Newcastle vs Tottenham in Australia + A-League Grand Final

Intro [Music] welcome to the Football Today podcast it is Tuesday the 21st of May special episode talking all things a league with the Grand Final coming up this weekend but also it is International Football week here in Melbourne before we get on to that make sure you subscribe to all of our podcasts across our YouTube channels as well give us a thumbs up subscribe all that good stuff Facebook Instagram Tik Tok and X football today Au leave us a review on Spotify five stars Apple podcast all that good stuff please honestly please anyway I am joined as always on the Football Today podcast by Marcus barano he's repping the Atletico Madrid Spiderman one of the best kids of all time and stats guy found Marcus's spare ltio jerse I think it fits me better than him so I your skinny arms skinny noodle arms yeah work and I'm in my M PSG which I should throw out no one knows it's got mé on the back anyway nice uh anyway we are here to do football today have a chat about basically what's coming up this week here in Australia given that H poster cogo lobbed into Australia yesterday afternoon Joe actually saw a few of the players uh which I'm hoping we can I would love to see sunny or an just walking around they were just walking around near our office actually so we'll have to try and SC out if they're around why you say anything I was talking before about that Jared actually went to the lunch and you got a free invite get a gift we were talking about it that I would love to see Sun's like oh if I saw Sunny get a big autograph nice phot or something they'd probably be walking around today they are they'd be at like the Hilton or something yeah yeah they go for a team walk though yeah they've got an open Yeah/Na training session across the road at 6 p.m. 10 bucks it's pretty cool so watch out if you're I'm not paying 10 bucks to go watch Tottenham train like you can pay me to watch skip train for 10 bucks yeah exactly anyway we usually we always start off this show with a year n and statsman has written it into today go on I got a man nice was Andre's first season at Tottenham a success yeah n yeah yeah yeah I think it was yeah um without Harry Kane that's 60% of their goal Source from last season obviously finishing fifth yeah into Europa League they didn't quite match Champions League with ason Villa so their poor end of the season has to be looked at and I think that's just an the fitness wise it wasn't great running into the end of the season but I say it's a su success no what a surprise the Arenal F they were unbeaten their first 10 games they the first team in the history of the eepl to go unbeaten in their first 10 games and Miss Champions League therefore it is a fail I think I I understand what you're saying with that but I think talking them up going they're on track with the invincibles has an fixed Tottenham are still Tottenham they are spursy and they Spurs it up in the last week of the season but at the start of the season when you know Harry Kane they had no money to spend an comes in as a new coach they had 100 million to spend stats guy they and then and then they were one of the only teams to spend money in January all I'm saying is at the start of the season if someone said they'll go from 8th to fifth I think that's a success in huran 60% of their goal sours sticking with n also hilarious har kaning ended up running third in the Bundesliga yeah he didn't even he had a phenomenal season he broke so many records yeah still didn't get player the season over there too didn't he oh Ritz did I mean yeah fair fair enough yeah yeah so anyway we roll into that with uhit bit bristy uh Newcastle United Tottenham hot spur tomorrow night so this is Tuesday as a recording tomorrow night at the MCG 7:45 p.m. do we know what kind of crowd we're going to get there surely it's at 60 I think it's going to be a fair crowd because I think most of MCC sold out that's the only thing I'm g off and then and then most of like level all of level one was like sold out so it would just be interesting to see how how many people on level 70 yeah I said I think anything under 60 is a is not tast yeah so let's get down to the the stuff of this this season ended Monday at 3:00 a.m. Australia time by 700 a.m. these players were getting on a flight to come to Newcastle United vs Tottenham Hotspur Australia it's weird it a little 20 hour flight but I I I heard people say oh they're going to be jell and all that they literally have them they'll just be asleep in their little private rooms on their private jets and things like that they'll be business they'll be like it's not like a we're just going on a plane and day after we're going to play like that'll be okay still to play but it is weird when you're taking your whole Squad I'm very happy the whole Squad is most their like full strength team I'm very happy as an Aussie going to the game getting to see at least some of the guys come off the bench AR and sunny might come off the bench mad PA's going to play for Newcastle PA is locked into play so that'd be very exciting as well but it is weird that couple days after like are they doing this as a bit of a trip as well bit of an end the season of course doing these ones doing talking about the money surely yeah Tes and Victoria's kicked in a bunch of money for this like similar yeah I like it no no sorry I don't like it that it's happening now that it's happening three days after the season I'm close to hating it because I'm also thinking the fa is going oh we going a cancel the FA Cup replays cuz player load is bad yet we're doing this 3 days after the season before the Euros before the copper America before the Olympics we're complaining about players load yeah we're flying him halfway around the world for Newcastle and Tottenham playing a glorified friendly and then for Newcastle to play again on Friday night great for straight it's going to be great it's great that Australia finally gets some good football out here perth's had a couple of games I remember I saw Arsenal it feels like a decade ago I saw real M Juventus a couple times Cel came lipo came out here once that's not out but that was preseason that was happening in like July Tottenham are going to Asia like they've locked in to go to South Korea in their pre will not be able to go anywhere crazy over there okay it's great but it's also like surely we could have worked this out to have it at a different time I feel I feel bad for the players who are participating in Euros the PO players oh we're going to Millions mil we're talking about all the injuries that have happened and it's like okay fair enough I understand that you got to play three times a week in the season if you're playing Champions League in Prem but then to come to Australia and it's like what are we doing yeah it's going to be great like it's it be good for us but you know what you saying to with the players the players don't get a break between now and the Euros because they're come to Australia if you're not a good player you get a big break you get even players that are playing for their country get more of a break than the average worker correct yeah but they're also getting paid hundreds of thousands so I don't feel bad for them I so I I don't feel bad for them in season when their workloads high but something like this I get it to do with family and stuff like that I'm like shut up and do your job yeah that's what I thought you'd be on my side but in preseason but not postseason this this is you are allowed a month off I feel like you've got a tournament to play I feel like you know this could be a good opportunity during breaks so your international players go off yeah why don't you just come to don't have to come as far as Australia but go to different countries go to Dubai and play a friendly against someone from their local League even though all the big names aren't there cuz they're International games it still keeps players match fit but it's also like you don't play games because you take that load out of your legs you can get a conditioning Block in as well you can recover from any little niggles so I understand it's it's weird there's there's there's more football happening next year with the champions league and the Europa League changing up yeah there is a lot more they're going to have no break because com to Australia then euros and then the Euros finishes and they got three weeks it's the last two years cuz of the World Cup as well yeah yeah it's been it has been full earling Highland who's a cyborg hasn't had to do anything because Norway just don't qualify for tournaments exactly and then people like Newcastle United vs A-League All Stars been no bro I'm good I don't want to play so it's fantastic but uh Friday night Newcastle United take on the a League All Star at Marvel Stadium what do we think of the a League All Star Squad here guys like you're more across the a league than I am don't mind it I feel like they've just got a few players like oh if you're available you're in but then they've got a lot they can't have everyone they can't have the Grand Final players which is a bit annoying no Central Coast no victory yeah Marcus said Pao obviously being dominating we talk to later he would be in it maybe maybe he would he arguably it's either Alex pson or but yeah pretty exciting Squad you got lot of young players in here too lot of young guys yeah Alex ps's like he's there just before he's like hi Newcastle I'm going to dominate you before I go to Bane yeah um he will dominate yeah like Nicholas milovich he's a very young player formerly West United West Sydney So Courtney Perkins is still pretty young um so there there's young players in here but um so this is the uh curtain riser to the Arsenal a league women's All Stars yes it is I think the uh which is which is fair because you've obviously got o and all are the draw card matildas are Australia's number one team so that that is fair but there'll still be a lot of people at this game I know a lots of people might the go the Newcastle fan Zone has sold out yeah Newcastle have fans all over the world Newcastle fans good for you like you're getting to see your team awesome I'll be honest I'm very jealous as an Arsenal men's fan as well I'm supremely jealous also supremely excited to see the Arsenal women uh which we'll talk about on Thursday's episode so if you're listening to this Thursday GRAND FINAL PREVIEW morning check it out we'll be we'll be talking about that y uh Grand Final preview for the a league this weekend Central Coast Mariners against Melbourne Victory down at the Central Coast so if you haven't bought tickets yet or got a flight I'm going to give you a hint fly to Newcastle it's much cheaper Melbourne and Newcastle much cheaper than flying to Sydney did used to work for flight center no I've just fled a Newcastle before and it's much cheaper you probably have got that live in Newcastle nice so also look for fights in incognito mode cheaper yeah Marcus is always in Marcus is naturally Incognito anyway Grand Final preview tell me how the victory got there late in the game oh my God that was unbelievable n all for a long time Paul iszo saved another penalty in regular time his final Series has been unbelievable Marcus and I saw that firsthand when he saved multiple penalties including in the penalties uh out he unbeliev say another one silences the sold out Wellington fans they were not g crazy weren great crowd sellout we need more of that in football yeah those both uh early games over the weekend were sellouts uh but yeah then Victory scored tror he's only scored like two goals in the last couple years and both were from outside the box on the left absolute Banger top Corner uh that was awesome but then s Co for back in and got it extra time old man Costa barbarus cost barbarus the old still such a good name it is a great name so this leads to all roads taking us down I think it's in Gosford Central Coast on Saturday night yes Saturday night I'll double check I didn't WR that down sometimes I mess that up I'm pretty sure it's a Saturday but anyway so Central Coast at home they're going for technically a treble technically we're talking about double minus the FFA cup yeah but thee because the premier plate I don't count that it's not really it's like the Melbourne Damons have been minor Premier a bunch but never want to flag who theyve clearly been the like best a league team though because they've won an obviously won the Asia cup Premier played for the last 16 months they've been The Benchmark of this competition the way that they run their business model works the way that they run the team works the the way they're bringing guys with last name qu works like obviously gar came in and Al has probably being their best player in second jalong finding D conings in the AFL works or Henry's anyway so keys to Victory who's winning and why I always love talking about Paul ISO I think he's going to keep him in the game I think central coast will have more shots they they play very attacking through Alo he's he's just sets up so many of their shots all on the wing there PO is going to have a bit of work to do could this be a case for Melbourne victory of they've gone to the Wells so many times to get there that this is just that one hurdle too far maybe they sort of take time to flick the switch like when we saw them against City they took a red card to flick the mean they've gone the full distance with City in that first game they've played the two games and then the extra time here extra time and whereas Central Coast are just like yep we're through it Cal Co C Coast have played in Asia not too long for that as well but I think Central Coast win this I wouldn't be surprised if it goes extra time but I don't think it's going a penalty so I think central coast will win it o I'm going I'm going vict to win I'm just having a look both of central Coast's wins in those two semi-final legs helped were helped with a Sydney FC red card they did they did dominate the game and they probably going to win anyway but if there's no red cards and this is pretty even I think Victory can e out an extra time win yeah cool I'm going to go Central Coast just at home I think also the travel factor in this as well I know it's only to New Zealand but also they've had to go they got Central Co mate no no no they went to New Zealand EPL FINAL DAY WRAP-UP legs have got to be we at some point and if it goes to extra time that's where Central Coast could get them I think they win regulation time probably like 31 yeah no that's fair cool there we go that's it that's it that's that's season done let's wrap up the EPL it's oh Alex doesn't really want I had all of 78 seconds of enjoyment on Monday at 10:02 a.m. he wasn't here cuz it wasn't didn't the first minutes 80 seconds in Phil phone just guys yeah and ends ends it it's just oh yeah I wake up inevitable it's like it's you also West Ham just sitting in the Box kicking the ball away it was it was great I was I was watching it but like you I never had the thought that arsenal were going to like I'm just watching this cuz I know City you're going to win the league I had I had blind fa I had Faith just as like I've seen miracles happen but they're miracles for a reason they happen once every 50 years City don't drop those games yeah so it's okay City have now won four titles in a row six of seven but obviously most in uh premier league history in a row yeah but humongous asteris 115 of them to be exact y does anyone actually know a a Manchester City fan uh Leo behind the camera does apparently I know one but not like actually okay our boss has a I think he's Scottish or English he's a Manchester City fan so there's one um my partner's brother goes but is n like full enough he just supports me yeah he I was like why did he go for him now he's like when I was six I like the blue that's yeah but he liked the light blue I guess it's what he saw first they're playing in division two then weren't they they probably were so yeah it's a massive asri over it and for me it's just proven that like no one really hates Manchester City cuz they've got no real rivalry they've just built it out of s well Manchester United fans wouldn't care that they've won four in a row and beaten their record they would they would care more about Arsenal yes Liverpool yeah that's true that's true lad ifad did it it's the same with Chelsea fans like you'd care more about us Tottenham United then what's he would it's just proven that no one hates Man City like the when you when late in the season it's like we could screw up their title chances no one's got that hatred of City to try and really step up unless it's like Shawn Das ripping into Everton like that' be sort of the only one you could see doing it so it's just like oh yeah great there is there is rumors that they're going to get 80 points deduction next season just relegate him to leak points 80 points but which means they Rel yeah if they get they need to get 110 Point like 30 points safety yeah okay they not going that but like with their lawers and stuff that's going to get Whitt down to like 4050 probably yeah so we'll see that's so that's du to go in October with the findings then handed down in January so goes into next season Manchester City probably buys 17 players they're going to buy petta from West Ham and get even stronger probably benching with the first six months W even starting that can we talk about the goals in the final days oh my God that are some SC od's goal was a screamer like that was fantastic same game thehe kick Mo finally stepped up to the plate and literally stepped up to the pl the second longest Premier League goal in history behind behind sa no wayney oh way uh when he was at everon yeah we had the Jurgen Club farewell that was beautiful that got more TV ratings than I'm pretty sure man city what a shock that a club that has a massive following and love for a man against a soulless built Club out of money would get more views teeth is why I swear getting wider I couldn't look at him in the face hurting my eyes got fake should plenty tears with bell Sila and his family y was Lot happening on the final day it was a lot happening I love the final day that it all happens at the same time like this just something that's always going on more Sports should do that they won't imagine AFL with that with the top eight this year I reckon that that'll be really close everyone's playing at the same time that like five teams at the same home ground there yeah stat has work Logistics BR anywhere um anyway quick snap thoughts next season who's going to win the title and why is it Manchester City why is it Chelsea I'm saying Arsenal no oh really are you all right don't make his head bigger yeah I'm I'm no I generally think Arsenal I think they can only they can only get stronger well they've just come off their most wins ever in a season most points ever in a season most goals least goals conceded yeah but like City just do that for fun and get that but like I depends if you lose a couple of yeah key players I think if Real Madrid come knocking for CBA or oh no he's Untouchable yeah but he he would want to go to Real Madrid over he's French it's not like he's Spanish it's Real Madrid Real Madrid though yeah but it' be it' cost like 150 million Z Zan then no he's get him on the show yeah but I think so I think he's yeah why not something different I'm going Liverpool I think they had a massive 10 we period with no I just don't want to pick Arsenal see Nunes actually he's um deleted all of his uh post affiliated with Liverpool so yeah and then when klopp was leaving the other night when they did the thing he the only player that's not clapping see the thing is I I feel Liverpool the hardest team to make a comment on because you don't know who's going to be there because van D what happens if Real Madrid come calling for Alexander Arnold and then mosar leaves and goes to Saudi so there's three big players that could leave they might not but it's also new coach new system as you've seen with Chelsea this year yeah it takes a bit of time takes a bit of time same with KS first season I think I feel top four for Liverpool is a tick winning is an amazing effort for slot and obviously being announced the new I don't know if it is ack also I think it is because you expect changes don't know much too much about an he's a Dutch Coach and he's Bal so he's potentially going to suck like 10 heart I don't Aston Villa they're probably going to get a little bit better but Aston Villa have to sell players for uh ffp FP yeah Chelsea to to be better it's very obviously I'm going to say but the thing is we all thought this was a flat Manchester City year and they're probably going to win it again they're going to win the double yeah finally FA Cup next weekend Manchester City smash United right yeah you have to win to make Europe you have to win to just and not having a whole embarrassing season also shout out to Chelsea for making League we did it does tenh lose or keep his job based on this game I think I think the decision has already been made and that is gone gone I think you could be right even if he wins it two trophies in two years yeah wasn't it um Louis van was sucked after winning the FA Cup yeah those would be Outro different there like Zlatan Alexis Sanchez Pogba like yeah anyway that's enough for this episode of football today we have run a bit long there but anyway check out the Thursday episode coming out we're going to talk about the Arsenal women taking on the a League All Star as well as what all the AR not all the Arsenal women but what all the Australian women have been up to the Matilda squad has been announced for the friendlies against China check that out Thursday morning where you get you all of your podcast 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