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Speaker 1: It's time for the Kick Around the tickets weekly show

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Speaker 1: all about soccer. Two hours of hso's and the clubs,

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Speaker 1: leagues and tournaments of the world's game. It doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: if you're new to the sport. Don't worry. This is

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Speaker 1: the ticket. We're just kicking at a round now. Two

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Speaker 1: guys who can never go the full ninety Andy Swift

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Speaker 1: and Peter Wilton already own this. Hangs it up.

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Speaker 2: Let the goal kick it the Oh my godness, grazers,

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Speaker 2: this is unbelievable. I'm diving ahead of the Joven show

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Speaker 2: is ever right now. He's got to hold just four o'clock.

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Speaker 2: He's achieved of incredible things and his carebit even he

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Speaker 2: hasn't seen anything like this. That goal means that Ben

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Speaker 1: Top twenty four. Anything better than a goalkeeper goal scored

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Speaker 1: at the death.

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Speaker 3: I don't know you tell me, I asked you when

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Speaker 3: it happened?

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Speaker 1: You did. Hi to Helpy Ones and welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Kick Around back in the natural habitat of Saturday two

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Speaker 1: to four here on the Sport Radio of ninety six

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Speaker 1: dot seven FM and thirteen ten a M. Where you

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Speaker 1: the good P one sits around talk soccer and all

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Speaker 1: that implies. Hey, it's me Peter, and to my left,

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Speaker 1: to your right, it's the world's most interesting man, Andy

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Speaker 1: gold the swift.

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Speaker 3: Two things. The number one one is h did you

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Speaker 3: hear the call like a from Portugal of the goal

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Speaker 3: we just played?

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Speaker 1: I probably have. I've seen so many different versions of

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Speaker 1: German call.

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Speaker 3: Really, yes, was.

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Speaker 1: Like, really, you know why the German call was so big?

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Speaker 3: Just because it was a soccer moment, man, man boy,

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Speaker 3: it was, and it wasn't just a soccer it was

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Speaker 3: as one of the soccer moments. By the way, I'll

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Speaker 3: be right here if you need me, Uh, just give

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Speaker 3: me a few seconds. Heads up, I'll put my head,

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Speaker 3: I won't leave you. I'll be in the studio. So

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Speaker 3: have a good show, Peter.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Liverpool is playing Newcastle as we speak at anfield,

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Speaker 1: which means I will largely be doing today's show solo.

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Speaker 1: Good luck. Thanks Andy. Okay, we have it on two

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Speaker 1: four TVs? Okay, I'll switch it over when we go

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Speaker 1: to break. We do have a lots to talk about.

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Speaker 1: We will get into the final week of group games

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Speaker 1: in the Champions League. That happened this week, lots of drama.

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Speaker 1: I still wonder if this is a better setup or not.

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Speaker 1: I'm still not care.

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Speaker 3: You're not enjoy down save it.

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Speaker 1: Let's just save it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Well you asked.

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Speaker 1: The other big news this week was stuff we've been

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Speaker 1: waiting for for a while from USL United Soccer Leagues,

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Speaker 1: details about this new USL Premiere League they're going to

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Speaker 1: launch in twenty twenty eight. Now, that seems like a

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Speaker 1: a topic of the third rail of soccer known as

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Speaker 1: promotion angation. But first let's get into the most serious

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Speaker 1: and important of all of the soccer segments. So along

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Speaker 1: with the results in the Champions League and the USL news,

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Speaker 1: let's just quickly run through the scoreboard of the day,

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Speaker 1: because I do think it's worth getting into the issue

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Speaker 1: of what is going on with Wrexham. Wrexham one again today,

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Speaker 1: my dear friend Andy. Yeah, and maybe I am not

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Speaker 1: doing anybody a favor by keeping up with Reximum. People

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Speaker 1: Well, they were playing at Sheffield Wednesday at this morning, Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: Rya Volcano tomorrow, who are in sixteenth place. Well done

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Speaker 1: the game today of note, Napoli beat Fjor and Our

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Speaker 3: You're proud to be a Fiorentina fan.

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Speaker 1: ago and his son is now running Fiorentina, and I

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Speaker 3: Yes, the mannerisms, the way he's speaking.

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Speaker 1: his presentation style. It would not surprise me to find

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Speaker 3: If you if you bring the volume down and you

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Speaker 3: I think this is just how I.

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Speaker 1: Don't. I don't. He was genuine and sincere, and he

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Speaker 3: Incredibly very strange.

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Speaker 1: Over in the Bundesliga, big result today is Bayern Munich

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Speaker 1: They stay in first place six points ahead. Lever Cusen

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Speaker 1: The Hamburgers and the Frankfurters. No, Hamburger tied, Hamburger tied,

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Speaker 1: men's national team because our very own Morosio Mauricio Pochettino

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Speaker 1: caught a bit of heat this week. Are you aware

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Speaker 1: to Tim Waya's comments about ticket prices.

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Speaker 3: Because Tim Waya was standing up for the people right

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Speaker 3: saying that. I think what Pochettina's just trying to say

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Speaker 3: which is getting ready for World CD.

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Speaker 1: The quote is, first of all, I think players need

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Speaker 1: It's not Tim's duty to evaluate the price of the ticket,

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Speaker 1: and then it's also my job. My duty is to

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Speaker 1: best way to perform. We're not politicians. We are sport

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Speaker 1: I think if FIFA does something or take some decision,

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Speaker 1: It is not about us to provide our opinion. Our

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Speaker 3: You think he's just trying to save a yellow card

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Speaker 1: No, you know, throw this piece in because he got

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Speaker 3: Oh, I thought, I you're gonna think it was lawless.

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Speaker 1: No, it was the it was the female. It was

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Speaker 1: Carly Lloyd who said, you know what, He's right, players

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Speaker 3: But but I do think there's you know, I don't

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Speaker 3: about to uh play in a World Cup, representing your country,

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Speaker 1: And just I would say this is also maybe a

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Speaker 3: To the radio? Okay, yeah, I got one eye there

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Speaker 1: I got it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I think I think that's a really really good point.

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Speaker 3: Actually is as he is, he is.

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Speaker 1: He's like trying to put a tap on it now

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Speaker 1: because I throw out it. Because when they all get

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Speaker 1: Like the questions are going to get harder and all

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Speaker 3: Telling me, off, are you like those six thirty am

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Speaker 3: So it's not what you tell me when you travel

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Speaker 3: They were not playing like defending world champions should play like.

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Speaker 1: That's right there, the World champions. I forgot about that.

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Speaker 3: Childer smug John Champion.

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Speaker 1: Doing this show from Sky Sports in London with John

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Speaker 1: Is it? The arsenal guy that is always what's his name?

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Speaker 1: I just think he's so smart. I love John Champion.

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Speaker 3: Isn't Rebecca Lowe hosting the Olympics?

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Speaker 1: This is what I think it is.

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Speaker 3: Now we can look forward to this.

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Speaker 3: They got booed off the field west Ham.

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Speaker 1: West Ham, a team fighting to not get relegated. We're

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Speaker 3: Did you have to know?

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Speaker 3: You want to know why I didn't listen to them,

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Speaker 3: because that's when I drove up here and I listened

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Speaker 1: I'm a good one, You're a good ticket employee. Man,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen the NBC show go

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Speaker 1: seen him do this before. He just doesn't look like

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Speaker 3: They would have probably criticized, but not to that extent

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Speaker 1: It was. It was kind of shocking now, of course

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Speaker 3: They've won four of their nineteen games under him.

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Speaker 3: is that like, they're not as bad as their place

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Speaker 3: at the on the table.

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Speaker 1: Do you They've been pretty crummy. And I think that

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Speaker 1: switching watched them. Yeah, you probably haven't watched him very much,

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Speaker 1: and I haven't watched a ton of it, but I've

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Speaker 1: watched enough to know that they've been in bad form

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Speaker 1: and to the point where I thought they were going

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Speaker 1: to fire Nuno too. Now they've made some acquisitions. They

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Speaker 1: got Tusty Castellanos, the guy that used to play at

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Speaker 1: NYCFC and East played pretty well for them. They've got

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Speaker 1: a drama Adama Traore, the muscle guy. Yeah, he's playing

448
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Speaker 1: for the almost he almost got in a fight today.

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Speaker 1: So west Ham end up losing that game three too.

450
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Speaker 1: Chelsea up to fourth place and west Ham stuck in

451
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Speaker 1: eighteenth after winning their last two games in the Premier League.

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Speaker 1: The other one Arsenal. On the heels of losing to

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Speaker 1: Manchester United alarmingly last week. They go to Leeds and

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Speaker 1: Ellen Road today and get a very comprehensive for nothing

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Speaker 1: when over leads. You know, four different goal scorers Gokerez

456
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Speaker 1: scored today. I'm starting to get really annoyed by the

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Speaker 1: goal celebration. But the hand mask. Yeah, I don't know

458
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Speaker 1: why that annoys me, but I find it annoying.

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Speaker 3: Did you see the second goal?

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Speaker 1: The own goal?

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Speaker 3: The own goal is that I was going to ask,

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Speaker 3: is that considered an own goal when the goalie bats

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Speaker 3: it in his own goal?

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Speaker 1: Yes? That is yes, Okay, that is annoy Yes.

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Speaker 3: The annoying thing about that own goal, that which came

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Speaker 3: off a corner kick, is that Arsenal is the best

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Speaker 3: team in the world in this century at corner kicks. Right, Yes,

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Speaker 3: how are teams still not preparing.

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Speaker 1: For because I will tell you that the secret sauce

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Speaker 1: behind Arsenal's ability to convert corner kicks is almost one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent reliant on Sokka and well not Socca today

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Speaker 1: because he came up to Lemon. The pregame is declan

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Speaker 1: Rice's ability to serve that ball in exactly where it

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Speaker 1: needs to be in the melee that they're creating in

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Speaker 1: the box there, and I think Arsenal's just getting away

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Speaker 1: with stuff. It's their version of the tush push.

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Speaker 3: They didn't have anything to do with that second goal though,

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Speaker 3: and you're saying he wanted to place it right there,

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Speaker 3: and that was all chaos on the part of the

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Speaker 3: defense because they know what's coming, right, and then they

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Speaker 3: get all.

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Speaker 1: Like everybody knows what's coming. When Arsenal said for a

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Speaker 1: corner kick, it's not a secret, it is a thing.

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Speaker 1: So Arsenal end up winning four nothing today. They sit

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Speaker 1: in first. They have a eight point I think that

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Speaker 1: is yes, seven or eight point lead over City who

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Speaker 1: play tomorrow seven. Excuse me, I can't do math, and

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Speaker 1: leads now sit in sixteenth. On twenty six the other

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Speaker 1: results of the day, Brighton got a very late grasping

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Speaker 1: of ever, let me start over. Brighton threw away a

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Speaker 1: game against Everton is Everton scored in the ninety seventh minute.

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Speaker 1: Beto on his birthday scored on a junk ball in

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Speaker 1: the box to tie the game one to one, and

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Speaker 1: Brighton threw that one away. Brighton now on thirteen and

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Speaker 1: thirteenth on thirty one points and Everton uh up to

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Speaker 1: eighth goodness gracious on thirty four.

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Speaker 3: I'm about to be have life without Grealish. Now I'm

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Speaker 3: moving forward.

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Speaker 1: Well, they got it. They got it done today on

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Speaker 1: the road without Jackie jack and then Wolves lost again

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Speaker 1: today at home to Bournemouth to nothing. By the way Bournemouth.

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Speaker 1: I was worried about Bournemouth after selling Somnio. They are

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Speaker 1: undefeated in their last fourth since selling that. Okay, the

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Speaker 1: reel has got them screwed together. Croopy is a baller.

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Speaker 3: Wolves is not as bad as one win and twenty

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Speaker 3: four matches, right, I don't feel like I'm not.

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Speaker 1: No, I would say to me, looks better than west

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Speaker 1: Ham does.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. Fair.

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Speaker 1: Of the three teams in the relegation zone, I think

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Speaker 1: Wolves have been the one where like, okay, they're this

512
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Speaker 1: close to breaking through, but they've lost so many games

513
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Speaker 1: to start the season. They'll never get out of this.

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Speaker 1: So there you go. There are the results in the

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Speaker 1: Premier League today. Let's take a break. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: well preview tomorrow's games, and yes, maybe we'll talk a

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Speaker 1: little Manchester United next on the kick around. Nice finish, Andy, congratulations.

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Speaker 1: I need to compliment on you because the setup of

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Speaker 1: this studio is the TVs showing the Liverpool Newcastle game

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Speaker 1: are behind me. I'm not looking at them, Andy is.

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Speaker 1: And while I kind of goofed on him at the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the segment because Newcastle scored to open the

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Speaker 1: segment and take a one nothing lead, somehow you did

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Speaker 1: not react or give up the fact that while I

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Speaker 1: was prattling on about other things, Liverpool scored not once,

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Speaker 1: but twice. It's emotional control. It's hard.

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Speaker 3: It's hard not to grimace when your team goes down

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Speaker 3: at home early in the game, which is what I did.

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Speaker 3: What what you noticed, right, But then when we went up,

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Speaker 3: when we tied it, and then we went up, We

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Speaker 3: we Liverpool nation, We are all in this together. You

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Speaker 3: don't want to get too high, you don't want to

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Speaker 3: get too up because forty five minutes remain. But I

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Speaker 3: do feel like our season could have turned around.

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Speaker 4: Walk through now, walk on through the rain. Okay, walk on,

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Speaker 4: walk on on, walk.

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Speaker 1: On such a Liverpool fan. Yes, Liverpool is at the

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Speaker 1: half leading Newcastle two to one on a forty first

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Speaker 1: and forty third minute goals by Ekateke with his freshly

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Speaker 1: platinum blonde hair. All right, tomorrow a nice set of

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Speaker 1: games for everybody to dive into. Aston Villa hosting Brentford

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Speaker 1: Villa in third place. Unai Emery's got this team cooking,

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Speaker 1: playing well in the Champions League.

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Speaker 3: I think we can now say that Villa's legit. And

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Speaker 3: remember they got off to a poor start and a

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Speaker 3: lot of people are like, oh see, Villa's done. It

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Speaker 3: was just a two year thing.

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Speaker 1: This and that Whoa's got him going right? No, look,

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Speaker 1: I we've I've talked a lot about this. I think

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Speaker 1: that the he's more with less, yes, and uh you know,

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Speaker 1: so we'll see how the season finishes out for them,

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Speaker 1: very very nice finish. Let's think they're a lock for

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Speaker 1: top four. Uh oh yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. Brentford,

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Speaker 1: on the other hand, was had that really disappointing result

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Speaker 1: against Nottingham Forest the other day. In fact, they've lost

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Speaker 1: their last two. Kind of a shocking turn. And events

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Speaker 1: that Brentford has been so good, the fact that they

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Speaker 1: lost to in a row kind of caught me off guard.

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Speaker 1: Nottingham Forest is hosting Crystal Palace. Poor Crystal Palace. I

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Speaker 1: feel so bad for them. Nottingham Forest.

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Speaker 3: On the other day, I don't feel bad for Nottingham Forest.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're undefeated in their last three. They've won two

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Speaker 1: of their last three games, and you know, they're playing

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Speaker 1: way better.

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Speaker 3: They're skirting the relegation zone.

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Speaker 1: Their igor scoring some nice goals. He scored a really

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Speaker 1: nice goal in Europe. Yeah on Thursday. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: yeah he did. And so the other game tomorrow. The

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Speaker 1: two other games tomorrow, first off, Manchester United hosting Fulham.

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Speaker 1: So this is a new era. Hey, I I didn't

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Speaker 1: get my paper this week. What was the result of

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Speaker 1: that Manchester United Arsenal game on Sunday? I didn't get

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Speaker 1: my paper. I don't know the score.

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Speaker 3: I think I think United one.

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Speaker 1: They Oh that's right, I think I heard something about that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they won? Was it three three two three? Two?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Look I was rooting for United. Well, of course

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Speaker 3: you were, okay, so I had you know, you are,

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Speaker 3: and I say it's the new era because your new coach, interim,

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Speaker 3: whatever caretaker is that the he has in two matches

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Speaker 3: led the team to victories over Arsenal and City. Is

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Speaker 3: this the greatest start of any coach with any team

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Speaker 3: in the history of soccer.

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Speaker 1: Have you actually gone back and looked at the results

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Speaker 1: he got when he was the interim the last time?

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Speaker 3: No, no, tell me, he's.

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Speaker 1: Run, he's beaten. I think he's go back. I don't

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Speaker 1: remember off the top of my head, but there is

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Speaker 1: a often repeated stat that Carrick's run as manager now

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Speaker 1: twice interrom is loaded up of like five or six

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Speaker 1: games of him beating some of the biggest managers and

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Speaker 1: teams in.

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Speaker 3: The What does Anderson have to do to get hired

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Speaker 3: on as a manager?

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Speaker 1: So here's we were in this exact same position with

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Speaker 1: only gunnarsol Shire and we made the mistake of keeping

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Speaker 1: him on. And here's here's the thing before Okay, go ahead,

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Speaker 1: what are you gonna say.

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Speaker 3: You're saying now it was a mistake where last week

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Speaker 3: with Lars you said, you know, things could have been

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Speaker 3: a little different had they gone Ronaldo he was actually

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Speaker 3: doing a good job.

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Speaker 1: And well they got yeah, okay, so let me quest

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Speaker 1: let me qualify it. The one thing happened after another,

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Speaker 1: the Ronaldo thing is what screwed up Skullshire's run ultimately

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Speaker 1: with United the last time.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Krick on the other hand, I am totally up for

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Speaker 1: to become full time manager of this team, but I

611
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Speaker 1: also think it behooves them to wait till the end

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Speaker 1: of the season a see how that goes, and b

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Speaker 1: find out who else becomes available.

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Speaker 3: You know what, who is to get a manager that

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Speaker 3: gets some results.

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Speaker 1: Right, Because and Lars has brought this up, which is

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Speaker 1: it there? There is a difference between setting the team

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Speaker 1: up in the way that they've played these two games,

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Speaker 1: just two games, and then also being a team that

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Speaker 1: can get results to the point that you are winning

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Speaker 1: the Premier the Premiership and also competing for the biggest

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Speaker 1: trophies in Europe. And I think the question remains is

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Speaker 1: what Keric is doing now a sustainable model or something

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00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: that can work on the long term.

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Speaker 3: Or said that's the question mark with any coach who

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Speaker 3: you know this, but if they wait, like in the past,

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Speaker 3: they've been able to go out who they want to get.

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Speaker 3: I mean the United job is one of the premier jobs.

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Speaker 1: It is, But I do think this is the market

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Speaker 1: because the marketplace is going to be different this summer.

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Speaker 3: What leads you to believe that their decision making is

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Speaker 3: going to be any better in terms of who they

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Speaker 3: get as a manager.

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Speaker 1: So this United in the last twelve years have a

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Speaker 1: marked history of winning big games against big clubs. They've

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Speaker 1: won a year European Cup, They've won FA Cup, They've

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Speaker 1: won the League's Cup, They've beaten pep multiple times. They've

638
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,399
Speaker 1: beaten you know, other big names in the Premier League.

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Speaker 1: They've done. Hold on, let me finish you ask me

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00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: a question of answering it. Where they have fallen short

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Speaker 1: or in these games like hosting Fulham, losing to Bourne myth?

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00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 1: So what I was going to say, losing against it.

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Speaker 1: So the answer to your question is can we just

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Speaker 1: wait and see how the next fifteen games go before

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Speaker 1: we start anointing a guy a manager full time?

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Speaker 3: Just wait so you can find a manager one day

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Speaker 3: that can beat Fulham and.

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Speaker 1: Forest great right exactly, So if you know, what does

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Speaker 1: the value of beating Arsenal at Arsenal and City at home? Mean?

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Speaker 1: If you can't beat Fulham tomorrow. Okay, your next four matches, Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is very important at home Fulham, right at home,

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Speaker 1: Spurs correct Road, west Ham Yep, Road Everton Yep. Now

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Speaker 1: I would tell you all four of those games, all

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Speaker 1: four of those winnable. Get par I agree, Okay, Fullham,

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Speaker 1: it is good. Actually, Okay, so there's twelve points on

656
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Speaker 1: the table. They should I, in my opinion, get at

657
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: least eleven of those ten of those points, like three

658
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: wins in a draw, just being reasonable. Now, I think

659
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: a lot of people will tell you you should be

660
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: getting all twelve. Yeah, full them is a tough game.

661
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: I also do at home. Here's the other thing that's

662
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 1: really weird right now. A lot of people are freaking

663
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 1: out that Dorgu is hurt, like he pulled up lame,

664
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: pulled a hamstring. He's out for like ten weeks. When

665
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: did we suddenly decide dog is such a critical and

666
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: important part of this team that to me also seems

667
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: a little bit weird. Who's saying that?

668
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 3: The fan base?

669
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, the fans are like, oh no, we don't have Dorgu.

670
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: He scored that banger against Arsenal, and he scored against

671
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Speaker 1: Newcastle and he's played so well as a left wing.

672
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, man base is back and engaged.

673
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 3: Be happy about that because your team right now is

674
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Speaker 3: in a Champions League spot.

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Speaker 1: Did you know that they're in fifth, which is a

676
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: Champions League spot? Probably yes, So you know two of.

677
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Speaker 3: Three are going to be in Champions League. One is

678
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 3: out Chelsea United Liverpool. Two of those three likely make.

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Speaker 1: One out one of them. Yes. Now. The other thing

680
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: is I said earlier that I had forgot to put

681
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Speaker 1: into the calculation of United in Fulham tomorrow is Oscar

682
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: Bob has signed from City to Fulham, and I'm curious

683
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:25,240
Speaker 1: to see if he slots in Fulham is largely healthy

684
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,879
Speaker 1: Munez I think is still out in another players out,

685
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 1: but the addition of Oscar Bob I think makes them

686
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: a better team. Marco Silva is a really good coach,

687
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Speaker 1: and I don't think this game is going to be

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Speaker 1: easy tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: That's what I've been saying.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I thought you were just giving us a pass

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Speaker 1: to a Champions League spot.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm saying Carricks should be considered here.

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Speaker 1: Second. Okay, if he loses to Fulham at home tomorrow,

694
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: do you still feel the same way.

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00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 3: Okay, so the other game, didn't you just go get Marien.

696
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 3: You'll get out of the way.

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Speaker 1: The other game tomorrow, Tottenham hosting City. I think this

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00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: game is interesting too. Pep needs a result to keep

699
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: up with Arsenal Man. Thomas Frank needs a win in

700
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Speaker 1: the worst possible way.

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Speaker 3: This is an interesting one because if he doesn't win

702
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Speaker 3: at home against City tomorrow, he's he's on the edge, right,

703
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 3: I mean, he's like a bad resist.

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Speaker 1: They won a Champions League and there they made the

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Speaker 1: which we'll talk about. Yeah, we'll talk about that.

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00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Losing at home, but you lose against City, I don't

709
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,879
Speaker 3: know if that's enough to move him.

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Speaker 1: My thing with Tottenham is the following And I've said

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Speaker 1: this to Lars, and Lars dismisses out of hand. He

712
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Speaker 1: thinks he's done with the Thomas Frank experience.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was clear when we spoke to him

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Speaker 3: last week.

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Speaker 1: I would say, if you go through and look, Tottenham

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Speaker 1: currently has the largest number of injuries. I think not

717
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: only do they have the largest total number, I think

718
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: they had the largest number of significant injuries. Lacking Madison, Koulishevsky,

719
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Speaker 1: several other players that I think are really critical, and

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Speaker 1: I believe in Thomas Frank enough that if he had

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Speaker 1: all of his parts, Tottenham would not be in the

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Speaker 1: position they're in today.

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Speaker 3: So you feel you have a better grasp on Spurs

724
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Speaker 3: than Lars.

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Speaker 1: I think Lars is coming at it from a fan,

726
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: from an emotional Spursy place.

727
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 3: And of like you get with United.

728
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: And my question is who are you going to go

729
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 1: out and get except him? Because I exactly that's my point. Well,

730
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 1: but my other because I would say Tottenham is in

731
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: the same situation that the United is in, which is

732
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Speaker 1: if you're going to change the manager, you might as

733
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: well wait until the market completely reveals itself. And after

734
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: the summer in the World Cup. And then on Monday

735
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 1: Sunderland is hosting Burnley on Monday. So there's your rest

736
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: of the run in in the Premier League. Would you

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00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: like to make predictions tomorrow on tomorrow's games?

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Speaker 3: I want you to predict United against Fulham. That's the

739
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 3: only prediction I worry about you think tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: This is my honest answer to that question. To two. Really, yep, okay,

741
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 1: Fulham are not a bad side, They're a very good team. Yes,

742
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: Harry Wilson will hit a banger on you man.

743
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 3: They're like three or four points out of.

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Speaker 1: If they win. If they win the game tomorrow, there'll

745
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 1: be one point behind United for fifth. Yeah, so there

746
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,760
Speaker 1: you go. All right. EA is in my year yelling

747
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 1: at me to take a break. So we will do

748
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: that when we come back. It was an amazing week

749
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: in the Champions League. We will dive into it next year.

750
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: On the kick around, you understanding, So you're coming to

751
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: Dallas for the World Cup. What possibly could you be

752
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: doing to fill your time? We'll get into those juicy

753
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: details coming up in World Cup nerd happening in about

754
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes or so. Here on the Kickerround, Welcome back

755
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 1: to the soccer show of Record here on little Ticket.

756
00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 1: The World Cup is near Andy. I'm so excited about this,

757
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:01,800
Speaker 1: so very very.

758
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 3: Exciting to watch some games.

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00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 1: I'm going to watch all the games, Okay, all of

760
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: the four games, yes, even the third place game. Yes.

761
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 1: Remind me. I want to talk about the kickoff times

762
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: here in Dallas, because Ika, something I thought about this.

763
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 1: I had not put two seconds a thought of it,

764
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: and suddenly it dawned on me I probably should know that.

765
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: And when I looked at it. I was a bit surprised.

766
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that, all right. Champions League finished

767
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: up its group stage this week on Wednesday, all of

768
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: the games, okay, so let's have this. Let's is playing

769
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: eighteen games at the exact same time A good idea?

770
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Speaker 1: Is it? Eighteen games?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

772
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Speaker 1: Eighteenth? Yeah?

773
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Speaker 3: Thirty six times?

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Speaker 1: That good? Good math?

775
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Speaker 3: Andy, Yeah, it is. It does make it a little

776
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 3: bit hard to follow. But because it is single table

777
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Speaker 3: and everybody's competing against everybody, they have to play them

778
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 3: at the same time, right, so that other teams don't

779
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 3: have competitive advantage of knowing results.

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Speaker 1: But am I incorrect in saying? And that when it

781
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 1: was the previous setup, they broke that up over two days.

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00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, because they were in groups, so the only the

783
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 3: only times that you matter was within your team.

784
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Speaker 1: So then yes, So they played some games on Tuesday

785
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: and the rest of them on Wednesday.

786
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Speaker 3: And they even staggered on that last day.

787
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Speaker 1: And I think it was at halftime of Wednesday's barrage

788
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:32,240
Speaker 1: of Champions League games, I get a text from Andy,

789
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: who is clearly frustrated by Paramount Plus's Galazzo show, and

790
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:42,760
Speaker 1: that's passively aggressively brags to me that he's now converting

791
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Speaker 1: over to one of his other languages and will be watching.

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Speaker 3: The Univision Mexican They take a little bit more Mexican

793
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 3: and other Spanish language Spanish language broadcast. So yeah, because

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Speaker 3: they take they take coverage a little bit more seriously. Man,

795
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 3: it's a it's a goof show that that.

796
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: Yes, I think they're trying to have fun with it,

797
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:13,240
Speaker 1: but I also think the top I do think trying.

798
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Speaker 1: So you'll have to tell me what is the difference

799
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Speaker 1: between how Galazo show covers eighteen games? Does TD? Does

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Speaker 1: Univision have a wrap around?

801
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 3: No, they don't have the similar wrap around show.

802
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:24,399
Speaker 1: How do they do it?

803
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,280
Speaker 3: They focus on a game and then go to goals.

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00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 3: It's kind of like goal rush. So what game had

805
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 3: the equivalent of goal rush?

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Speaker 1: So what was? I think they had Barcelona that was

807
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: their focus on.

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00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, if I remember, or maybe that was the Madrid

809
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 3: game actually okay, which ended up being one of the

810
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 3: big games. I don't know, it's just the approach is

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Speaker 3: a little different, that's all.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to check it out. I just don't.

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00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 3: Yes, well that's you know, that's on you, so uh no,

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Speaker 3: you can't watch Paramount. So just what I finally did?

815
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Speaker 3: I just put it on Paramount, but I put it

816
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Speaker 3: on the Liverpool match and just listen to it.

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00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: Well, I just I put it on the wrap around

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00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,879
Speaker 1: the Galazo Show and I just muted it. Okay, that's all.

819
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:12,320
Speaker 3: That's probably the best way to watch that show is

820
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Speaker 3: to put it on mute.

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00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: Right.

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00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 3: And what's the woman host? She's like the one voice

823
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 3: of reason and that, and she's funny and she just

824
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Speaker 3: goes along with the goofiness.

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Speaker 1: It's her name? Oh oh the studio host? Yeah, Kate Kate. Yes,

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Speaker 1: she's good, she's amazing.

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Speaker 3: If you take her out of that, it is like

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Speaker 3: a disaster.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it would be a kindergarten, right, yes.

830
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 3: So but this format is fun because I don't know,

831
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Speaker 3: it was a seventy fifth minute all across the board,

832
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Speaker 3: all games and things were lots of things were up

833
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 3: in the air, including does Madrid stay in the top eight?

834
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Speaker 3: Do all the English teams stay in the top eight?

835
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Speaker 1: Do some of them not? Do only half go? Who's in?

836
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:02,799
Speaker 1: Who's out?

837
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Speaker 3: Barcelona was in out?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so many different things to unpacked. I do

839
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 1: think in honor of our good friend, Lars. We should

840
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 1: spend the first thing talking about Bodo Glimpse because that

841
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 1: is such a part of the it is. But ultimately,

842
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: Boto Glimp getting a result at Athletico Madrid, which I

843
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: think they're like only the second team ever to get

844
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: a Champions League win. Uh that is not a Spanish

845
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,840
Speaker 1: side or some weird stat like Boto Glimp going to

846
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 1: that place and getting a win is significant. And then

847
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Speaker 1: also qualifying as they have is of note. And Lars

848
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Speaker 1: I heard Lars really, you know a lot of people

849
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Speaker 1: were calling on Lars to kind of talk about this

850
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 1: because obviously it's the team from his motherland, and I

851
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,919
Speaker 1: thought Lars based inside the Arctic circle bar Way, yes,

852
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:54,720
Speaker 1: based outside, you know. I think Lars very smartly pointed

853
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,399
Speaker 1: out a few things that really make this special. One

854
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:02,360
Speaker 1: is that it's a The eleven starting players on the team,

855
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: nine of them are Norwegians, and Lars points out that

856
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 1: Bodoglimp has done a very good job of finding Norwegian

857
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: players who have gone off to play in the Bundesliga

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00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: or La Liga or other big leagues and just not

859
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 1: cut it or didn't like it, and gotten them to

860
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: come back to play in Norway and that has really

861
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: powered them as a team.

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00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,359
Speaker 3: Because they have a little bit of experience with this

863
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 3: whole kind of Yes.

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Speaker 1: And the other crazy note about Bodoglimpt is they're currently

865
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: out of season. Remember in the in the Norwegian season,

866
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:36,320
Speaker 1: they play the old MLS, you know, the old MLS

867
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: or the current MLS calendar, which is they're out of

868
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,800
Speaker 1: season until I think next month or later in February.

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00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: They don't want to play in the snow, so they

870
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: don't want to play in the snow. So they have

871
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: not played a league game since late or late November

872
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,319
Speaker 1: early December, which is a big deal.

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00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so I just wonder how the team trains,

874
00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 3: if they train in Norway or if they're.

875
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: I think they do find camp somewhere else. So finishing

876
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: up this window by beating City at home and then

877
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: going on the road to Spain and winning a game

878
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: against Atletico Madrid is a huge accomplishment.

879
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 3: And by the way, Atletico had to get a result

880
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 3: because they wanted to finish top eight or they had

881
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 3: a chance to finish top eight as well, so it

882
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 3: wasn't like they weren't trying, right, And had they won

883
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:23,439
Speaker 3: that game. Had Madrid won that game, they likely would

884
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 3: have finished top eight.

885
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: And for the troubles Bodo Glimp now has to play

886
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: inter Milan.

887
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, the leaders their season, this was their season, advancing

888
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 3: here that this is their year. They're good.

889
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 1: The amount of money they'll make just forgetting this far

890
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:40,359
Speaker 1: and playing these two play in games or playoff games

891
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: is massive and congratulations to them. Car Bag finishing and

892
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 1: qualifying is a huge deal. They get Newcastle in the

893
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 1: in the knockout stage. The other knockout playoff.

894
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 3: Games not considered a strong sucker.

895
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: That's why it's a big deal. You said it like

896
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 1: you were drunk. Monaco gets PSGs Francis and don't forget

897
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: PSG had to play playoffs last year and won the

898
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 1: whole damn thing, so don't count them. Galatasarai gets Ventis

899
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 1: and Weston McKenny. Benfica gets Real Madrid. So after besting

900
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 1: Real Madrid with the double, okay, explain it.

901
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 3: No, no, you can explain it. Heading into the match, Real

902
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 3: Madrid needed a result in order to finish top eight

903
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 3: and get a bye.

904
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 1: Correct.

905
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:34,720
Speaker 3: Benfica was fighting for their lives.

906
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 1: They need just to stay in the tournament.

907
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 3: They needed to win and hope for goal difference.

908
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,879
Speaker 1: Yes, So going into the very very late stage, while

909
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: they have a three to two lead over Real Madrid,

910
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: they are not in. They are not in. They are

911
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: a goal short and they need a goal. And they

912
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: are the last of the games still being played because

913
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 1: their game had drug out for so long. It was

914
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: the final of the eighteen games that was still being played,

915
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 1: so all eyes were on Portugal.

916
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 3: And Madrid is going for a goal because they need

917
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:09,919
Speaker 3: to tie to get in the top eight.

918
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: Sure, okay, So they get all the way down to

919
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: the ninety hundredth minute of the game, Benfica gets a

920
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: corner kick.

921
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:20,800
Speaker 3: Shit, and then the camera rolls to Marina.

922
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 1: What does he do?

923
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:26,360
Speaker 3: He says, go on, keeper points at his goalkeeper, and

924
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 3: his goalkeeper runs all the way up and I'll be

925
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 3: damned if it.

926
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 1: Wasn't a corner kick. I think it was a free kick.

927
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 1: A free kick. The keeper heads it in to win

928
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,280
Speaker 1: the game at the death, and it was a really

929
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 1: nice hdder it was.

930
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:46,879
Speaker 3: And you know they on social media you could see

931
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 3: angles taken by fans, all different angles, reaction inside the stadium.

932
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 3: I don't know if you did this. I listened to

933
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 3: the goal call from Portugal, from Germany, other countries, we

934
00:48:57,840 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 3: played the one from England.

935
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: I think we played the English. It was yeah, yeah,

936
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: the English.

937
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 3: Right, fantastic moment. Man. And like we said, I don't

938
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:10,800
Speaker 3: know if there's a more exciting thing that happens in soccer,

939
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 3: then the goalkeeper scoring at the death got to be

940
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 3: the most rare to win the game.

941
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:19,360
Speaker 1: I mean, winning a game at the death in itself

942
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 1: is rare, but to have your goalkeeper score it is

943
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:23,840
Speaker 1: like the ultimate of rarities.

944
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 3: Now this is where it leads into this week because Mourinho,

945
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:29,840
Speaker 3: they score that goal, referee blows the whistle.

946
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: Game over.

947
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 3: You know what Mourinho does ass he goes in front

948
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 3: of the Real Madrid bench.

949
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: It just does this.

950
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 3: I don't know how you show this on radio.

951
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: Yes, this is a audible only medium. Yeah, he was

952
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:45,839
Speaker 1: shaking his fist, he was celebrating it, and he had

953
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 1: to apologize. And who do they draw next round? Yeah?

954
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 1: So Benfica gets Real Madrid.

955
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 3: So you just gave him locker room.

956
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: He just did. You just put the screws to his

957
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 1: former team. Now they're going to put the screws to him.

958
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 1: Is there any way, Real Madrid does zero zero, So

959
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:09,239
Speaker 1: would you take your portfolio and put it on Real

960
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: Madrid to best Benfica in this seventh playoff round. The

961
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 1: other one Brusia Dortmund gets Atalanta, car bag gets Newcastle.

962
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:21,320
Speaker 1: As I said, Club Bruges will be facing off against

963
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:26,400
Speaker 1: Atletico Madrid, Boto Glimpt gets first place, Sarria team enter

964
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:29,879
Speaker 1: Milan and Olympiakos and buyer Levercusa.

965
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,439
Speaker 3: And the other story is that five of the six

966
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:36,959
Speaker 3: Premier League teams advanced on the buy right, So five

967
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 3: of the eight teams getting a buye are Premier League.

968
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:44,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, lots of talk about this because of the obvious

969
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 1: narrative that it indicates the thing that we've been talking

970
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: about for a while, which is eventually Premier League clubs

971
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: having so much money, so much more money than other

972
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:58,839
Speaker 1: European clubs in TV is eventually going to catch up.

973
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,319
Speaker 1: And I I think we're seeing that a little bit

974
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:04,800
Speaker 1: to a degree. Yes, But you know what, English teams

975
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,720
Speaker 1: need to start winning these competitions for it to really

976
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: mean something. Yeah, not just Champions League but Europa League

977
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 1: and Conference League. They've got to start winning those on

978
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 1: the on it with some sort of consistency for me

979
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: to feel like it's a I.

980
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 3: Don't know man. Okay, fair that ultimately the goal is

981
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:26,280
Speaker 3: the trophy. But you know what, one of the funniest

982
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:29,839
Speaker 3: things I saw this week or read this week was

983
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 3: Lars a tweet by Lars where he says, understandable how

984
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 3: the big European teams now want to play or are

985
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:40,879
Speaker 3: asking for the Super League because you know they don't

986
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 3: want to face teams.

987
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: Like Budo Glen Right, Yeah, exactly. I thought the other

988
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:52,319
Speaker 1: thing that I somebody brought this up. It may have

989
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 1: been Nicky Bandini. I heard mention, this is part of

990
00:51:55,840 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 1: my problem with this schedule and the way this Whiss

991
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 1: model works out is the imbalance in some of the

992
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:08,879
Speaker 1: games because if you are a Premier League team, you

993
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:13,399
Speaker 1: are exempt from playing other Premier League teams. Okay, So

994
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:15,960
Speaker 1: she pointed out the fact that if you go look

995
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: at Tottenham's schedule through the group stage, it's pretty lightweight

996
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:23,479
Speaker 1: because they don't have to play other Premier League teams.

997
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:25,840
Speaker 1: And that is especially when you get loaded up with

998
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:29,279
Speaker 1: six English teams in a particular.

999
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 3: So you're gonna you're by default you're gonna get teams

1000
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 3: that are a little bit weaker, right, I think that's

1001
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 3: what the.

1002
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,800
Speaker 1: Just in this type, in this in this model. But

1003
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: I also think it comes with advantages. I think that

1004
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 1: a lot of what happened on Wednesday was truly really exciting.

1005
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 1: But I don't I think there are pros and cons

1006
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 1: to each of the each of the systems. I just

1007
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:52,040
Speaker 1: don't can't figure out which one I prefer.

1008
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 3: Okay, well, you've had two years now to think about it,

1009
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 3: and you're a nerd that thinks about these things.

1010
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 1: Rubber match it after a third Okay, so just so

1011
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 1: before we go, Opta has Arsenal. By the way, the

1012
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 1: team that I originally predicted to win the Champions League.

1013
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:14,800
Speaker 1: They are the favorite at twenty nine point eight percent

1014
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:17,759
Speaker 1: to win the Champions League. Bayern Munich in second on

1015
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: fourteen point nine City third at ten point five percent.

1016
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: Look who Andy's Liverpool floating around in fourth place at

1017
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 1: eight point nine percent, Chelsea in fifth at seven five

1018
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: and goes down.

1019
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:33,759
Speaker 3: How do you put the World Champions below Liverpool when

1020
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 3: Liverpool is not even top four Right now?

1021
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:40,360
Speaker 1: In England, Boto glimped twenty second at zero percent chance

1022
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:42,240
Speaker 1: to Champions League.

1023
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:45,320
Speaker 3: They're seasons made I mean, they're just the fact that

1024
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 3: they got this far.

1025
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Good times. All right, Well, those games

1026
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 1: will pick up here. When are those games late?

1027
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 3: I believe?

1028
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 1: Is that what it is? Okay, Yeah, so we'll catch

1029
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 1: back up with those when they kick off. We'll take

1030
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 1: a break when we come back. It's I'm for World

1031
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 1: Cup NERD here on the Kick Around. So something interesting

1032
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:17,279
Speaker 1: that I think the good Kick around listener's been waiting for.

1033
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 1: Peter and Andy talk promotion, relegation.

1034
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 3: What speak for yourself I'm laying.

1035
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: Now, and the introduction of the USL Premier League. We'll

1036
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 1: talk about that in great detail coming up in about

1037
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: twenty minutes to finish out the show here on the

1038
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: Kick Around. All right, So Andy, I'm curious did you

1039
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 1: happen to read an email that I sent you earlier

1040
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:48,759
Speaker 1: this week? Did you read the email I sent this

1041
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 1: week to you?

1042
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 3: Probably not If it was you that sent it to me,

1043
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 3: that's so sad. Did it's ay from Peter it and

1044
00:54:58,120 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 3: then I didn't read it?

1045
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure no. I sent an email to you and

1046
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: kat Oh with the times.

1047
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:05,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we talked about the times you and I

1048
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:07,240
Speaker 3: already had.

1049
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 1: We talked I included you because I thought it was

1050
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: it was important.

1051
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:12,839
Speaker 3: But we already talked about the time, but.

1052
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 1: I also brought it up and now I'm fine. I'm

1053
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:17,800
Speaker 1: trying to find it. Now I can't find it because

1054
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: the kickoff times for the games here in Dallas are interesting.

1055
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:25,040
Speaker 1: They're not like I was worried because we're going to

1056
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: be doing a nightly show on the ticket as we

1057
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 1: always do during the World Cup at seven PM, that

1058
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 1: we'd end up butting into a bunch of games out

1059
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: at at and T and it doesn't work out that way.

1060
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: Like the majority of the games here in Dallas all

1061
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 1: kick off anywhere from noon until like six pm. I

1062
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:45,960
Speaker 1: think we have one game that will be going on

1063
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,120
Speaker 1: while we're on the air, and then there's one night

1064
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:50,280
Speaker 1: where the game kicks off at nine pm.

1065
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean that the games across all venues for

1066
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 3: this World Cup, I mean they're all over the map.

1067
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 3: And so so I was just looking at it from

1068
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:02,080
Speaker 3: on a ailea basis how it'll affect the show because

1069
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 3: we are you know, there will be days when we

1070
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:07,160
Speaker 3: were when we have the show during some games. But

1071
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:10,239
Speaker 3: I wasn't thinking about it from just the Dallas perspective

1072
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:12,720
Speaker 3: which allows us to go to games.

1073
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:14,840
Speaker 1: Then right, well, that's kind of the other thing I

1074
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 1: was wondering is is now are we going to have

1075
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:20,240
Speaker 1: the ability to go to games this Yeah, this time around.

1076
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 1: That would be great if, in fact we could pull

1077
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:26,080
Speaker 1: that off. So anyway, it is time for World Cup, nerd,

1078
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:31,360
Speaker 1: and I wanted to So here's the thing. Earlier this week,

1079
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 1: to give Andy credit, he disclosed he didn't want to

1080
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:37,239
Speaker 1: get caught with ticket non disclosure.

1081
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 3: EA.

1082
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 1: He wanted to give everybody, me in particular, the heads up.

1083
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, just because I thought it'd bank for an interesting segment.

1084
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:46,280
Speaker 3: That was the impetition.

1085
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:48,600
Speaker 1: I thought you were trying to avoid being accused of

1086
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:49,760
Speaker 1: ticket yeah closure.

1087
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:51,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, also because you got me.

1088
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:58,839
Speaker 1: Uh So Andy was featured a feature a story all

1089
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:00,160
Speaker 1: about Andy.

1090
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:02,440
Speaker 3: About I don't think so, in the.

1091
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 1: Great American Soccer periodical Soccer America.

1092
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Speaker 3: Yes, that was nice.

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00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 1: It was a World Cup article. It was just.

1094
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 3: Asking me some questions about my opinions about World Cup

1095
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 3: related topics. But one of the topics, and this is

1096
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 3: what I wanted to talk about because I wanted to

1097
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 3: get your thoughts on it. One of the things that

1098
00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 3: they asked me about is what I would tell those

1099
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 3: coming to visit Dallas from abroad, other parts of the US,

1100
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 3: but more particularly, more particularly those that come from outside

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00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 3: of the country.

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00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 1: Things to do in Dallas are Argentinian guests, are Japanese guests,

1103
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: Our Dutch guest, Croatian, Croatian guests, Britz will come, English,

1104
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 1: Britz will be coming, yes.

1105
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:51,920
Speaker 3: And some unknown country that we don't know yet and

1106
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 3: we won't know until March. But not to mention Austrians

1107
00:57:55,120 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 3: one in Germany and George you got Granada ghana right, yes, anyway,

1108
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 3: So and it's an interesting it's a you know, and

1109
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 3: I always I put my you know, I like to

1110
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 3: travel and I put my travel hat on. It's like, okay,

1111
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 3: if I were traveling somewhere what you know, and I

1112
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 3: gravitate to food, and I don't know if you agreed

1113
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 3: with me, and I said, you know, the three pillars

1114
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 3: of Texas cuisine are Texas steak text, mex and barbecue,

1115
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 3: you have to agree with that, Like, yeah, when Mars

1116
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 3: came the three places swanky steakhouse and you took what.

1117
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 1: What what what? What steakhouse did we go to?

1118
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 3: Well? Can we say yeah? Albernets, Albert right, and it's

1119
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 3: the scene and all that.

1120
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:44,600
Speaker 1: And I took him to Rafa's, my favorite Text Mex place,

1121
00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 1: and we took him to Cadillac for barbecue.

1122
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 3: One of the top barbecue places, and Lars wanted to

1123
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 3: move here. Yeah, well he I don't think he He

1124
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 3: was polite about text Mex.

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00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 1: He was like, it was interesting. I think text Mex

1126
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 1: threw him off a little bit.

1127
00:58:58,080 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 3: But he loved the steak and he loved the barbecue.

1128
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 1: Did he love the barbecue?

1129
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 3: And my point with barbecue in the story was I do.

1130
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 3: And I know the Carolinas and the Deep South and

1131
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 3: Missouri and Kansas all they have their barbecue opinions. But

1132
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 3: I do think we have the best barbecue in the

1133
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 3: country because I think the smoking process eliminates the need

1134
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 3: for sweet sauces and all that, and you just eat

1135
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 3: the meat and it's really good. But that got me

1136
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:26,320
Speaker 3: thinking about something else, and that is that a lot

1137
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:29,920
Speaker 3: of people from this area resent and and so then

1138
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 3: I have to think, Okay, from a tourist perspective, what

1139
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:37,960
Speaker 3: makes our area unique? Right? Okay, Because when you travel somewhere,

1140
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 3: you want to see what is unique about the place

1141
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 3: you're traveling to.

1142
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:42,280
Speaker 1: And you can't find other places.

1143
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 3: And a lot of people in Dallas for Worth resent

1144
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 3: that we are looked at as like, you know, honky tonk,

1145
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:53,479
Speaker 3: Western culture all that, but you know, and for Worth

1146
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 3: embraces it.

1147
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:55,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dallas not as much.

1148
00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 3: And I know people aren't riding horses or wearing their

1149
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 3: cowboy hats. But honestly, if you come to Dallas Fort Worth,

1150
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 3: it is a modern city, good arts culture, good food scene,

1151
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:09,200
Speaker 3: live music. But those are things you can get in

1152
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 3: other cities, other modern cities in the world and in

1153
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 3: the US. But one thing that is very unique to

1154
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 3: our area is the Western culture. And so if you

1155
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 3: come from abroad, enjoy that a little.

1156
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 1: Bit and go out and how do you And but

1157
01:00:25,520 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 1: if somebody said, hey, Peter, I want to come to

1158
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:30,360
Speaker 1: Dallas Fort Worth and enjoy the Western culture short of

1159
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:33,640
Speaker 1: sending them to the stockyards, I don't know what that is. Well,

1160
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 1: my point was, do go out there. This is what

1161
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 1: are doing between games.

1162
01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:42,600
Speaker 3: Do go out there, but then also enjoy what Dallas

1163
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:45,919
Speaker 3: has to offer in its modern environment and with its

1164
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:49,280
Speaker 3: walking neighborhoods. And I think if you just explore and

1165
01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 3: get to meet the people, they don't have to wear

1166
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:56,880
Speaker 3: cowboy hats and ride horses for it to for for

1167
01:00:56,920 --> 01:00:59,600
Speaker 3: you to for you to assure some of the Texas culture,

1168
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 3: and I need some of that cuisine we mentioned.

1169
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:05,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, it is I hadn't really thought about this,

1170
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:08,440
Speaker 1: but you're right, because people are going to ask you

1171
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:10,840
Speaker 1: and me and other people. Okay, I'm coming to Dallas

1172
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:13,600
Speaker 1: because I'm coming to a couple of games. What do

1173
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: I do? And I would feel a little cliche by

1174
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:19,760
Speaker 1: saying go to the Stockyards, but I do think that's important.

1175
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 1: I think going to see where else, especially if you

1176
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 1: can go to the Kimball while you're out there, because

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01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:28,080
Speaker 1: that's such a fantastic museum. And I do think fort

1178
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:31,440
Speaker 1: Worth in many ways gets short changed in the scheme

1179
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:35,120
Speaker 1: of things because it's always Dallas. Well, yeah, everything is

1180
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 1: always Dallas, and Fort Worth is such a cool place

1181
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:40,280
Speaker 1: and there's so many cool things in Fort Worth to

1182
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 1: go absorb. But I also would assume a lot of

1183
01:01:44,720 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 1: people coming over here, like many people who travel, like

1184
01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:53,920
Speaker 1: to experience shopping, and Dallas is a really good place

1185
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:57,120
Speaker 1: to go high level shop. Go to North Park, one

1186
01:01:57,120 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 1: of the last remaining like legitimately Malls, No North Park.

1187
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 3: Is Yeah, it's it's a I'm a I'm a mall

1188
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 3: nerd and it's very Dallas, and it is extremely Dallas,

1189
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 3: and the other one, I mean, I think it's kind

1190
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:14,320
Speaker 3: of weird.

1191
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:17,600
Speaker 1: But Highland Park Village in its own way is kind

1192
01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:19,040
Speaker 1: of a experience.

1193
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:22,760
Speaker 3: And that was my point too, that I said, uh,

1194
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:26,760
Speaker 3: go identify and I listed somebody identify some of these areas,

1195
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 3: some of these neighborhoods where you go and and enjoy

1196
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:31,680
Speaker 3: the micro local culture.

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01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:37,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. Bishop of Arts, Trinity Groves, Bishop Arts Deep. Yeah,

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01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:40,320
Speaker 1: there are a lot of little places like that that

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01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:43,080
Speaker 1: I think are going to work out and prosper. Now,

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01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:45,280
Speaker 1: this also raises a really interesting thing that you and

1201
01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 1: I have talked about, because I I'm just gonna speak

1202
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 1: for me. I had worked under the assumption that because

1203
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:55,760
Speaker 1: Dallas and Fort Worth had lined up and defined multiple

1204
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 1: locations for national teams to base themselves from this area,

1205
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:04,840
Speaker 1: I just assumed that Frisco and Mansfield and whatever the

1206
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: other ones are, we're all going to get snatched up quickly,

1207
01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:11,560
Speaker 1: especially by those teams that are playing multiple games here

1208
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 1: in the group stage. Well, here we are. And while

1209
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:17,080
Speaker 1: none of them I think have officially been announced lots

1210
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:20,560
Speaker 1: of national teams have already indicated that they have chosen

1211
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 1: their locations. Germany has chosen.

1212
01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 3: A play and that was a first indication when Germany

1213
01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:27,920
Speaker 3: chose North Carolina, nothing to do with any venue that

1214
01:03:27,960 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 3: they were even playing in, right, And some others came

1215
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 3: out and yeah, so there's resils.

1216
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:36,480
Speaker 1: Up in New York, I think somewhere, and lo and behold,

1217
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:41,000
Speaker 1: none of the Dallas Fort Worth locations have been even

1218
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 1: hinted at for any of them beyond what you and

1219
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:45,520
Speaker 1: I beyond what I've said, which is, while I assume

1220
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:49,000
Speaker 1: Argentina will take Frisco just because it's such a perfect

1221
01:03:49,080 --> 01:03:51,400
Speaker 1: facility for a team playing two games here.

1222
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 3: And they what privacy is important to them, so you know,

1223
01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:59,560
Speaker 3: who knows everything that eventually makes a national team decide

1224
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 3: where they're going in a base camp.

1225
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:04,640
Speaker 1: It will be weird if we don't end up with

1226
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:07,240
Speaker 1: one of the big national teams and we end up

1227
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:16,000
Speaker 1: with Senegalgueira, well, one of the smaller national teams. But

1228
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 1: I do think part of the reason beyond privacy, because

1229
01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:22,400
Speaker 1: if if Argentina was really worried about privacy, they could

1230
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:25,080
Speaker 1: pick the Mansfield location. I mean, that would just be

1231
01:04:25,160 --> 01:04:28,560
Speaker 1: as as private as any other location in the United

1232
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:31,360
Speaker 1: States because it's so far out there and it's going

1233
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 1: to be brand new and et cetera, et cetera. But

1234
01:04:34,120 --> 01:04:36,360
Speaker 1: I think it's because everybody just assumes it's going to

1235
01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:38,680
Speaker 1: be a billion degrees and they don't want to have

1236
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:39,360
Speaker 1: to train.

1237
01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:41,840
Speaker 3: That heat is a factor here, and it does if.

1238
01:04:41,720 --> 01:04:43,000
Speaker 1: And I hadn't even thought about that.

1239
01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:45,400
Speaker 3: If you base camp, if you base camp for a

1240
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 3: base camping means you are somewhere for an extended period

1241
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:51,320
Speaker 3: of time, and we know that heat affects you if

1242
01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:54,320
Speaker 3: you're training in it over an extended period time. Does

1243
01:04:54,360 --> 01:04:56,680
Speaker 3: it as opposed to this in and out right?

1244
01:04:56,800 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: Right?

1245
01:04:57,560 --> 01:04:59,000
Speaker 3: Because for a long time people thought it was the

1246
01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 3: other way around. Oh, home field advantage.

1247
01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:06,320
Speaker 1: Right, That's why the Rangers didn't win the World Series

1248
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:12,000
Speaker 1: until they got an indoor See. Oh, now you're baseball expert. Excellent? Yeah, so,

1249
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:17,640
Speaker 1: uh so, have you put together Andy Swift's official restaurant

1250
01:05:17,680 --> 01:05:20,200
Speaker 1: fiver for DFW visiting?

1251
01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:22,880
Speaker 3: No, we should, uh, we should create one for Lars

1252
01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:24,480
Speaker 3: since he's going to join us, right.

1253
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:26,800
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, Lars is going to be living here for

1254
01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:32,680
Speaker 1: six weeks. Who have we pawned Lars off Ontol because

1255
01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:34,560
Speaker 1: he can't stay at mine. Is he staying at your house?

1256
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:36,840
Speaker 3: No, he's welcome to, but he's gonna have to deal

1257
01:05:36,880 --> 01:05:39,200
Speaker 3: with my very crazy doggie. So I don't think he'll

1258
01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:43,560
Speaker 3: love He loves dogs, so do I. So do you?

1259
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:48,280
Speaker 3: My dogs a special, special, special need.

1260
01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:56,120
Speaker 1: Buppy dog. He's just a little anxious nippy.

1261
01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:59,440
Speaker 3: Inside the house. Outside the house, he's like, Uh, everybody's

1262
01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:01,520
Speaker 3: friends really, So.

1263
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:03,960
Speaker 1: If anybody would like to have Lars Sivertston stay at

1264
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 1: their house, contact me. We'll see if we can't throw

1265
01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:10,160
Speaker 1: a deal. Oh my god, you're throwing it out there. Wow. No,

1266
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:13,360
Speaker 1: I think I know where. I think I know. But

1267
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 1: maybe we can get a deal, like I can, you know,

1268
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:19,880
Speaker 1: save some money, put him up at a p one's house.

1269
01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:23,160
Speaker 3: Let's just what about the W right here, Let's just

1270
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:23,880
Speaker 3: put him up there.

1271
01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:26,560
Speaker 1: I don't we don't have the budget. Yeah, the budget

1272
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:29,240
Speaker 1: was the budget for the for everything was approved this

1273
01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:31,680
Speaker 1: week and we do not have w budget. Let me

1274
01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 1: put it that way, sir. We might have over there

1275
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:38,720
Speaker 1: on Harry Hins Circle in budget, but not the w content.

1276
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:41,600
Speaker 1: All right, So there you go. There's world cup NERD.

1277
01:06:41,640 --> 01:06:45,640
Speaker 1: When we come back. It has taken many years for

1278
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:48,400
Speaker 1: us to finally do it, but here it is Andy

1279
01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:53,080
Speaker 1: and Peter's hard and fast stance on promotion and relegation

1280
01:06:53,800 --> 01:07:00,120
Speaker 1: and all that implies. Next on The Kick Around with

1281
01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:03,760
Speaker 1: a Fun and the Invasions bird House this Wednesday morning

1282
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:06,880
Speaker 1: at eleven thirty on Sports Radio ninety sixty seven and

1283
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:13,560
Speaker 1: thirteen ten their ticket you have survived to a final

1284
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:19,040
Speaker 1: segment of today's episode of The Kick Around. Congratulations to you.

1285
01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 1: We will be back next week though close. In fact,

1286
01:07:23,880 --> 01:07:27,720
Speaker 1: I think we're doing shows up until ticket Stock. Yeah,

1287
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:30,520
Speaker 1: in February. By the way, I haven't told you this,

1288
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:32,760
Speaker 1: but I volunteered us to do an appearance.

1289
01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:36,200
Speaker 3: Oh you didn't assume that I was already opting to

1290
01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:36,960
Speaker 3: be out of town.

1291
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:39,600
Speaker 1: And were got to ask us to do anything ticket Stock.

1292
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:41,360
Speaker 3: Thanks for checking with me first.

1293
01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:49,320
Speaker 1: I'm always curious why famous athletes sell off their stuff,

1294
01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:53,800
Speaker 1: especially when they're not very old. Debt okay, John Terry,

1295
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 1: Chelsea famous spend money. He had a big option.

1296
01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:00,560
Speaker 3: He wants to buy a yacht.

1297
01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:05,720
Speaker 1: Maybe he's got debt to pay. John Terry sold fifty

1298
01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:12,560
Speaker 1: different items in an auction recently. He gathered, including buyer's premiums.

1299
01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:15,840
Speaker 1: Just make think of the number that you think. So

1300
01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:19,360
Speaker 1: fifty items, what do you think the total of one

1301
01:08:19,400 --> 01:08:23,559
Speaker 1: hundred thousand, six hundred and ninety five thousand dollars And

1302
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:29,360
Speaker 1: it include a photo matched Messy Barcelona jersey from the

1303
01:08:29,400 --> 01:08:31,960
Speaker 1: group stage in six against Chelsea.

1304
01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 3: Was it signed by mess It was?

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Speaker 1: It was not. What do you think it's sold for?

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Speaker 3: Guess the message jersey? Yeah from six Heyday two thousand.

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Speaker 1: Eighty three thousand and he also sold a Ronaldo jersey

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Speaker 1: from when they played against United Or in the Premier League. No, no, not,

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01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:59,519
Speaker 1: oh the fake Ronaldo okay R seven. That one went

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Speaker 1: for one thousand and fifty uh one hundred fifty dollars. Yes.

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01:09:06,240 --> 01:09:09,320
Speaker 1: He also sold off a non Ree jersey for ninety

1312
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Speaker 1: eight thousand, and a Bufon keeper jersey from Juventus. Yeah,

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01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:17,840
Speaker 1: cigarette burns in with twenty two thousand. But here's the

1314
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:20,920
Speaker 1: weird one. He sold off a bunch of his trophies.

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01:09:21,280 --> 01:09:23,879
Speaker 1: Like I guess players get player replica trophies.

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01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:24,599
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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01:09:24,720 --> 01:09:28,600
Speaker 1: Man, he sold off a two thousand and seven replica

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01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:32,599
Speaker 1: player FA Cup Champion trophy and it sold for twenty

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01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:37,200
Speaker 1: seven thousand dollars. Wow, isn't that crazy. Yeah, I hope

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01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:38,400
Speaker 1: everything's okay with John.

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01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:41,560
Speaker 3: No explanation doesn't say okay.

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01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:44,240
Speaker 1: And oh wait, okay, it does say this unspecified portion

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01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:47,400
Speaker 1: of the proceeds will go towards the John Terry Foundation,

1324
01:09:48,439 --> 01:09:52,880
Speaker 1: which benefits disadvantage the world in the United Kingdom.

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01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:53,840
Speaker 3: It's the world fun.

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01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:57,559
Speaker 1: No, just John Terry Foundation.

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01:09:57,640 --> 01:09:58,720
Speaker 3: Okay, not the world, not.

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01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 1: The World fun No, not Andy Swift's personal Oh come on,

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01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: that was food pantry. We mentioned this earlier in the show.

1330
01:10:07,640 --> 01:10:09,760
Speaker 1: The big one of the big headlines of the week,

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01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 1: and we've been waiting for this for a while. Is

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01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:16,040
Speaker 1: you know back several months ago, USL announced that they

1333
01:10:16,120 --> 01:10:18,800
Speaker 1: had been given the green light to launch their own

1334
01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:24,120
Speaker 1: first division league, but the details of what that would

1335
01:10:24,200 --> 01:10:27,960
Speaker 1: look like had not yet arrived, and the only thing

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01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 1: they had pimped because this is the clickbait, which is

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01:10:31,400 --> 01:10:34,320
Speaker 1: it would include some form of promotion relegation. Well, this

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01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:39,920
Speaker 1: week we got many more details in a press release.

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01:10:39,960 --> 01:10:43,640
Speaker 1: In a press release. We still have a ton of questions.

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01:10:43,680 --> 01:10:47,000
Speaker 3: So I don't know. I don't know if you've promoted

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01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:49,640
Speaker 3: this or sent it out, but you wrote something on

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01:10:49,720 --> 01:10:53,280
Speaker 3: substack and I read it because you sent it to me.

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01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:54,680
Speaker 1: And I thought it was.

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01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:57,439
Speaker 3: Really good, and you make some you make some excellent points.

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01:10:57,479 --> 01:11:00,160
Speaker 3: So I would encourage you, Peter, to promote it and

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01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:04,920
Speaker 3: send that out and let others share in your knowledge.

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01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 1: I will click, I will tweet the link out, okay,

1348
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:11,840
Speaker 1: and you can also just it's on Twitter. Just I'll

1349
01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:14,160
Speaker 1: put it out there. It's just it's free. My substack

1350
01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:16,760
Speaker 1: is free. Nobody wants to pay for my money.

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01:11:17,240 --> 01:11:20,080
Speaker 3: People. I think you offered me two dollars if I

1352
01:11:20,080 --> 01:11:23,519
Speaker 3: would read it first. But you make some really good points,

1353
01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:28,320
Speaker 3: very fair balanced, its objective, I think, and it and

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01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:30,920
Speaker 3: what I like is that you took the tone of

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01:11:30,920 --> 01:11:34,519
Speaker 3: somebody that has been following the game here in this

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01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:37,439
Speaker 3: country for a bit, and following a professional league for

1357
01:11:37,479 --> 01:11:41,200
Speaker 3: a bit, right, and professional leagues we have leagues, right,

1358
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:44,120
Speaker 3: not just MLS but other well soccer.

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01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:46,679
Speaker 1: Many things that have happened to me in my life

1360
01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:50,200
Speaker 1: at my advanced age, our advanced age is the reality,

1361
01:11:50,720 --> 01:11:55,519
Speaker 1: the realization that my perspective, our perspective as gen X,

1362
01:11:56,200 --> 01:12:00,400
Speaker 1: is different from other generations that didn't experience what you

1363
01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:03,400
Speaker 1: and I did as kids in the United States back

1364
01:12:03,439 --> 01:12:06,559
Speaker 1: in the seventies and eighties, which where no soccer which well,

1365
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:09,679
Speaker 1: two things. One, we watched the league of our youth,

1366
01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:14,759
Speaker 1: the NASL, devour itself, and then we had this extended

1367
01:12:14,760 --> 01:12:17,519
Speaker 1: period of time where we had no professionals, just indoor soccer.

1368
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:20,960
Speaker 1: But yeah, okay, right, yeah, as I said, no professional soccer, right,

1369
01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:27,760
Speaker 1: So and so that to me has largely informed my

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01:12:28,040 --> 01:12:32,000
Speaker 1: willingness to be more accepting of the structure of Major

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01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:32,639
Speaker 1: League Soccer.

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Speaker 3: So before yeah, and let's go, let's you make five

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01:12:36,479 --> 01:12:40,760
Speaker 3: good points, five points that you outlined in your and

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01:12:40,840 --> 01:12:45,760
Speaker 3: your story before we do again, let's, in a very

1375
01:12:45,760 --> 01:12:49,600
Speaker 3: simple way, just let the p one know what the

1376
01:12:49,720 --> 01:12:51,760
Speaker 3: USL has said. They have said. They have said that

1377
01:12:51,920 --> 01:12:54,960
Speaker 3: starting in twenty twenty eight, they are going to receive

1378
01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:58,639
Speaker 3: Division I status from USSF.

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01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:01,120
Speaker 1: Which, in the eyes of US Soccer is sanctioning equal

1380
01:13:01,200 --> 01:13:03,920
Speaker 1: to are on the same level as Major League Soccer.

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01:13:03,760 --> 01:13:06,519
Speaker 3: Right, so they can be another Division one league. And

1382
01:13:06,560 --> 01:13:10,200
Speaker 3: they're saying they're going to launch this league in twenty twenty.

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01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:13,559
Speaker 1: Eight, correct, Okay. Now, part of the reason why I'm

1384
01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:16,880
Speaker 1: personally excited by this, as many of you know, we

1385
01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:21,000
Speaker 1: already know here in Dallas specific we have a club

1386
01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:25,000
Speaker 1: launching in USL next year in twenty twenty seven at

1387
01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:29,200
Speaker 1: Letco Dallas, which will start in the USL Championship. Right,

1388
01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:33,120
Speaker 1: many people don't know this, but it is not a

1389
01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:36,679
Speaker 1: secret that we anticipate in the coming months, if not weeks,

1390
01:13:37,240 --> 01:13:40,960
Speaker 1: there will be another team announced which will be playing

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01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:43,000
Speaker 1: at Farrington Field in Fort Worth.

1392
01:13:42,800 --> 01:13:44,920
Speaker 3: So a Terrent County team as well. And terror they

1393
01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:47,040
Speaker 3: going to want to be a Division one.

1394
01:13:47,160 --> 01:13:52,040
Speaker 1: The idea is that I believe now you know everybody

1395
01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:55,920
Speaker 1: is hedging on this, but I suspect the idea is

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01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:59,360
Speaker 1: that USL Premier, which is they are now officially calling

1397
01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:02,120
Speaker 1: that to you and I for always it calling it

1398
01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:07,679
Speaker 1: that Andy will feature a DFW Darby from the jump,

1399
01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:11,040
Speaker 1: and when I think about that, that really grabs my attention.

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01:14:11,080 --> 01:14:15,280
Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, it's great, but I think a lot not

1401
01:14:15,360 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 3: a lot of people, but I think some and those

1402
01:14:18,280 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 3: especially those that like promotion relegation, assume this. This structure

1403
01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:25,400
Speaker 3: is going to have promotion relegation. It's going to be

1404
01:14:25,439 --> 01:14:27,640
Speaker 3: Division one. It's going to be right up there with

1405
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:32,519
Speaker 3: MLS now And you are here to tell everybody why not.

1406
01:14:32,880 --> 01:14:36,840
Speaker 1: Well, the first and foremost you have to remember Major

1407
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:41,040
Speaker 1: League Soccer has a thirty year head start and that

1408
01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:43,160
Speaker 1: is a significant thing that is not going to be

1409
01:14:43,200 --> 01:14:48,000
Speaker 1: easily overcome. So there are five things that I've broken

1410
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:49,960
Speaker 1: out in this article that I think are important to

1411
01:14:49,960 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 1: think of, and this is the easiest way for me

1412
01:14:51,840 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 1: to parse it into bite sized chunks. First off, currently

1413
01:14:57,240 --> 01:15:01,080
Speaker 1: USL does not have a working collect of Bargaining agreement.

1414
01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:04,040
Speaker 1: Their previous CBA expired at the end of the twenty

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01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:07,519
Speaker 1: five season. They have been negotiating a new one for

1416
01:15:07,640 --> 01:15:09,599
Speaker 1: quite a bit of time, and it has gotten as

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01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:11,599
Speaker 1: it always does no matter what the sport is, it's

1418
01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:16,080
Speaker 1: always contentious. But the twenty six seasons are a bit

1419
01:15:16,280 --> 01:15:18,879
Speaker 1: at risk at this moment because they have not completed

1420
01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:19,439
Speaker 1: the CBA.

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01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:24,200
Speaker 3: The important point to gather from this point, this particular item,

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01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:27,959
Speaker 3: is that even if they reach an agreement, the minimum

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01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:31,519
Speaker 3: salary would probably be in the fifty to sixty thousand range. Right.

1424
01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:34,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, this is all kind of like other people

1425
01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:37,040
Speaker 1: digging through and pulling stuff out, But the thing that

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01:15:37,080 --> 01:15:39,880
Speaker 1: stood out to me was that there is an indicator

1427
01:15:40,040 --> 01:15:43,439
Speaker 1: that the amount of money that the Players Association is

1428
01:15:43,560 --> 01:15:47,640
Speaker 1: hoping to get for a minimum salary for a USL

1429
01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:52,200
Speaker 1: premier player as a starter is just a little bit

1430
01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:56,240
Speaker 1: more than half than what an MLS reserve player currently

1431
01:15:56,280 --> 01:15:56,920
Speaker 1: makes today.

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01:15:57,040 --> 01:15:59,080
Speaker 3: And that's the significant point.

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01:15:59,160 --> 01:16:01,439
Speaker 1: That's the market decater to me as to where we

1434
01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:03,760
Speaker 1: can start to begin to understand what this is going

1435
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:05,400
Speaker 1: to look like when it begins to come.

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01:16:05,320 --> 01:16:06,920
Speaker 3: And the kind of top talent they're going to be

1437
01:16:06,960 --> 01:16:07,519
Speaker 3: able to draw.

1438
01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:10,559
Speaker 1: Correct. Okay, the second thing, and I didn't even know

1439
01:16:10,640 --> 01:16:14,080
Speaker 1: this about USL until recently, which is, you know a

1440
01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:16,320
Speaker 1: lot of people love to pick on Major League Soccer

1441
01:16:16,400 --> 01:16:20,080
Speaker 1: by claiming its clubs are affiliates or franchises and it's

1442
01:16:20,120 --> 01:16:23,439
Speaker 1: this closed model of pay for play. Well, I'm here

1443
01:16:23,439 --> 01:16:26,360
Speaker 1: to break the news that USL is essentially the exact

1444
01:16:26,439 --> 01:16:30,320
Speaker 1: same thing. Teams are in USL because they pay an

1445
01:16:30,360 --> 01:16:32,680
Speaker 1: expansion fee to get there. The expansion fees are as

1446
01:16:32,760 --> 01:16:35,920
Speaker 1: much as twenty million dollars for the championship. It's five

1447
01:16:35,960 --> 01:16:38,599
Speaker 1: million dollars for USL one, and it's a little less

1448
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:40,679
Speaker 1: than one hundred thousand for League two, and.

1449
01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:42,960
Speaker 3: That goes one hundred percent of it goes to the

1450
01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:47,080
Speaker 3: private entity, for profit entity that is USL, and they

1451
01:16:47,160 --> 01:16:47,760
Speaker 3: keep it all.

1452
01:16:47,920 --> 01:16:51,200
Speaker 1: So the difference between MLS and USL is that MLS

1453
01:16:51,280 --> 01:16:54,880
Speaker 1: is a self sustaining structure designed to help protect and

1454
01:16:54,960 --> 01:16:58,839
Speaker 1: foster and nurture all of the clubs financially through revenue sharing.

1455
01:16:59,360 --> 01:17:03,080
Speaker 1: USL has very little of that. USL revenue shares only

1456
01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:07,360
Speaker 1: the money currently that they raise through advertising, sponsorships and

1457
01:17:07,400 --> 01:17:10,120
Speaker 1: TV deals. And when you break all that number down

1458
01:17:10,160 --> 01:17:12,559
Speaker 1: between the fifty percent that the league keeps and the

1459
01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:15,720
Speaker 1: fifty percent they split up, it represents less than a

1460
01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:18,160
Speaker 1: half million dollars for each and every club. Yeah, so

1461
01:17:18,280 --> 01:17:19,360
Speaker 1: a couple of things here.

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01:17:19,520 --> 01:17:21,439
Speaker 3: One is that doesn't leave a lot of money for

1463
01:17:21,479 --> 01:17:25,080
Speaker 3: the clubs, and they're relying solely on ticket sales and

1464
01:17:25,439 --> 01:17:31,760
Speaker 3: it's and sponsorship. What league, successful professional sports league, any

1465
01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:37,240
Speaker 3: sport in the world is successful without real television money.

1466
01:17:37,640 --> 01:17:41,639
Speaker 3: No where clubs can actually generate a decent MindUP income

1467
01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:42,240
Speaker 3: to survive.

1468
01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:45,720
Speaker 1: Correct. And the assumption is USL will get some sort

1469
01:17:45,720 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 1: of substantial TV deal at some point and revenue share it.

1470
01:17:49,240 --> 01:17:52,680
Speaker 1: And well, they revenue share that part, So the advertising,

1471
01:17:52,720 --> 01:17:55,439
Speaker 1: sponsorship and TV deal is part of the fifty percent

1472
01:17:55,520 --> 01:17:58,320
Speaker 1: revenue share they do. What they don't share are the

1473
01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:02,200
Speaker 1: expansion fees last year. As an example, you can take

1474
01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:04,960
Speaker 1: the two teams they added to the Championship, and the

1475
01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:08,479
Speaker 1: four teams they added to League one represents about sixty

1476
01:18:08,520 --> 01:18:12,080
Speaker 1: five million dollars of income for the USL, and none

1477
01:18:12,160 --> 01:18:15,000
Speaker 1: of that, to the best of my understanding, got trickled

1478
01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:18,000
Speaker 1: down to the clubs. The clubs are one hundred percent

1479
01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:22,280
Speaker 1: self reliant, well not one hundred percent, but essentially reliant

1480
01:18:22,320 --> 01:18:27,840
Speaker 1: on their own profit and stability financially as an entity.

1481
01:18:27,680 --> 01:18:30,679
Speaker 3: And they and the player signings are one hundred percent

1482
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:35,759
Speaker 3: of their cost. Yes, so that this is significant. Again

1483
01:18:35,880 --> 01:18:36,559
Speaker 3: it is okay.

1484
01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:39,760
Speaker 1: So the third thing is an open question that I

1485
01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:42,000
Speaker 1: think they still have to spend some time defining, which

1486
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:44,719
Speaker 1: is how are they going to populate this new Premier

1487
01:18:44,800 --> 01:18:48,439
Speaker 1: League Because they stayed in the statement in the press release,

1488
01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:52,080
Speaker 1: they state that they intend to have eventually twenty teams

1489
01:18:52,120 --> 01:18:55,000
Speaker 1: in the Premier League and twenty teams in the Championship,

1490
01:18:55,000 --> 01:18:59,000
Speaker 1: but they admit at launch either or both could be

1491
01:18:59,040 --> 01:19:02,360
Speaker 1: as few as twelve. Now, how they're going to figure

1492
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:05,400
Speaker 1: out how they even if it's just the twelve teams

1493
01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:08,040
Speaker 1: in the Premier League, where are those teams coming from?

1494
01:19:08,439 --> 01:19:12,360
Speaker 1: Are they twelve teams from the current Championship? Probably not.

1495
01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:14,040
Speaker 1: I think there's going to be a bunch of new

1496
01:19:14,040 --> 01:19:18,160
Speaker 1: teams that don't even exist today that get announced that

1497
01:19:18,200 --> 01:19:21,439
Speaker 1: will get promoted in there. But the other interesting question

1498
01:19:21,560 --> 01:19:25,400
Speaker 1: is is it made up exclusively of teams willing to

1499
01:19:25,479 --> 01:19:28,679
Speaker 1: pay the freight, the entry, the expansion fee to get

1500
01:19:28,720 --> 01:19:32,320
Speaker 1: in or will the champion, will the team that wins

1501
01:19:32,360 --> 01:19:37,840
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty seven USLC get promoted, or would we

1502
01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:39,960
Speaker 1: also have a scenario where a team that ends up

1503
01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:43,960
Speaker 1: in twelfth in twenty twenty seven USLC end up playing

1504
01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:46,120
Speaker 1: in the Premier League the following year because they're willing

1505
01:19:46,120 --> 01:19:46,599
Speaker 1: to pay the.

1506
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:49,320
Speaker 3: Freight, right, Or you don't get promoted because you're not,

1507
01:19:49,840 --> 01:19:53,280
Speaker 3: or you're exactly do we really have promotion relegation if

1508
01:19:53,320 --> 01:19:54,559
Speaker 3: all those things are in play?

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01:19:54,640 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 1: I think that's another interesting up. Yeah, they have to.

1510
01:19:57,479 --> 01:19:59,439
Speaker 1: So the next one, and this is really the one

1511
01:19:59,439 --> 01:20:01,840
Speaker 1: that I think is the most important and problematic, which

1512
01:20:01,880 --> 01:20:05,559
Speaker 1: is the stadium issue. There are twenty four current USL

1513
01:20:05,680 --> 01:20:09,640
Speaker 1: Championship teams currently. Of the twenty four and this is

1514
01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:14,280
Speaker 1: very important. Only four of the twenty four play in

1515
01:20:14,360 --> 01:20:20,439
Speaker 1: a stadium that meets US Soccer's minimum capacity requirements for

1516
01:20:20,479 --> 01:20:24,720
Speaker 1: a Division one team and league. Every league in the

1517
01:20:24,760 --> 01:20:28,720
Speaker 1: world has minimum standards, the Bundesliga, La Liga, all of them,

1518
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:30,920
Speaker 1: and all of them tend to be about fifteen thousand

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01:20:31,439 --> 01:20:35,880
Speaker 1: and there's a reason for that. US Soccer also has this,

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01:20:36,479 --> 01:20:40,200
Speaker 1: so I assume, like everybody, US Soccer will give a

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01:20:40,320 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 1: series of exemptions and grace periods. But my question isn't

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01:20:45,240 --> 01:20:48,120
Speaker 1: just about what happens in twenty eight, twenty nine to thirty,

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01:20:48,120 --> 01:20:52,439
Speaker 1: but as you get into the twenty thirties, what is

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01:20:52,479 --> 01:20:57,920
Speaker 1: the reality of clubs currently to be able to build

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01:20:58,040 --> 01:21:01,880
Speaker 1: either modify their existing structures, go out and build an

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01:21:02,040 --> 01:21:06,280
Speaker 1: entire new stadium or move to another stadium in their

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01:21:06,320 --> 01:21:09,240
Speaker 1: market that allows them to meet this require them at

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01:21:09,280 --> 01:21:12,559
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand steats. And I do think this becomes a

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01:21:12,640 --> 01:21:15,439
Speaker 1: more and more interesting question when you dig into the

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01:21:15,479 --> 01:21:19,040
Speaker 1: fact you look at a team like Tulsa right now

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01:21:19,040 --> 01:21:22,679
Speaker 1: that's playing in League One, Well, where's tall If Tulsa

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01:21:22,880 --> 01:21:25,160
Speaker 1: it gets to be really good, how are they ever

1533
01:21:25,280 --> 01:21:28,439
Speaker 1: going to be able to pay the money to build

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Speaker 1: a stadium as that's a requirement.

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Speaker 3: Does that mean that a club like Tulsa will never

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01:21:32,160 --> 01:21:34,920
Speaker 3: be able to get to the premiere the vision?

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Speaker 1: Exactly? I mean, here's the crazy this is the most

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01:21:37,800 --> 01:21:40,719
Speaker 1: extreme example of that. So we have Dallas for Earth

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01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:43,760
Speaker 1: we've talked about, but in twenty twenty seven, there's a

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01:21:43,800 --> 01:21:46,080
Speaker 1: new team coming to town to play in USL one

1541
01:21:46,280 --> 01:21:50,200
Speaker 1: in Salina. Yes, they're called Rodeo sc.

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01:21:50,320 --> 01:21:53,559
Speaker 3: Okay, Western Culture. There you go, Bam, they're playing.

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01:21:53,920 --> 01:21:57,280
Speaker 1: They're lined up to play in the brand new Salina

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01:21:57,600 --> 01:22:00,519
Speaker 1: High School Stadium. What if that team is so good

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01:22:00,560 --> 01:22:03,880
Speaker 1: it gets promoted to the Championship. What if it's so

1546
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:06,559
Speaker 1: good it gets promoted to the Premier League kind of

1547
01:22:06,600 --> 01:22:11,000
Speaker 1: like Wrexham. Okay, you begin to understand. Okay, And ultimately

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01:22:11,080 --> 01:22:13,639
Speaker 1: I think the most important part that needs to happen

1549
01:22:14,120 --> 01:22:18,280
Speaker 1: is that I think that it is it is absolutely

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01:22:18,360 --> 01:22:22,840
Speaker 1: required that both the league and the individual clubs develop

1551
01:22:23,240 --> 01:22:28,120
Speaker 1: and communicate a clear narrative of expectation setting, because what

1552
01:22:28,240 --> 01:22:31,040
Speaker 1: I think is what we're about to get is way

1553
01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:34,960
Speaker 1: different than the difference between English Premier and English Championship.

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01:22:35,120 --> 01:22:36,720
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be closer to what we're

1555
01:22:36,760 --> 01:22:39,120
Speaker 1: currently seeing in the women's game in the United States

1556
01:22:39,479 --> 01:22:44,760
Speaker 1: and the difference between the long standing NWSL and USL's

1557
01:22:44,840 --> 01:22:48,400
Speaker 1: own new first tier women's league, the Super League, which

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01:22:48,439 --> 01:22:49,400
Speaker 1: Dallas Trinity plays.

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01:22:49,479 --> 01:22:52,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a good comparison. I think you're the

1560
01:22:52,120 --> 01:22:55,400
Speaker 3: best line here was Apathy is worse than disappointment or

1561
01:22:55,400 --> 01:22:58,800
Speaker 3: criticism in a way, because apathy means that you're just

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01:22:58,920 --> 01:23:01,280
Speaker 3: like you don't even care at least when you're gonna

1563
01:23:01,320 --> 01:23:04,880
Speaker 3: criticize it. Yeah, there's some emotional and some care about it.

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01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:07,479
Speaker 1: I think it's really important that the league and the

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01:23:07,520 --> 01:23:11,360
Speaker 1: teams begin to communicate that they that fans, the rank

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01:23:11,400 --> 01:23:14,480
Speaker 1: and file soccer fans in this country should not anticipate

1567
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:17,920
Speaker 1: that this premiere, this pyramid isn't going to be completely open.

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01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:21,040
Speaker 1: They're going to have guardrails in place with promotion and

1569
01:23:21,080 --> 01:23:24,640
Speaker 1: relegation to start off, to help protect teams, and the

1570
01:23:24,760 --> 01:23:26,799
Speaker 1: level of play just isn't going to be the same.

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01:23:26,880 --> 01:23:28,160
Speaker 1: It is going to be different.

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01:23:28,240 --> 01:23:30,639
Speaker 3: And do they have internal expectations? Those are important.

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01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:33,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think that's an interesting question. Those

1574
01:23:33,040 --> 01:23:35,759
Speaker 1: are all things we have to find out. I want

1575
01:23:35,760 --> 01:23:38,520
Speaker 1: this to succeed. I think this will be good for everybody,

1576
01:23:38,840 --> 01:23:41,679
Speaker 1: but I think there is a lot of heavy lifting

1577
01:23:42,240 --> 01:23:44,920
Speaker 1: that both the clubs and the league have to do

1578
01:23:45,439 --> 01:23:48,000
Speaker 1: to make this successful and make sure that people don't

1579
01:23:48,040 --> 01:23:51,360
Speaker 1: walk into this thinking it's going to be something way

1580
01:23:51,360 --> 01:23:54,280
Speaker 1: better than Major League soccer and find out that it's not,

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01:23:54,479 --> 01:23:55,800
Speaker 1: at least initially.

1582
01:23:55,400 --> 01:23:57,479
Speaker 3: Much more of the means THEAH than what was in

1583
01:23:57,520 --> 01:23:59,519
Speaker 3: that glossy press release.

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01:24:00,320 --> 01:24:02,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's early going, man, I mean you.

1585
01:24:02,680 --> 01:24:04,800
Speaker 3: Know, I'm sure they've thought up a little bit.

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01:24:06,240 --> 01:24:10,080
Speaker 1: I would hope, so, I would hope so we'll be

1587
01:24:10,120 --> 01:24:12,960
Speaker 1: able to check it out. Athletico Dallas launches in like

1588
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:15,880
Speaker 1: eighteen months in the twenty twenty seven season, So we'll

1589
01:24:15,920 --> 01:24:18,360
Speaker 1: get to Hotton Bowl near you, at the Cotton Bowl

1590
01:24:18,520 --> 01:24:21,559
Speaker 1: near you. All Right, there we go. Thanks to Kambla

1591
01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:25,040
Speaker 1: Fata for doing tickers, EA for producing in Tremel for

1592
01:24:25,160 --> 01:24:27,800
Speaker 1: running the board. I do believe we're back next week.

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Speaker 1: Pee Ones, thanks for listening. We love and adore you

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01:24:31,880 --> 01:24:35,559
Speaker 1: going out there, get stuck in and when your fifties