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This podcast is part of the

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ACAS creator network. On

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today's Friday podcast, Sid comes up with a tactic

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to flip the league title on its head. Our

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bottle is dropping out in the Premier League.

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Chris reveals a bruising encounter at Ladies' Day

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and stay tuned for Susie Dent's definition of

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the corridor of uncertainty. Hello

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and welcome to that Peter Crouch podcast

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with me, Peter Crouch, no tourists, Sid

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with me as usual and Chris Stark.

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Is everyone okay? Good.

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I'm a little bit stiff today. Are

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you? Yeah, we did have a lovely

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weekend. We were a friend's birthday, she

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had a couple's games weekend

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over in Ireland and

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there was archery, shooting, clay-pigeon shooting,

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a paddle, there was a reaction

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game. You're like the F1

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guys do with the... Goalkeepers

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do it. Yeah, the lights. Yeah, the lights. We've done

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that and then there was like cones, ten cones laid

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up and then there was like a memory game so

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if you touch one there might be a donkey noise

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and then if that's another one it might be

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a cat and it's a pair, the noise is up. You

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do this all weekend as couples. Yeah, there was points

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on it and there was a trophy at the end.

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By the way, I think Sid's on. We

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actually come out on top. I thought

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you might. The notorious come out on top. But

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you do this with three other couples, right? There

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was five couples in total. So I

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think what Sid's created, because you've done

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this a few times since I've known

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you, you say you're doing a games

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night and this competitive couple. It

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was competitive. Is

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this not the new combine with me that needs to be combined?

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It sounds good. I originally invented

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combine with me, didn't I? Of course you did.

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A long time ago. And then, you

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know, this would be great. I think we should do it. So,

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is it the same couples that take part in new couples? On

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this one it was, yeah. And you

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stick to your own wives. There's

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no keys in the part of this one. Nice. Just

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could be a way to mix it up, couldn't

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it? On one of Sid's holidays. But

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it all

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sounds like good

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fun and games. It was good, yeah, but

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I'm feeling it today. I'm not saying, yeah,

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I'm taking it out of you. The glutes

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are, the glutes are, my right hammy is

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in pieces. It's so good. I've never thought

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of doing this. I've actually never thought of

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saying to my missus, do you want to,

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should we ask a few couples to go and just

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compete against them? Competitive

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couples, it's a genius

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idea. It's almost like you're

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looking for something more than just a relationship, aren't you,

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you know what I mean? Yeah. I

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wish your memory like, so

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when you're on Tinder, it's like, you know, ask

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those questions like, you know, can you

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shoot a clay pigeon? This is it.

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Like, it would change dating if you

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chose your partner based on

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having to compete with them against other

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couples in everything. I

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think if a few could have swapped,

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there might be a few that would have dropped their

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partners. Really? Maybe. Let

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them down. I would, abs quite

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competitive. So we rarely lose Christmas.

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You know, articulate in our houses, you do,

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you know, there's a

3:38

couple of family members out there that would

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say different, but we, I'd say we're top. Are

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you a Scrabble fan? Yeah, I don't mind Scrabble.

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I've not done it for a while though. Did

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you see the news this week about the new Scrabble

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that's come out? It's causing waves because, well...

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They changed it all, have they? They've changed it

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all, Pete. So it's, I think the idea is,

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and I don't fully understand the idea, is to

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take some of the competitiveness out of the house.

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out of it. So you work in teams

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or something like that and I think you might

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not be able to lose.

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It might be misquoting here but

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a lot of people are saying it's gone woke. Oh

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god, you see you're not allowed to compete anymore. That's the problem with

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this. You think at school it's like you know it has

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to be you know even if you crap at something

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you have to you're involved aren't you? You know which

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is great. I suppose it's great

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but you know even if you're crap

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at something. You still get a prize to be

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in crap. You know what I'm saying. Yeah I

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don't know. It's like you need I think you

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need a trophy. Everyone can play obviously

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inclusive of all but you

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do need a winner. I think because

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you work on

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a match that is great to win but

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there is nothing wrong with not winning. Yeah

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yeah you know but obviously it'd be great

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to win. Yeah I know what

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I'm saying is like

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I agree with you in terms of sports days it's

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like there's a bit of a feeling that if not

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everyone can win no one should win whereas I think

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it's a good thing to let other people even if

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you can't win to let you know other people win

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and you that be an

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acceptable situation. You have to win as a

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loser. Well I just think that's real life

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and in the day you know it's dog

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eat dog out there. It's like there are

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winners and losers in real life so we

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can get them ready for that in

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school. Well welcome to the Friday podcast

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where everyone is welcome. You're welcome.

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You're all winners. That's right. Well

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you've arrived here at this podcast so

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you are winners in our eyes. I

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should get on with the Friday pod talking of winners and losers. Oh

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well goodling goodling. This

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is getting so slick now isn't it. I've

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been doing this a while now. Wow like

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a young bit line up. Who'd have thought?

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Who'd have thought? What's the email address again?

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I've got fucking no idea about that. Right

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unless I've never done that. You know I've never

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done that. But

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they get they seem to get

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here so thanks thanks for keeping

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me in your life. it. Peter.croucheracast.com.

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Thank you very much. I've realised,

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you know, every kind of manager

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of a podcast or a team

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need to top staff around

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them. You need to throw to me. I'll throw to you

6:14

and you need to craft to me in that area. Can

6:16

I show you this ladder, Aintree? Can I show you what

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you've caused, by the way? Oh

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no. Oh God. I'm

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going to be deleted. Hang on. I'm

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going to show you this guy here. Obviously, it's a bit

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visual, but I'm at Aintree, right? And I was DJing Ladies

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Day last Friday. That was a good one.

6:34

It's always good fun. Everyone's been

6:36

on it all day. So turned up

6:39

DJing this big, things the red rum

6:41

enclosure, you know, like giant one. And

6:45

obviously, you get a few people holding up their phones

6:47

and stuff like that. But where I was DJing was

6:49

really far away from everyone so they couldn't shout. So

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this guy took the hand signals,

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which really caught my eye. And I tried

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to video them. Have a look at this,

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boys. I'll tell you through it. This fellow

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here. Okay, have a look. So let me

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take what he's signaling here. And I had to explain

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this to everyone around me and the

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people who work. Why is he saying

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puddings is massive. You see? Oh yeah,

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yeah, yeah. Puddings is massive.

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So he's doing a nice important with

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the big. Yeah. And then he's pointing

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at me and going, you wanker, barbecue.

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He give

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you a little after. I can

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only apologize. I don't even know where

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to give it. Did you give

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him the thumbs up? And then what's amazing is he's

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given all these hand signals, but then also at the

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same time, putting a thumbs up and like blowing. And

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it takes so much explaining every time. Like it's

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exactly it. The person's like, do you

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want him gone? I'm like, no, no, no, no. This

7:56

can sound weird, but I think he's a, he likes

7:58

the bird. He's a little big bird. Well

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apologies for that anyway. But I

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am leading now. I've gone for

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a big shift. Again,

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shambles of a weekend. The

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correct scores were Arsenal, Newcastle,

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Newcastle, Newcastle, Newcastle, Beets, Spurs,

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4-0 and the draw which

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was the point I got

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was 2-2 at Forest

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Wolves. Obviously the Sidwell bonus

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point. I had Son, Sid

8:30

had Gordon but you had Esac. I was

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at the game, 4-0.

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Esac was right up to the 84th minute was

8:36

the last goal scorer. That was for the Sidwell

8:38

bonus which Steve Siou were introducing in the last

8:40

podcast just to confuse things. I thought it was

8:43

a good one though. I actually really enjoyed it.

8:45

I was watching the game and I was invested.

8:48

But you've actually had so

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many points taken off. You've lost points

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haven't you this year? I

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think you've won a big goal. Or you could be another 5 or 6. It's

8:58

joy in football for me this

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because there's literally no point watching a

9:03

game of football for me. I might

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as well tune in from 89 minutes

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onwards. There's no point. There's

9:10

no point because I'm even

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87, 86 minutes throwing out a little

9:16

message into the WhatsApp group saying this

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is exciting. What's the fucking point? Every

9:22

time. Even in

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the Watford game, a

9:27

dead send a text to someone going,

9:30

we'd only get this back under Tom Clevverly.

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2-0 against Southampton. A little run of decent

9:35

games. I believe last minute wasn't it? Last

9:37

minute. Actually there was 6 or 7 minutes of

9:40

injury time. It was the 98th, 99th minute this

9:42

goal. I heard it was listening to

9:44

it on the radio. How's that allowed? Can't believe it. I

9:46

swear every week it's done on purpose. It's

9:48

a fucking disgrace. It's a mini rant. It's

9:50

a mini rant. You just feel

9:52

a bit low at the moment. You feel a bit

9:54

low because you were so far ahead. We've

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pegged it back and on Galloping. Well

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psychologically I'm... The point

10:02

is why is Euro 15, Chris

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is on 14, I'm on 14. So there's only one point in

10:07

it, but psychologically I'm at the bottom, I'm at the third of

10:09

the table now and you're on the top. I've

10:11

done it in Liverpool. I

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feel like I've done in Liverpool. We said this in the

10:16

last Friday podcast, it's just a

10:18

couple of results where I'm standing up in the

10:20

press conferences and the journalists are trying to get

10:22

me to answer the question. So sort of wording

10:24

it in a clever way, but basically saying, do

10:26

you think you fucked it? As your asshole fell

10:28

out. Whenever you go, they

10:30

just send out the clock. Because

10:33

everyone's so careful. Have you noticed how

10:36

journalists are really careful about how they

10:38

work? I always... I don't think

10:40

we've ever dug down on how impressive certain

10:44

journalists are at the

10:46

way they word questions to a manager who's

10:48

just lost a game. Yeah. Do you know

10:50

the thing is as well, I'm around it,

10:52

you know, when we do TNT and you

10:54

know, the people like Jules Breach, for instance,

10:56

who will interview, you know, a cop after

10:58

the game where he's lost or Guardiola and

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they're always spiky. And you

11:02

have to ask the questions because people at home

11:05

want to know the question. Yeah. But you're the

11:07

one sitting one on one with

11:09

having to ask. And you have to ask it

11:11

in a manner that doesn't piss them off. I'm

11:13

really sorry. I can't remember this guy's name, but

11:17

he said it to Jurgen. He said, well,

11:20

Jurgen, sometimes all the stats can be going

11:22

your way, but, you know, the result just

11:25

doesn't reflect it. I thought

11:27

that was so good. Because he's basically

11:29

said in every stat you've kind

11:31

of won this game, but hasn't said that the

11:33

piss offs are positive. He said the positive thing,

11:35

but it's basically said, you know, you've lost. What's

11:38

gone wrong? But if you ask that to him,

11:40

he's never going to... Well, even to the point

11:42

where they could fluff up by going after the

11:45

game, saying this, again,

11:47

if it's Klopp, oh, you've

11:50

obviously definitely have to defeat on

11:52

the bounce. Team

11:54

maybe looking a little bit nervous. How

11:56

do you find that? Is that another way of saying you've lost

11:58

to the bounce as your arsehole? forward there. That's

12:01

it. It's all about the wording of

12:03

the question. But what are we getting

12:05

through with football? I just did not

12:07

see that. When Liverpool lost, you thought

12:10

that's the end of them. And then

12:12

Arsenal lost. And

12:15

then obviously City are what, two points ahead

12:17

now? Everyone's going after the title race is

12:19

over. And when you look

12:21

at City's games, they

12:23

are the easier of the games, I

12:26

think. And you

12:28

can't see them a bit. It is only

12:30

two points. And we would never have called

12:32

this weekend. No, it's two points, but it's

12:34

this momentum that you see with City and

12:36

writing a round of calls. And they've been

12:38

there before. The experience, they've, you know, this

12:40

is their first rodeo, is it? They got

12:42

the know-how. But, I think this is going

12:45

to go down to the wire. I think it's going to go down to the

12:47

last, not the last

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weekend, second to last weekend,

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I think. Yeah. What do you think with

12:53

the Arsenal Villa game then, looking at that?

12:55

I mean, Philip were phenomenal. I thought, well,

12:58

Watkins hit the post early on.

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I suddenly thought, God, like, this

13:02

does look like it's going to go that

13:04

way. And our tester afterwards, without bringing it back

13:07

to the press conferences, he

13:09

was very agitated that moving from side

13:11

to side, the arse

13:13

had fallen out, it fell. Oh, please.

13:15

Crouchy. When the manager next comes

13:20

to you. On the side there in the pitch. Oh,

13:22

well. Straight up, fell out.

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Wouldn't it be great if you were just as

13:26

direct as that? Has your asshole

13:29

fallen out? I

13:32

mean, it'd never work again. Yeah, yeah.

13:34

Potentially, but. Was he watching on BT,

13:36

up at Anfield? They

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stuck out on the wing. Yeah. Oh,

13:41

yeah. Got tagged in that a lot. Yeah,

13:43

yeah. That kind of went, went

13:45

kind of viral, didn't it? They've put

13:47

you even closer to the camera now. So if I

13:50

was closer, I just would potentially short people. The

13:52

angles. Yeah. The angles.

13:56

So yeah, it's just, it's actually.

14:00

I was told by Leo, shout out to

14:02

Leo, you knew, obviously like floor manager, and

14:04

he said, I said, look, I'm getting shit

14:06

out of here. That's been

14:09

a chat. Yeah, yeah. I

14:11

said, you got to stop shit out of me, getting

14:13

the heat every week. And he

14:15

said, apparently, like, obviously, I've

14:17

always been there. So my kind

14:19

of, like, is

14:22

it the mic volume and so like,

14:24

when they get need to key to me and things like that. It's

14:27

like, in order, it's

14:29

like left, right, you know, center. So

14:31

you have left, center, right. And if I don't,

14:33

because I tried to swap with Rio. I

14:37

don't know if you noticed on Saturday, I came straight in

14:39

because I was doing something else and I came in live

14:41

and I just went, I went in the middle. So

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I'll go there. I'll just go in early. And I said, I'm

14:46

not, I'll just go in there. And what can they do then?

14:49

So they went to the break and they moved me back out. I

14:52

said, I'll just go in there. And

14:55

that's the way that it explains to me that that is the

14:57

reason I'll be the, I'll be if you want to, if someone

15:00

wants to speak to me like a director or so in my

15:02

ear, then it will be I'll be

15:04

the right button. Yeah, but that's not a pia crouch

15:06

issue. That's a Leo issue. And what he

15:08

needs to do is take a little bit of tape

15:10

that says one and

15:12

switch it with a little bit of tape that says two. That

15:17

sounds really easy, but I think

15:19

he just lost me in technical.

15:21

Leo's giving you some jargon and

15:23

you've got a new girlfriend. You

15:25

can't switch. Otherwise

15:28

when he puts up his fader you won't be there. Yeah,

15:31

but when he put down his fader and silly **** come

15:33

for it. Wait,

15:42

wait to see the reams rolling in again.

15:45

I love it. Yeah, I'm getting off.

15:48

Yeah, I'm getting off. But it's all, you

15:50

know, we'll see. We'll see what happens next

15:52

time. Yeah, especially, you

15:54

know, Jules breeches is isn't

15:56

obviously hugely tall, is she? No.

16:00

make sense I think they've just got to

16:02

look at the formation with it I think

16:04

whoever's playing you needs to put you in

16:06

more into the middle I think yeah yeah

16:08

yeah it's probably a formation tweak hmm

16:11

right the next part the podcast is supported

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by Paddy Power it's their big weekend fixture

16:16

we do have Paddy Power boosts potentially we

16:18

could phone a friend yeah I don't know

16:20

if that's on the

16:22

on the cards Paddy's points is massive

16:24

we've all used those and

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Paddy's predictor we can get one of Paddy's

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expert traders for prediction remember

16:31

the big Paddy Power forfeit as you know

16:33

is still on it's heating up we're getting

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lots of suggestions on the socials yeah and

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we will we will address that potentially

16:41

the end of this podcast or next week but

16:43

the big fixture Paddy Power fixture this

16:46

week is Wolves versus Arsenal yeah

16:48

it's I've been doing a lot

16:50

of thinking over this last 24

16:53

hours and

16:55

because I've had a shocking

16:57

weekend again naught points you know it

16:59

seems the regular occurrence and I keep

17:01

going with the team I think it's

17:03

gonna win so I'm I'm

17:05

gonna change it up this weekend I

17:07

debate doing this I'm gonna call this

17:09

on straight away I'm gonna I'm gonna phone

17:12

no I'm gonna get the Paddy predictor next week

17:14

I'm gonna put on next week yeah so

17:17

can we get that in line please for me because

17:19

we need to give them the heads up okay give

17:21

them the heads up all right so all right I'm

17:23

gonna I'm gonna go for the phone friends next week

17:27

I'm not gonna do anything really I just

17:30

think I trust the pros I'm just thinking what if you

17:32

get a drift what what

17:35

if you set a drift of a re-relief because

17:37

I won't let panic my panic button will be

17:39

one of these lifelines well one

17:41

at one of the last hours well it has

17:43

fallen out it has fallen out of

17:45

a possible there was 27 points available this

17:48

week between us we've managed one yeah right

17:50

and it's actually worse than that because of

17:52

the Sidwell bonus there was 30 points when

17:54

you say that though that I think

17:57

that sounds bad I

18:00

know it's not good, but I look to one

18:02

another. I think Chris Sutton does one, Abri's old

18:04

man He does it every week and he writes

18:06

them down. They give themselves five points for

18:09

a correct score and ten points But you

18:11

know But what that would mean is just

18:13

the amount of possible points available would be

18:15

greater and we would still have one Yeah, yeah

18:17

Yeah, true. Yeah, well, I'm gonna I'm throwing it

18:19

out for next week But staying on this one

18:21

the Wolves Arsenal is the is the game, isn't

18:24

it? So you're gonna tell me you're going

18:26

for Wolves Well like I've done before I've

18:28

gone with the one I think is gonna

18:30

win. Yeah reversed it I'm gonna

18:32

reverse and I'm gonna say

18:34

Wolves on this one for me. Interesting tactic I'm

18:36

gonna say Wolves. I'm not

18:38

gonna say you that Arsenal the

18:40

ass as for that of Arsenal, but They're

18:44

gonna lose. Okay. Well, I'm gonna go for a

18:46

1-0 Win for Wolves

18:48

at home. They're good at they're good at home as

18:50

well Well, I knew I like what Gary was doing

18:52

there and I can I think I can see this

18:54

result happening It's not a ridiculous one.

18:56

So must win Must

18:59

way must well, yeah, I think so.

19:01

Yeah, I mean wolves could end it there wolves 15

19:03

to 2 so 10 against your 85 pound return And

19:08

also wants a free source is strong favorites

19:10

Arsenal. Hmm. Did you think about this? So

19:12

no, no I think I think

19:14

it's a good idea. I think you kind of got

19:16

in ahead of me I think we are fucking a

19:18

shite at this. So let's

19:20

just reverse what we're gonna do I

19:23

get that what? Is

19:26

the main motivation for wolves in this game

19:28

to shit house Arsenal? I think

19:31

they've got enough. I think they've got enough about

19:33

them to Like

19:36

to do well, you know, I mean, I don't think spoil

19:39

the party is the main motivation

19:43

Couldn't use back fit isn't he scored a couple in

19:45

the weekend? Like yeah, I think they look I

19:48

mean They've got a good manager in charge. I

19:50

know some of the people that work behind the

19:52

scenes and yeah, you know, they're confident They're a

19:54

good side. He just wants to finish as high

19:57

as possible. It's three million quid every spot. Yeah,

19:59

it's free into a couple of clubbing

20:01

wolves. They're in a bit of financial, not

20:03

difficulties, but the FFP and stuff, they're on

20:05

that cusp. But does that money side filter

20:07

to you guys as players? Like when you

20:09

view it from that position, I understand you'd

20:11

probably get a bollock in from the chairman

20:13

or a bit of a- No, there's a

20:15

bonus. There's a bonus for every league. Every

20:17

league, yeah. And also top 10 would probably

20:19

be more of a bonus. I think there's

20:21

only one point outside the top 10 at

20:23

the moment. Oh, right. Yeah,

20:26

slightly leaky at the back, only a continued double

20:28

number of goals in Arsenal this season, because they've

20:30

been brilliant at the back of the Arsenal.

20:32

Which is a problem. Which

20:35

is why I believe that Arsenal win.

20:37

I think it will be 2-0. 2-0,

20:40

Arsenal. You're going 2-0. I see

20:43

wolves going up in this game, then

20:45

Arsenal getting this back. I

20:47

can't have a last minute Arsenal goal to just

20:49

spoil what I actually think is the score, which

20:51

is kind of a draw up into the last

20:54

minutes I've gone. Arsenal 2, Wolves 1. Okay.

20:57

All good scores. Okay then, if

20:59

you do feel like getting involved in

21:01

that, odds are correct at the time

21:04

of recording. Please gamble responsibly. Moving swiftly

21:06

on to Crystal Palace versus West Ham.

21:08

Obviously Palace, unbelievable performance. Wow. You

21:10

know, yes, they rode their luck at times. But

21:12

to go to Anfield and get a result like

21:14

that would be

21:17

the enormity of it. Especially, I think, some of the

21:19

stats with Van Dijk playing,

21:21

especially Anfield in the last few

21:23

years, not many teams gone

21:25

there and get the points. Well, good result,

21:27

wasn't it, for Palace, as you said. West

21:30

Ham, I just don't

21:33

know. The last five games, it's been a weird

21:35

one, hasn't it? One

21:37

win, two losses. Poor

21:40

result against Fulham. The last two. Missed chances against

21:42

Fulham today as well. Yeah. They've

21:44

hit a dip, the last two. Yeah, they have. Yeah,

21:48

difficult one. Obviously going up to, well,

21:50

Bialove Accusant. That will be happening

21:52

on Thursday. We're at a time of recording. We don't

21:54

know what's happened there. But that doesn't look likely, I

21:56

have to say. Unfortunately,

21:58

yeah, I worry about that. for them at the

22:01

moment. They have got players back, obviously Proketsis

22:03

back in, it's just a suspension risk isn't

22:05

he? But I do think he'll

22:08

play. Yeah I see this

22:10

as a score draw. I've got

22:12

this down as Palace 1, West Ham 1.

22:14

I think that's such a good shout. That is

22:16

a really good shout. The

22:19

draw last week nicked me the point, it

22:21

was crucial. I've gone

22:24

with it again. That feels

22:26

right. I've gone for West

22:28

Ham just getting this back now. I've

22:31

gone for a West Ham 2-1 win. That

22:34

would be squeaky by the time when it's

22:36

won all. That's the worst

22:38

bit of this thing. It's worse than

22:41

just your score getting right, is knowing

22:43

that one of you is currently right.

22:46

Well I've currently got West Ham 1-0. I feel like

22:50

I want to back Palace now so we've got a

22:52

winner. Which makes it...

22:56

So you've got the draw, you're going to go

22:58

West Ham 2-1. You're really rolling the dice with

23:00

this. Let's change this

23:02

up. I'm going to go for Palace 1-0. I think the Eagles

23:06

are going to do it at

23:08

home. Another way down. So

23:10

someone's going to get some points there. Alright

23:13

moving on. Aston Villa Bournemouth.

23:16

Yeah, Villa, good form hey. I

23:19

covered them last week in Europe

23:21

against Lille at home. They

23:24

should have been outside really. The game's

23:26

on its head now. Lille got a goal back and then they

23:28

go and get the result against Arsenal

23:30

which I didn't see with the

23:32

predictions last week. So Villa at home

23:35

are good as well aren't they? Bournemouth

23:37

let me down in that Luton game

23:39

so I just can't feel I can

23:41

put my trust in. I really can't

23:43

go with them. Played well against Lézsées

23:46

United though. You'll get unlucky there. Took

23:48

the lead twice. Dominic

23:50

Solanke's in great form, isn't he? Goal's galore at the

23:52

moment. He's going to love a great goal. I

23:56

just see walking scoring this. Well

24:00

they've actually got the next tie

24:02

on the second leg is Thursday, which is obviously the

24:10

few days before this game. He

24:13

doesn't want teams to be put out for this. There

24:15

could be some injuries, you don't know, fatigue, he's on

24:17

a Sunday. Chris,

24:20

what do you want to go for? It feels

24:22

to me such an important game for Villa, just

24:25

in terms of maintaining their position

24:27

and talking them close, right? It's

24:30

at them two. It's at them two, yeah. And

24:32

obviously it was much better for Villa on a

24:34

weekend. You know, looking at the

24:37

weekends fixtures, obviously, you'd back Villa,

24:39

I think, other than Tottenham, in

24:41

the sort of word poor. I'm going to go

24:43

Villa three, Bournemouth nil. Oh

24:46

wow. You look nervous and you've gone

24:49

for a bold statement. Yeah. I've

24:51

gone 2-1, Villa. I've actually gone for the draw. Again,

24:56

I think I

24:58

would have gone Villa, but I'm going against the

25:01

grain. And I don't see

25:03

Bournemouth winning it, but I do see a draw.

25:05

So I'm going to say Aston Villa

25:08

won, Bournemouth won. Alright, great.

25:11

Good luck, gentlemen. Very competitive

25:13

weekend, this one. Something for

25:15

everyone. Okay, let's move on, because we've got a

25:18

load of messages in this week. The

25:20

first one is from Big Mike. Big

25:23

Mike with a kiss. He says, love the

25:25

pod lads. Just thought you

25:28

might like to know that Sunita is a whole city

25:30

fan. Supposedly, a former partner

25:32

got her into the Tigers. Love

25:34

Big Mike. Sunita was

25:37

the one with the leaves, wasn't

25:39

she, traditionally? Yes, she wore

25:41

the leaves. Was that on like Prince

25:43

of the Coast or something? Was it like a

25:45

premiere or something? I think it was something, was

25:47

it a, I think it was, I think it

25:49

was a music video many years ago and then

25:52

she wore the leaves again on X

25:54

Factor or one of those shows. Was she with Simon

25:57

Carr? I think she was, wasn't she? But I'm not

25:59

100% sure. Have you guys ever come

26:01

across her in your celebrity circles? Sorry,

26:05

since... You must have. I

26:08

have, I've got a great picture of me

26:10

and Sunita. I'm so glad that

26:12

was skipped over there. But you're

26:14

going to pull a picture out of you and Sunita? Yeah.

26:16

Are you? I just

26:18

knew, I knew. Yeah, I know I met Sunita.

26:22

Yeah, here's me here because I was actually

26:25

naked when I met her and I just went

26:27

in the leaves myself. Oh

26:29

my God! You must have,

26:31

you must have, you must have. He's

26:33

wearing just leaves. Wow!

26:37

Oh my God. And you're literally spitting water over

26:39

her. Yeah, we're totally naked. Obviously, in the end,

26:42

I think I was the only one. But there

26:44

is a picture of me somewhere, just me and

26:46

her next to each other. I forgot we played

26:48

that, but me just in the leaves as a

26:50

nice sort of homage to

26:52

Sunita there. But she's a whole city fan, wouldn't

26:55

I? No, I never knew that.

26:57

No, no, but we've been talking about celebrities

26:59

obviously supporting football clubs and it's nice to

27:01

just have a little, I don't know, stock

27:03

take of who's supporting who really on the Friday.

27:06

Oh wow. Top of the pile, I think we

27:08

can try and push Margot Robbie if possible, guys.

27:11

Ah yeah. Big footer fan. We try. She's

27:14

been mean to us. Gentle reminder there, but

27:16

Margot Robbie for the pod, please. Yep, the

27:18

lads behind the scenes have apparently

27:20

been right on the case with that one. Ross

27:27

has been doing the Eminger every day, ever since

27:29

we've done it. Yeah, that's the thing, we leave

27:31

it with them, but we've not questioned the booking

27:33

process. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've got a shot at

27:36

the thing. Okay, message from

27:38

Joe says, Hi lads, was browsing a

27:40

charity shop in Avalon, Australia when I

27:42

came across this absolute bargain. And

27:45

look at this, I've got one of these. I like

27:47

that. Peter Crouch t-shirt. I've got this t-shirt at home.

27:49

Abby went to bed. It was one of the last

27:52

finest moments when I saw Abby going to bed in

27:54

this once. Seriously. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

27:56

Oh my God. Oh

27:58

my God. Oh my God. Oh my god. Well

28:00

it breaks it down, it's got the pricing things on it. Yeah,

28:02

look at that, in the corner, yeah. So

28:05

it says match ticket 68 pound, flight to Milan

28:07

110 pound, match program 6 pound, half

28:11

time burger 5 pound, and then

28:13

a picture of me scoring a winner in San Siro against

28:15

Milan. And it says watching Crouchy score

28:18

the winner against Milan in San

28:20

Siro, priceless. Wow. I love that. I've

28:23

got one of those at home. So when

28:25

you said Abby was wearing it, did she

28:27

have the shirt or did you buy the

28:29

shirt? No, someone gave me one because they

28:32

were selling them, you know one of those

28:34

t-shirts that's outside the ground at White

28:36

Hart Lane or something? And

28:39

it was just after obviously when we beat Ace

28:42

Milan in the Champions League. And

28:44

obviously yeah, scoring that goal, there's a picture of me

28:46

scoring that goal with, yeah, and

28:49

she wore it to bed last night and I was

28:51

like, well I took a bad turn. Who'd

28:54

have thought? Who'd have thought? Obviously,

28:57

you know, I used to watch Italian football so scoring

28:59

in the San Siro, you know, let

29:01

alone being a winner in Champions League

29:03

felt amazing. Yeah, awesome. And

29:05

now it's in a charity shop in the world.

29:07

Yeah, that is a bargain in there by the

29:09

way. It's made it to Australia. Oh, good. Right,

29:12

I've got one here. My mates convinced me to buy

29:14

this shirt after Madweeke's interview

29:17

calling Cole Palmer cold Palmer turned up

29:19

to footy the other day wearing it

29:21

to everyone pissing themselves laughing. I think

29:23

I may have had a stinker. That's

29:27

from Joe. Yeah, I can

29:29

confirm it's a complete stinker.

29:31

Yeah, because people that haven't

29:34

seen an interview that don't know that he

29:37

said cold Palmer, or thinking

29:39

he thinks that he's named cold Palmer. Yeah,

29:42

yeah, well, essentially. The shirt says cold Palmer,

29:44

but he does the cold. Yeah,

29:48

the celebration. So, and

29:51

he's ice cold, isn't he? Does it look just

29:53

a bit? Is it a bit icky?

29:55

Yeah, very much. That's kind of the thing with

29:58

it, I guess. I don't,

30:00

I think it's a bit of a bear. Yeah. Thoughts?

30:04

Yeah, is this from Joe, is it? Yeah.

30:08

Yeah. Yeah, you might just have a bit of a

30:10

bear there. You just had a bit of a spinner.

30:12

No, he bought it. His mate convinced him. Oh, Joe's

30:14

bought it. Sorry, Joe, you've had a, you've had a

30:16

spinner today. So, I've had a phlegm. You've delved into

30:18

peer pressure there. You've caved.

30:20

Right, so, we

30:22

just love these, don't we? Susie then

30:25

has performed again. I like leaving

30:27

them, so we've not heard it. We'll be hearing this,

30:30

just as you'll be hearing it. Chris, do

30:32

you have Susie Dem? I've got Susie Dem

30:34

with another sort of

30:36

football word definition. Here she is. Hello.

30:41

Well, before I kick off with this

30:43

big phrase, I thought I would pick

30:46

up on the email you had from

30:48

Wednesday fan, Steve, who asked why everybody

30:50

these days, especially used by Clive Tewlesley,

30:52

I think, is remonstrating

30:55

with the ref. He

30:58

talks about it. Arguing. And

31:00

remonstrator has meant to point something

31:02

out. It's the

31:04

monstrator, it's the seventh demonstrate, for

31:07

centuries. But I don't think any player

31:09

is simply politely pointing something out to the rest

31:12

of these days. I think, to

31:14

be fair, it did pick up pace

31:16

in the 17th century when it meant

31:18

to quite bitterly complain or protest. In

31:21

the 17th century history of Elizabeth I,

31:23

you can read she remonstrated the barbarous

31:26

cruelty of the Spaniard. But

31:28

Steve is completely right. It's being used

31:30

more and more in football commentary according

31:32

to the databases that I've been looking

31:34

at of current language. And

31:36

I can't completely put my finger

31:38

on why, but I suppose it sounds a

31:41

little bit more sophisticated than argued and

31:43

a little less pointed than harangue. But

31:45

it has become one of those tropes in

31:48

football commentary. He's completely right. Okay,

31:50

so this week's phrase is the

31:52

corridor of uncertainty, again,

31:55

one of your suggestions. And

31:57

you might, if you like me, assume that it has some

31:59

kind of. political history, either

32:02

that or some link with horror movies. But

32:04

it's always been connected to sport and as

32:07

you probably know one sport in particular which

32:09

is cricket, where the

32:11

corridor of uncertainty is an area just

32:13

outside the back of the off-stop. And it's

32:15

often used under the line of delivery by

32:17

the bowler with the aim

32:20

of leaving the person completely unsure as

32:22

to whether to play a shot. And

32:25

the use of the expression is

32:27

associated particularly and unsurprisingly

32:29

with Geoffrey Boycott who really popularised

32:31

it in his commentary, particularly during

32:34

England's 1992 tour

32:36

of the West Indies when you can see it really

32:38

picking up in use. But my thought

32:40

is he didn't invent it because the first recorded

32:42

use we have at the moment is from 1986

32:46

and a newspaper from Adelaide in Australia

32:48

and indeed there are clues that the

32:50

phrase might have begun there. So some

32:53

suggest it began with the Australian right

32:55

arm bowler Terry Alderman. But

32:57

the key thing is that it soon began

32:59

to spread beyond cricket including importantly

33:01

into football where you

33:04

will know better than me but it's used to

33:06

describe a cross or a pass that's delivered

33:08

into the area in front of the goalie

33:10

and behind the last line of defence. And

33:12

so the uncertainty is from the decision as

33:14

to who goes for the ball or whether to defend

33:16

it or leave it to the other player. I'm not sure why

33:18

I'm telling you all this because you know

33:20

it. But it hasn't

33:23

stopped there. Even by the early 90s a

33:26

corridor of uncertainty was being used

33:29

for any situation or course of

33:31

action which causes hesitation or uncertainty

33:33

over how to proceed including as

33:36

the Telegraph put it back in

33:40

2007 kissing. So it says

33:42

northernest kiss once but often find themselves

33:44

in the corridor of uncertainty that moment

33:46

of hesitation when they weigh up whether

33:48

to go for a second. So

33:51

I know you lot think I always go for arses or

33:53

guts but I thought I'd be a little bit different

33:55

this time than you guys are kissing. made

34:00

arses or guts and I actually thought we'd

34:02

go to a whole definition. I really hope

34:04

you still mention them. Well, that

34:07

came by the way from

34:10

absolute left field, didn't it? How

34:12

is amazing? Like honestly, like how good

34:14

are these little, are these explanations? I

34:16

mean that was best. So good. She's

34:19

the best. It feels like she did.

34:21

She spends days researching. Research. She has

34:23

described that to a team, doesn't she?

34:25

Bottom. Absolutely. You visually see that

34:27

like literally where that ball is going to go

34:29

across the board. Yeah, I mean even the description

34:31

of the, you know, of like we say, we've

34:33

been involved in that and talked about the corridor

34:35

of uncertainty, you know, just where the goalkeeper wants

34:38

to come out and does the defender drop and

34:40

clear it or does he leave it to the

34:42

goalkeeper? It's that corridor of uncertainty that you play

34:44

the ball in as a winner. Fantastic

34:46

explanation. Can you believe the kissing thing

34:48

as well? So unless I

34:50

misunderstood that, so she said northerners

34:53

as well in particular. Well, yeah, because I

34:55

think one kiss. Yeah, it's

34:57

the kind of, do you go in

34:59

for the double? It's a minefield. I don't like it at

35:01

all. Do you think, as in

35:03

the polite, I'd rather just shake hands.

35:06

Yeah, but if you're trying to pull, you're not shaking

35:08

their hand, are you? No, but like, you know, usually

35:10

quite often you're introduced to someone's wife and you feel

35:12

like you have to kiss them straight away. I

35:14

just go, I just go, lovely to meet you. I think

35:17

that's easier. Whereas if you go like that and then you

35:19

linger like she wants to go for

35:21

one, but you don't and then you go in and you

35:23

almost go like it's all just, it's a

35:25

nightmare. How did you deal with all the wives?

35:27

I just did. Are

35:31

you talking about, sorry, was that sort

35:33

of like, as in Greek and

35:35

Greenfield? Double kiss. See, I took it to

35:37

mean as in like, let's say we would

35:40

have lovely evening together. Yeah, that's why. Oh,

35:42

lovely dinner. I've gone into

35:44

kiss Steve and I've

35:47

gone, no, but like, if I'm getting off with

35:49

Steve, what I'm doing is

35:51

just go with it a second. What I'm

35:53

trying to do is I'm, I'll come in

35:55

and give it one little kiss. But then

35:57

what I wanted to do is then go

35:59

back in. I'm going to be like, aww.

36:02

You've got to clip that up. You've got

36:04

to clip that and so go. No, but

36:06

let's stick to the topic. What I'm saying

36:08

is, you... I agree. So

36:11

the corridor of uncertainty is whether I've given him

36:13

a quick kiss on the lips, right? But I

36:15

want Steve. So what I've done is I've then

36:17

gone back in. And that's

36:19

the corridor of uncertainty. Yeah, but I think

36:21

you can play that properly. Because if you

36:23

do the kiss and just hold for a

36:26

bit, then let kind of

36:28

them come to you almost. If

36:30

they want to do the kiss, then it's there for them.

36:33

But whereas if

36:35

it's a greeting, you don't know where

36:37

you are, in my opinion, these days.

36:41

So what you're saying is

36:43

if you get off with someone, you go in and

36:45

you've just gone gently. I'll go for just what you

36:47

do. You show. I'm

36:50

happy with what you do. You

36:52

go for one kiss, right? You

36:57

just test the water. You're then in the

36:59

corridor of uncertainty. But you're saying

37:01

you hold in the corridor of uncertainty. Kiss and hold.

37:04

Yeah, there's no uncertainty for me. I'm

37:06

a hammer down. That's it. Yeah.

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