Episode #223 - You Won't Believe What Happened in the FA Cup 4th Round: Wrexham's Epic Draw & Brighton's Stunner Against Liverpool

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hello and welcome to the squeaky bum Time Podcast presented exclusively on

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the chop Sports channel of the premiere streaming Network we are recording this on Monday January 30th I am your host

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Laurent courteans in this episode we will review the entire fourth round of

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the FA Cup discuss the mighty seagulls third win over hapless Liverpool and

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call round one of Arsenal vs Manchester City but first

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wreck some uh wrexum of of Ryan Reynolds and Rob mcgillah any Fame

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and what it means they played this weekend and had a great great time against Sheffield United but the

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discussion all fell around why can't we get here in the U.S the

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feeling that something like rexin can happen and we're gonna get to the FA Cup fourth round there's a full rundown of

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so let us go in into rexim so what is rexim if you're not familiar with the

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show rexim is a team in Northern Wales in the fifth tier of English football

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which is one division out of the actual professional football league it is a

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semi-pro League that has increasingly especially the national league become more and more professional as team

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owners and people who want to own sports teams find Value in ready-made

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communities of fans who love their team and they want to be a part of the football energy

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um I believe that Rob mcgillah any and and Ryan Reynolds bought wrexham for

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three million dollars and they've taken to the city uh I

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believe Rob saw in in wrexham something of South Philly something of the working

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man's need for sport something in the offensive authenticity of the feeling

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that the city brought him and he and Ryan Reynolds they convinced each other I don't think Ryan Reynolds was into

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sport they convinced each other to be into this why is this important and how does it uh relate to MLS

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I think that Americans are responding to the story of rexham because we seek an

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authenticity that our sports do not have

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our sports do not have I've just been re-reading the ball as round and one of

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the things that Stark about the development of football in Europe and in England specifically is how organic it

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was it was just first just a local Street game from town

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to town something you did once a year and you fought and punched and kicked each other and that Rough and Tumble

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game got applied to the creation of the in the schools in England and they

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fought and they fought trying to figure out what to do with crazy young guys who just like to fight and they created this

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game and slowly develop rules and that organic feeling is still permeates

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through these teams so rexham is a team that's been in existence for

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over 120 years the Racecourse ground Was a Race Course for horse racing and

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cricket and rexham started playing there and this authenticity that you feel

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when you go to Europe or you're buying old building or if you go to Stonehenge or if you see the Mona Lisa these teams

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and the passion the fans feel is something that cannot be bought or created with a franchise and so

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um within the argument that I read I want to shout out my friend card to kirishner who are we're Twitter friends we've never spoken but he's a host of

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the world soccer Talk podcast out of Florida he's always in this sort of push and

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pull of how does American sport get into that Community feeling and I'm not sure we

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can get to it or we can get to the right stories because when you really think about it when you think of a team in the

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U.S especially an MLS team let's take an MLS team for instance it's usually a team that never existed

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or existed as a USL lower division team at the oldest may have been created in

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the 70s and the old nasl and those teams they have the Portland Thorns and and Minnesota uh Union

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the loons and it's really about a very very rich person buying a franchise in MLS that

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usually comes with a stadium and so you get this antiseptic wow we're

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going to the mall feeling versus wrexham where it's we're buying

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a hundred years of feeling and a hundred years of moments and 100 Years of pain and suffering and the suffering is part

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of it I keep kidding around about City needing to suffer part of great fandom is great suffering

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and what the MLS Lacks is the suffering I'm sure we had a moment there with

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Columbus Crew uh where they kind of fans almost lost their team

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but that's the terrible thing about the American franchise model is if the team goes into a state of suffering

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because it's so business first the team just disappears uh the team moves the team ceases to

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exist the United States has probably had more teams fold than any country in the world because our sport is based on

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business first they're not Community assets although we sell them as Community

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assets to get people to Pony up money for publicly funded stadiums whereas you

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look at the race Grant the race course ground it's painted and taken care of by the local

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people in the community they have a broken down stand that you watch the game and and it's half Fallen apart as

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though Obama hit it not two weeks ago so when we think about rexim and we

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think about the MLS here are a couple of analogies that I that come to mind for me is just like

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how do we capture the feeling of going into a 500 year old Cathedral versus

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a church that was built in: 1970

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it's still a church there's still a priest we're still all in there together but does that stained glass

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feel real to you does it feel like this church matters have there been 5 000

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weddings and ten thousand baptisms no or

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if you went to a McDonald's does it it nourishes you it's food

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it's a bit of a Community Asset but is it the same as the diner that's been on

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Route 1 for 75 years that you went after every game and a community gathers

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around no it's still food it's still a restaurant it's not even a high-end restaurant but that Chrome those old

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seats all that stuff matters and I think what happens with MLS teams is they

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don't have that and so when we watch wrexham we want that

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and um I don't know how we get there but I hope that one day we do because I

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really think it's an amazingly valuable asset that that we should all experience we should all want it and hopefully our

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Sports get that long and it's a shame that you know Yankee Stadium is gone and we have a new Yankee stadium more let me

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tell you Red Sox fans and and Wrigley Field fans and cubs fans never lose your stadiums

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where it is the space the energy the feeling it matters don't fall for the

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trick you don't need a new stadium redo your old stadium alright let us get into

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the um the FA Cup actual results here on 8 45 into the show uh just to make sure

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we capture it so people can listen to it later the results we start with rexham so rexham three three an amazing game at

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the city ground they're playing Sheffield United that we talked about in a preview who are flying High and um

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rexham came out in the first half they weren't quite added maybe the energy was too much maybe Ryan Reynolds

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being there by the way they shot to Ryan Reynolds every five seconds he seems genuinely to be feeling the pain of

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being a wrexham supporter but I don't know so on to ollie McBurney scores a goal on a cross very standard like the

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levels of football here at this level are not great but this is what real football looks like it's blood and

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thunder it's big strong guys and uh rexham did hang in there through the first half they probably could have been

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behind but did show the fight the crowd was behind them it was amazing and this in the second half rexham came out Phil

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Parkinson and his crew came out and just battered uh Sheffield United it

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was not close if we go by the nerd stats of XG and whatever I think like rexham had an XG of like three and a half now I

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don't have the XG in front of me because the FAA doesn't matter about that but one of the things I liked about this there was no VAR the game just flowed

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James Jones on a scrappy goal all he bundles one in then O'Connor bundles one

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in and then Mullin on the break on 86 he flies in and scores as well but in the meantime Ollie Norwood Drew this game

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level on 65 so we were tied at 2-2 after the barrage from Jones and O'Connor

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um one of the things I think about with was um was Tozer I believe his name was the um

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one of the fullbacks for where did he what was this position I have to find him

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Tozer where's Tozer was he a full Center back ton Cliff Tozer their Primary Center back excuse me Ben Tozer with the

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amazing long throw what a weapon every team should try and find a player on their team who can do a long throw

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because remember on a throw in you can't be offside so you can go wherever you want you can throw it as far as you want

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seemed like any ball in the final third rexham had a chance at goal they just threw it into the mixer and this is very

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indicative for those who don't know this is very indicative of lower league football even bottom half of the Premier

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League it used to be like this but it's gotten much better but you're seeing with Rex and vs Sheffield United real

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traditional English football and it's fantastic so leads are up Paul Mullen

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brings them up sorry rexima Paul Mullen on 86 with the with the diagnosis of his

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kid having autism he points to the shoe just incredible stuff and she wrecks them are so close there's seven minutes

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of added time because Jeb is had gotten send off on a kick out there was lots of hijinks going on it was real

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stuff and John Egan comes up with the scruffy goal at the end to break wrexham Hearts

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now they did not lose so this is where oh draws suck this is a great draw because

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what it means for the FA Cup if you don't know uh for the until you get to the semi-final round

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if you draw you get a replay and I don't know if anyone knows this historically

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with the FA Cup they would play replays over and over again until someone won so it was not

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unknown there have been I believe I'd have to look it up but there have been FA Cup runs where

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they're three four replays or six back in the day so if you play if you if

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you had a draw you did it again and they'd find a place for it they settled on having one replay uh I'm sure there

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are lots and lots and lots of uh Premier League managers who want no replays but

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uh wrexham will now go to [Music] um to Hillsboro I believe Sheffield United

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played Hillsborough is that right or is that Wednesday I might have gotten it wrong I don't think oh Bramble Lane

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excuse me we'll go to bramel Lane Sheffield takes on Wixom will have to go there and

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play again rexham are flying I don't think that Sheffield will take this game lightly but what an amazing game what an

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amazing event that if you're not paying attention February 7th please find where

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you can watch wrexham V Sheffield we'll all be rooting for wrexham and Mike knows and he went nuts the winner of

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this match does play Spurs so Spurs will get either rexham or Sheffield I'm sure

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Spurs wants rexham or maybe they don't or maybe they do I think for the fame for the faint of hearted I'm sure they

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would want rexham more than anything in the whole world at this point

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so we go to the next thing and we have to talk about my friends uh my friends in Liverpool

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um just just having a hard time with uh my other friends from from Brighton

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again unbelievable scenes brighten about

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as obvious as you'd seem is just unable Liverpool is unable to defeat the mighty

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mighty um Brighton early in this game so konate and Gomez are in the back early in the

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game Ferguson misses one passes it off to Marsh uh from from Sally Marsh

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Ferguson Mrs Trent Alexander off the line saves them then Solace breaks in

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down the line a goal that he would have scored any time over the last five years

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and he misses uh in this case and then they have another shot dunk Lewis dunk a

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beloved Lewis dunk you want a real footballer Lewis dunk Captain Center back number four for

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Brighton this is a man's man this is what Harry MaGuire used to be but somehow got ruined and is not when he

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was at Leicester he used to play like this but Lewis dunk overplays Salah Salah takes the ball plays it on to

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Elliot but continues his run uh gets it back and then passes it into

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Elliot one nil to Liverpool so Liverpool looking good feeling okay but not really

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they still can't control anything in the Midfield they can't control games at all

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and so the powerful Midfield of casedo and um and McAllister just running

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things Liverpool dream of having a Midfield that good uh the second the the leveling goal comes from lamty deflected

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in acres of space this ball comes out the lampy he's got a half an hour to hammer it he does dunk

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I think intended to deflect this and deflects at home uh scoring the goal 1-1 then the terrorist that is matomo

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flies down the wing on an incredible pass and run onto Marsh but Marsh misses again Liverpool on the ropes as usual

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all over again I don't know what to say anymore about Liverpool they just no

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matter what they do this Midfield was basic and keita still overrun uh gapco

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gapco sorry Cody gapko gakpo uh has been

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able to hasn't been able to affect games at all Elliott has played well when he's there and then Trent just getting abused

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by motomo again uh Robertson also not really affecting these games and so

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matomo down the wing he sets up another that almost happens

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and then um we get so it's one one sorry then the

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starting we're still playing around still playing and in the end it's an esteporn cross and a 90 estupion cross

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in the 95th minute and matomo has no right to score this goal he plays most of the game on the right on the left

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side comes over to the right side he's on the back post three touches with his right foot one to settle one to Juke

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Gomez who flies out of the screen the Juke is so good the cameraman's move off of matomo and then he slams it home 95th

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minute winner matomo again terrorizing poor Liverpool and I don't think it's

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close I don't think Liverpool fans feel like they lost this game more possession to Brighton took more shots more On

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Target everything in fact Liverpool resorted to trying breaking players so

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uh fabinho tried to break Ferguson in half uh really really nasty files that

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could have been read any other day Liverpool are a shambles right now

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um will they get better will they get there I don't know what's happening to them I don't know what they're going to

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do how they're going to get there how they're going to get better there isn't a path forward at this point so

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Liverpool season now rests on they're not going to win the league they're out of the League Cup

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they're out of the FA Cup they're out of the league and they have Real Madrid in the

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Champions League crazier things have happened but Liverpool is really aiming for a lost season and um if I want to give a my

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diagnosis of Liverpool's problems are riding the same players for too long

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having trans having a transfer policy that did not bring in high enough

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quality to challenge the players that were there so it's good to have transfers but

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they've got to push the guys they have and then lastly I don't think we can underestimate

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the 65 games that Liverpool played at highest level of intensity and then just

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having it not go their way uh losing both the FA Cup

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sorry the winning FA Cup losing the I don't know which one losing the league and the champions league right they won

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the FA Cup in the League Cup uh and just sort of limping out and going man we

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were almost there to being a legendary team um I don't think the Monet thing is the

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end of the world I think that Nunez has been good by and large

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um I think it's more losing some of the continuity of firmino losing some of that connectivity that connective tissue

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of how we play and who the leaders are um the Salah thing he's not having a

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great year but he really hasn't been good since he lost a calf since he lost the African Cup of Nations and that's

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almost a year now he was really on fire first three quarters of last season and

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came back from the Cup of Nations in the world and not making a World Cup maybe it's the World Cup qualifier I got it

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wrong um last year it really hasn't come back well since then uh he's a he's a hot and

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cold player in some sense he'll probably next season have 35 goals but this season might be his 15 goal season so

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Liverpool hurting licking their wounds

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um we spent a lot of the last session talking about Arsenal and

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Manchester City we're now back at that game um and gonna sort of go through the

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first round of their heavyweight battles so we set the stage Arsenal top of the

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League City chasing them um City actually in turmoil

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um losing Consuelo this week so this was before that game they just sent him off to Bayern probably City's best attacking

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player over the last two three seasons he's gone so the turmoil that I've been

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talking about with City where pep losing his mind is not fake there's something going on inside the team that just isn't

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quite the way we want it to be these days so uh City came into this game this

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is the first of at least three more meetings at least three meetings so City in this game

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and City have two more games against Arsenal in the league at least I don't think there's any other ways they can

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play uh because City are not in a league cup anymore so this game was kg I thought arsenal

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were really good uh but I think I talked about the five narratives that could happen um and one of those was Arsenal play

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well but lose and that sort of puts them still in the same position as Arsenal is

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good they played well they could have won this game they did not play their best

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and they sort of pushed the game along ago okay we're out of the FA Cup fine you come and get us in the league so

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they lose on a goal uh created by grealish on a shot by Julian Alvarez

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Julian Alvarez at this point has to play I think City are at their best when his

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energy is in the team he is the most like-for-like player with

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your um Jesus Gabriel Jesus he runs the channels he's pressing he drops deep it

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all makes sense so City are going with like a tall and short a very traditional Strike Force partnership that came on in

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the second half with Alvarez and Holland together where Holland simply stays in front occupying and then we allow

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Alvarez to run deep he's he's a bit of chaos Alvarez he'll shoot from Far everyone with city is very measured and

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ordered and it still doesn't look quite right I will give credit to to Jack grealish he's really been on form but

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and Katya had two really good chances that he could have scored um one was blocked by Laporte uh John

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Stones went out in this game so City's a little bit hampered and we saw some interesting

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um tactics from Arsenal they were playing City man for Man City didn't wasn't expecting it had to change at

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halftime um Lewis um came off and so a little bit of

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things with city city will take it we'll move on take this FA Cup feel good about

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it but the pep arteta thing that I didn't quite talk about uh as much

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in the build up is something that's interesting you know what does it mean to have your understudy or your

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secondary Crouch you know he's known pep has known arteta since he was 15 years old now it's kind of like we have this

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inchenko thing and we have the Jesus thing and the two teams have older links especially when wenvenger was there City

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would poach players from Arsenal I think KOLO Torre and Samir nasri guy cliche

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all became part of City's process of actually clawing Arsenal off their

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fourth place spot and city became that fourth place bot if you remember I talked about when when Newcastle were

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just coming up they bought Chris Wood from Burnley to take Burnley out

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so this is what city did to Arsenal so uh it's kind of an interesting thing there where city were so arrogant to

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send their own players to Arsenal to help out I don't quite understand it Pep's been weird this is a weird season

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for City I wouldn't be surprised if we don't win anything uh it's very possible uh that you get Holland the best player

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in the league and you're worse or you lose something it's very hard to win three leagues in a

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row I gave her a lot of respect to Sir Alex Ferguson for that but City still

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playing a little funky a little a little

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funky and a little less funky is our friend

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um Mr hinman's son who leads the line for Tottenham in there FA Cup game

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moving them through to the next round against Preston north end now

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I like saying Preston North End they play at a stadium called deepdale I mean

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you couldn't freaking call this The Hobbit anymore I mean it's just an incredible kind of name but Preston

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North End have been having a good season as a defensive team so I thought Spurs would have a harder time here but it

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looked to me that um Spurs had this one and it was really good to see Sunny get really deep goals

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I think maybe a little bit of a an opportunity for sun to not have to play

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off cane and really feel bad feel feel good about taking shots and doing what it needed to do

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um Spurs played Doherty and cesion and again you know they didn't have to defend uh

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spurs's weakness is defending when they play on the front foot they're good

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and it makes you wonder why doesn't kante play on the front foot more often he's so afraid of

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um of of playing attacking football

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he doesn't realize that that's his best path forward there are good players in this spur side and perisic playing at

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the nine which is weird he just played a sort of floating front three with parisich kulashevski and Son but son

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being the primary shooter we know that parisich doesn't really like to shoot and he laid off uh many shots I don't

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have too much to talk about with our friends from Preston uh they're in mid table they're a traditional team they

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iginal invincibles I think in: 1886

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actual Football League before the offside roll so Preston is an old school team famous for being the training

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ground for Mr David Beckham he started at Preston North End where uh Sir Alex

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loaned him and he had his first times at professional football playing a full season for Preston before coming to

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United and becoming the handsome legend that he was with the famous goal against Wimbledon from the halfway line but yeah

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these teams have all this history if we can go back to the wrexham story a team like Preston North End

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you know on would be a team that you could probably buy and they're inexpensive compared to American teams

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like they're like 50 million dollars I mean that's not nothing but an MLs

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franchise is 300 million dollars if not more so just not quite the same story as

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if you brought Preston North End and played at deepdale Stadium I mean deepdale come on it's amazing

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Turf more deepdale you can't get better than these names so uh Spurs move on

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with a potential meeting up against the Great and Powerful rexim if they can

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handle their business against the mighty and Powerful um

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uh Sheffield United so we're praying for that another game to talk about just because we probably should is um

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paulintz and his reading Hoops his blue Hoops go to man united and they put up a

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fight but ultimately lose to the more powerful team in United this is a casemiro game he scored two really good

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goals one from Deep one on a nice run uh and then a nice flick from Fred that

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came from Bruno that allowed United to get what they needed so Paul ince if you

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don't know who Paul Lintz is he's one of the legends of of United's earliest Incarnation when they first won the

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league from Liverpool with Cantona he famously moved on to make room for uh

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Nikki butt and the class of 92 paulins then went to Inter Milan and then one of

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the reasons he's not lauded as one of the Friends of Man United is that he went to Liverpool after he came back

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from Italy uh spending the rest of his career you know just applying his trade into Premier League playing till he's 38

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going down levels and he's really one of the only um Managers from the Sir Alex Ferguson

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tree still going um I think you know I think of a lot of them they've none of them have been really successful I guess Steve Bruce is

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the most successful of the of the Ferguson tree really uh you know

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who played under him and really was an old school football man but ins has been applying his trade never really too good

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but still just grinding being called the governor that's his nickname he's a London boy

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coaching is his son Tom and he'll probably get fired from Reading eventually too just like they all do but

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he's a name uh he's he's an interesting character he's kind of got a Roy Keane fighting quality to him once

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football play it a certain way a hard man if you will but um United dispatch him no problem and

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United move on so United are also in good shape for the FA Cup and uh let's go through the remaining results uh just

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to make sure that we've got everything clear um remaining results here I'm gonna just

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note the time so that I can you guys can pick it up later

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remaining results of the fourth round there were a lot of draws so they were going to be a lot of replays that go on

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like I said City defeat Arsenal not a problem our friends from accrington and Stanley lose to their beloved leads uh

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Patrick banford helping couple goals across the line um there good stuff very enjoyable stuff

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from leads who do pick up our friend Weston McKinney we're going to top transfers after we go through the rest

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of the scores um Rovers Blackburn Rovers draw with Birmingham city they'll have a replay

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Fulham one Sunderland won that was a barn burner almost 35 shots in that game

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but they'll have a replay in the Northwest Northeast then the northeast of Sunderland uh Fulham have to travel a

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long way my friends from it which town a level down draw with Burnley so Burnley

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don't score a goal lots of changes in that game uh Vincent company will take those boys back to Turf more and show

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them how it's done then lootontown to Grimsby Town two not much going on there

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Luton Town being the championship side they would have expected to beat Grimsby or two levels down but don't really get

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it done then the greatest team name in history Sheffield Wednesday won the owls

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drawing with Fleetwood Town one one they get a replay our friends from uh

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Southampton defeat Blackpool 2-1 so they move on and Warsaw lose to our friends

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from Leicester kalechi ianacho the most prolific goal scorer in the FA Cup still

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playing he has 17 goals in 23 FA Cup appearances that's a lot we love our

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nine and a half he's a legend uh Stoke defeats stevenage 3-1 stevenage were one of the lowest ranked teams left and

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today West Ham defeat Derby County with old boys Antonio and Bowen getting on

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the scoresheet isn't that nice for the old boys

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a couple of transfers we want to go to I think I mentioned two on the spin as we

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were working through this um Westin McKinney and

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Joe conselo both Moving on but the big one still to come is

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the Great and Powerful Chelsea trying to put out 105 million pound deal

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for Enzo Fernandez he of the Argentine championships World Cup winning team a

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mad mad bid what craziness then as I said before conselo headed to Byron for

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a 70 million pound buy option to buy they don't have to buy but they can buy

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Arsenal's bid 70 million for casedo has been rejected so Casado one of the

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engine room players for Brighton a great player he really has gotten bad advice

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he went on social media and wrote a nice letter to Brighton saying oh it's been great I'm happy to move on uh without

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the deal being done and Brighton were like not so fast my friend Brighton are holding firm are going to keep kaisero

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they've sent him home until the window closes and they're just like you're not leaving

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that 70 million is going to be there so Arsenal really trying to go for the title really getting that cover that

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they need in the Midfield in case Shaka or party to go down I just realized

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Thomas party's 29 years old and he's from Ghana I'm not saying that African

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players lie about their age I'm just saying African players play a lot

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and will do anything to get out of their country I don't know how old he is I'm just saying it's a possibility he's a

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little older than he says he is and Spurs finally make their breakthrough on Pedro poro and send uh young heel and

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his hair to Sevilla he's not he's never gotten a shake with poor uh Antonio

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Conte um but Pedro poro will come across but um the rest don't happen and then Jed

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Spence he's not playing either they're gonna send Jed Spence to renz uh in

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France so a lot of weird stuff going on with Spurs that Levy thing where he does

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what he wants when kante doesn't want it looks like the power struggles really going in kante's favor when you see

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he'll move out and Spence move out while poro is moving in so interesting stuff there then another really weird transfer

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and I would love to hear how what Arsenal fans think of this georginio to Arsenal

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that feels weird there have been moves of players from Chelsea to Arsenal most

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namely Peter Czech and villian but those were on freeze where the player was out

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of contract I'm sure that georginio is I'm sure that Chelsea would

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love to move georginio on and you know Chelsea might Arsenal might be a good

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spot for georginio but that's a weird move I understand the thinking on your genio

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for Arsenal in that he plays a real past possession boom boom boom kind of style

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but he does not have the physicality to hang with what Thomas parte does or

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Jacka does uh maybe athletically he's close to xhaka maybe artet is thinking

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he can play in the jackarole and if they need to Jaco will play deeper I'm not sure how anyone would want georginio

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he's such a I don't have a better way to say this limp player a couple other deals that

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I've gone through that I think are more interesting Anthony Gordon has left

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Everton and gone to Newcastle so Anthony Gordon one of the stars of the

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relegation battle he and um he Andrew Charleston really kept Everton

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up Rich Charleston moved on um but he felt compelled to stay at

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Everton it hasn't been the same for him and he's just been like I'm out so Everton are going to try and take that

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money and now the next rumor is that Everton would like to bring in Gallagher

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because he's not really fitting in with what's going on in Chelsea I love Gallagher but I don't think that he's a

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crisp enough passer of the ball he relies very much on physicality and

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running and all action that suits lower level teams versus your possession

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Precision passing I think he's a bit too all over the place and not staying in position enough where Gallagher may have

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fun at Everton uh if he moves further forward and he has a bit more freedom because he's alive wiring he'll score

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you goals by accident I really like him I could see him being a player who plays

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in clubs that are from 6 to 12 for the rest of his career without actually getting into that top-notch group

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because it's not really working for him at Chelsea as much as he would like it to work at Chelsea so there's that

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do you want to touch on the rest of the round

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um because we have some interesting matchups let me just make sure I get my

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draw right because on Google they don't really quite have it accurate because

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you can't see uh where the information is because it it's uh it's dependent on

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whether all the how all these draws go so this is for

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March 28th oh sorry February 28th through March 2nd

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here are the matchups Southampton will get Luton the winner of Luton versus

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Grimsby Leicester city will face Blackburn or Birmingham Stoke City gets Brighton Brighton really

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good chance here to um to win a trophy if they can keep moving as as noted wrexham or Sheffield face

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Tottenham Fulham or Sutherland get leads Fulham Fulham versus leads is like an

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Americans uh Americans pass versus America's future uh Bristol City versus

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Manchester City city get a good draw I'm sure someone's complaining United will go sorry United will host West Ham and then

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Ipswich or Burnley will play Sheffield Wednesday or Fleetwood which is crazy uh I didn't mention one

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um one item that I did want to cover Weston McKinney has signed for leads so Tyler Adams Aaronson

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and McKinney all at Leeds now so the United States of Leeds has really really

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picked up so we are now much more connected to that group of Americans are

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all playing for Jesse Marsh American coach American engine room American number 10 I think that with Somerville

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and yonto uh leads should be a really good time and really worth seeing

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