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been a huge weekend of

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FA Cup quarter-final football. Bernardo

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Silva again into the penalty area, left foot

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shot curling. Oh, it's gone through to

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Bravka and it's 2-0 and

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two deflected goals for Bernardo Silva.

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Curling shot, brilliant goal

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from Noni Manuweki. Chelsea have

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won it, they've beaten Leicester by four goals

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to two. I don't believe it.

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Hadsby Wright has curled it

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into the bottom corner and

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Coventry are through to only

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their second ever FA Cup

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semi-final. Chris,

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Chelsea, Man City and the semi-finals,

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but we have to start with

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Coventry City. Wow, what a cup

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tie that was. Yeah, brilliant commentary

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as well from little Bruce Paul

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there, wonderful. But Coventry under

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Mark Robbins, what a journey you

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have been on Coventry, Sydney fans.

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FA Cup semi-final, brilliant. Can you go

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all the way? Who do you want

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in the draw Manchester City so comfortable,

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Rob? Well, they didn't see anything other than

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that. My son was at the Chelsea

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game earlier, so Chelsea went through, but

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he said there was a strange atmosphere in

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the ground from the off and the booing,

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Rob. A serious point, and I know you'll

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come back about my Chelsea career, but Raheem

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Sterling, tell me what you think. What's the

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point of booing him, Rob, if you're

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a Chelsea fan? Yeah, Paul, I agree.

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It just has a really negative impact

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on the team. It doesn't help at all. Let's

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anyone want a finish four? Jovan Basi

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it's red and it's three. And

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Tottenham really are in deep trouble now.

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Fulham, three, Tottenham 0. Who saw

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this coming today? The pullback from

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the RB. And

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Christopher, your spur side lost 3-0 to

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Fulham yesterday. West Ham had

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a last minute winner ruled out by

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VAR against Aston Villa. But is a

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point a missed opportunity for Villa? And

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was the right decision to rule the

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goal out? Oh, I mean,

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do you know what, Rob? What did

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it take? Five or six minutes to

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come to that decision? Let's hear from

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fans at the game. I mean, that

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seems slightly ridiculous how they took that

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long. Was it a clear and obvious

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error, Rob? Have you seen the clip?

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It was handball. So it

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was a clear and obvious error then, right? Yes, handball.

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In your opinion? Was it

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yours? Is it handball? I've

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not really seen it that

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well. Rob, in that respect...

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Hang on a minute. So you have seen

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that, all right? And you've made that decision

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within a few seconds? Yeah, handball.

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So how did it take six minutes

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then? No idea, Christopher. No idea. Point

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gained for Villa or two points dropped?

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we get to your calls, let's get

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a quick update from the Chief, John

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Murray, who wants to manunise his epic

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club quarter-final against Liverpool. Well,

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Liverpool are less than 15 minutes now from

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winning at Old Trafford to

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get through to the semi-finals of the

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FA Cup in Jurgen Klopp's final season.

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It's Manchester United 1, Liverpool 2. For

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most of the first half, Manchester United

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led through McTominay's goal for two in

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the space of three minutes just before

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the break from McAllister and Salah. Completely

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changed the match. Liverpool have dominated it

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in the second half. They've not been

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able to find the third goal, though.

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So Manchester United are still

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just about in it to one

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Liverpool lead. Thanks so

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much, John. Obviously, you haven't seen the West

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Ham disallowed goal. You haven't seen it. You're

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watching this game by the chance. You are

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working. I am. Yes,

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I am working today. This

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is such a mismatch, Rob. Are

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you watching this game? I am. I

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mean, Liverpool are so far ahead of Manchester

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United. Of course, Manchester United are still in

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it, but Liverpool have been so,

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so wasteful, haven't they? They have dominated this

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game, second half especially. Manchester United actually started

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well for the first 10 minutes. But if

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you're a Manchester United fan watching this, you

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can see whether you get out of jail

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or not, you can see the goal in

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class, don't you? The difference between these two

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teams. Yeah, 0-8-0-8-5-9-0-9-6-9-3 is the number to

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call. of

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a let's go to Will who's a Vella

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fan how are you Will? Well

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I'm feeling pretty good actually on balance I felt a

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bit disappointed come the end of the game but as

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I've had a bit of a time to reflect one

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all away at West Ham missing John

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McGinn three points

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in between us and Tottenham fifth

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place looking good you know

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what no injuries no one got sent off yeah

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I think that's probably a good result for us

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all in all. It looks like as well

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it looks sorry because it looks like as well because the

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coefficient you know the you

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know the England teams you know got off

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in this second the top two is now

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the men it's Italy and Germany then England

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the team so it looks like with the

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teams going through the European competitions you

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know a team in England will probably

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absolutely hide in Italian teams it

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looks like fifth place will

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be at Champions League. Coefficient expert

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there Rob. Yeah I've read up

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on it Chris. Yeah some of us do our interest. Yeah

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absolutely well it's

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going to depend upon how well I mean West

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Ham could do us a favor by you know

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going far in their competition as well as Will

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that which you know I think we would all

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feel like Liverpool. Quality of teams in conference yeah

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Liverpool you know you look at this Arsenal, yeah

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Man City we've got to look at that the

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quality of those teams that coefficient should

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happen so you know for us to feel that

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fourth still looks good but you know we'll

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take fifth so yeah all in all. Will

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just just on the Europa Conference would it

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be a bit embarrassing if Villa didn't win

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that? Well

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would it be would it well that would be massively

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disrespectful to the good for the teams that are in

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there you know you got like you got some big

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European teams who on the night

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in a European fixture can

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always do something pretty fantastic and you

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know maybe Ajax aren't the team they used to

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be but Ajax are still a massive team and

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we managed to get the job done so

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I don't think it'd be embarrassing I think

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for a team like Villa we haven't been

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in Europe for many many years to

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do what we do I think you'd have to say. It's

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a massive achievement. Well, why so

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negative? Why so negative, Chris? What are your

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old teams? Rob, it was a question, Rob.

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Just a question. I love my time at Villa.

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I think Will's answered that very, very well.

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What about, are you worried about the threat from Tottenham, Will? You

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know what? No, because,

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well, Tottenham are a great team, but Tottenham are also Tottenham.

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No, they're not a great team. They're not a great team.

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They are. Well, they are very good teams. City. City

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are a great team. Okay. Okay.

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So you want to split words? Okay. Well,

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I think Tottenham are a great team. I think City are an

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exceptional team. But if

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we, I think I'd be looking

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at what they did to go lose 3-0 at Fulham.

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I think the problem, the thing with the Premier League,

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not the problem, but the great thing is there's so

8:46

many competitive teams around. So you never know what's going

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to happen. And you know,

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West Ham, Tottenham, Villa,

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Raw, kind of similar, Man

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United and win can lose other

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teams gone the day can make it very, very

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difficult. So I don't know. I think I'll run

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in now. Look, we've got three points between us.

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There's what, nine points between us and Man

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United now. I would

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say that as long as we

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continue to be consistent then

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and we don't need to blow the

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lights out, we don't need to win every single

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game, there's a really, really good chance Aston Villa

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will be in the Champions League. And

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that's amazing to say. To be fair, to be fair. Well,

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I've never seen a great team

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finish fifth in the league, never. No.

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So what are you saying? Is Villa on a great team?

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I don't think great teams. I don't think

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great teams finish fourth or fifth. Everything

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in perspective, Rob. I

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have. Great teams have finished fourth or fifth.

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I think if you have any championship

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team, any team around the world, our

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Premier League team is great. I think

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they'll say yes, they are. I mean,

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it's to say that any of the

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world's best league, the world's best players,

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the world's best facilities aren't. these teams

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aren't great I think it's crazy man

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I think it's crazy they are great

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okay okay let's tell you what thank

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you so much thank you and that's

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that's a great opinion I'll tell

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you what let's go to a great team Oh Trafford

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John Murray with Michael

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Brown watching Manchester United 1 Liverpool

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2 we've got five minutes to go

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Michael and I mean there's

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no sign here that there's going to be

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a final hurrah from Manchester United the home

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supporters are quiet the team haven't got them

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going to support if I'm got the team

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going Liverpool fans 9000 making all of the

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noise yeah I think they realized

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out there that Liverpool have settled in the

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control possession of this move Manchester United round

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and with ease once they got that second

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goal at the end of the first half

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obviously did shell-shot the whole stadium I expected

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some sort of reaction that's what these supporters

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would have wanted later stage every turn hard

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now just making another substitution they've got to

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go after one goal in it and you

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want to see them open it up just

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a minute ago we've seen Liverpool with a

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5 v 2 on Manchester United and that

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tells you everything it does Manchester United 1

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Liverpool 2 and right now Robbie

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Manchester United are going out with a

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whimper okay I tell you what John

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Michael you've heard Willa first caller

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Michael can great team is

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finished fourth or fifth you

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don't expect

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us to finish fourth or fifth there's another opportunity

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there now great

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teams have got to finish top don't they Robbie

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you know thank you Michael John

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what about you John be great teams finish fourth

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or fifth yeah I agree with Michael no

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son no they can't you can't

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finish sixth Robbie check

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back in five minutes ago all traffic

11:50

Christopher let's go to Chris the

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West Ham fan of

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absolutely nowhere into the penalty

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area. Anthony, who's done

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almost nothing all season, turned

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right foot, shot, lined to the

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bottom corner beyond the diving tower.

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And it looks like having all

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trapped, both the home fans and

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the away fans are stunned. It's

12:19

2-2 and it looks like extra

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time. Robbie, take that back, about

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being quiet. The stadium has just

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done absolutely mental. A lot of

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finish, he just rotates, turns, and

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stays into that far corner. Kelleher,

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getting across to that left-hand side, without nothing

12:35

to be dominated, but they finally got some

12:37

bodies into key areas, got an at you

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involved, and once it's up central, it sort

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of looked like it was going to run

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out of space, turns really well and fights

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it into the far corner. Game on. I

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don't know how they've come up with that,

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Robbie, honestly. And then Liverpool, Liverpool can only

12:55

blame themselves for not getting the third goal

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that would have absolutely finished it. And there

12:59

we are, Anthony scores at Old Trafford for

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the first time this season. A

13:03

minute ago, you two were writing your night at all. He's

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average at eight, great teams to finish at any

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point of it. Thanks

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to time, it looks like Old Trafford, thank

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you, John. And Michael, wow,

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Chris, you were writing my night off,

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but I go, Chris, what's less you

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were saying? Well, yeah, because I've watched

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the whole game. I mean, this is

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so, so one-sided. Gotta say, Rob, the

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finish from Anthony, absolutely brilliant. For a

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guy who hasn't turned up at

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all, they spent an absolute fortune on him. Wonderful

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finish, swivel 12 yards out into

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the far corner. But

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the guys are right, Liverpool have

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missed chance after chance. Wasted opportunities,

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who knows? Yes, 085-909-693. Chris,

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the West Ham fan, how are you, Chris? Depressed,

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depressed. Oh, I

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understand you. You're seventh in the league.

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at the West Ham Stadium the other night to see you

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put five past... You

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were there, Robbo, you were there. I forgot. He's

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really got a stronger and older detail

14:17

than I thought he was. So depressed,

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how can you be depressed? Seven, seven

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feet into the qualifying opening? I'm

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not depressed about West Ham. I'm depressed about VAR.

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I know you started the program by saying it

14:29

was a handball, but I was there in the

14:31

stadium today and where I sit, I get to

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have a little monitor that shows me sometimes what

14:35

a VAR is looking at. Chris, Chris, just got

14:38

to start with the edge, you're mowing in! Liverpool

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so close to a third

14:44

goal that would have edged them ahead. An

14:47

effort from Elliot after the ball rattled around

14:49

the Manchester United penalty area, all over the

14:51

top of a Nana, and hit the postman

14:54

came out and now Manchester United at the

14:56

end are attacking with John Atjoll. Let's put

14:58

it close, but that's gone all the way

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out to throwing on the other side. It's

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2-2 and we're in the 90th minute. Here's

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John, Chris, back to you. Yeah,

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I'm just going to moan about VAR. I've

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just seen a wonderful last-minute equalizer there at

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Old Trafford, but can the fans really enjoy

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it? Because what, are they going to pull

15:18

back and analyse to rule it out? That

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seems to be happening at London Stadium today.

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We scored that last-minute winner and they pulled

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it back. The soon-check handball was about the

15:27

fifth thing they looked at. There's

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a level of forensic detail,

15:31

and it's clear and obvious it's meant to be

15:33

the thing, right? Is it clear and obvious? If

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it's the fifth incident they have to look at

15:37

in order to be able to rule it out,

15:39

if they can't even spot it at Stockley Park

15:41

with all the screens and the cameras there, six

15:44

minutes it took, and also it's a

15:46

level of forensic analysis that we didn't

15:48

have when we played shipping tonight and

15:50

we considered the latest goal to be ever

15:52

scored in the Premier League, with a penalty

15:55

for a foul on Ariana that was never a foul in a

15:57

million years, and then had a penalty that was never a foul

15:59

in a million years. even a stronger case

16:01

denied us down the other end of the

16:03

pitch just seconds after that. And then we

16:05

had that Freiberg incident away from home where

16:07

we were denied what was clearly a stone-rule

16:10

penalty and the referee told to look at

16:12

the screen and then says, no, I don't

16:14

agree with everyone else who's analysing this. The

16:17

lack of consistency, you hear it every week,

16:19

it's so boring to keep going on about

16:21

it. David Moyes in the programme today, in

16:23

his programme there saying, we've had so much

16:26

bad luck with VAR decisions and here we

16:28

are again feeling a sense of injustice. Where

16:30

does it end, Robbie? Where does it

16:32

end? I

16:36

thought the sochit was handball at the

16:38

end, you know, personally. But isn't

16:40

it in sleeves, isn't it? I mean, none of

16:43

us know the rules anymore, but it looked like

16:45

it hit his bicep and I thought the rule

16:47

was if it touches you up to your sleeve,

16:49

you're good. And also he's falling with his arm

16:51

at his side. Is that not a natural position?

16:53

I don't know what handball is anymore. Was it

16:55

clear and obvious error? But here's one to see.

17:02

Handball. To take six minutes.

17:05

To take six minutes is

17:07

pretty amazing. I was watching the VAR, I

17:09

had the VAR on my feed at

17:12

London Stadium. They looked at first to see if

17:14

it was offside for Alvarez when the cross came

17:16

in. When they decided that wasn't offside, they looked

17:18

to see whether Boeing handballed it, it hit his

17:20

shoulder. And then following that, they

17:22

looked to see whether Suchak's boad was an

17:24

offside pass. But Martinez's glum was

17:26

on like keeping everyone onside. And I think

17:29

it was the thing after that, they spotted

17:31

from another angle that as Suchak is falling,

17:33

it hit his arm. Like

17:35

is it clear and obvious if it's the fourth thing?

17:38

Fourth or fifth is crazy. And

17:41

here we are again, you know, just is this

17:43

better? Is this better for the fans? Can you

17:45

really throw yourself into a celebration for a last

17:47

minute goal anymore? Especially if it's a goal mouth

17:49

scramble. We're in a situation like

17:52

this. Can you even score from a goal mouth

17:54

scramble anymore when there's bodies in the box and

17:56

chaos? Because you'll be able to find something every

17:58

time. I'm just so board of hearing

18:00

people talk about this and feeling like this. It

18:03

just happens every week there's more controversy. Wasn't

18:05

it better in the old world where a

18:08

referee made a decision and instantly you had

18:10

that gratification of knowing you scored or you

18:12

hadn't? It's just nonsense. All the

18:14

time. Yeah, you make some good points.

18:16

I'll be honest with you Chris, doesn't

18:18

he? Yeah, to be honest,

18:20

I didn't think I'd turn you around Robbie. I didn't

18:22

think I'd turn you around. I

18:25

think most football fans, Chris, feel

18:27

the same way as

18:30

you. I think that everybody

18:32

wanted to give, or most people wanted

18:34

to give Vara a chance, not everybody,

18:37

but they are so frustrated with the

18:39

way that week in and week

18:41

out there's still a massive inconsistency.

18:45

Yeah, inconsistency in terms of the decisions.

18:47

Also inconsistency over how long they would

18:49

look to analyze things. Like six minutes

18:51

today to analyze that to find a

18:53

reason not to allow it. When we've

18:55

had incidents in the last month where

18:57

we've had penalties denied to us or

19:00

penalties granted, where the referee might make

19:02

an on-field decision, and they would barely

19:04

look at the thing. It's just

19:06

like your inconsistency around the

19:08

way a decision goes and how long

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they spend looking for things. It's just

19:12

mind boggling to me. Chris,

19:15

thank you. Thank you, Chris. Thank you

19:17

so much. You made some good points

19:19

there, Chris. Right, Chris, about 30 seconds

19:21

to go. Oh, Trafford, John. Yeah,

19:24

big, long high ball in for Manchester

19:26

United. McGuire got his head to it.

19:28

Clear away, though, by Elliott, who volleied

19:30

it away. And Manchester United, after

19:33

that dramatic Anthony equalizer,

19:35

could be in with Rashford.

19:38

Oh, shoot wide! Goodness,

19:41

though, the flag stayed down as well as it

19:43

was curled over the top. And Rashford

19:45

from a slight angle on his body

19:47

and sent the shot wider to goalkeeper,

19:49

but wider to post as well. He

19:51

could have won it there and then.

19:53

It's an absolute sitter, brilliant ball. He

19:55

takes a touch. He's normally

19:57

so clinical. He's upright. that

20:00

right foot Bruno Fernandez coming over to

20:02

to give him that sort of G

20:04

up but he knows that was the

20:06

chance to win it for Manchester United

20:09

agonizing it just brushes past the far

20:11

post. Well for much of the second

20:13

half certainly it was much too little

20:15

from Manchester United but

20:18

they left it late and it's

20:20

extra time extra time the

20:22

match ends the 90 minutes 2-2,

20:25

McTominay making it 1-0 in the

20:27

first half, McAllister and Salah just

20:29

before halftime Liverpool dominated in the

20:31

second period couldn't get the third

20:34

goal the equalizer from Anthony massive

20:36

miss from Rashford there right at

20:38

the end and so we will

20:40

have extra time to decide the

20:42

fourth semi-finalist here at Old Trafford.

20:45

Thank you John and Michael we're

20:47

back to you next time 0-8,

20:49

0-8, 5-9, 9-6, 9-3, Canham Liverpool

20:51

fan. Hello

20:54

Robbie and Chris. How are you

20:56

Canham? I've got 30

20:58

seconds last week. We'll

21:01

give you a bit more today if you make a good point but

21:03

make your first 30. The point

21:06

on VAR, I agree with you, VAR is

21:08

not the problem at the moment the problem

21:10

is the semi-rule and the

21:13

way the rules are being written that's

21:16

ruining the game of football. Go on

21:19

then. But yeah the

21:22

semi-rule is the way they've been written and

21:25

how they depict him. What should be given

21:27

as a free kick? What's our side? What's

21:30

the foul? What's not to how? Why

21:33

Bruno Fernandes is still on the pitch

21:35

I do not know. Yeah I think

21:37

a lot of football fans watching this

21:40

game would think that how is that

21:42

not a yellow card offense?

21:44

If he wasn't already on a yellow

21:46

card and

21:49

where it was the ref should have given

21:51

him a second yellow card sent him off. I'm not

21:53

gonna moan about that. I'm

22:00

not going to use it as an excuse. As

22:03

a lifelong Liverpool fan, I'm

22:06

a lifelong lover of the beautiful game of

22:08

football, which you

22:10

two guys played and know and loved as

22:13

much as I do. Obviously

22:15

I called in today to put

22:18

the shout out again that

22:21

even though we literally should have been

22:23

four, five, one up before that second

22:25

one goal winning, because we were easily

22:27

on them, and

22:30

we've commanded, and since we're letting the goal, which

22:32

we have to do, typical Liverpool at the moment,

22:34

I don't know what it is, we

22:36

seem to have to let it go before we

22:38

wake up. That

22:41

is something that the new manager will have

22:43

to sort out. We are going to go

22:45

on and win this. I'm

22:48

hoping, hoping we get a

22:50

decent, you know, bit

22:52

of competition in the semi-final and

22:55

the final. But we're

22:57

on our way to, as I said to you boys, we're

23:00

on our way to four bits of silverware this season. I

23:02

mean, Calum, it has literally been

23:05

the game, the actual game, it's

23:07

literally been a Premier League team

23:09

playing a team from a lower

23:11

division, hasn't it? That's how

23:13

one-sided this game has been. The

23:17

first 20 minutes, there

23:20

was a second Premier League side on there,

23:22

or they played that way. I'll give you

23:24

that. But since

23:26

then, United have become another

23:29

team that begins with them, Manchesterfield,

23:32

I think. And if

23:34

their manager was the manager

23:37

for Manchesterfield, he would have been sacked by now.

23:40

That is a great point. If

23:45

it was Manchesterfield, you would have sacked him

23:47

by now. This is saying

23:49

that you're not the director of football,

23:52

you're not it. And it's

23:54

a shame that for those

23:56

20 minutes, it takes playing the... one

24:00

of the greatest, if not the greatest

24:03

British football team in the whole of

24:05

Europe for them to wake up and

24:08

try and win. And United

24:13

fans are finding this saying, we won the top

24:15

flight 20 times, you only won

24:17

it 19. Well, that's until the end

24:19

of this season. And 13 of

24:22

them were under one manager. So

24:26

and do

24:28

they own a Champions League trophy in

24:30

their trophy cabinet? No, because they haven't

24:33

won Europe five times or six likely.

24:35

But they have. I mean, but I

24:38

mean, that's a bit of respect for Manchester United.

24:40

You know, they have in the

24:42

past been being a great team

24:44

at this moment in time, they've lost

24:46

the way, they're miles behind Liverpool, but

24:48

they're somehow still in with the chance

24:51

of winning this. But United

24:53

fans, and I was down

24:56

a certain establishment putting a little

24:58

thing on predicting what was going to

25:00

happen today, given

25:02

you I'm generous, I gave United a

25:05

two goal head start that,

25:08

you know, the Liverpool were going to win and

25:10

that Salah and Elliott were

25:13

going to score. That's still

25:15

possibly going to happen. Salah has been taking

25:17

off, but he's already scored his goal. Elliott's

25:19

on there. He shall score his goal. We

25:22

had we had given them a two goal

25:24

head start, we let them score two goals

25:26

in this day. What's the score

25:28

going to be then? What's the score going to be? What's the final

25:31

score going to be? The final

25:33

score is going to be Liverpool four, Man United

25:35

two. Thank you so much.

25:37

Just on Calend's point, would you have

25:39

thanked if you were director

25:41

of football at Manchester United or Eric

25:44

Tenhalt? Eric Tenhalt was manager on that. If

25:46

Eric Tenhalt was Michael Field manager, would you

25:48

have sacked him by now? Yeah, but he

25:50

hasn't been hypothetical question. I don't know how

25:53

well. No, but would you have sacked him

25:55

by now, Rob, if you were if you

25:57

were director of football at Manchester United? over

26:00

the last best part of two years, would

26:02

you have sacked him by now? No, no. You

26:04

would have? No. But you

26:06

have, how many managers have gone? I've waited until the season to see

26:08

where we've been. Oh, you're tacking at the end of the season?

26:12

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26:52

Christopher? Well,

26:54

I tell you who, Rob. My

26:56

old club, Lincoln City, having a

26:59

good bit of success at this

27:01

moment in time, in and around

27:03

the playoff position, they have scored

27:05

a barrel load of goals. Rob,

27:08

I think 16 in the last week or

27:10

so. Joe Taylor, former Roxam striker. I've had

27:12

private conversations with you about Joe Taylor. He's

27:14

scored six of them. Hatrick at the weekend.

27:16

Let's hear from Lincoln City, man. Bringing back

27:18

the glory days. Like when I was manager

27:20

there. Dundee against Rangers, Rob, today. I love

27:22

Scottish football. I really enjoyed my time playing

27:24

north of the border. But the game, Rob,

27:26

was bespoke an hour and a half before

27:28

kickoff. What

27:39

about the fans? Why

27:42

did the referee rock up less than two

27:45

hours before the start of the game for

27:47

the pitch inspection? I just get there a

27:49

bit earlier. Right? I

27:51

really don't understand that, Rob. I think

27:54

that that was an absolute shambles. Let's

27:56

hear from Dundee and Rangers supporters and

27:58

Leeds United. Rob

28:01

what a season they're having under Daniel Farka he

28:03

got I know him well from Norrod Sydney got

28:05

them up on a couple of occasions is

28:07

this your title now top of the championship

28:09

if you're a Leicester fan Rob you're a

28:11

little bit worried on you You

28:14

are Chris and also Chris I want to hear

28:16

from Reading fans. It's been an unbelievable roller coaster

28:18

of a week for

28:21

Reading Football Club, you know talks between

28:23

you know two parties with him

28:26

and Reading

28:28

about the training ground. I

28:31

don't think it's currently been signed

28:33

Chris but What's

28:37

your gut feeling with that then I mean do

28:39

you see it happening? I mean, you know, how

28:41

can So the infrastructure

28:43

a club, you know you've set up I

28:45

mean, you'll know this better than me, but

28:47

there are so many things going to be

28:49

affected. Let's sell the training group Yeah, I'll

28:52

wake him doing the right thing Robert. It'll

28:54

be catastrophic for Reading Chris and you know

28:57

If it does go through the sale, it'll

28:59

give them instant money, you know to

29:01

help the football club, obviously But you

29:04

know the training and at Reading

29:06

Chris is an unbelievable facility and it's a

29:08

cat one You know if

29:10

they don't have their own training ground ready

29:13

The cat one status will go what

29:15

happens to those kids Chris who have

29:17

agreed to use a scholar schooling It's

29:20

it's it's catastrophic if Reading lose

29:22

their training ground. Listen, it's who

29:25

knows what happened? But I want to hear from Reading fans Chris

29:27

I was at Reading yesterday Chris in a

29:29

week where you know, they lost at Derby

29:31

You know, I'm not going to talk about

29:33

their refereeing decisions in that game They

29:36

bounced back with a 4-0 win Chris the

29:38

seven points to the eradication Mark

29:40

Boyan has put a team

29:42

together Chris with a transfer in Bargos

29:44

Reuben Celis has done unbelievably well And

29:47

it's showing guts to showing character the

29:49

fans yesterday 50 and a half

29:51

thousand Chris So I want to hear from Reading

29:53

fans because I was a you know,

29:55

we I know we joke about

29:57

Michael's field Chris But when it when the

29:59

community loses their football club and I think

30:01

listen I'm led to believe Chris this is

30:05

you know I'm led to

30:07

believe that there's a bit on the table

30:10

also my understanding is there's an now

30:13

another bed so two bids on the table

30:15

to buy red in football club so I

30:18

just urge you know sell

30:20

the football club Chris you know to the

30:23

the number the numbers for Reading fans Chris

30:25

is 0-8-0-8-5-9-0-9-6-9-3-0 John Murray's

30:31

old Trafford where Victor

30:33

Lindelof has just hit a rifling shot

30:35

as he arrived in the penalty area

30:37

a little back heel from Darnachio into

30:39

his past left foot shot it was

30:41

narrowly wide at the top corner from

30:43

the angle but it remains two two

30:45

and it's quite even in extra time

30:47

Michael. Yeah it has to start at

30:50

alright see a long way from

30:52

to travel Lindelof but he's going to position Gannachio

30:54

good play little reverse back

30:56

heel and then as he just takes that strike

30:58

goes near post expect him to go far just

31:01

hits the top of the side netting next to that

31:03

top corner there was a few but yeah I'm

31:06

actually tonight growing in confidence Liverpool sit in

31:08

it's sitting in a little bit more just

31:10

seem to make that that change and they're

31:13

taking Gomez off so that's how it developed.

31:15

Yeah Timakas the latest substitute to come on

31:17

they have already substituted Mo Salah so late

31:19

in the first period of extra time Manchester

31:22

United 2 Liverpool 2. 0-8-0-8-5-9-0-9-6-9-3 Liverpool

31:27

Manchester United fans give us a call the

31:30

final whistle right Chris let's go to Harry

31:32

who's a West Ham fan how are you

31:34

Harry? I'm good thank you how are

31:36

you? Good thanks. Good

31:39

good. I'm calling about the

31:41

inconsistency in the in the Hamble decisions now

31:44

I did some refereeing when I was a

31:46

couple years ago I'm only 20 years old

31:48

so I wasn't doing too high level matches

31:50

but the one thing that I knew that

31:52

the parents respected was consistency between decisions and

31:54

I think the fans are exactly the same

31:57

when you look at the two goals that were disallowed today or

32:01

really the Sushak one at the end of the match. It's

32:04

an unintentional handball. He hasn't

32:06

meant to go towards it. It's the way he's falling. He's

32:08

falling onto that arm. There's nothing he can really do about

32:10

it and it's ended up in the back of the net

32:12

and it's bundled in. But if

32:14

they're saying that that is what handball is, if it

32:16

strikes the arm of a player regardless

32:19

of intention or whatever,

32:21

then that's a handball. Then I'm fine with

32:23

that. But the issue is, is that a

32:25

few weeks ago when we played Burnley and

32:28

the defender, I think it

32:30

was Berger, at the end of the game, headed

32:32

the ball in the box and effectively

32:34

caught it with his hands in front of him

32:36

and VAR checked it and said no and waved

32:38

on play on and it was refereeing it to

32:41

the monitor or anything. It's confusing

32:43

and annoying to watch the games because

32:45

either intent is irrelevant and every time

32:47

the ball strikes a player's hand, it's

32:49

a handball. Or you have to be

32:51

more clear in your definition of what

32:53

intent actually looks like. Is it an

32:55

unnatural arm position and what is that

32:57

if you're going to go by that

32:59

sort of definition? It's just disarming for

33:01

footballers and for fans to watch the

33:03

games and not know whether their

33:05

players are actually abiding by the rules or not. I'm

33:09

just looking at this incident. I've not got

33:12

a great eyesight. The

33:16

goal from Sootek, which was disallowed, the

33:18

question was was

33:21

it clear and obvious error? Does it

33:23

come off Bowen at all? Well,

33:26

this is the thing. The angles aren't

33:28

clear at all and you're not able

33:30

to see whether it ends up on

33:32

Bowen or when

33:35

it comes off of Sootek. It's so slight

33:37

and if it wasn't to hit Sootek, it

33:39

would come off of Bowen's knee and go

33:42

in. Yeah, so my point there is that

33:46

if the goal is scored by Sootek, then

33:48

we would all understand the fact that it

33:50

came off his arm and why that would

33:52

be disallowed. But if it comes off Bowen,

33:55

then the goal should be allowed,

33:57

right? Exactly, yeah. So

34:00

that's you know how they have come

34:02

to that decision after six minutes probably

34:04

means that I mean look and they'll

34:06

have the reasoning But

34:09

it just seems a bit like guesswork. I keep I

34:11

keep watching Looking

34:13

back at it blimey. I mean it's supposed to

34:16

be clear and obvious and if you spend six

34:18

minutes on the decision Harvey

34:24

Elliott has made it three to

34:26

deliver pool a deflected shot Take

34:29

22 yards out its flu pass

34:31

the man has died candles right

34:33

into the bottom corner and

34:35

Liverpool Elliot

34:37

celebrates running away with his arms

34:40

I lost any rooms directly to Jurgen

34:42

Klopp who's there on the side of

34:44

the pitch It might just

34:46

have saved Klopp and Liverpool in the

34:48

FA Cup and Liverpool are ahead again

34:50

Three two in the first period of

34:52

extra time. Yeah, man, she's tonight on

34:54

this occasion had good numbers But it's

34:56

Harvey Elliott who just opens up his

34:58

body and it was a vicious deflection

35:00

into that far corner And

35:02

it didn't look like there was too much space when

35:04

that happens though. It was Erickson. It just deflect into

35:07

the far corner He runs right across

35:10

to Jurgen Klopp Was it just trails

35:12

round and on and he just picked him

35:14

up lifts him with joy? Will

35:17

Liverpool do it now to Manchester and I'd find

35:19

something to get them back into it? Organizing

35:22

deflection for Manchester United off the

35:24

outstretched foot of Erickson for the

35:26

goal for Elliot Manchester United to

35:29

Liverpool three. Oh Thanks, John and Michael.

35:31

Tell you what Chris Callum might be

35:33

right. He said Liverpool by two goals

35:35

Salah and Elliot to score. Oh Yeah,

35:39

Alan. Yeah Do

35:41

your BBC predictions? Yeah Maybe

35:44

he should good. Do you think Erickson could

35:46

have been a little bit brave a bit quicker getting

35:49

out to the ball there Rob? No,

35:52

I'm quite far away from my TV You're

35:57

a midfield every I want to the

35:59

He's playing Al, he takes a touch. You

36:03

think he could've got out? Rob, no.

36:05

Mmm. Little bit of an arse actress. 0-8-2-8-5,

36:08

9-0-9-6-9, thank you to Harry the West, let's

36:10

go to Nick, who's a Chelsea fan, how

36:12

are you Nick? Not

36:14

bad, how are you both? Yeah, not

36:17

bad, Nick, what's going on at

36:19

Chelsea this year? There's a bit

36:21

of a strange atmosphere around the

36:23

place, that's not healthy, right? No,

36:26

definitely not, I mean, first of all, I'm

36:28

behind Poch, like, I think he's right, you've

36:31

got to give him time, we're not the

36:33

Chelsea we were, obviously when

36:35

we had the likes of your John Terrys,

36:37

etc. But I think the thing

36:39

that we're lacking right now is leadership, where

36:42

you kind of think back and you sort of see

36:44

you had those leaders in the dressing room before, that if

36:46

you were going in at half time and you were one

36:49

nil down or you were drawing, you've been playing, like, not

36:51

well in the first half, you had like

36:53

your John Terry just to sort of psych you up and

36:56

be a bit like, like, come on, let's crack on, but

36:58

this team now, they've got none of that, and

37:00

yes, we've got Thiago Silva, but you can't count

37:03

on him because of his age and obviously

37:05

with what he's been saying outside, or

37:08

things need to be changing, but even

37:10

if he's got like your Rhys James, who's injured,

37:12

who's supposed to be your captain and your Chilwell,

37:14

who's obviously been coming back from injury, you

37:17

need them to be in that dressing room and

37:19

say, like, lads, what the hell was

37:21

going on? You're playing absolutely terrible,

37:23

we need to change what we're doing

37:26

and I think you need the element

37:28

of probably when you had

37:30

yourself Alex Ferguson, Daniel Jones, A's, or when you

37:32

went in at half time, I don't

37:34

know, obviously I'm not a professional footballer, but you probably

37:36

would have had that little bit of fear just to

37:39

say, like, oh, God, we've played terrible that first half,

37:41

what's the manager going to say? And

37:43

I don't think Poch has that with the team

37:45

at the moment. And I think there's not many

37:47

managers out there nowadays who have that persona that

37:49

you sort of think, God, if I go in

37:52

at half time, we've played absolutely terrible, they're going

37:54

to give me basically like an earache. So I

37:57

think that's the thing that's lacking the chance at the moment is

37:59

there's no lead. leadership in that team. And

38:02

yes, they're young, but you need that person to

38:04

stand up. And if they're not going to stand

38:06

up, we're just going to continuously be in like

38:08

this probably for the next couple of years. And

38:10

when they say the transformation is going to take

38:12

a couple of years, we're just

38:14

going to be like mid table team.

38:16

So yeah, that's just what it is

38:19

at the moment. So Nick, how do we

38:21

know Pochettino isn't tough?

38:23

I've just actually seen Jurgen Klopp. I

38:25

don't know if you've seen the pictures

38:28

of Jurgen Klopp at halftime, really in

38:30

extra time, really animated firing his team

38:32

up. We don't know. I think we

38:35

all assume the type of character Ritio

38:37

Pochettino is that he's very measured and

38:39

analytical. I suspect you

38:42

think, Nick, that

38:44

the Chelsea players need a bit

38:46

of a rocket. I think

38:48

they just need to take accountability to goodness. I mean,

38:50

I hope that when they go in at halftime and

38:52

at the end of the game, even before game, that

38:54

potches like they had that

38:57

fear factor of him. I hope they do because

38:59

I think that's what you need in a thing.

39:01

But I also think the players need to take

39:03

accountability. So like today, there'll be times

39:05

where they weren't having the

39:08

ball or like Nicholas Jackson, for example,

39:10

there was so much potential for him when he

39:12

came in to sort of be that next big

39:15

thing at Chelsea to kind of like hit the

39:17

ground running. And when you don't

39:19

get the ball, we just sulks turns around, you sort

39:21

of look at him and you think to yourself, Nate,

39:23

you need to actually run after the ball. That's what

39:25

Chelsea is about. That's what most Premier League teams are

39:28

about is you lose the ball, you get after it.

39:30

And I just think that's what Chelsea need is that

39:32

person to be like, what are you doing? Give him

39:34

a little clip down a year and just say, actually

39:36

track back, win that ball back. If you really want to

39:38

be in the team, like track

39:40

back in it. And I don't think I mean, us

39:43

letting Brozier go to Fulham, I don't think

39:45

that was a good call. I think he

39:47

was good. He's that type of person. He's

39:49

not really playing, is he? I

39:52

know. But when but in in cuckoos injured,

39:54

how like who lost you in a car

39:56

front, you can't put Sterling I mean, you

39:58

had a bad game with starting obviously today

40:00

and I think it's more than just a bad

40:02

game that you had today you can see it

40:04

in his confidence but the boom didn't help Nick

40:07

no you can't tell me I mean

40:09

that's ridiculous you're talking about players you

40:13

know being accountable then what about

40:15

some of the Chelsea supporters Oh hundred

40:18

percent I don't think it's right and as I say

40:20

like every player has their off date but I think

40:22

the thing with Chelsea is is you let a striker

40:24

go on loan and then you put third

40:26

and up top or I don't think Jackson's

40:29

ready to be there by himself just yet

40:31

and a cookie keeps going out injured like

40:34

you you I don't know I

40:36

just don't think Chelsea have got their plan right and I mean

40:38

as I say that I'm not one to

40:40

speak but in terms of you sort of sit there

40:42

and you think to yourself that Sterling hasn't got the

40:44

confidence he hasn't been playing he had

40:47

an amazing start the season Cole Palmer's coming

40:49

he's been absolutely amazing and you have those

40:51

blitz I don't think that the that

40:54

the crowd should have really been on his back

40:56

but I think at the end of the day is that

40:58

with Sterling's career and

41:01

Sterling's I don't know

41:03

like professional level he kind of needs to turn around and

41:05

be like actually during the rest of the team up because

41:07

he's one of the seniors there now and I know he's

41:10

only like 28 29 years old but

41:12

he's one of the seniors there he needs to

41:14

be on everyone else's back saying why if I

41:16

can't score or if I'm getting these positions you

41:19

also need to be up there with me as well right

41:21

I know that we had like the knickest action one off

41:23

there Cole Palmer tries to take some shots I don't know

41:25

why Mudrick came off I thought he was absolutely amazing Nick

41:29

thank you so much for the call

41:31

Nick second period of extra time John

41:33

Murray yes that deflected goal

41:35

from Harvey Elliott in the first

41:38

period of extra time means Liverpool

41:40

a leading year at Old Trafford

41:42

by three goals to two and

41:44

that goal is keeping Liverpool's hopes

41:46

of the quadruple alive Eric Tenhargis

41:48

thrown caution to the wind he's

41:51

brought Mason Mount on after four

41:53

months out injured and he's taken

41:55

off Lindelof so United now have

41:57

only two defenders on the pitch Dallow and

41:59

McGraw Guaya Manchester United have got the

42:01

goal for it otherwise they're going out

42:03

and Liverpool will be into the semi-finals.

42:06

Thanks so much John Alex you're

42:08

an Ipswich fan. Hello

42:10

how are we? Alright Alex

42:13

what a win yesterday Alex. Oh

42:16

mate I can't believe it we

42:18

are absolutely flying this season and it's what

42:21

a time to be a town fan I just

42:24

ear-weaked into your conversation with the Chelsea fan. Amari

42:27

Hutchinson. He

42:29

is some player he's magical I

42:32

think Chelsea

42:36

are missing out on him big time but yeah

42:38

in terms of us I think promotion is it's

42:41

looking very good. It's

42:46

going to go down to the

42:48

wire. Don't jonie your team don't

42:50

you know promoting automatic promotion as it

42:53

stands would it be Ipswich knowledge in

42:55

the playoffs? No. Well

42:58

that I think Norwich

43:01

actually have really improved

43:03

in recent times Alex

43:06

and that's why you

43:08

don't you probably don't want

43:10

to come on again. You don't

43:12

talk about that do you? No but I mean

43:14

you must think back to the start of the

43:17

season Alex I mean this is what

43:19

a job Kieran McKenna's done and

43:21

the team is moulded and you had a

43:24

bit of a blip didn't you after after

43:26

the Norwich draw actually but you're flying again

43:28

now and that I mean that that bodes

43:30

really well. Yeah the

43:33

team has been unbelievable this season. McKenna

43:36

joined in 2021 and got us

43:39

promoted from league one we were in league one for four

43:41

seasons and I think Ipswich fans are getting sick and tired

43:43

of it to be honest so

43:46

the fact we could now do a double promotion it's just

43:50

I sometimes wake up and pinch myself because it just

43:52

doesn't it feels too good to be true but yeah

43:55

we've had a brilliant season and it's eight

43:57

cup finals left now so Yeah,

44:00

we've just got to do our best and whatever happens,

44:02

I'll be proud of it, Switch. What

44:05

do you think, Rob? Do you fancy a fancy here,

44:07

Switch? Or do you think Norwich will derail them again?

44:09

There's the old farm Darby. No.

44:12

Are you going to that, Alex? Yes,

44:15

I should be. Tickets get released tomorrow. So

44:18

I'm going to hopefully get a ticket for that one. Have

44:21

a nice walk around the city of

44:23

Norwich. Lovely two cathedrals, nice castle. You

44:25

don't have that, Alex. Alex,

44:27

Alex. Alex, you hate

44:29

a pass, Chris. Alex, thank

44:32

you so much for the call. I'll tell

44:34

you what, if Switch is not in the

44:36

playoffs, wow. That would be...

44:38

But if... Leicester

44:40

are having such a wobble, Rob. Such

44:43

a wobble. I wouldn't count

44:45

against if Switch going up automatically. Leeds are going

44:47

to get there automatic. I'm sure of that, but

44:49

who's going to be the other one? Right,

44:52

Chris, we mentioned Redden. Tom, you're a Redden fan. How

44:54

are you, Tom? Hi,

44:57

I'm Jim Mark. Thanks, sorry. Good,

44:59

thanks, Tom. So come on, Tom. Obviously, I was

45:01

at the game yesterday. I'm grateful to know when.

45:04

Talk to us as a Redden fan, the

45:07

emotions that you've been through, not

45:10

this season, the points reduction, the

45:12

training round now, Saga. I

45:17

think there's possibly two bids on the table.

45:20

Tell us, a Redden fan, what it means now. I

45:24

mean, it's just exhausting after this

45:26

period. I mean, after 18 points,

45:29

it up to you in three years. You

45:32

just... Oh, hey, it's Marcus

45:34

Rashford, it's Marcus Rashford, and

45:38

it's... Oh, hey, it's

45:40

Marcus Rashford, it's Marcus Rashford, and

45:42

he's got... He's got some great

45:45

ability to move his hand, has

45:47

now dropped the goal, that

45:50

draws it all square again. What

45:52

an effort from quarter-final races. Manchester

45:55

United again looked down and out, but

45:57

it's Rashford who's come up with the

45:59

goal. And it's 3-3 Michael

46:01

Brown. Well, Liverpool sloppy in possession.

46:04

And then right through the middle of

46:06

the pitch, Ruston has that space, takes

46:08

the touch, McTormey just puts it nicely.

46:11

The weight's perfect, opens that

46:13

right foot and just slides it into

46:15

the corner. Calm, clear in those positions,

46:17

Mark, there's Ruston. Off he

46:19

runs now. What's going to happen

46:21

next, John? It's all

46:24

back in the balance again. Manchester

46:27

United 3, Liverpool 3,

46:31

and we're midway through the second period of

46:33

extra time, so there could

46:35

be more drama yet. Thanks,

46:37

Tom. What is Newner doing? What

46:40

pass does Newner see off

46:42

that left-hand side? I can't

46:44

understand. What a game. Going

46:49

to two clubs there, Liverpool, Manchester

46:51

United, both great

46:53

history as of Reading. And Reading are

46:55

fighting to survive, aren't they, Tom? Yeah,

47:00

it's... I mean, it

47:03

just annoys so much on the team,

47:05

when fans on social media, they can't

47:07

understand the players on

47:09

the NBA cage, they

47:11

can't perform. I've no idea what's going

47:13

on in their heads and how they manage to, or

47:16

hopefully manage to escape relegation by this point.

47:20

It just feels like everything's going against it. Now,

47:22

I mean, the training ground is the one

47:24

good thing that we had, really. I mean, we had the

47:26

super players on the training ground, so

47:28

one thing we had was finally US team as

47:31

well. And now, something like

47:33

that's gone. I mean, everything that's going against

47:35

it, the ESL, the referee was

47:37

absolutely awful. And they made me think and

47:39

start me. I don't want to get into

47:41

that too much, because I'll find it to

47:43

make myself angry, but absolutely awful. It was

47:46

a good win yesterday, but

47:51

it's been really, really good for me. And

47:55

Tom, obviously, I've got an interest in red, obviously,

47:57

my son, Charlie's there, and it's...

48:00

watching it unfold in front of my

48:02

eyes. The

48:04

training ground is a big thing. When

48:07

Charlie signed, obviously the training ground was a huge

48:09

pull and a huge pull for all the players.

48:12

And the worry would be if the training ground

48:14

goes, not just for the mental side of

48:16

it, the

48:18

mentality of the players, but it's for

48:20

the Catwin Academy, for those youngsters, for

48:22

those kids aspiring to

48:24

play for Reddit. I remember my

48:27

friend Mike Caroleese left

48:29

Chelsea and he went to a Catwin

48:31

Academy which was Reddit. So Catwin stated

48:33

it's so important for a football club

48:35

and for these kids now, these youngsters

48:37

through the Academy, losing the training ground

48:39

would be catastrophic. Yeah,

48:43

definitely. I mean, our training

48:45

of Academy has always been so good.

48:47

It's something that we did. Well,

48:49

one of the things we're most proud of there

48:52

really, and just to have like, Wiccan

48:54

come in and... No

48:56

disrespect to Wiccan. But they're a

48:58

far smaller company. I don't know

49:00

how on earth they're getting £22

49:02

million when they can barely touch

49:04

cocaine in attendance. I mean, obviously

49:06

they don't go around doing that

49:08

and they get similar attendees, but

49:10

then home runs. Do you feel

49:12

disappointed in Wiccan

49:15

for essentially seeing this as

49:17

an opportunity for them? I mean, it's,

49:19

as Rob said, I

49:22

mean, the implications for Reading. But

49:24

do you blame Wiccan for making

49:27

it blame? 100% Chris. You

49:30

know, I understand that many clubs

49:33

would probably do the same in the situation, but

49:35

it just powers it on worse. You know, I

49:37

see that owner going round on Twitter having to

49:39

talk into Reading fans. I just think it's really,

49:41

really embarrassing on their end. I

49:44

don't really know what they're doing.

49:46

I mean, I'm still holding out a bit of

49:48

hope because we've been sold so many

49:51

stories in the past as Reading fans, you know, even

49:53

if you go back to last summer about Chris Larder,

49:55

the gaming manager, you know, you would have bet the

49:57

family's dog on him coming in. And now look, it

49:59

was... where we are. We've been

50:02

promised so much and so

50:04

much has fell through. I wouldn't doubt with keeping

50:06

it at this moment in time, even though if

50:08

so, why are you reported? And that's just the

50:10

sort of circus that we're living in,

50:13

you know, nothing is safe. The take over bits

50:16

are promising, of course. I'm excited

50:19

by them. But I guess nothing is promising

50:21

moment in time. I don't want to get

50:23

too excited because I just feel like it

50:25

would be disappointing to them. And

50:28

then, Tom, just before we go to the news, Tom,

50:30

just tell the listeners

50:32

how much reading means to you

50:34

and your family, probably. Well,

50:39

it's so much really.

50:41

I mean, I don't live in running,

50:43

so it's quite hard to describe to

50:46

people from around the situation. And

50:48

I just think the best

50:50

way to explain it is imagine a

50:53

family in the embassy once a week and then

50:55

all of a sudden they've got

50:57

a health problem or

50:59

they even die. And you

51:01

just lose that massive part

51:03

of your community. And I've

51:05

made so many good friends

51:07

through the club, so

51:09

many great people at the club. I

51:11

feel so sorry for the staff. They're

51:14

not being paid half the time. They're

51:17

getting abuse from families after the time.

51:19

They're probably overworked. It's just

51:22

nothing's going our way. It means so much to me.

51:24

And I know we're the only professional football club in

51:26

Berkshire and it will be a massive, massive

51:28

miss if you go under. Tom,

51:31

thank you so much for the call. Tom, I'll

51:33

tell you what, Chris, you had your hands on

51:35

your head. There was a huge chance, wasn't there,

51:38

for Manchester United just put past the

51:41

polls. We've got reports

51:43

to come with John Murray and Michael

51:45

Brown after the news on 5 Live

51:47

with Joe Kritsher. On

52:02

5 Live I

52:19

know you started the programme by saying it was at

52:21

handball I was there and saying it today and where I

52:23

sit, I get to get a habit of all

52:25

honesty Let's check how important about the fist thing

52:27

they looked at Is it clear and obvious? Is

52:29

it the fist incident they have to look at?

52:31

In order to be able to rule it out,

52:33

if they can't even spot it at a stocky

52:35

park with all the screens and the cameras there,

52:37

6 minutes it took I'm behind

52:39

Poch, he's right, you've got to give him time, we're

52:42

not the chance who you were but I think the

52:44

thing that we're lacking right now is leadership like you're

52:46

John Terry just to sort of psych you up and

52:48

be a bit like, come on, let's crack on but

52:51

this team now, they've got none of that It's

52:54

not a fresh foot, it's not a

52:56

fresh foot and it's 3-3, and

53:23

Jurgen Klopp stands crushed, fallen on the

53:25

side of the page having shaken hands

53:28

with Eric Tenhard What a result this

53:30

is for the Manchester United manager For

53:32

Jurgen Klopp, this is

53:34

the end of the possible quadruple in

53:36

his final season as the Liverpool manager

53:39

Liverpool going out here in the quarter

53:41

finals so there will be no FA

53:43

Cup final ending for Jurgen Klopp and

53:46

what a way for Manchester United to win

53:48

it Liverpool had a corner at one end

53:50

in front of the East stand Manchester

53:53

United nipped away possession, Amad

53:55

Jialo and he and Garnaxo

53:57

run from penalty box to...

54:00

penalty box, Garnaccio eventually rolling it into

54:02

the pass of Gialo, who finished beautifully

54:04

on his left foot, low into the

54:06

far bottom corner. He'd already been booked,

54:09

he pulled off his shirt to celebrate,

54:11

so he's been sent off as well.

54:13

Manchester United finishing with 10 men, and

54:16

the man, the hero, the guy who

54:18

scored the goal, wasn't even on the

54:20

pitch at the end. Absolutely

54:23

remarkable tie, 4-3, Michael Brown.

54:25

You ask him if he's

54:27

bothered about walking down that

54:29

tour, the ending, the relief

54:31

all around Old Trafford. I

54:58

mean, this is what football's great, the

55:01

FA Cup is these special moments, what

55:03

a weekend we've been treated to in

55:05

this FA Cup. Well,

55:08

the teams I just did not expect

55:10

to see inside this ground, given in

55:13

the second period of normal time, the

55:15

way Liverpool are in almost complete control,

55:17

and it was the Liverpool fans who

55:19

were singing and dancing, and

55:21

actually they've all stayed here, they're all

55:23

on their feet and they're applauding. This

55:25

has been absolutely

55:28

wonderful entertainment, and the two sets

55:30

of players, for some in disbelief,

55:33

some distraught, are walking down the tunnel.

55:35

What a tie it's been, Robbie and

55:38

Chris. I mean, 1-0 Manchester United early

55:40

on, McTominay, then McAllister and Salah making

55:42

it 2-1 to Liverpool just before half-time.

55:44

It looked as though it was only

55:47

a matter of time that Liverpool would

55:49

get the goal to clinch it, instead

55:51

Anthony got that goal right at the

55:54

end of normal time

55:56

to make it 2-2 to take it into

55:58

extra time, then Elliot's goal to selected

56:00

effort made it 3-2 Liverpool, attended

56:03

absolute twists that we had

56:06

in the second period of

56:08

extra time, first Rashford to

56:10

make it 3-3, McTominay had

56:12

a brilliant chance actually to

56:14

score before eventually Ahmad Jallo

56:16

did 4-3 the final score

56:19

and a cup tie to

56:21

go down a cup tie for the ages. And

56:24

that's why we look forward to you, Michael

56:27

and Chris, Rob Manchester United off

56:29

in that second half, wow. We look

56:31

forward to that. That's because we

56:33

were watching the game, Rob. Well, everybody's saying usually,

56:35

right in Manchester United off at your peril. We

56:37

just said they were in the game, Robbie, they

56:40

were in the game, they were getting out classed

56:42

and we're on the heels again, one

56:45

bit of magic, on the turn that did it.

56:47

The team, the team right in Manchester United off.

56:50

The critics, Robbie, he always picks the good games

56:52

in the FA Cup, Robbie. The

56:56

critics have called him Eric

56:58

Ten Days, haven't they? They

57:00

have in the past years. The various problems

57:02

that he's got into, but Michael's just called

57:05

him Eric Ten Foot tall. Very

57:08

good for Michael. Serious, serious

57:11

point though, is this the competition

57:13

which, if Eric

57:15

Ten Heart wins it, does that save

57:17

him for next season if you're a

57:19

Manchester United fan, Robbie? I mean, just hanging

57:21

on in there. Let me just ask John the

57:24

question, Chris. Robbie said he's got it at the

57:26

end of the season anyway, so... He's one for

57:28

you, John. Listen, we know John is the chief,

57:30

we know he picks the games, he draws in

57:32

ten minutes. If it's Chelsea Coventry

57:34

or Man City Man United, John, which one were you

57:37

two? Were

57:39

you happy with me being here today, by the way? I'm

57:41

asking, I'm asking, I'm asking, I'm asking the question, John. I

57:43

bet he wished he'd have got the Coventry early on in

57:45

this game, I know that. I'll tell you what, I'll tell

57:47

you what, let's make it easy. I'll

57:51

go to both of them, shall I? You're

57:55

the chief. Thank you, John, thank

57:57

you, Michael. Wow,

58:00

Christopher, Manchester, you wrote them off. You

58:02

were hammering Manchester's net in that second

58:04

half. You. Rob. Rob.

58:06

Rob, serious point, Rob.

58:09

Let's be sensible, OK? That's

58:11

an incredible victory for Manchester United. Unbelievable,

58:14

just hanging on in there. Liverpool didn't

58:16

take the chances. You're a Liverpool fan.

58:18

You had the quadruple in your

58:21

hands and you let it

58:23

slip. They were so dominant. Jurgen Klopp will

58:25

come out after the game saying, how did

58:27

we not win that? But fair play to

58:29

Eric Tenhargle. His Manchester United team for their

58:31

resilience. Let's hear from you. 08085, 909, 693.

58:33

Rob. You've

58:37

presented the show as well now, yeah? DME. I'm just excited.

58:40

That's a hell of a game. One hell of a game.

58:42

One hell of a watch. Listening

58:44

to John and... Liverpool fans. Liverpool fans.

58:46

08085, 909, 693. Right,

58:50

we've got a United fan. Doms, how are

58:52

you? Very

58:55

well, thank you. You're getting United.

58:57

Come on! That's so

58:59

much. Oh,

59:01

what a stone-cold classic. That was a banging

59:03

game. Chris, I'm not sure what

59:05

game you're watching, but mate, United, we're all over them for

59:07

the first 40 minutes. I don't know how we... For

59:10

the first 14 minutes, did you say? 4-0.

59:13

4-0, my friend. We were all over them

59:15

for the first 40 minutes. Come on. We

59:18

deserved not to be losing that first half.

59:21

We played rubbish in the second half at

59:23

the beginning. I don't know how we

59:25

pulled this one out of the bag, but

59:27

it means so much to stop them winning

59:29

that quadruple. That's all it's about. Is that

59:31

the way you're looking at it? Stopping Liverpool

59:33

winning the quadruple? I am. I am. I

59:35

mean, like, what? Not just United winning the

59:37

FA Cup? Come on! No, of course. I

59:40

mean, we have to win the game to

59:42

win the FA Cup, and that's great. But,

59:44

like, to stop Liverpool in their tracks and

59:46

stop them getting that quadruple means everything right

59:48

now. We'd have to get back and run

59:50

against them. That cannot have been your primary

59:52

motivation. Well,

59:54

beating Liverpool is always the primary. It's the

59:57

only motivation in football is to beat Liverpool

59:59

for a year. United fan. That is

1:00:01

our biggest thing. I've

1:00:03

got so many cousins and like brother-in-laws that

1:00:05

support Liverpool and it just does my head

1:00:07

in the amount of success they've had. We've

1:00:10

been very average. We blow so

1:00:13

hot and cold, inconsistent every week.

1:00:15

And finally, we've got a good result against them. What we've

1:00:18

had like five out of the last 20 is what

1:00:20

we've won against them in Klopp's time.

1:00:23

And this is just so good.

1:00:25

I'm going to celebrate so much. Thank

1:00:30

you so much for the call. Richard Manchester, United

1:00:32

fan. Hello there. Hi, Richard.

1:00:35

You've just won Rich 4-3 in one of the best games

1:00:38

I've ever had. Come on, Rich.

1:00:42

Well, yeah. The

1:00:45

main reason for the phone call

1:00:47

was the chap who phoned in earlier. He

1:00:49

said, compared to Manny and I, it's to

1:00:51

Macclesfield and that we're going to win 4-2.

1:00:53

Well, one in an

1:00:56

eye for him because we just knocked

1:00:59

Liverpool out of the FA Cup. Got

1:01:02

the kind of result that we should have got.

1:01:05

And certainly one for Chris

1:01:07

Sutton because he said

1:01:09

there was only one premiership team there.

1:01:12

Well, only one premiership. Oh,

1:01:14

Dick. Yes. Only one premiership team won. Premier League.

1:01:16

Premier Dixis. Yeah. Well,

1:01:19

you know, Richard's got points. You said,

1:01:21

in the two said, one Premier League

1:01:23

side of it. And that

1:01:25

was the, in the second half, Liverpool were

1:01:27

so, so dominant. As John

1:01:29

said, Manchester United started the game

1:01:31

well, but then Liverpool really dominated.

1:01:33

Didn't take the chances. Fair play

1:01:35

to Manchester United for hanging on

1:01:37

in there. But doesn't

1:01:39

the game end when the final whistle blows? Yeah, good

1:01:41

point. What game are

1:01:44

we playing here, Richard? Are we

1:01:46

playing just state-to-state? So,

1:01:49

you know, giving Manchester United praise for

1:01:51

hanging on in there, finding a way

1:01:53

to win. Where did it all

1:01:55

in there? They won. They

1:01:57

hung on in there, though. That was the way the game ended.

1:02:00

So, no it did not, Rob. Well,

1:02:03

it was compared to Macclesfield is what

1:02:05

they were. That was another corner. Mac

1:02:08

Richard, Dogg of Rizzog in Liverpool, didn't it?

1:02:10

Richard, where does this leave Eric Tenharg? Do

1:02:12

you want him at the helm next season?

1:02:16

Where does he end up on

1:02:18

the unemployment key? Even

1:02:20

if he wins the FA Cup? Yeah,

1:02:22

Jim Bracklose has already decided. There's no

1:02:24

point coming into a Premier League team

1:02:27

with all the heralds and everything, and

1:02:29

then do nothing. But

1:02:31

do you, as a Manchester United fan,

1:02:33

want to see him manage

1:02:36

the club next season? No,

1:02:38

because all he's done is buy his favourite

1:02:40

players from Ajax, brought them in, that

1:02:42

some have been OK. Anthony

1:02:45

scored a good goal today. But

1:02:47

I want a team

1:02:50

like we used to have years ago with some

1:02:52

stars. We've got no stars at the moment. Thank

1:02:55

you so much for that, I've got it. Well,

1:02:58

genuinely, would any of the United 11 get

1:03:00

into any of the top three teams? And

1:03:05

the answer is no. Rob's

1:03:09

thinking, who are the top three

1:03:11

teams? It's a good chance from

1:03:13

Richard. Would

1:03:16

any of the Manchester United,

1:03:18

starting 11 today, or

1:03:20

just in general, Rob, getting

1:03:23

to any of the top three, would they get

1:03:26

to the Liverpool team, Arsenal team, Manchester City team

1:03:28

at full strength? Good point

1:03:30

from Manchester United fan, Richard. Yeah,

1:03:33

and you did call them. Did you say they

1:03:35

were a lower league team today? Yeah,

1:03:38

so a lower league team, just beat

1:03:40

Liverpool. Rob, that's the way, did you

1:03:42

watch the game? The

1:03:44

game does end 120 minutes today, and they've

1:03:47

won. There

1:03:49

you go. There you go. 0-8-2-8-5, 9096. Chris

1:03:53

Sutton said there's only one Premier

1:03:55

League team playing today, the lower

1:03:57

league team won. Michael, you're Liverpool.

1:04:00

fan yes I

1:04:02

am yeah disappointed but enjoy the

1:04:04

game two

1:04:06

running mistakes in the extra time

1:04:10

yeah unfortunately

1:04:13

you got three up you shut the shot yeah

1:04:16

he didn't was it

1:04:19

I mean I had yet the quadruple

1:04:21

was on and as a game you should

1:04:23

have won great game as

1:04:25

it was great watch fair play to Manchester

1:04:27

United yeah I'm not taking it away United

1:04:29

won good luck to them but

1:04:32

I do feel we'd won the game twice and

1:04:34

we didn't shut the shop I'm

1:04:37

71 years of age

1:04:39

I remember the likes of Dalgleish and all that

1:04:42

and they just shut the game down

1:04:46

they wouldn't have gone looking for another goal they just shut

1:04:48

the game down well was it

1:04:50

was Michael was this a game too

1:04:52

far for Liverpool just stretched one game

1:04:54

too many successful sides

1:04:56

play a lot of games you

1:04:59

know what's coming you've got big squads

1:05:01

today gone are the days when you

1:05:03

had eight and nine players playing all

1:05:05

the games they're

1:05:07

long seasons now so

1:05:10

no no no excuses didn't

1:05:12

win United get on

1:05:14

with it good luck there you

1:05:16

go Michael thank you so much for the call Mark you had a

1:05:18

man your at the game Mark I

1:05:22

was indeed yes um yeah

1:05:24

I mean you mentioned about Liverpool not bearing

1:05:26

the chances but I think you're

1:05:28

forgetting you know Rashford missed a couple of sitters

1:05:30

McSomoney Mr City you know it weren't as one-sided

1:05:33

as you guys are saying obviously no no no

1:05:35

Mark Mark Chris is saying

1:05:38

I'm not saying that's all Chris is

1:05:40

saying that no you're not Robbie oh

1:05:42

absolutely not no no Robbie Robbie's getting

1:05:44

in reverse go on carry

1:05:46

on Mark Robbie's yes I know like

1:05:48

I say it was just a fantastic performance you know

1:05:50

we finished the game with Bruno Fernandez at the centre

1:05:52

half you know the lads up top still got the

1:05:54

job done I mean to be fair when he when

1:05:56

he was Oh,

1:06:00

idiot. Bruno. Who? Bruno.

1:06:04

He was on a yellow card and then that

1:06:06

challenge. He was and he looked absolutely knackered as

1:06:08

well. You know, going on towards full

1:06:10

time, he looked like he was blowing but to be

1:06:12

fair to him, you know, he's stuck in there. You

1:06:14

know, I went mad when he hooked Heuland. I

1:06:17

personally think he should have took Ghanacho but lo and

1:06:19

behold, Ghanacho's, you know, the goal

1:06:21

towards the end put Ahmad through. I

1:06:23

might be mistaken. I'm not sure if he's helped Rashford's as well.

1:06:27

You know, so brilliant, absolutely brilliant from

1:06:29

the lads to come back against what wasn't

1:06:31

a weak Liverpool team, you know, they had the

1:06:33

full set out apart from the young ladder fall

1:06:36

back. I think the

1:06:38

lads are absolutely brilliant today. It was a

1:06:40

good battle and my six year olds in

1:06:42

the back of the car buzzing. Absolutely. It's

1:06:44

my timing. I got a bit

1:06:46

of luck. Mark, Mark, Chris, Chris alluded to Manchester

1:06:48

United as a lower league team today. Yeah,

1:06:51

that's just delusional. That's just

1:06:54

delusional. I think we all watch

1:06:56

the second half and how dominant Liverpool were.

1:06:58

That was a bit of a mismatch at

1:07:00

times, wasn't it? But Liverpool didn't take the

1:07:02

chances. Mark, Mark, Mark, Mark, Mark.

1:07:07

Mark is the post as well. You

1:07:11

made some great points. Mark, where does this game

1:07:13

rank for you then? You

1:07:15

know, Manchester United supported excitement wise, the levels

1:07:17

you got your six year olds in the

1:07:19

car. For me, it

1:07:21

goes no far as much as game of the season

1:07:24

for me. I'm a Diage United fan. I've been going

1:07:26

for 25 years. I've seen

1:07:28

everything. So for me, it's game of the season and that's

1:07:30

as far as it is. And I know

1:07:32

you guys touched on Tenag. Like you say, Ratcliffe

1:07:34

probably made his mind up at this point. But

1:07:36

for me, the problem is who's out there to

1:07:38

replace Tenag? Who are you going to bring in

1:07:40

to take us to that next level personally? I

1:07:42

don't think there's anyone out there available at the

1:07:44

minute. So would you stick with Tenag again? I'd...

1:07:49

It's literally a toss of the coin for me.

1:07:51

It's a toss of the coin because he's had

1:07:53

three windows so far. So he has a

1:07:55

chance to bring in and he's signed. He's like

1:07:58

you mentioned, he's brought in his day of... plays

1:08:00

he's been for. You know, we

1:08:02

need an overhaul, we need some free signings and there's

1:08:04

not that many on the market this year so I

1:08:07

maybe think you have to give him another year personally. Mark,

1:08:13

thank you so much for the

1:08:15

call. You've got to give 10

1:08:17

hard credit for the substitutions, Chris.

1:08:19

Anthony got a goal, good substitutions,

1:08:21

Chris. Breathe substitutions. I've

1:08:23

just seen... 10 and a half. Absolutely, just

1:08:26

seen Diallo's finish as well. His first touch

1:08:28

is brilliant, takes it away from Bradley

1:08:30

just to create the angle and then he

1:08:33

has to be perfect with the finish

1:08:35

in off the far post. So no

1:08:37

fair play to Eric. I think it's

1:08:39

been a really difficult season and

1:08:41

with Manchester United fans not quite sure whether they

1:08:43

want to see him next season and quite

1:08:46

rightly so making the point that Ratcliffe has come in

1:08:48

and there's likely to be a change. But if he

1:08:50

does win the FA Cup, Rob, and if

1:08:52

they had luck like they had a bit of luck today

1:08:55

then is he the man

1:08:57

to take them forward? Well the draw is

1:08:59

not far away, Christopher, it'll be up soon,

1:09:01

probably after SS. 606,

1:09:04

it's time

1:09:07

for SAS. It's

1:09:13

sensational, amusing,

1:09:15

shocking. This

1:09:19

is SAS, Christopher, what's been sensational

1:09:21

for you this week? Well apart from

1:09:23

the game just now, Rob Manchester United

1:09:26

and Liverpool Manchester United coming out on top

1:09:28

but I'll tell you who has been sensational

1:09:30

Rob. Luke Berry from

1:09:32

Luton Town, listen to this. Burke with

1:09:35

a header. Do

1:09:49

you know why they're sensational Rob? Yes I

1:09:51

do, Christopher. New Year becoming, it was a

1:09:53

very very important goal wasn't

1:09:55

it, an equalizer for Luton Town yesterday,

1:09:57

it was his first Premier League overall.

1:10:00

What was sensational? He scored in the

1:10:02

conference, Premi scored at league two level,

1:10:04

he scored at league one level, he

1:10:06

scored at championship level and now in

1:10:08

the Premier League, the top flight, he

1:10:10

scored at every level. Well done, Luke

1:10:13

Berry. Yeah, well done, Luke. Berry,

1:10:15

what amused you this week? I

1:10:19

think you saw this miss yesterday, Rob. Quite

1:10:22

the afternoon for David, for

1:10:24

Farna. Back

1:10:26

to Asinion, can he get the cross in?

1:10:28

He's away from Lomson, can he pick out a team? There

1:10:31

he goes! A

1:10:33

truly unbelievable miss

1:10:37

from David Dacho, Farna.

1:10:40

Great work from Asinion, away

1:10:42

from Jenson and wow.

1:10:45

Coming through the Premier League, Boulperiou

1:10:47

near you very soon. I

1:10:52

mean, you shouldn't laugh, but that

1:10:54

was quite the miss. But

1:10:57

having said all that, David Farna had

1:10:59

the last laugh, didn't he? Scored

1:11:02

a brilliant goal. He got away, I

1:11:04

don't know whether you saw it, I

1:11:06

thought he possibly gave a penalty away

1:11:08

as well, but his finish was brilliant.

1:11:10

What about the old blooper wheel, Rob?

1:11:12

Are you on any blooper wheel?

1:11:15

No, no, I'm not. Are you sure about

1:11:17

that? Would you have

1:11:19

tucked that one away? Yeah,

1:11:22

I would have, yeah. I think I'm

1:11:24

on the blooper wheel for falling out

1:11:26

of the tunnel against Liverpool. I tripped

1:11:28

over the cable. That's

1:11:31

how I think I'm on the blooper wheel for

1:11:33

that. Christopher, what shocked you this week?

1:11:37

FA Cup related, Rob, this

1:11:40

is. I mean, the FA Cup,

1:11:42

they're going to scrap replays

1:11:46

from the third round onwards. I

1:11:48

don't get this. It's really shocked

1:11:50

me, and it shocks me. And you're an

1:11:52

advocate for the lower league

1:11:54

football and non-league football, but

1:11:56

it provides a crucial income.

1:11:58

Doesn't it fall? league clubs

1:12:00

and non-league clubs you know it's

1:12:03

the importance of you know staying

1:12:05

financially afloat or not I do

1:12:07

not get that it's I think

1:12:09

it's a shocking decision

1:12:11

Robert I do not like that whatsoever

1:12:14

that's what they say yes for this

1:12:16

week Christopher shocking clubs

1:12:24

Rob isn't it the draw

1:12:26

to come Christopher will man city

1:12:29

man United gets the

1:12:31

drawn in the semi-final who

1:12:33

would you would right now Chris if you are man United

1:12:35

you run Coventry wouldn't you?

1:12:38

I think Coventry might quite fancy playing

1:12:40

against Manchester United oh

1:12:42

what a job Mark Robin what a job what a brilliant

1:12:47

brilliant job yeah and you know what

1:12:49

you know you think the resources he's

1:12:52

had to you know cope with winning

1:12:54

at league two level

1:12:56

got them up up from league

1:12:58

one was within a penalty kick or two

1:13:00

away from getting them up to the Premier

1:13:02

League last season had the couple of the

1:13:05

best players sold all of a

1:13:07

sudden there and with the shout of going

1:13:09

up again this season he gets them to

1:13:11

an FA Cup semi-final amazing job why has

1:13:13

he never linked with with the

1:13:16

Premier League job well Mark Robbins don't get it

1:13:18

so have you got the TV there Chris the draw is

1:13:21

about to happen yeah we have televisions in Scotland yeah oh

1:13:26

let's go to Nadim Liverpool fan

1:13:28

you sorry Nadim you're right you're right

1:13:30

in it sorry

1:13:33

yeah I mean

1:13:35

I kind of on one hand I'd say

1:13:37

I'm a little bit disappointed saddened but then

1:13:39

on the other hand I'm

1:13:41

just thinking you know for me what I'm really

1:13:43

keen for Liverpool to do is win the Premier

1:13:46

League and do that for

1:13:48

Jurgen Club and I think if we

1:13:50

won the Caribbean Club I think we'll

1:13:52

probably win the Europa League and

1:13:55

the Premier League that will be a successful season

1:13:57

so a little bit sad but I would also

1:13:59

say is Alissa

1:14:01

was watching the game today. Oh,

1:14:03

Nadim, Nadim! Nadim, hang

1:14:05

on. It's Coventry City V. Get

1:14:09

ready. The nation's waiting, Nadim.

1:14:13

Coventry City will take on... Manchester

1:14:19

United! Oh! Mark

1:14:23

Robbins against his former club?

1:14:26

Yeah, yeah. Nadim, Nadim, you're

1:14:28

listening. It's not Liverpool, the

1:14:30

next one. They've just gone out there, right

1:14:32

there. Well, it doesn't matter. It's going to be Chelsea.

1:14:37

That's amusing sort of that for next week. Rob?

1:14:40

Manchester City V, Chelsea. There

1:14:43

you go. Chelsea

1:14:46

gave Manchester City a hell of a game, not

1:14:48

so long back. Rob, didn't they? Yeah, they did.

1:14:50

Yeah, yeah. Come on, Nadim. So,

1:14:52

Nadim, what's a bit of minimum? I

1:14:54

just wanted to make this to the point, because

1:14:57

I just think I'm not sure if many people

1:14:59

are aware. If you kind

1:15:01

of watch Mo Salah today, he kind of moved

1:15:03

away from the wing, and he was

1:15:05

kind of playing a bit of a much more

1:15:07

messy type role. And I think one

1:15:10

of the reasons for that was because

1:15:12

I think Mo Salah was fasting today,

1:15:14

and there was a time on commentary

1:15:16

when he just actually just let somebody run straight past

1:15:19

him. I can't remember who the commentator was. I think

1:15:21

the lead diction, and he said, Mo

1:15:24

Salah just let somebody run straight past him

1:15:26

and don't watch Jurgen Klopp folding. And I

1:15:29

think that's also one of the reasons why

1:15:32

Salah was subbed. So, you know,

1:15:34

you kind of, you know, I just thought

1:15:36

it was really important that we

1:15:38

kind of thought about that, particularly

1:15:40

in terms of when these games take place.

1:15:43

And if there are Muslim footballers playing in

1:15:45

the Premier League, then maybe

1:15:47

the FA needs to

1:15:49

be thinking about how do we actually schedule

1:15:51

games. When you're playing later on

1:15:53

in the afternoon, that really kind

1:15:56

of takes it all. And you guys both know

1:15:58

the intensity by which you play football. It's

1:16:00

literally impossible to spend 90 minutes

1:16:03

without any water. I

1:16:06

think that's a really interesting point, something which

1:16:08

I hadn't thought of. But

1:16:13

players are dehydrated

1:16:16

in that respect. Yeah, that's a really

1:16:18

interesting point. Nadim, can I just ask

1:16:20

you quickly? So you've won the Caravo

1:16:22

Cup. What's the

1:16:24

bare minimum now for Liverpool? The

1:16:28

Premier League for me, we've won

1:16:31

the Premier League after 30 years.

1:16:33

I think Jürgen Klopp,

1:16:35

just in terms of his final season,

1:16:37

if we win the Premier League, I'll

1:16:40

be very, very happy. And then there's the whole,

1:16:42

I mean, you ask the question in terms

1:16:44

of bare minimum. He's

1:16:47

given us an infrastructure, he's given us a

1:16:49

young squad. We've got

1:16:52

quite a bright future to look forward

1:16:54

to. So in many, many ways,

1:16:56

we've won in so many ways. And then the

1:16:58

only other thing that I would just say is,

1:17:00

even if you kind of go back to that

1:17:03

city game, even today's game, that second half, when

1:17:05

we completely blasted Man United, the

1:17:07

quality, the full throttle that we

1:17:10

play, it's just utterly sensational. Man

1:17:12

United have got a result great,

1:17:14

good for them. But ultimately,

1:17:16

our future is just very, very bright. And

1:17:19

I'm just looking forward to it. And it's all down to

1:17:22

Jürgen Klopp and Jürgen Klopp. Nadim,

1:17:24

thank you so much for the call. Manchester

1:17:27

United fans, Coventry fans, Chelsea,

1:17:30

Man City fans, the draw for the FA

1:17:32

Cup. Coventry City, V Manchester United and Man

1:17:34

City, V Chelsea. I

1:17:37

think I'm right in saying this, I may

1:17:39

have this wrong. Did Mark Robinson, he was

1:17:41

the big thing for him at Manchester United.

1:17:44

I don't know if it was his room

1:17:46

or not, yes. And

1:17:48

the big room was kept to Alex

1:17:50

in the job. And

1:17:53

now the job he's done at Coventry, that

1:17:55

head to head with his old club. It's

1:17:57

written in the stars for Coventry City. 08085,

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1:18:33

20 minutes to go, Christopher

1:18:35

Coventry, Sissy Fans, you've seen us

1:18:37

draw Manchester United in

1:18:39

the semi-final. Sissy, take on Chelsea.

1:18:43

Before that, Christopher, it's time

1:18:46

for the Doctor. This

1:18:48

is Doc Savage. The

1:18:55

Man of Bronze. Collar

1:18:57

1, name, team, point, goal. Were

1:19:01

the 2015 Liverpool side

1:19:04

a great side of Champions League winning

1:19:06

shot? Collar 2, name, team, point,

1:19:08

goal. Chris Gates had a

1:19:11

say, Gates had to be mucking the semi's

1:19:13

one recalling. Collar

1:19:17

3, name, team, point, goal. Neil,

1:19:20

Reading Football Club, just wanted to call out the

1:19:22

players. Amazing resolve, hope Charlie's

1:19:24

OK. Collar

1:19:27

4, name, team, point, goal. Blonde,

1:19:30

Dave Cheltenham Town, don't ever put the

1:19:32

FA Cup down. What a fantastic weekend

1:19:34

and the last game of giant killing

1:19:36

just... Collar 5, name, team, point, goal.

1:19:39

Greg Reading, when fans have to fundraise to

1:19:41

avoid EFL points deduction while owners

1:19:44

are selling training grounds, is it time to admit

1:19:46

that football... Collar

1:19:48

6, name, team, point, goal. Alan,

1:19:51

great win for Reading, yes, Steve Paul, Neil

1:19:53

at Cambridge but who is the greatest Reading

1:19:55

player you never saw play? Thank

1:19:57

you. couple

1:20:00

there Rob, I want to go to, are you

1:20:02

choosing as well? No I want to go to

1:20:04

Collar 2 after you've chosen. I

1:20:09

want to go to Collar 4 please, Dave. Hello

1:20:14

Dave. Yeah,

1:20:16

Brian Dave from Cheltenham town here. This

1:20:19

weekend has just proved how good

1:20:21

the FA Cup is and it

1:20:23

should not be devalued should it?

1:20:26

Four cracking games, a joint killing in

1:20:28

the last one at Old Trafford and

1:20:30

I just think we must keep this

1:20:32

FA Cup and all its glory. When

1:20:35

you say that, so you know you

1:20:38

would have seen the news

1:20:40

about the replay scrap now from the

1:20:42

third round onwards, I mean you're a

1:20:44

Cheltenham town fan. It's

1:20:47

so important isn't it Dave, for

1:20:50

clubs like Cheltenham and the financial

1:20:52

aspect of it. Let's

1:20:54

say that Cheltenham town drew Man United

1:20:56

away, drew Man United in the fourth

1:20:58

round. I think if there's going

1:21:01

to be no replays, Cheltenham town should have

1:21:03

the say of where the game's played, either

1:21:05

Old Trafford or Warden Road. Therefore

1:21:08

the greatest respect, Cheltenham town probably wouldn't beat

1:21:10

Man United or I expect we'd give them

1:21:12

a game at the moment, but we

1:21:15

could then maximise our money. Because

1:21:17

a game at Warden Road, a game

1:21:19

at Old Trafford, look what it did

1:21:21

to extra city a few years ago.

1:21:23

We'd vitalise our club. What

1:21:26

about Cambridge United, I think it was

1:21:28

2015, banked over a million pounds,

1:21:30

they had a tie against Manchester United at the

1:21:32

replay at Old Trafford and banked over a million

1:21:35

pounds. That's how important

1:21:37

replays are to

1:21:39

lower league clubs. That would

1:21:41

take all our debts away and still give

1:21:43

us half a million pound profit for the

1:21:46

year. Dave, thank you

1:21:48

so much for the call. Thanks Dave.

1:21:51

Paul's got to go back to caller five, but caller

1:21:53

five's gone to bed and fans, so let's go to

1:21:55

caller two. It's a

1:21:57

gate said fan. How are you Chris? Good

1:22:00

evening. How are you both? Yeah,

1:22:02

we're both all right. I think Chris, come

1:22:05

on then. Gabe said against Mac and the

1:22:07

semi-fan of the trophy. You lost in the

1:22:09

final last year. Obviously, you said Wembley's calling.

1:22:11

You're our favourite, you should win really. Yeah,

1:22:16

as we honest, I think it's probably the

1:22:18

best possible draw we could have got, especially

1:22:20

of being a tomb. And I do think

1:22:22

we should win. Sorry,

1:22:26

Robbie, but I do think we will

1:22:28

win. Another one,

1:22:30

Liam, trip on the cards hopefully.

1:22:33

Do you know what? This call is so good,

1:22:35

Chris, because you know what the

1:22:37

team talk is now? This is the team talk

1:22:39

for our team. And just play this to the

1:22:42

team. This is the team talk

1:22:44

right here. Thank you, Chris. Yeah,

1:22:47

no worries. How

1:22:50

many will you be bringing up? Well,

1:22:53

probably, yeah, I think... What's your attendance? Is

1:22:55

it 1,200? Is it home? Yeah,

1:22:59

probably about 1,000. So let's say

1:23:01

on the weekend... Well, yeah,

1:23:03

we'll probably have more away fans than home

1:23:05

fans, to be fair. You

1:23:08

know, who's got the bigger budget there, Robert?

1:23:12

I don't listen. Gabe said I've done great, Chris. Yeah,

1:23:14

but who's got the biggest budget? Probably

1:23:18

Gabe said. I don't know. But what I will

1:23:20

say is, Gabe said lost to the final last

1:23:22

year, doing brilliantly well. You're seventh in the National

1:23:24

League, Chris, and got

1:23:26

some very good players. You are favourite.

1:23:28

And if I'd have been in the draw, Michael's field

1:23:31

at home, I would have wanted as well, Chris. Let's

1:23:33

be fair. We wanted you at home. That's

1:23:37

what we wanted. We wanted to avoid Bromley.

1:23:39

We wanted to avoid Slonio. That's

1:23:41

their team talk done, Chris. Yeah, we wanted them

1:23:43

at home. We wanted them at home,

1:23:46

not away. You know, they're our

1:23:48

favourite. Slightly disrespectful. Yeah, because

1:23:50

it's the two lowest ranked teams in the

1:23:52

tournament. It's obvious, isn't it, Chris? You wanted

1:23:54

us, we wanted you at home. Yeah, yeah,

1:23:57

yeah. on

1:24:00

Rob, you absolutely are. The two

1:24:02

teams of our and

1:24:05

the other semi-op, both above us, and

1:24:08

probably all three of us. Why are you

1:24:11

so confident? I

1:24:15

just, I don't know,

1:24:18

I just... They just go through

1:24:20

so many managers, there's a lack of stability

1:24:22

at the club. I'm asking Chris, why are

1:24:24

you so confident? I'll

1:24:27

be honest, we lost one manager at the start

1:24:29

of the season, Mike Williamson, and he went to

1:24:31

MKDons, and I didn't

1:24:33

think he, you know, Rob Elliott, he's the, he's

1:24:35

called Keeper of the New Class, the United East

1:24:37

of the, and he's managed

1:24:40

to carry on, and we lost

1:24:42

some KEE players, you know, MKDons

1:24:44

signed the likes of what's

1:24:47

up players, Steven Wern, Kywin Lostel,

1:24:49

Philip Marshall, the latter two, who were

1:24:51

on loan from us, and, you

1:24:54

know, Elliott's come in and he basically

1:24:56

carried it on, and I

1:24:58

just, I just think, you know, I

1:25:00

just think you, I

1:25:03

just think, listen, I'm not

1:25:05

underestimating Michael Schier or Doraobe,

1:25:07

but I just think at

1:25:09

home, like, I just think, well, we should get

1:25:11

the job done, and got Marcus

1:25:14

Denangue, who's got five goals

1:25:16

for Steven, got, I

1:25:18

mean, Lohan Eadison-Brown, who's just coming

1:25:20

from Derby and 18 years

1:25:22

old, got a few goals, and yeah,

1:25:25

yeah, I just, I just

1:25:27

think, I think, I think we'll be off

1:25:29

to Wembley again and hopefully if anything... Well,

1:25:31

Chris, listen, I'll see you there, Chris, I'll

1:25:34

see you there, Chris. Good, listen, good luck,

1:25:36

Chris, listen, I'm looking forward to,

1:25:38

as I'm sure you are. Ryan, thank you so

1:25:40

much. Ryan, you're a Coventry fan. I

1:25:43

am, yes. I am, yes. Happy

1:25:45

with the job. Yeah,

1:25:48

well, we prefer Chelsea, but yeah, we'll

1:25:50

take Man United, it's probably the lesser

1:25:52

of the teams left. Were

1:25:55

you there yesterday, Ryan, at Molyneux?

1:25:58

Yeah, I don't know if you've seen the end of the game. Chris, but

1:26:00

it was my son that went on the

1:26:03

pitch and got the kitchen show. Oh, was

1:26:05

it? It was,

1:26:07

yeah. So

1:26:10

how many years have you supported Coventry

1:26:12

City, Ryan? Well, I was there in

1:26:14

1987. That was one of my first

1:26:16

games actually on my dad's shoulders. Brilliant. So

1:26:20

you've basically seen it all at

1:26:22

Coventry then. And, you know, I

1:26:24

mean, when I first played

1:26:27

in the Premier League and Robbie as well, Coventry

1:26:29

City were a pretty stable Premier League club, weren't

1:26:31

they? And then you've had the, you

1:26:33

know, the difficult years and,

1:26:35

you know, the relegations

1:26:38

and, you know, stadium issues. And

1:26:40

then Mark Robbins arrived. Was it 2016? Was it 2017? 2016, 17? 2016,

1:26:45

yeah. And then he went and came back again, yeah.

1:26:48

Yeah. And I

1:26:50

mean, just tell us about

1:26:52

his journey and your journey as a fan

1:26:54

through those years up until now. To

1:26:57

be honest, we're still, we're still downing things he

1:26:59

does now, which I just don't get from our

1:27:01

fan base, really. It's a bit annoying to watch

1:27:03

and listen. But he's actually brilliant.

1:27:05

He's outstanding. The thing that he does,

1:27:07

he just comes in and 85 ashes

1:27:09

while he's a big part of it.

1:27:13

He brings in the players. And Mark Robbins just

1:27:15

turns them into world beaters. I

1:27:17

don't know how he does it, but he's just

1:27:19

got his knack and he did it before he

1:27:21

left. I think he got

1:27:23

annoyed with the structure of the club and the CC when we had

1:27:25

them. And then he left, tried to

1:27:27

do some kind of job with it. And he's

1:27:31

better off with us and building something that may be

1:27:33

coming later, which it now has a good thing. Right.

1:27:36

You know, when your son jumped over there, you

1:27:39

know, from the away end, what did you think? Did

1:27:41

you think, you know, chase him to get him off

1:27:43

or, you know, do you think go and

1:27:45

get the shirt, son? Because listen, I've seen it. You

1:27:48

know, the players and the stewards were fantastic with

1:27:50

him. But how about you? I'm going to be blamed. The

1:27:54

only obvious of you, I swear

1:27:56

to God, I told him to do it. He asked me

1:27:59

if he could. And I

1:28:01

said I don't normally condone that but you have

1:28:03

a couple of moments in your life and when

1:28:06

it's like this and the feelings like it is and

1:28:08

their fans are all pretty much left there's

1:28:10

not really any harm in the kids going up and asking for

1:28:12

a share of the player. But

1:28:14

if it goes wrong Seth we're not going to Wembley and

1:28:17

you probably will be bad from grounds so you need to

1:28:19

take that on the shoulders. If you're willing to do it

1:28:22

go and do it sir and then I'll support you I'll do whatever

1:28:24

we need to do. And he did. And

1:28:26

then when he comes back to Stewart's Light, fair

1:28:28

play to him, not a bad problem with it, he's not

1:28:31

exactly going to go and attack with Liddy Ladd is he?

1:28:33

So that was it. Excuse my French. Where's

1:28:35

the shirt? It's

1:28:37

actually in the car now, he's next to me, I'm taking

1:28:39

him home because I have him for the weekend and then

1:28:42

dropping back to his mum. So he's actually next to me

1:28:44

now with the kitchen shirt and a bag next to him.

1:28:47

What did he say? Whose shirt was it? Leon

1:28:50

kitchen. So what

1:28:52

did your son, did he

1:28:54

say hello Mr Kitchen, can I have your shirt please? Or

1:28:56

did he say alright Leon can I have your shirt mate?

1:28:59

I'll ask him, what did you say to him sir? Can

1:29:02

I have your shirt please? He just said that to

1:29:04

him. Chooky git. And

1:29:09

then he ran off and it looked like he sniffed

1:29:11

it but he promised me he didn't, he was just

1:29:13

like that happened, forget it, he was excited and did

1:29:15

the clenching thing that he did. Listen

1:29:18

Ryan, Seb, listen, come and see,

1:29:20

we've man united a semi-fanner, thank you

1:29:22

so much for the call and keep that

1:29:24

shirt safe Seb, thank you so much Ryan.

1:29:27

Right then, Hugh, man united fan. Yes,

1:29:30

come on Robbie, we're having it

1:29:32

baby. Listen mate, we've not had a

1:29:34

lot to shout about for a while, I've let you

1:29:36

say, I've lost my voice mate. I was right next

1:29:38

to him and they were about five

1:29:40

feet between me and their fans mate. And honestly every

1:29:42

time they went in it was like they went to

1:29:44

Wilk Court which to be fair, every time we went

1:29:47

in it was like that. I fell over, I got

1:29:49

trampled on, me little lad's twelve, he was crying his

1:29:51

eyes out at the end of tears of joy mate.

1:29:53

He was wanting moments, I said he was wanting, he's

1:29:55

already in me top five and I'm going to go

1:29:58

to bed tonight and I'm going to really evaluate. Maybe

1:30:00

always could. It's unfair with one of it's of

1:30:02

days on this list we we will females I'll

1:30:04

be honest I lot of young lobbyists that we

1:30:06

the I will be I live a full as

1:30:08

it stands as a theme at a moment I

1:30:10

would say because a good squad the what we

1:30:12

did today is we for old and we went

1:30:14

for him and be merely bullpen is why don't

1:30:16

we do that every week White why do we

1:30:18

have to raise the level talks with be set

1:30:20

it a while will dump it is today Robert

1:30:22

could be voice has gotten it was off the

1:30:25

scale May on able to chaos she was like

1:30:27

the old days on a cell Us me boys

1:30:29

the just bedlam bedlam robots. Sister.

1:30:32

Thank you so much cause you

1:30:34

listen to Help Size salt. saw

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it on Think About Answers United

1:30:38

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1:30:40

the Premier League it on our

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1:30:55

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salt sized slice of. Life.

1:31:00

Sciences. Division Aston Villa resist

1:31:02

and son of one One swallow doesn't

1:31:05

make a summer as good or when

1:31:07

is it was a dumb enough was

1:31:09

would you know that was one of

1:31:11

the games of the season? Certainly was

1:31:13

only twenty five Six nine three article

1:31:15

Reading fans Chris it didn't get so

1:31:17

we got James. Zeus Is James been

1:31:19

on default is worth reading Chronicle: James

1:31:21

broke the story in the way forest

1:31:24

about potential new orders sir residents in

1:31:26

our be redone suppose keeping the red

1:31:28

and fans in all across was out

1:31:30

there has. Been really insightful James,

1:31:32

It's how you. Hear.

1:31:35

Good things will be How yeah, Yeah. Good

1:31:37

sign seems. Listen to come on just

1:31:39

a couple of minutes James on the

1:31:41

situation right now. A residents to keep

1:31:43

that you know the listeners some across

1:31:46

it. Yes

1:31:48

and so on. Are busy with other

1:31:50

one hundred a week. Where the was

1:31:52

there was the daughter game for week

1:31:54

when it broke on Thursday. I think

1:31:57

that the owner was a wedding Silva

1:31:59

the training. and then it turned out that Wickham

1:32:01

were looking to buy the trading grounds

1:32:04

in a cut price deal. And

1:32:07

then I think it's Friday, I think I broke it,

1:32:09

that yeah, so there's an

1:32:11

interested group from North America that are

1:32:14

keen on taking the club and

1:32:16

the stadium, not the training grounds, that's

1:32:18

set to go to Wickham. And

1:32:21

yeah, you know, I think they're still thrashing bits through, but I'm

1:32:23

hopeful of being able to offer a period

1:32:25

of exclusivity in the next few days. So fingers crossed.

1:32:29

And how much do

1:32:31

Reading Football Club, the community, need

1:32:33

for a sale to go through,

1:32:35

James? Oh, no,

1:32:37

it's been years and years. I mean, how many times

1:32:39

have Reading been talked about on

1:32:42

606 and other shows in the last

1:32:44

few years, and it's all been, you know, it's an off-field stuff,

1:32:47

but nothing about on the field. Again, you

1:32:49

know, cracking wind on Saturday, 4-0, and no one's

1:32:51

talking about that, it's all the off-field stuff.

1:32:53

So, you know, the whole town just needs,

1:32:56

we just need a period of just nothingness and just

1:32:59

nice, boring, on-field stuff to

1:33:01

worry about, rather than all the finances and

1:33:03

the off-field situation. Because the worry is, James,

1:33:06

administration and, you

1:33:09

know, and the worst-case scenario, a

1:33:11

club might go into

1:33:13

liquidation. That is the biggest worry of all, isn't

1:33:16

it? Yeah, of course,

1:33:18

especially when you look at the owner in his

1:33:20

past two clubs in China and in Belgium, both

1:33:22

going into liquidation the year after

1:33:24

dropping into the third tier, showing

1:33:26

parallels to look out with Reading.

1:33:28

So it's just so important to stay that off.

1:33:30

But fingers crossed, you know, we

1:33:32

have been here before in November with coming close

1:33:34

to a deal and a few things got

1:33:36

changed at the last minute, and they dropped out. So, you know, until

1:33:40

the ink's dry, then we can't get carried away. And

1:33:42

I think they're looking a little bit more up than

1:33:44

they were a couple of weeks ago. James,

1:33:47

thank you so much for the call.

1:33:49

It is a desperate situation, Christopher. It's,

1:33:52

you know, I was there yesterday. It

1:33:54

is a desperate situation. Maynard, you're a

1:33:56

manchist, Nathan. Oh,

1:33:59

yes, I am. Than bad said.

1:34:02

In a great evening their one a fun one

1:34:04

of the seals better evenings and in what's been

1:34:06

in up and down season. Service

1:34:09

would just just going into this

1:34:11

game. Did you think the mantis

1:34:13

united the season they've had been

1:34:15

difficult? Very eric ten hours. Did

1:34:17

you think there was any possibility

1:34:19

of out of yeah I see

1:34:21

winning this game. No

1:34:24

not at all I think I mean I

1:34:26

arrived at the stadium today thinking we we're

1:34:28

gonna get battered time in our i watched

1:34:30

Liverpool play and I was target played against

1:34:32

Chelsea the in the may be facing the

1:34:34

same injures of hours but I have back

1:34:36

at me and a lot of fans the

1:34:39

step foot into it's it's it's going to

1:34:41

be long afternoon but swimming with a bright

1:34:43

star we played well I think up until

1:34:45

the forty third minute was a to believe

1:34:47

and then you know all of a sad

1:34:49

then we went back to of the old

1:34:51

way of playing the not going a going

1:34:53

asleep. On the back post plasma are you putting

1:34:55

in effort rush would not checking back and then

1:34:57

we conceded to and we all thought it at

1:35:00

half time with you know we were it would

1:35:02

good such shattered the lads and go thought you

1:35:04

know a damn I think within a new this

1:35:06

when they had made a deal for one but

1:35:08

do not a good as to can has also

1:35:10

been a brilliant substitutions when when they were made

1:35:12

I mean you could you the groans we need

1:35:14

to could be my new off you know you

1:35:16

could either could either groans as the than people

1:35:18

think you've been our best player and for a

1:35:20

manager to have given he's most creative game been

1:35:22

of and and is playing at center. Ignites and

1:35:24

a bag. You be thinking it. He lost his

1:35:26

mind, lost it but could have the in the

1:35:28

subs. Would Antony looked for the first time It?

1:35:31

you know I just as if he is not

1:35:33

worth at least a quarter of a price tag.

1:35:35

and the subs can the game around. So yep.

1:35:40

May not thank you so much for the

1:35:42

call me some good points manner christopher you

1:35:45

even though you call them in or lower

1:35:47

league size is interesting because because the to

1:35:49

balance football find my not coming on there

1:35:51

and you know talked about his seem to

1:35:53

see me loves Manchester United didn't sign says

1:35:55

i'm a bit going into the game so

1:35:57

we old you know great minds Rob. think

1:36:00

I like joining yeah

1:36:02

I think I

1:36:05

think we should give the final word on six

1:36:07

or six to a Coventry fan

1:36:09

Brian how are you I'm very

1:36:11

good I'm over the moon good evening

1:36:13

Bobby good evening Chris it

1:36:16

seems like fake obviously it's like heartily well titled

1:36:18

that Mark Robbins was the man that saves so

1:36:20

I was serving to the job so just seems

1:36:22

I'll fader with drawn Monday night

1:36:24

in the semi-final at Wembley in the FA Cup

1:36:27

all these years later I'll

1:36:29

just spoke to you guys before the job that my

1:36:31

Robbins has done it's been absolutely fantastic strong us up

1:36:33

on the daughters only two partners very

1:36:36

good championship playoffs once again so yeah

1:36:38

I'm overjoyed and you

1:36:40

know I'm repeating myself with you

1:36:42

know with the with the Coventry

1:36:45

sort of questions just just

1:36:47

this whole journey in recent years and where

1:36:49

you're at now I mean you know if

1:36:51

you take it back at you know three

1:36:54

seasons you could never have imagined being in

1:36:56

this position brink of the Premier League

1:36:59

again and FA Cup semi-final

1:37:02

definitely not the way you picked us up

1:37:04

after last season we lost O'Connor the name

1:37:06

was upset you in the previous call and

1:37:09

and obviously the heartbreak of losing to Lewton

1:37:11

in that semi on that penalty shootout and

1:37:13

then to lock you say take us to

1:37:15

a semi-final and pick us up to the

1:37:18

verge again I'll run out of super answers

1:37:20

from hot Romans I really have yesterday

1:37:22

I watch a venue

1:37:24

in common city and obviously tickets were

1:37:26

not hotcakes always watch you around about

1:37:29

three over three thousand over four thousand

1:37:31

common city funds in the atmosphere was

1:37:33

electric so how many how many companies say

1:37:35

fans will go to the semi-faceted I

1:37:38

think we'll fill our allocation is I

1:37:40

think you get about 30 to 36

1:37:42

thousand don't you so I'll

1:37:45

definitely be getting tickets after can I'm just be waiting

1:37:47

for news and that but I think we'll definitely fill

1:37:49

our allocation we'll have people that will be wanting to

1:37:51

go the one we'll get to is that's how popular

1:37:53

it will be in Coventry. Give

1:37:56

us give us a give us a score

1:37:58

prediction Oh, I'm

1:38:01

going to have to say 3-2 again because obviously that's

1:38:03

the famous score from the 1987 final and

1:38:06

that's what we did yesterday, 3-2. So I'm going to

1:38:08

have to say 3-2 again, Robbie and Chris. There

1:38:10

you go, Brian. And just a

1:38:12

quick one for Brian. Brian, so then you've

1:38:15

got the choice, an FA Cup

1:38:17

Final or getting into

1:38:19

the playoffs in the

1:38:21

champions. I think, I'm

1:38:24

going to say an FA Cup Final and

1:38:26

then we do all the makings next season.

1:38:29

I'm going to just find out, people saying that, but that's

1:38:31

my dream for my Robinson to win an

1:38:33

FA Cup Final. There you go,

1:38:36

thank you. Brian, Christopher, give me the

1:38:38

final. What's the final? It'll be United

1:38:40

against City, do you think? Oh, Chelsea

1:38:42

Coventry, Rob. Oh, there you go. No

1:38:45

6 or 6. I don't really think

1:38:47

that. No 6 or 6 next Saturday,

1:38:49

Christopher. Do you think they

1:38:51

know why? Play in Brazil. Why? It's an international

1:38:54

weekend so you should have it off. But

1:38:57

you're back with Natalie,

1:38:59

Pi. Next Sunday at

1:39:01

6 to late, Christopher taking all your

1:39:03

calls. I'm off. It's an international break. I'm going

1:39:05

to go watch my, well, my son's in the

1:39:07

squad for Wales. Only two huge games for Wales.

1:39:10

Wales? Is that an international team? Next

1:39:13

on 5 Live in the 10th day. You could

1:39:15

have had for Wales. Ellis James and John Roberts.

1:39:18

6-1-6. It's a 2-0

1:39:20

tag production for 5 Live. Good night. Good

1:39:23

night to the UK. This is

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BBC Radio 5 Live. Hi,

1:39:28

my name's Eddie Hearn and this is No

1:39:30

Passion, No Point. I'm

1:39:32

excited to be back with this new series.

1:39:34

As always, I'll be talking to top performers

1:39:36

about what drives them, how they gain an

1:39:38

edge over competitors, and whether their dedication to

1:39:41

constant improvement becomes a positive. The impulse of

1:39:43

hating someone I see. I just enjoy that

1:39:45

they're playing with no fear. What makes them

1:39:47

feel fulfilled? It's not the money. It's not

1:39:49

the trophies. It's the friendships and the memories

1:39:51

I've got. And does that change as their

1:39:53

career progresses? Just a girl who grew up

1:39:55

playing football and now I'm getting past, like, without

1:39:58

even seeing the camera like it's crazy. from

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