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You're listening to the Footglitch Podcast. Love football, learn English.

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How is Tottenham's season going so far and how did they do against West Ham?

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What's Tottenham's identity under Ange Postekoglu like?

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What was the one occasion when Spurs fans clashed with Ange?

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And what does the phrase, we need more legs in the midfield mean?

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Welcome back to the Footglitch Podcast everyone.

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My name is Denik Lukas. I'm your host.

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And the Footglitch Podcast is a podcast which is all about football,

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the Premier League, Czech football, and of course, learning English.

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And as always, there is a great guest and today it's none other than my friend David aka Jenks.

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Welcome back. How are you doing, man?

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Thank you. I'm good, mate. Thanks for having me.

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You're always welcome. And this is actually not your first time here.

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It's your second appearance on this podcast. Remember the first one?

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Second or third, no.

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I think it's the second one. I think so, yeah.

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There's one about Gardening.

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Ah, no, that was a different podcast. The one about Gardening.

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There's one about the World Cup or the Euros, yeah.

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Exactly. We talked about England, I think, or something like that, right?

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Yeah, that's true.

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But today I'm going to talk to you about one team which I'm not so fond of.

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I'll have to... It's a disclaimer as an Arsenal fan.

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Spotsanam is not exactly something I would like to talk about much,

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but to be honest, you're my friend, so it's fine. It's fine.

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Well, you can't be perfect, is that not?

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Yeah, you can't be perfect. You're right.

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And I also remember I've got a bit of a trauma.

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The last time I talked to you about Spotsanam,

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because we actually went to a pub, remember?

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We did, but you won that game. Arsenal won that game, didn't they?

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Oh, yeah, we did, but it was traumatic because in the first half it was 3-0.

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Yeah.

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And then we changed the pub.

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Suddenly you started scoring goals and you got very cocky there in the pub.

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Very close, right?

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I was like this small, you know?

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I thought we might draw it in the end or something.

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We almost did, yeah.

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It almost happened.

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But this is a new season, of course, so how do you see it so far?

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I think pretty optimistic, to be honest.

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I think it's still early, it's the second season.

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Not many managers at Tottenham last that long even.

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But the thing with Andrzej that I say to United fans and other fans is

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you can see what he's trying to do.

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You can see what tactics he's trying to employ,

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whether you agree with them or whether you don't.

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It's very gung-ho, but you can just see the patterns of play.

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Even the warm-ups, it's very open what he's trying to do.

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It's fun.

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I'm not one of these fans that I feel like we need to win every week.

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I definitely didn't challenge for the title until his fourth or fifth season.

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I think gear-range time, most of the players are young.

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I expect if we do try to get it to be in two or three years' time now

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rather than now.

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I think it's good, it's fun at the moment.

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I can imagine.

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Let's see where it goes.

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Fair enough.

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I'm not really a Spurs fan right now because it's interesting.

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You're right, Anc post-ekuglu, he has got a clear identity.

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He wants to play attacking football, offensive football.

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A lot of managers play the opponent, right?

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But you instead execute your own plan, your own identity,

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your own way of playing.

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This is something you have to respect, even as an Arsenal fan.

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I respect that.

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I think Arteta isn't like that.

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We have our own identity.

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We have an identity, but when we play Man City, we park the bus.

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It's more pragmatic, but yours is like Gang Ho.

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They asked Anc post-ekuglu in a press conference about this.

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He said something along the lines of, how do you think, mate,

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that I got this far?

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I'm someone from Australia.

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He had to create a name for himself in this way.

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He's true to himself, he's true to his ideas.

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That's what makes him a great manager.

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I think it's also like a great marketing.

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How to say this?

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He's a very good speaker, isn't he?

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Persona, he's got a great persona in the media.

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Interestingly, he's not the most personable guy in terms of small talk

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or one-on-ones, but he's very good at press conferences.

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They're quite interesting to watch.

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He's got good sound bites.

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I think people can relate to him because I think he's just himself.

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He's just like a grumpy old man who's enjoying being a manager

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at a football club in the Premier League.

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People like that.

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He's very authentic.

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He's as it is.

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He doesn't hold back.

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or they are trying to pretend to be someone they are not.

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What's the word I'm looking for?

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Oh, my God.

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When you are pretending to be someone else.

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Imposter, imposter.

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He's not that.

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He's not like that.

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was before the Man City match last year with two games to go

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where I would say 95% of Spurs fans wanted to lose to Man City.

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People say it was 50-50 because if we drew,

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then Arsenal would have the chance in the title.

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It wasn't 50-50.

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All of us wanted us to lose.

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I don't know one Spurs fan that wanted us to win that game

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It didn't matter to you.

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It didn't matter to us.

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It didn't matter to you how this game ended.

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But he didn't like it.

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He hated it.

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He didn't understand this mentality or this approach.

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I kind of agree with him as well.

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I can see where he's coming from.

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That's the only time where I thought,

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well, maybe just let back off a little bit.

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But to be fair to him, we didn't.

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And both sides have got over it.

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It's fine.

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I totally understand where you are coming from

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because I think it would be the same for an Arsenal fan.

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Of course it would be the same.

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It would be the same.

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Him coming from Australia, right?

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He didn't get the rivalry, I think.

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But I mean, rivalry is everywhere.

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There was a small chance we could have got Champions League still.

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But he'd been downplaying the importance of that

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for the last 10 weeks before that.

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I don't think it's that important.

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I only want it if we deserve it kind of thing.

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But anyway, I'm getting off topic.

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In general, we're big fans of Anjan.

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But this is an interesting topic.

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I think it has two sides of coin, basically.

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He is right as well, right?

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Because you shouldn't have a losing mentality.

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You shouldn't want to play a game where you want to lose.

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It just makes no sense.

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It makes no sense.

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You don't play football to lose.

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But at the same time, the rivalry is so strong

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that it would be so embarrassing for the fans.

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It would be just such an embarrassing story.

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That it was Tottenham who actually helped Arsenal to win the title.

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It's just something you wouldn't be able to get over.

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And you wouldn't forgive him.

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Especially in this day and age of the meme culture.

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I'm not on Twitter or Instagram or any of that.

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But I can imagine the memes that would have followed.

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This is what sometimes the world is about.

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It's not black and white.

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It has a lot of...

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Grey areas, middle grounds.

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So it's important to understand both sides.

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And he did retreat a bit.

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He did retreat a bit.

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After he said, I don't agree with you.

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But let's agree to disagree.

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Well, I think that's fair.

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And Cenk, we are here to talk about the Tottenham-West Ham game.

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Which I also watch.

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Because as you know, I have a soft spot for West Ham.

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It's kind of my second team.

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Yeah, with Sufala and Cenk.

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So Cenk Toval doesn't play anymore.

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Unfortunately, his contract is running out.

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I think he's going to be out soon.

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But the point is, because of those two players, I'm a sympathiser of this club.

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But you won 4-1.

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So pretty convincing victory for you.

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Even though you were 1-0 down in the first half through Mohamed Koudous.

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So what did you think at that point when you conceded that goal?

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Were you confident that you would turn it around?

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Yeah, I was.

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Because that was still very early on.

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I think there was a lot of football to be played.

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West Ham, even though in the first half they did low blocking counter, they're not...

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They're not a defensive team like they were under David Moyes.

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They want to sit back.

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I don't think they're able to do it the whole game because I'm not sure Lopetegui can coach that.

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I think people get a little bit confused about why doesn't Mourinho be really attacking?

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It's because he can't.

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In my opinion, I don't think he knows how to coach that style of football.

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I don't think David Moyes knows how to coach that style of football.

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Otherwise, they would have, surely.

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And I think Lopetegui knows how to coach possession football.

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And that's what Pep knows how to coach.

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So I think while they did low block first half and did well for most of it,

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I always thought we'd come back in and score a few goals.

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That's right.

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They didn't look that comfortable later on.

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There was a spell in the second half.

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First of all, you equalised.

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I think it was Kulasevski's goal.

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Kulasevski hit the post.

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Very good at the moment.

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The ball hit the post and then off the other post as well.

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So he was one of those.

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What would you say?

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Biliard goals.

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Ricochet, yeah.

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So that was a cool goal.

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And then in the second half, there was a spell where you scored three goals within the span of eight minutes.

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Yeah, well, they made an interesting change at half time.

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So what I think Pascoglu is the most attacking coach in the league is because I think he gives the other team a chance.

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I think you always have a chance to counter, which I like.

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I think it makes for a better football match.

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Whereas I would actually go as far as to say I think Pep Guardiola is probably one of the most boring managers in the league,

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purely because he wants his team to keep the ball, stifle the opposition.

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And if they do count, he goes for tactical fouls.

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I don't know if you watched them.

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I watched the last 10 minutes of the game against Wolves on Sunday.

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I watched about half an hour.

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And the amount of times the goal gets to Jack Greenish, he does one or two stepovers and he just passes it back.

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It goes out to the other side, Bernardo Silva does one or two stepovers.

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It gets passed back.

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It's a bit English, but at some point you want to have some action where you put the ball in or something.

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But he's doing it as a defensive thing.

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So they don't give it away and they don't use it on transition.

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I would say it's kind of like a pragmatic safety first approach.

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It is. It is. It's not attractive at all.

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While it's dominating football as well at the same time.

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They keep position at all times.

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But it's a defensive thing.

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It is kind of both. It's like attacking and attacking.

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So in the second half anyway, Potsdamer bought off Madison at half time and bought on Saar.

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He said he needed more legs in midfield.

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Basically because Kudos, Pakatah and Bowen.

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Hang on. More legs? How many legs does Saar have?

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Is he an alien or an octopus?

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It's an English podcast.

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That's fine for your listeners. More legs means the ability to move around faster with more stamina.

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So Madison is a technical player for your listeners and Saar is more of an athletic player.

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And it was because Kudos and Pakatah were getting the ball on the break.

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So even though it seemed like a defensive change, it actually stopped them breaking and it meant we could press much higher.

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And then all those goals came in like however many minutes you said.

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And from that moment on, Wesham had no leg to stand on.

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Yes. Well, and especially Kudos who decided to take out about three players at the end of the game.

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Kudos was on his last legs.

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What happened with Kudos? That was crazy. Did you see that?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. He went berserk.

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He could have a long ban, I think. Yeah.

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He kicked around the men twice, kind of slapped some men for some reason, hit Saar as well.

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Yeah, definitely. It was a definite red for me.

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And he's frustrated. There were some stories about him.

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Basically, the managers, there was like two games ago, the manager subbed him off and he's like considered one of the superstars of the team.

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And he was brought off in half time because apparently the story was that he doesn't pass the ball.

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He's too selfish. Yeah, he's a juggler, isn't he?

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He is, but a bit too much. And the manager saw that, the players probably complained about him, Bowen, and Bowen is the captain.

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So there was some sort of bust up in the dressing room with him.

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And the funniest thing is like, how did it even come out?

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Somebody must have leaked this information. It doesn't help anyone when this happens, right?

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So there is a bit of that. And now he scored the first goal.

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I think he thinks that basically his teammates are not at his level sometimes.

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That's not right. I disagree with him. I think Pacqueta and Bowen are, I could get in most teams in the Premier League.

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Pacqueta not anymore. He's just completely out of form because...

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Is that because of the batting thing?

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The batting thing and it's getting more serious now because there are more sort of accusations.

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A year or two ago, I think he could have got... well, City wanted him, didn't they?

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This season he hasn't shown anything.

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So maybe he should be dropped.

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Always ham fans want him dropped.

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But the manager keeps playing him. And now because Kuduz did this, he will be out for three games.

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So maybe Pacqueta still has to play, but he's completely out of it at the moment.

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And the new striker hasn't... he's injured, isn't he?

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He's injured. He's got an Achilles heel problem. And that's also a bit enigmatic. It's kind of mysterious.

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So it's still Antonio.

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And to be fair to Antonio, he doesn't get much luck with Van der Ven there running into the channels.

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Yeah, yeah. Van der Ven was playing really well, I have to say.

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He's a bit of a cheat code.

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He's a cheat code, yeah, exactly.

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On the back.

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A little bit of a cheat as well. Like when Kuduz punched him in the face, I mean, the way he sort of...

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Yeah, you know, he started screaming.

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But do you know why he did that? It's because Kuduz has kicked him twice on the floor.

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I don't like players going down, but Kuduz has had two kicks hoping the ref hasn't seen him in his ribs.

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So I think he's just like...

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No, I completely agree with the ref.

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I think he wants him off at that point.

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I'm just saying, I don't like when players have to be this theatrical. That's all.

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I mean, like the opposite was Saar, who like Saar had a much bigger hit, didn't he?

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He just kind of like walked off as if nothing had happened.

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That's why...

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That was funny.

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And then Richarlison had nothing and goes down the worst.

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Oh yeah, Richarlison.

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That was funny.

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And I want to ask you about Solanke as well. So he is in my fantasy team Jenks, but unfortunately he hasn't really been

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firing on all cylinders yet.

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He's got a few goals, hasn't he?

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Solanke is the perfect striker for Ander's system.

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And I think it was such a clever buy because it's a buy you probably wouldn't normally make it spurs

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because he's probably about, for his ability, he's probably about 10, 15, 20 million too expensive for what he is.

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But Ander's mantra is all about pressing the ball high up.

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And Solanke, I think, is the best I've seen out of it personally.

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And I just think it makes a huge difference because you can attack in possession, but you can also attack out of possession

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with your high press and is so, so good at that.

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And I don't think it'll be like Harry Kane levels in terms of goals, but I think I'd be surprised if he doesn't get over.

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I think he'll be between 15 and 20 in the Premier League season.

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But I'm glad that they backed Ander because when Pochettino first came in, we had Larisse as goalkeeper.

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And Larisse was a world class goalkeeper at that point.

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But Larisse has never been able to play the ball out with his feet.

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And I was calling for them to make a really hard decision then to say, let Larisse leave.

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He'll go to Paris, Saint-Germain or Rennes-Roujet or whatever.

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But you have to get a person who can play the ball with his feet because that's what Pochettino wanted to do.

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And they didn't. And we never quite fixed that.

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And look how close we got to the league twice and then the Champions League as well.

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And I actually think if we had a keeper, although Larisse was world class, who could play with his feet like an Alisson or an Edison,

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we would have got over the line.

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And I think backing Ander with Salanque, who can press like Ander needs, I think it is...

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Even you look at Johnson now, Johnson is not really like a...

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He's not a dazzling player. He's not like a sexy player.

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He's doing well right now.

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He does what Ander wants. He gets some of the back posts for those Ander cutbacks.

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So I think you do have to have a little bit of trust.

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He is a threat, Johnson. He's playing really well.

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A huge threat. But he's not...

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You wouldn't call him like a world class player. He's not a good dribbler.

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He's just great at off the ball running.

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He's a neat finisher and he's quick. And that's what Ander wants from that wide player.

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And his style suits him. It's kind of a little bit similar to what Klopp did at Liverpool in a way, right?

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This sort of heavy metal football.

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Yeah, it is a bit similar.

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I have to say one thing. Even though I'm not Spurs' biggest fan, watching a Spurs game is fun.

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One way or another.

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There's usually a lot of goals in it.

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And that's why we watch football.

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So I'll definitely give your team that. That's for sure.

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I just hope Neyvi stays with him.

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Because the thing is, if we have a couple of bad results, I think we're only two points above West Ham before that game.

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We do drop a lot of points.

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I will show you the table. So basically you are in the...

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Where are you? In the seventh place.

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In the eighth or seventh?

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You're seventh, right?

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So what's the points?

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You're on 13 points right now.

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From how many games?

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From eight games.

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So Liverpool have 21 though.

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It's a lot. It's eight points. You're eight points behind Liverpool.

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And four points behind Arsenal.

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So you can still...

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You're kind of in the mix.

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You're definitely in the mix for the top four finish. That's for sure.

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But the title race, I mean, I'm not sure. It's a bit far.

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I don't think this season.

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But I think that is quite open this season.

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I don't think there'll be as many points needed to win the title as previous seasons.

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I see weaknesses in both Arsenal and City.

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Yeah, that's for sure.

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This season.

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It might be Liverpool actually this season. That would be hilarious.

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Of all the teams.

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The team that let one of the best managers of the entire Premier League history go.

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Jürgen Klopp, who became now the head of Red Bull or something.

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Oh yeah, that hasn't gone down well, has it?

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No, not in Germany.

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I thought Germans are more angry with him for becoming that than they are with Kirsten for becoming England manager.

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Apparently he has way more respect in England than he does in Germany.

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Yeah, now. But I mean back.

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Yeah, but because everyone hates Red Bull in Germany, don't they?

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Yeah, yeah, they do.

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Yeah, they do. That's why I'm saying like in England he's more popular, I think.

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Yeah.

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I'm not sure why he did that. I'm not sure what he doesn't mean that does it.

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I think apparently from what I heard is that he had promised something in the past.

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And it's like this kind of guy that wants to keep his promises, I guess, which is rare in football.

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I guess that's why he did it. I think he really needed a break. He burnt out at Liverpool. It happens.

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He knows how unpopular Red Bull were. And before he was with like good clubs like Dortmund or a good traditional club.

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And he hadn't had any link to them before.

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There's another theory. Basically, now that he's in charge of Red Bull, he gets Red Bulls for free.

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So he can have as many Red Bulls as he wants, you know, every day. So he will have a lot of energy and he'll even grow wings and stuff like that.

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So anyway, Cenk, so yeah, you did pretty well in this game and it's looking good for you, I guess.

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So yeah, I wish the Arsenal match was around now rather than a month or two ago.

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I think that match was at the wrong point for us. We hadn't quite clicked into gear of our season running yet.

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It was exactly at the right point.

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I think it was next week. I'd fancy Tottenham. I think it was next week.

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I'm really glad that we still had Saka at that point. I think Odegaard was still playing. Maybe Odegaard wasn't. I'm not sure.

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I don't think Odegaard did play, did he?

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I can't remember, but right now at Arsenal there are real issues because important players are injured now.

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It was the first time, wasn't it? The first time in this last two years that you've had injuries.

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Saka hasn't really been injured much. He always had like knocks and niggas and if he was out of the team, it was just for one week or something.

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Yeah, same with Odegaard.

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And now Saliba's red card means that he's suspended. That's not good, right?

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For the Liverpool game as well, isn't it?

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Exactly. Exactly.

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So maybe it's Tottenham who can take advantage of this. I hope not, of course, for the sake of our Arsenal supporters, but it is what it is. It's football.

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It's probably a year or two too early, but yeah.

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That's why we love it. It's always fun.

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Jenks, I think that's we will leave it there unless you want to talk about fantasy football, which I don't know.

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Do you play fantasy?

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You know, I've told you this before. I don't play fantasy football. You know the reason why?

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Tell me.

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It's because to play fantasy football and win, you need to have your rival players in the teams.

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So I have to have players like Harlan, Saka, Salah, Man United players. And I'm just not doing that.

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I'm not watching a match and wanting Saka to score or wanting a Chelsea player to score. No way.

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So that's the reason I've never been able to play fantasy football, because you have to have the best players.

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I have so like it in my team.

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Yeah, I couldn't do that.

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And he's not playing really well. I should get Son.

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Yes, Son now. But I think to be honest, our best player this year has been Kolasafsi. Moving inside from the wing to the middle.

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He's been a revelation. I'm unbelievable.

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Thank you for this inside information. I'm going to use it to my advantage now.

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Yeah.

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Anyway, Jenks, I've got to go. Thank you very much for listening, everyone.

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And take care.

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Take care. Bye.

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All right, everyone. Welcome back to the language corner.

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As always, in this part of the show, I'm going to be teaching something because, yes, this podcast is about football, but it is also an educational podcast.

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That's right. I run this podcast in order to help English learners around the world.

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And today I would like to talk about a few idiomatic phrases, a few idioms.

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Yeah. So these are phrases which are sometimes difficult to understand if it's the first time you've heard them, because the words, the individual words, which are part of these idioms, they often seem to have an unrelated meaning.

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Yeah. So they they have a meaning.

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But as a whole, what Jenks said is that in the second half, Postekoglu brought off medicine.

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So he substituted medicine at halftime and brought on SAR.

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Right. So he brought on SAR.

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And then Jenks added, he said he needed more legs in midfield.

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I guess that's how Ange was explaining it in the press conference.

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He needed more legs in midfield.

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I made fun of this phrase because it sounds funny. More legs in midfield.

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What do you mean? If you bring off one player and then bring on another player, mathematically, it's the same number of legs, right?

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Because every player only has two legs.

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But there is a phrase in English.

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If you need more legs, in this case in midfield, it means you need somebody, you need a player that runs a lot, you know, that can do a lot of running.

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Someone with a lot of stamina.

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OK, so this is what it means. If you need more legs, you need somebody who is more athletic.

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Medicine is more technical. Right.

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So SAR is more of a runner, let's say. OK.

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So to more legs in the midfield. Interesting idiom for sure.

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And because, you know, sometimes I like to make fun using a lot of idioms.

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Not sure if it landed very well, these jokes, but I tried to carry on and throw in more idioms with the words.

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Sorry, I tried to throw in more idioms with the word leg in them.

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Yeah. All these goals came in so quickly, right?

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We were saying something like that and then I added yes.

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And from that moment on, West Ham had no leg to stand on.

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Right. So it was 4-1 quickly in at the beginning of second half.

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And then all those goals were scored, as Cenk said.

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And I responded to that by saying yes.

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And from that moment, West Ham had no leg to stand on.

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So this is a phrase that is often used when you talk about two people arguing, right?

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Or two groups of people arguing.

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And when one group of people or one person runs out of arguments, runs out of things to say, right?

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The arguments stop making sense. It's all just emotions and you can't argue like that.

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Then you have a no leg to stand on. Right. So it's used in this sense.

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But I also use this in this context and I think it also kind of works, right?

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If you have no leg to stand on in this game of football, basically, if you are West Ham, you are 4-1 down.

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It basically means you kind of run out of ideas, right?

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You run out of ideas of what to do on the pitch.

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Yeah. You could say J. Lowe. J. What's his name? Lopetegu.

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The manager. I never know how to pronounce his name. Lopetegu. Something like that.

462
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The Spanish manager of West Ham United. He had no leg to stand on, right?

463
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He ran out of ideas. He didn't know what to do with it and he couldn't turn it around at all because West Ham were just clueless.

464
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OK. So another good idiom to have no leg to stand on. OK.

465
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And there was one more. Jank said, especially Kudos, who decided to take out three men.

466
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So he decided I think he tried to kick a few people and then he punched someone or slapped someone in the face.

467
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Then he was sent off. He was shown a red card by the referee. Right.

468
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And to that I responded. Yeah. Kudos was on his last legs.

469
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So if you are on your last legs, which, as you can see, is another idiom which contains the word leg in it.

470
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If you are on your last legs, you are near the end of your life.

471
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You usually use it to describe someone who is kind of dying, right?

472
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Maybe sick, someone really sick or old and they are on their last legs.

473
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You can see this person is about to kick the bucket, as we say.

474
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But it can also mean that you are near the end of your usefulness or existence.

475
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Right. So it kind of again made sense as a joke in this context when I said Kudos was on his last legs because, well, he was sent off.

476
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So he was at near the end of his usefulness. He was actually at the end of his usefulness. Right.

477
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So remember, if you need more legs in the midfield, you need a player or more players that can run, that has a lot that have a lot of stamina.

478
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If you have no leg to stand on, you have kind of run out of arguments or ideas.

479
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And if you are on your last legs, you mean you are it means you're near the end of your life or usefulness or existence.

480
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481
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483
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484
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OK, I'm done. I'm done with this promotion. It has to be part of the show.

485
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Every podcast does it. Yeah. If you want to have a podcast, you need to do this. I'm sorry if it's annoying.

486
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To be honest, sometimes it's annoying for me, too. It's the least enjoyable part of having a podcast, but perhaps it's the most necessary one.

487
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Anyway, I have been Zdenek. Thank you very much for watching or listening. And I'll speak to you soon.

488
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Take care, everyone. Bye bye.