Intro, Lee Carsley's future, Steve Bruce back in management & Sam's next job? glad to be back on the on the podcast talking about whatever the subjects are going to be today well the subjects today Sam are going to be you she said join is coming in I said what for said we the doors made bigger to get your big head through weird things can happen in this game that'ss weird things can happen in this game when a player is speaking out publicly like that he feels there something really wrong with the club everybody talks about Madison an awful lot but son's the main I know his H been for years Gordon asked us on YouTube would you ever return to Bolton because we need you thank you for joining us for another episode of no to be tappy football hey Sam Natalie how are we I am wonderful how it's been a while since I've seen you why is that because it was International break oh yes International break yeah yes it's but it's slipped by quickly so thankfully so glad to be back on the on the podcast talking about whatever the subjects are going to be today well the subjects today Sam are going to be you well so I believe like you mean so want to when I was uh talking to uh will about that you know it's was surprised that we were just going to go on me like you mean so so maybe we'll get a little deeper than we normally do and see see what turns or pops up in my head so whenever you whenever I do this podcast or whenever ever I do a a a podcast for somebody else because um I did under the caues that's just come out I have no idea what I'm going to answer to until the question comes and the question triggers my mind to well remember that year that happened and and it's just it's just amazing really what what you can recall from your memory that you never thought was going to happen in the entire in the entire filming of that of that podcast so and that's been the same all the way through why why I love love the this podcast so much because it's natural and we can talk about 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I did I mean it was comfortable uh for for them and I think that uh it was uh two good goals um and what what I loved was uh you know and he's he's excellent at it you know in terms of the balls forward Trent Alexander you know and the run and uh and and it was pointed out today that um the camera went on him and uh looking at him saying when you run like that you know go and you you know so they picked that out and obviously that happened and they scored the first goal with it so it's it's good and Jack so happy for Jack I mean yeah yeah you love Jack obviously because you're a man city fan but I've always I've always loved his his quality and also I've always loved his personality definitely he's a bit of old school in him you know and it's good to manage him and somewhere somewhere along the line I think there'll be a dip which should be expected yeah um obviously if that happens people will start questioning why and all that pressure that will come what's he doing is he living He all that stuff will come and it's just it's just natural and it's how you come back you know what I mean you because you get a bit bigheaded you get a bit carried away with yourself you know what I mean so I've done it in the past slight me I've done it as a manager because it's a story it's a story and half this slight mean I'll tell you this one see me much tell about things that come in your next so Bolton with top riding ey top of the league and all that going out doing the thing and uh we got got back home with my wife and uh she goes join us coming in on Monday I said what do you mean she said join us coming in I said what for said we the doors made bigger to get your big head through so I just got slapped down to earth like that and wow was the best piece of advice I got off anybody yeah I just you just don't notice yourself but she did she went o Mr bige head stop it like I mean so got brought down to Earth by by the misses like I love that we all need those people in our lives yeah they know you better than everybody else that's what definitely yeah um I have a six-year-old for that who brings me back down to it all the time um so in terms of the England game then what do you make about Lee carsley do you think obviously he's just a ATT I think he's got to win another couple of games and and the I'll be too willing and too happy to to give him the position fulltime and uh and of course uh he's got a very very talented Squad and uh and he's and he's walked in and made his own impact by the looks of it he's picked different players um it's put the put them in the team they've delivered in all fairness England teams most England teams always delivering games like this um it's more about when we get to the uh the latter end of a competition where we really have not quite cracked it yet so qualifying never been a problem for years and years and years now uh but getting over the line is that but the talent of the squad and who who is picking is going to be the test for him you know so uh he he'll be he'll be looking he's under 21s and only pick him if they're ready don't don't pick them out of loyalty yeah pick them if they're ready because there's far too many other players in that Squad at senior level yeah where you've no need to have too many under 21s going in it's just so talented still um but obviously find finding the right um positions for players in the team will be his big challenge not playing players out of position and uh making sure you find the right right system and uh under what his philosophy will be interesting to listen to interest to see um but you know good start and uh hope he hope he keeps it up because obviously there'll be there'll be nothing you know better than him to take over the job full-time I don't think if they're thinking about a foreigner that is cuz you know me how much I'm against the a forign manager I know I listen to all the plunders and say why not and all that it's not right I mean so just in in in terms of what we are as a football nation um the only problem is like I said developing our own is um hugely difficult in in the international league that's played in England and that's called the Premier League so it's an international league played in this country which is full of foreign Port is full of foreign well full of foreign everything now owners so it's hard for us now it's hard for us to build that picture of are we good enough to manage England but uh hopefully he can take over and uh and he could do a great job obviously he was born in England but he represented Ireland um did you care that he didn't sing the national anthem Hey listen I I sang it and there was I was so proud to sing it when when I was in that position if give me heart pations I'll tell you but obviously he's got the Irish connection so I don't know who he would have upset if if he if he sang it would he have upset the Irish more no I don't think so I think he'd I think he the sang it because he were born in England so he's an Englishman with Irish parents mhm so but then there's the pressure from his Irish parents to say you can't you can't by any stretch the imagination because because there's quite a there's not a great between the Republic of irand England there's not a great Affinity between them you know when we've had a foreign court that they're never going to sing it are they and some players for whatever reason [Music] um won't sing it yeah today because we've got all this stuff that goes on you know this is not right or that's not right that's this that's this is too much of that that's too much of this you don't have to do that so the complications around everything we do today uh highlighted when somebody just decides to do something that they think they should and then it becomes a big why why is it even public why is it even why is it even news no it's not news is it news is that England played well and the won that's didn't bother m not seeing Nation when he was under 21 manage did they when he was winning yeah yeah and they and they won the tournament you know what I mean so you know you know but of course he's got that intrusion to put up with now for what he ever thought in his life what he's had he won't know what's coming so I hope he's uh spoke to Gareth and and uh everybody else at the England camp and sat down with them and and said look this is what you this is what you're facing which is I which is what I did a lot before I go in that position and uh and I wish him all all all the very best yep absolutely okay so um on the last episode we listed off the 18 managers players referee that had been on the show and then got went off to get another job we've clocked to 19 over the last two weeks Sam we all met Steve Bruce friend of the Pod Steve Bruce is back in management at Blackpool what do you make of that well I listened to him ITV last night he was on the news ITV and he said why he says because I was bored so he said he's he's obviously um never got past that stage where he's he's I'm never sure I'll get past that stage if somebody comes to me so it's it's relative for it you know because he's he lives local and it's not far to Blackpool it's the only opportunity at this moment in time for him um and he and he's got that position like I mean so and of course he can get back home he doesn't have to live away and uh and good luck to him like I mean so uh on the coast it's um it's a good club Blackpool I cut my teeth Blackpool as my first manager job in this country and uh you know there'll be a lot of hard work you'll need to do probably and I hope the owners give him the backing that he he'll need to try and make Blackpool at least move up at least one division into the championship whether whether they'll ever get back in the Premier League again a a difficult task I think but that depends on the on the financing like everybody else under the experience of Steve and the recruitment of uh of the players as they go on but good luck to him so you you talk about you you find it difficult because you miss football or the boredom if someone came in for you um what would you what level of job would you take now I'm wondering would you have been interested in the Blackpool job no I want to I want to been interested in the blackp job because one have already been there so I don't think you should go back um because I went I went back to Bolton as a player when when when perhaps I shouldn't have done so I'm not so sure that's the right thing to do um but it depends it depends who it is and I think I think probably Championship would be the the the only thing that would entice me as well as the Premier League the Premier League now is only going to be somebody struggling we know that there's no point in me saying that it's going to be anything else other than there's a team struggling what some might be a good idea to come and serve us yeah you I mean um I think that uh the championship would be for me again meeting the owners and saying we want to be back in the Premier League in two seasons and saying well this is the squad that's what that's what we need this is this is where we want to go and um and build build the football club and it depends how quick they want to get there because the the instant success of football now is is so rapid that they want it before it's actually possible you I mean yeah so that you know when they say patience is a virtue there is no patience in football so you got you've got to really really um be on top of your game from the very very start and of course going into struggling clubs and sorting them out straight away and surviving means that you can go with your experience and go bum bum Bumm and not make too many mistakes yeah because it's the mistakes that Hound you in the end yeah so a championship club that was helping if you experience the other day the exper the one thing about well Bolton obviously because that's that's my club but when I went to West Ham it was it was about it was about one it was such a big club and two I knew I was going to win more games I was going to lose for a while you know it was a struggle you know when you took over a club that was struggling at the bottom and you were losing more games than you're going to win even though you survived so when you go to a club I think we lost I think West time we lost six games maybe seven so every weekend nearly every other weekend or nearly most weekends we're happy okay so I've got some questions for you that have come in um although one of them I think Gordon's going to be a bit heartbroken because I think you just answered it Gordon asked us on YouTube would you ever return to Bolton because we need Would Sam return to Bolton? you well that's that's a that's the most difficult one of all time on what Bolton wanted to achieve and where Bolton wanted to go because um it's very difficult to answer that one I couldn't answer that until they rang me up and said would you come back o okay but obviously they're not going to do that because they got a good manager in place at the moment to hopefully they'll get get get them up this year a tough start for them yeah um I I just hope he's learned he's lost in the playoffs twice now so I just hope he's one they get straight up that'll be the main aim but two if they don't that and they get in the playoffs again that he's he's learned how to manage it this time because it'll be it will be his in responsibility to use his experience in the last two and you know get them get them out of the out of the league it's a tough League it with stop and Rex and who went up and are already great fan base for for a Town Club Great Stadium still fabulous fabulous stadium and of course I still live in Bolton so but then again it's a it's a really bad what if it went wrong yeah is that what you wor would be well people still your legacy would be still come up to me around town saying thank you very much yeah you know I mean we we thank you so much for you know the times we had together and you know it's it's you know it's nice obviously you know but we'll wait and see okay um uh Graham Would another international job interest Sam? so we had Gordon first then Graham Graham asked would you take an international job like Mclaren has done with Jamaica well if you if you're if you're if you're only experien Jamaica at say going to weeks before the international break and then coming back home then probably yes but if you're saying I have to go to Jamaica and live there I'd ask Len are you coming to Jamaica with me and if she said no then I would go if she said yes then I would okay and try and experience International level again uh oh that okay that's so you would yeah well well because you can I mean the kids have all grown up the grandkids are really old now so never mind that that that that they're in the younger a so they can always come and visit us yeah whenever they fancy you know what I mean so so yeah it would be it would it would be interesting International Job um but like I said that Lyn would have to be if it had to be you base yourself the fulltime L if you can there's obviously International jobs where you can go and then you can come back and then and then then go again and and and if if it's some of some of the international jobs most of the players who play playing in the Premier League yeah so if you're going to if you're going to watch them if you need to you can come back here back home and get Wonder around the Premier League and see where see where they are and who they're playing against as well as getting the right staff in in the country you're managing and saying what do they look like and then you can go over there and watch a few of those games and then pick your squad so yeah interesting I guess it would help as well if it was a beautiful country like Jamaica like somewhere where you went for two weeks and the sun was abely and of course people were Lely he's he's he's not there he's not there at the moment cuz he's he's but he was living there for an awful long time was Ricardo gner oh okay you know I mean so rib's back over here with his his son I don't know what club is Son's at but his son's come over and got a club like you mean he actually got released from Man City by the way so oh wow uh but he's found a club I think with him so he's over here now trying to to guide his son into I mean if he's if he's as good B is then he's going to be some player I mean this lad I've said this before this lad played 15 years at Balon and um deserved a testimonial but didn't if I had a player if I could mold a player into what would you what would you like it would he would be one of the examples I give no trouble to you comes in trains hard goes out on the field and plays his best match winner at SK like I mean uh fit as a fiddle great skill love love the club love playing football um so those are the those are the you got more of those players in your squad than than some that might cause you a problem or too the next question Darth choco boss hope I've got that right on YouTube asked is it true Sam's Transcendental Meditation that you do a form of silent meditation I do Transcendental Meditation yeah okay yeah trans Dental medit meditation was something that Mark Taylor and Mike Ford had said let's have a go at Bolton many years ago and um and I thought well as as always like cryotherapy unit I'll have a go that so you get a a mantra that's just for you um this is one word yeah and uh and obviously you go through the initiation which obviously gets frowned upon especially by Brits over here like you mean that you know what's that but um it was it was uh scientifically researched which means that the doctor at the club and the physio couldn't was bringing in the doctor couldn't AR doctors argue with Chinese medicine and meditation they argue with it because it's not done by a through the university so it's not proven properly they say but it is yeah Transcendental Meditation is proven because they they researched it apparently so so you sit and repeat the Mantra yeah and it it's it's it's transcendal meditation is something you can do anywhere you don't have to go in a quiet place and sit like with your legs crossed on your fingers like this you can do if you if you know Qui place but you can just close your eyes if you're on the plane in and just breathe and repeat your Mantra and the more you do it the deeper you go the deeper you go the more you feel refreshed when you wake up and you look at the time and go wow so what you think was 10 minutes will be maybe could be come become an hour no no that's wrong maybe half an hour or 40 minutes yeah so it re it refreshes you gives you you know um an up and attic type of feel like you mean so uh it's it's it's great it's great if you're under pressure as well which is why I tried it what I thought CU that when you feel the pressure when they the the the tension's on like I mean when you can't sleep l in bed and throw throw everything out your mind like you mean and just go you know that's Focus let's breathe and then you can drift away great question the answer is yes good question love that okay next question is what is the best goal Sam has seen a team of his Best goal Sam's team has scored score uh well the the best free kick scored was JJ cootes in the semi-final of The Carling cup or the whatever cup it was at the time yeah when he bent it with the outside of his right foot around the outside of the wall into the top corner from about 22 yards away on the left hand side at the rebok right we'll have to Google that one have a look for that one to the archiv it's my best go was Sunland at Tom Bolton versus Sunland at Tom Gerald sin dad what a happy boy he said see how will look it with on tell then how many goals did you score oh I can't remember now in my career probably about 30 40 okay and everybody said well they all headers most of them probably 99% were headers yeah right another question we had is it true that you tried to sign edin jeo for Did Sam try to sign Edin Dzeko? Sunderland I've never heard you mention this so I don't know where this is from but is that true you thinking where was Ed and jao at the time it doesn't say but I mean I think he only played for city in England I mean he was still playing for in Milan when we played him in the Champions League final but yeah yes but that was it that was at was that Sunland or was that West Ham I think that was West Ham I don't know when did Ed jao leave City I want to say 2014 but that's a guess complete guess maybe later maybe 15 uh it would well he definitely one of the clubs I was at at the time yeah um and then again it it went to a number of agents and then uh we finally got to the players real agent and who said I didn't even realize it was for sale but the club said they would sell him at the time okay yeah I remember that now it's like I got reminded on uh on the under the Kos podcast I went to Portugal I can't remember the player's name now went to Portugal signed the player on I thought I'd signed the player on and uh this must have been Blackburn I think I can't remember exactly but I certainly they reminded me of this player and he got kidnapped so somebody came and P took him and put him put him away till the window was shut and then took him back to the club Portugal yeah so met the player met the agent yeah who said he was his agent did the whole deal yeah went to meet him in Portugal and uh an a another agent apparently we got involved with came and whipped him away so what happened well he came back again apparently to the club he was was that he was already at after the window shut and that was the the agent who hadn't been involved yes not let him go and and and because he wer making any money wouldn't let it happen that's nuts that's crazy is it yes yeah I forgot about that one okay so some weird things can happen in this game that's weird things can happen in this game never see s surpris Lads the lad's reminding me and I went wow I forgot about that wow you know so that was one thing I did get reminded of that I'd forgotten completely about okay right talking about trying to sign players or actually signing players in this instance question from Tom he's asked you to rank the best three Premier Best signings of the summer window? League transfers of the window that's just gone so obviously there was there was quite a few so we started making a list before we started recording of some of them so um we'd written down is the best yep I mean because he free and he's he's world class and uh Man City lost him only a year ago and I watched him when I was at leads when he played against us in in my first game for leags and watched him on the touch line and went wow I mean I know I watched him in the stand and I knew I'd watched him on the Telly but watched him on when you're on the touch line and you watch him and he was like just so the overall package is is like he's not he's not he's not going to have to settle in he's all he only knows everybody yeah he's not cost any money transfer wise and he's a top International player who played for Man City only a year ago and all they've got all they've got to stump up is is his wages which we used to paying anyway so that's just got to be the best pound-for-pound signing in this window well I love that answer obviously who would you put up there as well because you know you're a big you're a big fan of Aaron Waka you've T I am because I always look at what price they' been sold for and what price they were bought at like you mean and as I've said before uh my uh my uh understanding in in stats terms is is one's one of if not the best defender in the Premier League at fullback level and uh so if if West Ham have bought that that player what was it about 8 million or 10 million they paid 50 for him man united and uh and the only reason um I can see why man united have let him go is because he's because of his he's probably not as good as daro attacking and personally I find that absolutely bizarre yes because everybody knows well obviously tag doesn't know that the any way you win some you got the best defensive record in the league um obviously you'll need to score the goals to go with it but if you've got the best defensive record in the league you need less goals to win it than you would if you if you don't have the best defensive so uh yeah I thought I found that to be a very good piece of business from from West Ham some of the other names we were banding about before um Emil Smith roow Dominic stanky obviously Matt kilman went from wolves West Jaden San on alone rahee Sterling we Haven from Cel he's got something to prove now in Ry any or was he he's not 30 yet is he I don't think he's 30 yet no you know so if if he can go and capture his form well probably his Man City form more than anything else he's done he's he's done his he's done okay at Chelsea he was never he's never matched what he did at man city as he know but obviously he's got the the bit between his teeth and go I'll show you which is the scary bit for me yeah you know I mean did he made his feelings known about how when a when when a player speaking out publicly like that you you know you know he feels there something really wrong with the club yeah I know it's going of course you're you putting your career on the line at that football club when you speak out of that it doesn't matter even though it might be true it's not going to end well for that club but he was brave enough to speak out about how he felt he was being treated and how the club was going so uh um he's he's got his move and uh you know he's he's got a team that is going to run for the title in my opinion against Man City yeah definitely he's got Big Challenge on how often he's going to prove that he can play on a regular basis for Arsenal because the competition's stiff so Aron Waka gundan and who else will you put in your top three for signing to the window I'd put Sterling because you know yeah yeah I'm over all all packaging I like you mean so there might be others that come out and Anana yeah uh from Everton to Villa uh I think that's a that that's a good good boy he started well on he yeah um but he started well at Everton and drifted away so I'll ow a reservation on that or whether he can consistently perform to that level yeah throughout the season right we've got one more question or thing to ask you before we move on to our tactics for the north London Derby so there's a Twitter account called the cultur spod they're Premier League Barclaysmen ranking Bart kesman so it's players and managers that that typified the Premier League of certain era and they've got through to the quarterfinals and it's all over Twitter so we wanted to get your thoughts on the quarterfinals so who would win so it's that that guy that really when you think of the Premier League of that era this is the name that comes to your mind yeah okay yakubu versus Peter Crouch well I'd be crouchy all day long yeah yeah what not we did at that time what what he did for England and and his personality I suppose as well if all that does all that get taken into consideration yeah yeah definitely um CaRu versus Leon beans he's thinking I am thinking I've got car now I think yeah yeah I don't know how you're going to answer this next one you see asalin versus JJ aota oh JJ aota for sake I mean my God you should put them two together as much as you is a top top goalkeeper and all that it's JJ you know you talk about world class talent and and personality and personality you know just not just not just um a great a great uh trickster of the game but also a great personality Nico crankier versus Tim k kale yeah so you've got did remise Everton particularly you know Crouch CaRu aota and kill who who would be your winner well I'm bias yeah JJ JJ yeah bi bias is El like you know bad bad bad question to ask when JJ comes into it there we go we love that you've all been talking about that on Twitter so we love that we love that opinion thank you right if you're watching is it Twitter or is it X I don't know it's called X but you still tweet so it doesn't make sense does it I'm bringing out Twitter X next oh okay I'm going to put a consorti together write up programs and do Twitter X Twitter X to do would I be allowed to do that do whatever you want some or must sue me for I reckon no one's stopping you doing anything right if you're watching on YouTube we're going to take a little second we're going to bring in our tactics board now if you are listening to the podcast you will know no different in one second so we have brought the white board Bo in and if you're watching on YouTube you can see North London Derby Preview we've got Arsenal on one side and Spurs on the other so it is the north London Derby this weekend and before we get into the tactics and the teams because there's injuries and there's team news and there's new players and it's really interesting Sam Gary Neville has said that this is the Premier League fixture that he looks forward to the most like really yeah bizar for Gary so I thought that not man united Man City or or you just thought Gary would have been Man United Liverpool wouldn't you maybe he doesn't like seeing his team get beat all the time or it might be some of these stats Sam so Arsenal have scored oh Arsenal have scored first in the last five out of six games yeah there more than 2.5 goals has been scored in the last five out of six games Arsenal won the game last season 32 so they're they're entertaining high-scoring games and Arsenal have won their last two games at Spurs so this one is at Spurs as well so they are are generally high-scoring interesting end to-end attacking games whereas often you look at a Man City versus Liverpool game can be very um you know nil nil one all they can be tentative and nervous similar to City Arsenal games over the years they've been whereas this one it's a bit all out I I I think you're probably right I think that U but in saying that though I I've seen it uh a shift in Mikel Etta on the defensive side I saw him come to Man City last year and put the double decker up as old Mourinho M Jose would say yeah pared the bus yeah and he pared the bus and got the point that they were looking for like you mean so he's looked at the he's looked at his entire situation and said if I want to win the league then uh if I don't lose against the top six yeah then I'm going to have a better chance of winning the league and making sure we we beat everybody else who runs below that which in which in football terms or on paper supposed to be easy it's not always like that otherwise the Premier League become boring but you know uh that that probably working out very well this game is massive we'll all be looking forward to it but you know none more so than than the Arsenal Tottenham fans and Arsenal will be fancying the chances Tottenham will be a little bit more in hope I think that yeah yeah they can get the uh they can get the answers that they need and send the fans home but who what systems are going to play it looks like they're going to play similar systems like I mean with with the fact I think there's one advantage for Tottenham is that uh older guard and Dean rice are not going to play yeah so this R is suspended he suspended older guard came off injur International level didn't he so that leaves Arsenal a little bit little bit lighter than normal there part obviously been the for a while done well they've got an experienced janino you know so whether it's aitz just plays in front there or not is is is going to be the CH the challenge for Arsenal the the rest of the Arsenal team is fixed isn't it what about the left Trad or Martinelli I think he's going to do a thros art he might do it to stop him talking yeah because he had a big sulk on didn't he when he uh I mean he came on and scored didn't he when he came on and and score but you could see in his face that he wasn't very happy like you mean so there was um but I think um trads all start there and then up front or or or in the attacking lineup would you would you play Raheem Sterling would you would you get his first start in this game thr straight in well it it would be Jus if he's fit yep and U but that depends on uh on that on that situation and r on on the bench to start with but I mean he'll be B Bon the bit to get to get on and try and prove himself on he like mean I think that uh what what a move for him you know blowing out of Chelsea there's his there's his opinion on the club which obviously he got criticized for but I mean it must have been really really bad for him to go that far uh and he's he's got to move to to a club that looks like it wants wants to challenge man city right to the end and can he make a big contribution because he's got big he's got big shoes to fill yeah when he's when he's going to be playing if he's going to be selected so he's going to have to find you now to get the team whereas where we look at Tottenham side you know everybody talks about Madison an awful lot um but son's the main man oh yeah I know his has been for years I mean he can he can make him tick defensively they look a little bit more solid yeah you know with the with the two Central Defender and the left back have injury concern but they but we don't know yet if he's if he's going to be out and you like y doy as well yes I I think he's added to the the strength and depth of the sideline you mean so that'll be it'll be interesting and I think that uh you know sank is going to be the it's taking sank a long long long long time to be a goal scorer in the Premier League yeah he Liverpool you know Bournemouth yeah um and only only last season did he hit any sort of goal Mark that you would you would see but obviously they taken him um to Tottenham to C to cure that problem yeah but unlucky for slanky to get injured in the first game of the season as well it is but it's whether he can handle the pressure of Tottenham yeah you know I mean Liverpool didn't work off didn't pay off and now he's at the stage of his life where tottenham's the big move and everybody's looking at him to to produce the uh the goals they they did at Bournemouth so but he's playing such against such a good defense especially the center halfes oh yeah you know but it's going to be great game going to be very interesting and uh the managers tactically are going to have to be astute I think throughout the game and covering what they may need to cover to to maybe block off what the opposition's doing for a while and then or create an opportunity to expose or try and expose what they think is a weakness in the opposition's defense and of course we want we want end to end action in the box like I mean and um and and showing the quality that both teams have got so what is your score prediction what do you think my score is it's a 2-1 to Arsenal okay a 2-1 but that's should be I sat down with a with a cup of tea and a biscuit what biscuit digested nice the do a digested now which he's got low sugar in it by myself um I'm going I I'm hoping for like a 4-2 to either team like like a mad like a mad one but it's a big week for Arsenal because they have Spurs at Spurs and then they have City in Manchester so I think come game week so after the fifth Premier League game we really know about Arsenal I think we look forward to it and see how it goes look forward to the whole Premier League football being back this weekend yeah when you get the you get the atmosphere even through the Telly you know don't you know you got some if you got suround sound now and you've got the you know you it's yeah you feel you can feel it like I mean so it's it's going to be uh it's going to be very very interesting well thank you s that was fun just meeting again here on me own this time good it was nice I liked it I think we'll have a guest next week yeah we'll we'll see who fany's coming in you know give if you're fancy if you're watching this and fancy coming on especially if you a job yeah yeah let Sam know the job yeah have to work come on give us a ring you might get your job s thank you very much have a lovely as always thank you very much for for being with 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