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I hope the Tottenham fans don't get me wrong, but only club in my career where I don't
have still a deep feeling with the Tottenham.
Maybe because the stadium was empty, Covid time.
Probably because Mr. Levy didn't let me win a final and win a trophy.
But he's the only one.
So after that, Porto Chelsea, Inter, Real Madrid, Manchester United, all the clubs, I feel connection.
Maybe people you cannot love every club.
Yes, I love every club.
I love every club because I always felt the other way around.
Not now, Jose Mourinho and the Tottenham to feel good about themselves are as close as
that's possible on Sunday.
It's Ronch.
It's Friday and we've made it to the end of another week.
Want that to be honest?
I've been dreading this weekend and not just because succession ends.
I've got bigger fish to fry than waste or rueco and the future of American democracy
and all that.
No, this weekend.
Everton staggering to play.
I don't like to be hyperbolic.
What could be the last ever Premier League game of my lifetime?
Do you know the last year Everton were relegated.
It was 1951.
We've only been out of the top flight for four seasons since we were founded in 1888.
I have never experienced relegation before outside of my own nightmares.
Make no mistake.
We've come close.
Very close.
1994, for instance, last day of the season, needing to win, going two-nil down at home.
To Robby Orls Wimbledon, but coming back at the death to win 3-2.
Cottie came quickly to him.
Yes, yes, Everton.
An 81st minute winner from Graham Stewart, all two first names.
We don't learn our lessons though, do we?
1998.
Last day dodged.
Last season, of course, we swore we would never repeat a season that ended in delirium.
With one game to go, Frank Lampard, scenes dancing on the directors dug out and pretending
he knew the words to spirit at the Blues.
We just come back again from the death, two-nil down to Crystal Palace.
Remember, it's only summer.
I did a live show with Frank Lampard and DCL and Jordan Pickford and Anthony Bloody Gordon.
And we all swore one thing.
We said we'll learn our lessons from this.
We'll never do it again.
Yeah, here we are.
Playing chess with death once more.
And perhaps because it's the second time in a year.
But on Battlecrave, I feel literally bereft.
I feel like I'm in a state of pre-morning.
Remember, we relegated Bulmouth on the last day of the season three years ago.
We play them again Sunday 11.30am.
Custom dictates the fighting cherries must take the field bellowing.
My name is Inigo Mantalia.
You kill my father.
Prepare to die.
And this week, oh, has been an agony of waiting as we prepare to meet our fate.
A sleepless ache.
Wrapped in this footballing purgatory.
And I've got to be honest, the head goes to a lot of odd places.
I've spent a lot of time asking myself, what is an Everton?
What am I actually doing?
Spending my life, my precious time supporting this thing?
Is it an idea?
Everton?
Is it a set of memories?
Howlowed memories connected to family, friends, community, my dad, my kids?
A sense of sense memory of settling in to watch the familiar and beautiful, all-goodness
and part where its singular smell, the spelt beer, chips, cigarette smoke and police horse
turd?
Could be all of those, but there's also another Everton that is totally existing outside of
all of our controllers fans.
The board level, that vortex of present day self sabotage, the way the supporters have
absolutely zero ability to impact or change or influence and that's led us to one ill
informed decision after another.
Inextricably sagging towards the bad place.
Are you ready for this?
The day in which the Premier League takes over the sci-fi channel is the human emotional
spectrum ready for this, is it sufficient even to take in the gruesome sight of Sean
Deitch, Sam Allardeis and Dean Smith, mud wrestling to the death?
We'll find out.
Sunday, we will talk about it all in the show and a weekend of weekends in leagues up and
down Britain and across Europe but first the toast because I want to raise this third
first Bud Light of the day to all the teams and all the fans taking part in this weekend's
playoffs.
Most of all, Coventry City and Luton Town Saturday 11.45am Eastern time on ESPN plus this truly
magnificent spectacle, the championship playoff said to be worth up to $385 million for the
winner drink every time when you watch that game and you hear that number and you'll be
hammered I think within about 15 minutes but this game, it couldn't be more magical,
really down to the two foes limbering up to each other who are both fantastic stories
in their own right and unexpected guess in equal measure.
Luton Town, tiny face up to Coventry City, read a piece this morning written by Coventry
City fan who said our whole history is anger and pain.
The truth could be said for both teams here and the wonder of this clash lies in the fact
that five years ago these same two teams Coventry and Luton were facing up to each other in
League 2, the fourth tier, Rexham territory and on Saturday they'll meet again at Wembley
in this spectacle which would decide which of them would become the first to go from
the top flight down to the fourth tier and back up again.
For more we released the championship playoff final preview pod special presented by ESPN
plus were none other than my mate, that ageless one, the Tim Reem, the gen who stepped into
that playoff breach twice and each time emerged victorious.
In addition to Tim's insight into what makes the game so bloody singular, so bloody special
we went deep on the two teams that were square off.
Again Coventry Luton, noon Eastern time the game kicks off ESPN plus and then Sunday the
lead two playoff final Carlisle versus Stockport, 8.30am Eastern time and Monday's league one
battle between Barnsley and Sheffield Wednesday, what is dead may never die, 10am Eastern time.
Had someone tweeted out of some, sorry for not remembering your name, they came up with
their own drinking game which was to drink every time I talk about a British city that
has had hard times in Britain's post industrial reality.
All of those teams I did try and keep it in but all of those teams, incredible fans, incredible
stories and incredible challenges, Godspeed to all you big dreamers, producers Sophie,
setting me up.
That was Rodgerock by Sean Meyer in Brooklyn, New York.
I think that one came in this week.
God bless to all you incredible sting centers.
We love each and everyone and you are listening to WGFOP Weeknd preview, the show that says
vibrant and full of life.
There's Luton Roy calling all your questions 646 4509472 and also email us all your stings
men in blazers at gmail.com and you can hear your voice or your musical number on a future
episode.
Question 1 please.
Chris, you beauty to you and all blues.
Thanks for watching.
All the games kick off, same day, same time, Sunday 11 30 am Eastern time and the good
news, Everton hold a putative advantage, win and they survive.
They have their future in their own hands.
Normally for Everton, I don't have the stats on it when they have their future in their
own hands.
It doesn't lead to a good place.
And the other stats, I don't love them.
This is a team, Everton who have lost their last three games on the spin at home at Goodison
Park.
In fact, they've not won there.
This kills me since beating Brentford March the 11th.
You want more dark statistics?
Everton have only scored more than once at home.
A single time this season, yes, that 3-0 victory over Crystal Palace back in October when
everything felt great again.
You want more gloom?
The other in the caribou earlier in the season.
And Dominic Calvert, Lohan, is out.
I believe it's with strained handsomeness.
We've got no full backs either.
Oh, Nathan Paterson, I love you.
Come back to us, my man.
Come back to us.
Here's the mood on Everton talk radio.
The issue is, it's a bit grim.
That was a weird reason.
I feel better about life.
What do I take out from?
Well, in terms of your question, not from David Moise, to be honest, former Everton long-term
servant of the club.
Honestly, David worries me.
I've got a feeling that David Moise is going to feel they weakened West Ham against Leicester
with an eye to the looming Europa Conference League final.
Remember where you came from, David?
Remember your roots.
You're our only hope.
David Moise, Scottish Obi-Wan Kenobi, but from an Everton point of view, our strength is
what it has always been the past couple of years.
It's the fans.
The fans.
The fans.
The fans.
What gives this team the fight.
Goodness and Park is going to be a ferocious bear pit on Sunday.
This Everton has scored three colours in the 89th minute or later since the beginning of
April.
I don't know who is going to score the goals exactly when I look at this line up.
I pray for cause to have reason to call my fifth child forthcoming maybe, depending on
the result.
They're all in nine months time.
Also, Bournemouth.
This is a good one.
They probably hate Leeds.
They really do.
It's a weird rivalry.
It goes back to the final day of the 1990 season.
Bank holiday mayhem.
Leeds were promoted at Bournemouth in the whole city.
This beautiful seaside town was trashed by their fans.
We should have had a video news report from the time in our newsletter.
Remember to subscribe to that and you can see it.
But remember your history Cherry boys.
One public health request.
Please stop tweeting me and telling me that the Everton don't deserve to stay up if they
can't even beat Bournemouth.
Doesn't help in the way you probably think it does.
Even though you're right.
Next question.
Hi Raj.
This is Matt from Truckee, California.
I support Leicester City.
So I'm sorry that you and I are on the opposite ends of the relegation scrap this weekend.
But we'll see how that goes.
I was calling because I really enjoyed the podcast with Tim Reem.
And it got me thinking I didn't know if during your conversation with him on or off
air if he ever mentioned being interested in managing coaching after his playing careers
over with his experience.
And I think a sharp mind.
I wonder if that was a future path that might be available for him and was of interest.
And then beyond that specific to Mr. Reem, I was curious if you have thoughts on the current
players to the men's national team.
If there were any current players that you thought may have a future in coaching and managing
players in the future.
Thanks so much.
Matt from Truckee.
Oh, I love your town's name.
When I think about the three teams in this Maya, the three fan bases, I'll say rationally,
non-emotionally, rationally, it's a Leicester fans are filling I can eat for.
I mean, feel marveled at that operatic climax to the lead campaign of campaigns party at
Jamie Vardy's house, Red Yairi's tears.
Everything felt magnificent.
And we're just two seasons away from that glorious FA Cup in the Wembley Sun Leicester.
We hailed them then.
We hailed them still as a model club.
But here we are with the team, teetering half the squad's contracts winding down and Dean
Smith somehow as their manager.
They're not the North Carolina kind.
The foxes though.
There's so much telling on this squad.
They can't defend.
Yes, but they will draw strength from a massive point gained up at Newcastle on Monday night,
which gave them life.
And I think it's a weakened West Ham and West Ham will be weakened.
They've got nothing to play for either.
But Leicester, James Madison and doubtably the single most skillful player left in this
relegation scrap will he go out to hear him?
What could be his last game for the foxes?
Somehow, somewhere we just know Sunday will end with Brendan Rogers opening up a bottle
of chilled yellow-tailed Shiraz, not knowingly at his television and telling himself,
I just save Leicester City.
I promise that I'll give my life to making them proud of their team.
In terms of your question, it will be the best of the current crop of United States
men's national team players as a manager.
Simple answer, Tyler.
Always Tyler.
Tyler Adams, rare leader who reads the game with a real tactical sophistication but also
has immense human empathy.
May you lead the US men's national team in like, will it be like 42?
46 when Tim Reams probably playing his final World Cup and Tim Reams' son is playing alongside
him in probably Tim Reams' grandson.
Probably also playing alongside of him.
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Hey, Rob, this is Derek from Franklin, Indiana.
I'm an Arsenal fan.
And my question is about our baby Eagles that are on lead United.
Derek, from the best Frank since Lampard, what a question.
I remember, I remember how we celebrated as American fans watching leads in that sun
soap thrashing of Chelsea.
That was August 21st, 278 days ago.
Brendan Aronson scored everything felt possible.
Leads United, states of America, Major Leads soccer, it all felt so beautiful.
American boy, let's listen.
Let's listen to but a leads talk radio.
Wow, what a fucking day.
18 years old, Ellen Road for the best fucking set.
My own house at this point.
I fucking love it.
I think that's the best one of the lot.
I love it all.
I fucking love it.
I love Marsh, that fucking dick.
I love that little scumbasted.
I love Rodrigo, the fucking world's greatest striker in the place.
I love that little young Badger fucking out running the place.
Tyler Adams, fucking, fucking flag on him.
Oh, one man.
I've never, I've always loved America.
Who won?
Who won?
Did we really sing American boy?
We did sing American boy.
All these American players on one team, under an American manager, and it all felt it.
It all was.
Wasn't it game changing?
Whereas we'd always had American scattered across clubs in Europe to have them all concentrated
on one team kicking ass against the biggest teams in Europe.
We didn't know Chelsea were crap.
Then we valued that win under an American manager too.
It felt like a slice of the heaven we'd always dreamed about.
And it was coming through his Brendan Aronson.
The impact of United States players, you, Tyler Adams, and then of course your manager,
Jesse Marsh, how important is that Brendan to you personally?
To kind of show England because we have all heard the jibes down the years about the talent
that is in American football.
Yeah, it just goes to show people around the world that Americans can play football too.
You know, we're out there and we're playing well.
We're playing for English from a really team and getting goals in assist.
So we're out there.
We're doing well and on the coaching side of things too.
So I think it's only up and coming and there's going to be more and more talent over the
future and making this trip over the pond.
But yeah, I mean, it's a great start and it's only going to get better.
We want to show the world Americans can play football too.
We can, we can, but how the world has changed on this cruel, cruel football for the players,
for the manager, for lead, you know, he did for their fans.
Jesse Marsh obviously, well, poised to take the US men's job.
Tyler's injured and clear if he's going to stay and no leads want him to.
Jen is future captain material and you've got to see part of the buckle of this season
that is correlating almost exactly to that injury.
Western McKinney, Western's had, Western's had a challenging time if we're being honest,
adjusting to the Premier League relegation fight.
I mean, a rough evening chaos that the timing of the arrival did.
Our gent, no favors and while the rumor mill now connects him to, I've got to say, bright side teams.
Juventus don't want him back.
We'll definitely deal him.
And his football played amidst the flux, a mixed, just a free fall of lead season,
off an hour of position, which I think is crucial for Western has not been.
Let's just say he's not showed the kind of former Lexi Lallis for one expected
when Western signed and Lallis tweeted that he's better than leads by those sweet, sweet, long throw-ins,
which on British television, they are suggesting are actually illegal because it's really a one-arm throw.
One arm is just kind of faking, holding onto the ball.
You can see from the spin, there's just a dog, essentially a fling,
but you keep flinging them.
You American hero and poor Brendan Aronson.
Jen, let's remember who looks so bright in those first two months,
the symbol of leads pressing game all over the field like a hungry rabbit, but post-world cup.
I don't know if it is just an ocean of his young body being shattered by the incredible length
of this surreal world cup he long-gated season, or the mental toll of the Premier League dogfight,
which is you speak to players who are in it, it can do a man.
But he's looked like a player, light on confidence, and honestly physically shattered by the manic frenzy of the Premier League.
Brendan is a very, very good footballer, a skill-soaked footballer.
Jen looks like he needs to spend the summer partially on the beach,
recovering physically, recovering mentally, and then going heavy in the gym.
The good news, Sunday, leads a merely playing that team, lads, it's Tottenham,
Ellen Road, we know can be one of the most fantastically feral environments in football,
and when you think, shut your eyes, thought experiment, think with me,
of all the teams in world football, just hundreds of them popping through your mind like ping-pong balls,
and then I'm going to say to you, spit out the first team that comes to mind when you're asked,
which football club folds quickest under pressure, which buckles?
Say it, say it out loud, and did you just say, I feel like a magician saying, was this your card?
Did you just say, Ryan Mason's Tottenham?
If you didn't, I think you're lying. That did.
Ryan Mason's Tottenham did just seep into your frontal lobe, and Spurs, this Spurs,
they've not went away from home since January.
They've not experienced the thrill of Premier League victory outside of London
since the end of October, they're going north, way north.
This Spurs, who've linked 20 goals in the last seven games, big Sam Aladice will fancy this.
Notice like a pie of a game will tell the lads, this is like the world's tastiest pie,
you can see it, you can smell it, you can touch it, make it yours.
When I'm trying to say lead trans, brace yourself for the retina-searing sight
of a boogieing big Sam at the final whistle, that matter will riper,
clearing himself to be pep and our Tet is equal.
I believe he'll unleash the Prince of a Man who's walking away with a reported $3.5 million
survival bonus after just four games.
To come to Leeds, I'd to receive a great raven from GFOP John Shepherd,
a Leeds fan from Lexington, Kentucky.
His advice actually works for every fan of every relegation threat team.
Yes, John Shepherd suggested we all go full-band the brothers, and channel the spirit
of Lieutenant Spears, giving his advice to Private Blithe.
You hid in that ditch because you think there's still hope, but Blithe, the only hope you have
is to accept the fact that you're already dead, and the sooner you accept that,
the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier's supposed to function,
without mercy, without compassion, without remorse.
All war depends upon it.
God bless you, John, courage next question.
Hey, Raj, it's Brett. I'm calling you from the crap part of rush hour traffic in Los Angeles.
This weekend, I'm very confident that my beloved Manchester United will secure top four.
So my focus this week is on my side piece, Leeds United, and if I'm big Sam, I'm going to show
that Leeds team the speech that Eragorn gives to the armies of Gondor and Rohan before the Black
case, and they fight one last time. If you are Sean Deitch in that Everton locker room,
what famous movie speech are you going to show them, or act out yourself?
Great, Brett, you beauty. I may have to have a Premier League side piece myself next season.
I realise as I listen to your question, sigh. Listen, knowing what I know about Sean Deitch,
I do believe we have a fighting chance as long as he's with us. I made a brief appearance on
that great fan channel, that great Everton fan channel, Toffee TV yesterday. Oh, they're all
full lovely. They're a lot more optimistic than I am. Let me be candid and they ask me,
they ask, couldn't you? Can't you just imagine a positive outcome on Sunday? And all I say,
I couldn't and I can't. But fleetingly, I allowed myself to try and dream of what could good
of some part look like if we survive that, that just outburst of shared collective joy,
a relief and just the knowledge that you're about to, the whole city or the blue half,
anyway, go completely on the lash in a way that only Diego Costa normally does post-game,
that pitch invasion in which Tim Howard was just yanked from the NBC side booth and passed around
overhead by thousands of fans as if it was a large dog or war. And I got the image of Sean
Dijk just dancing victoriously by an empty director's box, being stripped down to his undies by
frenzy blues, who discovery really does dress like his stone cold wrestling meme. But I don't feel
it in my heart, in my soul, in my bones, in my anything. I honestly, I'm braced for darkness.
But in terms of speeches, I have given this some thought. It's an incredible question.
And I can see Sean Dijk too. I do believe it's a bit of a cinephile. He loves the classics. I think
when he's on a flight, he probably goes for the classics part of the movie genre, spends a lot of
time. I can imagine him crying watching the final scenes have gone with the wind dikes, can't you?
But I believe I'll possibly try and go for the unexpected too, to bring an energy to his team
that they didn't know that they had in him. So obviously your mind has gone the same place as mine.
I can see Sean Dijk and he probably does bring in VHS videos for this. I don't think he's quite
like the YouTube guy. He'll bring in from his own personal VHS and maybe he's a beat-a-max kind of
guy. He'll drop in bridesmaids. That bit, when my erudoff, well, my erudoff takes a crap in the street.
Now, if Sean Dijk is feeling, you know, like a little less like I'm trying to mix it up a bit
with my boys, but I want to be honest, I want to show them true, authentic, on the stage because
I want them to be there. Authentic sells out there, not you, Sean McNeil. He could go
Ben Affleck from the way back, you know, that speech. The truth is they've got way more telling
than we do dot dot dot. The truth is they got more talent over there than we do. But I got a better coach.
But I promise you, they are not a better team. I would take anyone on this bench right now for
any one of those players. You are hard to be here. You are in this. Have some fun out there.
But knowing Dijk, as a day one, third floor, he's deaf, going to channel his inner Johnny
death, but as Johnny Depp channel is out of Sean Dijk, I'm never quite sure. That movie Minimata.
This speech.
Jazz is what we've got. It's just fucking jazz. Improvisation. Everything. See this?
Anyone can do this. Anyone takes nothing. Your point, focus, click.
And most important. Fuck up. Fuck up. Because that's the only way to learn.
Jazz is what we've got. By the way, I would love to know really what C. Alladise is acting out.
I think that's really the key question, right? I don't think Dean Smith has heard of movies.
But Alladise probably knowing him, I would put money. He could be single-handedly playing
all four roles in that just heavy drinking scene in lock stock and two smoking barrels.
Or maybe the second or maybe the second scene from the room.
I'd love to know, though, any leads inside this, please tell me. But I do want to send
all the model of to all of the fans, Everton fans, Leicester fans, Leeds fans. We're all
bonded by the shared agony of the doomed. As we face up to Sunday's coin toss of death, that coin
being flipped by Anton Chigger from the country for old men. Is he ready? Is his cattle gun?
And remember, there's nothing like this in the United States here. In this nation,
what do the worst teams in sports get? What do they get? They get the number one draft pick
and an easy schedule. That's in America. Women to be about three markets here. No, no, no. You get,
you get socialism for rich guys in your sporting system in England.
All the teams receive is a swift kick in the down-ballows before being this bat through the
moon door into the upside down. And whatever happens, Everton, Leeds, Leicester fans, even if you survive,
you know your teams have been the footballing equivalent of Roman Roy. Well, worse, Twitter spaces.
So, if you're just be crashing, huh? Yeah, I think we've got just a massive number of people
online. So, it's a service restraining someone. What up, Roger? Tony, the first fan from Pittsburgh,
home of the Riverhound, which dumped the Columbus crew in the US Open Cup, move on to the quarter
finals. Spurs, man. The scriptwriter's done them dirty this year, don't you think? I remember the
beginning of the season thinking this club had a chance for some silverware this year. Good
things were going to happen. Squad building under Antonio Conte just to be let down again.
And then I think about one of the things you say all the time, Roger, that soccer is not about
winning. It's about moments and memories. And I think back on my 12 years as a Spurs fan and
Harry Kane is the best thing of that time. He's awesome. He's given me so many wonderful memories
and moments. And I just need your take on things. As many times as Daniel Levy lets him go,
hasn't he done enough? Two years ago when he walked around and said as farewells, I was sad and mad.
Now, I think it's the compassion that things to do. Is there any way that you see Harry Coleman's
first kit next year? Thank you.
Tony, you mighty Yins are first of all huge love to everyone in Pittsburgh,
especially you Pittsburgh Riverhounds, my lord, watching you in the US Open Cup.
Clip another MLS team Columbus. I just marvel at you. The fan culture you've created, the delirium.
You're beautiful, beautiful stadium. But most of all, I adore the US Open Cup. We don't talk about
this enough. I think the US Open Cup is a sleeping giant that is set to wait for its slumber in this
nation. The best way to understand the true breadth of the passion for football in this nation,
to understand the creativity, the strength, the depth of the stories, also the full flow of history
of football in our nation. A great history flows through our veins in the United States and the
US Open Cup contains it. I hate the denigration of this national duel. The US Open Cup deserves
lifting up. It really doesn't. And all of us who love football in the United States supporting
it with all of our hearts. It is our history. It is our tradition. And we should lift this trophy,
this tournament, this wonder up and watching the joy of the Riverhounds and the Riverhounds fans
midweek. They are. And I say this with great love and respect. They are like Premier League
Burnley. I love it. I love it. I love it. If putting fries on the sandwich is wrong, I don't
want to be right. By the way, singular joy in my life. The thing that's keeping me going in this
time of dawn is we men and blazers travel to Burlington for month next Thursday night to do a live show
with the incredible owners and fans and stakeholders and small businesses that support Vermont Green
FC. And one of the joys of my life, honestly, has been watching this nation fall in love with
football and create thoughtful, brilliant singular manifestations of the game authentic.
Wonderful ones from sea to shining sea. And honestly, one of my goals in the run up to World Cup
2026 is to travel as much as we can and cast a spotlight on these stories of which to me Vermont
Green is a shiny example. Let me know. They're listeners where we should eat, what we should
see, what we should experience while we're in Burlington. I love that NECADA Awards. I'm so excited
to be able to come wait to support local businesses and local teams as much as we can. But to your
question about Harry Kane, ahead of what could be his last game for Spurs this weekend, Harry,
Harry will be 30 this summer. And whenever he does retire, he already knows his legacy is set.
He will already, he's done far more than enough to establish himself as one of the all time greatest
strikers to just ply their trade in the Premier League. I do not believe he will leave the Premier League,
the links to Bayern Munich. It makes no sense to be so close to being the greatest all time in the
Premier League and to leave it. I do think he will go. I do think he will go. I can imagine him.
I can imagine him going to Manchester United and to be kind of as much as I would love this man to
stay at Spurs, stay there forever be one club Harry Kane and I spent time with Harry Kane at
Spurs and you can see, you can see, I mean, I would imagine that would be his first choice,
the love for the place to respect. He holds everybody in. I've told this story before
that I was interviewing his youth team coach and Harry Kane arrived from training for his
interview with me. And normally, well, the youth team coach did what what what you team coaches should
do in that situation. He stopped the interview and said, Harry's here. He's just arrived. Weren't
you? You interview him and then we can pick up with me later. And Harry Kane said, no, no, no,
no, no, you finish, you finish. I've all the time in a world for you. Like this is this is a superstar
who has not forgotten where he's come from and where he's come from is so bloody important to him.
But so as a elite competitor, it is winning and I can see him robin van Persie. I can see him
going to Manchester United that mutual desire to win. It's been 10 years since United last
won the title in Sir Alex's last season. But for the first time in a decade, imagine it with Kane
as the focal point, the everything and a few more pieces wisely brought over the summer.
United could seriously challenge for this title next year. You can make that case city. We'll
know that'd be imperious, livable, Newcastle Arsenal. Always going to be there or there about.
Probably I'd like to say evident as a joke at this time as I always do. But that might be
physically impossible. This joke may end. I've just realized we may not have the
anteverter joke again. It'll be an looted. It'll probably be an looted. Let's be candid.
But back to Harry Kane. I can't think of any other player in Premier League history who
who deserves a winner's medal more than more than Harry Kane. He has Alan Sheer as all time
goal record in his sights. I hope he gets his move. Hope he stays in the Premier League.
I'll move to Luton Harry Kane. I've just taught myself into this because seeing you miserable,
you know, final whistle after final whistle Harry Kane. Honestly, I can't stand that anymore.
Let's hear some happy Harry Kane. Audrey, he's giving it away to Hoibert.
And he's Kane!
He sits on Tottenham's left his perch beyond even the great screech.
Spores most lavish scorer of all time. He has dead and he has done two six seven and two hundred
in the Premier League. One quick note, big love. Enter this weekend to all Dortmund fans. We got
ourselves a Bundesliga title race. Everything is in Dortmund's hands. What could possibly go wrong
now? Yes, Barusha Dortmund, the mighty yellow and black. Oh, the Pittsburgh of Germany. Just
one win away from clinching the Bundesliga title. If they can just drop night-flave mites on Saturday
9.30am Eastern time on ESPN plus Dortmund will win their first title since 2012 and end Bayern's
10 season streak as champion. Perfect time to be a Dortmund fan. Rival Schalke looks set to be
relegated to Jirina. He who lost last. I don't know how you say this in German, but I'm sure they've
got one incredibly long word for it. Last longest. Also this weekend, MIB Awards, who will win the
wrestling belt or tune in Sunday on Men in Blazers season nine show finale on Peacock and find out.
We're really elated about this weekend's awards. The first ever American football awards, which
will be given to American Premier League fans. Your favorite footballer and also your favorite
American footballer. We were elated by the sheer number of you voted in this inaugural year.
So excited to announce the winners on Peacock. I break down the nominees with Rebecca Lowe
and Robbie Earl and hand out that wrestling belt or to the winners who will receive them in person.
I am so proud of this new bloody project. Football awards really are an expression of the culmination
of a season's journey told from a different perspective each of them. This is from our perspective
in the United States. It's a manifestation of the surge in growth of football fandom across this
nation. The sense of shared discovery, passion, connectivity. These awards and the women's awards,
which will be handed out later this year, Pooch World Cup, a reflection of all of this. The unique
perspective of American football fans who've fallen head over heels in love with this game.
And I want to leave you with, well, I know I need it. I want to leave you with some inspiration,
some good vibes and lift. We released Road to the World Cup with Becky Sauerbrude episode two this
week. Find it in our pod feed now and I make no secret of this. I love Becky Sauerbrude so very
much. She's an incredible thinker and emotionally articulate human being confession. When I feel
down, which I fully expect to do Sunday at about 2pm Eastern time, I'll listen back to interviews
with Becky Sauerbrude and I feel a little bit better about life. So I'm going to leave you with
the slice of Becky. Here she is talking about the inspirational return of Julie Earths to the
national team fold ahead of the World Cup. This is Raj. Pray for me. Save her every second. Big,
big love. Let's remember this. A lot will end on Sunday. Succession. Everton Football Club.
One of Leeds and Leicester. But now that the joy of football is that the truly profound emotions
we experience watching it are just a release. You've all seen me shouting at my television. I
will be screaming. I expect to be crying. I expect to mourn. But I believe we will. I hope
we'll all leave the experience with just as many limbs as we enter it. Whatever happens,
even the most unimaginable and speakable option. We have to know it remains football the most
important, least important thing. At least that's what I'm telling myself. Courage and here's Becky.
Can you remind us? Because it has been 611 days. What is it like to play with that warrior?
She just has a knack for disrupting everything. The other team, when she's on the pitch,
basically has to play around her because the circumference and the area that she can cover
and she can disrupt in her way is so big. What a presence. It's chaos. It causes chaos.
The US team, we love that chaos. We thrive in that chaos. You see her come in in that Ireland
game and she just plays direct. She wasn't playing East West. She was going north. All of a sudden,
we're a little bit more dangerous. We're a little bit more front-footed. The whole
complexion of the game changes. That's the effect that she can have.
Can you describe to us as a centre-bat? When you have that chaos agent like Julia sitting in front
of you, that shield, that sword, does it change the way you approach the game itself?
As a defender, when you have someone at that sixth spot that can be as disruptive as JJ,
you can be a little bit more braver in your own actions. You can be a little bit more front-footed.
Obviously, as a defender, you very much have to protect the space behind you. But when you have
someone that's disrupting and causing these attackers to take bigger touches, to avoid her
or to go long to avoid her, it's so much more easy to read and it's so much more obvious.
You get to be a little bit more sort of inbrave. It's very influential,
the presence that she has. It's a lot of gravity and the people around her can feel that.
That's really remarkable. I can't say that I've played with a whole lot of players
that can do that on the field.
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