The San Sebastian Paradigm & Executive Volatility: Deconstructing Men in Blazers 09/07/26

You're listening to the Men in Blazers media network. Suboptimal radio. Holy crap! What did we just watch? Arsenal of a one true entertainers, electric or tetra football, the whole city of London, Liverpool fans, first winner of the season of the era, old era. Can you believe how fun it can be just to watch football again? Massive weekend for Tottenham too. First point of the season, that happened. They're not making it up. At Everton fans, we don't need strikers. We don't need right backs. We just need fight. Blue boys, bangers, old neat, Rory Smith. Let me ask you the question everyone in football is asking is Ainsley, Maitland Niles now in Messi, Ronaldo, Holland, he's up. Well, I think if you judge by goals per minute for current club, he's in and he's out stripping them all. Yeah, it's the only metric by which we live our lives. Let's raise our third first Michael O'Boltra the day and plunge right into the football suite football, starting with the fire and ice. There was Arsenal 2, Chelsea won, first massive clash, oh the season. Alonso Chelsea, incredible entertainers, so far, seven goals, conceding five in the first two games. Arsenal, been the symbol of football, really sure, and of suspense. They're just one shot on goal over the entire course of the first 180 minutes of the season. So something had to give and behold, 77 seconds in. Look, Chelsea, screwing early is their card. Every game of the season, I think they scored inside four minutes is earliest 31 seconds. So this was almost not just routine. It was almost a long wait for them, ranging three kick from Reese James, ping pong, ball drops Morgan Rodgers, he who, Arsenal coveted, they were curious, Rodgers curious, and he's just cocky, confident, fancy these chances to traffic on the volley with Tamerite, past Raya, who'd had exactly one save to make all season. Look, if this was a movie raw, this opening scene, the gobs makin' adrenaline of it, it was like as if train spottings choose life would become a football game. Do you think that Arsenal were offended that someone had dared to have a shot at games then? I think so, they're like, do you not know who we are? You're not meant to be doing that, Lads, come on, let's be serious. Raya, I think, was a bit slow, if I'm honest, he looked like a goalkeeper who hadn't faced many shots. Morgan Rodgers did really well to keep the shot down to control it, he's in a really awkward position when he hits it, but I think, you know, fully flying David Raya probably saves it. Yeah, through traffic, dot, dot, dot, dot, look, it was here, this Arsenal had continued in three whole years, and the defending champions were fascinating to watch in that moment. Stadium have to say credit Arsenal fans, they became an unceasing bellow for that point on, you know, we used to Arsenal fans, you know, creating an anxiety, and that none of that football became intense, it was physical, it was kinetic, very little evidence of any kind of panic, just confidence in Califuri had the ball bundled, in off a free kit with a minute's void offside of the guards, re-energised cunning, driving every single move forward, sack a thrash from close range off M. E. Martin as his hands, but the game was crazy open, got to recognise this is dominant as Arsenal were, Chelsea, even without the injured Kaiseido, they fancy their shooters shoot philosophy, they kept kind of charging on the break, cold parmer, slapped one of the most seductive balls of the season, it was agonising the inches away from Fini, I think, Zhao Pedro, but then Arsenal just shattered the seal on the Chelsea backline, it was habits, of course, it was habits, taking possession on the right, in a week in which Arsenal's front office, in modern football madness, took so much crap for not signing, quote, an elite attacker, he just like, sod that, he got inside and lashed, disguised, low and sweet, two legs, thinking Baris Demi Martinez is late recognition, a little bit, I just always think, my barometer is always that, if Pickford had done that, would he have been crucified, and yes, he would if he went down like that, but no one enjoys scoring on Chelsea, more than kind habits, love scoring on Chelsea, roll four times in all comps, who says you can't celebrate when you score against your ultimate? Yeah, he's definitely done through the, done through that particular window, and throughout the other side, hasn't he? He's now celebrating more against his old team, he seems to really relish it. Lead us to that promise, thanks, I love it. Habits has always had this reputation as sort of being a false knight, as though he's not a pure striker in some way, but if you looked at his goal return, if you looked at the way that he plays, he's finishing ability when he's fully fit. He is the elite striker Arsenal one, and it's been interesting to see this season with Habits properly back. Yacht Perez, who was brought in to be the full-on striker, hasn't really had a sniff, and I think there's a point at which we overlook how important Habits can be to Arsenal. So let me ask you, the most important football question most shows, they're not even an earthy ritual. Wormburner of the week. Wormburner of the week. This one, Raj, definitely a Wormburner. Serious question though, who hates Chelsea more? A-Kai Habits, B-N-Zo, Fernandez, C-League United fans. Maybe Enzo Moresta as well, Raj, to be fair, there's quite a lot of competition there. Habits, they tell me many places sort of champions lead winning goal for one club, who then relish hurting that club quite so much. That feels, that's quite a switch. It is, I'd talk to you a trick question, because the answer's actually top early. But lots of spite to this game. It was really like a post-modern footballing class, it was one of, you know, less cohesive tactics, it was jewels, it was moments, set pieces, games tipped into a period of just overload making Arsenal, at all the cunning, all the guile. But man, Chelsea, again, make no mistake, they burn forward at the pace, like the horses of the apocalypse, stroke a half time, full length of the field, Rob Pedro Neto, just casually striking one off the post. Rour, some said, Chelsea have only been full, they've only been bright in this far, this season, they've got to prove themselves. Can we just say, Chelsea are for real right, the threat they carry? You know, the thing that I've found really strange about Chelsea is that in the course of the summer, Jabil Santos had 10 plays to sign, 20 plays to sell, he's had various kind of challenges in terms of, I presume he's had personal challenges, he's had to move house, but they've also, they've been on a preseason tour of, I think, Malaysia and Indonesia and Hong Kong, like they traveled a long, long way for two, two and a half weeks. And yet, we are complaining that he's not turned their defense into, kind of, an absolute bastion of trust and faithfulness, immediately, like what he's done already to turn Chelsea into a team that makes some sort of sense is really impressive. Obviously, they're not perfect yet, because he is not a man made of magic. It's insane for the bar to be. They have to be perfect straight away. This is their third game. We've seen them play against Fulham and Brighton, as you say, using the interplay of that, that three-man attack. I thought what was really good about Chelsea in the first half in particular against Arsenal, the counters, they look great on the counter, it is coming together, but this stuff doesn't happen immediately. Yeah, I mean, it's, it's got a lot to ask of Shabby to do all that football and to do all that handsoming. You know, you've got to make time for the handsoming. He makes time for the handsoming. That is a man with a skincare routine. I mean, he says you can't do it all into that second half, and we've spent a lot of time wondering whether it's a football team's duty to entertain. You know, that's like always, we've got to find a stick to beat Arsenal with, and the flat they got when they smothered and covered Asdenville last week. We were told Chelsea were the kind of sparkling entertainers. I'm just saying this as proud of you. What Arsenal conjured to go ahead in this game was, was electric, solace, insensitive, from the flan cano. We all wrote him off last week. Yeah, he said he was, oh, he's not what he is, what we thought he was. He dropped a pass towards habits. Who dumbied it? So sublimely, letting it run with hyper awareness. It was almost more beautiful than his goal this fate. The ball goes on to Martin Oudegaard, who just thrashed it into the net with exclamation point, ecstasy. Again, thought we'd written him off too. Ruh, this was sexy, sexy, Arsenal football. It's amazing how good it can be when a player doesn't touch the ball, Roger, or at least very, very, very, sort of narrowly, very, very gently caresses the ball at most. It's a careless whisper, I think, is the tactical tip. It was, yeah, it was a really beautiful doll to watch. Words perfectly, they're sort of the timing, the ingenuity of how it's his dummy. And then the emphasis of the finish, it was a genuinely breath-taking piece of football. So who will have more goal contributions this season? Oudegaard or Cole Palmer? Oh, that's a big question. Oudegaard was one of the sort of, the question marks last year that Arsenal romped the title really easily without him really playing that well. Yeah, we need to stick to beat the Arsenal with. I guess if they want to go to the next level, if they want to win playing a sort of more adventurous, more expansive, more imaginative type of football, you need Oudegaard to be in those positions, prompting creating goals, but also finishing them off. But that said, Palmer is pretty reliable. So I would say that Arsenal will have a better season than Chelsea, but Palmer, more goal involvement than Oudegaard. I think the answer is actually, Terry George. In the replay to this goal, the broadcast has cut to a delicious two-camera shot. The two managers side-by-side, both men at it has to be said in quite a sparkling athletic sports casual wear. Otetta, both relieved and ecstatic doing that bouncy, didn't push Shabby, just buckling into bits. I would have watched that whole game by the way on the Santa Bastion two-camera shot, but it was a reminder, and I think this bears thinking about four-one-second. I don't know if you know, Roar, these two dudes grew up on the same street in Santa Bastion. No, yes, but I know I'm breaking news here. They played on the same U-Team, 1811 onwards. In that moment, it did hit me like a ton of bricks. We've kind of just, this story's been so trotted out and told by Roar. It's kind of like, yeah, yeah, yeah, cool, and let's write out of the story that I wrote, all there was also there are thereabouts. But these guys, Roar, all of us have got a childhood friend, all of us have got one, like a best childhood friend. They're there, each other's best childhood friend. You know, they were also neighbours, one on play forever, and the other one played for that, whatever other team is in Liverpool. But man, that childhood friendship, instead of just like stealing candies and trying cigarettes for the first time, I don't know, holy youth age, their friendship now saw them side by side, managing in the box against each other in the biggest club game in the world. That's crazy. Think about your own best friend from youth roar. If you and you and that person were side by side, me and Jamie Glassman. Yeah, me and Garner, yeah. I think there'd be a spirit of intense competition between us, to be honest with you. Where's Garner now? He's having a very nice life as Garner. He's doing all right. If, in many ways, he is, I've got used to being the Jabbie Alonso of this arrangement. He's much more successful than I am. Have you really? Because Jamie's running a very happily running yoga studios in London, you know. Is that right? Yeah, we're not sorry. Would he give you a discount? I think he told me he was giving me a discount, but tag on the back. Garner's not giving me any discounts on anything, I can guarantee that. No, I think, I think it would be really weird for Jabbie and Mika Latetta to think of each other. I don't know whether they had a glass of wine or something after the game and thought about how far they'd come. They probably did like boyhood handshakes they used to do in the tree house between their homes, friends, for ever, yeah. They must have in jokes. Yeah, I mean like hand buzzers ripping farts, pulling my finger, that kind of stuff, remember? No. Instead, they're going to make sure that backline. Hey, you know, the stuff that the football manager tends to be stressful, man. But also, does it change the way you behave on the touch line a little bit? You've got your mate there, judging you. So like Jabbie's looking at Mika Latetta thinking, gee Mika Latetta's a bit much. Come on. You weren't like this when you were 12. Yeah, wedgie, little wedgie, little de-serious look into the camera. The other ones tend to put a finger up your bum. That kind of stuff, just ripping them. I mean, I can't even get there. If any of you listening to this have a best friend and you and that person have just excelled in equal fashion. I want to hear about it, menemblase.gmail.com. You can listen to that in our other podcast, Builders Romang today. But God, Arsenal, it's got to be said, confident cohesion. I was ultimately the difference for me, the dynamics between their players collectively. Chelsea, look, I think spectacular, supremely talented, but still, you know, in bits, individuals, players looking to do stuff like that latest, the Founce Stinger, which Raya parried. I also want to credit every single set piece in that second half was just an electric moment again within the game to two leading dark masters of the science, Nicholas Yover versus Austin McFee. Well, this was like the Premier League version of Messi against Ronaldo. Every time there was a corner or a free kick, I was like, we are not worthy and we should never take a moment of watching these two masters go against each other for granted. I don't know whether this will make the final cut, but someone did send me a WhatsApp during the game saying that McFee against Yover was like Messi Ronaldo but for Virgins. That's it. After that moment, I think the podcast will always seem lesser, but you know, that is the truth. That's why do we watch? Did you know that Austin McFee and Nicholas Yover drew up in the same house? Did you know that? They are the same person, aren't they? Look, I mean, sex is okay for watching Yover and McFee give up against each other. That, that is a true or a footballing orgasm, enough for that because it's young for you for watching. Let's button this. Chelsea fans, you have not been asked, and is it 12 games or comps? I'm sure that's its own kind of stewing agony. I do want to say this is not patronising. Your team is for real. I am blown away. I was by this performance. In turn 90 minutes getting stronger and stronger of every game. Well, on to those ideas, they are complicated. The system needs time as you said earlier to get deep rooted. I think before this clash some in the English media, Hale Chelsea is quote, unserious. Just a beautiful word and incredibly damning word. Yeah, they've not had a clean sheet in 19 lead games. I left this game thinking there is a serious team that is evolving that. Yeah, and as I say, I think time is really important that we, because the amount of money that turns through Chelsea all of the time, we tend to assume that they have to be immediate. And look, to be honest, their ownership have acted like they think that way as well quite a lot in the last few years. But to build a team that has an idea that has a really clear identity does take longer than three Premier League games and three months in charge. From the signs that we've seen so far under a lot. So when I say this with my massive jabby bias, like Humphrey Roger, I would also like him to kiss me on the cheek. I think it's really hard to argue that he has imprinted his identity, his idea on Chelsea, incredibly quickly. And yeah, they're not perfect immediately. But for the first time in a long time, it looks to me like they are, they are serious. To be honest, yes, there's too much shopping and changing of the players in the transfer windows. That is an issue. It is, it is a structural problem with the way Chelsea operate. But Alonso is an elite coach. He's got them playing a distinct, a distinctly jabby Alonso type of football already. They will only get stronger. Who amongst this is perfect? And the answer to that is, jabby Alonso. Do you accept this rose? Arsenal took you out perfect. Three wins out of three. Tested, answered. In the men and blazers, this goal, Paul Atreides not said, Arsenal, why don't you know when they're there best yet? But we're making the defence of the Premier League look not too difficult. I'm just the second time in 22 years, Arsenal have won the first three games of the season. The question for everyone now is, I suppose, when Arsenal can play that front four and quite overwhelmingly potent football, why don't they do it always? Isn't the truth is probably that it's impossible to play a 38 game season and Champions League with that kind of energy in modern football's grind. It will kick the buck in here out of you and it does become a season of endurance. But what do you make of that, Paul? But there's two teams on the picture, as well. That's the other thing that Chelsea turned up to the Emirates and to their credit, we're kind of prepared to go toe to toe with Arsenal. As you say, especially in that first half, Chelsea were waiting for opportunities to counter. They were committing bodies forward as well. I thought the second half actually was a little bit more sedate, to be perfectly honest, that after Arsenal went ahead, it looked to me a lot like they kind of just got the game by the scruff of the neck. It didn't really allow Chelsea to make anything until that estival effort. There was much more reminiscent of the Arsenal from last season. But in that first 45-50 minutes, Chelsea wanted to play and that created space for Arsenal to play. And when there is space for Arsenal to play, they can do it. What we saw last season was that when there's no space for them to play, they will beat you however they can. And that is not a bad trait to have. By the way, remember Arsenal fans, Saliba, not present and still that kind of performance. Look, the game was epic. So many unreal individual performances, which kind of thrust this question into my mind anyway. If you had to take one player to fill a full starting 11 with just himself replicated all over the field in every position, who would you choose? I guess it's who's the most versatile, flexible and threatening from every single part of the field in the Premier League? Well, of players who are on that pitch in the Arsenal Chelsea game, it would be Dettlin Rice. I think he would genuinely play pretty much any position, including goalkeeper and that's crucial Raj. But I've got to admit, my answer is a little bit less, a little bit less sexy. I actually think the player that I would like to see a team comprised of 11 zombie copies of is your Linton, the Newcastle midfielder, wrongly told Jolinton by most people in England. He's what? He's Jolinton is how you pronounce his name. Badabens. Badabens. Doodle me. Doodle me. But he is, he sits for three. He runs constantly. He's technically pretty good. He could be a centre-half. He could be in goal. He'd get up and down the flants. He could kind of do everything. I think the team of 11 Jolinton's would be entirely unbeatable. They might not store many goals, but they'd be unbeatable. I had to ask this question of one Ben White, Benny Blanko. That interview will drop on our YouTube tomorrow. What did he say? We both agree, Ricardo Calafuri. That would be a really sexy team as well. I know it would be almost NFS, W so sexy, yeah. 11 Ricardo's. Too much. So good. But it would qualify for the Champions League. I mean, Calafuri's goal return is nuts for a guy who I think is meant to be a centre-back, who is now a goal-storing marauding left-back is remarkable. Yeah. Actually, Ben White said he said even their names, they made it. Those are the three words out of his lips, which brings us to Everton too. Manchester United too. Let's go back before the game because there's glass half full and there's glass half empty. Everton staggered into this weekend feeling like glass shattered, pulverized and then hit by a nuclear winter for good measure. If that transfer window had actually just just closed on the evertonian's hands, it wouldn't have felt more painful. The Balican, the Barcl, much discussed. I'd just say name a man in football, who loves a surprise, you turn, more than flow. But coming into this one, it did feel dark, or felt like something had ruptured, something very serious between the Everton fans and the Ever Tadone as the three kins at botched transfer window, fostering really almost borderline mutiny. Everton left with an 18 man squad, one right back, one striker. I took to my previous hell, being an Everton fan feels like you're just loving auto-sphyxiation and then I googled it a little bit and I think more accurately, stay with me here or Everton fans at this point are like, huge Mr Bean fans, we just love watching a human suffer. You know, there's a mouse trap over there, suddenly that mouse trap is just snapped on Mr Bean's crotch and he's floundering and egging any tripping over a rake, smacks him in the face, it was on the floor, then he staggers back and falls over a banana skin. Look, we have a profound masochism, we love at this point you have to stay with it, suffering, collective suffering, collective pain, if there was a religion, it would be based on like purification through pain and I think the Germans have a word for a rule, schmurts a liba, literal love of pain. Is that not most religions? Most actual religions? I don't know, post-acogluism, wasn't that based on something else? Well, that was, turn that to be a heresy, roch, for you. What are you saying? He was a false Messiah. He was a false prophet. It was a really dark transfer as much as people do get too worked up about transfers and we talked before about how we know now or we should know now that transfers aren't the bill and end all that what you do in the market it doesn't automatically equate to what you do on the pitch. It did feel to me as though everything worked, we're kind of guilty of the one thing the transfer window shouldn't do and that's you shouldn't come out of it weaker than you were at the start and not only was that in terms of players of this elderly and jai on the last day of the window but in terms of numbers which is crucially important in the Premier League where you know there is an element if you turn any bodies to throw in the way of the cannons that is that is part of the Premier League war of attrition and Everton didn't they messed it all up it was it was what we call based on the thick of it an omni shambles if the don't know if that word exists in the US but it was an omni shambles. I don't understand why they left everything so late I don't understand why they didn't they weren't more active more quickly I think there are questions to be asked there in terms of the hierarchy and just as you say that there is a bit of a rift between the fans and the board it also strikes me there's a rift between the board and the manager and that is just as important. By the way just like there's a false nine Everton that playing like a false 10 we're playing like a false four we're playing like a false this is postmodern for you don't need to squad anymore in modern football we're just running off the vibes by the way for the record I hate Mr. Bean but I agree with you rule the one person who's loving this is David Moise I think he hates it I think he loves it man loves being written off man loves football yeah but even more loves a bar fight loves a bar fight against the odds loves the smell of a rumble he loves being in the dive bar here's a bit of a request just stands up smashes his pint glass bagels that lasty got glass nobody leaves here to be fine and we did it he was he was out of his way out of goodison it felt like two weeks ago he was being absolutely flung out now he's got all our average and he's got the fans behind him in a way David Moise is our own you know well as some of us said in our previews Raj to you and Hump Everton quite liked it when they're back to rents the wall it gives them something to fight for that's when they're at their most dangerous I always think auto asphyxiation well that I mean people are very dangerous when they're also asphyxiate and they do not like to be interrupted but the learn that to my crust don't do the knock knock and open the door at the same time wait for the wait for the you can come in I think from a strictly managerial point of view to get us off this slightly disturbing tangent to me quite a lot of managers what you need is a narrative you need something you can sell your players rather than my ideas the best idea it could be kind of we've got this vision of football and this is how we're going to play we have to prove the point it could be I'm going to improve you I think a lot of the time it's whether it's true or not or rooted in truth or not I think a lot of the time it's all those people out there are haters go and get them I think that is a huge like motivational factory in football what are the what are the motivation factor is that I don't exactly spike that is all that every single dressing room it's not believed from Ted Lasso it's spiked is the great what's the John Oliver thing spiked is the spiked the rocket fuel of human meat exactly is that that's the piece that is why so many teams so many managers so many players are kind of constantly thinking about critics and you'll see players score a goal and then do the shh thing I mean well no one's mentioned to you you're like it's which is third choice striker no one there is no narrative around you being a failure we just no one's talked about you at all the problem with if anything is we are being too quiet about you and I think what what this whole Faradah in the transfer market has given more Faradah go I've never used that word they don't tell that second is is an abiding narrative for the season it's to say to his squad the world as it dates and do you know what's even more powerful it's true everything is set up against Everton that their their their job now is to prove that they can strap through it and in that Everton squad the replays will respond to that really really well yeah I've got to say despite the prevailing mood the Faradah the omnashambles Everton actually 1.2 places but you know he's able to kick off but I was brave for darkness remember the last time we felt this level the fume the this level of outrage was the after the points deduction of 2023 course narrative the next game we played was against who Manchester United and gone actually scored a Puscus winner within five minutes so I was ready for that wooldy to be struck against us which would probably destroy us would have led to an absolute fracturing of really the soul of the club eight minute Bruno Fernandez often knocked down from a boomer ball fell out the sky to pull the most dreaded man on the field delicious technique the volley that came in it was meant to be a kill shot instead it was a ball of mercy crashed off the bar really a warning shot Robert I do think if that shot had gone in just a dark alternative upside down timeline would have been unspooled like an alternative to what happens if if actually transferred and isn't assassinated yes yes but more serious than the yeah the chance of factual of where we would be yeah Bruno Fernandez scored by now the world would be engulfed in chaos yeah the thread of civilization would have been utterly too much thankfully he hit the bar and if you look outside everything's absolutely fine straight into like butterflies and birds instead of just like a drone filled sky I don't want to go there or it was not known to begin with you know this is midfield three probably may know at the heart of all of it just totally befuddled everton rashford thriving down the flank a gate oh who knew we needed a right back and not mulling roll China's damned us I do miss the simple days whenever and could have gay slap his own teammate keen get sent off when we'd still be united with ten men look kunya blue at least one open chance over the bar everton were blunt I wrote my game notes how I miss better yeah I just said get over better roger I don't know if I ever can he's not going back no better was the embodiment of everything evertonian's wanting to play not very much on the skill think zero out of 100 on his FIFA rating but passion heart loving us loving him always a hundred and I love that when the commentary waffled however to was struggling to come up with anything at all at very second we came alive and of course to you know Barry somehow headed over the bar from two feet out and I wrote for the first and last time better would have scored that I was honestly so relieved that we got to halftime goalless I made a little video about it on our insta story and damn we did not get much bloody further just out the locker room into the second half and boom I picked up the ball on the edge of the box you smelled the goal before we struck it any charge pass was it three defenders everton didn't close him down he just slashed the ball around little picky and it felt like the reality of that chill shocking staggeringly almost a reckless 80 man squad season follicated suddenly kicked in yeah that was the big test because you're quite right if united had stored early the hildicinson probably would have would have turned very very sour everything turdlestrate away it becomes a place where everton are trying to go in through their worst nightmare where the entire week is done wrong and now the game's done wrong and two plus two equals four I think it's important the golden comes a half to halftime that everton did have 45 minutes where they could think okay do you know that there's not that much to be afraid of with Manchester United yeah they got a stronger squad yeah that you know their ambitions for this season will be higher than everton's but they weren't they're not this they're not the man United of 20 years ago they're not this kind of big older that's coming to visit you you know it's a team that still don't look sure at left back but that said in that moment there was still the possibility that the fans would turn that they'd say right okay yet this is exactly what we were telling you about this is why we had to sign more players and it was interesting to me that they didn't seem to do that that it there was a little bit more kind of patience and forbearance and okay we're not dead yet I mean I said this when I went to the club before the season did the live show and I feel even more now the fans are the best thing we have about this club and they stayed with this team more than the doughnut the explain the doughnut the doughnut is the toffee doughnut which I think was is it was it was it released with the launch of the hildicinson everton's always had two identities it's been that the dogs of war and the stool of science so one is fight and grit and courage and the other is highly technical beautiful interplay everton's modern identity is the toffee doughnut which is there's a bit hole in the middle it's quite swishy and that is expressed it's a type of convention they've launched at the hildicinson it is essentially a heart attack smothered in caramel sauce that's what and presented to you in a box yeah it's always that you made the way you describe it it's like a cyanide pellet spice used to keep behind the ears I don't know you know you know to the school start the doughnut what a way to go we don't get to choose the way we go in life I would love to go just choking on the toffee doughnut it's just a wish but anyway you took out how you know it and not the United of our magicians this was the first time they're taking the lead this season first time they scored on the road and and I've got to say we were resilient best chances unfortunately fell to poor Brennan Johnson things I thought I'd never say part two I missed white McMeele 66 minute jack greelish back and we just trotted onto the field like a toffee chappy and it's very present so I've got to say gave us hope for it even touch the ball you felt like okay this is a player who can do the most important thing any everton player can until January which is utterly ignore reality and just go for it and we move Tariq George to the right I love that human being I really really do we had the truth throughout on both flanks and it paid off QX to see Hayden Hackney I think is excellent gave us more forward for us when he came on slip the ball out to George lost sure all too easy and then just quite mercilessly quite magically ecstatically drove the ball with venom and clinicality and rode away real what a footballer I spoke to him this week you'll see a lot of the footage over at our social media in the days to come he is so good I can't wait to save him I can't wait to love him until he inevitably goes to city for 65 million before we know it but it's exactly the sort of signing the everton need isn't it it's a young player upward curve point to prove first in football all that stuff it's not kind of I'm here because the big club I wanted to be at doesn't didn't want me anymore Tariq George is he's a player on the up I want to talk about near posts roach please I think there is a narrative that goalkeeper should never be beaten at their near posts and we source two dollars this weekend one of which was Tariq George's where what are you meant to do he hit it really hard and even if the keeper's standing in exactly the right position the speed of the shot may well kind of carry it past them anyway in addition to the fact that most goalkeepers and well most goal actually proves this quite nicely must be permanently anticipating someone under the far corner that is the goal that you see all of the time this near posting I made a documentary about goalkeepers for NBC the goalkeepers union rein to view the ton of other Premier League goalkeepers and they said that is the one thing that pisses them off most about football is the near post myth that they all of them agreed they saw it as just because every single commentator almost all of them are not goalkeepers it's like NFL players don't understand kickers and so this myth has come into being that you should never be beaten on your near post every single goalkeeper has said you should never be beaten on either post each goalkeeper hates being beaten on either post the near post thing is just not in their head at all it's just like common consensus but it doesn't go through their mind whatsoever it I agree with them they are correct there is no way you should be looking at sena lamans and thinking that that was his fault as he was stood in the wrong place it was a brilliant bit of impromptu finishing from Tariq George yeah by the way my favorite part of the interview with Tariq I asked him if he likes the evil sack of nickname I would guess he doesn't how do you know that because it's not the word evil in it yeah doesn't like it he doesn't have a very evil man very polite about it but he said no I don't like it he said it twice I said is there a nickname you would like to take root and he said yeah tea I mean it's not the catchiest he needs to work on that but I can get why he doesn't like evil sack yeah but man I do wonder how long is it going to be football fans before Bukkaya Sacka is just simply known as evil tea well he wouldn't be evil tea would he be innocent tea cute and good what's the opposite of evil morally sound tea ethically unsuspect he always catch on by the way it did feel so good in that moment man it felt so magical it felt so insane honestly but even as a video the immediate highlight reaction shot of the video on my camera I think even in that I said as I was like foaming on the mouth so ecstatic I said I even said then of course we know you're not able to get a late winner but let's just enjoy this moment and then it happened Shesco came on just watching him gives me PTSD from last season when he did us in this very game and God bless Luke sure managed to get the better of our oh so dodgy why did we even sign Maiden Niles just lost him like he wasn't even a vague tentative right what a garbage pick up he was in certain just self-loathing kind of just floated in the cross and Shesco nodded with power through poor pickford and suddenly it just felt super dictable hello darkness my old friend Natalie and Brugley doesn't know what we feel like nor does Johnny Cash hurt nothing captures just the depths of an evertonian in our when we're rocked down and full of self-loathing really odd goal because brunt that's kind of everton's strong suit still isn't it the central defensive pair and you'd probably make a case that Jarrah brunt the weight is everton's most high potential footballer I think and yet they just let Shesco stand there he was totally on mark on the edge of the six yard box and watching the replay you assumed he would have made like some clever movement to feel free to give the phrase like pull off Tarkovsky or something why would you win you don't really have he literally just stood still and no one thought I should probably stand next to that six foot five inch Slovenian it was a very odd goal it was it was a it was a predictable goal it was an agonizing moment and it just felt like a numbing punch the down balloons again last gasp everton fans giving it all everton trying to throw everything forward 95 minutes and 11 seconds to be all crowded out in the penalty area ball comes back oh to the main man angely mating niles our punitive right back man who came in at the death to absolute indignation six million dollars I mean we do tie value to value now just six and two it is what that's that's the man we were promised from Leon I think even everton fans go forward was he really the best available option is this what we become there's a lot of that 29 year old who felt washed up one time England international totally falling off the elite radar all that forgot in this moment ball came out to him he was just 19 minutes into his everton career and he had murder on his mind from deep and I don't mean the whole aquarium regular listeners everything arsenal coming up roses man only niles just lash the ball with a vicious whip and it flew so sweet and true q chaos and madness into the net pickford charging around the field miming drinking points just bedlam and rule 90 minutes earlier we'd been in agony everton fans were full of doom we were full of fear and now just a defiant laughter and possibly the most everton dreams state that can be football can do that yet another two two win at home for everton the yes not that one by the way we should have one of those all they kind of oak boards where we write in in gold leaf are greatest two two wins this is who we are and I love it it was it was an amazing moment I would actually take issue rogge with your description of made the niles as lashing it I don't really did that the the way he whipped the ball with the in with the with his in step the inside of his thoughts today to travel with that speed and that accuracy is it he may well never have kicked a ball that well in his entire professional footballing life it was an astonishing finish it was and finally in that moment everyone laughed that we had just one strike on one right by rule let me just throw this one out did we out think the world did we get a right back who plays striker like one of those one of those forks it's a spoon is aisy made in the niles have a footballing spork I'm not prepared to insult him by calling him a sport rogge I don't know how they didn't catch on I don't know how that nickname won't catch on the sport yeah the sport is your sport a better or worse nickname than evil sack I don't know I mean just genuinely I love it though man this could be this could be our future we got Michael keen spoke we got mainland niles spoke we got all these players pop pop pop pop all over the field David Moise is like just why would you take a knife to a knife fight when you can take the sport Michael keen is only a sport if neither side has the handle that's what I'd say it's like it's the sharp bit of the fork and then the round of the spoon like a keen it's probably our most prolific striker Moisey as easy as easy as sport if they're taking the handle of the fork and the handle of the spoon it's just a long stick there you are son one day all this over yours look lost in the blue joy and it was you know he did we've got to touch on them just this has kind of been written out the story but the levels of disappointment here to take the lead twice against Everton and and then can see twice see to down row I think an agony for Michael Carrick a little creaking towards a place he does not want to be that nerve numbing doom laden uh kind of loop narrative of you know he did choosing the iconic player save your interim giving him the job full time or once the mantle is permanent I mean that that is the extra central fear that's beginning to crackle in that well I'll tell I'll tell you because they the inability to bolster the defense in the transfer market one or the other but they're fusing together ahead of the Manchester Derby possibly the worst possible time wasn't say that feels like the test obviously losing a hole was a was a bad result beating hips which are impressively the weak after maybe set them back on the right course and I'd say that a drawer at the hill dikinson isn't a terrible result for united the circumstances will hurt but it's not a terrible result the problem is now if they don't lose the Derby and especially if they lose the Derby well then yeah you do get into the position where Carrick suddenly is under a little bit of pressure and there is that sense that maybe united who had seen this season as as one where they'd take a great leap forward given how they ended last season it starts to feel like maybe they're treading water again and that is a comparatively dangerous position for Carrick to be a yeah for Everton I got to say yes then another two two when you laugh but it was less that it was more the the attitude the the collective sense of passion the finance resilience ultimately fight that that that that collective never say die spirit that's why we love the two twoslad that's what Everton fans want that energy tell me right back to the night spent with the Everton faithful at the hill dikinson a few weeks ago you can watch debut on peacock this upcoming sunday a really beautiful beautiful show pure elation pure togetherness optimism in the face of all possible evidence that tells you the opposite never mind the quality of the finishes here with paraniple tinglers football once again our 80 man squad marked our lack of right backs deraille did but the truth of football truth of life is football teaches us we all know absolutely nothing we're very quickly helping a goal was that two two when total narrative lit though to go through the dark plumbing depths of a cold miserable week the delta between the fume of losing if it had been two one and remaining unbeaten it's incredible narrative wise the reprieve for this club hugely and imagine how it would have felt had that shot on over the bar and Everton had lost that game everything would feel dark it would feel kind of as though Everton were drifting through the season as though as though all of those kind of worries and anxieties were were coming to fruition whereas now moises got an image to sell to his team and to the fans there is a thing to fight for and that gives Everton purpose and it generally roads to be honest I I kind of believe that teams with purpose are okay teams with purpose lives with purpose teams for mission and our mission is is just I mean it's the movie 300 isn't it the greatest football locker room movie of all time quick now we have the button flow battle again you know in the saddest parts of yesterday's game I kept humming that line from fast car thinking city lights lay out before us and battle guns on fun noise right around my shoulder we had him we lost him what happens to him now he's back at Monaco I think he showed photos of himself training last week was left out on Monaco squad for the conference league and certainty swirls I got to say it's odd it's almost haunting to me this 25-year-old who had this world cup of wonder apart from weird thing that happened at the end but to fail to capitalize on it in this moment you know when he came on the world cup final day at Finatics Fest you know we talked about where he was thinking you're going these were massive clubs and he said I did the legend of sinking Everton to the red cards to reality of that that that world cup to his resume there's rumors of an injury that we still need to understand yet to come out Roy you can still move to Saudi Arabia a couple of odd leagues that still have transfer windows open what do you think of his POV his current predicament and what he can do it's been a weird year for flow ballad and hasn't it between the the red card incident and then what still seems a very kind of mysterious collapse of that transfer at the very last moment and as you say there's no it's not entirely clear whether everyone agreed on the nature of the extent of the injury we're not we're not certain about to what extent it was his decision or the club's decision my my instinct is look Monaco have to sell players that is the the model of all French clubs apart from PSG they need to sell players to balance the books because of the situation with the French top flight it's not in their interest and it's not in balladon's interests for him to sit out the next four months and wait for January he could I suppose go to Saudi if they get an offer from Saudi that would be something that he might have to think about the money would be good it probably isn't what he wants to do with his career in terms of profile at this stage that said it's not stopped loads of players going to Saudi they don't seem to mind that if he wants to stay in Europe then opportunities will come but they'll come only if he is playing in France and ideally storing goals I can't believe that Monaco would freeze him out for the for the remainder of the year because that that would cost and would actively cost them money and I don't think balladon would want to to sit out for the rest of the year either so my my instinct is that what happens is he is slowly reintegrated into the team and then they revisit it in January whether he gets a deal this will sound sarcastic it's not meant to roge whether he gets a deal as appealing as ever to and I don't know it might be that he doesn't get to move to a club that is aiming for mid table Premier League maybe it's a little bit lower down I don't think there's only way he's made to kind of wait until January before he plays it and I think he will be back because Monaco will bow to reality I think when missing a major import on the story like there's a thing we don't know and I do think his non-move to Everton is going to retrospectively be judged by just how many games whatever injury that he is suffering from actually allows him to play this season Godspeed flame to better days ahead from one side of mercy side to the lesser one ip switch now the football club too who doesn't love Friday night mid table rumbles 12 against 13 to one or it wasn't the other four in 12 that kick off at fortress port and road the tractor boys and beating in 18 games there before this one they were all quite ruthless in selection a rauho replacing the floundering Jeremy Frimponger right back you thought this was the most significant story of the day he dropped Graven Burke er or all the last week Frimpong and Graham Burke kept out this week to you that's the symbol that's the key yeah it's not just that he's he's clearly still trying to work out exactly what the best balance of the side is which is which is natural for a manager who's who's in what is third competitive game but he's also sort of sending out a message I think if you don't play well you don't get to keep your place in the team and there were times under on a slot last year we were at some point I'm sure totally really today on a slot last season a Liverpool manager but there were times last year where it didn't feel as though that was that was happening it felt as though partly because the squad was imbalanced and partly because the slot had a very clear idea of how he wanted to play and who he wanted to play it some players were immune to being dropped for form whereas there are all that in three games now decided Graven Burke didn't play well enough if he didn't need us also dropped him then decided to keep him out of the team and and drop Frimpong in a slip switch for Ronald Rauho who is experienced that playing right back but is not a natural right back that isn't how he self defines that strikes me as being pretty decisive and the message I think is pretty clear there to the players is if you don't play well you don't play and that that's quite a useful motivational tool message sent message heard five minutes 57 seconds in Liverpool sped up to the danger zone GACPOW just superb shouldn't he be at Manchester City and wriggling to the middle a past perfectly sliced into the stride of of EZAC who just trotted forward and then leashed and maybe it was a shock of EZAC having a touch in the box that early but man we've had a lot about it switch towns go keep a shirt up and all six foot nine of him he's a giant in let the ball through him and then just two minutes 46 seconds later that duo again like the red poor man's Kobe and Shaq and outside of the foot curving ball playthrough I can only use word erotically from GACPOW it was it was one of the moments of the weekend into EZAC's path and he's just utterly violated and humiliated grieves I think you can pinpoint the exact moment the defender's brain synapse if you watched it in slow motion and EZAC rolled home and then unleashed his signature point back at the carnage I just created celebration I think for the first time in the Liverpool jersey signed to me of confidence that he finally I can celebrate myself celebrating it's so good to see it back humanly well yeah those those those three minutes I suppose with the with the first time you've ever really felt the EZAC looked like the Alexander EZAC at the Liverpool sign there were glimpses when he played it didn't spurs lassies and when he stored and then broke his leg in the basically in the same moment that that was kind of EZAC being EZAC this one you have to wait it for the fact that it was which but they there were two finishes that did not suggest he was lacking confidence I think that's the best way I don't know if I can make EZACinations a thing or I don't know if I can make that happen yeah trying EZACinations it's up there with the spork you know what we should get to get sporks in the men and blazers that sporks with the word the spork on I think they sell really well in the men and blazers though look loved it EZAC's a red ole ole dusted off sung not ironically he's now got the same number of league goals he had all season last year must have been nice for you I thought trying to be big hearted oh you can learn football can be a good time to watch who knew GACPO by the way the way he was playing like a new signing and not to get all book show water on your asses sometimes the best moves you make or the ones you don't make I did think the way he's playing he's going to keep you new 143 million dollar signing Bradley Buckelder on the bench for a little while he did trot on double b 64th minute a little lightning burst or two and what has to I think legally be called a cameo did you like what you saw a Bradley Buckelder yeah I think I mean he didn't really do anything to be honest I mean he was there it was it was nice to see him in the red shirt means that the the deal is done and he exists and stuff but I yeah I don't think you could really gauge anything from his performance I suppose the big thing is that it means he's if he's fit enough to do 25 minutes then it maybe shouldn't take him that long to be fit enough to do 90 but yeah it it was nice to see him I'm not sure you can draw any conclusions from what he actually did I love watching him again John Oliver has a has a a belief a theory that Liverpool only sign players from around the world who sound great when they're penouts in the scouts accent and like Bradley Bradley Buckelder does sound like he was born like a stone so away from from from Anfield so welcome new friend oh god Connor Bradley Buckelder it's like a living in Newton John Travolta you've got your own whatever that's called I love it when that happens clean sheet for Liverpool just a second and 14 games which had to add to the XG in this one it was .81 to .71 but forget that much needed when massive for a role he said post game we are starting to get to the way we want to play look we know his methods are complex and we know it took ballma 10 games before he had his first win so this was relatively speedy and I can get a hat to be maybe it won't take as long as feared for his ideas to bed in but roar how much of this was progress how much of this was dot dot dot well just it switch yeah I mean there's a little bit of both I think to be honest it was a game that Liverpool should have won but although the record away from home for the last year has always been pretty dreadful they're clearly getting familiar with Erowla's methods things are getting better I thought a lot of the player speak spoke afterwards about how they're kind of under instructions to get the ball forward quicker ease out that suits in that's only once so those ideas are starting to bed in a little bit it will still take more time but I think it was pretty crucial from Erowla's point if you just get a win under the belt they've now they've not lost this season I'd say they've actually had two good results so I don't think drawing at new titles about them at all they've got full of them and Bournemouth up next I think so it's he needed a relatively peaceful start I don't think most Liverpool fans expect him to win the lead or anything this season but at a club like that especially a club like that that was in a very fractious mood when he came in the last thing you need is a slow start does that's when things get tricky so it buys everybody a bit of time and a bit of space and a bit of calm roach oh tranquilo Liverpool next up champions league midweek out of field the game's athletic and Madrid which I cover at the final whistle the mighty James Horn castle on Wednesday's episode on our YouTube of European night which is now post game then full of my home next weekend it's incredible how a win against hips which is quickly bolted onto two fairly damp squib draws and Liverpool turn from listing into one beaten Liverpool so we are now just narrative knee jerkers one tiny behind the scenes point that Anita was not tiny but I need to keep it tiny to keep moving Liverpool searching for a fourth sporting director in four years after confirming the news everyone knew was coming this week finally Richard Hughes has stepped down from the role Mr. Parcher has been longer expected he's going to take a similar position with the Saudi pro league club Al-Hilal which is mind bending boyhood fan yeah big boy I mean you got to feel good for him it's a dream hailed as a genius when he joined Liverpool in 2024 from Bournemouth and installed out on a slotters manager led to the title but he was also the gentie then had to sack on her less than a season later that after massive expenditure yes yeah I'm old enough to remember the vortis act at a tk window and now barcola roach Richard Hughes will be remembered as dot dot dot two minutes then roach I think time will tell because if if they end up you know with an attack that is led by barcola and verse and eza canette tk then then they were Richard Hughes's contributions the bigger thing to me is what he said right at the start there that they're now searching for a fourth sporting director in three years that's meant to be the long term job is that that's the the position that is meant to have the clubs kind of future mapped out that is meant to provide stability and continuity the fact that Liverpool have had so much churn in that position I think says something quite interesting about how the club is being run at the moment that would be my my broader my broader position on it I think Hughes is hard to judge until you know how all of those signings end up talking about stability and it's transition Manchester City world Coventry City Neil Tesco PEP okay super frank lampard city w for british record equaling 169 million dollar enzo Fernandez a bloke would spend pretty well the entire week with his announcement post signing up the city really a shot at up the Chelsea then quipping I always dreamed to be in a club as big as Manchester City this is a dream move for me I'm really happy essentially Manchester spent days sub tweeting Chelsea will have taken shot to every opportunity is this just like modern football now I did not understand why well the fit the irony there is the end of an understood played for two clubs that are bigger than both city and Chelsea river play in Benfican then much bigger than either of those teams certainly historically Roger there's a seems to be a slightly weird amount of resentment from both enzo's towards Chelsea meresta and Fernandez I'm not like club sanction policy that was there to eat up the city yeah I don't yeah I can't really understand what Chelsea have done done run to enzo Fernandez other than give him hundreds of millions of oh tens of millions of dollars you gave me lots of money you paid me it extraordinarily well for many such as these guys yeah I it seems unnecessary and a little bit gauche if I'm honest Roger what's interesting is trying to work out how long enzo Fernandez will be booed by by every crowd in England for the world up semi final that is my game of the season we're getting to that when he said I'd love to move to mad manchester that's what he meant look it's all very modern football and it's all very strange enzo initially seems so exhausted from his his week of trolling that he initially started on the bench but I like to enjoy to Nika Riley and warm ups man he was flung into the fray alongside in a dagger to my heart eighty eight million dollars worth a beautiful beautiful lily and die it's so hard emotionally I will be honest for me seem ghost around the field so with the really in the shirt of another lover on one team turkey and then die it's almost like having Chris rock and Shane Gillis on stage at the same time doing bits it's almost too much mirth too much joy yeah there's too much kind of improvisation don't it's a jazz it's a jazz freestyle and a team that's I don't I don't know the musical knowledge to do this Roger a team that's had the conductor in charge for a long long time yeah suddenly it's just like Charlie Parker and Miles Davis a little loose and it's just like no longer the Glenn Campbell orchestra look game felt like a mismatch city team ripple muscle huge huge expenditure those incoming midfield pieces Enzo and Ellie Anderson and the fantastic team are you we'll add the cost 435 million dollars which is almost 200 million more than the entire commentary squad city had been unbeaten in the last 30 against newly promoted teams commentary it looks so off the pace in a first two games big frank went back three i've got to say it worked at the outset coming to you had chances posh because city kept giving them charitably Donna rumour of his own accord almost uh miss possess the ball of his own line with his big albatross feet footwork then seconds later uh a one-year blue or one-on-one gifted by more city-sloppiness um there was one excellent Donna rumour save from uh I think it was a Rudoni header off a long throw um but then form and I guess logic and money kicked in 26 minute just it's stunning some enno cross um a mereska trait the pet didn't always believe in crosses um pull back at the last with real whip met with with a stunning holland header if you look at the play again you cannot see marvel at how holland gets open in the first place it's like watching an elite tight end break free at the line of scrimmages clubbing swimming to punch pass physical jams from my linebacker and man again with that new downy haircut that bus car it was like watching a dunk by a giant baby 300th goal in club football he's still just 26 years overall yeah baby he does look like a giant baby maybe that's a way but maybe the haircut is about reminding us how how young he is I just love it that thing go at my baby holland also 20 goals in 21 games against the indie promoted teams feasts on the uncertain newbies um commentary um let city have 83% possession in the first bath but second half they should draw strength from holding city and a do thing is you said earlier i think their fans should have got at least a point rule uh for chanting the four cleanser hours at endo Fernandez yeah this is going to be a theme i was at the the whole villa game and Alejandra don't actually got booed when he came on for villa i think just for being Argentine so it may well be that that this is going to be something we see a lot through the season and a lot of it directed at Enzo because of his role in um not in inland out of the world cup yeah i've got to say this the geopolitics of the four cleans being litigated in premier league stadium for the entire season is is i don't know uh it will it might become quite tiring quite quickly it's why we watch um city for all the new power pieces a second off they played like strangers like expensive hell in my name is sticker style early Anderson was phenomenal here but Coventry they did have chances they will rouelle sims decision making he had a close range chance in that second half and he decided instead let me just thrash this off on a rumours sad face instead which was a choice um they're wait for a first premier league goal goes on made 2001 was their last one if you're counting at home three wins out of three for Tesco pet raw Manchester United next Sunday where are you on this progress and the bedding in he's done as well as you can expect him to have done i was pleased that lampards Coventry as we have to troll them they seem to be learning i think that's good that they're they're getting into grips with the division but mereska has done he's done all he could do this far he's won all of his games they've looked convincing him moments less convincing in others just as we're going on to a Chelsea they are learning and that will take time talking about take time not even for us Neil Tottenham Neil progress people people watch Tottenham are realizing different ways we're all that money spent all at home all those new players 0.0 goals many tune into laugh shadden Freude spurs and Freude feeling better about themselves through other suffering i'll admit i don't i find it humanly i felt hot to watch light i'm rewatching the first two seasons and arcades right now i don't know where that show is not better remember there's a classic because vagnamore man but i find spurs is difficult to watch is when you see a new character introduced in that series at the beginning of an episode and you just know the only reason they're being introduces because they're either going to be tortured horrifically or gun down by one of Pablo Escobar's secario's in quite serially heartbreaking fashion before the end of the episode that's how you feel you just flick it every turn on screen with just like oh my god i am afraid for you that's how i feel will watch in tottenham try and prove themselves to themselves just too shocked on target in this game um for both teams none at all for tottenham um and at this point many spurs fans are having a counterindignancy to the mockery wondering why football is laughing at them and not as hard at villa who have the exact same number of points i think i know the answer to that to be honest rule but for me spurs is just a symbol of the suffering and blight of kind of postmodern equity investment english football and so when i watch them there's a little bit of what else i mean all of us i'm very aware of that maybe i think the difference is is that villa have felt like a team on the up in the last five years whereas spurs have sort of felt like a team going the other way that you know obviously when the Europa lead finishing seventeenth they then finish seventeenth again and i think just spurs have a sense of themselves that maybe is at odds with how the rest of english football sees spurs or would like to see spurs or pretends to see spurs it's easier to mock them they also spent an awful lot of money this summer and there was a lot of torque of them of them being kind of well we're not going to make the same mistakes again we're going to be you know we're we're back we're surging back towards the top of the table to where we should be whereas with villa maybe there's a little bit of sympathy almost that they've they've had the heart popped out of that side so but the other the other thing you have to remember is spurs it's got loads and loads of fans and that's good does it means you know you can sell the merchandise and they can do bid preseason tours but it has it it comes with a flip side which is that when those fans are quieted by the football not working out as as maybe they want it to other fans will pro at them and that i think is what's happening yeah and this game that could have been an email first off uh sixty eight million dollars of the lap on leash for forest fans to i guess endeavour but blunt impact and for spurs they have nothing that approaches how precise i guess Roberto de Zurbis here can be his hair tactic through i was watching the whole game he's got this bushy top i think it's tapered down this is from far away so i don't know if it's accurate tapered down into a number two just off his crown then it blends into his stubble but his mustache is at least three different clipper guard sizes in there it is it is a lead tactical precision i mean it's and it's all being done deliberately for the psychological benefit i think it's to it's to keep lives on the toes to to infuse the opposition it's it's it's high class i do i think it's like his tactical game map it's this is the heat map i want from you lads good around here um daddy wants look what they do have is a collection of wild meme footballers marmouche constantly i think the verb is marmouche in rural if mouche salaries the Egyptian king what is oh marmouche the the Egyptian king george the third the Egyptian usurper maybe the Egyptian republican i'm not sure he's an Egyptian anti monochist it's i think marmouche has been quite good he's lively and monochist the problem in a regia cider the problem with spurs is that there's so many new players the again this is like really this is really obvious roger this is not like top-class football insight fellas i'm not not just ifying my existence here but it's all very well sounding lots and lots of football is in one summer you then have to teach them all i all have to play together oh i've 18 i'll get there a minute but i'm starting to think ultimately he just is the Egyptian twine we mail seventy-third minute mccaylon muddrick came it was like in a sitcom just seeing some of the doorbell ring and oh it's it's it's kramer oh it's crazy watching him come on first i says november 24 man is to turn like kramer after the racism uh like just coming back man is to turn them all over twice in the four touches he had um most amazing moment was when niko williams did actually bundle the ball over the line it was tonal again fan heka wasn't it um two hundred million dollars or so there to completely just repress all the worry but instead they said we'll do slapstick bits we'll do bennie hill and keystone cops playing alongside each other the back stuff um vor gave a reprieve saw the touch of aniko hands a caress in the process and that was that um again i'll have a glass there may forest hard to beat but spurs six goalers halves zero shots on target against forest first time they fell to screw in the first three games of the season since the nineteen seventy four good news for me is twofold a point it's not nothing possibly better news i think you could take performance is better than the one before against new castle which was better than the one before it against brenford there is progress rule yeah it's it's slow and it's halting but it is progress of sorts i'd agree with that and again the longer the new signings have to get to know each other the better they will get and the other advantage that spurs have they've got they've got the midweek off-roach they are not playing this week that will give them chance to to train that gives the zirbe access to his players and that will matter this year a pity who they play next weekend checks and outs oh it's evident a key a the spurs of the north three points loading hold now ask them villa now you with error or hope the Cinderella story if the coach didn't turn into a pumpkin on the night at a very first ball everyone predicted before the season a clash between one team were perfect and the other bottom of the table yet to score a goal yeah but that team is villa the new niamary continues to unleash meme takes on the sideline throughout the game is villa did not have a shot on target this season before this one so i guess the team dribbler from george himmings in which the only one here was vast progress three hundred and fifty million dollars spent but and buy garetka and yohan manzambi still to make their debuts holy sensational 19 signings is it since promotion somehow yeah 18 they they've managed to to make it look easy and you've got to credit their manager yakira vich because they don't look like a team you need time to bed in 26% possession yeah that's not great but they did come closest to winning this um they had a sizzling shot from from quite wonderful winger mahamid bulumi which slapped off the crossbowling with bernie also had a late late chance um they are resilient just the third promoted side to keep clean sheets in their first three games of a season in the premier league run they remain unbelievably the only team in the top light yet to concede once this season that feels almost like a science fiction short story it does the re that they're actually a really good example of of kind of the mislead in nature of the transfer marty they have signed 18 players for us they spent 180 million dollars or so more than Barcelona but only two or three of those players are in the team so the eater of which has been very clear he is sticking with the players who dot him promoted wherever he can so he's drafted in a couple as reinforcements but this is still the core of the side that took whole up unexpectedly last season and that's because say it with me it takes time to bed players in so every single one of his outfield substitutes on saturday and it's again i still have ptsd from roger as it was terrible but every single one of his substitutes was a new signing the bulk of the first tee of the team that started had been there for a while and that's the way you have to do it and it's the problem that villa have got as well just like spurs if you sign lots and lots of players then you have to take you have to give them time but those clubs where expectations are much higher don't get that kind of kind of luxury and the other thing i'd say about so do you kira vich himself the cut the whole coach he's a little bit of a star is you kira vich i think he's got a really dry sense of humor he's very smiley in a way that you wouldn't necessarily expect from a man who seems and it seems quite dour i've been to two whole games this season and i've really taken to him i think he i think he will be someone that people start to appreciate more in the premier league provided that he didn't keep his job for long enough for them to notice same could be said of the two managers in this next game new castle two Bournemouth two in the eddie how memorial darby game was played with i guess the intensity one should have expected from two managers Matthias Jaisler and Marco Rosa who both came to the red ball system and both you just say their name in within the end just because battles up and down the wings verticality transitions counter pressing telerathams leading that press Bournemouth early just smothering the midfield Alex got ungodable in the early exchanges and Bournemouth romped tuna lap after 35 minutes but this is Bournemouth you can always come back and your castle began with a spectacular Harvey Barnes effort carving down the flank cutting inside a stunner that scream red ball gives you wings but that was telling the new castles only shot at the first half they seem to have nothing in the second half flat game of really of negation um but god Bournemouth i love Bournemouth uh but this Marco Rosa Bournemouth they like they've been training on this concede after the 84th minute thing full times they've conceded goals in three games after that minute here here 88th minute only their second shot on target sloping the box leaned up by a jake at ramsey artful side footer with that agony for Marco Rosa who seems to hate leads even more than Manchester United fans hate leads seven points thrown away for Bournemouth already this season with three games in seven points god that is a what if agony first time in Premier League history to score the opening goal in the first three games of the season failed to win any of them it's actually quite impressive yeah it's not a great sign and I think what's what's really problematic for Bournemouth is that it becomes a little bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy that if you can't kill a game off and you've got this record of conceding in the 84th minute plus the teams you're playing will know that and they will that will start to play on your mind and it'll play on their mind and then that'll play on your mind and then that'll play on their mind and it becomes this cycle that you can't really escape oh we found out that word didn't in the World Cup cop Sinai cop Sinai or whatever head cinema like in the plays inside yeah I can't remember what they're doing yeah cop Kino that's what they've got they by the way Marco Rosa didn't avoid it post game he said we have to put our finger in the and I think the English media thought he said Bunda which yeah was a German word for you know what but I actually do when everyone I think he said Vunda which is German for wound meaning we've got to confirm a very sensitive go I mean either way by the way I mean yeah look it depends where the wound is yeah you can do it both ways do the Bunda do the Bunda and see which one works better but I think he's mean is it's a very sensitive bit of cop Kino for no Marco Rosa it's cop Kino we're going to address it head on Brent for the weight very very difficult test but from a new castle POV that equalizer again via an impact substitute that's the difference in Yosler having his first kick in the down below has been able to cling onto that pattern of being bright young coach narrative I've got to say his team efficient as hell two shots on target last week against spurs two goals this week two shots on target two goals again they are an economist dream they are but they have allowed 61 shots across the three games they've played which I'd say is just a little bit of a red flag an economist dream in other games Brent one Sunderland one two shockingly well-run clubs where's the fun in that Enzo Le Fay scored a late penalty memory blew a pinnacle against the same opponents last season this was doubly redemptive rescued a point Brentford so efficient so organized fifth place very focused on the Europe they did not get last season Sunderland they've got Ecuadorian one the Nelson Angulo I love watching one of my new friends and I love watching the most that man is a chaos creator but they don't have anyone who could reliably finish Arsenal and Manchester City ahead in their next Premier League two full them two crystal palace three again coated in unexpected relegation vibes and not to sound too Led Zeppelin on your ass rule but the managers can change but the score remains the same for the fourth straight time palace win at full them should play all the games there PSR gets his first win resilient palace three goals from left backs two from Tyrick Mitchell the winner from returning hero Ben Chilwell it's first in his return to palace after four and an eighty four days palace needed this but full and rule we tit them for relegation um you know the midfield looks broken yes Josh King is sensational but the team do look they look like they've been bit they played Liverpool next they were booed off here pointless three games lost to start top flight campaign for just the third time in a history and boo for those first two instances they were relegated it might be that they've got Liverpool next rose that makes me think this but but going full would they look okay they they look quite threatening don't for Oscar Bob's playing quite well Palacio starting to show a little flicker of promised Gonzalo Garcia's actually in front of the opposition's goal started life in the Premier League really really well the problem is at the back they just they seem easy far too easy to play through um and our below it who was a very very good defender in his time we'll have to sort that out really quickly um or as we said at the start the season they might get relegated just as realistic is he gets at and they point the manager who can keep them up on a slot to return does on the slot that have full of written all over I think he probably wait to go a bit higher than that but yeah look there's there's there's definitely scenario where full and stay up for season but Alvaro are below it does not remain as manager and finally bright and one lead genoited one and lead and one and the amex in 10 previous go search continues one step at a time um they scored a goal at least Jaden Bogal opened uh the score in here 50 minutes in DCL had a signature close range header parried that's a tenac of the ball he rolls across the face of goal for a tapping off the rebound this so bloody generous first leads goal at the amex since 2012 at J. R Cooper tweeted leads played 12 hours 39 minutes of football at the amex since they last scored you could watch all three lord under rings films and the godfather in that time and still have 23 minutes to spare you could rule but why would you when you can watch impotent goalless football I said on our previous writes that I was really expecting leads to lose at writing which is leads always lose at bright and but that first half they created loads of chances which is good for leads is bad for Brighton who looked very much like the kind of up and down Brighton of a couple of years ago where one week they're beating us in the 4-0 and then the next week you think how are this team in the Premier League it's a they're the most kind of unpredictable side like that of of the entire 20 we've all got mates like Brighton some nights you just like genuinely night of our life you know the world is ours and the next time you go out expecting the big one then it's just like I think I'm going to tell you don't really fancy this at all yeah don't fancy none of this Brighton now God bless came a life second half young defensive stud vuskovich with the equalizer after set piece leave the spurs and the goals will come son I think these are really fat they didn't put the game away in that first half but the veteran good months and the admitted post gaming he was asked what's different this season last season he said last year we would have lost that game and what did you think raw lots of reinforcements lots of money spent in big ways expectations raising I see a steadiness but are you really seeing a big difference growth in the second campaign I'm the same as you are to be honest like I thought that their their transfers were very sensible and strengthen them strengthen them where they needed strengthening my concern from the first three games the season for leads is that they still have that slight vulnerability as you say an inability to finish off games I thought the way that Brentford last week kind of dominated them for an hour or so was a little bit of a warning I'm skeptical whether they've got enough kind of whether they basically have enough individual talent going forward to win a lot of games I don't really didn't get relegated I think they'll be fine they've had a good start to the season but I still worry that there may be like a little bit of creativity and a little bit of quality I don't watch in them they are my guilty pleasure of the season let's wrap with a quick return to our Premier League sentiment table PLST not where the teams are in league position but the joy or the agony the fan base has seen to be in our I love the knee jerk fight or flight world a football rule let's start with the happiest three fan bases in your estimation this week who's top of the table so top would be Arsenal champions of England first major test of the season passed suddenly playing excellent football as well as being able to grind out results everything is rosy in the world of Arsenal set in I'm going to say Newcastle yet another late equaliser still riding that Matthias Geisler kind of train enjoying it in the same way as Everton maybe a little bit you know they thought everything was lost and it's not that bad and third I'm going to put Everton Raj who thought they were down and out had this terrible week thought everything had gone wrong and it's amazing the difference that a 96th minute equaliser can do for you kind of reminds me of a that psychologist study of last year we talked about where 80% of the things we worry about in life never come to pass they will top three for me whole city in dreamland number two Arsenal I agree feeling invincible and third place Everton feeling well a pulse a glorious pulse bottom three rule give us them so in reverse order so the highest first you see what I mean I think Coventry they've not got a point they've not started but they are starting to improve so that they are moved up a little bit despite things getting technically worse 19th Tottenham no points no goals dreadfully boring it's not in forest this isn't what they were expecting from the season and 20th predictably enough I think has to be full of who at this stage are already looking extremely worried I'm going to reverse reverse order for dramatic effect 20th place full of dead battery season loading 19th Aston Villa this spotting everyone a five game head start things becoming a tradition but it doesn't mean it's easy to live through oh and in 18th place Everton see what I did there long term still feeling super damaged and very very fearful about the uncertainty of the bruising that is to come doesn't heal in a week baby let's close we have a letter from the GFO pay possibly the shortest we got for more time GFO pay Philip Pollock on you oh yes you Philip who said succinctly rule do the honors he said suitably for a man with a Greek name he said is Endomorescia Manchester City's Patrachless raw you're a classic scholar I only had to look this one up so Patrachless is Achilles well it depends on your interpretation of the odyssey I've still not seen the film I've not had chance I'm devastated by it Patrachless in the original myth is Achilles lover effectively there is more than that rule more than that is a I did look it out is the son of an Arkanoort stay with me here when he was a child he was exiled from his hometown adopted by Pellius you sounds like someone walls were the sign five years ago king of fit yeah sorry for butchered that well how do you classic six say that yeah raised him alongside his own son who was called Achilles he grew up with Achilles sent she as a quasi brother and then you know Trojan war turns against the Achilles patrachless disguised as Achilles defies orders to retreat lead the midians to battle against the Trojans and was eventually killed by the Trojan protect out loved the name Hector enraged by Patrachless's death Achilles ends his refusal to fight and then starts to rack up greet victories essentially well he's like your standard younger brother slash lover who dies for you yeah there's a weird sentence and he's like he's your standard younger brother slash lover who dies for you that is that is a weird job title I would say that fit for Enzo I think I think if what Philip is driving at yeah is the scene in the Iliad where Patrachless dresses up as a tillies and leads the portion of the Greek army into battle then there is a bit of a parallel there because Enzo mereska and this and this sounds like I'm doing a bit I'm really not Raj but when I was watching the man city game yeah on Saturday night and obviously it's it's not shown live on television in England the every time they cut to mereska if you're not fully paying attention if you might have your phone in your hand or something you're like why is Pep there it is genuinely spooky if you squint you do yeah it's Pep and I'm sure that he's I'm sure that he's doing on purpose yeah I think well only know for sure if he wears the the signature hoodie gun when it gets a bit colder yeah cardigan with the hood or is it the the hood with the the cardigan we never did quite working out we can't know so I think from that point of view yes there is a there is an apt parallel between Enzo mereska and the method or feeder of Patrachless I think in the sense of is he also pep rodeo was younger brother slash lover I'd have to say not sure some things we don't need to know yeah want to know just what ever the nature of their relationship is as far as we get into their business I do know Patrachless means glory the father by the way if if this is it also and this is the threshold if Enzo does a deal with D squared and starts to wear those cargo pants with a weird place pockets that's when we know it's Patrachless if he if he recruits Kyle Walker just so he can shout at him would that do it yeah just rack up the play the hits man play it's like when a band the the lead singer leaves or dies and they'll get like you know a new lead singer to bed in it's like watching your mayor yeah it's like watching your mayor play the grateful dead that's what it is more like I do you think glory of the father Patrachless pep is essentially his dad brother lover I love families by the way I did ask Google who David Moys will be liking Greek mythology and I did not like what Google told me rule oh that's a good one hang on you've not warned me about this right so this I mean I didn't mind it's pain me so it's an all-time man I give you a clue it's very on it very obvious go on Google said David Moys would be most accurate but I use robot voice for this would be most accurately embodied by Cicifus oh yeah that's really good I annoyed me how good it is yeah I ask Google why and Google said due to his endless uphill battle and the claps at the peak but everton fans I do know this Cicifus twice cheated death first by trapping the personification of death and second by tricking the rulers of the underworld by your arm off for trapping death um GFO peace be in touch with us email always the same many blazers at gmail.com that is it for today where you off to this week rule I'm going to be watching a lot of champions they football this week Roger I'm very excited it's back we filmed with Tyrick George and Ben White and we'll be releasing both of those including Ben White on Tuesday Thursday afternoon ish will have a very special version of the big weekend preview with the returning Humphrey car thanks for all your lovely notes about that one again send us all your questions for roar and hump this is rogge same let's not take a second to watch him football together for granted I encourage