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0:00 Deduction of the deduction bounce
13:33 Chelsea 0-1 Liverpool
43:52 Arsenal 4-1 Newcastle
52:50 Bournemouth 0-1 Manchester City
57:05 Manchester United 1-2 Fulham
1:04:30 Aston Villa 4-2 Nottingham Forest
1:08:20 Crystal Palace 3-0 Burnley
1:13:12 Wolves 1-0 Sheffield United
1:14:28 Brighton 1-1 Everton
P was in his slightly weird slightly manic just overpraising his players mode is I am very happy that one where he called it his players Superman he then claimed I adored everything from Manchester City’s performance what a funny team you watch them and you just think wow they could just score so many
Goals if they just kept it a little simpler just as the goal was simple if they just did but he probably didn’t love that he like the complicated [ __ ] that goes wrong that’s what he was that’s it right back to Ed let’s start again I love it so much
I love it from the men in Blazers Studios and the crap part of Bedford New York and from the OG crap part of Soho it’s the men in Blazers video podcast presented by the gfop at Camarena the world’s most awarded tequila we back like everon football club from the
Points deduction upside down David what is dead may never die well I was thinking about this today will you now get a bounce from the deduction of the deduction or do you have to to do that does the deduction have to be not enough so you get a not enough of a deduction
Of the deduction bounce yeah by the way I followed every single word you just asked I think everyone in the football world’s framing that question right now and that is why we watch football for the new math as we will discuss D but there’s a lot of football to talk about
A lot of extra time lot of canabal fueled magic yeah but we do need to talk very quickly about a competition we’re launching really important thing up top because you know us soccer is in it’s the best of times it’s the worst of times I’ve been watching the US women
Just dominate in the Gold Cup um I think there were 3,000 fans at their first game which is honestly hard to see the US men soaring with their clubs this weekend across Europe Chris Richards as we talk about yeah scoring his first Premier League goal Johnny cardoso
Scoring his first for real Bettis Paxton arenson a baby his first at vitess Ricardo Pepe scoring is like what is it 12 million goal coming off the bench for PSV Malik Tillman s des grabbing assist Flo balagan musling his way to a stunning goal in front Weston mckin two
Assists by Luca and on and on even Jordan poox going for bruan Munch and glad back um and it made me think David the Cooper is fast charging towards us this summer and yes dear listeners I like you long for a day when the US Men’s National Team fulfill our forever
Dreams fulfill our potential to become a footballing Force and for decades we’ve wandered around the game’s periphery you know we’ve said we’ve lacked the players we don’t lack the players The Experience we’ve had experience the coaching you know we talk about that still um so that
We can take the field and believe we’re going to win no matter whom the opponents are and I was watching the African nations cup the Asian cup you see the cameroons the indominable Lions you see Thailand your war elephants my new favorite which I love so much DAV
Jordan do you know what Jordan’s nickname is no tell me an Nama the chivalrous gentleman God who wouldn’t want to be called oh my God I’m playing for the chivalrous gentleman I mean God I just I do a two-footed tackle as soon as kickoff occurred I tell you in my
Experience the only people who described themselves as chivalrous gentleman are neither chivalrous nor gentlemen I know that’s its Brilliance and you saw what it did for them getting into the final of that beauty here’s where I am d mentally I think you know we need a
Great nickname for the US men ahead of the Cooper we need one now right yeah do you think that the US don’t believe um I mean the fans I believe that we will win the players every time you interview them I think they’re full of belief I think there is an element of
The football Uber class who don’t believe but I think at root there’s a lot of belief sometimes maybe too much belief and not enough practical what of what genuine Champions do to prepare to go and win I think there’s belief I mean I will be honest I’ve interviewed people from like the
2006 2010 2014 and they will tell you honestly they won’t say it on the record but they will say when they when they took the field against Belgium or whatever did they really believe they were going to do them um and you’ll get some very interesting um answers but I
Love your theory more DAV that a good manager would say believe less Lads we got over belief it’s a very unique problem over belief in football well no it’s so true it’s like teams love being the underdog in football right they love being the underdog and there was
Something about the Americans being the underdog without too much belief that was maybe a slightly better setup for the US mentality than being dominant going I like the way you’re trying to solve the problem in a different way here I am thinking it was just nicknames you’re saying less belief more mullets
More chips on shoulder more Miola is essentially what you’re saying more kick it hard yeah kick it hard those days but I do I do smell a competition dear listeners um this us team has had lots of nicknames in its time none have really stuck the old Goldie of course
The Benchmark I know what you’re thinking you’re all screaming at at your Pod radio right now listeners you’re saying 1930s team which reached the World Cup semi we don’t we don’t talk enough about this team that reach the World Cup semi-finals David we got pedigree why don’t we talk more about
Yeah um yeah was partly because color television wasn’t so strong back in 1930 we don’t have great images there was no there was no X there was I tell you JP Dela was still calling that game still calling his out um we could that team was called the shot Putters oh uh
Because they were so lumbering in girth which I adore they were mostly Scottish and English expats um the team later became the Stars and Stripes the Yanks they were called the Yanks which is a bit obvious for a long period of Time 2014 I think some of our fans gave the
Name the Von traps and the Clinton which I still love um the baby eagles of 2022 they’re not babies anymore though are they David no no and certainly not baby eagles we’ve we’ve had a Boys to Men sit you and yes I do know it’s so hard to
Say goodbye to yesterday but we need a new nickname ahead of the Cooper we need one now which is why we turn to you you incredible human beings our listeners um what is the nickname for this US Men’s National Team as we approach the Copa send it to us meninblazers gmail.com meninblazers
Gmail.com you can tweet it to however you want to get it to us but men in Blazers gmail.com the nickname that best captures where our gents are right now as a program and that will ideally scare the B Jesus out of our opponents or at least make them laugh long enough for
Serino Des to M nutmeg his way down the wing and not one in off Christian’s politics that’s what we need isn’t it David I think so well the prize R in this competition is one of a kind it’s a mug that we will make for you with your
Nickname signed by Raj and for Extra Value not signed by Deo this in fact is a cup more valuable than the World Cup that we will be defending in 2030 R plus a video message of your choice in which Raj will say anything of your choosing
Well anything we’ll take that to the law but anything really yeah well maybe we’ll just have the publicist at it men in blazers at j. I think this is this is of national importance this contest so please please get on it yeah we could just call them the winners R and then
They’ve won it already whatever happens if you called the winners you’re just the winners in fact if your nickname were the 2026 World Cup winners then who could ever take that away from why don’t we call ourselves champions of England You’ll Never sing that that’s amaz just self and point ourselves champions of
England didn’t it and here come our boys it’s Zio D Ricardo Pepe and Brad Guan oh the Beloved champions of England yeah I think we may have just solved our own problem you could go champions of Earth also champions of Earth You’ll Never sing that like you’ll never sing that at
The end of a nickname is a very good one champions of space force men players gmail.com help us help ourselves I do think this is the final I think everything else is in place for ultimate Victory okay before we get to the rest of the football quick word
About everything coming up in men and Blazers World Headquarters this week a quite incredible week of PODS coming up R tomorrow it’s the latest in your this week in reom pod series powered by Stoke C brew coffee with fan favorite Elliot Lee Wednesday none other than Matthew
Mccon Thursday a new episode of the women’s game with Sam muis featuring Safi Smith and Friday on our YouTube it’s a brand new interview with beo sacka oh I meant to raise that for Elliot Le God I am now 73% made up of sto cold brew coffee uh product but that
Payo Sao combo I will say it is impossible to spend time with that Jen and not love him unless you’re a Spurs fan I guess but I can’t wait for that to drop and I will say for those of you who like your football uh St stuffed with a
Side of life wisdom make sure you check out Wednesday’s Matthew mccon podcast it shall also be on our YouTube channel um this is his I think it’s his third appearance um fourth appearance on the um men and Blazers media Network and the Gent just sprinkles mccon isms throughout the conversation
And I needed them things like humility is a willingness to learn uh which like sounds better when it comes out of his mouth instead of mine but this is this is a must listen joyful okay can’t wait to listen to it R subscribe to our pod feed and to our
YouTube to make sure you don’t miss it okay Roger can you start us off with a TST I want to open by raising my third first Mel lolra of the day to oh Dave our old friend Joe Hart Who announced over the weekend that he will retire at
The end of the season age 37 when his contract expires at Celtic in Scotland Joe made his debut back in 2004 for cruy town but soord with Manchester City where he was the leader of that defining Squad who won their first title In Forever you know we adored his hilarious
Tunnel hype Antics catching the eye before games routinely slapping vonson company on the back of his bold head hard too while shouting out more assists David at David Silva as if that very command was needed to make David Silva play like David Silva make more magic happen David was another one which I
Just just love D in the tunnel being like what am I going to do now oh thank God Joe’s just reminded more magic more magic not less I less magic I was thinking I was going to go for Less magic or the same amount of magic but
Now I’m going to go for more magic was pelini’s tactic was it more magic was it less magic oh thanks Joe um you know Pep Guardiola then marched right into that City locker room and espe essentially murdered Joe just dropping him humiliating him replacing him with
Cladio Bravo to show the sty of play really the style of focus the mentality as well as the tactics that he wanted at City Joe never really recovered from I think you know reading interviews a body blow that he never saw coming um crushed the camp to Italy to Exile in Torino um
However he proceeded to pel himself back to number one status finally finding a home again at Celtic where he became just the third player after the legendary s Kenny delash and Andre Kelis to win all three major trophies in both England and Scotland turning a career which had become a cautionary tale into
One marked by the tenacious fight for self-respect and ultimate Victory on his own terms you know I was in Kiev in 2012 uh watching the Euro night that Andrea Perlo humiliated heart slightly slightly insane face pulling anti during the penalty shootout um he pener the English
Keeper and you saw in that moment even from you know from far up in uh in the KF stands you saw something break inside Joe har he has been tenacious enough to fight back from his lows uh to save a joy again and I wish Joe Solace Peace of
Mind courage as he enters retirement as one of the one of the real characters dve right of the early 21st century at least in the tunnel least in the tunnel no great tunnel work we can never take his tunnel work away from him it was Elite but the other thing I was just
Thinking about is that he was really the first English goalkeeper certainly the first first England goalkeeper who was a genuine athlete he was the first athlete who took his place between the sticks and that’s something which Americans had had athletes in goal before that American goalkeepers their tradition
Goes further back in the athletic department but he was the first you know following David Seaman you know there Gordon Banks Peter benetti the cat I know you’ve got some guys like early on football but in modern football he was the first genuine athlete that we saw
And that’s what made him great I thought as well as an improv comedian as I said most importantly it was the comedy okay talking of tragedy perhaps not comedy depending on which side of this you are uh Rod Chelsea nil Liverpool One the wordup faintly audible in scous accents all across Liverpool
This morning after they won their first trophy of the season on Sunday after we should say the first trophy of the Season qu you pull how many trophies is that is it five yeah after a relatively prosaic game in second to LA in the second to last minute of extra time with
The game kening inexorably towards penalties certainly it’s what uh poch was playing for big Virgil Van djk rose up to crash home a winner with that beautiful Dutch forehead it’s got a springboard on it R A quite incredible achievement given the fact that Liverpool had five players under the age
Of 21 on the pitch at the end R even Liverpool’s JV are out here winning Trophies the Klo farewell tour is going exactly as scripted so yeah call it Jurgen klopp’s quadruple curious last dance to give it its full name here met pochettino’s kind of desperate attempt to salvage a season of
Chaos Jonathan leou as you wrote in the guardian in the Red Corner patience and process painstaking deliberation and orderly succession in the blue Corner disruption and disorder constant upheaval and Nicholas Jackson for Liverpool it’s really question of how many injuries or too many injuries I think it was 10 senior
Players absent from the squad Allison Salah Darwin Trent soberly Chief amongst them um arguably seven of the strongest first 11 um absent as they limp down to Wembley with fume and spirit and last dance energy Chelsea all about recovery 25 days ago these two teams collided at anfield and Chelsea were obliterated for
One seemed like the golf between the squads would make this game non-competitive as an event but three recent solid two slightly impressive Chelsea performances they left you how excited exactly about the prospect of pochettino’s first ever trophy in England in the first of the the Clear
Lake Burley Chelsea era take us back D before kickoff did you did any part of you did a little twail believe um look in any one-off cup competition even though Chelsea’s record in recent Cup finals has been so terrible but they’ve been very close on
The whole I had a feeling it was going to be a close game and in a close game strange things can happen strange things did happen unfortunately um one of them was not the ball deflecting off the post uh from or rebounding off another player or a you know VAR getting the lines
Wrong and giving Chelsea a goal that they probably didn’t deserve but I thought it was going to be close I suppose that’s the biggest hope I had yeah early battle was one for control the Midfield and even depleted endo and mallister applied themselves with real relish charging to IO Enzo Connor
Gallagher the nervy mistake ridden Balls by Chelsea um on I think on the Sky Sports coms Gary neille very quickly likened Chelsea to a box of frogs which is honestly poetry Chelsea B Rene called them a random energy machine they couldn’t live Liverpool’s press but they are a team of flickering moments
Gallagher broke fed Raz caused chaos in Liverpool’s box Palmer left foot close range swatted by kellerer like some kind of Irish dmbe Matumbo the the momentum now broken up when poor young Ryan grenberg had to go off on 27 minutes after being caught I think I don’t know
How to phrase this caught by a kiso inadvertent stomp you know the challenge deemed to be careless Reckless by VAR rather than serious Foul Play which I think was was a generous interpretation perhaps influenced by pochettino’s pre-match demanding the referees not favor klopp’s farewell tour I don’t know
How you Analyze That moment no look I mean had he Bean sent off I would have said you’ve seen them given and um not being sent off you’ve seen them not given it was right on the edge and it was in that it was in that ven diagram
Shaded area of like could have gone for that in the end he didn’t go um and Liverpool suddenly another body on the injury list and most importantly in this game bereft of tactical options Joe Gomez had to come on which led to a RoR of a RoR Connor Bradley moved to the
Right wing Liverpool honestly sto out for a moment Chelsea suddenly had the ball in the back of the net via Raz fractional offside yet this Liverpool ultimately are so bloody resilient they mine the left Diaz surging often set up Robertson floated one over for gakpo to
Angle off the right post of his head then a truly lovely moment which we do need to acknowledge Liverpool fans unfill the chant of and I paraphrase F the Tories and Chelsea fans responded by well well agreeing F the Tories um a beautiful moment of unity there it’s
Rare to have football fans just utterly United in argument quite an achievement by the government in that regard yeah exactly I’m not sure that like you know the Chelsea fan base is oft misunderstood um despite living in the the very uh blue Barrow of Kensington and Chelsea i’ would say the majority of
Their fans have always been you know left leaning and not necessarily blue voting I’m sure there were some very annoyed like bank managers sitting there saying what do you mean after the Tories some of my best friends but uh on the whole I’m not surprised that by the word
By say F the Tories do you mean make sweet love with the Tories yeah because I’ll be doing that later in consensual fashion yeah can’t wait um you know the game itself which we should probably return to was chippy nigl Fair football as if played by Matt Ry into the second
Half finally poised football essentially is a is a game of balance um yes I mean balance of good hairstyles and bad hairstyles ill judged Barber chair decisions tattoo sleeves you got to get all those kind of squared away but also between how much you can commit forward without leaving yourself open at the
Back and first Liverpool had the ball in the back of the net Virgil Van Dy the captain marked by 5411 chill well how did that happen he dunked on him um but it was ruled offside for this reason Endo came from an offside position to block off vir’s real marker cwell with a
Ben White ES pick um and it did I mean this call seems objectively great he it was offside he did block are you on that side or are you like you know there’s murder on the Dance Floor every single Corner Ben White you know just has become just utterly a skilled into just
Flinging his body at taking out Defender after Defender now you’re going to get super fussy how did you see this moment well it’s clear this isn’t the corner kick this isn’t the ARG bargi from corner kicks this is the the new free kick set piece specialist play where you
Put a player or several players in offside positions and have them retreat in order to make it more difficult for the guys to run on in fact I don’t know which Premier League game I was watching but this came up in conversation it wasn’t an Arsenal game but but whether
Or not somebody had been blocked and you know that might have been called back had it gone in when when the header didn’t go in off the off the opposite of the uh offensive player um I sort of think that if this is something that the refere referees have been looking at or
Told to look at which they clearly have been told to look at at and they are looking at um then I understand this decision and that’s the danger of lining up in the offside position and sort of you know putting in a a moving screen I
Agre that’s what it is I am actually okay with this I mean it would you’re right it was a purpose design play to use the confusion of the offside placement and turn it into yeah and you call it a a moving screen a pick to free
The goal scorer which is which is within the rules of football dictionary definition interfering with play for an offside position the pick itself is probably fine if he wasn’t offside you know we see that you know di to a dozen at every kind of c a set piece but the
Offside picks not um at Nick mccomic who is a red I believe uh called it a screen play that Dicky V would have been proud of but for Chelsea Conor Gallagher started to create Mischief this part of the game we’ve kind of Forgotten after the final whistles he became ever more
Influential yes his finishing was at was at Mason Mount levels I think he hit the post off an impudent flick from from a Palmer slow roller um also that one-on-one smothered by kellerer he’d probably want that one back a bit of Agony there but kellerer gotta say no
Better Keeper in the world than him when he wants to take the winning penalty in the shootout David oh and also the save he made on Cole Palmer in the first half was was was outstanding R so um yeah I thought he had a great game and look I
Know that you know it’s tough for me to find anything generous written about Chelsea in the postgame but this is a this was a better Chelsea certainly than the game at the end of January in Liverpool where they got absolutely hammered I know all the injuries at Liverpool but Chelsea have their own
Injury problems Chelsea have have a starting lineup of kids as opposed to just having them all on the bench and they had a few of them on the bench even younger ones as well but Chelsea did play pretty well in this game I was watching with a bunch of neutrals I was
Telling you before the pod in the in the French Caribbean a bunch of French and belgians who could give a crap about Chelsea or Liverpool or the Premier League in general so they don’t know much of the narrative they don’t care about much of the narrative and they
Were watching the game and they just thought it was on the whole pretty even I do think Liverpool had the best players I do think that the best player in the game ended up scoring the winner but Chelsea were not this compared to a lot of performances that I’ve sat
Through this year this was Chelsea certainly maybe not at their best but certainly not at their worst and certainly showing some signs of improvement I think you can say you know philosophically and this has also been forgotten had one of those a Chan has gone in we will be sitting here talking
A very different narrative about po chatino restoring Faith something to build off a caribow cut win they didn’t and you know regular time Chelsea you can find many many admirable qualities admirable moments um it’s really extra time Chelsea um which is an entirely different creature and what happened was
You know Klo sent on 19yearold James McConnell who is young enough to be I believe Mitch McConnell’s great great great grandson 18-year-old Jaden Dan oh don’t do him like that onto the Wembley field Chelsea responded by checking on that wild card mudrick there was chaos at the death Liverpool really seemed to
Be teetering and kungu wanted many to take a hack from close range um as Keller her parried it was blocked City into extra time Liverpool looked absolutely [ __ ] Dan um just his his young being and his beautiful eyes headed a Looper that Petrovic tipped over the bar tired legs though tired
Minds um took Connor Gallagher about 27 minutes by my count when he was subbed out to make it across the field I mean there was just exhaustion everywhere lipol ended with five players under the age of 21 or younger just remember that before it gets etched in a tapestry that
Is passed down through the generations and showing like the buer tapestry to Young scouters being born in 20736 I mean this was part Futures Team Part B teamers um and I was shocked honestly watching and I’d love to know for you gave I was shock watching that
Not one Chelsea player D take the bit between the teeth and attempt to do them you know in key moments just a lack of belief of confidence of wanting to take that shot Liverpool had kids everywhere Chelsea Chelsea should have been like hammerhead sharks to blood an extra time
But they were the ones who were scared they were the ones who were holding on for penalties I think you’re absolutely right um look at the beginning of the game when poch walked out in that raincoat I did say to myself well you’re never going to win a final in that
Raincoat that was that was his first tactical mistake and I think you made a very important Point here but I don’t want to project can you just explain you’re never going to win a final in that rain coat yeah it was uh it was also I I I would argue that you won’t
Win a final in any raincoat but this particular raincoat it was one of those it almost felt like a Jill sander raincoat you know what I mean Rog it was like it was breath there were no like epolets there was no like double breasted there was no like high collar
It was just a very straight cut almost like slim fit on a not so slim fit dude raincoat it was Normcore if you want to make love to me get ready for bad love is that what you’re saying there’s nothing fancy here yeah this was not the
Coat of a winner you can’t win in that rainco you can’t you can’t win by the way in a double breasted Blazer either two different reasons but those are the rules yeah so I am wearing one right now and I’m not gonna have hopefully I have a decent day but it’s a
Um it was a that was a tough strategic decision and I think through the match he just was a little you could just feel klopp I mean you feel klopp way more active during the entire game yelling working the refs working everybody’s like he’s doing so much more truing his
Players thumbs up yelling gesticulating getting into fights with the crowd like the whole thing is going on the whole time wouldn’t that be awesome if just during the game they just like leap into the crowd and just like WWE break he almost did it Luton but it was a it’s
Like Greg Balter taking photo when Greg Balter does it you don’t like it you don’t like it you urging cl to do it yep Greg did it so true um but then the substitutions I think that was where you know I’m sure there were some of those
Young Chelsea kids on the bench as well who are just like oh they put their kids on let us go and have a go at them as well I think Chelsea’s under 21 record against Liverpool it’s like the last 10 games I think they probably shaded those
That’s it um and they didn’t he didn’t respond with his own kids I mean he had kids all over the pit but they just didn’t respond he let his kids go to a what is it an 18 rated movie is it an R-rated movie when they were 16 that’s
The kind of dad klopp is and that’s what we saw it was you talk about Klo interacting you know life man I mean ultimately belief that’s the difference between these two teams because this was a different different Liverpool to the one we are used to this was this was
Just pure belief pure confidence C pure Fearless courage um in their young players that was the difference between these two teams one team said I believe in you um you know these kids felt klopp’s belief when they came on and they responded to it they were not
Overall by the wemble moment it’s an astonishing moment you dream of it as a kid they would been given it but they were been giving it to a man who sent them on uh believing it Elliot almost stole the game at the death a downwards header uh at the far post somehow clawed
Away by the the quite excellent petravic in the in yeah both Keepers in the 118th minute two minutes to go it happened Virgil Van djk 32 years of age older than at least five of his teammates combined the club Captain off a timas corner how exhausted must Verge have
Been that old warhorse but this was sheer force of will running off his marker got his head to the ball since you whip off mri’s Underpants as he did so at the same time poor old mudrick it had to be him not even Poss positioned right with his body to see what was
Behind him um left Verge the freedom of Wembley to thunder over him and just Arc that ball away to the opposite corner just just an immense emotional moment and I know I’m an everon fan I know I’m also a horrible person I meant to hate this but it was humanly so remarkable that
Even I in that moment seeing that Warrior who might well leave when klopp leaves we don’t know um but to see him be the one who delivered in this moment it was it was humanly beautiful da epic Greek poetry yeah no the best player on the pitch from the beginning you know
Earlier on at halftime I’d looked at those you know they do the Google ratings of all the players and there were 13 Liverpool players rated including one who hadn’t even come off the bench yet before you even got to a Chelsea player in terms of their ratings
On the on the pitch but it was Virgil Van djk who was far on ahead the best player on the pitch in terms of anybody watching that game he was class personified throughout the entire game and he took his rightful place um you know celebrating leaping for that header
Just putting it just there with power just situationally how many things can go through a normal person’s head as they rise up to that ball but he’s not normal he’s extraordinary on an extraordinary team under an extraordinary manager and he just put it away and put the entire
Final I mean situationally not many people score goals with two minutes to go in an extra time in a final even if it’s a carabal flavored final yeah it just doesn’t happen very often and only great players tend to do it I mean I think it was TR Dei that said about
Virgil Van djk and I read this out to to Virgil um when I interviewed him and he liked it that he’s too strong too clever too intelligent too good with his feet you know too physical and he smells good too and he does I mean he is the
Gentleman you think is it possible to have everything Virgil Van djk has everything and on this day Liverpool took it all ultimately at the end even though it was like a a soccer theme bomit for the side they had out there um it was remarkable Gary Neville said on
Skycom kops kids versus the blue billion pound bottle jobs I’ll say that again blue billion pound bottle jobs just an incredible moment of what I assume is um open mic poetry by Gary Neville a scathing comment which has immediately stuck to this team uh instantly toxically kind of symbolizing the dire
Performance um in extra time and poor po chatino losing another final it was hard to watch him a lovely man grimaced um as he shook Todd burley’s hand post game just narrative changing this defeat not in a good way for him Moises kiso penny for his thoughts he could have been at Liverpool
Um Liverpool ready to win but elected to Pivot to Chelsea who were trying to build something out of Madness and chaos and blind squirrels finding chestnuts what what what do you make of it you you currently lie I think is it 11th in the Premier League you host leads in the
Fifth round of the FA Cup on Wednesday that is quite a a historic echo of battles old but my God SE won in the present for for Po chatino and Chelsea C PO chatino he almost has to find Victory amidst the chaos even in the Roman days that’s how Chelsea won winning despite
The dysfunction not in absence of it look I think there is you know what is difficult about these criticisms and some of the things that are said I think they are I mean I think billion pound bottle jobs is so over the top about after those Chelsea players put in I
Thought a pretty incredible performance over 120 Minutes even to get to this final I just think you just don’t as a one professional to others I just don’t think you say that about professional players I find that in all sports to call them bottlers I don’t like it um so
I find a lot of what is said ridiculous and yet there is some truth to it at the same time these are play don’t like it yeah but there is some truth to it the these are players who have paid a lot of money and look if they’d lost this final
Having had a pretty good season sitting in sixth or seventh place and showing you know more progress it probably wouldn’t look so bad but I think the whole of football and a lot of people in football not the whole of football a lot of people in football like seeing this
Happen to Chelsea because of the disorganization behind the scenes because of of the you know the particular Narrative of this club and because of what Todd Burley and Clear Lake capital and have have done let’s face it there’s nobody that Chelsea paid all this money for that wasn’t being
Offered similar deals at other clubs it’s not like they found people who other teams were willing to pay you know you know a shilling and a bob for and that suddenly they’re paying them 100 million you know that sort of what’s it Barney Ron called um mudrick called him
Basically a YouTube player signed as a punt I think arsenal were in for that YouTube player um as as well I think you know Liverpool were in for kaiso in for Romeo Lavia if he ever plays again um I don’t I don’t I don’t think for that
Level of money the the am it was the huge money the amotization of no one else was thinking it was thinking that did that well I think a lot of the the money I think was was was pretty much bid up by the market I think Chelsea you
Know overpaid for all the wrong players I’m not saying they didn’t do things were right but I think the money is these were players who a lot of other teams are willing to spend money for and you know maybe not quite as much as Chelsea which is why Chelsea ended up
Getting them but they were willing to go in for a lot um and the amotization is particular way they’ve decided to do those contracts you’re right but I’m not trying to defend believe me I’m the last person is going to defend Burly and Clear Lake capit on what they’ve done
For the club the problem is is that Chelsea yes they have been assembled without what looks like a plan it’s not considered and of course you can point to a team like Liverpool who’ve done so so well um and you just you just look oh this clear plan this clear level of
Progression building it underclock like you know everything that they’ve done looks perfect and that’s what happens in hindsight when you look at winners and at Chelsea it is sort of disastrous and I got to tell you towards the end of extra time one I didn’t want to go to
Penalties because I just I just find those horrific ways to end a game but there was part of me that also found myself thinking this team do not deserve to run around that wimbley pi [ __ ] with a trophy acting like everything’s okay and their owners looking down from the boxes
Thinking everything’s fine so ultimately I’m not only okay losing it I think it’s the better thing for this club and the better thing for this team and the better thing for these players they haven’t earned it yet they’re not there and klopp and that Liverpool side they
Really have they’ve earned this and so that sort of is in the end the way I i s love that you haven’t earned it baby my mate Daniel story on Twitter uh wrote this just shows why buying exclusively younger players for squillions of pounds might not be a sensible strategy when
You want instant returns players age 23 or underused in the final Liverpool seven Chelsea eight cost of signing those players Liverpool $48 million Chelsea 500 million uh and GF Mark D suggested Chelsea loss may be amortized into a longterm win which or maybe a draw yeah yeah maybe at least a draw
Just Creative Accounting it can get your trophies but yeah again Wembley was left feeling like anfield South my nephew Jacob Bennett traveled up to London because he told me yes it was just the Carib about but he wanted to be there for the beginning of the quadruple and I
Love that blind optimism which is a particularly scouse uh phenomenon belief um and you saw in the celebrations klopp said I love this Darwin and sober are not fit that’s why they didn’t play but in the celebrations they looked 100% so I’ll have to speak with the medical
Department about that it it was also logic defying you know just merys side daycare for the win record 10 League Cup trophies now for the Reds um and for klopp’s Last Dance seventh major trophy uh for him uh at the club three more still to play for we’re all asking is
The Klo ruple on um you know or was this the last piece of silverware that CL will raise um in red you know you you joked at the beginning quadruple you know being whispered in Scout accents faintly all over the world you could see though in the celebrations they were
Very emotional but they were also very measured um you know I I watched and I was like these are guys who know there still and there is so much bloody football still to come juren making memories but not losing his mind big Verge during the singing of You’ll Never
Walk Alone David what what human emotions must he of experienced in that moment it was again as a horrible person and an evertonian even I was deeply moved watching it yeah no definitely and I I I find him particularly just one of the most appealing players in football
Again again just the class with which he plays the game there’s a beauty to him it’s almost like watching Roger federo play tennis there’s just an Elegance about his football which I which I really really enjoy it’s true I feel the same about Dwayne mcneel um on on the
Quadruple Rod but the only thing I’d say is that this was you know know I I take what you what you say about the celebrations that there there was a sense that they’re leaving some for the for for the for the rest of for the upcoming games they leaving some on the
Table but this shows how hard it is to win it even this this a team who they hammered you know less than a month ago less than four weeks ago this was a really hardfought goal two minutes before the end of extra time a hardfought win that you know had a
Couple of other knocks and of course of course the luck you know luck goes to the people who want it most or prepare for it most or it’s not so much luck but they still you know a few little breaks could have gone another way it was this
Hard to win the easiest part of the quadruple the rest of the quadruple is going to be harder than this you know an FA Cup with City still in the competition you know a a three-way perhaps even four-way uh we should say premier league title race depending on
How many points Everton get back yeah no I wasn’t thinking that but more about Villa but it’s a um and certainly the Champions League you know never an easy tournament to win aslo himself knows but um but this was the easy part and I agree that that’s what their celebration
Felt like that this was the one they were almost there was a little bit of relief in this yeah that it was a relief at the end that they managed to um overcome klopp certainly much kinder to Chelsea than most people in the media and most people in in football um and
You know this was this was this was an improved team I think Liverpool obviously with all these injuries all these kids they’re going to be better than this they’re going to have more players but how great for him to know that this is the soul that runs through
His club and that’s what he’s got I think that is the deeply profound thing I me to talk about the celebrations again that you mentioned I did think that you know six Academy players um and I did wonder what the likes of uh you know of Dan and McConnell must have felt
Like in that Locker Room Post game you know when you have to you have to dance to je a leapers one kiss you just have to in that F drunk way that footballers now are compelled to when they’ve won something you know shuffling in their slides in the locker room doing bits um
Doing like the odd robot in the in the middle of the the locker room when they see the social media cameras and iag how it felt to be one of those kids you know Dan’s rightly taking part in those celebrations he just bloody won the Carib about cup but to look around and
They were dancing with their Heroes with Virgil with Diaz with Andy Robo with Darwin in there um that must have felt just like just magnificent um you know utterly utterly stunning and klopp created that by melding uh those generations of players he said himself he said this was quote the most special
Trophy in 20 years of management and it and it must have been because how did Liverpool win this they won with his idea his mentality his trust in youth um you know the force like it was his force that was at the epicenter of that Victory ultimately the future that he’s
Leaving behind that’s what won this bloody trophy kloppo leaving a team filled with kids who can they know now they’ve just shown us they can win trophies and by the way if you’re zabi Alonzo looking at Bayern with no NOA and Müller still so bloody key and Leroy San
So M and just needs all over the field and this Liverpool Squad with that mentality ingrained in it through the core my friend John Green tweeted um he called them tiny little baby mentality monsters which I did that’s a good nickname for the US men get on that
That’s it Johnny Green you win a mug that ultimately is what’s magnificent we have to say caveat for them uh where Toro Endo ended up on crutches think graen Burke also uh walking out there on crutches latest to be injured and FA Cup game midweek against Southampton and I
Do worry for Liverpool that they won the battle and it was magnificent but the exhaustion the injuries the fixture list once that adrenaline wears off DAV dot dot dot yeah the other thing I was left thinking about at the final whistle Rod prompted by the anti-pot feelings of my
PSG supporting uh friends who I was watching with was if you’d have switched managers if klopp was coaching Chelsea and if God forbid poch was coaching Liverpool I’m saying God forbid for Liverpool fans you would expect the result to go the other way that it’s not
Just it’s just as you would imagine you would not bet against Chelsea having having won that game and that sort of is everything you really need to know about klopp being the Difference Maker he just is you know what he has built what he’s
Done he has had to do it in the face of you know and that’s not saying that you know Clear Lake capital and and and FSG the the same FSG have done this in a very considered very different way than Clear Lake but I think you’ve said that
Quote before is a a manager can can can plaster over the cracks of of of institutional problems at clubs and and make a team just a little bit better and a little bit better would have been enough to win that trophy okay Raj now back to the Premier
League Arsenal for Newcastle one your interview with payo saaka must have done the trick Arsenal rebound from that midweek Champions League lost to Porto and absolutely bludgeon the tune in a statement win at the Emirates a Sven botman own goal a Kai hit’s goal a payo Saka strike and a yakob Kor header
Highlight a comprehensive victory for Arsenal it is their sixth straight League win a stretch over which they’ve scored an astounding 25 goals they’re just two points off of Liverpool one point off of city and we’ve got a real three horse title race Convoy yeah this
Is a this is a curious game in the late late Saturday Twilight hours Arsenal taking the field needing a result to keep Pace with the top two facing a Newcastle we have to re remind ourselves of what they represented really Injustice last November up at St James
The T very different tune when by that Anthony Gordon goal which was Ved for three different reasons all of the was the longest V for V fans out there people I missed that V it was nice and long that V was only resolved 17 minutes into this game good protest Lads but you
Know kickoff we didn’t know which Arsenal would show up that dominant free scoring machine and an average 4.2 goals per game in winning the previous five league matches or the naive unit who who fired Champions League blanks midweek and they’ve stunned in the 94th minute by the third best side in Portugal um
You we didn’t know but this was a different Newcastle um than the one in November than the one last season who swaggered into the Emirates to merge of a nil nil draw they’d leaked 19 goals in their past seven games staggering 12 points off the top four and from the off
Arsenal just won Corner after Corner after corner for every corner the crowd cheered them as if they’d won penalties Loris Carri Us in goal he of poor dodgy Liverpool broken goalie Fame actually thought was quite Brave um in this game Arsenal set Pieces Just one after another in which they kind of
The equivalent of flinging Ben White out of a catapult like a cow carcass in a medieval battle on fire somehow Newcastle survived but you felt the goals coming um you really smelled them Mourinho to say you could smell gos coming you really could smell a lot of
Goals coming couldn’t you in this one David yeah um an Arsenal playing that just you know they’ve got a style of football it’s kind of like when you go upper level in FIFA is the football I always describe Arsenal as playing is the balls passing in not just triangles
R but triangles in different different geometric angles inventing shapes that I didn’t even know existed figuring out a way to get width figuring out a way to get narrow going short going long they’re just doing everything with the ball I mean it’s was such domination I
Think 52% of the game in was played in the in in newcastle’s final third um yeah it was played around newcastle’s goal um in in the first third of the game and AR just made so many of the count I think their 18th set piece goal of the Season Gabrielle making a run
Towards the ball flicking his head to send it near post and just car actually made a great great save my God maybe the save of the weekend yeah and so three Newcastle players were like oh god let’s just finish carry us off stabbed it over stabbed it over one went with his foot
One went with his knee other one went with his whole body SP botman friendly fire it would get worse for Newcastle HT daggering in his seventh goal of the season with just movement Collective mind clinical honestly it was if Arsenal just had been Squad wide constipated in
Porto midweek and this was just prunes prunes prunes they played through Newcastle as if they were as if they were as transparent as those new major league baseball pants tune didn’t get started until they were two-nil down don’t think they had a single shot in the first half um and Arsenal just
Ripped their hearts out but Kio saaka the joyous executioner jinking in and out as if he was tying rento a cherry stamp with his tongue into a knot and lashing hope 20 Premier League goals D for the second season um what must it feel like to be beo first Arsenal player
To score in five successive League appearances since Olivier jeru in 2015 you mentioned I did film with him on Friday I love speaking to him he talked with such passion um and he was asked um about you know individual records and finally he just said I don’t care about
Individual records all I want is for Arsenal this team he’s been at for over half his life he joined him when his eight he said all I want is for this team to win the Premier League well that’s the that’s the focus um that drives through that club
And you can see it in the way they play you can see in the way the manager inspires them um I don’t think it’s ultimately going to be enough but wow what a team and what a player yeah can we just say um four goals they scored in
This one um they became the first team in Premier league history to score two goals in seven successive halves which is a thing I’m going to say that again first team to score two goals in seven successive halves get your your Math’s mind around that I know I know we kind
Of stretched your Math’s mind when we talked about Everton’s Point deduction earlier everyone um but I watched this game um just football always makes a fool out of us we were all told Arsenal needed that out andout goal scorer in January otherwise they were dead um and
Here they just scoring again for fun we can talk about Newcastle in a moment but Premier League goal scored in the last three games D Arsenal 15 Liverpool 11 Manchester City three um football always makes a fool out of us yeah I mean the other math concept is about the mean and
The medium and what it is and Arsenal at their very best are probably better than everybody else when it’s really clicking when it’s really ticking along when they’re really expressing themselves they’re sort of better than everyone but it’s what is their mean level game after game after game after game not just in
The last seven halves R but we talked already about what happened in Porto midweek like how are they going to keep on doing it and doing it and they’re behind they’ve got to play significantly better than the teams above them at this point with the number of games to go you
Know uh running out I mean they do have games against their you know their their title Challengers and wow I can’t wait for them God can I just say quick word on tune uh they did get a garbage time goal from an old Goa Joe Willer lovely
To see him back from injury but that team they had their bones ground into dust the weekend it was just perfect revenge for Arsenal and Arsenal fans but really the kind of wful big game performance that you know you think about Eddie how that postseason review the Saudi owners they’re going to look
At this run of just 11 points from the last 12 games now look at the 23 goals suddenly leaked uh in the last eight um on one hand I felt for the Newcastle fans this late late kickoff that would have been stranded hundreds of miles from home in London after watching that
Dire performance um you’re going to wonder this back end of the season just complete tail off D and whether it’s the return that the Newcastle ownership is looking for yeah they certainly look leggy and certainly look like they I haven’t seen the the the running stats
In this game but it certain felt like Arsenal ran all around them um and kilometers and kilometers more than them during this game uh they look leggy you know and certainly not the team that would just beating you for Speed and on the flank early in the season for fun
Huge love though to Mikel Etta uh for whom this must have been one huge relief of a performance really really lovely to watch him deep into injury time his team were winning 4-1 game was you know one but he was still manic frantic urg them
On as if there was still a game in the balance Emil Smith row was amongst those who responded my God he had a shot cleared off the line by Big Dam burn if a Smith row had scored I do believe Arsenal fans may have entered the
Rapture um but as it was the joy Transcendent postgame real ecstasy massive win that Porto kick in the teeth to rise up keep on keeping on um was really humanly beautiful my friend IA bu away wrote an email in to make this rather intelligent footballing point he
Wrote Hi R just want to point out Arsenal L six wins no losses in the league since Etta at off Salt Bay’s Fork um in Dubai by a combined score of 25-3 Salt Bay FC God speed Ira it can only be salt B it still wasn’t worth it
Okay one of those teams that Arsenal are chasing Rod Man City they defeated Bournemouth 1- nil on the south coast the difference a 24th minute putb dunk from Stockport Pinocchio Phil fod and Bournemouth did not let City Escape without a scrap here though R especially in the second half when the cherries had
Numerous chances to draw level but couldn’t summon an equalizer in the end peps mob grind it out and move within one point of League leaders Liverpool on one hand there’s there’s the city in our minds um and in their results they still feel like title favorites they are
Unbeaten uh in their last 10 games going into this one but the quality of the performance is the draw against Chelsea to desperately hard for wins against brenford and Everton um I just watched Vigo mortensson the bath house the new Bath House fight scene in Eastern Promises again and that’s what watching
City in these games has been like and Bournemouth I mean even though they had not beaten City ever in their 20 previous meetings they made a real fist of it here they smothered they pressed they closed down this win did not come easy for City the goal from foden
Picking up on some hardland created chaos the 16th of the Season fulfill a career high it’s like the choice when You Face City to be smashed in the face by the Nordic hammer or stabbed by the sharpen shev um credit to Bournemouth who put up a Resolute fight um but the
Joy of the game for City fans for football lovers John Stones watching him pull the strings from the checks notes Center back position or city fans refer to it the Jon Stones position where he’s kind of a central Defender given license to ro yeah I mean he pops up all over the
Field if it was the NBA um broadcasting Legend Doris ber would be contractually obliged to keep reminding listeners how good his hands are for a big man to be fair she’s not wrong with Jon Stones I can’t think of too many center-backs in World football who could do what he does
On the field David so hard to negate yeah and it’s funny when you’re were talking about the um the dancing to do leaper in the dressing room for the Liverpool players after the after the final I was remembering that you know Stones has got some dance moves as well
Look that up on YouTube he can really he can uh he can Shuffle it R he can definitely Shuffle it h he can also Bel out of quite a version of Wonderworld they I can if you’ve seen the city all or nothing you’ll know what I’m talking
About but again City held on to win ugly what Grinders would call a wman like performance um on one hand they’ve now won even more away games all competitions this season than they did in the entirety of last season’s treble winning campaign they’ve won 14 times already to last campaigns 13 on the
Other it was it was you know yes they’ve moved at one point behind Liverpool yes they’re unbeaten in 11 games 17 or comps yes they visit Luton in the FA Cup fifth round on Tuesday before next weekend’s Manchester Derby uh the Champions League defense uh and Arsenal Brighton
Liverpool sprinkled in but for now daveo um you can see all the stress of this back-to-back treble uh campaign the Tremors written all over a guard all this face post game he was in his he was in his P was in his slightly weird slightly manic just overpraising his
Players mode is I am very happy that one where he called his players Superman um and then made weird noises with his teeth that try to replicate but won’t do because listeners are hearing this right he then claimed I adored everything from Manchester City’s performance um but
It’s not you can tell from that kind of strength I love it yes I love it that it’s not coming easy for at the moment no it’s a what a funny team you watch them and you just think wow they could just score so many goals if they just
Kept it a little simpler just as the goal was simple it was Harland sort of enforcing himself inside the area and gives it a shot at the keeper and folden following up knocks it in they just if they just did but he probably didn’t love that he likes the complicated [ __ ]
That goes wrong that’s what he wants it right back to let’s start again I love it so much I love it I am very happy for some reason you’re reminding me of that Spanish broadcaster when we worked on the running of the balls so happy Superman angry happiness is just an
Amazing of Happiness to feel okay Manchester United won Fulham two perhaps it wasn’t a vender Punk all those times we said it was a vender Punk r a cracker of a game at Old Trafford that was scoreless until the 65th minute when cottagers Calvin Bassie blasted home the
Opener the score stood 1- nil until the 89th minute when Harry MaGuire like a Yorkshire Phoenix Rising From the Ashes tucked away a Bruno Fernandez rebound to tie the game at one a piece and surely split the spoils but Fulham had other ideas ad damama trior proving those
Hours of bicep curls weren’t simply for the glamour muscles hulked his way down the touchline and hit Alex aobi to slot home the winner in the 97th minute I thought he still played for you r q Fulham frenzy in Manchester their first win at Old Trafford since 2003 R it’s
Astonishing it’s astonishing fact when Roy Hodson was 79 that’s how long ago that was fascinating week at Old Trafford new controlling owner s Jim Ratcliffe um who’s the kind of man where you have to call him s you brief call him s Jim in meeting so that he can say
Yes you don’t have to call me sir you just have to call me Jimmy but God forbid if you call him Jimmy without getting the it’s very he’s that kind of a night arrived to make his hand on the tiller official said all the right things success is not going to be
Immediate but he knows fan patience is short promises it within three years quote we have a lot to learn from our Noisy Neighbor and the other neighbor wasn’t sure if he meant Everton or Liverpool they are the Enemy at the end of the day there’s nothing I would like
Better than to not both of them off their perch Sir Alex Ferguson echo of history there but they’ve been in a good place for a while there are things we can learn from both of them they have sensible organizations great people within the organizations a good driven
Elite environment they work in I am very respectful of them but they’re still the enemy all of they say welcome change from from 18 years of glazer total silence they didn’t speak at all I think I think for United fans DAV it must be refreshing to have an owner who is
Talking to them in their own language right PR battle one well until of course he says something that they don’t like and then they’re going to miss the lasers never saying anything I mean but I think for now United fans I know are you know they are sort of happy but they
Would have rather won this game God bite your arm off to be sort of happy PR battle W yeah but the true fight still to come because United are six in the Premier League and the perch may be a little more Out Of Reach than S Jim rats
Believed uh because this was a cumbers and Slumber fill performance by the buzzing garnacho no player seem to want the ball for United who yes was Shan of hland he have sudden goals in six successive Premier League games out now for two to three weeks of a muscle
Injury and without him United just seemed foror Fulham had this counterattacking game plan ten har almost let them execute it with so Little Resistance took 26 minutes at home for United to far a shot um Fulham created the best opportunities a wobi broke constantly from Midfield munes
Grew in confidence every game he looked better and better and they took the lead on a Kelvin Bassie smash Q fand fans chanting we’re winning away we’re winning away how [ __ ] must you be we’re winning away Maguire summoned the late equalizer all of that was Prelude because United were never in control of
The game they threw everything at the Lily whes to trra a late winner and were then Sucker Punch and it was stunning 97th minute second latest winning goal ever scored against United in the Premier League old friend Fulham substitute Adat tror a viser the uh the
Right side of the field full length of um Erikson and Maguire left for dead in his tracks They as he charged forward he flicked the ball over to aobi on the left hand side of the box that was the most astonishing part of the whole thing
For me that trout was able to resist that just primitive urge to blast the ball um out you know by the to to to shoot it just wildly near the corner flag that was impressive yeah you’ve watched too much of betterto but it was the adrenaline the adrenaline was
Flowing Rog at that point would say he’s run the complete length of that was a shot and he was just so tired and then he cuts inside yeah you’re right he’s generated so much you know so much momentum he’s generated so much I mean he must be sort of feeling
It running everywhere R you must be feeling it and then the fact that he just laid off a delicate little pass I just I loved it and God bless a w be such composure used a pair of Defenders as a decoy gave on the eyes and then Whi
The ball mercilessly into the Corner leaving the goalkeeper helpless into the camera Ro right into the camera astonishing DAV United W Nigeria super Eagles two um suddenly felt D I mean it just was shocking darker at Old Trafford than NIS Alaska during the 60 days of night and you’re right because they’ve
Pressed so far forward going for the winner themselves it’s as though they had not conceived of the idea that they could be beaten on the counter that they’d be beaten on all afternoon Raj and they left it open it was just the most naive thing and responses the players just amazing gacho claps
Fernandez just leapt around raging gfop Rob whittig spoke a human truth he said no one does bereft like Harry MaGuire our friend Josh Richardson of your Miami Heat a massive goona tweeted love to see AI still doing his due Arsenal diligence this is F’s first win against Manchester
United since 2009 first Old Trafford since 2003 true Joy from for Fulham fans especially our early kickoff crew Sammy and Jord so happy for them but United David that four game win streak of Glory over and how quickly The Narrative is flipped Eric ten hog suffered the first
Defeat of 2024 yes but it’s their tenth loss of the Season big picture in the Premier League ten Hog’s currently auditioning for his job back um he talked afterwards about the naivity of his players after the game and again the injuries to holand and also Luke Shaw do
Not help but the reality is if if these United players cannot handle Fulham at Old Trafford how are they going to summon the Spy to face Manchester City at the etti had next weekend I guess I’m asking D how long till the first small planes are hired to pull the Ratcliff out
Banners over Old Trafford yeah if they lose a few more games like this it won’t be long at all Raj they you know football fans have no patience um and it just shows that you know this is a this is a league where we can talk about four
Teams having real success you know perhaps another oh they’ve overachieved and then a few like oh the midt is kind of where they want to be and everyone else is an AB failure how many times this season have we talked about Manchester United performances and said
Oh could this be the turning point is this the vendor point is this where it all turns around is this the thing they can kick on from and again and again it isn’t it’s like era Aron Wenger where we used to say it was like one of those
Mcer paintings where you keep turning a corner and end up in exactly the same place speed okay one of the legitimate title contenders we do not talk enough about Aston filler four Nottingham Forest 2 three Villa first half goals including a Douglas Lise brace had unai emer’s count chully cruising 3-0 against
The tricky trees that is until a forest goal just before the half by Musa niakate followed quickly by a Morgan Gibbs white chip job suddenly turned this one into a 3-2 shootout but Leon Bailey wow what a player played the role of invasive tree blight in the 61st
Minute tucking home the winner to knock Forest down for good Villa stay fourth or Forest hover Four Points above the drop by the way got a little case of olive uh tree blight going on in my house right now Roger Hanks mob win or
Lose we’re on the boo what a what a much needed Cruis of a victory first three goals all came down the right unai Emory realized Leon Bailey such a flashing blade could not be contained it was almost watching the NBA tall on a small mismatch but this was speed speed speed
And scale Bailey probably conquer’s most potent Premier League player this season created also scored the ball flowed every time at his feet cunning well oiled Wonder in terms of the goals Oly Watkins Drew level with Muhammad Salah with 24 Premier League goal involvements this season great also to see Douglas
Louiz back to his potent best nine Premier League strikes this campaign not bad for an ostensible holding midfielder oddly all of them coming at home at Villa Park um and that Roar at the final whistle was that of a fan base who feel that with have a five-point Gap now
Between them and fifth place Spurs um even with one more game played Champions League football is possible David are Hanks boys this season’s Newcastle for real yeah look I still think I mean week in week out they um they just play Such impressive football and they’re so fun
To watch R so fun to watch got to tell you Aston Villa and wolves the Midlands has some sparkling football going on and not to mention Leicester doing so well in the in the championship as well um playing great football sitting just six points behind Arsenal you know clearly
In fourth place you know just in just great uh position love watching them play we do need to touch upon quickly our Lost Boy Gio Rena into the the game in the 81st minute as a sub when the the game was already well and truly dead and
Buried um these figures they do make bleet reading for us fans who got little patience at the best of times five games zero starts one healthy scratch 38 total minutes zero goal contributions there is a sense amongst American fans um that Gio’s gone from not playing for a Champions League caliber Bundesliga team
To not playing for a hot mess of a Premier League relegation threatened team and speaking to a couple of people around the club this week um you know they say GI Rena right now is really a porn in the agent game this was clearly not a player brought in by the manager
Um this was not a manager fancying Gio in a in a relegation fight more dump there by a agent who wanted him out of Dortmund um and I say we’ve got to hope that this experience uh will be a learning one for him you know the forance lead so evidently was for Weston
Mckin um his form this season has been Delirious um I think also I hope the US team can be a happy place for Gio as it was for pic during his years in the Chelsea Wilderness um and what comes next may be more important for Gio to
Assert himself uh than what we see in the in the 12 games at Forest c yeah it’s like bouncing back from a points deduction R some some things you’ve got to use to bounce yourself back uh okay Crystal or from a whatever I’m not going back into it Crystal Palace 3 Burnley
Nil there were three pal less goals in this one Raj but we all know only one of them mattered Alabama’s chosen son Chris Richards had all of sath London putting mayonnaise in their barbecue sauce after heading home a majestic 68th minute diving header also very important opening go Rod Jordan IO and John
Philipe mateta goals quickly followed but who cares the seats of sehur Park are still sticky with sudden Comfort roll damn tide Ro yeah we got to talk about Chris Richard but we do need to hear David because you are you are Palace curious um the Advent of the
Glass era we never got to hear you pour one out for for some Survivor turn football manager Roy Hodson I talked about him at length on Friday show the WG fop weekend prev but D what’s your what’s your take on the way hod jira just ended so bleakly I think it’s all
Very it’s all very sad Rod at the same time I’ve been reading John L’s final novel was unfortunately he um he died before he finished it and it was finished by his son R and it was just instead of like his final great final novel being you know his final Smiley
Novel this is the one that will always go down in his final novel and I sort of feel similarly sad about about Roy um and ultimately his return to Palace this was not the way that he wanted to go out not the way that anybody who really
Respects him and I think we count ourselves as two people who really respect the man uh would like to see him go out it was just sad at the end and his collapse at the training ground and being in hospital and then the you know the really you know gentlemanly and I say
That genuinely um the gentlemanly uh resignation speech um and pure class and you know I don’t think you can give all the credit to you know glasner coming in for the performances of this team they was you know Jordan I non- celebration in this game was very much about that
He’s very still very sad about Roy a lot of senior players very sad about Roy Rog and um a lot of credit goes to him for for how they’ve picked up these these four very important points in the last two games in in your Glassner um lare analogy is Olivier Glassner ler son
Finishing the book his dad started to write his dad Roy could be finishing it and I guess you know Steve Parish would be Smiley not not sure who brighty would be but it would be um but all over but I think it’s been very sad and people
Obviously at the club have just been very sad watching it all go down I think there’s a great amount of relief as well I bet at these four points and in your analogy Everton are slow horses I’ve just realized but God bite your arm off
To be I love slow horses maybe the US Men’s National Team nicknam should be the slow horses I’m just saying sending your nicknames to gmail.com this game against 10 men bottom feed of Burley honestly a ray of light after so much bloody Darkness to run of three wins in
The last 20 games um I don’t know how you say new manager balc in German do you David I’m sure there’s some large compound now yeah no you manager spr or something like that well look I’ll get back to you on that hence palace’s biggest home League win since
2022 April 2022 began with my mate Chris Richards going Blitz Bama Blitz diving just so softly in installments to cushion ahead of home his first ever Premier League goal a jent who who’s had to fight to prove himself tenaciously um out of position too he’s survived he’s
Thrived amidst the chaos of Palace I’m so happy for him um and a reminder as he struck it I’m pretty sure he mouthed at the commentator I don’t give a piss about nothing but the tide um his actual quote post game was um I grew the throw
Out so I can head in so I was ready for it by the way that was his real qu spring I love it I love I love I love um that goal me 12 American players scored in Europe’s top five leagues this season a new record became 13 when Paxton erson
Scored his first ever go for vest yesterday in the Netherlands um out of Darkness cometh light a massive three points allbe against a truly Doom Burnley who are who are the kind of side that simply claps like a GOI sule the moment they can see to score four where
Without aay and theis is to saw with both arms tied behind your back Tottenham though next week will be a sterer realer test for glassos ball absolutely R okay wolves one Sheffield United nil the black country outfit continued their impressive season under Gaz O’Neal with a pragmatic win over the
Leakiest side in the league the game’s L goal came in the 30th minute when Ryan at anu’s Cross was headed home by Sarabia Wes are now up to eighth and in the mix for European football next season very deservedly so the blades meanwhile continue what looks to be a
Grandpa Simpson esque return to the championship God ugly grinding game I think the word spirited is what you have to legally use for this so spirited that it included the rarest of citing a vck for possible violent conduct between Sheffield United teammates venessia suser and Jack Robinson blade on blade
Violence proof that there may not be an in team but there’s always a reason to give a teammate a Chelsea kiss another weekend another glass race to Gary O’Neal and the job he’s doing walls have now won as many Premier League games 11 in just 26 matches this season as they
Did in the campaign before he arrived which is just magnificent yeah uh insane stuff and the fact that VAR had to review those handbags between uh the Sheffield United players even more ridiculous and so long to do it I love it far exist to draw lines between two players I know you wa
They start doing it with fans R they’ll start doing it with fans uh Brighton one oh here we go Everton one R your mob goahead in the 73rd minute thanks to an insane goal from baby giraffe Jared branway and then with the sea goals reduced to 10 men when Billy Gilmore was
Sent to detention permanently but in the 95th minute Lewis stunk headed home an equalizer against the odds and I think I could hear your cry of Anguish faintly audible even in the French Caribbean Rod yeah it’s always so numbing whatever the score when you play Brighton um the a
Well-run Visionary Club against ours um one that’s just burnt through PS of cash as if we were Elite money launderers which maybe actually come to think of it I mean this is not just a football game it’s really a reminder of your own gross stupidity um and it was astonishing it
Was honestly watching Everton’s mounted cavalry charge against Brighton’s machine gun pill box for most of the first half Brighton just passed the ball like bloody Ninjas the paper cut us to death so angles space time in a different dimension it’s torture Simon a dingra just torched all cers Corner
After Corner after Corner pass after pass wave after wave but still no goals Brighton fans taunted us you’re going down with the palace and Devo it was an Agony watching 87y old Danny Welbeck just slashed through your backline at will oh still such a good Premier League
Player one of my favorites uh in the league I can’t believe of all the teams he’s played for that he’s never spent any time at Chelsea or Palace The two clubs I love um but yeah it was tough he is a just a distinguished brilliant intelligent football and Everton hell
Firm just Resolute DM AF DCL now goalless in 20 pent doesn’t seem to want the ball anywhere near him at this point um I think we got a 0.0 XG first half but second start to come out a little bit with lat and punches of our own got 0.1 yeah incredible actually incredible
Moment dor thunderous volley headed off the line by hom closer tiny dancers H tari lampy another Chelsea player in Exile save of the Season he’s not even a bloody goalkeeper but then the goal um 73rd minute off the chaos of a free kick from Deep Jared brand weight what a
Finish First Touch of a tender lover yeah Exquisite second how would you describe it second mean thumping Hulk smashing hul just thumping but with control at the same time Rog he ped it he absolutely ped it I mean he he didn’t just score he just took all the darkness
That we’ve had to sit through and wallow in he made it all worth it and I was like God bless you JB 32 a player so Sterling they like Wayne Rooney Ross Barkley JN Stones before you you oh we’re going to have to flog you to
Survive um but David he’s a player so good that even while he’s playing for us I don’t know if you can relate to this is the player when I watch him and Marvel at him um watch him saw for us I’m already pre warning him leaving us
Yeah pre morning I’ve done this with you for a long time rod and I’ve seen you go through the same thing with several other players um like to preor there’s many I would willingly preor I think had a lot of talking the English uh press about him potentially getting the
England call up for the Euros this summer um you know he’s a player that’s getting noticed everywhere he’s stunning he’s a stunning footballer um and it would get worse for Brighton this is what made it feel terrible um Billy Gilmore went through Onana like like like speed through kakat and Street red
Which felt ecstatic like job done we were beating Brighton talking about yeah about speed and and K what do you want to say about that I’m just sad I know what you’re talking about that’s all I have say yeah it was like the thing on
The Sky Sports it was massive um God but 10 men they were suddenly like the Undertaker snapping back to life nine minutes added on I don’t know where they got nine minutes from for that game I think from the same places they got 10 points for the deduction but as soon as
They gave n minutes every single Everton fan in my life everybody texted me the same thing we knew how this was going to end fifth minute stoppage time 400th game recycling the 10th corner of the game for Brighton looping cross dunk from distance Dagger of a looping header
First headed goal Everton have conceded All Season by the way suddenly a joy turn to ashes in our mouths um the game was a draw felt like both a victory and a loss which was very strange funny thing is D if he’ offered me a draw before kickoff I would have snapped that
Arm off yeah but by the time Billy Gilmore was sent off I understand why it felt like a loss and yet because of the position that Everton were in at that pointt before the deduction of the deduction yeah um a very very important Point yeah I do need to mention this
Neil M Neil mope who is still contracted by Everton um celebrating Lewis dunk goal on Lewis dunk Instagram page you wrote underneath my captain um even on social media Neil mop is the complete [ __ ] Houser [ __ ] Houser um Everton now haven’t won in the league since 16th of
December brutal March awaits we got West Ham United the merys side derby um but then this morning news broke that gorgeous beautiful Everton that’s what they said in the press release the Premier League that’s what they called them gorgeous beautiful Everton have had their 10-point deduction for breaching the Premier League’s profitability and
Sustainability rules reduced to six points cisp French listeners suddenly we sit in a soaring nose bedw worthy 15th Place in the table sudden we got 25 points D our game plan for the rest of the season is never to win again on the field just in the
Courtroom yeah I mean there is the prospect of perhaps another deduction coming at the end of the season but perhaps you could get an addition also we have no idea what’s going to happen uh with that that’s why we watched though isn’t it for twist and turns for
The deductions and the deductions of the deductions by the way what you’ve just said is the true Madness of it you say that again we have no idea oh what’s gonna happen yes no idea by the way that’s in fact the season could end on the final day and we don’t
Know exactly who’s going down and what’s happening script writers CU I know you’re listening that’s a good thing in like shows like loss that’s what we don’t know what’s going to happen True Detective what’s gonna happen we don’t know it’s not good in football it’s not
It’s not good is it d That’s not well no I mean you like being on the edge of a knife not knowing what’s going to happen when you’re watching action is one team can score one team can’t score but when you don’t know how the rules are going
To be applied or how the the the points in the table are going to be awarded or whether the games we’re playing now matter or don’t matter then that is the problem yeah I’ll tell you this Lawrence rovitz is our lawyer the fact that I
Know that and I do know I’m voting for him as our player of the Season that is what is insane about the premier league right now um that’s the hole they’ve dug for themselves they’ve handed these deductions of 10.1 out without real explanation for the severity of
Punishment we still by way face a second Financial fair play Charge hanging over the club’s head so there actually may be more points deductions coming very soon notum Forest you also have one for an even bigger Financial breach um Everton’s second case couldn’t be heard until this appeal for the 10-point
Deduction went through um so I’ve got a feeling they are going to end up taking back the Four Points we’ve just uh reimplemented but this is the Ridiculousness this is this yo-yoing up and down all season by the way psychological Havoc for our players Havoc for the other teams in the
Relegation Zone chaos for the fans who might not know the outcome until the end of the season as you say until you know the the the decisions are made and then appealed and then the counter cases come in probably the suwings from the other teams it’s like one of those movies
Davos it starts as an action kind of movie and suddenly ends up as a courtroom procedure that’s what football has become it’s just objection overruled isn’t that why we watch football yeah unfortunately so much of life is becoming like this is that everything’s based on a legal action
That and an appeal to the legal action that never gets and nothing ever comes to finality and nothing ever comes to Justice I really hope for you and you know all Everton fans and all football fans because what is Everton today it could be your Club tomorrow very very
Easily I think about this all the time and not just because of Chelsea I think about it more thinking about Palace it just could be somebody else um tomorrow and this is the problem that all sports are having is that these rules are getting more and more complicated you
Know one thing that you know one thing that was said to me last year about all of this is that when a lot of these rules were written by the Premier League they honestly didn’t think they would ever have to enforce them or that anybody would ever break them they
Weren’t written as they were almost written by like sort of Gulf bylaws of local rules of a club it wasn’t written to end up being costing you know tens of millions of pounds hundreds of millions of pounds perhaps life and death for the clubs who are in it and it’s just a
Problem there is just one of the problems of there being so much money in football I love your quote though Dave are echoing past the neem Moler first they came for the evertonians and I didn’t speak out because it was not a very depressed confused downtrodden sad
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WHAT IS THE USMNT NICKNAME FOR COPA AMERICA?
I'm not sure the 6 point resolution is positive for Everton. Now that 6 point deduction survived the challenge, it may be that the next set of violations (which have already been filed against Everton) will also garner a 6 point deduction and put you in even worse shape …
Also I like where Davo was going for a USMNT nickname. How about "American Overconfidence"?
You fellas are more charitable to Chelsea than a dying philanthropist, looking for a tax write-off 🙂
Is there a Rog wordsmithing montage on YouTube somewhere?
What did Klopp say to Cole Palmer after the game❓ 🤔
Winning Europa league in a quadruple really isnt THE Quadruple
Is Davo's volume an issue for anyone else? He gets closer and farther from the mic and his volume goes up and down (and too often down). Rog's levels are pretty much constant.
Quality as always lads
Branch Rickey, the baseball executive who brought Jackie Robinson to the majors, famously said “Luck is the residue of design.” Klopp and Liverpool were superior to Chelsea in their design, and in the end the “luck” fell their way.
Glad to hear Davo hasn't jumped on the bandwagon talking 💩about Chelsea and fairly representing the reality of their progress. This was an even game, decided by a set piece at the death of extra time. Both sides extremely young, with VVD taking advantage. The coverage from pundits has been extremely poor overall, though it's to be expected with JK retiring and the naive take on the youth on the field.
Liverpool got lucky – played like shit but got the Klopp magic – Nkunku should have started
Villa are amazing, and fully worthy of praise, but they're not in the title race.
They could conceivably overtake one of the front runners, but there's no way they catch all 3.
"In the end, he didn't get sent off" it wasn't even given as a foul. Report that haha
Liverpool are on for a quadruple. City are on for a quintuple.
how about the "For Fucks Sake". or ffs if you like brevity.
Don't Stop Believing !!!! Davo and Rog,, start singing!!! 2026 USMNT nickname is NASTY EAGLES !!! I'll do ya one!! MJ Westmont IL
Real madrid fan here in full support of the Kloppruple.
The Eagles 🦅
love the matt rempe shoutout, rog! 19:21
Deduction reduction what’s your function, subtracting points and then putting them back together
I think, when the Kloppdruple is completed, I'll look back at Klopp's bringing all his players together before overtime when Chelsea was spread out on their side of the field and remember Klopp as the uniter.