Soccer Comic Rant #504 You Happy With Your Prem Teams 2023 Season?! Liverpool is top of the league, Villa is for real. Arsenal probably doesn’t have what it takes to win the league? Man Utd are so inconsistent, and frustrating and I know why. Spurs are doing great unfortunately. Eddie Howe might be in trouble. BHA are not as good as I thought they would be. Has Gary O’Brian proved he’s legit!? Who Scott McTomminy should really play for. It’s Man City’s time of the year. Are the bottom 3 the bottom 3? Etc!
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Uh what’s up y’all my name is Ian Edwards and welcome to the soccer comic rant happy New Year actually uh lee Hudson standup comic uh Southampton fan he’s on from England and what year is it there right now Lee 2024 right here now uh it is 43 minutes into
2024 uh in the UK so we’re we’re we’re we’re we might be making history damn because I’m in California it’s 4:43 p.m. so this podcast like y’all never seen no like this Lee pointed this out to me that there’s a podcast that’s happening to right now this you’re watching or listening is being
Filmed in two different years at the same time I’m in 2023 and he’s in 2024 or already so what’s 2024 like like what do what should I expect I mean there’s flying cars um M man united are good again um what it’s like all sorts of crazy stuff is happening oh
That’s crazy I can’t wait to get there give me I got eight hours but man man united are good again forget the flying cars this is that’s more impressive damn bro that’s crazy I wish that was true uh thanks for joining man and you were just out doing some
Shows yeah I had three shows all in London tonight um which was uh it’s my first year like I’m I’m me I’m just coming up to seven years in comedy and this was my first year working New Year’s Eve all the other years I’ve just done stuff with friends and uh I was
Like no I want to see what this is about um but all three shows were calm they were chilled it was all people who like some of them were drinking but none of them were crazy like it was all people who I think just wanted to do something
Nice on New Year’s Eve um and and yeah I was I was ready I was like I was ready for war going into these shows um and then they were just nice that is not my New Year’s Eve doing standup uh reality at all like I like it was
Mostly like it’s you you have to be your sharpest in your hardest cuz people like all our shows are late like most of the time I book a show what I’m doing a local show at the laugh at you The Comedy Store just telling someone like
They put me on like quar or two so then I got to end the set bringing in the New Year’s and keep their attention up to that point because they’re starting to pass the drinks around people are buzzing people are checking there for everybody’s watching got a different time and some people will
Think it’s New Year’s already sometimes got the wrong time and I’m doing it late so you know normally it’s like that but yeah I’m not doing anything tonight I’m just chilling like it’s funny like you’ve been doing it seven years and you wanna do shows now I just wanna I’ve done that
And now I just want to like see if there’s a party or somebody’s not when I said not a not even a club like if a friend is having a house party like Russell Peters will sometimes have like a dope house party or just some comic
And it’s just good good to go there and everybody has fun yeah yeah that’s my that’s more my vibe if I do go out House Parties over clubs now I’m I’m too old for that too but yeah it’s yeah I was still at that point where I’m I was
Enthusiastic to go and and do New Year’s Eve shows but we we we finished we finished way before midnight though which was nice my final show was 900 PM um so yeah I don’t I don’t know if there’s many here where they they ring in the New
Year on stage um um because I think British people would just be way too feral for that I think that’s smart I think that you do that like a lot of some shows a lot a lot of the shows I did they went well but you know you
Still have that dread when one night I met at the comedy store Tommy the guy that ran the spot he put caros Mania on before me like in his prime you know like he’s big comic he’s loud he’s vocal he rils the crowd up then you throw me
On 15 minutes before midnight now I got to follow caros Mia and the new year you know it’s it’s like but I would always handle it so I’m happy that I did but Jesus but now whose jokes was Carlos doing hilarious you know Carlos did steal
Jokes but he did have jokes of his own and that’s the sad thing you know what I mean yeah yeah just as long you know just just as long as it wasn’t mine like I I’m not I’m not paying attention but you knowed to have some original some
Original oh yeah yeah but you know he just you know can’t do it you know can’t do that uh so what we’re gonna do is we’re going to roll down the table it’s the end of the year and uh in December after the Christmas games
It’s a good marker to try to figure out who might win the Premier League or who might exit the Premier League at the end of the year so it’s kind of packed up the top there’s it’s like five teams within four points less than four three points of each other and it
Might that those teams some of those teams might drop out of the top five and new ones enter depending on how the year goes and we’re going to see who’s going to like last at the B botom because even the teams at the bottom they actually I
Feel like they gained some ground during the Christmas weekends or Christmas you know game so we’ll see what’s up uh so at the top of the table we got Liverpool You’ll Never Walk Alone 12 wins six draw one tie they got 42 points and tomorrow they play
Newcastle and that’s going to be a tough game because Newcastle has been losing lately they can’t afford to lose anymore uh they’ve also been rocked with a a a a scandal which I don’t know if it’s true could you mention the Scandal um the one I posted in the group
The other day yeah the one you posted in the group yeah yeah oh yeah there was apparently this rumor that like there were players that were staying in like they were living in like a a a like a fstar hotel in the city and they were
Having like escorts to the hotel and and all sorts of things and that their wives had found out about it or something crazy like that it it very much sounded like a Twitter rumor because I think any problems they’ve had have been caused by injuries not by uh by players all having
Marital problems at the same time but I love a I love a crazy Twitter rumor um that you know they they keep things fun uh say you can never quite um sort of verify the uh the Integrity of the The Source but you know I’m I’m still gonna
Read them right I mean that’s what that’s what Twitter or X is for like I don’t know if this is true you know if this is a true thing like professional players have a bunch of escorts but you know as a nonprofessional player I sometimes gave up sex to go play
Football football and now I know I was doing it wrong I should have had more sex and I would have ended up being a professional football player cuz I used to be like n you can’t come over or I just want to sleep so I can play
This Saturday game in the park with the small goals with some dudes I know and some dudes I don’t know for for no crowd for nothing so if I I did it wrong I did it wrong it’s like uh you know have some ladies of the night pull up and you’ll
Improve your game you’ll be in a top you play Champions League this year so all right thanks for the football lesson Newcastle if this is true or not there was um I don’t if you remember there was an Italian player um called Antonio casano he played sort of early mid 2000s
Um he was Notorious apparently for alwayss sneaking he’s the white batelli like both of them yeah both of them could have been and they both you know they the black and white version of each other yeah he was so skilled he was such a a quality player but he there
Were two things he loved more than football and that was food and women um so like he went through spells in his career where he looked a bit overweight but he was apparently always when they had like the team hotels before the game where like the players will had to stay
At hotel the night before the game um in order to keep them sort of you know disciplined and whatnot apparently he would always he would pay Hotel staff to like allow women to sneak in like through the restaurant or something um or through like the the service entrance
Or something up to his room so that the uh the team staff didn’t know but yeah he’s admitted to it all in interviews and stuff since he’s retired um he seems he seems pretty pretty happy with the choices he made does he have a
Book I don’t know if he has a book let me see if I can find I’d read that book I’d read that book if he’s like you know remember those quotes from uhh what’s the what’s the man united the guy that drank a lot we spoke about him
Recently this year an amazing guy I can’t just say his name right Now damn why can’t I remember his name he’s like Dennis played with Dennis Law is like the Holy Trinity oh Geor George best yeah I can’t remember George best’s name but you know one of my resolutions is to get my memory back yeah George W has some funny ass football quotes I wonder
If casano has any like George bu I’m just reading here he claimed that he had slept with up to 700 women by the time he turned 25 um that was that was his claim only 700 he’s slipping yeah I would have thought he would have done more than that
Um oh no he has he has got an autobiography he uh we got to read that on the show we got to do a a chapter an episode yeah who knows if they did it in English um but yeah he uh apparently there’s a bit where he talks about eating pastries after an
Orgy so like I said the guy just food and women there is two things that’s that’s very Italian that’s very Italian super Italians so I don’t know how how did we even get to kasano because we talking about Liverpool right yeah they they’re playing Newcastle tomorrow well today for me
Today yeah or next year for me this year for you uh so Liverpool at the top of the table they got 42 points uh my opinion on Liverpool so far is like I’m not surprised where they are and I always thought there was a possibility that they could win the title this season
They replenish their Midfield but one thing I do notice that’s pretty good I I think klopp has learned from his mistakes is he rotates his Midfield he doesn’t roate rotate his Midfield from game to game but within each game like he’ll switch all three midfielders who
Started the game and by the end of the game to keep up the intensity and the pressure that his first Liverpool Squad used to apply to teams just to make sure he’ll send in a new three like I think he’s used five Subs the most this season
And Liverpool has depth all the players are playing like when Kap first got his Liverpool formula together he would only play the same guys and maybe once in a while throw somebody you know he’d have to get desperate to use like shakiri or even oxin Chamberlain or somebody like
That but he just kept that rotation the same dudes but now he’s like three in and next three warm up you’re going in the next half at some point like Elliot gets in there Jones gets in there graen botch gets in there like the only player that hasn’t played yet is bsh because
He’s in but I feel that Liverpool are is the number one Contender this year because of the depth and everybody’s getting a run uh and so you know they yeah I feel like Liverpool is back unfortunately how you feel about them yeah I mean I’d agree I think um
Out of like because I think obviously Arsenal and Liverpool are like the two main contenders to challenge city um because I think City can come through and make up the ground um they already showed in the last couple of games that they got the quality to do that but I
Think out of the two yeah Liverpool seemed like they have the mentality and the the depth like you were saying um in order to sustain a challenge um because I mean Arsenal I think have won one in their last five now um obviously they lost today sorry yesterday no no today today
Against Fulham um and then we’re against West Ham this year this year last year for you and then they lost to to West Ham as well the other day as well um after Christmas so you know we like we were saying this period is where you find out
About your squad depth you find out about your mentality when the games are coming every two three days um and you know Arsenal they came through it last season but this season they seem to have crumbled early um and you know there that’s not to say they can’t get back on
Track and they can you know cuz they’re not in a terrible position um after this poor run but yeah I think Liverpool have just got that extra bit of quality to see out it’ be interesting to see how they cope with Salah going to um the African Cup of Nations I mean
All Liverpool fans will be wishing the very worst on the Egyptian national team um hoping that he comes back um he comes back early but I mean they’ve got they’ve got Firepower that team even without him you know they’ve still got jot they’ve still got Nunes they’ve still got
Gakpo um Harvey Elliot as well they’ve got players who can can play well in those forward positions yeah that they’re you know they’re well stocked there um and then Diaz as well um and they’ve got players though that crucially now can can weigh in with goals from the Midfield like soal has
Been scoring a couple recently um you know he can hit from distance um he hasn’t quite caught fire at Liverpool yet but graen bur has done it before for Ajax in the past he’s shown he can score goals so I’m sure he he could step up as
Well um but yeah gpo’s got goals in him um they still got like good players to come back they’ve been missing as well uh like Robertson um yeah still got to come back into the team um like you say btic has been injured um I think thiago’s been injured as well um I
Forgot about Thiago they still got Thiago yeah yeah he’s still there he’s still there oh so yeah I mean they managed to ride out a spell with Allison injured as well for a few games um without really missing too much of a step so um yeah
It’s uh I I I would put Liverpool up there as as the number one Contender to finish um you know either first or second depending on how well City come back um so yeah I think they deserve to be top right now they’ve they’ve managed to ride through the the Christmas period
Fairly well um which is uh yeah not easy to do um so yeah I rate them it’s um it’s impressive as well I think credit to klopp for for managing to take the team through the cycle that he has because it looked like it had gone stale
There um especially when he sort of held on to some players maybe a little bit too long um and that that was the thing we’ve said this before as well that like that was one of the marks of like a great manager in like Ferguson at United
He was able to manage man united through various like player transitions um where he had to rebuild either multiple units of the team or one unit of the team and like kloppers done with the Midfield this year um so yeah credit to him that’s that’s the mark of a of a really
Great manager to be able to ride out that you know that lull and then bring a team back to being successful because normally it results in a manager leaving or getting fired um when that LOL happens um H you know obviously he’s he’s built up enough credit in the bank
At Liverpool for them to say you know as long as you’re happy to keep doing this we’ll stick with you and we’ll we’ll trust you and we’ll give you the tools to to rebuild and then yeah it’s paying off for him yeah it’s paying off uh and
Then one more thing I want to say about Liverpool is that uh yeah they they’ve got these players in and the the the team is seems to be renewed and uh it there’s something I want to say but it’s just left my mind right now but hopefully it’ll come back but I’m gonna
Say something that’s pretty I listen I number two nobody would expect me to say this number two last day of the year first day of the year for you you Aston Villa is number two with 42 points they’re tied with Liverpool even though Liverpool has a game in hand and after
20 games they got 13 wins three draws and four losses and I’m not gonna say I told you so I’m not even surprised like I saw how Villa ended last season was a great run so I expected them to be good this year and they’re living up to the
Expectations that I had of them some other people might had the expectations even Villa fans might not have had expectations it’s not that they shouldn’t have had it’s just that you’re a villa fan and you’re jaded and you don’t want to jinx where you at now
Before you get there so you might be like yeah we’re gonna do good but we’re not gonna do that good but yeah you are that good and I was talking to Lloyd earlier and he gets insulted a lot the way talk sports doesn’t talk about Aston
Villa and the way they talk about other teams like he talks about all the props that pasta kagu is getting and he’s like what about emry and I’m like hey man you don’t want people to start looking at emry all because that’s when they’re gonna pick him off from you even though
I don’t think emry will go but Aston Villa on December 31st 2023 is number two in the Premier League man and that’s pretty amazing this is not a fluke they beat some real teams uh the only thing I would say is you tried to disrespect man united on boxing day
And you went up two nothing at our home and you thought you had it in the bag and you started saying you’re getting sacked in the morning and you lost that game 3-2 like United handed you one and the the the you know what was better than the game going to the official
Instagram of Aston Villa and going in the comments under that score of 3-2 man you guys Villa fans bro they they got no chill fire Emery he’s not a big-time winning coach uh he bottled it he should be a Shaina he did this and it’s like they forgot all this Goodwill this this
This bro you’re second you’re second like I could just imagine if they didn’t get that penalty that I don’t think they should have gotten at the end of this game that this weekend I just want to talk about that game a lot a little bit against who did Villa play Burnley they
Just Burnley uh Shady win against Burnley that penalty at the last minute of the game shouldn’t have gotten it also that was a handball from your your your right back at that should have been at least a free kick so but I did speak to Lloyd and he did say the game before
Against I think Sheffield they deserve three penalties you did deserve one for sure so maybe that’s just football but you a deserve no penalty you did not deserve this win against a 10-man Burnley Burnley you put up a great fight and you came back from two1 down with 10
Men tied it and they stole that game from you and I’m hating because man united is used to being second so I’m an honest hater so I’m hating on Aston Villa as much as I’m praising them and doing both I’m hating on you but you are legitimately second any thoughts on
Viller Yeah just they you know they’ve they’ve earned it they need to be taken seriously um and I think you know even though they their level with Liverpool right now I think a realistic aim for them is to finish top four um because it will be hard with the other teams that
Are in there like they you know I mean there’s no reason at the moment why they can’t they’re in great form they got good players um but they’re still in Europe as well so they’re going to have a you know fixtures piling up when the cups start
As well after Christmas the FA Cup and that um because that’s coming soon I think the next weekend um so yeah I I think a realistic goal for them in the position they’ve put themselves in right now is Champions League qualification which would be huge for them um you know
They’ve not been in the Champions League or in their former Champions League winnner or European Cup winners but that was you know a long long time ago so um for them to return to that level would be a massive achievement given um you know the teams and the budgets
They’re up against then you know if there are any crazy Villa fans out there who are wanting to call for emy’s head after the lost to United um I mean I have two words for you uh and those words are Stephen Gerard um it you know
It could be worse don’t you know don’t don’t be thinking that you know you’re above the likes of Emory now um you know he’s got you to this position he deserves the credit you could still be stuck with with just bad managers like Gerard who side note is on a two-month
Losing streak in Saudi Arabia with his team that has um that has uh Jordan Henderson in it um who’s still getting picked for England somehow while he’s playing for a club out of 400 fans at their games um and haven’t won for two months in Saudi Arabia um so you know I
Mean Gerard was always tipped for for getting the Liverpool job um one day when klopp goes or something but he is as far from that now as he’s ever been um he’s further from that job than Saudi Arabia is from England yeah he’s gonna have to go even
Further to try and re his reputation he’s gonna have to go to the Australian League or something he’s gonna have to he’s gonna have to work his way back to Liverpool around the other side of the world he’s gonna have to go to the Australian league and then he’s gonna
Have to come to the MLS he’s gonna have to work his way back around that way he can’t come back via Europe no European team’s gonna hire him now he’s got to go the other way it’s uh um so yeah Villa fans just you know be humble and you
Know respect what Emory’s done um because my God you’ve had some dark days and these are not these are the best days you’ve had in in decades um and you know I’m I’m enjoying watching them play though I like the way they play um you know they got fast sort of free flowing
Attacking football with you know um di diabi Bailey and Watkins is a really fun attack to watch um because they can all get the ball down and run at people um they’re all good finishers as well um and they’re all laying on chances for each other as well like Watkins got two
Assists against Burnley he’s normally the goal scorer so um the fact that he’s willing to be unselfish as well it’s they’re bod well so yeah credit to Villa they’re up there they’re up there on Merit I still think a title challenge might be a little bit too far past them
But top four for sure should be the aim and I hope they get it because if they get top four it means Spurs don’t um and that’s what it comes down to for me also means we don’t so you ain’t getting that you ain’t getting that anyway I
Know but you know I can’t even that’s that’s that’s a position of powerlessness I’m in I can’t even argue from somebody in division in the championship is is is slandering Man United and I got no grounds I got no grounds to stand on and and just to back
Up what you’re saying like the fans go to that post Under The Villa Man United score check out the comments people are going hard at Eman saying he’s not a championship coach and this guy has won more than Villa has in the last 20 years he’s got more jewelry more more trophies
Than you guys so you can go back to your European title let you mention anill won the Premier League emer’s won more than you completely with different teams Al together he’s won a league you know what I’m saying didn’t he win the league one you know he he’s won so calm down Villa
Fans but you are you are real football fans where you went off on him I just had a look they won the European Cup in 1982 and I’m not sure they’ve played at that level of football since then so yeah it’s been a minute guys calm down leave
Leave your coach alone you’re gonna lose some games it’s listen this is the most competitive and we say this every year and it’s the truth every year but this is the most competitive the premier league has ever been you’re going to lose some games to some teams you know
It’s competitive so when it happens why you’re tripping you know it’s like you’re just not going to win every game you know uh Man City and uh they’re third they have 40 points two points out of first place but they have a game in hand but
Not only do they have a game in hand but they have a harand in hand and they have a the bur in hand who the burn was just dressed on the bench he’s been injured uh Man City they’ve they’ve actually lost three games and had three draws
Which is a lot for them at this point of the season but if these two people Holland and de Brun come back they could go on the Run of runs and uh I feel like they kind of set an intention like you know when your vision board is the
Actually things on your vision board like when the beginning of the game that they had this weekend against who did they play they played uh Sheffield United most recently in Everton before that yeah they played Sheffield you know their last game and all they they disrespected uh Sheffield at the
Beginning the game they put all five trophies there you know imagine your vision board is is the the things that you want to win is the same vision board that you actually have like all the five trophies and they put them out at the ETA and said come on Sheffield let’s
Play which is disrespectful to a team at the bottom of the Le it’s like how do you think and then you have Holland and theurn one on the bench one in Street closed and if you’re Sheffield United you’re like godamn like what did we just step into but man city they are the
Champs until they are not the Champs and they’re third and they’ve lost rodry for some of those games where they drop points and he’s back he scored this weekend so until somebody beats him they are my team that I’m picking to win the league and what you got on
City yeah I’d agree um you know that I like I said I don’t think they’re too far away that they can’t make up that distance it’s it’s literally two points um and yeah just like you were saying having Harland to come back in having de bruyne to come back in um because their
Squad is quality even without them um dku hasn’t even been in the team um for a few weeks as well because he’s been he’s been out uh he wasn’t even in the squad um for this game so you know they’re missing all these guys yet the lineup was still Alvarez with Silva
Foden and greish behind him and then rodri and kovic behind them it’s like you know they’re missing all these quality players and then that’s still the lineup they put out like that’s um that squad’s just ridiculous and I think that sort of depth and Firepower is what
Will probably win them the title again um you know I’d love to see someone else win it just for the good of the league more than anything um because I think the more teams the more different teams that win it um the better it is for for
The league in general for football in this country in general um even if the other teams that win it are other Filthy Rich clubs um but yeah I mean I can’t see past them um just because you know I think they’ve had their struggles they had their struggles in the first half of
The season the second half of the season is normally where they come strong and they haven’t even got that much ground to make up like they did last year on Arsenal um you know they they’re within touching distance already so um that should worry people yeah and then just to you know
You mentioned all those names and then then they just pulled names out their ass that you never heard of like Oscar Bob had a great assist to an assisted and you’re like what’s an Oscar Bob it’s some kid they got that we didn’t know about they sold a cold Palmer and it was
Nothing to them because then they got a doku out of nowhere and then you got Jamal Lewis and you don’t know who and they heard they buying this I think you put it in the chat this Argentinian kid like and I don’t remember pep ever having a bad buy at
City there’s one who’s a potential bad buy and and it’s the midfielder that they got from leads but even he could still Phillips even he could still turn into something so yeah and I I feel like City so good that somebody would still pay the same amount of money for Calvin
Phillips that pep bought him for you know what I mean and that’s the value of city like City dollars keep their value you know what I’m saying uh Arsenal is fourth uh they got 20 20 wins they got 12 wins four losses and four draws I I
Don’t I don’t I think Arsenal’s running out of gas they just lost two games in a row and uh I think they run out of gas because they don’t have the depth that they need to be in Europe to be in the competitions that they’re still in in
England and to be the Premier League like I feel like they’re gonna you know you always talk about them running sacka to death and he played again today but they also running Dean rice to death like and uh and parte is not back yet he’ll help Dean rice a little bit but
They their depth is fake depth like they don’t really want to use is it why can I never say his name is it junor that they got who they who’s the the midfielder they got from Chelsea that won the euros and the Champions League georgino georgino yeah like they don’t really
Want to use him and all the times I used to defend him when he was at Chelsea when Neil used to go in on him I kind of understand why he’s not a good CDM now and won’t help them win a title because I see we have players like that n
Midfield at United and I like oh I get exactly what Neil was saying so they they just lack depth like I don’t know who would replace Saka if he’s out for a game or two orever got suspended I feel like Etta has all also ruined Smith row who was as good as
Sacka when he started and for some way somehow he’s just like that’s not the Smith role when he does get in a game that I saw when him and Saka first came out and I I I think artetta made a critical mistake with that player he should have included him and kept his
Level of play up so I feel like Arsenal will be lucky if they finish fourth this year but they should finish in the top four what do you think yeah I I think they’ll they’ll still comfortably finished top four I mean they’ve had um a poor spell over
The holidays um but they’re still two points off top um and you know I think I think that the problem with them is that I think they have depth in terms of talent but I don’t think they have depth in terms of sort of Ruthless winners like they’ve
Got skill in that team they’ve got so much technical skill um and a lot creativity but they haven’t got ruthless finishes I’m looking at their top scorer list in the Premier League Alone um they’ve played uh how many games have they played this season they played 19
Games this season 20 20 they played 20 games a season their top scorers are sacka an entia with five each after 20 games like if you’re looking to win the league that’s not that’s that’s not the one that’s not um you know they bought jayus to be that
Guy he scored three goals in the Premier League this season in he’s played 14 of the 20 um Martinelli is not Martin Elli is a guy who he had been getting better every single season Martinelli like he was getting better and better every single season he would his output would
Go up he would be doing more and he’s only scored two goals this season um and I think teams just know what they’re going to do um it’s uh yeah it’s it’s just a bit strange I’m looking at the top scorers this year like salanki scored 12 for Bournemouth
Yeah um you know that that’s a club that are down sort of although they’ve been you know they’ve improved recently um but it’s still you know still way harand scored 14 and he’s not played for he took the month off last yeah like he yeah it’s
Crazy more goals than all of the all all the scores you mentioned combined yeah like Jared Bowen has 11 for West Ham hechan for wolves has 10 Watkins for Villa has nine isack has eight for Newcastle and he’s had injuries as he’s been injured most of
The first half of the season and bumo for brenford has seven Nicholas Jackson has seven has seven goals and that’s in a you know an underperforming Chelsea Chris Wood has seven goals for Forest this is just like listen I can’t even say anything United don’t got no
Body was say so what am I going to say but just I’m going down this list and like theore who’s a central midfielder for Everton has six this is what you could say you could say what happens when they do start scoring and they might start scoring but
I doubt it and one thing artetta said after the game that they just lost this year last year to you like which was to today he said he believes in his players and not buying anyone but they do need to buy everybody knows like you need to even
Though you’re not in the same position as Chelsea you need a forward just as bad as they do because you need a forward to win the league and they need a forward to to to make sure that their coach don’t get fired this season you
Know yeah and I think as well like they had two big needs which was like they needed Declan rice I think that was a good signing for them I think he’s given them something they they maybe lacked a little bit um although I still think they should have kept
Jaa um I think he gave them a bit more bite in that Midfield still I think like they should have got rid of georgino and got and kept Jaca um because he was playing brilliantly for them last season and then they let him go um and they
Needed a striker and they didn’t really address that like artetta put his faith in in Keo which you know I mean I like intia but I just don’t think he’s a like a league title winning Squad forward I think two years somehow maybe maybe but I think he needs
To maybe go somewhere first um like when like when salanki left Liverpool uh well he left Chelsea to go to Liverpool and then went down to Bournemouth like Ando needs to go down to that level of Club I think to play every single game and learn his craft a
Bit more because Arsenal he’s sort of he’s in the team he’s out the team he’s in the team he’s out the team um you know because jayus is a little bit injury-prone so he’s only really ever in when jayus is injured or or or needs a
Rest and jayus who I think is a great player like he’s his his hold up plays good he brings other people into play but he’s just not he’s not that guy again he’s not going to get you 20 goals a season um in a team like Arsenal at
City he he could maybe do that because he was having stuff put on a plate for him all the time um but I think yeah like that extra responsibility he’s not really stepped up um so yeah it’ be interesting to see see if Arsenal did go out and get
Anyone in the window like they they’re one of the clubs that’s been linked with Ivan Tony um from brenford who I mean he give them something different um but there’s a couple other clubs linked with him as well but I think you’re taking a big gamble on
Putting all your hopes on him when he’s not played for more than 6 months now um you know he’s he he’ll take some adjustment period to come in and uh and to get up to speed so I don’t think he’s the one for a transfer like a January
Transfer window signing um and I think yeah it’s it’s just a it’s it’s a position that’s hard to recruit for um you know we’ve seen so many clubs struggle with that you know there’s clubs who they’ve bought those players when they were just potential and they flourish like Watkins at at
Villa he you know they didn’t buy him at the level he’s at now they bought him from brenford when he was he was a good player but they you know he’s turned into like a good Premier League Striker whilst being there um salanki who’s got 12 goals the season for Bournemouth they
Didn’t buy him when he was scoring at this rate in the Premier League they signed him when he again was was potential and he’s built himself up there so it’s hard now to go out and buy players who are ready to come into your team and score those goals
Um you know that’s why you know United went out and got holand um it’s why Chelsea went and got Jackson uh it’s you know and some of those players might develop into your 15 20 25 goal of season Striker and some of them won’t um and it’s funny big clubs it’s funny how
The big clubs are acting like small clubs now and buying potential scores instead of like people who can put put the ball in the back of the net now you know so it you know the thing that made United United and any top team the top team back you
Know in the past was like you bought the player that was definitely gonna put the ball in the back of the net like Real Madrid bought Ronaldo you know they bought the both ronaldos they bought you know the figos the the zadan you know the beckhams you know the and then now
Big clubs are like let’s let’s see what’s up this with this potential like man city come Man City they bought people who put the ball in the back of the net and then now they buy both you know but they’re at the level of stren strength where they can buy potential
Bring some people up and if they need somebody that you know can deliver now they they do it so yeah uh I just want to keep it moving because time is going and so I’ll just say top the number five and just keep going do you want I
Me I sat and watched them against Brighton um the other night when they lost 4-2 and that brought me a lot of Joy um because they were 4-nil down at one point as well and they just looked like they were tired they were out on their feet um they were getting
Absolutely ran through by Brighton um and then they got a couple of goals back they showed some heart and that’s one of the things under poster Cog you know they got they got a bit more spirit and a bit more grit about them and I think
That’s what makes them you know I think probably the team that will NAB spot number five I’m hoping they don’t have spot number four and Villa can stay up in there um but I I think yeah I mean there there are different they’re a different team under
POA cogu to the you know the teams we saw under Conte and Nuno and um and I think mourino even like I think yeah they they got a bit more about them and they bounced back with a win against Bournemouth uh which isn’t an easy thing to do right
Now because Bournemouth are you know a tough team at the moment they’re in good form tell me about it but you know they’ still got players out injured to Spurs and Sun I think might have one more game before he goes I’m not sure if he does
Or not he might be done now actually I think because he’s going to go to the Asia cup um and that could last well into February if uh if South Korea do well and South Korea one of the best nations in that tournament so um they got a pre-training they got pre-
Tournament camp in Dubai or somewhere so he’s going to have to go to that first and then the tournament so yeah I mean richardon won’t stay scoring forever he’s on a little streak at the moment but he does that every season he’ll be back to missing um soon
Enough right they also lost SAR they they they were gonna lose saw to the African League of Nations but they lost into an injury so they were going to lose him either way you know and I don’t know how bad the injury is but he’s
Going to be gone and that like you said they’re G to lose Sun I’m gonna say some things about Spurs I hate Spurs I also hate liking them this year too more than I hate hating them I hate that I like watching them play I hate that I like
Their coach and I I hate that rich charison is scoring because he doesn’t deserve to score and uh what you know but they’ve impressively gotten a team together and it’s a presser position for this coach who you know everybody dumped on him because I Scot football you know
Scotland football it’s not it’s not the Premier League it’s not premier league and then he came to the Premier League and showed him I could do the same thing I did in Scotland here the same thing I did in Australia here like every you know because all journalists forget that
Every coach that successful in the Premier League has to come from somewhere first and the league is full of like new people who are doing well and have done well so I hate it but Spurs you’re fifth you got 39 points and uh we don’t another team that’s
Done well is West Ham I I like the fact that West Ham is doing well because I know that most of the fans hate their coach and but there’s nothing that they could do now but after they got rid of Dean rice like talk about spending money
Right you know like it’s like I’ve seen Brighton you can’t even say Brighton spends money right because they barely spend money like Tottenham has spent money right and West Ham best use of aund million didn’t expect it they really reup they got timing of Ward prow and Southampton going down and the price
That work PR went for I couldn’t believe it and then getting ctis and I think this is Alvarez is did they get him this year it’s an Al’s he’s a new one too yeah they had patow already and even though I haven’t seen Antonio I guess he’s injured the way Moyes who’s
Supposed to be so old-fashioned and not know is a dinosaur in football the way he reshuffled that team and has people giving him results out of position he has a new starting forward he’s got down the middle ctis on the right and uh I forgot who he’s put on the left uh
Because bow started the season on the left because Antonio was in the middle so I forgot who’s but and he’s he’s got pataa in there and Alvarez and solid Midfield such and sua just you know just you know so West Ham is six 33 points you know I’m looking at
How I got to refresh this because it says man united is seventh are we what do you think of West Ham yeah I think they’re solid um I mean I was talking to two other Comics today who are both West Ham fans and oh yeah
Um like one of them likes Moyes and one of them doesn’t like Moyes um but even the one who doesn’t like Moyes he he was like I can’t I can’t say right now he’s like he’s like we’re getting results but I still he’s like I
Still don’t like him but I can’t say I want him out because we’re six in the league so which is high which is high this is what Moy does Moy has been looking for the next Everton for a decade now and he’s found him and good luck fans
Because football has moved on but the what Moyes does works if you you get he’s got good players somebody else could probably make this team further up this table but so thank God for the rest of the league they’re stuck with Moyes what I said to that that that fan was I
Said to him I was like you know you could hire someone that plays prettier football but you could go down that season like that’s how the Premier League is like you could you know like clubs have tried to do that before like Palace have tried to do that before and
They’ve almost got relegated and they had to get Hodson back to to steady the ship because they needed you know they’ve experimented that they tried it with dor they tried it with um with Vie and it worked for a little bit and then it didn’t work um and you know there’s
Clubs that have done that before um you know they they’ve tried to get someone in that’s going to play more attractive football um and it doesn’t work um so you know at times it can work because Tottenham did that they got rid of con and his boring start of football and
They got POA cogu in and it’s worked so sometimes it works but sometimes it doesn’t um so be careful what you wish for um West Ham fans um and yeah I mean the guy he delivered them a European trophy their first trophy in years um and he’s
Got them Sith in the league currently above teams with way bigger budgets he’s lost the captain from last year and they don’t even look like they miss him so they lost their hurricane of their Midfield and they’ve recovered they’re even more up the table than they were with them
Oh do me a favor ask your friend sorry go ahead no I about say it’d be interesting to see how they cope as well with players leaving because pakat has got an injury right now and kudus is going to go to the African nations with
Ghana um I don’t if they got anyone else um that they’re going to lose at all but um kudus has been big for them um he’s really settled in now I think to the Premier League and he’s up to speed and he’s he’s really a key player for them
So with Antonio injured because like to come in that and like if pakar is injured and and kudus is out they’ve got like Ben Rama who can come in but I don’t think he’s as effective um and you know then it starts putting a lot of weight on Bowen’s
Shoulders um that’s started I don’t know if somebody put in chat or read it somewhere the rumor of like or maybe Duda sent it to me like there’s there’s a rumor that wesam still want mctom and I was like why and it was in this January window so maybe because of
Things you’re mentioning so yeah man I I hope I hope you need him hey he’s your he’s your top scorer man listen he’s also the top reason why we’re not sound defensively and we’ve let in more goals than he scored so I’d take that trade uh let do
Me a favor ask your friend if he would as a West Ham fan the one that doesn’t like Moyes if he would take Vincent company as West Ham’s manager over Moyes ask him what he says this a curious question I want to see what he says be
An interesting one right uh coming in at seven amazed because I thought we were eighth are we seventh am I looking at this right how did Manchester United after the Los I thought we went down to eighth anyway maybe it’s because Brighton’s playing tomorrow or which is next year for me uh so
Man united you brought us on the high of the boxing day win over Aston Villa a real team that’s at the top of the table in the top four they came they went to nail ahead and you gave us Euphoria and you fought back and you showed like the
Man united of old with the Beckham and the Canton or even without the Canton with skulls and the gigs and you fought back and you played the best football you played of All Season also uh there were a lot of people saying that we played in the first half of that
Game no we played we outplayed them the whole game except just that they got those two goals and especially after the second goal we ball them now yesterday I don’t know what the happened yesterday but listen it was always going to be tough to play an enthused Forest you know what I mean
Plus they’re playing with two of our old young players like mangi and uh as far as has mangi and elanga right what’s mangi with I gotta try to remember who mang’s with with Luton with Luton yeah and so Luton has Chong and and mang I know one of those teams then they remind
Of each other as two but they you had El longa and you know he was going to play to to prove to the coach that let him go that you shouldn’t have let me go and alanga and I said this before has more goals and assists than than the United
Forwards this season but anyway the point is this is going to sound like I have an agenda but I don’t have an agenda you you listen and I realize this when I was talking to Lloyd we have to you can’t and I’m not 10 hag out but
I am tenh out this is these are the conditions that I’m tenh out you bought Anthony and Anthony is a mistake a very expensive mistake and I’ll forgive you of that mistake but I’m not going to forgive you or allow you to make that mistake and also start mctom in the
Midfield you know what I mean it’s like you can’t start Anthony who gives away the ball and play mctom who doesn’t want the ball in the same game you can’t do that you can play Anthony because you got nobody else to play on the right but
You play Hannibal you play Mount when he gets better but you definitely don’t take Hannibal out no game which you did in the forest game to replace him with to you first of all you’re playing a guy who’s supposed to help you build out the back who doesn’t want it anything to do
With playing the ball out the back also you’re playing a midfielder who you need to help you score but plays entire games without any tackles how are you going to be in a double pivot and have no tackles you’re terrible in transition every time a team transitions on us they come down
The middle easily because you run and stand in line with the Defenders and then there’s a space for the opposition to take a shot like on the first Forest goal Forest scored on us the same way that Bournemouth scored on us like he gets pulled out of position like he’s
Dropping like he’s a central Defender and then the space of players at the top of the of the Penalty Box and people get free shots like pick somebody up pick up the dribbler like today or yesterday he should have picked up the dribbler like you can’t Mark a space we already have a
Guy who marks space and he’s injured right now you didn’t send you in there to do that job so listen man you just can’t play mctom like mamy you put him at the end of the game when we need a goal that’s when you play mctom you know
And that’s and and and to prove my point like every manager that United has had that has relied on MCT tomon to be a starter has been fired every one of them from Mourinho who started playing him was fired solar dropped Pogba for for momon and and Fred and got fired ragn
Used him and got fired you’re already on the verge of being fired and you Ed him so stop using him Trust the fan base when they say don’t use them use them for what for what made you want to use him like when we need the
Win at the end of a game and you need that extra person that the defense can’t pick up using for that but we have let in way too many goals we don’t have our Defenders we don’t we don’t have our Defenders we don’t have Martinez we don’t have Shaw who are pivotal
Defenders and that can help you build out the back so you don’t want to use a midfielder who ain’t going to help you build out the back and that causes us to lose the ball and that is terrible in transition and that can’t help us defend
We don’t have our best defenders so you don’t need to put in our worst defensive midfielder in the Midfield so listen man that I I would have easily walked away from that game with a draw and been and accepted it it’s farest they W out there
That crowd just be into it they be singing and cheering and I know a lot of United fans are angry but I want to give props to the shot that Bruno Fernandez took the that that the goalkeeper saved I want to give props to the the lot
Hitting the post I want to give a shot uh props to Ericson shot like we did try some things you know what I mean and and we just didn’t get the win but the the we lost you made the substitution that caused us to lose this game and that was
Momy for Mayu Mayu was not injured Mayu was not injured and you took him out and I’d rather have man Manu have a mediocre game because he’ll make important defensive decisions that’ll save us goals and it’s easier to win when there’s not the ball we don’t
Have to take the ball at the back of the net but that that’s United like we are who we are because of injuries because we’re not getting any goal and because this Midfield is completely unsettled and so tenh like figure it out bro what do you think about United I can’t figure you guys out um and I don’t think anyone like you just it’s so up and down which is is so bad as a fan when you have to deal with that roller coaster of emotions just from being like Oh we figured it out oh we
Haven’t um and I I I think you know we’ve spoken about it so many times but the injuries really do um play such a big part because I think when your whole Squad is fit like that’s a squad that can challenge the top four um and that’s
Where you should be as a club right now like I think it’s I think competing for the title is maybe a little bit beyond if if you had all your players fit I still think it’ be a little bit beyond them but top four absolutely wouldn’t be
Um and yeah I mean that’s something you need to fix I don’t know if it’s you know certain people are injury prone then they need to go or if the you know the way things are being done on the training ground need to be tweaked um
But yeah because I I I think there’s only maybe when all your players are fit I think there’s probably only a couple of areas of the team that you need to upgrade um like we’ve spoken about before like a worldclass CDM M um is a pretty pressing need um and then either
A forward or Winger that’s going to weigh in with goals because Anthony you know he’s not gonna do that uh rashford when he’s at his best can do that but you still need someone else as well like it’ll be interesting to see how hland develops um but I feel like you know
This is the summer I don’t think it’ll happen in January but this is the Summer where martial needs a new start somewhere um because I think there’s a player in there but I just don’t think it’s going to happen at United now like I think he’s been there too long um and
I think he you know will will flourish somewhere else um and it’ll give you an opportunity to go out and maybe you know get a more proven forward um that’s going to stay fit and score goals and have you know someone that will compete in the team with holand for that
Starting spot because right now it’s just whichever one of them’s fit is the one who plays and they never seem to be fit at the same time you know it was unfortunate after you know that big moment for him against Villa where he he finally scored that First Premier League
Goal and then he’s sick for The Forest game right um you know I felt for him because I think that would have been a perfect game for him to maybe continue that run and build on what he did um but yeah I mean just one thing from that
Game as well though was just how well all the goals were taken um as well on both teams because like the two Forest goals have both like open themselves up like firsttime finishes um and rashford finished his one really well as well um so yeah it was um it was
A game of good goals but yeah I mean their winner came from a goal that we could have scored like Bruno Fernandez either skipped that or mis kicked it and then Gibbs picked it up took it down the pitch and momy didn’t go to him because everybody was
Matched up Momin backed off with the defense he playing like a Central Defender and then then the ball goes on the wing he joins the play on the wing Gibbs is in the middle open open and and those are the same goals type of goals that Bourne must scored on us in
Transition it’s like he’s not picking someone he’s not like how do I handle this dangerous person you like you know in martial arts class said this how you handle somebody with a knife this how you handle somebody with a gun this guy act like he never been in a soccer class
Before and I I have an agenda against him it’s just like listen this is a good player somewhere else this is a good player somewhere else in his position yeah and I think last season that was masked a bit because you had casemiro in there being a worldclass
Holding mid it wasn’t Mass this this this is my point he didn’t play him last year he played him early last year right and we lost some games so we got casemiro at the Liverpool game and this is just prove to everybody that or just to myself that I ain’t just hating on
This guy so we got we got him at the Liverpool game right and we won that game but memir didn’t play that game mctom played that game but he was definitely instructed to be defensive you know so and he played good and even when we started using cmir at
First I was like damn that’s too bad for mctom because he was doing good as a CDM but that was his job but now Eric ten Haag wants him to play offensive and he’s being so offensive and casemiro was doing the same thing this season too like the are we only
Want a oneman pivot but we can’t we don’t have our defense guys like Varan is not always healthy and Martinez is not always healthy so so we don’t play The High Line to keep people pressed in so once we lose the ball it’s easy for a team to transition on us and especially
When one of the midfielders is like or is in the Penalty Box and the ball is past him like they just transition on us fast so I feel like you got to make the cdms or both Central midfielders stay home you got to play a double pivot you
Just have to because you don’t have you can’t play a high line you can’t keep them pressed in their box there’s so much space they play through us our defensive line it cheats they they they they you know Johnny Evans ain’t trying to get in the foot race with anybody
Even though he’s surprisingly fast like I’ve seen him catch people so yeah it’s I I feel like we could have definitely have more wins than we got uh I also want to give unagi a shout out because of the way I I he saved more goals than the the Spurs goalkeeper
Today like him running back and shutting down salanki would San had like three breakaways and and DOI played forward today Wing back and midfielder and and Central Defender today like he was all over the place so a great game by him this weekend to close out the E for spur so un song
Undy uh Newcastle what you think about Newcastle not their women the team um I mean I think it’s um there’re another team who’s been sort of ravaged by by their injuries sorry I’m sorry I ski Brighton tell me what you think about they’re eight um I mean the way deserie plays football is
It’s great to watch um but it’s inconsistent um because it does leave them really open sometimes um and you know I think he it’s amazing because if you look at their squad on paper there’s a whole bunch of young players there who are not that experienced but they’ve got
Potential and there’s a couple of older heads in there you know like Welbeck and Milner who’ve sort of been there and seen it and done it before um and I think that’s what you get because I think the team is more skewed towards the younger players um and that’s what
Happens when you have them in there is that they’ll be amazing some games like you know Ferguson he still doesn’t play him every game but Ferguson is frightening when he’s on it um but he’s not always on it hinwood the new kid they’ve got that’s come through um he’s
Exciting um ad dingra as well Bela um these guys all all I think they’ve all got huge ceilings but at the moment with the stage they’re at in their development they’re not going to be doing it every single week and also you’re asking them to play a very
Highrisk sort of high level of skill style of football um but to be able to do that and still be where they are in the league I think is great um you know they’re not in any danger of getting getting dragged down or anything um you know they’re pushing for European spaces
Still so I think they’re in a really good position because obviously losing mallister and Cass was that’s the heart of their Midfield that’s just been ripped out um and you know they’ve been smart the way they’ve replaced it the hood came in as well from Dortmund with
A little bit of experience Mila came in but then yeah like BBA is uh they brought him in just as you know a player with with with huge potential so yeah they’re just they’re just doing the the Brighton thing um you know they’re polishing these rough diamonds and they
Got a few old heads in there just keeping things steady so um yeah I really enjoy watching them and uh yeah I think they’re they’re about where they’ll finish I think for the end of the season um I don’t think they’ll go up or down by more than one or two
Places in either direction to be honest um but yeah I think I think that’s that’s a successful season for them given that you know they changed manager last season halfway through the season and then they lost key players so um yeah I think I think they they’re where they should
Be yeah I agree with you I think they were they should be and when I watch Brighton is like watching a Farm play you know what I mean like I’m watching a farmer grow some crop that they’re going to sell like I watched them grow their
Team last year and sell two players who are the main players in the in infrastructure like their two main crops were kaiso and mallister and now we’re watching them grow those names that you just mentioned and they got the old heads that they’re not going to sell that have that experience that Chelsea
Players Chelsea young players need you know what I mean and uh you know Brighton is just going to I don’t know if Brighton’s ever going to win anything and you know as a farmer you know theer is going to get sold at some point like some team is
Gonna take him too so everything is on display you just it’s it’s a it’s a vibr what they call them friend of mine built a viari or something and put frogs and in there and you just watch them grow and get bigger and eat and like that I’m just watching a
Viarum of players just grow and play and then as soon as they do good like people are going to want to buy these players and Brighton’s gonna sell them because they’re in the they’re coming out of the red but that owner put a lot of money
Into that team and this is a business for him you know so it’s they fun and they’re where they are I thought they would be a little bit higher in the table I was more worried about them at the the beginning of the season but now I’m seeing like the effects of selling
Kaiso and mallister and then I also feel like they’ll sell other people so they’ll never really go anywhere and you know we’ll see how long they can keep doing this there was a team that’s not in the Premier League now that did this what they’re doing and uh their
Colors are red and white I don’t want to say their name but yeah we’ll see and what you think about Newcastle they’re ninth 29 Points yeah I mean given you know what they achieved last season it’s an underperformance um given the level of funding that they’ve got it’s an
Underperformance I think they didn’t go out and spend that much because obviously Financial fair play rules are you know are being being watched so um yeah I think they’ve got a good squad they’ve suffered with injuries as well um I think and also like they’ve got the additional demands that they’ve been
Playing Champions League football this season as well um obviously they were I think they were unfortunate in in those games that they got done dirty in the PSG game a little bit um and uh they could have quite easily qualified from that group which was a really tough
Group with um you know Dortmund and AC Milan in there as well so um yeah I think just the the extra workload sort of hit them a bit Tali getting banned for the betting Scandal um wasn’t good for them either um but then they had they’ve had
Injuries to key players um you know having isack and Wilson is almost like having one forward um because they’re both just they’re both injured all the time so you know they need to hope that they can keep at least one of them fit but when when their whole team is fit
They’re they’re fearsome but they just haven’t been there this season um and some of their Defenders have started making mistakes like burn has started to look a little bit sluggish um he’s had injuries as well but tripier has been terrible recently as well um he’s not
Been quite at his his level so those two players play like the The Prostitute rumors are true like like like if I didn’t see if like once I saw like I’ve been watching him and then they’ve been making mistakes lately like burn really got killed I forgot what the game he got
Murdered like slaughtered down that by an ex player by wood not even somebody who’s Young like like wood killed him like wood is is he’s on his last this is his last year in the premise ship and he’s beating burn like he’s 19 year old
New kid that just came on the field and then the mistakes Tripp be making it’s like yo man this this prostitute thing has some legs because these dudes don’t got no legs who knows I’m sorry yeah who knows but yeah I think just the injuries have hit them hard and you know other
Things as well like we say the tanali thing um so like I say once once their their whole team is fit I I you know I think they’re they’re a they’re a challengeing for top four thing they’re a challenging for top four team it’s um it’s just a thing though like if if
Teams could keep their players fit I think the league would be crazy I mean it’s already a crazy League anyway this season but like if Newcastle had their whole team fit all the time if United had their whole team fit all the time um you know I think the race for the the
Top four would be nuts um whereas right now I think you know Spurs are looking like the only ones that will try and break into it and and you know Villa are sitting in there um loving life whereas you know I think there could be almost a
Six or seven way battle for the top four um if those things weren’t G you know weren’t happening because I think the likes of of of West Ham and Brighton will will slip um down a little bit maybe if you know that or they won’t move up in
Challenge for for the top four so um yeah I mean Newcastle I think it’s disappoint it’s it’s a hard one as well for Eddie how because it’s just putting pressure on him now he set the bar he he almost didn’t want to qualify for Champions League last season um because
It set the bar high and it’s a bar that’s hard to achieve immediately again um you know if he’ have just got them europ league and it could be like okay you know that’s that’s that’s more than we’d had previously let’s build from there kind of thing
Um but he went you know rocket ship straight to the Moon with Champions League qualification you know beyond Newcastle fans Wildest Dreams because they hadn’t really invested that much into the team at that at that point you know they’ bought in tripier um you know they bought in esack and they hadn’t
Really done there were still a lot of players there still is a lot of players there that were they got gz yeah they they didn’t spend as much you’re right they didn’t spend as much as they could have but they did spend a a little something
Yeah botman I think as well was a bit pricey and and obviously you know they took Pope off Burnley when they went down but yeah I mean it’s not a team of of of real Superstars um it’s just good players but yeah they they they’ve suffered with those injuries but I mean
Like I say a lot of teams have I don’t know if the World Cup has any effect on that as well um because it really made the sort of schedule weird last season and players having to do extra and then I just don’t think it helps having all
These these preseason but I think it’s good that teams get to go around the globe and play in front of fans who wouldn’t otherwise see their team in that country but it’s just so much load on the players um and there is a Tipping Point you know they’re not the games are
Really physically demanding and it’s it’s it’s such a different sport you know I’ve seen some of the science behind it and players are being overloaded um with the with the demands that are on them and I think it’s uh you know when teams are going all around the
World and even in some sometimes in some of the breaks teams will travel as well and it’s just a it’s a commercial thing over the interests of the players um but then the players are being paid more money than they’ve ever been so it’s um it’s a double-edged sword
Really yeah well yeah Newcastle they’re not where I thought they would be thank God that means because that means United would be even further down the table so like you said Eddie how had to go show off and qualified for Champions League and if he doesn’t do it again
That’s going to be looked at like he’s slipping and we invested too much money in this team for us to be slipping so that you know like once the story started coming out about you know Newcastle looking to upgrade on him and we already knew you know that he was
Supposed to be like a stop Gap coach but he proved that he’s better than a stop Gap coach but yeah man this is a business so Eddie how even though Newcastle is ninth which is further than anybody would have expected last year but it’s not this year you know people
Expect more so good luck uh Chelsea speaking of underd delivering like like the the only thing that I can’t that that I don’t understand less than man united is Chelsea and I do understand it but I don’t understand it you you talking about the up and down
But but they have different issues like I would never it’s rare when Chelsea plays bad you know it’s it’s rare when they play Bad and their games are exciting you see that they have a style of play we just know that they’re young and there’s these things that you need
Through gaining experience that will help you win the games that they’re not winning right now and uh they got a bunch of young people and everywhere they got injuries they ain’t got no forward they’re def they have that one of the oldest defenders in the league and if he
Gets injured that’s another set of problems all the other Defenders are mad young and and it’s to coach his first year so I get it but when you see them create so many opportunities like they have the second highest XG in the league that’s what they were saying this
Weekend I thought it was the highest but it’s the second highest so I feel like I wouldn’t fire a coach that creates that much XG these are quality chances and Cole Palmer this weekend just going off and I know it was Luton and Luton had a chance to like
Really tied that game at the end of the game because they they had a higher XG than Chelsea like their chances were better they put the that Chelsea Under Pressure Chelsea was actually lucky to actually win this game this weekend but two wins in a row will keep the the the
Media woles off Postino and uh you you Chelsea fans just got to just ride this out Ride This Out I wouldn’t panic I wouldn’t fire anybody yes they’re not where Chelsea fans want them to be but just enjoy this just this is a true transition phase and it ain’t the coach’s
Fault pretty much agree pretty much agree with all of that it’s um yeah they’ve been nice to watch um but they’ve just been just been inconsistent in terms of seeing those results out and getting those wins and being clinical um and you know I think that will come so
Yeah I think they they they deserve a little bit of patience in poino um but that’s what happens when you you know you have a billion pound team you know there are going to be certain expectations in there um they just need to hope that those players hit
Their ceilings because they spent so much money but so much of it has been on potential rather than being proven worldclass quality um but you know some of them are starting to show show those flashes like you know like we say ob’s he he’s stepping up and he he’s
He’s you know he’s being a match winner for him that’s what they need from from more of those players as well they need the likes of Enzo Fernandez stepping up and doing that and and Jackson stepping up and doing that and even Sterling like he he hasn’t been quite as effective I
Think as he would have liked so far this season he’s shown it in some games where he’s really looked good and then he’s sort of gone a little bit Anonymous again in some of the other games so yeah he needs to step up and uh like madoi
Has been looking better last few games as well he started chipping in with some goals so um yeah like if all those players start peeking around the right time like Chelsea are basically doing a Brighton right now but without the fear that those players will then have to be
Sold right like they’ll just like they they’ll be hoping that those players can all reach that level and then they’ll just be a brilliant team um so they’re kind of yeah doing it just just without the yeah the the need to sell them if they do get good if they get good they
Just got a good team Chelsea likes spending money so much money that when their players eventually get good they might buy them from themselves again you know I mean who’s that new guy no that’s our let’s buy him but you own him but he’s good now let’s buy him now but
That’s the good thing about Chelsea they already own these players and if they get to the level like you say of where they expect them to be they won’t have to buy them like uh Brighton is going to have to sell their good players but Chelsea is going to get to
Keep their good players at and and like even like Nate Jackson they had a great assist today to Cole Palmer so it wasn’t just Cole Palmer out there the game before I think Nate Jackson had a good game he had some great holdup play showed some strength shove the guy off
The ball that was on his back and he passed it Inu but I think inuko or whoever he passed it was offside a little bit but it was a lovely weighted pass so it’s it’s I feel like it’s going to start to come together over there and
Chelsea fans just need to stop being spoiled and be patient stop being football fans for a second uh wolves uh I love Gary O’Neal I love Wang Chang Wang is it Lee Wang Chang Chang Wang Le he say again he he changwang hean Wang he Chan that’s
That’s all I got to say man like I saw something in this guy a year ago when he came in the league but you know he was with bulls and he was still had Jimenez then and he would himz had got them to a certain point
Plus they spent all that money on that kid from Portugal so it’s like they they rotated them a lot but since woles like sold her menz to to uh to to Fulham and they got Gary O’Neal in Gary O’Neal has committed to he Wang and he Wang man
That he was dominant this weekend and he’s been dominant he’s like one of the highest goal scorers in the league and uh what a what a player man and you know I don’t know where Gary O’Neal was in the League last year with Bournemouth but I don’t think it was 11
At this point of the season you know and this is great for him and good for wolves who are kind of like in a Purgatory rebuilding stage kind of you know like this ain’t the wolves that Nuno brought up like a lot of the names
Have changed and so this is a new wolves new coach I’m happy for Gary O’Neal I hope it continues I just hope they lose to man united when they play us but I like this I like 11 for wolves I’m a fan of this 11th for wolves
Yeah I mean I mean huge credit to to the job Gary O’Neills done because when like leige walked out um saying that like you know the team was was too hindered by the fact that they had to sell players to comply with financial fair play and they couldn’t
Really get um you know big money Replacements in or anything um you know I feared the worst for them and uh you know Gary O’Neal Bournemouth he did a solid job at Bournemouth but he didn’t really progress Bournemouth at all um so I was thinking you know him coming into
A team that hasn’t been out to really buy many players if anyone’s going to get you know joined into that relegation battle with the three promoted teams it could be wolves that they could really struggle um and you know he’s proven me completely wrong because I I I think
They’ve been one of the most improved teams in the League this year um you know and he’s done it with with good coaching rather than yeah building a team from transfers or anything he’s done it by just getting the best out of what was there um and that’s you know
That’s that’s the mark of a real good coach and massive massive respect to him for that and um you know it’ be interesting to see how they they deal with with hean going off to the to the Asia cup as well he’s in that South Korea team and but they’ve got like
Cting players like Netto came in today um and he has and he’s lethal so then net coming back will replace yeah yeah exactly he’ll come in and and one player who I think has not got quite enough credit for them who’s really good is um the
Player who came in the Spanish guy came in from PSG cabia yeah I like him I’m surprised he was picked up by a club like wolves and not by a bigger Club um because he creates so much he makes so much stuff happen he runs up players he’s a good
Cross the ball he’s a good passer um and you know he’s come up with goals now and again but um yeah I mean just a just a good team and I think Jose sa is one of the most underrated Keepers in the league as well he’s um he’s really solid
Um yeah just you know he’s getting he’s getting a lot out of you know uh you know a group of players that you know looking at the start of the season on paper you might have gone okay they’re not going to do much but to be where
They are I think I think it’s massive if if they finish comfortably mid-table that’s that’s a a really really you know big job that he’s done there yeah because they they had to fire lki to save them from relegation last year and the the funny thing is wolves is
Playing the type of football now that they fired Gary O’Neal bourman fired Gary O’Neal because they thought he couldn’t play that type of football and he’s playing it with the team right above them you know what I mean he’s playing the football like Bournemouth yeah their new coach who replaced Gary
O’Neal they’re doing good but it’s like you could have just kept Gary O’Neal because they you’re both playing the same type of quality football you know you both look good you know what I mean you both look dangerous like wolves almost beat United at the beginning of
The Season we just we just got so lucky you know but uh yeah Kudos Zary O’Neal and you know like you normally need 40 points to stay in the Premier League right it’s halfway through and they have 28 unless somebody assassinates the whole team there’s there’s no way they’re in danger
So already half the season through like you these are Comfort points you’re gaining lack of pressure points you know it’s like you could just play the season without you know without pressure uh B is 12 again the coach that replaced Gary O’Neal he’s finally starting to you know let
His uh way of play like marinad in the team and bouth has beat United and they’ve been playing good they they lost this weekend right who did they just lose to Spur Spurs yeah Spurs really taught them a lesson but you know still they’ve been on a good run they were one
Of the most informed teams and uh Spurs took him down today but they they should be proud of the way they ended this season what do you think about Bournemouth yeah just uh the new coach Jola he did a really good job in Spain with Ray arano um and I was excited to
See what he could do um coming into the Premier League but I think he took um like a bit of an adaptation period for him and for his players to learn his style of football and for him to sort of maybe make the tweaks and adjustments that he needed to make coming into
Premier League because it you know it is different to La Liga um but they’re starting to re the benefits of it now and you know they’ve got an exciting um talented team um you know salanki has grown into the Premier League finally I think this is the first season where he
Really looks like a premier league Striker that’s going to score those goals and you know the amount he has scored I think is yeah you know it’s fantastic for him and there’s other players there that I really like watching um you know Katara um Taver as well um really good player billing
Really effective bills um they’ve got a young guy called Alex Scott who’s who’s got chipped in with a couple of assists and stuff recently running at people and yeah yeah I saw that run put that assist I think it was Boxing Day or the they after the boxing day yeah just just
Just an exciting team and a fun fun team to watch and you know they were hovering around just above the relegation Zone a few weeks ago and then they’ve sort of gone on a little run that’s taken them up into mid-table now um and you know I
Think they’ve got they they yeah they should have the ability to stay there based on what I’m seeing now they’re actually looking like it’s coming together um with the manager style of play H then 13th is Fulham I’m glad I’m not a Fulham fan because the the the
Emotional roller coaster you like you win two games five nothing and then you lose you get your ass beat a bunch of games after that and then you just beat Arsenal you know the the number two to three team in the league like on the last day of the season so but again
Jimenez is back and I think a part of you know why they lost some himz got thrown out of one game then he wasn’t available I guess the next game after that so now he’s back he scored uh this but yeah you know F him is 13th I I
Expected them to be higher you know a little bit but you know you know you know there’s players on Fulham that used to play for United like Pereira and Pereira is doing great for Fulham and that’s where this is the level of team that I think Scott
Momy would be really appreciated on you know what I’m saying you again I like I’m just talking football facts like he’s just not good enough for the team at the level of manchest unless he proves me wrong if he but he’s just not consistent like he’s going to have those
Games you think he that makes you believe like he belongs on that level but he ain’t gonna do that for like season after season you know and and that’s why pereira’s having fun he’s respected and these lovs here at Fulham so I feel like Fulham I feel like Fulham
Is like a rehab center um for players that have been not good enough at other clubs like you know like like Willian was like booted out of Arsenal because they’re like ah you’re not good enough yeah you’re not good enough anymore iobi it’s like ah you’re not good enough
Anymore um himz um even like the goalkeeper like burn Leno was at Arsenal and they’re like no you’re not good enough anymore um you know per Arenal today that was that was personal what they did to Arsenal today um yeah you know and and Marco Silva’s yeah really good really
Underrated manager as well he’s done he’s done a good job there and I think the fact that they are where they are in the league isn’t necessarily a poor reflection on them but I think that sort of chunk of mid-table teams is ultra competitive and there’s not really that
Many points in there like if you win a couple of games you can jump right up um into the top half of the table but then if you lose a couple you slip down to sort of you know the Realms of like 12 13th 14th kind of thing um so yeah then
I I think I think there’s a real Gap in quality between Fulham and then the teams below them at the moment apart from Edie Everton because obviously they’re a false position with that point deduction right yeah and uh like speaking of teams like fham like Crystal Palace they probably not on fulham’s
Level but they do have a lot of potential and like you said there’s not a lot of points in there and sometimes it’s like if you’re at the top of the table there’s some games you’re definitely going to win and there’s some games you might lose but there’s more
Games you might drop points when you’re in Crystal Palace Fulham Bournemouth not you know when you’re in that area it’s like you have more games where you could lose points then where you could gain points and but then there are times when you’re you’re like
It’s du a die they’re GNA fire the coach when that will motivate the players to play for you like today Crystal Palace Roy Hudson’s head you know is getting the back of his neck is getting shaved for him to put it on the chopping block and the players really showed up
Today and everybody balled out oi bowled out uh e got his goal aou didn’t dive as much as he normally did and actually played today you know and and uh yeah they they can do some things you know they’re they’re going to be inconsistent but they should not be in the relegation
Zone yeah they’re not that far from it but they ain’t in it you know they’re a decent I think it helps them having some players back as well because Alis was out for quite a while and come yeah they’ve only come back the last few games and you know they’re they’re match
Winning players um you know at leis say got two against uh um he two against brenford yeah he got two against brenford and and Le got the other um and Yeah just they did well against Chelsea the other day as well um when they came
Back and uh and sou and you know Chelsea got the win of eventually but um they looked okay there and they did well against um against city as well in that when they pinched that two- two draw um so yeah there’s good players in there um
Hodin under a little bit of pressure and I think the win relieves that um because they had been on a little bit of a run where they weren’t quite getting the results um so yeah having those players back will be big for them they should be
Able to go on enough of I think of a run now to keep them out of there um there’s one team I’m worried about at the moment but we’ll we’ll come to them all right all right uh Forest their 15th uh they got 20 points uh it’s it’s they got Nuno a new
Coach I don’t understand exactly why they fired Steve Cooper like I feel like they probably have the same amount of points like it you know they beat United and they beat somebody before United Newcastle which is you know those those are two above their level wins you
Know like that’s like you know and so they did it so just the quality of those wins by Nuno a lot of Grace uh you know the United one was at home where the Fest fans go crazy but I think we it’s I don’t know like I feel like they could
Still not do well and get closer the relegations you know as the season goes on but for now their 15th which is let’s just say the appointment looks like it’s working now and that’s all I can say and it’s yet to be seen if it’s going to work further because United because Nuno
Is more defensive and even Nuno with Spurs started out good before it went bad you know what I mean and and then he lost his job in Saudi Arabia and he he had world class players there even know it’s you know so let’s see he did how much Nuno has learned what’ you
Say he did win the league with those worldclass players in Saudi Arabia oh he won the league in Saudi Arabia yeah he won Champion yeah he he was a title winner but then they just they started a bit slowly this season and they’ve Bend him okay okay so yeah he’s I think he
Got a little bit harshly done by out there I think the the ex ation levels are crazy um out there but yeah he was at um alad who who there they won the they won the league but he did have like you know benar and fabino and people but
Um yeah I think it’s I think he he could have almost had three wins because the first game they had was the game against Bournemouth where they got done Dirty by the the red card that wasn’t a red card for um yeah B for Bal I think it was
Yeah um where it was it was one of the most redard tackles like we said at the time wasn’t even a foul it wasn’t even a foul yeah and then they lost that game 3-2 when they you know I think they were in a winning position maybe when that
Happened or at least drawing in um when that red card happened so yeah that was his first game and they you know there could be three wins if that hadn’t happened so um yeah I I rate noo I think he’s a good coach he he did a good job
Multiple Seasons at wolves before it went sour so um and you know I I I saw his team I saw him once live one of his teams live in in Spain I went out there to watch uh a couple of games in Madrid I watched the Real Madrid game against
Uh Al Maria then I watched Valencia versus Raya vacano um at Viano which is like a little suburb vas little suburb real of Madrid and uh Nuno was the Valencia manager at the time and his his his team were good there as well he he he had a
Solid team together so um yeah he he knows what he’s doing I think they’ll be just about okay I don’t think it’ll be a acular rise up the table um you know the two wins in a row I don’t think Forest F should get too used to that I think it’s
Going to be a little bit bumpy but I think he’ll do just about enough I think under Cooper had just gone a bit stale and sometimes you just need a change of voice a change of ideas he done he done an amazing job in getting them up when
No one expected them to get promoted and I feel like for him it probably wasn’t you know a great feeling leaving them and getting fired when he did but I think it’s a good thing for him and his personal reputation for it to happen rather than get a relegation on his CV
Because he’s being linked with like other Premier League clubs already um you know he’s been linked with like like the palace job if uh if Hodson goes um so um I I I think his reputation is intact enough that he’ll get another you know decent job if if one becomes available
Yeah it’s weird uh number 16th is brenwood brenford what am I saying I got 19 points brenford is playing like they lost their leading goal scorer you know what I mean and because they did but it’s Christmas time for real because they get to get their leading goal scorer back in January so
At the beginning of the Season before the season start I was like yeah they’re going to Fe feel this not having Ivan Tony but then when the season started wiissa and and bro was scoring I said maybe they’re not gonna feel this excuse me this Ivan Tony loss as much as possible
But as the season goes on they are feeling it so then now he’s going to be back so I expect them to go up from 16 but I believe in them less now than I did last year and the beginning of the Season how you feel about
Them I mean they’re the team I’m worried about at the moment um they’ve lost five in a row um and one of the things about brenford is that they used to be so like defensively solid um you know they were strong on set pieces they weren’t always
Like the most free flowing team going forward but they were always solid like they always had um you know a sort of a good structure about them they seem to have lost that recently and um you know there’re in another club who don’t get that much wrong in the transfer market
They’re good at finding you know these rough gems similar to how Brighton were but I mean the decision when Tony got suspended the decision to go and buy Neil mop uh back like he had already played for brenford before then he went to Brighton and then to you nailed it oh
That’s what the problem is yeah like I think I think you nailed it yeah if you lose a guy that’s scoring for you like every other game like Tony was and then you go who should we get to replace him let’s get Neil let’s get notoriously prolific goal scorer Neil mop he’ll get
Us at least two goals in Tony’s absence like no wonder you are where you are that’s what happens when you don’t you know like they’ve been lucky that like inmo and V um like stepped up a little bit and and and put in some good performances but
They’re not the sort of players that would do it consistently like they did at the start the season and they both kind of tailed off a little bit like they can both pop up now and again with goals but yeah like they didn’t look like they
Missed Tony at the start of the season but they really have these last few games um but they also need to figure out whatever’s going wrong at the back as well because they’ve been leaking um leaking some goals like wolves put four past them um
You know it’s it’s it’s it’s not been a good run let have a look at the you think the players are like were waiting for Tony to get back and when Tony gets back you think psychologically or subconsciously they could be on that like when he gets back then we’ll all
Step it up but you know this this is we’re missing a player like even even Man City might be doing that with harand you know to a certain extent or with waiting for the Brun you know ever heard waiting Forman waiting for de Brun waiting for Tony waiting for Holland you
Know so we’ll see you yeah it be it’d be interesting for them but yeah just I I do feel like at the moment out of all the teams they’re the ones looking like they might get sucked in for that battle Yeah it’s not it’s not great I
Expect more from them uh Everton is 17th it’s a fake 17th they got 16 points but they had 10 points taken away from them actually heard on a broadcast that this is one point or one place above where they were last year when they had no points deducted so
Regardless they’re still ahead after the 10-point deduction and you know dice you know first game after deduction they lost to United uh G outo scored a one to goal but after that they went on a four game Run where they won four but now I think they’ve lost like three
And you know like we was talking about mid-table teams that’s not a lot of give man you’re going to you know you can you can get beat out there because it’s tough in the middle and then you still got to face teams at the top and they’ve
Lost 10 teams at the top and I think some teams in the middle so I just I want them to survive you know I I don’t know if a team in a premier league or in top level football in England has ever been deducted 10 points and survived or even ever been
Deducted 10 points period or points period so I know all about points deductions oh yeah so what happened yeah we got um deducted points when we went down to League one I can’t remember exactly how many it was the first season it was it was a lot though um oh
Southampton points deduction yeah 10 points was what we got yeah what did you all do what did you all get the anle bracelet for going into Administration okay yeah yeah we we got it imposed on us in the championship um it relegated us but then we got we started with a points
Deduction um in League one I can’t remember how much that one was points deduction I think Derby had a big one as well right um Leeds had a 15o deduction um for failing to exit Administration properly as well at some point um but yeah it’s it’s really rare that it’s
Ever happened in the Premier League I think that was when leads were down in the lower leagues as well so yeah it’s um for it to happen in the Premier League is is is strange um but you know they’re coping I mean they did get battered by walls um but they’re they’re
They’re coping I think they’ll be fine hopefully hopefully and then I just saw a post from Deli allei uh his uh he had a mishap in his Rehabilitation from his injury but they still have a class player to come back and help them out and uh whenever that happens hopefully
Happens soon and uh Luton you know yeah I just want to say you know the captain sounds they read something on the post pregame show about their Captain like he wrote a post so he’s feeling better he thanked everybody uh who saved his life on the field he saids CPR is real everybody
Should learn it so I’m glad that he’s feeling better we don’t know if he’ll ever play again but he’s alive and he’s with his family for the holiday so good for them and Luton I don’t know man this is always going to be a struggle when
You’re a team that just comes into the Premier League from the championship and you didn’t spend a ton of money uh they played good today Luton played Chelsea right was that Lon and Chelsea today I think it was the day before but yeah they they the day before yeah they
Did like they they you know they once they made those substitutions they made two substitutions and one of them was Chong X you know United player he got the ball out to get crossed in and also went out and crossed some balls in they hit the post they came close so good for
Them to come at Chelsea like that but this is it’s going to be tough to escape the deportation that you’re in right now and so I’m not surprised you’re 18th what do you feel uh I’ve been impressed with them recently um because I thought they were
Going to be potentially the worst of the three teams that came up they got the smallest budget the smallest Stadium um and you you know the sort of probably the before they’ve signed certain players they probably had the least experienced team in terms of Premier League minutes um but you know they did
Well they they they were smart in getting a couple of guys in that had that experience like Barkley and towns end um and yeah they’ve just they they’ve become a tough team to beat recently like if you are going to beat luthen you’re gonna have to have earned
It recently like they’re running teams close like they ran they ran Chelsea close with that little comeback they beat Newcastle at home the other day um as well so I think yeah especially at their own ground they’re you know they’re a team who can can cause problems and yeah the fact they’ve got
15 points already is is pretty good going for them um it’s it’s more than I thought they would have at this stage um so yeah credit to them I still think they’ll go down um sadly for them I’d love it if they could stay up because I think you know um it’s been
It’s been great having them in the league but um but yeah they beat Sheffield United the other day 3-2 which was a real mhm crazy game that one on boxing day because it sort of swung back and forth um that score line and yeah their games aren’t boring at the moment
That’s for sure um and you know City could only beat them 2-1 Arsenal could only beat them 4-3 um so they they’re they’re working teams even if they’re not winning they’re working teams they’re not giving anyone anything for free sound like they need to learn how to defend that’s what they sound like
They need to do no it’s fun to watch yeah I mean it’s fun to watch I like the idea of a team with a grounds like that is in the Premier League so I want them to stay in but who would have to come out for them to stay in is are
Other teams that I like to that I do want to stay up so we’ll see what happens to them but just keep on the good fight Loop man you know you this is a great story and if this ground stays in the Premier League for a bunch of
Seasons that would be goddamn amazing uh Burnley is 19th that’s Vincent company team they won the championship uh they’re playing his style of play they I feel like they’ve been playing better lately too they only have 11 points and he refuses to compromise and like adopt a more
Defensive uh fast break style of play and counter teams so you know he’s playing football you know with a bunch of young players like his way and uh their 19th and that’s where people expected him to be but is the 11 points that bad compared to other teams that have gone
Down in in other Seasons at this point um sort of I mean like I say Samson got relegated last year with 25 points I think we had um so you know they’re on they’re on track to finish a similar rate to we did um whereas you know Luton a potentially on track to
Finish a little bit with a little bit more than we did um but yeah I mean I I think it’s been bad I think they’ve been unlucky in certain games where they’ve had bad decisions go against them or you know they’ve looked close to snatching a draw and then they’ve conceded so um
Yeah I think they just don’t have enough quality in that team to to stay up um but they’re fighting you know they’re trying like they they they fought really well against um against Villa and especially to equalize with 10 men at Villa Park you know that’s no hard going
And then there no easy going sorry and then that penalty happened which was just unfortunate because it’s one of those ones where you know the the player who won the penalty smart they see that the defender about to clear the ball they manag to get themselves in there in
Front and then just take the hit from the player who’s not trying to kick them but just trying to clear the ball and then yeah I always feel bad on those ones but yeah they they they they they were a little bit hard done by to to not
Come away from vilip park with anything yeah but they also got away with a penalty that should have been called on them oh now that was Sheffield that was Sheffield at Villa my bad uh let’s go to Sheffield at 20th listen I like Chris Wilder but I don’t
Think he’s gonna save this team you know what I’m saying like he’ll just make them not lose as bad every week as they would have you know I think he got the one manager bounce win out of him since he’s back and then he got got a point at
Villa did he win a game since he’s been there or just they beat brenford and that was it yeah I feel yeah yeah I feel like so so but I just you got nine points half The Season’s gone bro I don’t I don’t know I don’t
Know if like I don’t know if the sheffields got it man so they didn’t invest much this season right they just came up and they sold their best player yeah and D went to and D went to Mars who was a really big player for
Them yeah so we’ll see man I mean you seller why why would you sell your best player and then you have to fire your coach so you and hire a new coach you lose that money that you made anyway because you had to fire your coach maybe if you didn’t sell the play
You keep him you’d be higher up the table you don’t have to fire your coach and then you could not have to spend the money that you made on the player firing and hiring a new coach so it’s like guys this just apply some logic here y’all I think the player wanted to
Go to be fair he wanted to go some guy want to go to France instead of Premier League does he understand it’s a Premier League I think you understood that it was Sheffield United in the Premier League and marsill a big huge Club in France and in
Europe does he know that they don’t go to the grounds that in the Premier League that they have to go to in the championship just like did you had a chance bro I’m confused on that one so I’ll just leave it right there I’m I’m completely confused what
What are you feeling about shefield yeah done they’re cooked damn Jesus Christ yeah I mean nine points by this you know we we’re over halfway um yeah there’re there’s no coming back from this they’re um you know the the change in the manager was that’s rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
It’s it’s it’s just for show it’s going down is that is that why I hear a band playing every time I see Sheffield playing I can hear it’s a sinking ship it’s a sinking ship yeah it’s a sinking ship that could have saved some money but I guess you said
The player but they didn’t even spend the money on an upgrade they kept the money Well they um they the player they replaced him with was Archer I think who came in Oh Yeah from Villa yeah yeah who’s who’s doing decent but like you say he’s just young he’s an experience
He’ll probably be really good at some point you know I kind of believe in him he’s he’s terrorized some teams a little bit but yeah all right so that’s it man what’s any uh any football I know how did Southampton do just to wrap s Southampton two wins
In two games over the festive period um I went on boxing day we played Swansea at home uh we won 5 nil um I got I got to see us destroy someone um which I’ve been waiting for that um it was only the game was only 2-n at 71 minutes and then
We just went into overdrive for the last period like the other team swansey gave up a little bit we had some really good players we’ve got a a like a a deep bench for attacking players this year as well so we just threw like qu like Ryan
Fraser came on for 20 minutes and he scored two and got one assist damn um because we’ve been rotating through the team through Christmas so to bring quality players on Off the Bench is just a good way to close games out um and we won our last home game before
That against Blackburn 4-0 so um we’re we’re in a good run at the moment IP switch have started slipping up above us um so we’re only three points behind them now um we beat we beat Plymouth um the other day uh 2-1 which was a little
Bit closer than I would have liked but the goal they scored was right at the end we up at the back and and gave him a goal we were comfortable 2-0 before that um but then New Year’s Day we go to Norwich so later today for me
Um we we go to Norwich away which is not an easy game Norwich are inconsistent this year but they’re a good they’ve got good players so this one worries me we’re on a 17 game unbeaten streak um unfathomable yeah unfathomable but I’m worried that Norwich will be where we lose
It um we we played them early the season at our place and we we drew 44 um which was n so yeah I mean I I would take a draw away to Norwich because that would be a good point on the road um but who knows the players
Are confident right now so you know I’m sure we can we could go out there and do something but it just worries me I don’t I don’t know why I’m just not feeling good about it if if you lose just don’t go Villa fan on the players and on your
Coach all right just just calm down it’s it’s one loss in 17 games yeah like keep it together over there yeah you know yeah he’s bought some credit like him and the players they bought some credit with this run I won’t I yeah I’m not I’m not gonna
Lose my head if uh if they if they take a loss in this game yeah as as a man united fan a 17 game unbeaten run is unfathomable to me unfathomable bro well you know you want you want to get relegated come down to the championship no no no we good we
Good we good I’m not stupid I know it could always get worse like I’m not you know I just I just want a few us to make a few tweaks but T ain’t taking my calls so I can’t tell him what the tweaks should be because even though he is a
Better Coach than me he’s and you know coaches don’t see the team see what the fans have seen over a period of time like hey man watch out for that guy he’ll make you think he’s going to help you and he ain’t gonna help you it’s not his fault but he’s GNA
Love that you believe in him but you probably shouldn’t believe in him don’t believe what your eyes are telling I’m gon to log into this podcast one week and I’m just going to see like Scott Momin tied up in the background in your apartment they’ll be like oh Scott
Momin’s gone missing have you kidnapped Scott m that you can’t play you just you just see him in a West Ham uniform or some other uniform you know what I mean I want get him into the yeah I want to get him in the right uniform like I I I like
Scott I want him to have a great career somewhere else you that’s yeah man we did it we did another year of the soccer comic rant thanks for listening thanks for watching like and subscribing on the platforms uh you got any football New Year’s resolutions just to try and watch games live
Wherever I can in and around um you know other commitments um so yeah if I can get to more games uh I need to try and plot when the next Hampton game I’m going to go to is I want to try and watch some more stuff
Out on the continent in Europe find a find a city to go do some shows in and watch uh watch a game or two again like I did in the in the Netherlands so um yeah who knows get back out the uh out to the states as well see some more MLS
Well let me know let me I maybe I’ll try to meet up with you in some of these places uh I’m going to be tied up in the beginning of the year but I should try to the Euros is in Germany yeah yeah in the summer I should try to Germany’s a good
Place to go I should try to go see some see at least you know I don’t know how to get tickets and like that I don’t know if it’s hard world it’s it’s difficult you have to apply through UEFA and the application period has already already happened um me and some friends have
Applied for some but I don’t know if we’ll get any of them because it’s it’s it’s a lottery damn you have to they need the lottery to spend money isn’t that crazy you need you need to win the lottery to get the opportunity to spend some of your money the way you want
That’s crazy uh but yeah man but we love y’all that listen and watch and we’re trying to make it better we got the Instagram going comic rant we got the clips going you know you know during the week we’re g to do the podcast on Sundays now
That’s why we hear Christmas New Year’s Eve New Year’s Day in England and we put the podcast out tonight you know so it’s fresh you know like hot bread on a Monday it’s there for you you know what I mean after all the games so this is
What we’re doing man anything you want to say to the peoples before I I enjoy the the comments whether they’re good or bad um you know put put them put them on the on the clips put them on the on the YouTube thing as well because if I’m in a good
You know if I’m if I’m if I got time I will I will respond as well and I I have a conversation with people if they don’t agree but you know there’s people showing us love on there there’s people challenging us on there and I like it
All it’s um you know that’s what that’s what makes football is that it’s uh you know it’s a game that gets everyone going it’s a game that that generates opinions um and uh yeah that’s why we love it it’s yeah it’s always good to hear from
People though and and to you know hear whether they’re agreeing with us or think that we’re talking absolute nonsense so yeah I agree with that like and there’s so many opinions out there some of them surprise me like Dam that’s pretty smart I’m I’m you know this is I
Do this because I love football but also I learn about football from Lee there’s so much I don’t know it’s there’s so many things in football you don’t know it’s like life like you just learn something that’s a different way to think about that oh okay that’s why they
Did that all right that’s I didn’t even think of that so you know we we’re here learning I’m I’m not no master I know a decent amount but you know I’m always learning something else new it’s great hobby thing to follow so we love you Happy New Year be good and we’ll see
Y’all next year one wait a minute I pressed the wrong button so
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Big up, Soccer Comics! Happy New Brand!!..
Villa will finsh top 4 and trust me no real Villa fans are saying Emery out. They must be trolls that you are seeing. #UTV
Completely disagree about Arsenal, specifically about Nketia and to a lesser extent Jorginho. The reason Nketia has not been scoring is because Arteta stopped playing him. 99% of players need playing time and belief from their managers, and arguably forwards more than any other position. But it's clear that Arteta does not believe in Nketia, as he stopped playing him as soon as Jesus came back from injury. In fact, he seems to believe more in Havertz than Nketia, even though Havertz is a terrible forward.
Nketia scored 5 goals at the beginning of the season and he was scoring consistently when Arsenal was still atop the league last winter. It's only when Arteta stops playing him and brings him on for 10-15 mins at the end of games that he stops scoring. I agree he may not win them the league, but he's certainly better than Jesus or Havertz.
thanks for what you guys do. as a fellow saints fan, please keep up the southampton check-ins on the pods!
I actually believe in Nketia. Just think its gonna take him a few season to be a top scorer. And Arteta does belive in Havertz and Jesus more. He bought them. You know how it is when a manager buys a player?.. they play them to prove they didn't waste the clubs money. Arteta complicates things for himself . Gets in his own way sometimes. Good manager though.
Lol I was screaming “Copa America in the USA! At my car speakers while y’all were trying to figure out what to go watch live 🤦🏽♂️ lmao Conmebol… Worlds Fútbol favorite overlooked competitions 😂