wrong time. Yeah, and also not being where he, like, a ball should be, or being clever with his run. He's trying to wait for the ball. Yeah, exactly. Rather than being like, bro, just get it

in here, I'm going to find a way to get like in front of my man and I'll be able to do some shit. That's no friend's behavior. He don't believe. Yeah. They're not coming. Yeah. Yeah. We stood up so many times. They're not going. They're not going to give me the ball. They got a birthday hat on and shit. It's my birthday

today. He's like texting people. He's texting people before the game, guys, just, uh, I'll be, I'll be top, top right corner of the box. Yeah. Play me in. Yeah, I'll be right there. Uh, look for the banners and just say it was Victor's birthday. And he sent a part of full, he sent a part of full invite out. No one, no one's responded. He's like, I got, I did my own artwork.

I put a picture of me as a baby boy on there. No, no yeses. 25 maybes. Yeah. I couldn't believe I was me and a baby photo and I said, this fucker is turning 27. Can you believe it? Nobody showed up. Unbelievable. So, yeah, we'll see. I mean, like, obviously, as you're listening to this,

we might be screaming into the depths of hell over the villa result, or we might be getting away with something. Who knows, but maybe we should move on to the Chelsea. Which is just one more second on David Rye's safe. Oh, yeah, my God. That was a save on my own next to my son watching it. And I'm like, you know, when you see it, And I go, that's, that's in, that's in.

And he said, I was just like, that is, if I die tomorrow and my flashback of my life, I'd put that in the same level as my son being born. Wow. You know what I mean? Just like in terms of the second of joy. Yeah, yeah. Because there's all the stuff that comes with your kid being born. There's, there's poo, there's blood.

There's all the time of stuff. Yeah, yeah. That was just clean. Clean. Clean. It scared the fish out of me, though. I was, oh, God. I mean, the amount of saves he's, I mean, we're, we're, we're,

We're getting our every penny's worth with that transfer fee. He's got big old hands, and he needed every millimeter of them. Big hands and a new face. And I want to say every ball he played also was really good, too. He was really good on the ball after those saves too. He's a solid, look, the guy, he scares me. He's so good with it, just under his studs the ball. And I'm like, I'd absolutely gaff on my own net.

Oh, yeah. He's so comfortable. I think because we still have like the Ramsdale chills, too. Don't get cute, don't get cute, don't get cute, no, God. But he is so fucking cold with it. I'm like, yeah, I'll trust a Spanish keeper with the ball at his feet. Although, I'm not, Kepa isn't as skillful with the ball at his feet. He's not, but he's a pretty, he's a great shotstopper.

He's better than Netto. Netto was, bro, what? I mean, I know why we had him on a loan, but like, shit. It's when you, when all the shops are closed and the gas stations open for for anniversary gifts. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, you get that Russell Stover's. At a fridge magnet.

A fridge magnet. Wait, hold on. You bought this at the Burbank Airport when you landed? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're from here. Every sandwich, you know. Hey, guess what, babe? But I love you.

And you know what? Check out this poster. This is the L.A. Times cover when the Dodgers won the World Series in 2020. It's not even the latest one. This is even the late. What the fuck is this? I don't know, man. It was in the back.

whatever i mean yeah that last year it really was the club was closing the lights came on and we had to get out of there with was something and we're like rahim netto you coming with us that's true so chelsea look elsewhere in the title race chelsea won ashton villa to joel pedro uh opened up the scoring then ollie wotkins on a fucking hair this guy is apparently what he is now uh only behind Erling Holland by many goals though in terms of away goals scored 18 goals he scored

more Premier League goals in London Yeah that's going to be That's not the seasonings Yeah yeah just since 2021 That's a long time considering Holland wasn't playing in 2021 But okay Let's let's really widen that window out

But yeah Eight straight consecutive wins For Villa If you did one of those I thought they'd won 11 in a row Is that Champions League and stuff too? Yeah, I think that's 11.

That's all competitions. Eight Premier League games in a row. Yeah, it was a weird game, right? Because Chelsea, it was very similar to the Arsenal-Brighton game that they dominated were only 1-0 up. Yeah.

And then, but Unai, he did some tactical. I was thinking he, I think he sort of likes his team not doing well. So he gets to do loads of little changes. Right. He's like a chef. You know the guy when you're cooking, someone comes Sturring the pot

We didn't need to be stirred But he just wants to do that So I almost wonder He gets his teams to stand off And then Chelsea yeah They have a finishing issue They're like very much Trying to be like Arsenal

Young players Buy I'm Young Don't have anyone that can reliably score But unlike Arsenal They have been more experienced Arsenal and kind of ride out The momentum change Or is Chelsea just

The bed is They've done a They've califuried the bed If you know what I Yeah If it's yeah Because if it's wide open, they play well. But if it's like one of these like tactical sort of,

it becomes like a war of attrition, that's when Chelsea really struggles. They just can't. They're having trouble breaking teams down like that. But Villa, I mean, what? Our boy, Yuri Tileman's got an assist on that second goal. Facial hair is still looking pretty good. He could, somebody could just trim it up a little bit,

edge it up a little bit for him. But I've always wondered what it would be like if a marionette had a great left foot. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I always wonder this. The question's been answered. Honorable mention to Reese James, the Reggie Miller of football. His sister is better than him.

Let's see. And as far as the tactics, I kind of knew Villa was being a little cagey when they started with Marlin up top. Listen to Daniel Marlin? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's never really trying to score. He used to be at Arsenal Academy, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then went to Germany.

They got rid of them for looking like Hector from Training Day? Yeah, that's fine. Funny. He looks, he looks, he looks, he looks 17 and also 57. He, I can't, he's, there's got no, he's a really confusing head of a human being to work at his age. But he's like 27, right? He definitely, like, he already, uh, he is 26. Damn. I was like, I was going to just say, sure, do you any age. You could put him any age. Yeah, he definitely like, if you said he was in that rap group Das racist from like 15 years ago, I'd believe it. They're like, oh, yeah, he was in Dallas racist, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that. He'd be annoying if he mugged you because it'd be like, what was the age of the attacker? Right question.

Anyway, he had like a 43-year-old hair line, but he didn't have wrinkles around his eyes. The skin was pristine. But his eyes were droopy like he don't sleep. But I don't know how to put it. He was 14 going on 50. It's a hard. I don't know, Constable.

I see that see as a constable there because I was really playing the part um so yeah villa now I mean this I mean look at the table right now it's fucking tight uh it's it's it's only what three points separating us in villa two points between us and city um yeah and now Liverpool is in the top four again so I know it's really right Chelsea below it's a very odds it's very confusing the United get above Chelsea No, no, no, no. Now, you know, they're on the same points. Same points.

Just goal difference. Just by, yeah, they have a seven, seven goal difference advantage. There's a lot of, it does show you. There's a lot of teams that are like really hot and cold. Like, I think it is literally Arsenal, City and Villa, right? Are the three good teams? Yeah. And then, obviously, like, City and Villa on a great run.

But then below that, it's like Chelsea, Manu and Liverpool, complete, like, yeah, but you just don't know what you're going to get. 100% And yeah I mean look This has been a wild season I mean obviously Liverpool They've had their problems

But just think about this At the end of match day five this season Villa was an 18th Without a single victory From match day six onwards They've won more games 12 and more points 36 points than any other side

So they just They turned it up They turned it up We'll see if it last We'll see if it last They have everybody firing They got everybody firing at the right time It's annoying.

Arsenal Villa on Tuesday is a really big day for the XG obsessives, right? Because the XG obsessives are all like, this can't last. This can't last. And their Christmas has been ruined by Villa overperforming her XG, and Arsenal seem to be underperforming it. So if you're an XG, like, if you pray at the altar of XG, you're hoping Arsenal win. But it's hard, though, because if you've got guys that are really good at shooting from distance,

that's going to screw your XG up. Like Morgan Rogers has been a phenomenal one. And, you know, I mean, the goals they scored the Watkins goals and more standard goals, even though that first one was quite lucky from the ricochet. But XG nerds, it's going to be a big day for them Tuesday. We got Gabby back, though, to some. Yeah, Gabby back in time, and he made it through the game. Yeah.

Thank God. McGali-ish. And I assume they'll get Califuri some pepto by tomorrow. Like, he's, they locked that up. It's a weird one when someone has diaries. Well, in my head, I was like, he just had diarrhea. And then I was like, oh, if you have really bad diarrhea, There's no way I'd be able to play a game of football in three days time.

You got to look, you drink some ginger ale, have some rice porridge. You know what I mean? Get your stomach right. You'll be back on there. You got to, like, not move for 24 straight hours. You do, man. They're doing the warm up and they're just like doing that thing where they like lift their hips and shit, like a hip lock.

Oh, God. They're like, oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, Ricky, man. You know what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Miles. Yeah, yeah. Suit up, bro. He's not right.

He's not right. I think we've got to start Madiwakeeke. I think Madiwakey's got to be the guy to start. over sack. I think sack off the bench. We got to do a little villa to them. No, you know, well, I see what you mean. You come on strobe.

What's happened is Madueke and as a not, they have not hit the fogging defensive standards for Miguel. That's what it is. He puts people in jail to, like, in, I don't know what they have to do. They have to defend. He sends armed men to their house. They have to defend their property at a requisite level before he lets them then to come on the field.

He was behind that thing when, Remember, Erzal got, he almost got fucking stabbed up and Sayad Kalazinash had to defend him. Oh, yeah. That was, Mikkel. You know who was, Mikhail? Yeah, that was, he was playing the long game. He's like, let me see what they got real quick. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Colassanash, that's, he's like, that's, he's like, that's the fogging standard. He's like, that's good. He's like, Erzell, bro, you soft as hell, man. You hid the way you hit behind that man? Mm-mm. No, no, no. All right.

Let's take a break. Let's take a break. When we come back, we'll talk about a lesser Manchester Manchester, after this. And we're back. Man United One, Newcastle, Nill. Got to say, Patrick Dorgoo, your best mate. Listen to the pod.

I said, bro, you've never, so no one has looked more like their name on some doorgoo-ass shit. But then you come through. Just when I thought I was right, you prove me wrong, Patrick Dorcas. And not even like a, like a, like a seriously difficult finish that was. Yeah? No, no, no. Skillful. Skillful.

From the Dane. I didn't even realize he was Danish. I cannot believe he's Danish. I refuse to believe he's Danish. Bro, believe it. Believe it. I love immigration. Yeah.

Joshua King, who used to play for Bournemouth, right? He was Norwegian and I just couldn't. Oh, yeah. But also his name was Josh. He was mixed race, but also his name was Joshua. you were king. Yeah. And I was like,

none of that makes sense. Yeah, what Gambian father, Norwegian mother. There it is. So what's Dorgu? What's he rocking parental-wise? Dorgu,

let's see. If you are Patrick-ass-Dorgoo. He just grew up in Copenhagen. All right. So he's just a Nigerian kid living in Denmark. So he's been out here, it looks like.

All right, man. Shout out to you, man. Hope you enjoyed your Christmas ham. Yeah. The hell. tray or you know it's very hoaggy or whatever that word that danish people use for cozy I don't know bro that's the hardest fucking language to pronounce like you got danish slang

in your head I was gonna go I did cozy and you said it like we should oh yeah because my uh you know my partner her majesty she studied abroad there in college so she she brought back random she brought back some danish she brought back a bunch of those butter cookies yeah yeah exactly where you put all your information on the back yeah where I put all my sewing materials Yeah, their version of Snapple. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, man, you won New Cal, I mean, look, United's, they're, they're clawing.

They're way in. Their clawing. Them holding on to a 1-0 lead is the most shocking thing about this game. Yeah, yeah. As well as Amorim after going, I'll never change, I'll never change, I'll never change, back for baby. Wow, looking for some changes.

And I read today, the reason he's started changing, he sort of is, what did he say? He was basically like, it's not because of the, the pressure from you guys or the fans because now we understand the way we want to play and the principles are the same. We can change the system and I think we're going to become better team. But when you talk previously about changing the system all the time,

I can't change it because of players on and I'm changing because of you. I think that is the end for a manager. It's like that's a very weird, it's a weird thing to be like, even though he probably needed to change you, but I didn't want him to think it was because of you guys just be like so insecure. Yeah.

So he's extremely anxious is what to tell him. Yeah. I'm still wearing my Kanye West merch because I believe in it and I'm not going to change because y'all telling me this is problematic. I'm going to make a decision myself. That is some Chris Brown fan logic if I ever yet.

It was a decision I made. I wasn't about to have y'all thinking that y'all got me to do all this shit even though you did, even though you did. Nothing to do with and then names every journalist full name and day of birth. And his burn book.

Damn, my mom did the same thing when she lost dessert. privileges in Thanksgiving 2008. My aunt came over with a better dessert that she made. Oh, shit. Oh. And it was, you know what I mean? It was a little contentious. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

After this. Power struggle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then she just stepped down because she knew that she'd been displaced. Was it a hostile takeover? It wasn't fully hostile. I think it was agreed upon. Yeah.

My mom starts making my aunt's dessert. Oh. See, she changed her hole. She went through a back for. Wow. She changed almond, too. Yeah, what was the dessert change? What are we talking?

It was originally, I think we were doing a, we're doing a sweet potato pie, which we love. But Bond comes through Thanksgiving away with a banana pudding with the little chessmen on top. Oh, we've never seen anything like. Put the chest pieces? No, no, it's a pepper's far. Pepper's butter cookies.

It has like a chest pieces on the cookie. Okay, okay. So for going the tradition. She hit one chest piece inside, though. That was a little treat for the kids. foregoing the traditional nilla wafer in a banana pudding and went for the, oh, that's classy. So she put her entire foot in it. Yeah, went big time and it killed.

And there was questions being asked. Wow. In the house. And there was a lot of like, I ain't, nah, I don't even like banana pudding. Y'all like banana pudding? Like that went on for a while. Oh. Y'all think a backboard is popping?

I don't know, y'all, for real. Do y'all even watch football? I don't know. Do y'all even know ball? Is that even enough? Is that even, will everyone have enough players on the field if I do that? I just, I don't even think. I don't even think. I picture the reaction when

you, when everybody had that first bite of your aunt's dessert was like when, uh, they found out when Tyrion Rian Carriger found out that Brendan Rogers got sacked in the studio and he touched his thigh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Oh. Did you Oh. What? To what tea, bro. Oh, shit. We're all looking around like, can we react to this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like, what the fuck do we see?

Then you have to go sympathy bites of your mum. thumbs dessert for a little bit. She could tell. She could tell. She knew. She knew immediately. She knew you were fucking with. Next year, next year, she just comes up banana pudding, a year later.

A year later, now there's Chesman in our home. That's the thing. Oh. Oh, wow. Okay. She's like, actually, I thought wing backs are played out anyway. You know what I mean? I feel like there's other ways to stretch the pitch out.

You don't need to play a back fight. Anyway, it's fine. It's fine. I'm just doing some more. Precisely. Guardiolissimo is what I'm into now. All right. Liverpool Wolves. Liverpool, 2, Wolves won, first visit for Wolves since Diogo Jota's passing.

Wolves, obviously the club Diogo Jota signed from before joining Liverpool. His family was out there at the beginning of the match. It was a really a wonderful moment. There was all kinds of stuff before. Like I saw that the night before, like the Wolf Squad had gone to lay flowers like at Anfield for Diogo Jota. Ryan Gravenberg, great, great just first time. Just like lurking around around the edge of the box. Yeah, I'm having that. Boom. Just tucked in neatly.

And then Florian virts. Little tiny Florian. Flo, Flo. The little man. Flo, you got your goal, Flo. You well done, buddy. Great link up from. God, Echitke, though.

What an assist. If I want to be still voting about it. It's annoying when you watch that they signed a center forward for pretty much the same. Him, Shesco, and Giacoras are kind of the three. and you just see one who's really good at playing football and scoring goals and the other two are not good at both of those things, yeah. Chesco's good at dunking the, he's good at dunking the basketball.

He can't do a windmill, so I got to give him credit for that. I think I saw him one, do one through the legs too. I think you're right. Yeah, he's, don't sleep, I mean, I actually, I enjoy seeing. Don't be surprised if he gets a mid-season transfer to the Wizards. Is that always saying? Well, he will get, no, he will get his shit. He will get rolled up in the NBA.

But it is nice to see. I like seeing when you see goofy-ass strikers because also he's coming from a basketball nation. I'll tell you what, I don't like saying. Yeah. Tim Howard say Florian Verk. He tries so hard to say, he's like beer.

Beir? It's like when someone says, Barcelona. We're like, we don't want to hear that, me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know where you're from.

You're from Croydon, say Barcelona. He's trying so hard to like just be respectful to European sounds. Yeah, yeah. Well, that's, well, that's a nice thing from an American to actually care about people from other countries. He might be the only one.

He might be the only one. The last good American. That's the movie made about Tim Howard and his teeth. Yeah, exactly. It's him and his dentist. The last good American. It starts off, he's in a dentist's chair. The guy's polishing his veneers.

Yeah, I mean, Liverpool, I think they're putting it, they're putting it together, they're slowly climbing back, they're getting stability, I think. I think they're going to be, it's funny. They're obviously not in the title race. I think what's the point's difference? They're 10 behind Arsenal.

Yeah. I mean, you don't know, but. Stranger things have happened. You think between City and Arsenal, like if you're Liverpool, if you had just one of those teams up there, like you have a hope, but the two of them are kind of, I think they're going to, one of them at least will pull clear. But Liverpool had that weird thing where they,

obviously that the death of Jota is a big factor that I'm sure was playing on their minds and stuff and then Salat the Salar issue now he's away so when Salah comes back are we interested to see what happens but they've kind of had that like weird whoa well that was a crazy like well they just kept losing every game

for about a month or six weeks and then there's no you can't really come back from that the Premier League but I think they'll be in the top I think they'll end up third I'm going to say oh that's a big jump for them hey here's a question for you guys now I know that in the Premier League, there's no such thing as tanking. Because of

relegation, you can't tank, you can't throw games. There's no draft to tank. You don't benefit. Yeah, yeah. But if you're running Liverpool, is there a little voice in your head saying, yo, let's finish like fifth or sixth, and then just win

a Europa League. We'll just destroy the Europa League and then we'll just get a free trophy. That's absurd. That's madness. That's some Tottenham-ass thing. Is that Tottenham ass thing? Is that Tottenham? Yeah, that's not in the brain.

That's not, they wouldn't stand for that. You're forgetting just how bad being in the Europa League is. You're like a person who had a baby two years ago and forgot how hard it is to have a baby at the beginning. Let's have another baby. What are you doing? Don't you remember? We went to fucking Azerbaijan three times.

Didn't sleep for three months. Why are you back going to Azerbaijan? One of our players didn't go because it's so fucked up. between the country he from, he didn't even go. Yeah, and the guy from there couldn't even pronounce that country. You're making some good points, fellas. But yeah, I don't know. I mean,

they unfortunately, for better or worse, they have the fugging as standards. And those are not the standards for Liverpool Football Club. Also, the money. The money is, yeah, yeah. It's like genuinely, if you don't get in the Premier League now, they're changing the spending rules next year, but like that's, you lose that on like,

you have to, even if you win the Europa League, you make like 60 million less. Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is Because even just our little run last season in the Champions League, that set us up nice, a little bit of cash to play with. But anyway, it also sounds like we're in the market, apparently, if you saw that our TEDA press conference,

he said, we are actively looking at. What do you think about Semeno who's probably going to city? Like, if you're, would you make that play? Like, would you do the big boy thing, which city seem to do just buy the player and then get, like, they're going to get rid of Oscar Bob by the sounds of it? Yeah. Or like Marmush, where they're like, I don't know,

they're like, what are this mother, like Marmoo's like, did this motherfucker come from? Oh, yeah, I forgot. Get him out of here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They've got so many of his players. But, like, that's what you kind of have to do.

Now, I don't know, we have a lot of wingers. So I don't know what that really does. But I love the fact that he is a fan. So he's already, like, from everything you've, like I've read, is like, Semenio, if we came knocking, he's like, oh, absolutely. I'm here, baby. There's a question for you guys. Is there going to be a problem between him and Servigno?

No. Like, I feel like their names is too close. If I'm Simeonio, I don't want to Semenio around. I'm Savigno. Oh, because that's how white British people pronounce names. Semenio. They're like, wait, which one did you say? Which one did you say Sireno?

You're the Slaid, lad from city, aren't you? The Labyrinio, right? Salaero. Yeah. Sillero, which is actually an ice cream in the UK's Salaero. It's an orange-flavored ice cream. Yeah, there can only be one Sivino. Yeah, one of the old suffix.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. in the room, you know? Yeah, yeah. I mean, Savigno's probably on his way out anyway at some point. So, like, he, when he played against Arsenal at home for City last season, he, like, made a lovely dance and set the ball free to, I don't remember who scored. And I was like, this guy is a player. Do you know why I'm worried about City, by the way, just generally, he started,

the so-so-so-good. The So-So-so-good is back. If you noticed that. Yeah. Sean Daesh, so-so-good. The over-patronizing PEP is back, which is bad. Mind games. That means he knows they're going to be, they're going to be.

good but um yeah he's because he's it's like cooking bro he's like no bro i turn up the heat around now a little bit we were at a simmer we were bubbling now just get a little bit more intensity we'll see but no liverpool a liverpool a back back back and be interesting to see how they do when salad returns but um yeah i think they'll be definitely top four i think villa villa and them are now locked in for top four is my prediction i think chelsea will not be top four and who's even close to that those are the top four oh no it's Man, you could sneak in fifth out of Chelsea, is my prediction. Because they don't have those midweek games.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That most perfect, yeah. I really, it's funny, because every, all the Liverpool supporters I know who are absolutely like, we're fucked, this is terrible. I don't even know what the fuck. I'm like, you're going to, you'll figure it out. I think they're in the process. Three games on the bounce, as they say.

So, yeah, look, unfortunately, that kid with the man you hair, that motherfucker, it is continuing to grow. Yeah, it's over, bro. Yeah. Go ponytail. Great it. All right. Elsewhere around the league, Brentford 4, Bournemouth 1, Kevin Shada, Shada,

Shade, whatever, however we want, is Shadenfreude out here. I like Shadeh. Shadeh. The sweetest taboo. The sweetest taboo. You give me the sweetest taboo. You should really sign for Arsenal. Was that a perfect hat trick?

That was a natural hat trick. I was watching it. Left foot, right foot, head. Hattrick. I hope they met. You only like, I hope the commentation says perfect hatchet. Because left foot, right foot, header. The perfect hot chick.

Yeah. Unbelievable. In the right order. Yes. Oh, yeah. The last one was, dude, every fuck, and he is, like, to use another cliche, deceptively strong for his size. Like, when he's dribbling, I'm like, God damn, bro, for how short you are, I'm surprised you are hanging like that in the Premier League. Low gravity, dog, he's so low to the ground.

He just, yeah, he can just push off of anybody. And he, man, solid finish of third times. I'm like, God, damn, like that, I think it was a second goal that he finished. I was like, see, if fucking Martinelli could do shit like that, you might not even have no work. Because you can't, but he can, that's, uh, anyway, I think he looks a player. Him and Igor together is it. I mean, like, I think like Keith Andrews, again, sneakily,

I told you I watched a YouTube, like 14 minute preseason thing of him for some reason. It just seems like a really nice, Matt. I don't know what, I was like, the idea of him being set piece coach, Keith Andrews, Northern Irish, you're like, there's no way he's going to be good at Brentford, But the eighth, that's, he's ahead of Tottenham with Frank. That's amazing. Yeah, exactly. And give him his flowers.

Give him, get the flowers, go to the gas station, you get some flowers. Yeah. Give him to Keith Andrews. Here you go. They're three behind fifth. They could easily get that one of them Europe spots. I would love, I'd love a Brentford, I'd love a Brentford sneak into Europe. That would be so good for them.

There's only five points between fifth and 13th right now. It's, it's tight. It's tight. So there's a lot can happen. A lot can happen. But yeah, Kevin Shada, come home. Come home. Can we also talk about one of the funniest own goals?

The own goal in that game was just like, that looked like early 90s English football, just like bounced off like seven people, then hit the guy into the goalie and just like off the post. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a funny goal. We've got a lot for these things. I mean, it was because, yeah, you're like, oh, he cleared it off. No, he didn't clear it off.

He just kicked that shit right into the keeper. And I was the one who I was going to play yakutty sacks behind it. Yeah, exactly. Weirdest call of the week was Simeo goal. They said he tickled the ball into the net. I was like, hey,

don't say I tickled anything, bro. I scored, all right? Yeah. And then also the ball also hit his ass. Don't say I got tickled. Yeah. Don't mention my, you know what I mean?

He went for the clever, like, back. I mean, he had to because the ball was behind him. So that's just how he made it happen by Semenio. But, you know. Antoine, Semenio. Andros Semeno Sign for Arsenal

Or maybe don't We don't know if we need you yet I don't know It feels like city Although I keep thinking If Arsenal just did the thing Where they let them do

Just all the work And they Yeah like as a And go Come on bro Stop playing You know you want to come home And he's like

Yeah Arsenal is stacked right now So they're not going to do I don't think It's not the Arsenal way And also I mean I've I've not told

What's what's Semenio's defensive part. What's the defensive part of his game? Like, he's a good physical play. He's good both ways. Two-footed. Yeah. I think he might lack a little bit of the pauser and the sort of that kind of stuff.

Yeah, yeah. He's a live wire. He's a live wire that one. But he scores, he can, he's got a great eye. He's got a great eye for goal. Yes, he does. And he's, and he, look, I like a big body. You know what I mean?

Because you're a truck, strong. Truck these motherfuckers. Like him to acquire, baby. Morgan, Rogers. bring, let me see the big bodies come home. You know? I'm with you. Because that is kind of, I feel like that's the next evolution is like, okay, they're quick and

good luck fucking body. They will fuck you up. That rugby player builds with skills. Yeah, it's 100%. Yeah. Like what LeBron James is sort of like, they're like, what the fuck is this shit? Well, you know, we know he's gone because Bormon's season is about done.

I don't think they're going to like, they're not going to drop into relegation. They got too many points up. But their season is playing out like the movie centers. It's starting out great. Started out great. The vampires have arrived. And now you wonder.

Yeah, okay, okay. A turn for you, a turn. So just to clarify, you thought the plot for the people in the movie went bad or you didn't like it when the vampires came into that movie? I liked when the vampires came into the movie. What I didn't like was the part right before the vampires came when it's like the power of music is like releasing the ghost of boots. see Collins. Yeah, I didn't need to see B-boys. Yeah, I wasn't so I didn't need to see B-boys.

I can I get, look, Ryan, respect you, bro. You were a fantastic director. The film overall was fantastic. I will say overall. That part, I was like, I don't need to see B-boys. The B-boys was the only miss for me. And that's, that's Tyler Adams getting hurt. Yeah, right, right. When they brought the B-boys out. But he

saved it when we got to see Michael B. Jordan with a flat top. That was cool. So that maybe that's, maybe that's a F.A. Cup run. Okay, yeah, we go. no it's michael be joining a coogie sweater with a flat top who knows we don't know yet the movie hasn't ended but we're definitely at the bad part we're at the bad pop of i think we're at the bar where we go i don't know if i can trust this light skin woman something might be up with her i don't know uh yeah yeah shout out haley steinfeld uh all right uh elsewhere burnley nil everton

nil westham nil fulham one harry wilson got harry harry harry Thank you. God, every week, bro. And Jimenez, back at it, man. Raul Jimenez with his little, little shin pad on his head. Yeah. Manages to nut it and still being okay. Sunderland one, leads one.

Dominic Calvert-Lewan continues. De Granite Zaka, that Granitejaka is. That reverse ball to Dingra. Woo! Oh, that's... I'm having some of that. I'm having some of that, please. That's one where he twisted his body to do that reverse pass in a way you're like,

You've been doing that over 30s Pilates. You know what you're doing, sir. Oh, someone's got honey in their hips. You know how to prolong your career? That was a serious. That reverse part. I love a pass like that, that the pass is better than the goal. Yeah, yeah.

So me, I'm like, oh, yes, please. Division, execution, because you somehow just like, bro, look how I got that. I had everybody looking foolish and it's right there on a plate for you. Signing of the season? Easily. Are we saying that? Gotta be. I'm cool with that.

Signing in the season. Halfway point of the season will be at. I think I'm struggling. of a signing who's I think if Liverpool were doing better Akitika could be in the mix because he's having a good old run but I can't think of a player that has made

a club like where a son in the league that's seventh that's crazy freshly promoted team so many new players and just having him solidity as captain he's seen it all he just you know he had that fucking great run with Shabby Alonzo in Germany

yeah probably probably him or Shabby Simons, I would say. Was that serious? No, absolutely not. You held such a straight face. Yeah, yeah, I had to. I was trying to be like, was he?

No, that was dry seasoning on there. That was a dry rub I put on that one. Too dry, too dry. You know you're dry when the brisk comes on. That's what Rihanna was saying. Anyway, and then so speaking of which, Crystal Palace Nill, Spurs, won Archie Gray. Who knows, maybe your family owned my

family at some point. Yeah, that's my last time. I don't know how I got that nice. He sounds like a player who scored a hell of a lot of goals in the 1917 to 1980s season. Archie Gray. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Archie with 60 goals in 12 games. That's Arthur, right? Is that Archie? Is Arthur? Is that how you get Archie? I think Archie's probably short-file. Or Archer. Might be Archer.

Straight-up. Oh, no. His name is straight up Archie. Shit. Archie James Francis Gray. Okay, you're doing a lot, bro. Yeah. He doesn't sound as working class as most English footballers.

Let me look at this guy's background. Let me tell you if he's a private school boy. He went to St. John Fisher Catholic High School in Harrigan. Oh, yeah, okay. My team used to John Fisher and Croydon, near Croydon. Hang on. Harrogate, that's a different one. Oh, I don't know this, John Fisher.

Anyway, they're a good sports school, I think. But he's from up north, okay, because he came through Leeds. Isn't he what? He's like 12 years old? How old is he? He's 19. God damn, bro. Yeah, I don't know.

Spurs keeps on doing their thing. I don't know. I mean, they're up there down. They're up there down. Also listening to the pod. They're also funny because we talk about Richarlison always scoring goals that don't matter. Well, he scored two goals disallowed by D.A.R.

Just having to fully, just full on celebrate. I think the first one he went crazy and then it was that was disallowed. And second one, he still went for a celebrate. And then you're like, getting the hat trick of, full celebrations disallowed by the AAR. That's my perfect Patrick.

Yeah. That's your perfect. Every time. Richarlason celebrating three times. Three worldies taken away by VAR. That'd be just so funny.

Palace looked tired. Palace looked tired. They've got not enough players for the Europe and of all. No. And Mateta, JP, come on, baby. What happened?

We were rooting for you. I think he's short to not high enough. It's always the thing. Get him high enough. He shows that bold. It's high as hell. They were high as well. Maybe Eckertiqui getting his bits.

out last week just psychologically damaged him. Yeah. Yeah. New alpha. Put him on tilt, baby. Might be dealing with a rash or something. Who knows? We can never know. Hey, look, JP, it's all good. There might even be a sponsorship deal. Yeah. Well, meat rash. I eat rash, but meat rash. All right. We'll take another quick break. When we come back, we'll round up, just quick caribal cup stuff along with some loose odds and ends from around them. After this.

and we're back just to touch on the caribout cup because arsenal was the only team in the quarterfinals that had to round out to their result again we squeaked into the semis against palace on penalties like i said our main man owen goal scored for us and then margay scored in fucking injury time we're sorry with one of the strangest celebrations ever one of the strangest celebrations ever oh yeah nothing you mean to be no he wasn't even annoyed he looked genuinely annoyed like he was like I don't want to play penalty like he yeah I was trying to work and then there was then he was chatting to Sacker and Madawakeh afterwards and everyone was like maybe he's going to assholes if I didn't celebrate that's felt like no that that would be so crazy

if he was that transparent with it he's like I'm I'm a sign for them bro I didn't mean to do that sorry yeah yeah that would be and then I'm going to just chat to the players afterwards bizarre celebration yeah maybe it was one of those things where it's sort of like Declan Rice after it's just like bro what the fuck are we doing, man. Like, we could have, maybe we could have won, maybe we could, I don't know, either way, flawless penalty taking from

us. And then Kepa came through. I mean, for both teams, the level of the penalties. Yeah, that's true. Nominal. Yeah. What was your, uh, one of my favorite penalties was Jury and Timbukes. I'd never seen take one, but he just two step run up, smashed it and then didn't even, a lot of the players

like, gee, the crowd up and he was just like, I'm going back. I'm just, works not finished yet. They were so efficient and felt like we've been working on penalties to the point that it wasn't even and a occasion to them. They're like, yeah, we're doing penalties. All right, watch it. Like, because when I saw Saliba come up, I said, what the fuck is this shit?

That's my favorite. Yeah, that was the one that was surely not supposed to go away. I was like, are we sure about this? And there he was, just tucking it away. And I was like, okay. And then he knocked out fake Saliba. Then LaCoy misses. Yeah.

Yeah, it was a beautiful, beautiful result. I know the game where we controlled the whole first half, man. Thousand fucking shot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But Luke Moore on the football ramble said, it goes, Arsenal looks like they're losing steam.

Looks like they're losing steam. And I'm like, we don't look like when we were off flying at the early part of the season. But if we weren't getting results, I would be like, it looks like we're losing steam. We're still somehow. And I get it, if it's the sustainability argument and all that, but we are still getting the results, which. And playing well, that's the problem. Yeah. It's not, it's not like, it's like city.

So if you look at city's result from the other day, that Arsenal are winning and then, just getting a bit like squeaky bum time at the end to quote Alex Ferguson but I feel like it's just like if Arsenal just score the I mean I say if they just score the goals they need to be be scoring them but it's like it'll be interesting I do think Gabriel back is a huge is a huge thing yeah that's going to make the solidity even stronger and then I think the midfield can push up and then we'll see we'll see I'm

still in my head when someone hasn't played for the nearly a year they're going to be the savior for it but when Havert comes back I think that will be the big difference for all I need somebody needs to be Gandalf in this motherfucker. I need Gandalf the white to come back. And he's like, I return to you now. I'm like, yes, please, get somebody be Gandalf. I see it like this.

The rhythm clock restarts every time we have a big injury. Like, Martinelli is informed, then he gets hurt. Now he's missing easy shit again. You come back, you're thinking too much when you're playing. That's why we're sitting back trying to hold on to these leads. You are probably, no, I think there's something in that. I do think there's something in that. It is like, if you just play a few games in a row

with a cell team, it's a huge difference. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a fucking warehouse where it's like zero days since an accident, but it's always on zero days since accident. Or you get like two in? You're like, damn, we had two. Man, what the fuck? Why'd you say anything?

Hey, Rick is drunk again on the forklift. And then someone shits their pants and then you're like back to day zero again. We got to put zero technically because this is a problem. We had to get like a new bleak. You shitted yourself. Yeah. I'm sorry, bro.

We wear white shorts at these home matches, bro. You shitted yourself. What the fuck? That's a work accident, dog. I want to hear Arta say shitted yourself. Guys, I can't believe it. Ricky shitted him himself, guys. Or just him saying the word shot would be funny.

He's why he shards it because that's presumably what happened. He's doing shards, guys. What is this? You're shouting your shorts, guys. You shards the shorts. You made me. You made me. eat nothing but mac and cheese with a loaded handgun.

We tried to play Russian roulette while we ate mac and cheese, but in the warm-up coach. Yeah, guys, guys, guys, when I made you eat a tub of, I can't believe it's not butter with a spoon, guys. So test your stomach, guys. And now I know. That was a mistake, Ricky. Sorry about that.

So anyway, the semis now for the Carabal Cup, Newcastle hosting City, and then Chelsea hosting Arsenal for the first legs, and then they switch it up for the second leg. So that of you. I like the Chelsea draw. I like the Chelsea draw because it's interesting. Since the draw we had in the Premier League against Chelsea,

they haven't looked the same, actually. Like, they had that result against Barcelona. Everest, yeah. Yeah, and then, because I remember at the time, they were treating that draw like they won. I know. They're like, they did all this shit. Wow, look at this, man.

Chelsea opinion. No, they're fucking not. Suspended. Cuccarella, he got hurt. Yeah, but he's looking good. Cuccarella is looking great. left back, I got to say. I can't ever think he's good because of his hair.

I hate him. Well, because he also did racist shit, so I don't fuck with him anyway. I saw an interesting stat just, by the way, about Enzo, about Enzo, how when he's in the Chelsea team, their win percentage is something like 30%. And when he's not, it's like 80%. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow.

So just insisting on Enzo is like not a good, not a good look, it turns out, huh? I mean, for the amount of money they had to pay for him. I'd be like, you better make that shit. I can't keep signing all these fucking people I never heard of. I'm Todd Bowley. What the far? I've been Todd Bulley's like,

can we tank? Can we tank? He's trying to. Yeah, he asked. Should we faint guys? No, he asked. No, Mr. Bulley, there's no, we don't tank. Do you think, do you think Mariska last the season if this continues?

If they start dropping out of Europe, probably not. I don't know. I mean, like, they're reactionary enough that they won't. But if you look at the, I'd imagine if you look at the performances, like, on a continuum, you're like, this is an upward. trajectory it feels like well i don't know since he made those comments the very cryptic comments that he won't explain yeah they've done pretty badly there was something else where like people were like internally showing something about like his discipline on the touchline and they're like it's kind of

bleeding into the player it's like i don't think it's a problem and he's like maybe it is i don't know yeah yeah it's definitely a problem it's definitely a problem okay now what else we got around the somebody what's this what's going on robert levendowski oh yeah so he put in an interview got to read that story I'll read it to you guys. He basically said, at Barcelona, you know, they've got such weird money issues. He said... They're still making payments on him, right?

Yeah, I don't really want to talk about it. I have too much respect for Barcelona. There were many other situations where you had to sacrifice something personally for the good of the club. In short, it was about a bonus that would have been paid depending on the number of goals I scored.

And at that time, Barcelona was looking for every single euro. The bonus wasn't a small amount. For me personally, it wouldn't have changed anything so I didn't really have a problem with it. Do I listen to them? Well, it stays in your head. stays there even if it's just a small percentage, whether to score or goal or not. The highest level of football, that's enough.

Sometimes there's 5% or even 3%. He basically got told that if you score too many goals, it costs the club too much money. That is some abusive parent shit. That sucks. Because you sign me to this contract. Yeah. Don't do good in school now.

I'm going to have to do it. What the fuck? How the fuck are you going to ask a professional goal score to be like, hey, bro. Hey, man, I got these cheeseburgers. man. Like, broke-ass behavior. Either you don't score or the club doesn't exist.

So which what do you want, brother? I mean, it's fine. I could die. I don't even care no more. If you want to score, go ahead. We don't even, you know, nobody cares about us anyway. Everybody hates us anyway. So you might as well just score and get buying the money.

What the fuck? Dude, Barcelona is vile. I'm seeing a, I'm seeing a alternate timeline that should never exist. But let's say he goes for it. He says, fuck that. Give me my money. Barcelona goes into extreme insurmountable death. They never come back.

The people of Catalonia drop the list. It takes about 50 years, but I can see them drop. This could have led to them dropping the list. I would say this. Now, this is, this is, I got to say this, you know, because I know my Spanish history. They do not speak with the Lisp in Catalonia. That's a Castilian thing.

That's Linguayano. So saying Barcelona is actually incorrect. You are saying that as a person who is speaking Castilian Spanish and not how a Catalonian person would say Barcelona. So when people go, you mean Bartholona? You can go, um, actually asshole. That's not how you would say it. I just played them this part of the podcast.

Hold on. Let me find this. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I'll be like, hang on. Let me call my friend Miles. Miles.

Trust me. This motherfucker is insufferable. Something about Castilians. He said Barcelona, Miles. He said Bartholona. Give me the fucking phone real quick. But yeah, I don't know. Look, Barcelona.

to they haven't, I was reading something like they still owe leads so much money for Rafenia. They owe everybody. I'm surprised nobody's repoed a fucking player at this point. Yeah, man. They'd be like, trucks are about to come up. Yeah, exactly. They're like, yo, we put a boot. They put a boot on Rafinia. They're like, like, what kind, bro? It's a 70 pound metal clamp they put

on his leg. You can't play with this shit on? You imagine? They can't get Rashedford. They couldn't get Rastford in a Renicenter truck. They just, that's so funny. He's on a, yeah. He's on a the treatment. Yeah, he's on the treatment table. Somebody just comes in, just drags the treatment table out, puts it on the back of a tow truck.

And one of the TVs. And one TV in the Braker. And they take a physio as well. We'll take a physio as well. How much you make, bro? How much you make a year? We'll say that one. 92,000 euros? You coming with us, bro. Sorry, we're taking that.

You owe the bank. You owe the fucking bank. This is not a game, honey. Meanwhile, Christian Erickson, I did see these comments about just Van United. It's funny to just see this now, but I like, bro, we don't celebrate it. The only shit we celebrate around here is the Champions League or the Premier League. Fuck a Carabal Cup, a Carlin Cup, whatever you want to call it.

And then finally, I mean, we touched on the lonely Victor thing. But did you see this shit about Christian Polisic and Sidney Sweeney that they were trying to say they were dating? Oh, they certainly seem like they deserve each other. I know. Part of me was like, this is a match made in maga heaven, baby. Captain America and Miss Prime White Supremacy Genetics

with her gene ad They're like This is it folks This is it But apparently that was just The Italian press Doing their thing And like Christian Polisic

He's like Well I've been with my girl For a minute You'll get somebody in trouble Did you see a basketball player I forget his name Slid into her DMs It came off on my timeline

And she just like She like reposted it No Get out of here Zion Will Zion William. No, hang on. Yeah, I see.

I'm getting this in my Google search as well. Wait, Zion? Okay, who knows if it's real? But according to this Google search that I have, Zion Williamson DM'd him and asked if she plays Roblox. That was it. Yeah. He just said, you play Roblox?

What the? That's your opener, Zion? You play Roblox? Come on, man. Somebody check his head. Check his head. Check his other deal. Who the fuck?

are you talking to? If you're talking to people saying, do you play Roblox? He has 40 women if they play Roblox. Oh, so maybe Sweeney was on there because there's different. Okay, fine. What is Roadblocks? So should I know? If I want to have sex with this guy, should I know what it is? No, no, no. No, no. You couldn't

handle Zion either. You couldn't handle Zion or you don't. Yeah. You don't need that. You don't need that. You don't need that. You don't need that. The motherfucker The motherfucker was. Okay. What are you going think you do if you busted it open? okay what a lovely image

to leave the listeners on I mean look if you saw him at Duke bro this guy is too powerful for his own shoes the guy is too much anyway here we are

what a week match week 18 we'll be back with plenty of action for the following week we'll have presumably we'll have week 19 and 20

combined is that we're going to do yeah because that feels right yep we're gonna wow guys we're gonna be rolling up our sleeves when we get back to business uh the beginning of the year so we'll be reporting for duty yep reporting for duty afcon duty reporting for duty because yeah 19 yeah because then we have born myth on saturday so table could look table could look very different yeah very similar we could be six points clear that's what's your prediction villa arsenal i think we'll win two no I'm expecting another tight-ass Get the cream ready, 2-1 Get the cream ready All right, cream at Bulls apart I'm gonna go boldly 3-0 last

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