Men in Blazers 09/26/23

Hey, prime members, you can listen to Men in Blazers ad-free on Amazon Music, download the app today. Hi, I'm David Brown, the host of Wonder e's podcast Business Wars, and in our new season, two of the world's leading hotel brands, Hilton and Marriott, stare down family drama and financial disasters, listen to business wars on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. We're listening to the Men in Blazers media network, suboptimal radio. Jotinho has lost the ball to Madison who's got some for company, and some makes it to to in an old London derby that has exploded sensationally combined. From the Men in Blazers studios in the crap part of Bedford, New York, and from the OG crap part of Soho, it's the Men in Blazers podcast, Raj, we're back like Taylor Swift, the Arrowhead Davo. Oh, thank you, Taylor, for making us believe in love again. How are you holding up, David? Yeah, we just need her to date a Premier League footballer, Raj, and then the game will really take off in America. I'm doing okay. Great. Just for those calves, might be too much for her. Just back from Scotland, Raj, you can hear up a picked up a bit of a head cold, which is pretty much part of the course over there, but you're going to get back and talk about the football. Were you buying hearts or hibbs? Well, hibbs would be my flavour, but no, I didn't buy hibbs. But I must say, in Britain in general, one has reminded how difficult it is to watch Premier League football. It's just not easy. In America, we are so lucky to get to see so much Premier League football. In Britain, it is almost impossible. I speak to my mates who are big football fans, and the only games they've seen all season of the games they've been to, they haven't seen anything else. It just is like, I've got friends with full-on season tickets and Brentford season tickets and they travel away, but they haven't seen anything. Thank God, if you're a Chelsea fan, they haven't seen any of our crap, but they've just heard about our results. We are living in the Promised Land for so many reasons, David. Can I just say, talking about the Promised Land, and this is probably one of the few abulliant, joyous, effervescent podcasts we will tape this year, my mood, obviously, being wholly dependent on Everton, you know, actually winning something. And it was John Kippur yesterday, which is a fast date. Yeah. And I just say, not eating for 25 straight hours, I found it this year, I found it almost effortless, and I was trying to understand why I was trying to work out why afterwards. And it was my wife. She was the one who came up with the answer, she was the one who actually put her finger on it. She said, compared to having to suffer through 90 minutes of watching Everton on the regs, she said, not eating for a day, it's just a piece of piss. Yeah, it's easy. That's easy to do. I know, John Kippur, your favourite Jewish holiday, Roch. It is now. It is. It is, Everton, never lose. And the Sean Dite, when I'm fasting, I don't know, she's not wrong. When you have watched the work of Michael Keen in Earth, I believe the CIA and how training their operatives, you become immune to torture when you have been an Everton fan. You only sing when you're fasting, sing when you're fasting. I love it. It's my new song for you. Happy New Year, baby. Happy New Year to you. Okay. Before we get to the Premier League football, a quick shout out for everything happening at Men in Blazers, World Headquarters this week, Roch, we should say that the response has been overwhelming to Men in Blazers, media networks, newest addition, Men in Blazers, early kickoff. That is the daily 10-minute-ish podcast that drops every morning at 6 am Eastern Time Monday through Friday. It tells you everything you need to know for the footballing day ahead. I've added it to my daily routine, Roch. I love it. And so have so many GFOPs. David, we wrote this in Raven Newsletter last Friday. And by we and me, me releasing a new podcast, it's like dropping a child off on the first day of school. And anyone who's actually done that, know the kind of prize them off your leg and then just fling them in there, sobbing, and then run quickly in the other direction. But you know, you project confidence for your child's sake, but really we're so bloody terrified on the inside, not knowing how we'll fare the little thing in the cruel world on its own. And I've got to say thanks to you, GFOPs, early kickoff came out of the classroom, bounding on the first day, huge smile on its face, slightly messy cray and drawing that said dad in the teachers handwriting suspiciously. But to see hit number one on the Apple soccer pod chart, enter top 10 for all sports podcasts, made us incredibly proud, we're me incredibly relieved. I'm so bloody happy for the team that worked on this. But mostly I'm grateful to you, dear listeners, to this podcast and all the podcasts on the Men and Blazers Media Network, the best football fans in the world. Thank you, thank you, thank you, really from the bottom of our hearts. We should say still tons more work today on this podcast in reality, early kickoff. Men and Blazers at gmail.com is the email address. So many of you have sent in feedback, insights, wonder, creative ideas, keep doing so and please subscribe if you haven't already done so. And if you have subscribed, take a second to give it a five star rating and review it. It's crazy. That's how Apple does the algorithms, it really bloody helps bizarrely. More than we can say, Dave, tell the people where they can find early kickoff. I'm still in shock, Roger. This is the way I just found out that I don't write the Raven newsletter. But this is the most important bit, Roger. It is actually on a different pod feed from this one. You have to go to your podcast app of choice and search Men and Blazers early kickoff. Not just early kickoff, but Men and Blazers early kickoff because there are some other early kickoffs there, but they're not the Men and Blazers early kickoff. Smash that, subscribe. I have to say, I've loved that analogy about dropping your kids off at school because if there is one thing where you have more than children, it's podcasts, the only thing between us. And with that, can you give us a tour? I'm very polygamous when it comes to my podcast. But I'm also polygamous when it comes to my Bud lights and I want to raise my third first Bud light in the day to Rex and football club hard weekend on the field, bit of a beat down at Stockport as you do. However, now just two points outside of the automatic promotion place is still racking up wins in different ways because can I just say welcome to Rex season two, episode two, second episode of the new season. I don't want to spoil it, so I will not say any more. Only that it's one of the best, most emotionally powerful episodes of television that I've seen in a long, long time. One's out with football and empathy and love, community and connection and meaning everything that ultimately is great about football and merely tipping what an incredible human being to more courage. OK, Roger, to the football, we kick it off with Arsenal two, Tottenham two, a rivalry game for the ages that extolled all of football's greatest virtues. It was the home side that drew first Bud on 26 minutes when their starboy, Bacayosaka, Caronda shot off Spurs' Christian Romero and into the net. And if the goal didn't set the game a light, well, Sacka's imitation of James Madison's famous Dart Selly did, we're sure that's what set it off, Roger, the integrity of the Dart Selly. Because Spurs from there grew into the game, and in the 42nd minute, it was Maddo's himself who delivered a beautiful move and a beautiful cross to Sonny to steer home 1-1. Then, on 54 minutes, Romero's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day continued as Premier League CCTV, a.k.a. bar, caught him handling inside the box, Sacka, Cooley thrust the panor right up the middle to make it 2-1, but a mere 98 seconds later, down the other end, it was Sonny once again delivering the equalizer after a terrible mistake from Georgiño, Sleeper agent, and splitting the spoils between these two unbeaten's, just an exhilarating 90 minutes for all parties involved. An epic North London rumble, that peculiar corner of England, Sonny's got a grip on all the football and good vibes, both sets of fans multilaterally repressing the knowledge, what is hope, put shattered hope, and for the first time in Premier League history, they both entered this game unbeaten. But in North London Derby's Arsenal knew they'd won 4-5 Spurs, I think everyone just one of their last 30 at Arsenal, big talk from Arsenal coming in, Davey, Ramsdale, on the bench, Otetta describing the QB1 goalkeeper situation as a competition, Ramsdale's not been dropped, but don't we believe, if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a goalkeeper being the spatch to the bench, he's very much a ruthlessly, he has been dropped, right, not for his form on this season, but more for those, the memory of those erratic performances doing that wobble down the stretch, almost the memory of the offense. Clearly, Otetta likes the way he starts, Arsenal depend on playing the ball very quickly out of the back, and he likes the way that he plays with the ball, and has been so far. This might end up making Ramsdale better as well, but so far, Arsenal still seem to be ticking pretty well with him between the sticks. For Spurs, this was Angibles' first big test, the first in North London Derby without security blanket, sword and shield, Harry Kane, since 2014, the gender was the top scorer in the history of this game, 14 goals, and just 19 matches since 2014, where Brenner Johnson's team now, and GFOP Williams writes, captured the vibe at kickoff when he tweeted, I'm just trying to figure out how Kane's going to somehow score a penalty, and it was a febrile atmosphere, Arsenal, something that we've got to acknowledge, probably one of the most remarkable achievements of the Otetta transformational tenure, the way he's turned the library into a riotous party, both teams trying to play ferociously, joyously assert themselves, taking turns almost to launch raiding parties, flying into tackles, Arsenal, they definitely had the upper hand, the way they press Spurs, kept trying to come bravely, sometimes at high high risk playing out in the back only to be driven into reverse gear, there's a gunner's try to threaten them, they played with such an admirable intensity fighting together to win every second ball, and the buckling, it was audible before the opening goal came sack, it got the ball on the right, like an English iron robin cutting inside, acres of space thanks to that overlapping Ben White run, and the Spurs backline derby, he just arced in a shot, driving it off a stunned Romero, was there any other kind on this day, who deflected it post-of-flying, Vicario, it was stunning, David. Yeah, I mean, this is a goal that we've seen sack of score, you know, since last season, again and again, he cuts inside, he's got no dodgy flapper, but it's our hand robin side, he cuts inside, curls it in, I think this one was missing, Rodge, and if it wasn't missing, well something happened, and it, you know, really poor, poor, poor, poor Romero nailed at it, and need it, past his own goalkeeper who was diving to save it. Oh, sack of then trucking away, unleashing the James, Madison, Dart, Sally, right into the camera, that was cold, David, and a bit reckless, did he, mockingly, derisively, just torn a killer opponent a bit too early? Maybe, maybe reckless, but it's almost with Vicario's sack, it doesn't appear like taunting, it doesn't appear, you know, the guy doesn't have a mean bone in his body, it's almost like this rivalry has become quite difficult for the neutral, and the neutral usually hates one of, or both of these sides, you can't hate Arsenal because Vicario's sack are so lovable, you can't hate Tottenham because big ang is so likable, it's taken for the neutral, it's taken some of the edge off the Arsenal Tottenham, Derby, Rodge. That is so funny, I spoke to a massive, massive, Arsenal friend of mine who I won't name, because I don't want to out him on this particular point, because it's almost sacrilegious, but he was mulling the post game, he said, I can't hate Bagange, I've been summoning hate, and it just will not come, you have to love that, Marviches, and the stonishing thing to say, but for all of the good vibes about Angerball, we kept saying, the Pascal clicks, how will they react towards adversity? How will they react? That was, this was real adversity, it was that Jesus missed, 30 second minutes, first try to build that possession again, Jesus, just ripped into Madison, on the edge of the area, charging on, but blasted high, with just that goalkeeper to beat, real sliding doors moment, because it felt like one minute, Arsenal was just emitting a white hot heat that was truly stunning, spurs, almost brettless in the wake of it, and it was adrenaline, it was fight or flight time for Tottenham, they'd left themselves so open, we will do they have the experience here, did they have the patience, but I was so bloody impressed ultimately by the risks they were taking, the kind of risks, ultimately they had to take that they'd been trained now to take by Anger, Madison, dropping deeper, trying to give them more control, they forced a phenomenal save by Rare, one that had even Aaron Ramsdale, one immense gentness was by the way, you can't really talk about it, yeah, in the speed of the game, it was kind of lost in it, but watching him, just a deeply competitive human being, who's no doubt confused, and in agony, just to applaud, here's the competitor, slash teammate, from the bench, a really beautiful human moment, but within two minutes, Madison Riggle, like a fresh water reel, away from his celebration, derailleur, the sack out of the byline, dark celly payback, that pull back into the corridor of uncertainty, Sony, so hungry, swooping in, quicker sharper than three Arsenal defenders, you can see their jeweler's drop was a Korean surge dead clinically into the corner, double camera celly, with Madison, and just, David, in that moment, it's a neutral, when you just say, oh my god, what a game, what a time to be alive, yeah, I mean, three incredible elements of that, one, we have reached the end of spursiness, this is the great achievement of Big Ang, yes, they're playing attacking football, yes, they're playing, yes, they're taking risks, they're doing all these things, but it was the fight back that was so incredible. Second, the pure skill of Madison, finding space, spinning a man, finding space, getting to the byline, from a, from a stopped ball, essentially, from no motion, you can count on less than one hand, the number of Premier League players who can do that, who can beat a man, spin like that, and get to the byline, and deliver the ball that finds, Sony, who was the third element, Sony spurs Captain, with the absence of Harry Kane, Sony stepping up, and just getting, as you said, just in a way that you can't imagine anybody else getting to the ball and angling it, just perfectly pass the keeper off the post and into the side of the net, just a beautiful, beautiful goal, and situationally, just before half time, brilliant. Yeah, what do we watch? I mean, Arsenal so strong, but then just that belief, that confidence burned off, you felt the absence of Martin Ellie, and even Trossard, and spurs response, as a neutral, just to witness this phonetic, positive, both sides, optimistic football, it was a feast that could have gone so many bloody ways. Our tetra after the game actually called it like a basketball game, and he's not wrong. Second half, Declan Rice limped off, with a back issue, reportedly, hopefully, not going to keep him out for long. Viera also, after a GEO Havards replacing them, and Arsenal's ability to control and repel truly diminished accordingly, in the face of Big Angerball. I think it was J-Dubbs that texted me, and he said to the skydance ball on the Sunday morning, it's like a great bacon egg and cheese, great for morale, terrible for your blood pressure, and second half, it was just a lot of everything. Romero, talk about a tough bloody Sunday off the corner, ball hits white, who span, smacked about shot off the toy. Romero was diving in to make a block about where he thought the ball was going to go, said it ricocheted upwards towards his flailing arm. Those penalties, is it one of those that we talk about in terms of the law rationally? It is a penalty, but emotionally, I think in the law it's called within equity, within the spirit of the law. It feels tough because his arm wasn't in an exactly a natural position there, David, but penalty. Yeah, it's not intentional. It doesn't matter. Without a doubt, I know, but that's what I'm saying, but it wasn't intentional. I'm talking about the spirit of the game. It's not intentional, and yes, it's in an unnatural position to block a ball, but not if you're falling over and need to brace your fall, and penalty seems harsh, but we've seen them given. It's not the first time. VAR, I wish VAR were a computer that could factor in a genuine robot that would only use AI to decide what is within the spirit of the game, but it's not. It is governed by humans, Roch, which is the great disappointment of VAR, and the humans come in, and they make their judgment call, and to me the judgment call is wrong, but you've seen it given. And Sacka didn't need to remarry's deflection this time. We bang, that kick right up the middle, and really you would have expected a title challenging team to hold from here, but this is the biggest and cultural change articulated by GFOP at Lanky Left, that you tweeted me after both Arsenal goals, they said, I had no feeling of panic, no feeling of dread, certainly no ill will toward Romero. It was sort of, I can't wait to see how we'll score, take equalizer, maybe even steal one. That was a different feeling, because yes, this game was now officially drunk, but be just one minute, 49 seconds later, Deuginio brain freeze on the ball, contemplating his options, James Madison just snatched his wallet, charged forward for Rochusley, slipped the ball to sunny, who would not, could not miss, passing up ball leafly into that, 150 sunny goals for Tottenham, David. Again, double camera Madison, but then sunny, it's just fascinating to me, after he scores, he's normally all smiles, he's come on this show and talked about the camera celly, is a reminder to himself and to his adoring fans to save at every moment, take nothing for granted, which of course I love, but then he did something different, he just moved forward towards the Spurs fans and let it all out, it's just a relief, the hype, the passion, he roared, the fans went berserk, and it was remarkable to witness this, Jen, who for so long has been robbing to Harry Kane's Batman, just season the moment, the Ewing theory, David, you know, the fact that the collective can be stronger, post the the departing star, more ferocious, more resilient, more book-and-earing now that they're canless, I interviewed the incredible Spurs, Jen, Alice, the gold about that before kick off, and he said, sadly, it's true, but you felt it in the moment, you was almost saying, David, this is my team now. Yeah, I mean, sunny with the responsibility that he's got on his shoulders, he's not shirking from it, he's playing great, you know, Big Ange, he's a huge interview played in the UK before this game with Gary Linnaker, and you know, everybody, not everybody can see the football, but everybody watched this interview, and you know, Big Ange talked about the reality of taking this job without Harry Kane and having to make the collective stronger and having to just deal with the fact that it's not an option, they can't think about it, they've never talked about it once with the team or around the dressing room within training, they've just got to get in with the business, and football has a very short memory, you just get on with the game, but you know, it's notable to me that the spursy moment in this game was committed by Arsenal, was committed by Georgino, it was that mistake, spurs sort of won it, yes, they won it, they had to finish after that, but it was, it was a gift from Georgino, just 98 seconds after, because Zachard put the ball in the back of the net that gifted this game back to Tottenham and you know, meant them splitting the spoils. And for them, yeah, it was huge respect to both sides, for the intensity was maintained, not always the high quality, emotion, passion, commitment, but it was just a little hot mess from them, and on Angepal to Sony, fascinating, with 10 minutes to the game, injecting some chaos in Rick Jarlas and spurs down the stretch up a hand in terms of possession and intent, Arsenal now, the counter attacking force at home, Kai Havats had their best chance, both falling to him on the edge of the box, chested it down, saw the name Kai in light, and so obviously proceeded to blast high and wide, 0 goals, 0 assists on the season for poor Havats, 10 minutes of added time, we were wondering, could there be a redo of last week, Sheffield, I did late, late madness, but now game ended in a pile of tired legged scraps, two unbeaten teams entered, two unbeaten teams leave, only one winner really, David Wright, Manchester City. Well, yeah, and it's a game that I think Tottenham will feel better about the point than Arsenal, partly because it was at the Emirates and partly because situationally, I don't think Tottenham are trying to win a title or really believe they're going to win a title, Arsenal still really believe that they want to try and win the title and so I think it hurts them more. Yeah, you know, this is fascinating, Arsenal first, this team still bedding the new pieces in obviously, Sean of a true clinical finisher, it feels, hence that Ivan Tony connection that's been fired up by the English media this week to me, this definitely felt more like two points lost, that flapping piece of skin narrative and down the stretch of last season, that they can't hold on to a lead, reinforce the injuries mounting, Manchester City coming up two by the eighth, slitherer players, Eddie and Ketcher, Fabio Vieiro just seem lesser than the rest and the sense that I spoke to my Arsenal, loving mate Michael Cohen right after this game, not that one, the good one, and he was already wondering how loud he's like, with City, still perfect and not looking like drop in a point, he said, we're living in a surreal reality, these are his words, not mine, we're at almost more realistic a goal for us Arsenal to win the Champions League because it's a cup tournament than it is the Premier League, which is honestly rational but a madness. Yeah, true, I totally agree, I think it's going to be, it seems crazy to say, it's going to be easier for them to win the Champions League than to win the Premier League. And for Spurs, incredible courage coming back in that atmosphere, in that game, when past seasons, they just would have crumbled. James Madison said what you said earlier, David, he said fans and neutrals talk about Tottenham, they often say soft, weak, bottle it, spurs it, use that word, all that rubbish, he said the last couple of week shows we might be going in a slightly different direction and the knock on edge ball this far this season was at Bar Manchester United, he's yet to play a team of real heft, that was that test then, many feared they'd be blown away before kickoff for being honest, they resisted, they'd draw confidence from this as they good, they're low ins to play Liverpool next week. What a transaction, James Madison was as well, a player who we knew he was good, but surround him with elite level players and he's just even better than we thought. For that price, David, it is bargain of the season. Fantastic piece of business. Okay, we've talked about them a lot, Manchester City 2, Nottingham Forest Nill, this was a routine 2-0 win, but with a twist, Pepp's favourite cocktail, after going up 2-0 through really tidy goals from Phil Foden and who else, Irling Harlan, just 40 minutes into the game, City were cruising, but, but, but, Rodge, the tricky trees started to show signs of photosynthesis and just one minute into the second half, Rodgery was sent off when he needlessly tried to measure the circumference of Morgan Gibb White's neck with his hands and while City playing a man down made this contest, mildly interesting, Forest never truly threatened City, make it six wins from six, I think they're for real, Rodge. Oh my god, I think we knew that before last season started, but they stormed into this one, top of the table, Max points from the first five games, without really excelling, they haven't had to, remarkably, then when every single league game at the yet he had this calendar year, their opponents, Matty T and the tricky trees, sound like an incredible soul band, Notty and Forest, the squad, the still the size of your average gospel choir, and while the shin number of voices seemed at times to hurt them last season, conductor stevy Cooper, got all the tenors, all the sopranos, all those altos to gel, down the back half of the season, and they've entered this one in the top half of the table, feeling dangerous Davao, and you got, I love Steve Cooper, a gent who survived so many nearly sackings, he's got more faith than George Michael, all the top pre-game, he had a plan, he made five changes to that team that drew one one with Burley, went with three centre backs, presumably trying to seed the wings, make it just a real mud fight in the middle, Pet Guardiola, full of his false modesty pre-game, before ending his interview by saying, they have a plan, we have a plan, we'll see if it works, and we've honestly reached the stage where even Pep's tired of his own stick and just cuts to the chase, and we had to wait all of seven minutes to find out whose plan would work best, Rodry picked up the ball left centre of the park, pinged a long day agon of flair to the back post, streaking Kyle Walker, Kyle Walker's favourite Kyle Walker, the streaking Kyle Walker in every sense. Yeah, mostly in the sense that we don't think we mean, pulled it back perfectly, full fill phone, stock port, Pinocchio, hammering home for his first goal of the season, but that's how you break down a compact bat line, that day agon of ping. Yeah, we've seen it before, we've seen that sort of that move before, but this was slight variation, this was, you know, Man City goal 3.4, x, y, 0.2 with a twist, with a little asterisk on it, the way Phil Foden came in sort of overlapped on the inside and finished it, just so smartly. I must say, Rodge, I watched every Premier League goal this weekend, scored by every other team, including the 15 that Newcastle put past Sheffield. And all I thought was, there's not a single player on Chelsea who could have scored that goal. We will never score a goal exactly like that. It was just remarkable, and this was one that there is not a combination of players on Chelsea who could have ended up scoring that goal. Oh, mate, mate. I'm thinking, get Matt Miyazagabat, ping in a ball to bro hat, and you too may have that joy, David. But I've got to say, it was a goal of a bit of sadness because our social team has been trying so hard to ship the Matti clean sheets nickname for the great Matt Turner. And it became very clear, even to us that this was not going to be that day, because just seven minutes later, City again, Mateus Nunez, the 67 million offseason acquisition from Walls, getting his first City Premier League nod as a star, intercepted Errant Ball in the midfield, laid it off, picked it back up at the end line, clipped it beautifully to the back post where who, Irling, Bloody Harlan, aw, spushed overheader, that Norwegian droid, it's his eighth goal of the season already, David. This is just, by the way, let me remind you, just the sixth game of the campaign scored eight bloody times. And the fascinating thing about it is, no one's even surprised, no one's even making that big a deal about it anymore. This gen, David, let me ask it as a question. Has he normalized scoring at a just a non-human rate? There was always previously unthinkable. Now we're just saying, yeah, sure, 10, 12, 15 goals after seven games, why not? Yeah, he's normalized scoring for him at that kind of rate. And this goal, it looks like kind of a standard Errant Harlan goal, but it wasn't how difficult it is to head with extreme power, extreme power, a slow lobbing cross. He probably, the ball arrived on his head, but maybe a third of the speed that he managed to, like, nod it into the back of the net, it was just amazing stuff, so difficult to do. A goal you don't see scored very often off, off of a slow ball, what a player, what a player, what a weapon. And another thing I find incredible about Harlan is, he's no longer solo acts, he's part of a duo, Julian Alvarez, he's become the Liam to Harlan's, no, yeah, the big man keeps feasting. And by the 24th minute, city had something like 86% possession. At one point in the first half, they had 47 final third entries, such as love, final third entries to Forrest one, not so good on the final third entries on this day, enough to make even an Everton fan feel good. But somewhere around the half hour mark, Forrest was able to extinguish the general's versus Globe Trotters vibe to say, this was competitive, would be a stretch, but it no longer looked like we needed to dispatch the CIA to do an emergency extraction from Mattie Turner for his own protection. Early in the second half, fit madness, Rodgerie. I mean, it was very weird what he did. I didn't quite need to, he looked like a very violent tailor trying to measure Morgan Gipps white's neck cells for him, David, was yeah, probably it was like he was unleashing all of Messi's Thor celebrations on one human being's windpipe. Yeah, he's getting ready for his Christmas present. It's going to be a very nice shirt from Drake's or something like that, Rodge, and so he just needs to measure it and see if he's a 15 and a half. No, I'm right. Yeah, we'll have to see, but maybe also he's acknowledging that this would be a fascinating rule change. If every time you took a two goal lead in a football game, you actually had to have one of your players sent off. It would be a great, what we call in the game show business, Rodge, a catch-up mechanism that would be interesting. Wait, why for the simple days, phone a friend? It's fascinating, because Rodgerie now and Pet was not pleased, hopefully Rodgerie will learn post-game, and I'll miss three games, that calm, but that nerve center facility, that's just that he's the brain of the team and of the three games, one of them is the Arsenal game. How'd you replace him? John Stone still to return to fitness possibly. What would you do without a Rodgerie for three games? Is that Calvin Phillips music? We will find out, but for the rest of the game, Pet locked it down, Greal's returned from the knee injury. First time in three games, he's let his roots grow out. During that period, God bless, Divocka Regi came on for forest, presumably just to stoke my anxiety. Forest never really threatened to nail. Six games, six wins from Manchester City, 16 goals scored, three goals conceded, they got new castle midweek in a cannibal, walls in the league, RB Leipzig in the Champions League, and then October the 80s at clash of civilisations against Arsenal, and still David, yet to really find their best form, or even truly be challenged. Yeah, it is just rooting at this point for Mancity, so many goalscores. When you're saying earlier that, you know, Harland is part of like this amazing duet with Alvarez, he's more like Tony Bennett, Rodgers, that he can form a duet with almost anyone. Like we've thought a moments of Walker and Harland, or Foden and Harland, the great KDB Harland, like he combines with everybody and forms duos and trios all over the pitch. It's just amazing. Oh, God, I can't wait. He's going to be bringing out Harland duets and American classic, you think. Yeah, I think we can do it. I think we'll see him do that. Harland and Lady Gaga is possibly, it's possibly the only pairing that can land the quadruple. How has that not happened? I don't know. Pepp get Champions League, Premier League, FA Cup, and the Golden Globe, and what's it called? What's it called? Oh, Grammy. Oh, Grammy. Got the ego. Yeah, Pep's like bored with the Champions League. He's like, glad we're going to ego. I'm going to be getting Elvis Costello and Grelish together. Yeah, I love it. Billy Joel's going to be a, who will Joel play with? Oh, my God. Phil Collins and John Stone's is going to break me. Yeah. But you'd listen. You'd listen. It's an inward. Yeah. Okay. Rod's moving on. Liverpool three West. Yeah. You got to hold on to believe it. Oh, it'll be huge and bansley, Rods. Okay. Liverpool three West Ham one. The launch of Liverpool. Oh, my God. It's so good. Yeah, jungle. Jack Grelish probably thinks the song's called in the hair tonight. Yeah, I can feel it. It's in the hair tonight. It's in the hair tonight. In it. Oh, that song. Yeah. It's drums at in the hair tonight. I love it. Sorry. Okay. The launch of Liverpool 2.0 appears to be official as they see off the always pugnacious ions. Muhammad Salah gave Liverpool the lead from the spot. My God, he hammered this one. Only for Jared Bowen to draw the hammers level with a quite spectacular and somewhat dangerous diving header just before the half. But in the 60th minute, that scouse Southern hemisphere attacking duo Argentinus Alexis McAllister and the Uruguayan Darwin Nunez sinked up for the lowkey goal of the weekend. Diego Jota then killed the game off with a third Liverpool remain unbeaten on the season, Rodge. They're in sole possession of second place. Just two points behind city. Rodge, they have not lost in 18 games in all competitions. Are you scared? And not just because Klopp looked like a giant German Easter egg in that purple hoodie. God, I want one of those purple hoodies. I love that. I'm fair. Purple is my color this fall. I love the way you call it. The Uruguayan Darwin Nunez because the Darwin Nunez are available. I'd have to get like 10 Darwin Nunez is together in a room. You know, just that whole theory of positive swimming, whether the name, actually, whether they have traits that are very, very similar, the you're, I'm the Uruguayan Darwin Nunez. I am the Californian Darwin Nunez. I love to get a conference of Darwin Nunez. I'm very fascinated by this man. But shout it. Don't whisper it. Liverpool quietly. Rodge, I've just searched on Instagram. There are quite a lot of Darwin Nunez is big conference. They're a lot. Sponsors get in touch for their unloads of them. Yeah, that's great. It's, I will get, what's that big conference hall in New York City? Oh, what the one down, where they do the boat show. Yeah, boat show, car show. What showed you on the boxer? We'd like to book the, we'd like to book the Darwin Nunez show, please. It's going to be quite tight. I'm not sure they've got enough room. Rodge, look, there are pages, pages, pages of Darwin Nunez is on Instagram. Great. Then we can really have a large control group to find out if they're all start raving bonkers. But Liverpool have quietly, stealthily, sadly rebuilt. We were told, I was assured that the Saudi Arabia League had ripped the heart out of this team left them for dead. But while we were looking at North London for the title challenge, and we've got a credit FSG for their transfer market savvy, York and Klopp now lead a mentality monster's redux. This game, mouthwood and in prospect, turned out really to be really a stroll in the second half. Liverpool slapped down the hammers early in devas, Moxalla won, converted a penalty. West Ham resilient. Yes, Bowen had a fever running into the game, stooped ahead low, craftily into Liverpool corner. But second half, Liverpool just turned up the energy, the intensity, the composure in possession on the hour mark. Darwin, the poster boy of the Darwin Nunez conference, you've been mocked. West Ham fans spent the whole game chanting, you're just a shit and the carol. He had a howler of a misgranted with the goal gaping. But what's changed this season? It seems to have developed a mental resilience where he shrugged off for failure. And he just turned around the silence of hammers with an incredible smash of a drive of a incredibly floated pass. We're going to give Macallis the credit for the ball. But that finished, David. Liverpool fans live to watch those kind of finishes and then just tweet the one word, sexual. Yeah, the vertical ball almost never is pulled off in football rods. The vertical ball straight over the defense. It wasn't even much of a diagonal run. It was almost a vertical run. It's just such a goal that you just don't see very often. And it was just so superbly crafted and created. It feels like they worked that out a little bit in training. Maybe that combo. But what a run from Nunez and the composure to put that ball into the back of the net. The confidence. Seven goals in four games. Stealthback, clock post game praise. Actually, it's defensive contributions as much as attacking one's one of the players of the season so far. That man, that one's like a footballing full loco. Jota finished off the game. Liverpool suddenly have so many attacking options again. A midfield built around sober slide that can control games. And just far too much. Once again, put David Moys God bless. I say this is an incredible admirer of David Moys. I love the man, also an Everton fan. Makes me love him. But Jen has never won a Anfield his entire career. I mean, David, no wins in 20, in 20 attempts. You kind of feel like he, the only person who's lost more games at another venue, more than David Moys at Anfield is, well, David Moys at Arsenal. But you kind of feel that it just may, he almost must turn up and be like, okay, get on with the punishment. You think it stopped going there. It just take his assistant and say, you've got this one. No point in me going to this game. God, that's good. Or just not even bother to turn up. Just take the three new loss. Yeah, save the ladder legs. But God bless an agony for him and agony for Michele Antonio. You'd spend the run up, boasting at West Ham will finish above Liverpool. Stick to Conquercaf, Michele. God bless Moys said post game. We did a lot of good things today. But I come here from here saying the same things too often. I'm sick of saying it. God bless on this day, but still on beaten Liverpool look robust and potent. They head to top them next weekend on the back of six straight wins or comps. Liverpool right now, David, you've got to say, they look like cities, true pursuers, right? Yeah, absolutely. And they have improved. We should say they've got better and better. You know, opening day of the season, that one one draw against Chelsea, where Chelsea actually looked like the better team, which is remarkable to think. But Liverpool have just got better and better and better. They seemed a little wobbly. They sort of eaked out a couple of results. That game against Wolves when, you know, Wolves kind of took it to them and Liverpool got a little fortunate. But Liverpool have got better and better and better. They're adjusting to playing a new kind of football, which is terrifying. They're like the Borg. They have adapted. They're coming with something new. And I was blown away by the performance in this game. I actually think this was the performance of the weekend. I thought it was just superb, even better than City. A teen solo hiker is terrorized for days by unknown figures dressed in white. Two cops quit their jobs at a local theater because of encounters with an alleged demon, an isolated forest in Canada where people keep turning up headless. These are just a few of the unbelievable stories you'll hear on the Mr. Ballin podcast on Amazon Music. Each week you'll hear about inexplicable encounters, shocking disappearances, and other strange dark and mysterious stories. And they are all true. Like the case of Hayley Zega, she disappeared on a hiking trail for 51 hours. And when she was found again, she said a friend helped her survive. And this friend of hers exactly matched the physical description of a little girl who had gone missing in that exact spot 23 years earlier and who had never been found. Listen to Mr. Ballin podcast, strange dark and mysterious stories only on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today. You mentioned Chelsea. Let's rip off the bandaid. Oh, Chelsea, Neil Villa won the Premier League's most fiber stop team. That's love of everything, Roch. They hosted Ashton Villa and it is Unai Emery's side that came out on top. Each side created a fair few chances in the first half, but neither could capitalize then. In the 58th minute, Chelsea's 20-year-old Marlowe Gusto was sent off for the most egregious French on French violence since Jean Valjean. I'm not sure it was that bad. When he put his studs into your mate, Lucadigny's ankle, which I thought you were allowed to do, Rodger against Lucadigny. And 15 minutes later, it was the Don of Devon Oliwakins who put one through Robert Sanchez's legs to win it, Rodge Chelsea. Have just five points in six games, not scored a goal since August the 30th. To all the Everton fans, it could be worse. You could be Chelsea fans. Oh my god, I'm going to get that as a tattoo. Oh, Devon, Chelsea. Really, I see them more and more. It's just a trust fund kid of football. Rich and stupid money. Young. Yeah, that never ends well. Does it? They are listing poch into this game in full trust the process mode. This squad of young, raw, high risk, high potential players on insanely long contracts. Transfer window record breaking money. Spunked. Kind schedule. We're going to remind ourselves of this to open up the campaign yet. Just one win all season. And that was against Luton. Five goals all season. These are Everton numbers. First half, modest step forward, muddrick. That ultimate loss boy had his, honestly, the best smartest, most effective half I've seen. But it doesn't seem to matter, David, because you Chelsea, they're the most blunt things in Emily. Well, come and just go back to before kick off, because this is important. This is a really important point that I think all football fans is the kind of nuance that I think you and I can only really provide on many places. You think you want? No, I love, I love Frenchman, a French pronunciation. Potatino wore a double-breasted blue blazer. So we have never, I don't, I'm trying to remember ever seeing a double-breasted jacket in the history of the Premier League. I'm not sure we've ever seen it before. It was a terrible error, Roger. It was just the imbalance. Yeah, the imbalance. You can't, you can't wear, I mean, I'm a big fan of the double-breasted blue blazer, Roger. It is my go-to number one blazer, but I'm not a Premier League manager. I just don't know how his players are expected to react to that when they're already having obvious problems. Unless he was just trying to create chaos on the sidelight. You think the outfit was what was through in the team off? No, but it didn't help. Roger's all I'm saying. You said this before, I think ultimately the ideal outfits are wear for any manager. And I would wear this if I got the nod, and I may be the next man up at Stanford Bridge. It's kind of, it's puzzling you, you and Tarda, like it's kind of a job interview. I think they are, and you've got to obviously have thick skin to resist the ridicule. It's obviously got to unleash the leader who's in just the unpacked versatile, hard-working, hard-wearing, and the balance in proportion everywhere. Especially if you're not German. That's when it really works. A German manager in later holds, and I think would pose some issues, but I think with you, Roger. You think I'm saying lads, I didn't fast on your keyboard. I don't even know what that is. Nothing to see here, carry on. But you're saying that ultimately you knew the game was done just when you saw just the complete one-sidedness that is inherent in the double-breasted design. Very, very. What guy Richie on our show would come on and say a dangerous game? It was a dangerous game. That's exactly what I thought. It was a dangerous game. We might have to call up Guy Richie and get his opinion on it. But it was, yeah, Chelsea were bright. Mudrick was excellent in that first half. Chelsea were bright. Chelsea did lots of things really well. Unfortunately, the telling thing in football is putting the ball in the back of the net. And Chelsea, for a very long time now, and it goes back to before Maurizio Pochettino, have just been appalling at creating more than just chances. And when they make any kind of chances, converting them, they just don't. They play a lot of nice football. But nice football were to everybody involved at Sanford Bridge is not what gets you into the top four in the Premier League. Yeah, I mean, we're going to know here. They played nice football mostly, I think, because villa, but they were deadlocked. They were there for the taking. They'd had to travel back from Europe, from Thursday football. But the game changed with some self-immolation. Gooster received a straight red risky tackle. That's fine. And to that right on Dignier, Chelsea fans, I think many of them see it as winning the ball. But, you know, they did go through the opponent's ankle. I'll give you my opinion. It's a, um, looked a little bit harsh in real time, because Aston Villa had played a bad pass. So, Gusto went for a ball very often. You see Reds come when one player or another, when the ball is misplaced and both players go for the ball. Usually, it's the offensive player who goes in too hard to go and recover it. Malagusto went in for it and did win the ball. But the ball is at the halfway line. It's not in a dangerous part of the ground to make that challenge. Even if you win the ball, you go through. And yes, it wasn't a gree just high up the ankle, anything. But it's enough. And it's within the band, Roger, it's within the zone where you give var a chance to go and make the decision. So just like the handball earlier, you've seen it given. And so you can't really complain about it. I mean, it was followed by Nico Jackson picking up his fifth yellow card. The season already for descent. And, um, potch later said, we need to grow up there. You buy raw green players. You place them in the crucible of pressure. These are the kind of decisions reckless immature decisions that you will see all over the field. This year, this is reaping what you're sowing. But it got to be said, even with 10 men, Chelsea still create the finer chances. Whatever you know, as you said, working out at a ball in the back of the net, nice to see Broha on for the first time since last December. But Emery's Villa, we know they can be so economical. They can be so clinical. They don't need much came to pass. First, pretty much only time I'll be walking to the chance to stretch his legs. You charge at the Chelsea bat line at a shot blocked, pounds upon the rebound themselves, just lashed it in from the sharpest angle. What an agony. Right into the corner. First, Premier League goal at the season for him, Q Villa Fencing, in fact, in the morning to potch a tee now. Potch said post game that we are woefully sure of leaders. Here's the challenge for Chelsea. They are flailing. But this is a problem. You've changed the manager. You've changed the manager now, I think four times. This is not Frank Lampard's music. They've changed the players. This is almost a whole new bloody squad. There's something still deeply challenged at the core of the club right now. We don't know if it's something rotten left by Roman Abramovich as the whole front office has essentially changed and yet to gel over the past year for medical staff all the way to PR team. If it's something that's come in with the new ownership who reportedly come into the changing room post game and have spent money like we have never seen before. They've announced this weekend that they've raised 500 million in new investment from Aries Management. That secured against Stanford Bridge for quote stadium upgrades and team acquisitions, which sounds like raise money, borrow money, spend money and whether there's a plan there we are still yet to see. But what can change David? It's to change this rot that's gripping you. The Chelsea fans are furious about the coal will, the Enzo out of position, the use of chill well and Gallagher. Should we be questioning potch David at this moment or is it something bigger? Look, first off, Chelsea fans will be upset with me if I don't mention two things. One, the goal they conceded was desperately unlucky. Colville defended it really well. We can say that Oli Watkins was sharp and the way that he took the chance but Colville defended it so well. He got the block the initial shot and it just rolled perfectly to Watkins who then played the pull and played it and this was a terrible goal keeping mistake. Put it right through Sanchez's legs. It hits the post and goes in and it was very much against the run of play even with Chelsea with 10 men but it's the kind of luck that you get when you never put the pull and the back of the net. Chelsea's defensive record despite conceding, I think there's only two teams in the league who've conceded less goals. They are still defending very, very well. They're still doing things well and as many people have written, they still are playing pretty good football but they are just not scoring and this is the rot and my big criticism of what's going on at Chelsea is really two fold. One, there is something that has gone between multiple administrations which is the injuries that Chelsea keep on getting. There is something not right in the way that they are and maybe if they're recruiting players who are injured maybe they are just not developing players in the right way but we are seeing more and more Chelsea players go down and stay out for longer and then have recurrences of those problems again and again and again and again and Chelsea's injury list has been too long for too long and the second thing is is I understand their recruitment. I even understand the circumstances that made Todd Burley decide that he needed to do so much recruitment so early. I understand the policy of going after young players and perhaps spending more money for them but putting them on long-term contracts at kind of low salaries. I understand the value of that and I understand the value if that is a building project but they weren't set up to be in a building project. This is not a team to be in a building project when you've spent billions literally of dollars to go and do it. Be in a building project and spend half a billion, 400 million, 500 million but this is a team the fans are not prepared for it, the club's finances are not prepared for it and I'm telling you the investors in Clear Lake Capital are not prepared for the long-term project that it now looks like at Chelsea and I think we're going to see come January where Burley and Clear Lake and everyone involved in this really is because they're going to if they believe in this project they're going to sit tight and they won't sign anybody else. If they're panicked they will sign someone. I don't think Mauricio Patutino's job from everything I hear. I don't think it's in any danger. I don't think they can fire another manager. I think it just puts the spotlight too squarely on the ownership but they have problems. A lot of young players, a lot of good young players but there's no one you feel and as I said to you I watched every goal scored in the Premier League this weekend and I did not see a combination of Chelsea players who could have scored the same goal. Can I just tell you this? I do remain a potch fan. The gent is in the eye of a reputation destroying storm. Yeah he gave an interview. I think to Jacob Steinberg and the Guardian it was he went into the depth of his strategy to keep a to keep a bowl of lemons in his office to absorb negative energy. Did you see this interview? No I did not. It's amazing. He said if we give him time Chelsea will feel the benefit. Give time to the lemons. If you want to have good energy implement all the things you believe I believe in the lemons but at top them they started a work after one and a half two years. They need a long time. They are not magic but more than ever I believe in them. I have yellow ones in my office green ones different types from Spain for Italy. I don't want to lie but there's a big box of lemons. I mean this speech Google it. Find this Dave. I don't know if you've got anything in your life like potch's lemons he went into great detail. He said a lime is not a lemon. It's a brother maybe with a different brother or a different I mean this was this was deep lemon talk. I think it works on many levels through the lemon. I don't know if you've got anything in your life like potch's lemons Dave but that maybe you only hope. Well I have lemons and limes and oranges all sorts of brothers and sisters in my garden in Los Angeles and believe me I do love a bit of citrus. I'm a big citrus fan but I don't depend on them to get results at a bunch of players not good enough to put the ball in the back of the net against Aston Villa or Nottingham Forest at home. So that worries me a little bit. I really love it. I love it. I worry about that. I worry about that. I worry about the man all the more citrus tactics there the future. Sure. Sure. Ditch is more pro scurvy. Let's see how it works against Brighton and the Carabao. Okay. Burnley, Nill, Manchester United one, Erick Tenharg leads his band of not-so-Mary Men to the Shires and gets all three points behind a real moment of quality from the perpetually petulant Portuguese Bruno Fernandez. It was a Cristiano Ronaldo callback Rods Bruno took an absolutely sumptuous Johnny Evans. Yes, that's right, Rods. Johnny Evans played this perfectly weighted Longbowl over the top of Bruno to smash home on the full volley. United then proceeded to shut the game down. It wasn't pretty, especially against the team that was bottom of the lead coming in. The three points is three points is three points. Yeah, I mean, you might have entered this. We've talked about this enough searing freefall. I mean, really as a team's name seemed more ironic because there's nothing united about this club at every level from the ownership problems across the bat line in the midfield in attack, three straight defeats, players agents briefing the press against Erick Tenharg and his withering criticism, Jaden Sanchez, Cold War, devastating injury list. So here's what you know, I do. They unleash 35-year-old, almost Jurassic Johnny Evans, zoomed after a signing in from Leicester. First United starts its March 2015, Leicester Footballer, more a connection between millennia. JJ Watts Burnley always gave not quite the quality to really fight, David, but if you're a United fan and you see them try out Johnny Evans to solve the problems, what are you thinking? I mean, after watching the Chelsea legends, I'd take John Terry and Gary Cahill back tomorrow. So I'll take Zola back in midfield. I'm not going to complain about it at all. I think it's a wonderful idea and what a wonderful player. And for me, you know, in defense of the old guys, lovely to see him come back and do so well. Yeah, I'd say that the first half of the Clarets were the protagonist. And we've got a show of 19-year-old, Connecticut-born, Luca Colleo show, Constan Menis. Jenny's actually eligible to play for the United States of America, as well as Canada, Nigeria, and Italy, currently Italian U-Team. I spoke to someone at Burnley recently and he was like, US soccer should be on a charm offensive for this kid, which I utterly agree with. Aaron Ramsey also has spot plugged the two of them. I mean, cause in May, haven't they hit the post forced a Nana to do something that he hate to do, which is, which is save the football. But at the stroke of half time, you know, it seemed to be just holding on. It was Johnny Bloody Evans. It was always him, Dave. Flowing just, God, that ball, just perfectly backspinning. I knew you'd love that. They're the backspin on that ball. There's a pro big fan spin. Yeah, I mean, and Bruno Fernandez met it. One of the hardest finishes in football, like control, volley, drop in in front of you and then thrashing it the other way, so much that can go wrong. I mean, that ball is meant to end up high and wide. The opposing fans are meant to be like, oh, but instead discipline, body shape, ledded it low into the corner. It was like Rune Van Persi, 2013. That's a neat game. But I mean, I think you're intentionally leaving off Cristiano Ronaldo, who's scored almost exactly the same goal in his final season that Manchester United. It was a, it was, it was a tribute goal. It was a tribute goal in every single way, Rochie. Get him over. I love Rune. I love that. I love that. I love that. It's going to move out your cowards. I mean, get West Brown sign, get Nanny back in, United, your cowards. It was not easy for, I mean, you know, you should have then gone on and run away, but Tron McToman, a Casamero in sipid, bat line always vulnerable. They held on more than, I think, relief ten hug, attempting to channel the fans at the post match talk. He was like, this was a must-win. We knew it. The team spoke on the pitch, great goal, massive, brilliant movement. I mean, this is a Manchester United manager. That's what I thought. Talking about a 1-0 fairly unconvincing win against bloody Burnley, but that's where we are. A runner confidence, winnable games lie ahead, Palace Brentford, Sheffield United, before they face Manchester City, Gulp at the end of October. Burnley for home losses to start the season. That looks tough for them all it is to come, but United, David, far from good. Is it a nevermind the quality first away win of ten hug season, clean sheep for a bat a bat line? Just take what you can get, save it the small victories. Yeah, and look, I think Burnley, despite their league position, I think they, you know, tats off to everybody involved up there. They have really changed the culture of that team and the way that they play after dropping down to the championship under Vincent Company. I think that's, they love the football they're playing. And winning away from home in the Premier League is hard. And I don't think this was much of a performance. I don't think the performance is going to give many United fans anything to write home about. But, you know, a 1-0 win is a 1-0 win. And these are good results. And I think Manchester United ten hug deserves some credit. Incredible quickly to watch last night during the Tampa Bay book in the years game. An anti glazes banner, school aircraft, flown overhead. Manchester United fans from Pittsburgh, Atlanta and Tampa apparently came together to protest the Manchester United owners at the home of their NFL team. David, is that the day America became a normal football nation? Yeah, I love it. I absolutely love it. Good work. More small planes. Yeah, we love it. We love small planes. We're really big. How good football is for the small plane barrier pulling industry. I don't know at the end of the day, which is bigger, the Premier League industry or the small plane industry pulling protest banners. We do not know. I think we're about to find out. It's confusing. Okay, this is going to be a long one, Rod Sheffield United, Neil Newcastle 8. The stop stop he's already dead meets that escalated quickly memes in a game during which Newcastle beat the blades to death. The same way the internet does each of those pieces of content goals from eight different Newcastle players. None of whom will mention other than Anthony Gordon, just for your benefit, Rodge, a scoreline big enough to send Paul Hekingbottom's chip buddies to the Premier League Basement on gold difference. In a week in which Mahamma bin Salman did an interview of Fox News, which he grimly and explicitly announced he would continue to sports washes, nations, global reputation, Newcastle proceeded to descend upon Sheffield and treat the blades as teams used to treat Newcastle before they received that Saudi bullion, a record breaking win for Newcastle, and annihilation really biggest ever away win, biggest win of any kind in 24 years. King the first team of Premier League history to have eight different players. It's going to be a struggle game. Just incredible Sheffield United. We've got to say, utterly, utterly abysmal, but goalkeeper, Foddering Yermu without him, honestly, you can say it's shocking a nil and it could have been so much worse, really killed over and surrendered. But for the blade, one point from the first five games back in the Premier League, club briefing manager Paul Hekingbottom is safe for now, but so many players outrun, out for outhustled, which is really unforgivable. The booze resounded around Bramolane. It pains me to report this, but Anthony Gordon, that ginger turn coat bastard, came on inside 12 minutes, changed the game. Newcastle fans have given him a chance at which they call him star boy, that ginger bastard, David. He is thriving, his decision-making. It just seems more insensitive, more confident. He's very good at football. Maybe he just loves Piff. Rod, it's just possible he loves Piff. It's not so much a turn coat. It wasn't what he turned away from. It's what he turned towards, and he just loves Piff. Some players are motivated by money, others by the pursuit of glory. He just really likes human rights abuses. Yeah, he enjoys Piff and anything else that Piff stands for may it or may it not be human rights abuses? Who knows what Piff are involved in? The two fans loved whatever it was. They ate nil. They were still chanting attack, attack, attack, a record-breaking demolition. So complete, the cameras caught a Sheffield fan. I love this one. Yeah, I loved it. What do you think? What do you think? She was reading, David. She was just sitting there. If you didn't see 75 minutes, went to cheer a team on. They're getting absolutely annihilated. She's just sitting there pulling out a book, reading. Why waste a minute? Why not read at the football match? What do you think she was reading? No idea what she was reading. Perhaps poetry, Rod, because as you know, poetry, it's when you're down, nothing gets you down further, and at the same time allows you to escape more than poetry. I'd love that. If she was reading a compendium of First World War poetry, gas, gas, quick boys, an ecstasy of fumbling. God, I would love it. Jeff O.P. Will 622 suggested it was probably a book entitled How to Become a Football Manager. But bloody, our white difference of we-makes. I am old enough. I don't know if you know how they look to remember when some Newcastle fans were critiquing Eddie how beginning to wonder if he was not long for this world. But now to paraphrase, they're loving big how instead. Yeah, it does occur to me though, Rod. If we did implement my proposed Premier League rule change by the end of this game, Newcastle would have been down to seven men. It would have been 11 versus seven, and that would have been a pretty great end to the football. I'm just saying try it. Try it, perhaps, during a ConquerCalf Champions League game or something like that or a ConquerCalf volatile qualifier. We'll see how it goes when, you know, Kitson Nevis plays against Barbuda. You're welcome. Okay, Brighton 3, Bournemouth 1, the bottom of Britain, top of the alphabet. Derby sees Roberto Deserby. See Gulls win their fifth game in six, but it was the cherries who took the lead in the 25th minute when Gulls Goldkeeper bought their Bruganid, his pants, and turned over possession, allowing Domsa Lanky. God, what a player. I can't believe we let him go to Pounce and finish emphatically. But right before half five. Yeah, it's not the kind of football we want to play around there. You go. Yeah, clearly, clearly, Roger, because before half time, it was another one of our former players, Billy Gilmore. Billy Gilmore, Roger, remember him. He's all grown up, all grown up, all grown up. And he put one into the corridor of uncertainty for Bournemouth's Milos Kirkez to head into his own net, and then just 15 seconds after coming in as a sub. Japanese Seagull, Karu Motoma, Roger, what a player. Latched onto some Anzu fatty inspired South Coast tiki taka to put Brighton ahead. Motoma added a third with a snackable header. And just like that, the Seagulls sit third in the league, Roger, third in the league. Yeah, and this we mark the one year anniversary of Roberto Deserbie announcing himself as one of the great Premier League characters. Entered this one again with the six changes trying to keep pace with European competitions to front battle is bright and really a living example of modern coaching, that it's the system, not the players, but Brighton here labored, Errol is Bournemouth, wouldn't high press. That's what Brighton need to gel. And there was an incredible moment at which the Brighton goalkeeper, Verbruggen, walked the ball, slowly up the field for over 30 exhausting long seconds, daring his opponents to press to open up space, which they declined. He didn't know what to do. You could just see just the shock on his face. And then Bournemouth had the temeracy to open up the scoring. Deserbie unleashed Motoma at a half time for instant impact. I mean, it was the player, not the system scored within 15 seconds. Also got a second sister by Andrew Fattie who came on. We're not used to playing so many games, Deserbie said, but third place for Brighton. Brutal runner games ahead for the Seagulls. It's got to be said, Aston Villa, Liverpool, Manchester City next week. What are you making them? Should we talk about them more after this month, Davey, than we are currently? Yeah, I still think they're playing beautiful football. And somehow, Roger, they're doing all of it without Moises Calseido, which is amazing. They manage to just lose players. And it doesn't affect them at all. And then you realise their players go and you think, maybe the individual players weren't that good. Maybe it's the system. Maybe it's the manager. Maybe it's the tactics. But it's just remarkable what they do on the South Coast. And you look at a player like Motoma and you just cannot believe that they found him and nobody else did what a Premier League footballer, Roger, what class, what he can do at all. He can do everything every week. He amazes you with another move this week. It was that header of glory. It was just perfect. It was so satisfying to watch. It's hard to put into words. Why it was so satisfying, but it was the glancing. It was the finish. It was the run onto it. Everything was as good as that goalkeeper who scored one in Europe a few weeks ago. It just was beautiful, beautiful, satisfying. Both of our teams, look, should look at Brian with all, just not just the tactical brilliance of deserving, but just the way they are run with vision, the scouting, the recruitment, the data analysis, top to bottom, the football world is alignment. I say that with amazement. At Bournemouth, we do need to say yet to win this season, force them bottom three points, but their style of play, honestly, their record and their style of play seem two different things. They have had a tough set of fixtures to open up with. We film with American owner Bill Foley, he has Las Vegas golden nights down the cut-winning fame. I'm really fascinated by his approach, his data-driven approach to ownership. It's lovely to see my mate Tyler Adams joining first team training again. The Bournemouth manager are all that says Tyler could play, quote, in the next week or two, which I of course translate to mean he will most death, score the winner. When Bournemouth face Everton, on October the 7th, Godspeed Tyler. Yeah, just a quick shout for your podcast, watch with Bournemouth owner and Las Vegas golden nights owner Bill Foley, who rose from the ranks of the US Air Force to own an English Premier League club. Notes are producer J.W. Why is your dad not done the same thing? Definitely, it doesn't even own it, switch town. Definitely an insight into leadership, data, infootball and the signing of your mate Tyler Adams, as he just mentioned. That pod dropped yesterday, go and search it out. Okay, moving on, Luton 1, Wolves 1. That elusive September, relegation six point of Wolves were reduced to 10 men after Jean-Rick Nebelgarde was sent off, not just for sounding too French, but also for his tackle on Tom Lockier. Despite being down a man, it was Wolves who ripped out to a 1-0 lead when Aqua-clad Petronetto drove into the heart of the Hattest Defence and put an absolute moonshot. Past Luton's Belgian number 1, Thomas Kaminsky, Luton leveled it up via a controversial second half, Colton Morris penalty. It's Luton's first ever Premier League point and somehow roged. There are two teams below them in the table. Yeah, that penalty, another one. I mean, the ball bounce off, Goewezz is four, hit is outstretched arm, judges to be in extreme position, penalty given and converted harsh. Luton, can we just say a quick thing? I love that fortress, Kenny Netto, that thunderbolt finish. You're getting unleashed about seven celebrations. You've got to watch this on one goal. He did the chicken walk, the cup tan to ear, the shushing of the home fans, the point into the back of the shirt. It was just like, I may not score again. I'm going to unleash the entire greatest hits album. Somewhere a bunch of wall spans, they're like playing bingo with it, Roger. They're like, they're like checking off boxes as he pulls them all off. Sure, you have a first point for Luton. Got a feel though. Ultimately, that will burn away midway and they'll realize, bloodly out, we've got a Gleen all three against these kind of teams, especially when they're down to 10 men. They will surely, they'll get their first winner, the season, Luton. This upcoming Saturday, when a trip to that footballing maker-wish charity, aka Everton Football Club awaits them. Okay, Roger Crystal Palace, and they'll fill a mill not a lot to talk about, and this one, Roger, and I was actually there. Fulham actually looked like the better side for most of the game, but were never able to find a goal. A lot of talk about Ltrees, Raul Jimenez, who was still yet to find the back of the net since joining the cottages over the summer from Walls. Both teams on eight points through six games and comfortable mid-table. Yeah, I mean, it is mid-table. It was like two teams cut from just safe, moderate, unoffensive mid-table cloth resting against it. This is honestly the earliest I've ever seen a end of season dead rubber day, though. Lovely to see Roy Hodgson back. Lovely also to see Crystal Palace unleash a new young talent. One of the Chelsea Academy, actually, the Jesher and Rack Sakai, who's going to be their next raker up. But apart from that, David, Palace now faces a Manchester United twice, I think midweek in the league cup, and then next weekend that old Trafford, but a bit of a snooze you're out there livin' in person. Yeah, well, it was wonderful. My best mate, Ben Ramney, was with the Fulham away fans sitting opposite me, and the Fulham fans sang their heart out at this one, Roger, and back their team, and they do play attractive football, Fulham. The best player on the field, I have to say, was William, and by the way, he would still be the best player if he played for Chelsea. Still, a player who can just play glorious football, he can find a pass, he can beat a man, he can wiggle his hips, and leave someone on the floor wonderful to watch him play. So, well, Palace, a lot of injuries, so they have so few offensive opportunities, and that's what owner Steve Parrish was just bemoaning after the game, is how few offensive players they have, but the belletic beauty of watching Everett GSA in person, just the way he takes the ball, the way he moves, just everything about it, he takes your breath away, the Uzenars from the home fans, and by the way, half of the top, half of the Fulham directors who are sitting next to me every time, as they just made another move on the ball. Beautiful to watch. Even Neil Nils, Roger, can be beautiful when you watch football live in in person, it's so hard spot. And so can three ones. Here it is, Rod, the moment you have been not so patiently waiting for all podcasts, the big one, Brentford B's one, your Everton three, your mob headed down, SAF, they delivered scouts justice to those pesky B's, goals from Duky, TARC, and DCL, a trio that sounds like some kind of 18 remake. They do that, that's actually a really good idea. They do the job here, and give Everton its first win of the season, I'm happy if you Roger. Genuinely, I take one goal at this point, and you've got three. Okay, I would have bitten your arm off at half time, for a point on this. I'd like to imagine Sean Ditch rolled into this one and said to the boys before taking a field at Brentford, that are fighting for clicks, we're fighting for wins as a difference. Let me take you back before kickoff, just blues, imploding. One big boy point muddled somehow from five games, three wins in their last 38 on the road. Think about that for a minute, there's almost two seasons of watching Everton, and I've only had 270 minutes of joy away. That is a lot, a lot of darkness. We played Brentford 11 times at their gaff one just once, this was a mental challenge, as much as a footballing one, just a spiral of self doubt. I mean, the sad news, I was, we couldn't even let Brentford play on low, Neil Moe pay against this, because he's on low, which is probably, I thought, going into it, I only hope we're getting a point out the game. So imagine my shock, six minutes in, recycle corner, garner, dispatch back to the big lads, talk, set up the Kure in space, just an arch of a finish. Just let it all out, I ruled. I mean, this was David, this was just our third goal all season, but the question was, and I'm asking you, because you're the official officer. I mean, obviously, did we just score too early? Clearly not, you know, away, I don't believe it, away from home, for against a team who are also, you know, inconsistent, I'd say, you know, Brentford, one week they look like World Beaters the next week, they don't look so good, and they've been a little frail at home, they've had a couple of disappointing results, but it was just the power that Everton brought into this game and showed, you know, Decorare we've talked about all season, there's been Everton's best player, but Tarkowski, a player, you know, who Sean Dyke smilted out of copper at Burnley, what a performance, you know, from him, and they great and won that header, and you know, I've always joked a little bit about Everton, how the Everton fans cheer corner kicks like other teams cheer goals, but in now Everton, they've become so dangerous from corner kicks, this one was recycled, but wow. It's so funny. It's so funny. I wrote down in my notes that US soccer, the men's team should watch Everton on these corners because we are so bad at the United States men, the Everton show you that how crucially set pieces bloody are, GFOP, by the way, at Kate Shadler tweeted on whether we'd scored too early, Everton could score on the last kick of the game, and it would somehow still be too early. God bless Decorare, more chances came James Garner, so strong in the heart of on midfield, Sean McNeil, Rolde one wide, Mika Lenco, slap one against a relief keeper, Duky thrash one against the bar, and of course, while it was still strumming, that bar still bouncing up and down, Everton fans know, it's always darkest, just before it goes pitch black, within seconds of whacking the bar, Brentford's first comprehensive attack, nor God, cleverly found Yenson, he smacked it straight to an oddly week-rested pickford, hello death, I've been expecting you, and as you say at half time, if you'd wandered in and offered me a point, I would have been your bloody arm off. There was a study last week that said that 95% of NFT collections are worthless, but I'm going to go to my grave, believe in those 95% are actually still worth more than Everton football club, but not on this day, not on this day, QTARC, who left Brentford, forcing himself to burn like, been booed of every touch, he rose up to not home, from a corner, first goal since the one that did Arsenal in last year, ran away, shushing the crowd, who wants to sex, Taukowski, and then the final goal, David BCL, running onto a stunning place. Did you know James Garner's middle name was in the Esther, by the way? Yeah, this pass was something else, I've watched this back a few times, I had to just keep on checking, who made the pass, who made the pass, who is this new Spanish player playing for Everton? It's not, it's James Garner, what an amazing ball, and a great finish. I mean, DCL doesn't finish from that far out, Rod, it just needs to, he needs to be like, within the lines, Rod. David, the only, the Everton of Change since 777, a bit of old in the, at Dujo, Dujo 2 tweeted, people are asking, are 777 partners, the best American based owners in the Premier League? Well, maybe, yeah, I mean, what else do we have to believe in? But God, David, how joyous must that have been for DCL? First goal for him since May, an agony of doubters and self-doubt. But man, to, to have Beto tire out opponents and then have DCL come on, so good looking. I loved what he said, David, he said post-game, he said, football is a funnial game, bit of a cliché there, DCL. Football is a funnial game, when I came off against Aston Villa, my own fans booed me off, today they cheered me, I'll relish this, I'll take the rest with a pinch of salt, just beautiful happiness that. Yeah, but also giving it to the people who booed him, which I also love. Yeah, wonderful, congratulations, beautiful result, beautiful goals, three goals in one game for Everton, Rod, away from home. We use too much of our, well, that's our whole ration of goals for the whole season, but I'll take it, I felt so joyous, DCL fresh, scoring again, Jack Harrison still to come back, and I know we're going to get smashed by Loot next weekend, and I know we'll be right back down to worth with a bum, I know we're saying, what are we say to death, not today, well, maybe today, but come back in a little bit please, we've got a bit of life, bit of fight, that's all we want as Everton fans, leaping out of the relegation zone, we're very fine with 16th place, so high, nosebleeds baby, I'm not sure it's possible, this doesn't make us a serious question, this season with so many crap teams in the league, is it so possible to be relegated with four points, or are we safe now? I don't know, this could be, you know, this is remarkable, I think there could be a team that ends up with less points than Everton have now, but I think it's unlikely, Rod, I think it's unlikely, I think you're going to need to win and draw a few more games before you can breed that cyberweight. Even I've got to take my mission accomplished flag out of the yeah, absolutely. At Binky Marsh 29, did someone at the Men and Blazers monastery commit themselves to the practice of flagellation for this Everton win, Binky, all the welcome at the Men and Blazers football monastery, we practice only love, imbarbering of beverages, self-flagellation, body mortification and fire walking, all the welcome. Yeah, I watched that great countryside show that airs on Sunday afternoons in Britain, Rod, I spent two hours watching all about beekeeping, so I'm ready, I'm ready for the Men and Blazers football monastery, Rod, to take up my beekeeping and mead making duties. We've had a lot of emails from people talking about that they are beekeepers and what are tutorous in the ways of beekeeping, which I would bloody welcome, it's the mead work that we need help with David, we're a bit bereft on the mead front. Yeah, maybe the spirituality as well, Rod, we might need some help with, but I think the monastery is still right up there in terms of Men and Blazers ideas, although I worry about it because we've now spoken about it enough just as we did about the newscast which you launched and so the monastery could be just behind. Well, you think I'm just product placing something that I fully intend to do. Yeah, when we launch a podcast that will be an hour of silence, Rod, then I'll know where we're on the way. We're just not shaving my hair a bit different than you'll know. Well, actually, you won't be able to tell the difference, Rod, we've already got the monk haircuts. We don't have to do any work there. Okay, before we go, a quick reminder about everything that we've got happening at Men and Blazers this week, powered by Budly, easy to drink, easy to enjoy. Please subscribe to Early Kick Off. Remember, it's not on this pod feed to go and search Men and Blazers Early Kick Off and smash that subscribe button. And a special mention for tomorrow's Do It Live, which goes down at 610 PM Eastern time. Yes, that's right. 610 PM Eastern time. We have so many podcasts that we have to do them at different minutes past each hour every day because you will be joined direct from Milan by none other than Fabrizio Romano. Fresh, but just. I'm serious. Come and ask your questions for Fab live on the pod. All you have to do is download the AMP app to get involved. The link is all over our socials, Rod. Can we get a final twist to bring us home? I want to close by raising a shot of Yege Maista. This bolt of human emotion in the shot glass to one of the most heartwarming videos of fandom. I've seen it a long, long time. We dropped it on our Twitter, our Instagram over the weekend and went everywhere. So I know it touched a deep, passionate nerve of fandom around the world. Video, if you've not seen it, it's a young fan of Turkish Club San Sonspoor. Kitty stands on a curve to wave to his heroes on the team bus as it passes by every single week tiny kid. Can't be one like six or seven. He wears enormous goalkeeping gloves as he waves. After a week or two, bus driver comes to expect him as he blows, passing blows the horn, which makes the kids squeal. And eventually, at the fifth or sixth time, the bus is in heavy traffic, but it pulls over, just makes a surprise stop. And the coach and the actual goalkeeper jump off the bus, hug the kid, presenting with a match ball, just the goalkeepers union. It is stunning to witness power of fandom and it's purest most naive sense. A club being aware of the connections. It's going to kill me, by the way, when I find out that behind the scenes of this, the whole thing was fixed and made up. But the squeal of the kid, when that bus stops, you cannot manufacture that happiness. It is a thing of beauty single-handedly just heals the immense damage salt base done to Turkish football. Okay, Rod, you can follow us on Twitter at many Blazers at MC Davis at Rods Bennett. Are we not calling it X yet? Instagram at many Blazers at MC Davis on Facebook, many Blazers on Twitch, Twitch.tv, forward slash many Blazers. Also, our TikTok look for it at many Blazers and you can always email us at many Blazers at gmail.com. We love and cherish getting your emails, including your feedback as we spoke about earlier. Okay, Fenderpunkt, Rods. War pig. Was that a reboner? I like snacks. Bought to win. Bought to win. Take that, Gloria. Bought to lose. To tweed. Abrogada, rock on make, kung fu fine, America, love your David. Love your roach. A whole little town. 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