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Premier League's back with a vengeance this weekend, the grudges grudge match of all time,

Liverpool, Manchester City, a rivalry that wants to find an era of championships,

and more like an evidentiary court hearing on grass.

Also in mere football, Arsenal, suddenly vincible return to action, hoping to bounce back at home

against leads and win the Cintri Manchester United, host win the Cintlibe Tottenham Hotspur.

This is Big Weekend preview while we're break down the supersized lawyer-filled international

break. I'm joined by Mr. Rory Smith. I'm lucky, resplendent, Humphrey Carr-Gents.

This international break felt longer than the bloody work.

I barely remember what domestic football looks like.

Who are the teams? What are they going to have for people from any country? This is mad.

Wait till you find out what happened while we're away. Beginning with the courtroom

derby, Liverpool versus Manchester City, Sunday 11.30 a.m. each day on NBC proper.

We're speaking just hours before the first salvo of managerial press conferences.

Every player, every manager near a microphone will be grilled about the Manchester City

114 charge or deal, Gents to start Raw. If you're in the press room facing Morescar,

amidst this sham filled trauma, what one question would you be asking?

I would channel the energy of Rob Harris, the doggie-discline news reporter who asked for

Ansuriano at a conference. Are you a sham club? I think that's the that's the ballsiest question

I've ever seen anybody ask anybody. But I famously roged, I'm a coward. So I think what

the question that will go to Morescar the most when he speaks to the the assembled media

thron on Friday, I believe, is has he taught to the players about it? That's what I'm really

fascinated by. That, you know, I went to City last week actually to the press conference before

their women's Champions League game against Real Madrid and Jade Rose, the Canadian defender,

was the first representative of Manchester City who had to publicly address the charges,

which I thought was a little bit a little bit mean on Jade Rose, if I'm honest.

And both she and Andrea Yedler, the women's teams manager, they clearly had a line which was,

we haven't needed to talk about it, we're focusing on the game,

we can't do anything about the noise, control the controllables. I don't think it's feasible that

Moresta won't have distrusted with the players when they all kind of drip back into training

after the international break. It's something they will have to address and I would like to know

what he says. You know, he's just going to say it, it's not news to us, we all knew it was

happening, it's why we joined, so it's just business as usual. Humph, you're the most barrister

like amongst us, what would you like? I agree with Roy, the fascinating thing is like,

how much have they allowed this to bleed into their conversations? You know, they would have

had what? Probably two or three training sessions so far. I think my question would be

where do any of you think you're going to be playing next season?

I was just about to see the hill digging into the building. You know, it is fascinating because Thomas

Tuchal was already admitted that the camp it affected his Manchester City players, it was the

talk of the camp. I've got a feeling the Morecars line will be more like this doesn't bother us,

you know, the club have said that they're appealing, we trust the club, this is,

that's the line I think they will put out, but the English press, oh my lord, this is a fever dream,

the unprecedented darkness, they are feasting, everyone in football is getting asked for comment,

God bless, I think they've a zoomed-tony pool list to get his opinion, Jesse Marshes leveled them.

Jesse Marsh went really strong. He went hard. He's got two gears, and I'm going to appear with

him in Toronto on stage next week, and he doesn't have to push the nuclear button.

The mighty philosopher King Karl Walker, latest to speak yesterday, said quite eloquently,

the lads, we spent many and many a great year celebrating many trophies, whatever happens,

they can't take that away from us because we've experienced them nights, not sure it works,

like that, Kyle, Raw, do you want to take to turn the content when it broke the week before last?

That most recent specials linked below for those who haven't seen it, we really break it down

in detail. I've had some new sorts preparing for this show. One of the things that baffles me

most about this dark, dark subject is at Manchester City, they've appealed the guilty judgment,

which is their right, but they've shown so little remorse through this entire process,

in fact quite the opposite, they played it as if they're the injured part. The appendices of

the judgment are yet to drop, which will reveal every email, every message, you know, the facts in

the reality, in a quite damning, minute detail, hump, we've got on one level a club as an institution

about to try and kick a football around the field. Well, it's very existential truth has been

eviscerated. That lack of remorse, as you say, feels that is the spirit du jour, is it not?

This is what the lessons of the last ten years of taught us, like all our leaders in public life

across the world, everywhere is like you don't apologise, never apologise, never explain,

and actually you questioning me on my bad behaviour is a sign of your moral shortcomings and your

treat me really badly. I've tried to run this line with my wife when she complains about how many

warhammer miniatures I buy and I say, hey, hey, I'm supporting a great British institution here.

This is the 115 warhammer charges. Yeah, it is 170 pounds for a full death

core of Craig Battleset and actually that's on you, if anything, I say.

And no, but I mean it sounds like you've been oppressed, hump. It sounds like you've been oppressed.

How's that working for you? How's that working for you? Not great, not great, not great. That's why

I'm once again podcasting from this grey box at the BBC rather than from the bosom of my

loving family home. Do you talk about conclusive evidence that you're about to introduce?

Well, she said, yeah, I've got you banged to rights on 114 charges of spending too much money

on toys and I just say, well, I've got a 12 week appeal period, so in the meantime I'm going to

roll out a series of statements claiming that I've done nothing wrong, even though it seems like

I probably have it in a more serious note of you know, you say that there was a football cover

who was about to return to what it is that they do, which is playing football and you know,

as I so often, you know, you do feel for those fans like, you know, those people that were

in the stands at Main Road that were going when you know, when Manchester City were in league two,

who saw this glorious period of growth and excitement and all their dreams come true at once.

And now it's cast a very unfortunate paler on the whole thing.

The saddest posner of all time in slow motion.

A mournful posner.

Yeah, mournful posner.

I mean, it is.

That's, by the way, it sounds like an amazing band,

shoe gaze in band, in an incredible, calmy, almost stroke of justice.

Premier League script writers, and all prosecutors, we don't know.

I've ensured Manchester City returned to action with an away game at the least judgemental venue

in World Football and I'm way too unfilled.

I'm not making this up to face Liverpool Football Club.

One of the institutions probably most aggrieved in a sporting sense at rivalry between

Pep Guardioli and Yurgen Klopp.

We once felt it defined football.

I think it's been transcended by and coated in just a sense of, you know, the darkness

that consumes men.

I expect the City Squad will be hearing it for the moment their bus turns down and feels

there'll be a flare or two at least.

Let me tell you, Gary Neville said it will quote be a brutal day for Maresco and company.

Gents, how do you think this is going to show up in the stadium?

And on the pitch, I'm feeling it's going to feel less like a football stadium,

more like a courtroom with the most one-sided jury ever.

I'm feeling not as noisy as its reputation kind of suggests quite a lot.

The time it has been for the last year or so.

It's been relatively subdued more often than not.

Partly, the Liverpool aren't really good.

Partly because of like logistical problems with getting into the stadium and stuff that

they're battling with.

I think it will be very, very noisy and it's theoretically possible that City willt

in that.

I think you're looking at chance.

Raj, I think there'll be a lot of chance.

I think a lot of them will use the word cheat.

I think there might be banners.

We may be in banner territory.

The best one I've seen suggested is what's the story, stolen glory, which I think works on a number

of levels.

It does ruin one of my favourite songs, but that's a, that there's always collateral damage.

I'm feel to meant to be the meant to be the vent for national outrage.

That's the role it has to play this weekend.

Hump, do you think Manchester City players should be made to give Liverpool the God of Honour when

they take the field?

Yes, but with holding giant asterisks over their heads because it may be a god of a,

may not.

I mean, it is, as you say, you couldn't have written a script better to put City into a venue.

You know, of a team in a fan base who feel like, you know, they were very specifically

robbed of a couple of titles of potentially a couple of, a couple of, a couple or two here and

there.

And, you know, into a place that also prides itself on its a Serbic wit and its capacity to,

to come up with slightly more sophisticated forms of hurling abuse at the opposition.

And slightly.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, as you say, referencing back to that, the previous question,

you know, what is City's policy?

City's policy has to be.

We're aggrieved that, you know, to adopt the Emile wall approach,

everybody hates us and we don't care, kind of situation and just try and fight their way through

and get a result that leaves them, you know, clinging onto the vestiges of some kind of pride.

I think, Holand, she's going to walk around just showing.

If the glove don't fit, you must be quick.

That would be great, especially as he's injured, like just to go around all three sides of

the Liverpool side with the glove.

Yeah, just, oh my god.

Anyway, the other sign of me think City should just defangle Levena by just taking that field

and handing over a Premier League trophy before kickoff.

I don't know what the, what the lead advice on that would be, Roger, if I'm honest,

I feel like Lord Panic would probably have to have to be consulted on that before deciding

whether it was the correct course of action.

But yeah, I think you can expect City to try and reclaim the word a little bit.

I've been to games where City had been the away team in the last few years,

where they were pride.

You mean, where they have chanted, you know, we know what we are.

And I think that that is a traditional football reflex of defounding the venom

by saying, actually, this doesn't hurt us, this doesn't hurt us,

whether that's true or whether it's just a posture, Roger, only toxic masculinity can tell you.

But the other thing that they're, the other thing that I think the City

fans are planning on doing is taking a load of inflatable bananas, which is not a traditional

British way of indicating distress, but is a reference to the 1990s when City went through

a different type of difficult time.

And they turned their kind of main road, their old stadium and their away trips into a kind of

celebration of the fact that they were trawling through the lower leagues in England.

And the inflatable banana is a symbol of that.

And I think it's quite, it is quite an eloquent way of saying, like we stand by our club,

we have a history here that that predates all of this and that remains.

I think that in itself is quite a potent image from the City fans who are not, we should remember,

despite some of their behaviour online, they are also victims of this,

as it is their club's name that has been dragged through the mud.

I mean, the inflatable banana was kind of broken out when City were in the lower leagues,

where the fan-based stayed passionate, stayed massive, and they'd bounced these inflatable

bananas around.

Almost at the time of how surreal all of this was support, fandom, traveling miles for this.

They sound way not really here.

I mean, it was all such a surreal act of joy, connection, suffering.

They've been there in the past.

I mean, the layers of history.

Well, not first inflatable banana strikes the Anfield Air Rule.

It's the levels of history that are being broken out in this truly history-making moment.

It is truly remarkable.

And you've hit upon one point I do want to hit.

What impact do you think it will have for the footballers to take the field

and this level of scrutiny?

The ultimate, potentially, circle the wagons moment,

but it can also be truly deflating,

speaking to the American players, post a Balagan awful affair in the World Cup.

They said everyone loved them.

They were doing great, and then the Balagan thing happened,

and they took the field crushed by the realisation that the whole world suddenly hated them,

and they couldn't barely kick a football.

These are fine margin things, aren't they?

So it doesn't take much to...

You don't need like a 10 or 15 or 20% drop-off in performance to have an impact on the result.

You need a 0.05% drop-off in performance.

Your focus to be just slightly off.

Your concentration to be broken by something.

All of those plays I think will have played in really intimidating atmospheres before,

and footballers will always tell you,

how the Humpf will know this better than I do.

They'll tell you that the crowd simultaneously urges them on when it's positive,

but makes absolutely no difference at all when it's negative.

Those are the two things that players always say about stadiums.

I think home advantage is a real thing in football,

so the crowd must make a difference.

That's the only possible explanation for it.

Anfield, I think, will be hostile.

It will be unusually hostile for a Premier League game.

Might be more champions' lead night, Anfield,

than domestic game Anfield.

But that said, City do have a team full of high-quality players,

who I think are capable of dealing with that.

But the one thing we don't know,

and this is what we'll find out when Marresta does eventually speak,

is to what it's then, has this got under their skin,

as a club, to what it's then, are very starting to worry about their futures,

because they are ultimately human,

and it's difficult to put stuff like that out of your mind.

It's almost easy to forget there's a second team in this game.

Liverpool Football Club undefeated still,

but also still a working footballing progress,

and the nice guy, and Doni, Irohola,

is biggest problems, like so many managers,

after this international break,

which has been ridden with injuries for almost every club,

or fitness related, stand down.

You perform with a seasoned centre-back,

Jeremy Jacques, picked up a hamstring string with France,

Alexander Ezek, just remember where the goal is,

but there's return from Sweden, with Thalineck,

born again, Cody Gappo, faces a late fitness test on his ankle.

If either of the last two make the squad,

it's going to be unlimited preparation on the city side.

You noted that famous taxidermy enthusiast,

Irwin Harland's fitness is a question.

He left a Norway game with fatigue during the break,

but this is a grudge match.

How do you expect, Humph?

Irohola to play it under these surreal circumstances.

This is, remember his first big text,

against a massive English opponent at Liverpool.

City have been free-scoring.

Liverpool are going to be roared on by the faithful expecting just this,

with fire in the belly.

What kind of game is this going to be?

Yeah, it's so hard to say, isn't it?

Because these are the sorts of games where managers suddenly roll the dice,

or suddenly do something quite strange,

and an attempt to harness the particular set of circumstances.

I mean, I think Irohola's message has got to be,

harness this atmosphere, pounce on mistakes,

go hard early, press high.

It felt like Liverpool were starting to get their pressing game together

a little bit before the international break.

It will be really interesting to see who's available,

who's not like, with this vast eons long international break,

whether there's part of the agreement between clubs and countries,

was to say, if there's the slightest suggestion that something has gone wrong,

so perhaps some of these injuries are smaller than previously observed.

It's going to be so hard to tell without having,

you know, from Liverpool's perspective,

without having necessarily their first choice players ready to go,

does that suggest an element of caution will be inserted?

For me, I think you go for it.

You've got to go at them and try and discomfort them in some way.

I think that's absolutely right.

That in the circumstances, Irohola should be looking to harness

kind of the energy that will be inside, I don't feel,

it feels like a game for a fast start to unsettle city.

And to try and win that psychological battle a little bit,

they will be in a psychologically delicate place.

There is no way they are not.

So you need, like, looking at it brutally,

you need to exploit that as much as you can.

Hit me with a prediction, spoiler alert, how's this game going to go?

I think there has never been a more obvious outroom,

which is Liverpool 1, Manchester City 2, early in Harlan twice.

If he plays, old raccoon, myster hump.

I have gone, like all the great heroes of old,

I've gone bold and predicted 2-2.

You're so see, a very un-gentimally 2-2.

And an amazing opportunity to tear apart latest Sting masterpiece

based on the phrase Humphrey Coenin, I'll ask episode,

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RELESS THE DRAW Hounds!

And to think people criticise AI.

Yeah, how's the AI?

How's the AI is to do that?

Those are real dogs, it's not AI.

Real dogs just really well trained dogs.

Yeah, Peter, if you're watching, they were real dogs.

They don't do AI on this show.

We did blow our whole October production budget $7.23 on that beauty.

To cap this story, I spent a lot of time thinking about how City fans feel.

We talked about the most more positive than the whole time.

It's fascinating to reading, listening to, reading their tweets

as they try and process how they feel about this team,

their owners, their own emotions and memories.

I must say, finding Liam Gallagher's Twitter feed

and very enriching humanly to experience and, um,

God, Rory, do you know how to pull the couple?

Can you do the owners on the first one?

I mean, can I? I don't know.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say any of these words on a broadcast.

This is from Liam Gallagher, Frontman of Oasis.

The band that the Beatles could have been.

The PLR-

F***ing relegate them, find them and throw away the key.

F***ing.

Who is the them and the they in that?

I don't know. I think he's got his...

Is he want the whole Premier League relegated and find?

I think he's got his objects and his subjects mixed up.

I do think it's safe to say for now, whenever he's saying,

whenever the them and the they, he's very much safe to say,

he's in the shock and denial first stage degree for it.

Yeah. He's too blurrosso.

Um, we have a team up another.

All this hatred directed at Man City from all over clubs should be director

Arsenal, Man United, Liverpool.

They're the ones who are corrupt and trying to stop over teams from winning things.

Not Man City.

We're trying to help you all out like Jesus prepared to die on cross.

It's a bit of a load of the place to action there.

It was nothing.

It was nothing.

I mean, again, when I think of my new testament,

our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,

I mean, he turned over the table of the money lenders in the temple

of Solomon, didn't he?

He cast the pharise, the false Pharisees out.

Yeah, Sham City, he said.

Jesus said, Sham.

Jesus said, this is a sham and it's a, and it's a witch hunt.

And then of course, he famously created a series of shell companies to

pay himself a load of money.

All those fish and loaves, where do they come from?

Yeah, exactly.

You don't want to ask where they came from.

Do you know what I mean?

I think he, I think you confusing him with Jerry Fowell.

I think the easy to do.

Easy to do.

Are you choosing Jesus of Miracle washing?

Is that what it is?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, possibly.

Oh, we'll take his home with a third and possibly the muster piece.

All these stances giving me my b****.

Oasis have done more for the city of Liverpool than they,

than they will ever do.

Oasis put the Beatles back on the map,

which they know down directly profit from.

Ungrateful little suds, MCFC, LG, KISS.

That's an accepted version of musical history.

That we had as a, as a society in the culture,

we had forgotten the Beatles.

And then Oasis came along in the mid 1990s.

Like the mouth, this up and...

And your band.

Exactly.

They won't, the Beatles were not a thing before Oasis.

I think we should not agree on that.

I still don't really know what the Beatles are,

but every now and then are one on Apple music or whatever.

Or other streaming services are available.

When my Oasis song finishes,

it will sometimes auto-play me in a song

about a submarine or something.

Yeah.

A load of nonsense.

Yeah, it's not the algorithm saying that song ripped off this song.

What was the famous quote, though, lad?

First, they came through our Beatles,

and I did not speak out because I was not a Beatles.

But then they came through our Jamie Carrigas

and dot, dot, dot.

He's coming through all the skills.

He, uh, he's become a very eloquent spokesman on the matter.

Liam Gallagher.

So anyway, someone that tries not to be hyperbolic at all times.

I'll look at what Liam's done with Jesus and the Beatles.

I'm like, sir, I take my hat off.

Next up, Arsenal.

Okay, it's a pugnicious lead, genoted.

Reminders to set your coffee machine

to auto-brew.

This one kicks off 7.30 AM each day

on Saturday on USA.

By quirk of schedule,

this is Arsenal's first home game since September

the 5th in the Premier League.

We left our reigning champions after taking their first heavy punch

in the downblows of the season.

A proper promoting and faith,

three-nil death by pecking against the Seagulls

are breaking this week.

Then, that's a new four-year contract

from Mikkel Artheta made the Premier League's highest paid manager,

sweet $26.4 million cronkey dollars a year.

This is first test for all Mikkel money bags this season.

The surprise clenched-face 5th-place lead

still yet to lose themselves,

but they haven't won away at Arsenal since 2003.

They came out that game with a 3-2 win,

Rory Smith, Childa Yorkshire.

Can you guess the lead's hero who scored the winning goal on that day?

I remember that game.

I feel like Mark Verducer scored.

Did you just pull out of your anus?

It was an educated guess, but it was not from my anus.

Big dukes are Australian legend.

You are correct.

Was it Verducer or the winner?

Follow-up question.

Do you know what big dukes does now?

He runs a coffee shop in Zagreb.

In the Croatian mountains.

Can you imagine every naughty Premier League

Colhero should open some kind of confectionery shop?

He's a proper throwback to Verducer

to the days of the footballing recluse.

So rather than launch a kind of post-plane career as a coach

or a pundit or as a TikTok star,

Mark Verducer has just disappeared completely.

He will not do interviews.

He does not speak.

He does not seek the limelight.

He's obviously played for Australia, but he's in Croatia.

He's just a guy who used to play football

and I think it's really hard not to admire that.

He doesn't speak.

If you are, if you are,

if you are, him for a ventilate,

he just silently makes it.

For a start, he's in Europe.

Nobody's asking for a ventilate.

That is not a thing that's happening.

If you ask for a proper coffee like a grown-up,

then he'll give you one.

He won't give you a child's drink.

Can you imagine going into a Starbucks

and having David Seaman just as your barista?

Harry Cue.

In Costa.

Fine.

He runs a strupe waffle station.

In the interior mountains of the caucuses.

To the football arsenal,

can they bounce back,

facing a first test at a debt chart,

new winger, a hot and hot throm.

Christos Solis.

Kai Havett spoke for positive and the Gond Skans

for muscular injuries during the international break.

Perhaps either one of Victor Yokarez

and MacKelmarino will lead the line at the Emirates rule.

We had Brighton manager,

Fabian Herzler, join us this week.

He talked about how to be asked not.

That interview drops on Friday on this YouTube channel

and he broke down the art of winning jewels,

making a team believe they can play their own game.

In that case, in transition for Brighton,

was that a one-off?

Well, did the Seagulls deliver a blueprint

of other teams that say leads who love to play directly,

love to play at pace in transition themselves?

Is it something they can follow?

I think it's very easy to have a blueprint

and it may well be that Brighton have identified a way

that you can hope to get

kind of something out of this previously impermeable

Arsenal machine.

But following that blueprint is really difficult.

It relies on everything working perfectly

on your team having the requisite

like psychological effects on the opposition.

So as much as leads will go into that game,

Daniel Fartoward, go into that game,

with a plan that could conceivably work

and might have some similarities to Brighton's,

you need so many things to go right for you

for that to be the outcome,

that it's still very unlikely.

But that said,

think leads have the joint best defense in the Premier League.

They are unbeaten, they have really kind of

doubty this season and dangerous going forward.

So it is a challenge for Arsenal,

but then it's Arsenal.

So I think we should remember that they are,

they tend to overcome challenges.

Humph, for fuel leads and choosing when to face Arsenal,

when is the ideal time?

Is it never?

I mean, yes, it's hard to,

there's a tiny crack somewhere in the schedule

where it's a good time to face them.

But I mean, this could be it, as you say,

with that classic thing of a long,

again, a long, long time,

international breakfast or stew on their

misadventures against the Seagulls.

There is a little blueprint there

at which Farca has also had a lot of times look at.

And as I said, I think on the show a while ago,

I think Daniel Fartoward is a great manager

and I think it's quite an intriguing matchup.

We're going to get to predict

Daniel Fartoward says the showiest legs

of any football manager I've ever been.

Enjoys a very warm domestic environment.

This is fascinating, man.

Raw petitions.

This is a difficult one for Arsenal.

I think it will be a bit of a grind for them,

but I think they will come through it

with a two-golds to Neil victory.

I too have gone for two goals to Neil.

It does feel as though Arsenal will be very eager

to get things back on track.

I think Leeds have done brilliant this season,

but again, it's blinking Arsenal.

You know, if you copy Raw's results,

which you're clearly doing,

you'll never catch up without my bastard.

I'm just saying,

Rod, we're all having to take a tactical approach to this.

Yeah, David Raya,

I'm taking it into the corner flag.

I'm just shutting this league down.

Yeah, you're very happy with the place.

I've just got to run the clock down.

David Raya was being right.

Was it twice on long distance by Brighton?

DCL only does tap in.

This is going to be two-one to Arsenal.

Moving out to two teams trapped

in an indie Scandinavian dark comedy film

about emotional inheritance,

generational decay and traumatic baggage.

Manchester United against Tottenham 1230 PM East

and Saturday on NBC.

Where to start with these two teams united?

Since putting five past tips which have drawn to

Lost One,

considered first in all but one of their games this season,

Meanwhile Spurs.

I've got blessed.

I'm seem to take a step backwards for every step forward.

They begin October,

rock bottom of the Premier League.

I ache for Tottenham fans,

but when I do think about their team this season,

I don't like to be hyperbolic,

but they do remind me of that new Monic plague

spreading across Russia.

What can animate change in that squad?

Is it coaching?

Is it individual stepping out?

I mean, what do they need to reconnect

to this evident disconnection?

It's clear that a reset is desperately in need.

And again, perhaps this this window of time

will have been enough for them to kind of

not be overwhelmed by the relentless run of game after game after game.

And many of their players have gone away in

international, whatever it may be,

but obviously deserving in his coaches

would have had a bit of time to desperately try and

get their heads around.

How do we stop the rot and stop the slide?

Stop the rot, stop the right phrase,

because that makes it sound like they were at one stage,

a healthy ship.

They haven't been really at any point.

I'm hopeful for them.

I have lots of friends with Spurs fans.

I have a slight soft spot for Spurs.

I hope they'll do better.

That said, as you'll see when my prediction comes up,

I don't think it's going to come this Saturday, necessarily.

Oh, raw.

Looking ahead at Manchester United's upcoming schedule.

To now and the November International Bate,

they have to face yes, Spurs this weekend.

Then Athletic Omidrid,

Legionited,

Fisty-Komo,

Roma,

Astan Villa,

Simple Question.

Will Michael Carrick be manager at Manchester United

by the end of this run?

Yes, I think you can give a relatively easy answer to that,

not least because I like Hump,

I, with spoiler alert, I think they'll beat Spurs,

but United are in this situation now where

they exist both in a state of permanent crisis

and permanent recovery from crisis.

If they win,

then we will be told that they are back,

and that the, you know, Carrick has got rid of all the problems

and we're back on, you know, smooth sailing.

And then they'll lose again to Athletico or to Komo

or they'll lose at Leeds or whatever,

which is a huge game,

a kind of hostile environment.

And that will start the crisis again.

That is the rhythm of Manchester United.

Looking around other than certain noises coming out of Antonio Conte

in the last week,

from his mouth,

rather than any of the part with body.

That's probably better.

Don't do one of those.

What?

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Conte is sending up the, I'm available signal.

Yeah.

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But...

I don't know if that's a problem from that.

Conte seems to have said kind of,

Conte didn't interview to Friend of the Part,

James Horn, Tassel and the Athletic.

I'm ignoring you, Roger.

And...

And sort of said, look at it, it's the unavailable,

and I like clubs where they've lost a sense of their history,

and maybe I could help them redistribute their history.

I don't think United would make the decision to sack Carrick

that lightly,

and I don't think Carrick will have a run of form bad enough

to force their hand.

So funny, when he said that,

I just took you meant into Miami, come and get me.

Roar, here's this with your score prediction.

My score prediction is, I think it will be a game,

dominated, Roger, by chance, about Manchester City.

And I think it will be actually quite entertaining,

quite open, two teams who like to attack, but aren't very good,

and Manchester United will win by two dollars to one.

I also believe that you'll hear a lot about Manchester City in that game,

and I have gone for a cleaner,

two-nil, to Manchester United.

And I still worry that Spurs don't grow to golem.

I think Spurs are going to score,

unfortunately, you know, the score three times,

three-one, Tottenham.

That's all I, that never goes out.

Jets, it's time for a segment in which we get to hear from you.

The listeners, this is welcome to the football club,

look out Robyn Ryan,

because we have teamed up to build a club

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Our club celebrates football fans across this beautiful nation.

All of you listeners can send your stories in this week.

We welcome Amanda Jane and Lily

from the Magnificent City of Portland, Oregon.

Roar, do the honors.

My name is Amanda Jane.

Not mine.

And my daughter, Lily and I,

have loved tuning into the World Cup every four years since she was a kid.

But this year's was the first World Cup that has happened since Lily moved out.

Now she has young kids of her own,

and I honestly wasn't sure if we'd watch this World Cup together

in the same way we had in the past.

Thankfully, perhaps because it all went down in America,

it captured her interest.

In fact, I think we watched more games together than ever before

and felt completely in love,

which is actually my experience of watching the World Cup with Raj.

Is that why you want him to read this one?

Well, I know. It's really about,

it's a thinly veiled allegory.

Is this to you, right?

This is much better.

Well, am I Amanda Jane?

I don't know.

Are you Amanda Jane?

I don't.

Rory Lily?

Am I the only one?

Maybe.

A bit of Amanda Jane and all of us.

Roar, keep going.

As the tournament near the end,

I realised with sadness that without it,

I would lose this new tune-etching and quality time shared with my daughter.

Imagine my delight then when Lily asked

if we should find a Premier League team to support.

We started to search.

I've got a sinking feeling.

We didn't want a team that would be winning all of the time.

Yep, I know where this is going.

We'd like to experience all of the emotions in the end.

No lesser character than Jordan Pitford,

Red Flag, won our hearts.

So to cut a long story short,

we are now fanatical evertonians.

I don't want to editorialise this is a terrible way of keeping in touch with your children.

The Toffees give us everything we were looking for.

The highs, the horrors, the nail biting.

I get to spend all weekend in anticipation of how,

of wondering how we are going to lose this weekend.

Most importantly, now we watch every game together.

I'm sleeping over at her house,

so we do watch the game. It ain't its whole this weekend.

Everton has helped change our relationship in such a positive way.

Each week, I looked around the room at my daughter and her small kids

and seen not only three generations of football fans,

but the thousands of hours that football will bring us together

with regularity and the realisation that it's less about the football

it has to be with Everton.

And more about the joy of this game,

making us a bigger part of one another's lives.

I can't describe to you how thankful I am for the World Cup,

for the English Premier League, for bringing us together even more,

and yes, even the Toffees.

There's then a four letter acronym which I refuse to read.

UTFT.

Yeah, UTFT and I don't like it.

It's a beautiful letter.

Everton's bringing generations together through shared trauma.

I admire the sentiment,

but I just think it's a terrible choice.

Do you, I admire F2C,

is someone who is a very plastic Liverpool fan.

I am someone who has that perspective of I came to support a team

that I didn't have any connection to other than just,

they mean, we feel nice and might tell me when I watch them.

I think to pick a team like Everton,

where the best you've got to look forward to

is getting a 1-1 draw away at Anfield instead of...

Right, you're on like, you've won the Champions League.

There's something very...

There's something noble about that.

That's the purity. That's the magic of football.

And I admire that.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you.

And God bless you, big Walmart.

Moving right along to one last big thing,

take us home, Jens. Let's hear the thing.

You've got your eyes on this weekend, rule.

So I'm done Brighton. Obviously, I had to remind myself

that they'd be Arsenal 3-0, three weeks ago.

I'd literally forgotten it happened.

But they've had a brilliant start to the season.

I think they've got the best attacking stats across the lead.

I'm intrigued to see whether they can keep it up.

They have pastel roasts, a 35-year-old wonderkinned,

Yalqyo's been brilliant.

They're a team to watch at the moment, Brighton.

Sunderland fans holding breath for scans on Dambalod,

and Brian Brobby's hamstrings,

Sunderland without Brobby.

They'll like to have a team without beautiful, beautiful better,

if you know better, was an out-of-the-now goal scorer.

Humpf. What's yours?

I am quite excited about Palace versus Forest.

Been a bit of a spicy relationship between these two clubs for one.

I got even spicier when hair glassener was made the move.

Up the M, while you'd have to go, let's see, Crystal Palace,

you'd probably go drop to the M25.

Have you ever left the M1?

Yes. Just helicoptering to Rex.

I've been to my country estates, my various estates.

It's M25 and Humpf.

It's M25 and Humpf.

All right, well, I got there.

If you listen to me, Rory, if you weren't so busy looking on your phone

to check exactly what it was, I'd say.

You probably want to drop down to the M25 and go up the M1.

But yes, this is already a deliciously spicy combo.

Neither team has started the season brilliantly,

certainly not domestically.

And it's just a potential for fireworks.

I want to see a lot of finger jabbing at various points between people.

God, all of the glassener.

I mean, adding spice to El Casseca,

which I just adore.

That's what they call it because of the court of arbitration,

the sport, who judge Palace,

we're out of the Europa League.

El Casseca, just genuinely one of the most technically correct court room

acronyms for a football game ever.

Of course, my one thing is,

oh, against Everton.

Oh, nine here, me, he's an on-peak,

caught me in a mandajane, get in there.

I'll have 12 injuries, including thank God,

X Everton, aspiring, Tim Irubunum.

I'd say thank God, I hope I wish him well,

but he would definitely nailed on of scored against us if he played.

We are unbeaten.

The odd thing is, guys, the more we remain unbeaten,

the less I light watching us,

the more I just fear each and every game with a sweet,

sickening dread.

Does it hurt to be mulled by the tigers?

Am I asking for a friend?

I think to be tremendous fun to be mulled by the tigers.

By the way, I've all the way used to go.

Don't you think it'll be amazing if you could choose?

Like, yeah, could you have me mulled by a tiger?

That's probably top three for me.

Yeah, but you wanted to get you real good early on.

You don't want him to work his way up.

Do you know what I mean?

Yeah.

Don't take your time.

Yeah, yeah, mull me by all means, lad,

but she a con.

Just trying to think of a famous tiger.

But start here.

You know what I mean?

Not get sort this out first and then

have me go and then dig in.

Tell us, many ways that Jima and that con

would you rather go naturally in your sleep

or would you rather be more by the tiger?

I don't know.

I'd be pulling on to be pecked by the seagulls

of all the choices.

And it is the tigers, of course.

It's more, you're more by the,

it says multiple tigers.

I think I feel amazing.

So you've got to believe they'll get the job done quick.

Just like, you'd grelish it and just say,

take me quickly, lad.

It is 10 of our predictions.

For the weekend, the head, you may recall a game is a fault.

We've updates to our predictions lead table.

In the last round, the Premier League action,

Rory incredibly nailed the exact scoreline.

No fewer than two games.

And Mr Smith is now in a commanding first place.

19 points to my own Paltry 16

and bringing up the rear,

admirably as he loves.

Humpf, Whid12, Humpf, how many points lead?

And we can all allow Rory before we start

calling his advantage, you sham.

LAUGHTER

I think, yeah, we do need to start investigating,

like, just start a long, protracted legal process

to really make this a miserable experience.

You people, stay out of my incriminating emails.

Thank you very much.

Victor, I can do what I want, says Rory Smith.

We asked you what the prize should be

for the winner at the end of the season.

So many of you suggested the same thing.

A stuffed raccoon, like the one tucked under early in Holland's arm

when he returned from Texas.

So legit, we went back to Wild Bills in Dallas

to ask for that exact one so we could use it as a trophy.

Unbelievably, stay with me here.

They've sold out the one who does the taxidermy has retired.

What a crazy time to retire.

The only one they have left in store gents

is this, I'm not making this up.

Behold, Wild Bills stripper squirrel.

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LAUGHTER

I bought this, this cost me $450.

Oh no.

I tell you what, I'm actually feeling

mustard about my third place finish at this stage.

Because that's, I don't want that in my house,

but I also, you can't destroy a thing of beauty like that.

Surround it with warhammer.

Make it dance for the warhammer before.

Oh yeah, maybe I can incorporate it into it.

Take it back to Wild Bills, sir.

The stripper squirrel is not dancing.

I want my money back.

It's dead.

$450, just certain things, stripper squirrels

and more expensive than gas.

Sirius question quickly, do you think Wild Bills knows

this squirrel was a stripper in its life

and that's why he chose this pose?

Or is this squirrel forever trapped in this pose

against its value?

That's a great philosophical question.

I would imagine that Wild Bills

stuffs the animals in a pose that he's discerned

from their personalities.

Of their choosing from their squirrel will.

I presume he's very familiar with all the small animals

of his area for a variety of reasons.

And therefore is able to extrapolate

what they would be like in death.

Roger Hanon, the tattooedermist has retired.

Yes.

So they can't tattoo them in any more stuff?

This is legit the last one.

I mean, the only thing left there from Wild Bills

vice squirrel series.

GTA's, GTA squirrel.

Does that make Erlin's investment in the recoon more valuable?

Was it not only kind of a good little bit of

World Cup pitch?

Was it actually twice investment?

We'll save that for other podcast

taxidermy today, which we're going to take right after this one.

By the way, then, our newest episode of the Men and Blazers Show

on Peacock this weekend.

It's a Chelsea special conversations with incredibly joy

as Jal Pedro, a man like no other.

Yes, the mighty Cole Palmer, a newly-delegant Javier Lonto.

It's really quite a life-affirming show.

They've used this Sunday.

We'll be back next week for another episode.

Humpfit is so good to see you,

beautiful human being, real.

Let's go and see your efforts.

Enjoy the football.