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ARSENAL TROLLS & AFCON DRAMA 🌍 |🍒 Bournemouth vs Man Utd Preview | The Friday Night Test! · The Fellow Reds Podcast - Manchester United

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  Maybe though, Chaz, it's a little bit like when City get
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  all in charge, when we get some other trophies, are we going to
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  a party? As the Arsenal fans keep telling
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  us in the comments, we're a couple of old men and to be
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  fair, I'm proving it because played Paddle the other day and
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  my backs gone and it's it's a nightmare.
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  How are we fellow Reds? And welcome to this latest match
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  preview of our upcoming match against Bournemouth on Friday
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  with me, Span and Chaz. Before we get into it, thank you
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  to our subscribers and followers.
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  We really, really appreciate it. If you're not a fellow Red yet,
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  please subscribe or follow. We're on YouTube, Spotify, Apple
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  Podcasts, we're all over the socials as well so that you
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  don't miss a thing. But we're back, we've got a game
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  coming up, Jazz, and then we've got a bit of a break.
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  So excited about this. Break.
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  A big old, big old break. But before we actually get into
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  the preview, let's have a look at since we last met.
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  Because we've we've been having some fun with a few Arsenal fans
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  on socials, aren't we? Yeah, we've had our first
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  trolls, which is very enjoyable. Yeah.
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  Like I don't know if they have hearing difficulties, but at no
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  point did we criticize Max Diamond.
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  We said he's a very good player, he'll be class.
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  Just said he's not. The second coming of Lionel
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  Messi is basically what we what we were getting at.
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  So just typical Arsenal fans basically getting getting in
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  their heads. Very enjoyable.
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  Morning for me replying to to all of them.
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  So yeah, yeah, enjoyed it. Keep them going, guys.
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  They do not disappoint. Do they just put the rods out
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  and then Arsenal fans jumping away jump in about?
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  10 whoppers this morning, basically, yeah, a couple of
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  blue whales in there, yeah, so. Some big old floppers.
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  In it because. There should be in a position of
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  strength, obviously, you know, looking down on us all at the
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  top of the table. But yeah, they were so nervous
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  and just so Arsenal, yeah, it's just beautiful in it.
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  This is all after they're basically won the league this
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  weekend and they just got through the Champions League
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  last night and they still, Robin Wobble was about someone saying
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  their player is not going to be in the next Messi.
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  So yeah, yeah. And they were, oh, who's saying
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  that? Who's saying that?
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  I'm like, you're saying that? I've got screenshots.
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  So yeah, happy to share that. Happy to share it, guys.
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  Yeah. Love it.
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  You're fun based, but yeah, it's nice to have a little bit of fun
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  and one may continue and then talking about them and getting
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  into the Champions League. They obviously beat Leverkusen
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  last night to go through kind of expected.
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  But then yeah, the other results city out five one and I greatly
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  would have thought that. Yeah, like I wonder what that
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  game would have been like if they obviously didn't get the
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  red card and the setting off, because after that it was
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  basically a done deal. Not that I thought.
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  I obviously City could see that. The second one later on.
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  So I didn't know how how that game would have panned out.
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  But yeah, it was a foregone conclusion once that that
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  penalty was scoring that red card.
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  It was a red card. To be fair, They basically say
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  that the Knicks with the Towners, Yeah.
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  I'm not going to lie, like I said on the last part, I'm
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  pretty happy about it. So it was nice to see a bit of a
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  thump in an aggregate and then just even worse, Chelsea 8 to an
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  aggregate. Yeah, and like it was any kind
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  of hope was done in like 1020 minutes.
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  I considered 2 early goals. And then yeah, like PSG, I think
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  we said it on the last part of the part before is like they've
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  they're clicking into gear. Like same as last year, they had
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  a wobble and they had to go through the qualifying phase and
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  now they're like, OK, yeah, we're like they're free flowing
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  football by the people that are bringing off the bench and
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  Consolo Ramaz and Barcola and all these and Douay and the list
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  goes on of how many good players they've got.
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  So I don't know, I haven't looked at the the odds of who
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  the favourites are now, but you've got to put them up there.
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  Right out there, right out there.
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  Yeah. It's just yeah, I wish you a
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  good team, but it's not been a great look for the Premier
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  League as it really with some of these aggregate scores.
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  It's it's mad. And yeah, like you said,
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  obviously in the first, like it was probably a bit flatter in
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  that score to PSG, but then for it to close out at 8 two, it's
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  yeah, not great. And then our mates, both all
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  glutes ended up going out. Yeah.
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  That's it. That's it crazy, crazy when it
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  went obviously went to extra time and you think like they
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  just needed one goal and they were three but just couldn't.
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  Fair play to to sporting. But yeah, it's a shame.
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  Like I just pulled Bodo away. He's always going to be a tough
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  one for teams, our sporting shade.
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  And he probably saw the the memes and the stats of like,
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  they'd won, they'd won five in a row in the Champions League
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  before We've won five in a row, like in any kind of across any
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  competition. So yeah, fair play.
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  Yeah, yeah, the fairy tales over, sadly.
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  It is, it is, it is the man. Obviously still some some more
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  fixtures tonight. So that Bassa Newcastle won, I
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  mean, being interesting, but I do see that being a bit of a
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  foregone conclusion now it's back at Bassa.
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  Yeah, I think if they went in with one nil, which they should
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  have done, then it would have been a bit more exciting.
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  But I don't know, You just think Bassa.
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  Obviously it's not the Bassa of yesteryear, but it's they're
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  still got some decent players and I think they probably have
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  enough to get over the line. I would quite like Newcastle to
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  to go through like, like I always like to see a bit of an
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  underdog story. So if they did go for Newcastle
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  then I'm here for it. Then I don't want to win it, but
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  OK boss is always fun. Yeah, same.
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  Same. I can't see it, but yeah.
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  And Anthony Gordon snapping back at Wayne Rooney and Ellen
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  Shearer saying that he was basically been stiving, skiving
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  on the bench. Yeah, Yeah.
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  It's not just us getting grief online.
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  I know. Yeah, I love it.
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  And I guess obviously it's the, the modern world, right, with
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  social media that I have the opportunity to respond to this
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  kind of stuff in the public eye. And I don't know, like,
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  obviously we had Van Dyke do it. We've had Martinez do it for for
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  us. Like snapping back a bit.
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  I don't mind it if they're like, as long as it's not, as long as
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  it's not getting your head enough to affect you on the
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  pitch, I think there's no issues of you kind of snapping back it
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  if you disagree with what happened, it said.
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  Yeah, no, I agree. I agree.
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  And I thought you kind of spoke pretty well, to be honest.
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  And obviously, you know, yeah, stuck to his facts.
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  And yeah, I really was saying on his podcast that is different
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  times, isn't it? And I think, you know, it's
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  yeah, Fergie almost wouldn't have let that happen.
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  But I don't think they get much choice now today.
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  And if you'd be invented spaced on sports science instead of
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  what you're supposed to do. But yeah.
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  And then Liverpool One nil down by a home against Canada High.
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  Surely not know exactly. Well, if they play like you guys
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  Spurs, then you could see Galatasaray doing it.
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  But again, you've got to think that they'll have enough to to
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  get through. But like guys, that's right.
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  Never a nice team to play, especially away, but I think
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  they'll have enough at home to to beat them.
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  Can you imagine though? Can you imagine if they actually
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  don't go through? It's going to be.
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  Would they jacking us to sack suckings?
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  No, I don't think so, but a lot of pressure.
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  A lot of fans have lost their heads, right?
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  I think with him they're like Europa League is looking more
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  likely. Like if they've made a mind to
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  change at the right time, like maybe they could push on.
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  But I suspect they might go for Alonso in the summer is my
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  guess. But yeah, maybe they'll just
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  hold on for now. That's the obvious one.
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  And somehow we're still talking about Tottenham Hotspur in the
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  Champions League, but definitely not much much for much longer
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  there. 52 down at home to Athletico tonight.
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  Yeah, I can't see them getting through.
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  Like they just can see too many goals.
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  They obviously look much better against Liverpool, but also
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  Liverpool would be pretty bad, an effort to go to a tough team
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  to breakdown. I just don't think spares have
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  the the players to do at the moment and not enough to to get
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  a three nil win. I wouldn't.
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  Well actually it used to be 4 nil win didn't it?
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  Because no way goes and things like that.
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  And I say, yeah, I don't don't see it happening.
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  No chance, obviously on the back of a a decent result against
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  Liverpool, but you just can't see that.
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  I think, you know, that could be a could be another mess you want
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  for Spurs, but we'll see, we'll see.
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  And just before we get into our upcoming game and preview
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  Senegal strips of the African Cup of Nations.
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  Yeah, Like, oh, no, first of all, why?
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  If that's the rules, why are you taking two months to say that?
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  You could probably do that on the night and go, actually
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  you've forfeited the game, so you're off the pitch for too
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  long. Yeah.
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  Like, why are you taking two months?
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  And then, I don't know, as a player, would you won that medal
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  Like at the end of the day that you carried on playing for the
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  rest of those minutes. Obviously there was a 10 minute
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  break. Would you want like Brahim Diaz,
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  obviously that awful penalty, but I know like I just feel it's
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  tarnished either way. I guess it's tarnished no matter
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  what. But I don't know.
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  As an Algeria player, would you, sorry, Morocco player, would you
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  want, would you won the medal when you didn't win the game?
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  I don't know. Honestly, I just can't believe
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  it. And like you say, you know, two
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  months later as well, it's crazy.
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  I mean, it's one of them, isn't it?
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  They've had all the, you know, they've lifted the trophy there.
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  They've had all the celebrations.
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  You know, the history books will now show that Morocco won it.
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  And but there's always going to be an asterisk there, isn't it?
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  But just think of the what Morocco have actually missed out
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  on in terms of really celebrating that, celebrating
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  with the. Yeah, exactly.
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  Yeah. It's.
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  Not, oh, Susan, home a home nation as well.
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  So they it would have been insane to be there like having
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  won it. And like you said, the the
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  parties and the street parties and all sorts.
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  So now it's like, I don't know, people celebrating now.
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  I'm not sure. I'd have to have a look on
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  social media to see how Moroccans are reacting right?
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  Yeah, I mean of the, you know, if the rules are that black and
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  white, as you say, how is it taking this long?
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  And yeah, that's that's what's bonkers for me.
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  But maybe though, Chaz, it's a little bit like when City get
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  all them charges and get stripped of all them stuff.
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  When we get some other trophies, are we gonna have a party?
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  Absolutely. Asterix are no Asterix for
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  having it. Yeah, 100% yeah.
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  Yeah. So I'll be.
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  Buzzing. So maybe go for it, Morocco.
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  Who cares? Champion can't be honest.
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  Brilliant, brilliant. Well, yeah, that's the that's
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  the world of football really, since we since we last met.
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  But let's get into it. Let's get into our game coming
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  up on on Friday at the Vitality Stadium, 8:00 PM in the UK.
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  It's on on Sky Sports. I keep saying it, but another
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  big one, mainly because you don't have lots of football to
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  play, but with us playing on Friday night as well, what an
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  opportunity to add even more distance and pressure on that
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  kind of chasing, yeah. Yeah, exactly what I was
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  thinking. Like first of all, we don't want
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  23 day a day gap of us sitting on a lofts or a disappointing
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  draw. And then like you said, just to
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  ramp up that pressure before the rest of the weekend pictures.
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  It just be a nice place to enjoy the enjoy the weekend's games.
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  So yeah, hopefully we have to get the win because yeah, I just
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  think we had that gap, even that gap of afternoon to Newcastle of
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  11 days was awful. So yeah, double that.
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  It's yeah, not going to be fun. So yeah, we've got, we've got to
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  win basically. Tricky, tricky 1 though.
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  Bournemouth like a really one when I was looking at them as
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  well. It's it's a hard one to kind of
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  make out because their last three games they've drew nil,
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  nil with Burnley away, nil, nil with Brentford at home, 11 with
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  Sunderland at home. They sit in 10th position.
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  And then I was looking at kind of their goals for and again, so
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  they've scored more goals in Aston Villa, which maybe isn't
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  too difficult, but then they've conceded almost as many as
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  Tottenham, who are looking like they might even go down.
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  So such a weird. I mean, you know, I'm hoping now
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  at this stage and under Carrick and where how we can play and it
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  should all be about was right and I was taking the game to
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  them and you'd hope you'd have enough.
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  But definitely a tricky customer and obviously they've Iola as
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  well as the as the manager there poses a threat and, you know,
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  some say may have his eye on the on the United job.
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  But yeah, what do you think about?
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  Yeah. Right.
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  I was looking at their stats before they've actually drawn 5
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  out of the last six games. So they're obviously showing
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  enough that they did they lose many games.
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  They just maybe they're obviously they've lost their
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  their ghost or their main goal scorer.
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  Obviously in the January transfer window, it's a menu.
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  So maybe that's because of that essentially they've lost their
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  they've lost their main attacking threats.
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  So maybe some of these games, last six games maybe would have
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  been a win because he would have picked up with a goal.
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  But now they're just not haven't got quite got that firepower to
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  turn all those into wins or most of those into wins.
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  I think they're a decent team. Like we've struggled against
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  them in the past as well. They scored quite a lot against
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  this. So like you said, still got to
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  go in with confidence, but definitely don't want to
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  understate them because they they're a decent football,
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  football playing team. They're not like a low block
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  kind of messy team. They can play football, which
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  again, I hope plays into our actual failures as we've
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  mentioned before, like we tend to do better against teams who
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  don't just sit back. So I think they fall into that
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  category, although obviously knowing that, will they do that,
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  knowing that that's kind of our kryptonite in in some ways they
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  might try and change that, but I don't know if they necessarily
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  have the players to do that. They're not a super physical
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  team like some of the ones like in Newcastle or or in Everton
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  say. Yeah, it'll be interesting.
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  Yeah, definitely. And obviously from recent
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  results, they've been keeping things pretty tight.
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  And this is where it's down to our our special players that
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  we've been talking about to like find a way, you know, and unlock
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  things. And, you know, is it going to be
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  a step piece? You know, is it going to be a
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  bit of magic from somebody? You know, this is where we need
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  those players to really step up. And maybe it is, you know, a
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  chance for the likes of copy to, you know, in games like this to,
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  you know, to offer a little bit more as well as an additional,
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  you know, attacking option and and to unlock them.
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  But tricky customer. We're doing this.
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  We're doing this a little bit earlier than some of the press
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  conferences and stuff like this. So I don't have all the
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  information. But in terms of team news that
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  kind of picked up on for them. So Tyler Adams is a doubt for
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  them. You know, he's a decent player.
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  Cook, solo and Cliver are out. But then yeah, a few players in
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  terms of ones to watch ready from, from my point of view for
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  Bournemouth. So Tavernier, obviously, he's
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  been linked with those as a potential new left winger.
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  What do you think of him? Yeah.
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  He's decent. I don't know if again, I'd have
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  him as a he's a good squad addition, but he wouldn't be
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  like our starting left midfielder in my opinion.
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  And he's decent kind of from set pieces as well.
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  So yeah, decent player. Definitely wanted the players I
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  thought is that kind of a threat as well.
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  So yeah, decent. I obviously think like Ivan
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  Ilsen, he's decent player. He's kind of he gets stuck in,
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  he's a bit annoying, he's like quite aggressive player and pops
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  up with a goal as well. So I think he's he's probably
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  mainly probably their main threat now that Semenya has
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  gone. And if Clyde, that's out as
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  well, he's probably the one we have to pay most attention to
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  from kind of a striker perspective.
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  Yeah, it's a good shout. I kind of worry a little bit
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  with him and your old because sometimes a bit of that
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  physicality and up against Yeah and he's, you know, he's a bit
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  fragile with but fingers crossed that's not an issue.
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  I think some of the players are like from Bournemouth as well.
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  Alex Scott looks like a player in this field.
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  He's a good one. Yeah, and then looks tidy.
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  I'll be. Honest this is mainly fantasy
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  football related but Sanesi I've got him on my team and he's just
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  always returns points and he got 1010 last round.
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  Is it is it just is also they're gay, they're not consuming many
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  and is he pop up assists or is it is it clean sheets?
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  It's a. Mixture of I think just assists,
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  sometimes I think the odd goal as well and just man of the
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  match and man of the match points as well.
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  So hopefully he has a disaster for me in fantasy.
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  There's no way he's definitely starting.
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  I'm doing that just to make sure that I'm not I'm already on my
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  team, but he's definitely another another one to watch.
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  Cool, right. Turning the attention to us in
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  terms of availability again, you know, ahead of really hearing
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  from Carrick, but it feels like more of the same.
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  So no Martinez as far as I'm aware, no delete, no doggy.
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  You're hearing kind of anything else?
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  That knows exactly the same. I think everyone else basically
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  the usual suspects that we've been seeing I think are all
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  available. So I'd just love to know a bit
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  more about what's going on with Dimick.
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  Obviously back injuries, one of these ones which I don't know,
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  you never really know and they're quite hard to diagnose I
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  guess as well in terms of actual, actual issue.
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  And they're not easy, easy things to fix.
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  So you just got to hope that he can get back playing at least a
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  few games before the season ends and she would be a great
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  addition. Well, I've had AI don't know.
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  If he's in in the World Cup, obviously he's a strange
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  relationship with Cuman on his face.
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  Cuman. So again, selfishly, from a
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  United perspective, if he had the summer off, probably pretty
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  good for him because he maybe it's one of those things where
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  you just need to fully heal up and playing a game every every
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  three days or so in the real World Cup might not be ideal for
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  him. But I know he's probably, he has
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  been in the squad and he had a few starts recently.
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  But I think they have a bit of a weird relationship then.
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  Yeah, yeah. It's a shame for him.
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  I think I've had a sympathy injury for him.
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  Jazz. So obviously as the Arsenal
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  fans, as the Arsenal fans keep telling us in the comments,
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  we're a couple of old men. And to be fair, I'm proving it
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  because played Paddle the other day and my back's gone and it's
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  a, it's a nightmare. So I can, I can relate.
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  You've got a few. How long you're out for?
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  Oh. He knows it could be a delay.
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  Maybe I'm never, they don't ever return.
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  But yeah, horrible, horrible injury.
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  And just wish him, wish him all the best because I'm feeling it
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  for him. I'm feeling it for him.
• 18:59
  Hope we get him back in with that in mind then line UPS what
• 19:04
  you're thinking. Obviously, especially the same
• 19:09
  again, I think you basically go through the exact same.
• 19:12
  So lemons right back, Dallow, Yoro, Martinez, Shaw, Kobe,
• 19:19
  Cass, Bruno and then this is doing obviously the only one
• 19:23
  which he kind of switched in and out.
• 19:25
  I I'm going to go. I don't think this is probably
• 19:28
  what he's going to do, but this is what I'm going to do.
• 19:30
  Kunia, Cesco, Ahmad. I think bride just looks a bit,
• 19:36
  I don't know, but it's a bit off it the last few games.
• 19:38
  Yeah, a bit sluggish maybe. So that's what I would do, but I
• 19:42
  think he will probably start the same team as started against.
• 19:52
  Where's my head gone when? Did we play last?
• 19:58
  You mean Villa Villa. Same team as we played as we
• 20:03
  played against Villa, but I don't know.
• 20:08
  Yeah, I think he'll probably start the same team as that.
• 20:12
  But I what I prefer, I think maybe just mix it up a bit.
• 20:16
  Like they probably think you're going to start same team, Maybe
• 20:17
  do you start Cesco and start Ahmad?
• 20:20
  Because I can't believe what I think is Kyle Anka was doing
• 20:22
  some analysis the other day and he was saying that in the Villa
• 20:27
  game he had a chat with Junior at some point.
• 20:30
  And basically he was like get wider, stick more to that left
• 20:34
  wing because I'm a Brazilian on the round side.
• 20:37
  And that's what the kind of goal came from, from that kind of
• 20:40
  bending run. So I think maybe those two will
• 20:42
  just offer better width, which I think is suits Cesco because
• 20:47
  like I said in the last in the review, we were putting balls in
• 20:49
  turn Bomo and it's pointless get the six foot 5 strider in there.
• 20:55
  So yeah, that's what I would do. Yeah, I agree with you.
• 20:59
  I think I love Brian but I think he's been been off it a little
• 21:02
  bit and I think actually Ahmad does look the part and probably
• 21:06
  deserves it. But I don't think I think Cesco
• 21:09
  will start, but I think Brian will start as well and Ahmed
• 21:12
  will drop to the bench. I think Carrick will show
• 21:15
  loyalty and also part of me thinks is Carrick thinking, I'm
• 21:21
  wondering whether like I'm always an impact player off the
• 21:24
  bench as much as Cisco or Ahmad might be.
• 21:26
  So that that's maybe why he doesn't.
• 21:29
  I mean, I've got little to no evidence to actually suggest
• 21:32
  that Brian could have come off the bench and do stuff.
• 21:34
  But the fact that he's not really done that maybe suggests
• 21:37
  that he thinks he can get more out of a Cisco or an so yeah, I
• 21:43
  agree with you kind of I think it makes sense maybe for our to
• 21:46
  start, but I don't think he will.
• 21:47
  And I think you'll, you know, the team you've mentioned with
• 21:50
  junior Brian and Cesco, Cesco up there, or maybe maybe this is a
• 21:54
  game that Brian, you know, gets, gets a goal or two.
• 21:56
  That'd be great, wouldn't it? Yeah, yeah.
• 21:59
  Exactly. And all right, let's get on to
• 22:02
  that then. Predicted jazz big one last
• 22:04
  time. You got it almost spot on.
• 22:06
  And you said you're going to put some money behind it from from
• 22:08
  now as well. So what you're going for?
• 22:10
  Yeah. I'm going to go to 1 United and
• 22:15
  I'm going to have Junior and Cesco goals.
• 22:21
  Yeah. And then for them, Evan Nelson
• 22:24
  is the goal, and then I'm going to have one Bruno assist this
• 22:28
  week. As always, as always, let's make
• 22:31
  it, let's make it, let's make it detail.
• 22:33
  Do you think in how the goal is going to?
• 22:37
  Go, we'll go one up, they'll equalize and then Cesco even
• 22:43
  maybe off the bench or I think it will get the winner.
• 22:46
  Love it, love it. I've gone 2 nil.
• 22:50
  I'm thinking I'm feeling a clean sheet, which I would love, and
• 22:53
  I've gone Cesco and gone for a little McGuire McGuire goal.
• 22:59
  You're a slab head corner. Yeah, yeah, I feel maybe a con.
• 23:03
  Yeah. I can just see, you know, a bit
• 23:05
  of a rogue, rogue goal story, but you know, that's never.
• 23:07
  Assessed right there, isn't it? For Bruno?
• 23:10
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 23:10
  I mean, you can't not think that, can you really?
• 23:13
  But yeah, just I have a feeling that it could be, could be a bit
• 23:16
  of a Harry Maguire, Harry McGuire moment.
• 23:18
  So yeah, two nil and hopefully either of us is right because I
• 23:22
  just want the win going into this break, as you've mentioned.
• 23:25
  But yeah, I think tricky, tricky game potentially, but we should
• 23:29
  have enough. And yeah, looking forward to it.
• 23:32
  I really want to enjoy it because there's no football
• 23:34
  after it that I want to watch. So definitely all the juicy
• 23:39
  games from from this game make as well.
• 23:42
  So as I mentioned, we're up first.
• 23:44
  So it's a chance to make an early mark.
• 23:46
  And then what is tasty is that then Liverpool are away at
• 23:50
  Brighton who are on form, which is which is.
• 23:53
  Yeah, Brian have been. Picking up quietly.
• 23:55
  Been picking up points for a push for Europe after having a
• 23:57
  bit of a dodgy patch. I think they they're making a
• 23:59
  late surgery, yeah. So it could be, you know, really
• 24:03
  interesting. So even they win even more
• 24:05
  important Chelsea away at Everton, which as we know is I
• 24:09
  know they're not doing great at the new stadium.
• 24:11
  However, they've been a bit of a tricky customer.
• 24:14
  Haven't they ready Everton just generally?
• 24:15
  So that's another. You can see that being.
• 24:18
  A draw, yeah. I'll take, I'll take draws all
• 24:22
  day. You know, if the if I was
• 24:25
  getting three points at the minute and we are hopefully then
• 24:27
  it's brilliant. Just makes that a little bit
• 24:29
  more comfortable and then over noticeable fixtures.
• 24:34
  It's actually Newcastle V Sunderland, which is a big game
• 24:36
  for them. And this week.
• 24:38
  Oh yeah, I wonder how. That will go after the turns out
• 24:42
  it goes tonight with Bassa maybe yeah.
• 24:46
  You feel like if they managed to get through and they'll be at a
• 24:48
  high and I might, probably might actually carry them through.
• 24:51
  Yeah, that game. But it'll be interesting one.
• 24:54
  Yeah, and they're going to be up for that game anywhere out in
• 24:55
  the Saint James's Park as well. Few.
• 24:58
  Few beers are going to be drunk on that day out there.
• 25:01
  Yeah, and then a big, big one down the bottom.
• 25:03
  Spurs at home to Forest. Massive.
• 25:07
  Huge. Like it's.
• 25:09
  Always one of those ones if you lose that the gap then become
• 25:14
  like a spurs when it'll be 4 point gap.
• 25:16
  I think is, but if if forests win that also it's at it's at
• 25:22
  home for spares and that's almost worse for them.
• 25:26
  I think like if they don't start well or first getting the first
• 25:29
  goal, I think like and I think first have obviously they're
• 25:33
  kind of going in different directions first kind of
• 25:35
  improving and and spares obviously on a kind of led the
• 25:39
  lane. So yeah, really interesting
• 25:43
  game. I'm quite excited to see that
• 25:45
  one. I think tonight's big for that
• 25:47
  game as well, to be honest, because I think if Spurs get
• 25:49
  absolutely slapped by F, like, Oh yeah, at a minute, they've
• 25:54
  got probably a bit of confidence and a bit of wind in the sails
• 25:57
  from the Liverpool game. But yeah, if they go into that
• 26:01
  and, you know, actually being hammered by Athletico, then it's
• 26:04
  not going to help, is it? It's not going to help.
• 26:05
  All the fans are feeling as well.
• 26:07
  And then away from the Premier League, there's no game for
• 26:11
  Arsenal and City because they've got the League Cup final to
• 26:14
  contest. Yeah.
• 26:16
  What do you think? Just got.
• 26:19
  Offered a ticket for that and I said absolutely not.
• 26:22
  Really. Why?
• 26:23
  We don't want to watch 2 clubs I hate.
• 26:26
  So yeah, turned that down. Brilliant.
• 26:32
  I I think Arsenal will win it like City just have been.
• 26:37
  There's not just been playing rubbish right?
• 26:39
  Let's be honest. Like they've been dropping
• 26:41
  points for over shopping. Obviously went to Champions
• 26:42
  League last night. Maybe that all galvanized them
• 26:45
  potentially, but like Arsenal kind of Morales are obviously
• 26:51
  very high. They basically won the league.
• 26:52
  They got through the Champions League.
• 26:55
  So you think that their confidence must take them
• 26:57
  through? I think they will.
• 26:59
  I think they'll win it. It's yeah, I agree, yeah.
• 27:03
  The thing is though, and it could be funny for us with our
• 27:06
  beloved Arsenal fans, but it's got a little bit of a wobble in
• 27:10
  it in terms of if City can capitalize on this and like make
• 27:15
  a mark and beat them comfortably, then they've still
• 27:17
  gone to play again. And you know, a lot this there's
• 27:19
  a lot of distance. They're not really between them
• 27:21
  and them and asked in the league.
• 27:22
  But I think just psychologically it could be a it could be a
• 27:26
  juicy one for kind of City to get them beat and then take it
• 27:30
  forward. So yeah, I mean, I'm interested
• 27:33
  to see, to see what happens with that and obviously if, sorry, if
• 27:38
  Arsenal win it, then we've got them celebrating already and
• 27:42
  talking about all sorts of nonsense like trebles and things
• 27:44
  like that. So as much as I don't want to
• 27:48
  see to win anything ever, this just really starts the Arsenal
• 27:54
  loving, doesn't it? Which I don't think I'm ready
• 27:56
  for. Yeah.
• 27:57
  No, definitely not. Definitely not.
• 28:00
  Yeah, that's that's the weekend's football to look
• 28:02
  forward to. And now it's time for the usual
• 28:05
  challenge, Jazz. But I believe, I believe we're
• 28:08
  flipping it. We are indeed.
• 28:11
  You're coming at me, right Challenge.
• 28:15
  It's a couple of questions because it's not like a list of
• 28:19
  stuff, but. All right, come on, Say Pat.
• 28:22
  Say Patrick's Day yesterday. So I'm going Irish Irish related
• 28:27
  like so first one which Irish born Manchester United player is
• 28:32
  the only one to have scored a hat trick for the club in
• 28:35
  European competition? Against which?
• 28:38
  So which was the first story to to score a hat trick in the
• 28:43
  European competition? Irish born Which Irish born
• 28:47
  Manchester United player is the first to score a hat trick in
• 28:51
  European competition? Yeah, it might even be.
• 28:54
  The only one actually thinking about it probably is only
• 28:58
  actually is only and test. Is right keen too obvious?
• 29:05
  Yeah, think of other goal scoring Irish players.
• 29:09
  Right, OK. In United history, this is
• 29:16
  Remember, I was going to say. This got to be back in back in
• 29:18
  the day a little bit, hasn't it? You come at me with a with an
• 29:26
  interesting one. Chef the bat.
• 29:30
  Irish Manchester United player, if you if you're listening and
• 29:33
  screaming. This is the answer, Spencer.
• 29:35
  Get it in the comments. Get it in the comments.
• 29:38
  I'm panicking, I'm struggling. I think it's going to be clue
• 29:46
  time. Our traffic.
• 29:55
  Is it Johnny Best? Yeah, I'm thinking, Oh my word,
• 30:04
  you're a chance. To reject your show.
• 30:05
  That's a shocker for me, isn't it?
• 30:09
  I given it the old Northern Irish, you know, I didn't really
• 30:12
  think about it. Paul.
• 30:15
  Paul for me. Give you what?
• 30:16
  Whatever question, go on, go on which?
• 30:19
  Which Irish player scored bunch of 2?
• 30:21
  Not his first ever goal in the Premier League.
• 30:27
  Dennis Irwin. Correct.
• 30:30
  Yes, I'm back. I can stay on the podcast.
• 30:34
  I can give you one more if you want.
• 30:36
  Oh yeah, I think of that. Oh go on, let's do it for the do
• 30:39
  it for the listeners and the watchers.
• 30:45
  Who was the first Irish player to captain Manchester United in
• 30:49
  the Premier League era? It's kind of Reiki, isn't it?
• 30:57
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's basically between Roy Keane
• 31:00
  and Dennis Irwin. Let's be honest.
• 31:01
  Yeah. Yeah, I like the little Parties
• 31:04
  Day theme. That's a good one.
• 31:06
  Yeah. So we've done Scotland Last pod,
• 31:09
  Ireland this pod. What next?
• 31:12
  Yeah, what's next? Brilliant.
• 31:15
  Fill it a night. That challenge spin.
• 31:16
  Absolutely embarrassed myself on the first one, but slightly
• 31:20
  redeem. Slightly.
• 31:22
  Not remembering Darren Fletcher last game, so yeah that.
• 31:24
  Was a That was a shocker, to be fair, but I don't know what it
• 31:27
  is when you're filming as well. It just disappears in your mind,
• 31:30
  doesn't your head guys. Doesn't it your new?
• 31:32
  Scores. On United again, yeah.
• 31:34
  What is this team? I guess it's funny for people
• 31:37
  watching and listening, but less so for us and our credibility.
• 31:40
  But anyway, anyway, yeah, let's leave it there.
• 31:43
  Yeah, game on Friday. Looking forward to it.
• 31:45
  Really, really hope we can get another win and just have a nice
• 31:48
  break. Feeling good about United and
• 31:50
  where we are. We'll obviously be back with you
• 31:53
  with a match review to see how it goes and digest everything.
• 31:58
  But yeah, what do you think? Give us your predicted line UPS.
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• 32:15
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• 32:19
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