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I'm addicted to your chemicals, everybody. Welcome to the Football Ramble Preview Show, brought to you by LifeScore Bet. Scotland won in Greece and England are up tonight. It's Friday 21st of March. I'm Marcus Speller. I'm Jimmy Campbell. And I'm Pete, Pete Donaldson. What a Friday it is, lads. The sun is out and England are playing tonight. Does it get any better? What? I don't...
I do not think it does. It would only get better if I had a Crunchy in my hand. Can someone just get out and get a Crunchy from a healthy store around the corner? Sometime it'll happen or not, I don't know. I give Crunchy a lot of mentions. A lot of Crunchies. Well, you're just a passionate Crunchy.
Crunchy consumer on you. Advocate, yeah. On a Friday. But their marketing ad campaign really did a number on you, didn't it? Yeah. It did. He's a crunchy lobbyist. He's just constantly trying to bring crunch. Like I just talk about wrestling all the time. You talk about crunchies all the time. Yeah. Freebie with the Crunchy is much more achievable than you. Me getting a wrestler. Yeah.
AJ Styles is in the studio for some reason. There's a large man for Peter. I didn't get the memo about the Thursday shave, so you guys have both had Thursday shaves and I'm very much still bearded, so apologies everyone. You're tashed. You should never apologise for that. moustache paint. That's wonderful. Thank you darling. Certainly not. Thank you. Should Scotland apologise for beating the Greeks in Greece through VAR decisions? I don't know if they'd be...
Very well respected if they start apologising to people they meet. Sorry about that, lads. Maybe that could be a tactic, though, in major tournaments. Yeah. Because they've not fared very well recently, so maybe they could just apologise. Let's not lose to these cucks. Just get in their head in a weird way.
Oh, empathetic, please. We don't even want to score a goal. There you go. And then, ha, hit him on the break, Man United style. Right. Greece nil, Scotland one, of course, was the score. Another British side has won in Greece. And it was Scotland this time. And obviously, Scott McTominay scored the goal. He won the penalty or was fouled. Did you think it was a foul, Jim? Because there was a controversy about this. Was he fouled? Did he initiate contact?
Referee gave the penalty, and I suspect it's one of those ones where VAR would have ultimately gone, yeah, whatever, we'll go with you. Yeah, I thought it was a penalty. Did you? Yeah. I thought it was as well. Possibly it's my ancient Scottish blood. Being a bit biased. No such thing as Scottish blood. Let's be clear about that. Put my...
Jimmy, hat on. Any hat you own. I suppose it is actually, isn't it? I very much enjoy when a player wins the penalty and scores the penalty. There's just something lovely about the holistic kind of...
Start, middle, end to that story. Now we can get on with the rest of the match. I know what you mean. Very much enjoyable. Like me, were you confused when you first heard about the Elgin Marbles? You thought it was from Elgin, the town in Scotland. Yeah, very good point, actually. They've probably got some kind of... call for it. It doesn't seem that unreasonable to be in that museum. Oh, I see. It's like everything else in it. Come on.
A lot of legwork went into that museum. It just seems very weird that, like, greaser. Yeah, no one talks about the walls today. No. Security. How much money did the electrics cost every hour? The ironically named British Museum. The roof's great. You want rain in your museum, do you? No, I don't, Jim. I really, really don't. But I tell you what, though, Scotland played well in that first half. I do specify...
first half. First half, yeah. First half of the two halves. Old Che Adams had a couple of chances. He did, yes. But look, it didn't matter. Well, it may matter because it's a two-legged affair. There was one chance in particular he had a lot more time than I think he realised. But I understand...
what he was trying to do he was trying to catch the goalkeeper sort of off his line a little bit but he had time to take a touch and plays it a bit more and you're right it could be it could come back to bite them you'd expect they would get it done at home but Greece kind of battered them in the second half yeah Lewis Ferguson
Ferguson summed it up well by saying, first half, we looked at the most dangerous team, and then we showed the dirty side of the game. We've come away with a big result, and they needed to do that. And there was a bit of chat with Scotland, as there is with so many teams these days.
And then the back four was in the first half, looked pretty good. And I think if Steve Clarke hadn't told them to go to a back three slash back five in the second half, it was very much, yeah, I think we are going to need to do this. the goal did it encourage the 24 shots yeah how about that 24 shots they face Scotland they're most while keeping a clean sheet since that game when they robbed France in 2007 I've not seen this many
shots in Scotland since I drank with the Queen Mother in Balmoral. I see. It doesn't really work because they were away from home, but it doesn't matter. I can imagine the Queen Mother liked a shot, though. Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah. Gin.
Sherry. Sherry. All a lot. As long as she poured you a pint of beer like she does in that photo. That's amazing. Scotland play Greece in three of their next seven games. Quite incredibly. They're going to be very familiar with each other. The second leg of this playoff is on...
Sunday afternoon Greece must be annoyed to be having to deal with this do you think they're rated like so highly and they've been playing such nice football and they're here I think they'd be disappointed because as you say Peter they have been a force at home and against England
Of course, they had the great win at Wembley. I know England were, you know, it was a funny side, Carlsley. But still, you know, England are a better side than Greece. It was still a great win. It was a work in progress. Yeah. Very much in the sort of like...
this is going to not be ready by the time it gets to the fringe level. It was like three people in a pub. Exactly. And then the game when England went to Greece and won 3-0, well, it was two late goals. And actually, you know, Pickford... had to make a couple of saves and so they gave a decent account of themselves I think 3-0 slightly flattered England you could say on the night
So, as Steve Clarke said, there's still a game to be played here. The tie is not dead. No. Is what he said. And he is right. So, we shall see on Sunday afternoon. But it's all set up nicely for a good game. Especially as Kieran Tierney is apparently now a left wing. Yeah. What do you think about that? I love it. Yeah. I'm all for it.
Let's have more of it. Yeah, why has he not pushed up there a bit more for Arsenal? Against PSV he was. In the second. Yeah, against Man United he came on to play on the left wing ahead of Raheem Sterling which was obviously a little bit of a mini-story at the time.
He has got the skills to be a sort of out-and-out winger in the traditional sense. So that's probably the thinking of both Arteta and Clark, I'd imagine. Well, Clark also tried to... to fit in you know it was always that chat wasn't there on that left hand side yeah with Robertson as well and Scotland had one or two injuries as well going into this so look it's a win's a win's a win on the road especially in a clean sheet and the aforementioned
and Andy Robertson earned his 81st Scotland cap. He's now third on their all-time list. How about that? Now, did you see Ange Postacolico was seen with some Scotland fans in Greece ahead of this game? Who would he have been cheering for? Presumably Greece, because obviously he's...
of Greek heritage and so on. But he talks the talk and he probably was like, ah, yeah, no, I used to manage Celtic. I'm one of yous in both camps. Is he scouting for his next job, maybe? That's what it is. The pardew move? Yeah, I forgot that old pardew.
there for a good win for Scotland and as I say all nicely poised for that for that home leg at Hampden on Sunday afternoon at the Republic of Ireland got a win away they did yes Bulgaria 2-1 the first time Bulgaria lost a home match in over a year Brian Kerr
in the Irish TV post-match was so balled over. You see him every now and again. You familiar with Brian Kerr's work, the old manager? He always sits very far back in his chair. Right. And he just needs a little sofa. Will you get that man a little sofa?
sofa bed or at least a recliner yeah just have a little lie down or something how far back do you want this man to be broadcast I just think the better island player that seems he just gets more more and more balled over that would be quite something though if it's like a reverential Japanese bow he just
scores back 45 degrees. Might not have him lying down doing it. So when they cut to him, you just get like a little camera on the ceiling, like a bird's eye view. Well, surely it should be depending on the result, right? If they win the next time, it can be a bit...
further back and eventually he's in a hammock or I don't know he's like one of those red fishers you used to put in your hand those red plastic fishers that used to roll over if you were horny or whatever I haven't thought of them since the 80s well imagine a little A little red Brian Kerr.
Do you remember them, Jim? No. The little red fish. It was a fortune-telling fish you used to put in your hand in the 80s, and it would do different things. On the packet, it would tell you if the fish rolls over and curls up in a ball, it's always death. It's death. you're in trouble yeah and if it just falls out your hand it does it's you know you're angry all this stuff so yeah that a tiny Brian Kerr in your hand
Yeah. I forget that you're a Viz character. Good old Brian Curdo. But yeah, well, I mean, he must have been delighted with this one because Ireland obviously deserved it. Two nice goals. In fact, all the goals were quite enjoyable. in this game Petkov was a lovely he got a lovely little back heel assist and a lovely finish and when you're watching that you're like ah it's six minutes in this is going to go one way away from home but wow yeah
And then Ireland responded. Doherty got a brave winning goal. Lovely brave header, yeah. I found it quite funny. There was reports that him and Hal Grimson had had a bit of a falling out before the game.
That was what some of the reports were suggesting. They kind of downplayed it. I found it funny, though, that after the game, Doherty's got the winner and Hal Grimson, oh, what a player. Just, you know, great stuff, very brave. And he just talks flowing. Yeah, you are. I've had a fall in it. Yeah, exactly.
Troy Parrott started up front ahead of Evan Ferguson. But they've got a couple of decent options up there. And you know what? They've got some very good young players coming through in Ireland. Mason Mellier, a few others are earning sort of big money moves in terms of the kind of transfer fees that are regularly paid to League of Ireland clubs. And there's a lot of excitement for the future at the moment. Yeah, and much needed, of course, because it has been pretty bad for...
a fair few years now with Ireland. Here's a fact for you. Ireland's first ever senior international fixture at the 1924 Olympics was against Bulgaria. That is a nice, lovely little start, middle and end to a story. It's quite a strong indication of slow news week as well. It's a very Football Ramble international show fact. I just thought that 101 years on from that fixture...
Are we going to see some sort of recognition from it when they face each other in Dublin? Oh, I don't know. I think that's worthy. If you're at the FAI, why not have a little nod to that? Yeah. Get down off the crowd. Stop crowd surfing for a second and remember legacy. Or at least get them to deposit you in your seat by your desk. Yeah, that's right. Write on Sharpies, write hello again on the back of your shirts for Bulgaria. Hello again.
again hello again yeah um this is christery good nice there we are nice there we are um now let's move on uh to the uh the the nation's league quarterfinals that happened last night first leg quarterfinal There you are. We are talking about the Nations League, everybody. It's very hard to keep track of even when it's literally your job as it is ours. That's right, yeah. Denmark beat Portugal 1-0. Rasmus Hoyland scored again. On fire. He did the Cristiano Ronaldo celebration. I love that. It is.
It just keeps going. That is heartwarming to see him score. Yeah, it is. I think we've all felt quite sorry for him. But yeah, scored again so soon after scoring against Leicester last weekend, which of course ended a 21-game drought. And he got a vital one. just the only goal of the game, after Christian Eriksen had missed a penalty. Costa was very busy in golf. Yeah, it was a very good save, actually, wasn't it? Because it was well hit, fairly in the corner.
And he didn't even extend his arms. I thought, blimey, the leap on that man. I know Christian Eriksen can probably play as long as he wants to play for that national side, but he is a shadow of who he was at Brentford, for example. Yeah, I know what you mean. He's no spring chicken.
No. But all things considered... All things considered. I mean, two thumbs up, he died. Yeah. And came back to life. Apparently told Danish media this week that he's expecting to leave Manchester United this summer, which...
that would be a good move wherever it is not a huge surprise is it because of the things that people have said in charge of the club where are you going Sunday leave just away you know what I'm just going to lay face down on the bed and try not to think I'm not gonna do anything.
I'd have gone to a library, just read for a bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A spa library. Sit in some water and read. That's what he needs to do. But anyway, Denmark hold advantage in that tie. Now, we know that whoever wins the tie between Germany...
in Italy will host the little mini tournament for the semis in the final. Well, of course, Germany beat Italy 2-1 last night in Italy. Good win for them at the San Siro. Tenale scored, Peter! He did, he did. Back at his old ground. When I heard that he scored, I thought it was going to be... an absolute raker but it was just a tidy little sort of tap in really nice good win for Germany though bad news for Arsenal Jim yep Ricciardo Calafiore looked like he
He did the splits. He nearly did the splits and I'll be amazed if he'll be, because he's going to be assessed afterwards. Apparently he was limping after the game. If anyone didn't see it, with no one around him, he sort of slipped, kind of did the splits and sort of... pirouetted and clutched his left knee immediately he had a strange injury on international duty with Italy earlier in the season as well where somebody like as they were falling over sort of
put their studs into the back of his leg. It was just another kind of freak occurrence. He was injured from the back of that. So this will be a real annoying blow because he's obviously on a job show with Lewis Skelly until one of them gets booked. So that is annoying.
Again. Yeah, and staying with Calafiore, did you hear what he said about Mikel Arteta this week? He said, I was immediately struck by how much Arteta cared about getting to know me. One day on the phone, he sent me some photos of my... my family, and asked me to say what each member of the family meant to me. Wow. Good Lord. There were crosshairs on a couple, and he didn't say that. Yeah.
I've done an AI filter and everyone's a bit sexier now. I got these photos from hanging outside your window. If you don't track your man... I'll track your family. So in order of importance... I have a particular set of skills. Will the nonsense never end with Arteta? I'll tell you what, though. Staying with Arsenal things, Netherlands 2, Spain 2.
Mikel Marino scoring an injury time equaliser. A striker's... Yeah. A poacher's finished. A tidy little poached goal, wasn't it? The funny thing was... Tini's a winger now. Marino's a striker. Yeah, but when he scores... Can't stop Marino's when he's in through. Nicely done, Peter.
A couple of extra answers there, but I think we can workshop it. It's your Friday too. What I liked about that goal is Marino scores when the ball comes into the box. It's parried away by the keeper, who's a bit unsighted, straight into the six-yard box. and Marino's the first one to react and scores in the 90 second minute or whatever it was to get a draw and I thought to myself I just thought well he will be there that's where he plays now he's not a striker I know yeah
I think that'll be five goals in eight games since he moved to being a striker. It's mad. It is mad. But he's banging them in. We're going to stay, if you like, with arsenally things just, Jim. But we're going to go to North America, the continent that will host the World Cup, of course, in the summer after next. The United States had a poor result, Peter. Beaten by Panama 1-0. They're out of the Nations League after a 94th minute winner from Cecilio Waterman.
Old Waterman jumped over the advertising hoardings when celebrating. And the CBS desk was there where... I didn't see who the other... I assume it was Kate Abdo and one or two of the gang. But Thierry Henry... He was definitely there. He was definitely there. I don't know about it. Waterman went over to celebrate him. Although when Waterman celebrates first, he goes up to Henri and he's like shouting.
I thought he was going to chin him. I thought, yeah. I thought he was like, the stuff you said about us, you never thought we would do this. And then, of course, Henri's a bit like, what is happening here? What is happening? Yeah, because obviously Henri is being employed by CBS, a US outlet, so he has to be...
remaining on the side of the US, you would imagine. At least neutral. At least neutral, keep the money coming in. But yeah, it was an astonishing, I was going to say assault, on a man just trying to do his job. Do you think he went to hug him and apparently from...
what people say, Henri smells terrific. And he probably stopped for a minute and was like, you've got to tell me where you get that. Anyway, coming. Human smelling salts. Yeah, right. Calm down, calm down. But the best thing was though, Jim, he goes in on Henri to give him the big hug and celebration.
whether Henri liked it or not and then the rest of the team jump up and follow so suddenly it's a big pile it's the bundle isn't it I think the rules of the bundle for anyone who went to school in Britain probably do still apply just forever more we just don't see it If on the train home, I jump on someone and shout, bundle! I imagine...
I imagine a lot of people would join in just out of habit. It's no different here. You being you, you'd be the one that got bundled. The bundlee would become the bundler. I want to make this clear. If you see me in public, do not bundle me. You've just got to hope that Kevin Keegan's also on that carriage. bundle him. Let's have a bloody big bundle. Bundle Jim. Let's have a big bundle. Damn right.
So Henri was stunned, as were the rest of those who were in the US and watching the game at the time, because he didn't think that at all. And of course, the manager of the US... Mauricio Pochettino said ahead of the game we want to destroy Panama we want to destroy the next one we want to win but destroy when I say destroy it's in a sporting way I'm glad he put that caveat well he has to these days doesn't he given the things
that certain other kind of figures in the US have said about Panama and Greenland. Stay away from that, Potch. Stay away from that type of language. Yeah, indeed, yeah. It's nice to be reminded that Potch is the manager of them. going into the World Cup, it's a bit of pressure on him as well to deliver. After stuff like this, there is, yeah. Well, I mean, yeah, they're out to destroy. But I mean...
You never want the hosts of a tournament really to go out early because there's something about the fever and stuff. But this is a poor result. Terrible result. Yeah. You might have a few people. I know...
Do the Panamanians know something? Yeah, maybe, Jim. Maybe, that's what it is. I know it's a long way off from the World Cup, but it's not going to fill them with a huge amount of confidence. No, absolutely not. It's not going to fill them with confidence in Pochettino either, is it? No, it isn't. It is not. All right, everybody. Coming up after this, Tommy Took's England Reign Begins.
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Yep. That gets me going. It does. Yeah, it does. Absolutely. That's like, it's up there with world in motion, that for me. Three lines, that noise. It's not me, the national anthem for me. Yeah. I trust you'll be singing it tonight. I will throw my... That's not a national anthem. That's what it is. Literally just sang the US national anthem. Tell us something the king doesn't know.
England versus Albania tonight at 7.45. 7.45. Peter. What? Come on. Continue. Have you ever got his sausage fingers? No, I haven't got his sausage fingers. Unbelievable. England versus Albania tonight England's new chapter under the third ever foreign coach begins tonight we've had a Swede we've had an Italian We've never had a German. No. Let's try all of Europe. Now, ahead of Gareth Southgate's first...
game in charge of England. He said he wanted to play with bravery and style and then they laboured to a 2-0 win against Malta. But Thomas Tuchel... was very bold in his press conference yesterday and he said that he wants the team to play with a hunger to win rather than a fear to lose. And he added, I've heard a lot that it's a heavy shirt.
it is in fact not. And he held one up and said, look, easy, tops off. Yeah, I love this, to be honest, because I think it's easier for him to say this as a non-English person and to just kind of dispel all this kind of stuff around it. I mean, whether... that will prove to be the case in reality or not is obviously yet to be seen. But I do think there's a lot to be said for trying to sort of like demystify a lot of the kind of stuff around England that does make players
play within themselves a little bit and that does make it look like a heavy shirt. Obviously the press come into that, essentially the intensity of support of England comes into that, but I think it's a good plan to try and... takes some of the sting out of that type of thing. And focus on the football a little bit. I think with Tuchel, when he came in, he obviously wanted to be the coach rather than the manager. And he spoke about Gal Southgate's...
politicised decisions and all that stuff which I think is a bit of a cop out personally because the England job is the England job and you either take it with everything or you have someone over the top of you and become like a director of football and coach kind of a relationship which we don't have at the moment but I think it's quite smart
he sort of said, I'm just the coach. I am, we're just going to play football and we shouldn't fear anyone when we get out on the pitch and stuff. So I think it's, I think he's, he's talking. He's talking all nice and I'm enjoying it immensely. And then you do look at his first squad and you go, are you a bit mad? Are you a bit mad? I think we know he is a bit mad. He is a bit mad, yeah. But that's quite enjoyable as well. And actually, I mean... If you look at what is...
The actual words of what he said written down, it does sound quite intense and it sounds quite full on, but his manner seems fairly relaxed. The players seem fairly relaxed. I think that's quite a nice balance as well. I think he's building on the work of Gareth Selfie. Absolutely. As he has to. Yeah, I know a lot of the papers.
and the press are saying that he's had a dig at Southgate and so on and so forth. I mean, you could interpret it as that, of course. I mean, when he says... He's asked direct questions and he's given direct answers. And he's given honest answers, isn't he? Yeah, and to be honest, probably giving the... By and large, the answers, I think...
is a fair assessment of what happened. I mean, when he says the shirt is heavy, I mean, I think Southgate did a lot to lighten the load of that shirt. Just that when it came to the crunch, you'd say England were a little bit short. And in chainmail again. And he's been employed. Lloyd, we're not looking for an era. You know, Southgate put the ladders up and he just...
climbs the wrestling ladder to grab that money in the bank. You just need someone to just jump up that ladder and get the briefcase. So that's the brief, isn't it? We're not looking for the next 10 years. We're looking for the next tournament. This is a spin-off. Yes, this is a spin-off. This is Frasier. A spin-off. Yeah, the only way England could win a trophy is in a spin-off. Yeah, in like a sort of one-shot...
Kind of an 18-month gig, just one tournament. This isn't canon. Don't worry about it. The manager's German, for God's sake. This is some really out there kind of weird interpretation of England. Into the Tuchelverse. Yeah, exactly. What did you think of the comments, though, that he made?
that he was interviewed by, was it Gabriel Clark on ITV, and was asked about, what did you think of England at the Euros last summer? And this is, a lot of the chat has been this, and he said that, that England played in a way that they didn't want to go out of the tournament they didn't play in a way that they wanted to win they didn't show any they didn't give any excitement they didn't play with the tempo and rhythm and the patterns of play that
that one might have expected or indeed would need to win a tournament, which are quite, you know, bold and strong things to say. I personally... I don't think that is a dig at Southgate. I think he's just quite honest. Yeah, which I think is really, really important in a manager putting their own stamp on a new era, one shot or not. But also...
Because it helps no one to sort of dither and kind of be in denial about what England's problems were because it's now Tuchel's job to fix those, isn't it? It's now Tuchel's job to make sure we don't repeat those and without meaning to sort of do a kind of...
rehash of the Southgate era too much. I think essentially he played very, very cautiously at the beginning because that was the appropriate thing to do with the players that we had. The players then got better over time because we happened to be blessed with a lot of good players coming.
through in the time that Southgate was manager and he made it more enjoyable for England he did make it more enjoyable I think there was a sense though wasn't there that we could never quite fully push through into believing ourselves as protagonists and the team that we're going to set the agenda and go out there and essentially...
be what Tuchel is saying English should be now, the team to beat, that exciting team. And I think it was very, very difficult for England to evolve that much under Southgate and see themselves that way. And I think it's really encouraging that he is trying to change that. Yeah, I think with Southgate and England, again, without going over it too much.
It was a case of restoring England to where they kind of should be. And everyone in England now, there is an expectation that is very, very high. I think in previous tournaments in the early noughties, there was an expectation because if you look at the squad, it was a very good squad of players.
players surely we should do better but then there was the psychological barriers which Southgate punched through most of other than getting the hands on that trophy and also there was a technical element right where English players perhaps weren't as technical
Definitely weren't as technical as their kind of foreign counterparts or European counterparts in some degrees at the start of his reign. But I think that's slightly different now. Yeah. And with Southgate, Qatar 2022, I would say England were on the front foot. It just so happened that it was a game against France that they didn't have.
Looking at the last Euros, which is what Tuchel was asked about, there's no doubt that England were a bit poor, to say the least. I'd say a bit poor. Some people might say bloody awful. And they kind of trudged their way to the final.
And it was a bit disappointing because England didn't play with that expression. And the reason why I think Tuchel answered the question like that, if Tuchel answers it in a kind of politician-like way of, ah, well, you know, that was a previous regime and, you know, England got... to the final on another day they might have won it blah blah blah blah if he if he says all that then it's why are we paying you all this money there's that as well but also it's kind of at odds
Or not at odds, but it doesn't follow through with what he has been saying. He's spoken about playing with an intense style, a Premier League style, all that kind of stuff. If he then says, well, this is what I thought went wrong in the previous tournament, or this is where I thought they were lacking. It's bold and it's setting your stall out.
To say, right, this is what I'm going to do. That's what he's there for, isn't it? That's the whole point of him coming in and trying a different approach to get a better result. It's why he's there. I'm surprised there's been sort of this...
I'm not surprised that people are interpreting it as like he's having a dig at Southgate because it's just a load of nonsense to sell papers, isn't it? If you'd have said, I would have dropped Ken in the final, pushed the microphones over, leave the room. Brilliant. Well, I think people, I think...
probably a bit of excitement with Tuchel now. He's got to win over certain people, absolutely. But with these comments, again, he's looking at that England guy and going, yeah, no, no, no. That's not how a team of mine would play. That's not how I would approach it. And I think people will think, all right, okay.
This is what we would like. Now, we are going to talk more about these comments and what they mean on tomorrow's mailbag as well. So Luke and I picked our starting 11 that we'd like to see for the game against Albania. You have it in front of you, gentlemen.
and Pickford in goal. We've gone for Lewis Skelly, that left back. Gay is centre half. The other centre half, we were kind of... thinking what's the most likely and we thought Esri Konza even though I'm sure Petey would like to see Big Dan I've got a few things to say about that Rhys James at right back and then a midfield three of Rice Curtis Jones was the one I went for because I'd like to see that and I think he's only
got really is central midfielders who could play there you know Jones and then maybe Henderson I don't know if there's too many others in there Bellingham of course Gordon and Foden either side of Kane I think he will go for Foden because lest we forget he's a very very good player. So that's what we think is going to be starting to live. Any comments on that? Peter, come to you first with your big Dan Byrne hat on. Well, I mean, I think the whole kind of...
I could see him playing band. I could as well. Because I just think gigantic men love gigantic men. And we forget how tall Thomas Tuchel is. Yeah, he is. He's absolutely going for it. And you want a bit of a statement win as your first. match, maybe a statement defender doing bits and having a good time. You need that Harry Maguire good time guy to characterise all of the good stuff you're going to be doing. But I like what you've been talking about.
Bellingham and how he wanted to play further up the field and stuff and we did see his best work when he was just on the corner of the of the eight-yard box. I would agree with Curtis Jones being that third man in midfield because I think actually that's a really well-balanced midfield and that's...
an important part of it, isn't it? Rather than just chucking names in there. With Foden, I'm tempted to go, I'm not sure about him going from the right, but looking at the other options on the website, I think he probably... we will pick him over Bowen and Bowen's really the only other option that you'd...
kind of have out there in terms of someone who plays regularly there unless you were to repurpose someone like Morgan Gibbs, Wyatt or Eza and actually have them playing kind of with Bellingham as a sort of number 10 type. And I don't know how likely that is, but that's actually the kind of...
exciting thing about this, isn't it? We don't really know how Tuchel's lineup is going to translate to where the players actually operate on the pitch. We simply don't know yet. But it would be a chance. I mean, if Foden or whoever starts on that right-hand side, it is a chance because Saka's injured.
who is an automatic starter when fit and Cole Palmer is also injured who would be another one maybe vying for that place although some people prefer for him to play inside so I think getting the balance
right is going to be difficult. But I get the impression with Tuchel, he's not afraid to make those brave calls. You know, we were all kind of a bit annoyed that Gordon didn't get... more minutes in the Euros that Foden was playing I think he's nailed on to get loads of minutes Gordon however he plays the position is you would imagine unless Tuchel's got other ideas you'd imagine it's probably his to lose I mean he played a lot there under the brief reign of Lee Carsley
charge, of course. But it'd be interesting to see what he asks Harry Kane to do. Tuchel knows Kane well. He managed him at Bayern, of course.
And you would imagine it probably wouldn't be that different to what Harry Kane normally does, dropping deep and so on, which is why I think Gordon's... Maybe a little bit less of that when you've got Bellingham in there. Possibly, possibly. I think Gordon, as an England prospect, it will be... transformed with Tuchel Dembele Pulisic obviously did wonders with those two characters careers he's a man who just loves pace he loves width and I just think he's going to have a lovely time I think
The one kind of caveat to that might be that he's obviously picked Marcus Rashford for a reason. So he's probably going to want to take a look at him over one of these two games. So I guess Rashford and Gordon will probably do a bit of a job share. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. I mean, again, England got options because, you know, you think about... players who haven't made the squad and it'd be ridiculous almost to mention Jack Grealish's name you know so but I think with Kane
I always quite like having a runner beyond him. And I think that the Euros didn't have that, really. Saka can do that, but he's not really that type of player. He wants the ball probably more to feet. Whereas Gordon, Rashford, they are... particularly with Rashford. He was a striker, really.
You know what I mean? He's been converted into a winger, so have that. So we'll see what happens. I mean, Albania are a tough opponent. You know, they're quite tight in the back, all the cliches. They'll make it difficult, et cetera, et cetera. And they're no mugs. They were at the Euros as well. Right, it's now time for the Football Ramble.
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Now then, on to this week's Bet Builder. We've selected tonight's clash between England and Albania at Wembley. Jim, you have the first pick. I do, and I've gone for over 2.5 goals because England have scored at least three goals in each of their last three matches. It's at Wembley.
It's, you know, spring is here. It's the first game under a new manager. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. So I'm going to go for over 2.5 goals. Okay, love that. Andy Brassel has the second pick. And Andy is going to talk now. you Hello, chaps. Andy here. I'm going to have to go for Harry Kane to score any time against Albania because, well, he's four times better than he was when he was in England. Now he's at Bayern. Obviously, soon to be Bundesliga title winner, Harry Kane.
Can't score any time against Albania. Did he say Bundle's Liga? Bundle! Bundle! Oh, that would be good, wouldn't it? Yeah. OK, so Andy's gone for a hurricane score any time. Peter? I think a lot of these England players are going to be trying to take on a lot of new information and a lot of new basketball anecdotes, which Tuchel seems to be very obsessed with.
So I think it's going to be a slightly, not ill-tempered, but possibly a bit clumsy. Dan Byrne makes it on the field. Definitely yellow card. Over 4.5 cards. Oh, right. So that's what I'm going to go for. This one. Like that, like that. I'm going to go for England to win. England have won all six of their meetings with Albania. And our favourites. And they've got to win. They've got to get Thomas Tuchel off to a good start.
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Right, gentlemen, Wales host Kazakhstan tomorrow night at 7.45. Their World Cup qualification campaign begins. It's an exciting time. I mean, with all of these overlapping kind of Euros and World Cup, over like COVID and stuff, it was all quite confusing when campaigns would start. But I just get the sense that World Cup qualification should have started earlier for Wales. I don't know why.
They just need more of a run-up. Well, yeah. I mean, they're not that small, the nation, Peter. You're talking about, you know, like the Samoan Islands and stuff when they start their World Cup qualification campaign like a day after the final ends. Yeah. It's like, right, boys, back on. Here we go again. Yeah.
It's going to be our time this time. It's an exciting time, isn't it? Because the Craig Bellamy era looks like a lot of fun, as actually generally Welsh football has done for a long, long time. I feel slightly jealous of the relationship they have with the national team and the way the fans feel like a big family that's also...
somehow on a stag do. Yeah. Just going around together. And Bellamy started really, really well. Could they treat it like Bellamy stag do, do you think? Maybe, actually. That'd be good. Yeah. I know, you know, I'm... The weather's going to be quite hot, but will we see Craig Bellamy in the bomber? I'm thinking like PE vest and shots, like white PE stand. What about vest under blazer?
A la Rabsy in his bit. Yeah. He could bring that back. He would obviously look a lot better. He looked really good, yeah. He would do. Pickup truck for some reason. I'm now back of a pickup truck. Yeah. Back of a pickup truck with a hair bill and a bit of straw in his mouth. I don't know why, I just would enjoy the aesthetic. No, I don't know why either. I don't think anybody would know. But lots of suntan lotion, please, because he's very fair. Yeah. Let's assume that they qualify.
five, of course. They'll get there. Come on. Yeah. They're playing Kazakhstan. Yeah, but it's not. If they play ten of those. It isn't a playoff. Well, just a reminder that they're in with. Guess who they're in with? Guess who they're in with? Belgium. Belgium. Yes.
Do you remember when England always used to draw Poland? Yeah. It was just thinking, like, there's some... Something's going on here. I don't know, yeah. It just happened with the balls. Yeah, Belgium's still hurting after 2016, that quarterfinal. We want to play them again, again, again, again. Yeah, they are playing Belgium, and they've got North Macedonia.
Kazakhstan and Liechtenstein so they've got a really good chance they have a chance I mean North Macedonia are no mugs neither Kazakhstan but I think Wales are a bit better I mean you know Belgium, obviously, the standout team as well. With Thibaut Courtois coming back into the squad after all the unpleasantness, Wales will be hoping that there will be more unpleasantness within the Belgium squad.
Now, gentlemen, did you see this? The Welsh Football Collection Museum has unveiled, and it's a wonderful museum, that, the Welsh Football Collection Museum. It's one of my favourite museums. Yeah. Let's talk about the building. has unveiled a new object in its collection this week. A tooth. A tooth. It belongs to, or belonged...
to Gemma Evans, who plays for Wales. It got knocked out in their 2-1 win in Ireland at the end of last year. I love that. She has agreed to this, right? Collecting them. Oh, there it is. Like some kind of boogeyman. A big jar of... in a museum. Yeah, is she going to have to become like a cat burglar and get it out of there? It's stunning stuff, isn't it?
So get yourself down to the museum to see Gemma Evans' tooth. She's a Man United player, so it's just great that Man United can't sell that off. It's in a museum now, isn't it? I think Sir Jim will pay for some surgery for her. Probably not. Probably not. Now, elsewhere on the... World Cup qualification is happening. And Argentina face Uruguay tonight. They're currently top of the table having played 12 qualifiers.
That seems too many, doesn't it? That's too many games. International fishing congestion. But that's what I mean, Pete, when you were talking about Wales. World Cup qualification starts so early for a lot of places. They just love it. They just get the FIFA. Get the FIFA fever. the FIFA fever with World Cup qualification where now Argentina midfielder Alexis McAllister was asked about his passion outside of football right and like it just
I love footballers from this part of the world. Argentina internationals, right? They do behave themselves, by and large, when they get to Europe. When they get to Argentina... When they're all together, they've got a very informal relationship with the press, haven't they? Not always for good. We need to say that. We really do. But Alexis McAllister was asked about his passions outside football and he said, scratching my balls. That's a passion.
Scratching my balls. I like football. Laying on the couch and drinking mate. The drink that they love out there. It sounds worse sort of written down, doesn't it? Yeah. Drinking mate. I wonder what... footballers balls alike because I know what mine feel like and precious few others if I'm completely honest with myself maybe I should get out there more but footballers are constantly in and out of ice baths they are constantly being massaged massage oils
Must be a lot of chafe. Must be a lot of chafe running around, a lot of like wicked nylon and stuff. It's not ideal. So I bet they're terribly red. Do you think that they can expand and then decrease? Like on demand. Like a Zeppelin. Yeah, exactly. They have testicles like Zeppelins. Hide them. Put them up inside your body. I just reckon there's a back of the pub trick there.
Alexis, if you're going to talk tall about scratching your testicles, I want to see them. Yeah, let's have a little look-see. Of course, he'll be joined on international duty. There we go. He'll be joined on international duty by Letty Ford, Julian Alvarez. Now, a prominent video editing expert has come out and said he believes UEFA manipulated their footage of that Julian Alvarez double-touch penalty from their knockout game against Real Madrid. Why would they do that?
As Alvarez bought a subscription to Adobe Premiere and now he's decided he's a video editing expert. Well, in classic conspiracy theory tradition... Release the files, Trump. Yeah, he said this was because shadows in the replay... didn't appear to move. Hang on, so how could they have edited it so quickly? Surely they put that out immediately. How did they edit it?
Exactly. I'm not an evil genius. It's a good point, actually. We're through the looking glass table. There's a prude of footage over here. Rubbish. I don't know. Well, the truth is out there. You can see the stuff for yourself. Start for this. Dean Smith also says you're an encyclopedia of football. A what? An encyclopedia of football. I don't know what that means. I just know what that means. He's not getting picked up from England either, is he? Jack's Encyclopedia! It's back.
for the 21st of March. Last week, Luke beat Marcus and Jim in the absence of a reigning champion of the Dushan Anthraja. It's a simple game of categories. If you go too slow, you'll hear Gary Neville's orgasm. I've not run the rule over this game for a little while, so... It'll probably be as professional as I usually am on this. Let's kick off with you, Marcus Speller. Thanks. Are you ready? Yes. Are you ready, by the way, Jim? I am, yeah. Okay, all right.
I get concerned when you send me, you turn around your laptop and I can see your desktop. Yeah. Larry audio, podcast reads, ad stuff, pictures, very dull desktop. Yeah, I mean. Where's the pornography? Right, Marcus. every English stadium that England have played a home game at since the year 2000 every English stadium that England have played a home game at since the year 2000 Wembley yeah fuck it
Old Trafford. Yep. Sorry, what was the year? Since the year 2000. Thanks. Not much has changed, but we live underwater. No, I'll go for St. James's Park. Molyneux. Oh, good one. Oh, I like it. Anfield. Correct. They play at the Stadium of Light. Yeah. They did play at the Stadium of Light. I'll go for... We're going deep. We are going deep. There can't be that many. I'll go for... Portman Road. I nearly had my button on.
There you go. Potmanard correct. Well done, Marcus. That is really, really good. A deep dish. That is strange in retrospect, isn't it? Some of these really do feel that way. It really is. It's not that easy. It's not that easy at all. No. It's not easy at this point. No, it's really not. King power? Oh, I like it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like it. No, I did remember that one. Pride Park. Oh, no. There we go. Well done.
I'm forgetting the name of Middlesbrough's Ground is the problem here. Can I have Middlesbrough's Ground? Can we have an adjudication? All right, fair enough. I hope you heard that on the mics. Comprehensive. Comprehensive. You did well to remember that one. You did very well. On the Riverside. The Riverside. The BT Cell Net. It's the very name of the...
recording software we use for remote recording. Which ones did we not get there? You didn't get the Berlin ground, obviously. Ellen Road, Etihad could have accepted the City of Manchester Stadium, of course. Villa Park, St Mary's, the FMJ Riverside and White Hart Lane.
I was at that game of White Hart Lane, but I couldn't remember if it was 1990,000. Was it against Brazil? No, it was against Netherlands. And Mark Van Bommel scored one of the best goals I've seen live. It's an absolute long-ranger. Lovely. I remember, yeah, that is tricky. That's a tricky one. Great round. Forget the name of the stadium. Great round. Good process from producer Finn. We're in there. Right, round two. Jim, every player...
in the 2018. That's ridiculous. We've been here for months. Brassel's gone out in the second round. Mr. T. Oh, no! Jesus. Could be. Yeah. Right. I picked the wrong one. There's so many Jesus in football. What do I go for that for? That's why I'm adjudicating this game. I'm not doing it. Right, Jim. Every player in the 2018... England World Cup squad. Every player in the 2018 England World Cup squad. I'm going to go for Harry Kane. I'll go for Jordan Pickford.
Correct. I'm going to go for Jesse Lingard. Oh, nicely done. I'll go for Harry Maguire. Are you going to go for Harry Maguire? You can have him. Thanks. I'm going to go for John Stones. Eric Dyer. Ooh, lovely stuff. Jordan Henderson. Kieran Trippier. Kieran Trippier, he says. Kyle Walker. Ashley Young. Deli Alley. I'll go for Raheem Sterling. Lovely. 2018. Raheem Sterling in there, he says. I think that's wrong. I'll go for Jamie Vardy.
Marcus. Wonderful. Why is the belt on the line here? When we do the international stuff. Well done, Marcus. Nice clean game. Nice clean game. Some of the more pervy answers. Danny Welbeck. Jack Butland. See, I was thinking for goalkeepers. Was Gary Cahill an answer? Gary Cahill wasn't there. Fabian Delph. Danny Rose, you had Marcus Rashford, Nick Pope, Phil Jones, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Trent. Yeah, people forget that Trent was in there. He's been around longer than you think. Yeah.
No wonder Vish and Luke didn't turn up today. This was International Week. A resurgent speller. Yeah, we're doing international stuff again next week. Let's play it again. It's the only stuff I seem to remember. There we are, everybody. Thanks for listening to... the Football Ramble part of the ACAST Creator Network we're back tomorrow for the mailbag make sure you subscribe to the Football Ramble in your podcast app so you do not miss it
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