1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,800 Will the win in the Manchester Derby be a turning point for Manchester United? 2 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:18,200 Does Ruben Amorim have more charisma than Eric Den Haag? 3 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,720 Has Pep Guardiola gone insane? 4 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:44,640 And what does the idiom to have a sticky patch mean? 5 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,540 Hello listeners, welcome back to another episode of the Footgrish Podcast. 6 00:00:48,540 --> 00:00:49,720 My name is Denik Lucas. 7 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:57,160 I'm your host and the Footgrish Podcast is a podcast for English learners about football. 8 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:03,720 And speaking about football, of course, we always need to have a guest like Martin Johnston 9 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:07,160 from The Rock and Roll English because I know he is a huge football fan. 10 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:08,760 Hello Martin, how are you? 11 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:09,760 Hello, Zennik. 12 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:10,760 Yeah, I'm good, thanks. 13 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:11,760 Very good. 14 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:15,080 After yesterday, so very glad to be here. 15 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:16,340 So we'll have to explain that. 16 00:01:16,340 --> 00:01:22,080 So the last time I had you on this podcast was to talk about England because you're English. 17 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:26,400 However, you are also a Manchester United fan. 18 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:35,240 Yes, which hasn't been that brilliant over recent years, but we've had our moments luckily 19 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,860 and yesterday was another one of them. 20 00:01:38,860 --> 00:01:44,160 So you're referring obviously to the Manchester Derby, which you won, which doesn't happen 21 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:45,240 all the time. 22 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:50,480 To be honest, it doesn't happen that Manchester still lose games and right now they're not 23 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:51,480 doing that well. 24 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:54,240 I just can't believe. 25 00:01:54,240 --> 00:02:00,160 You've seen in the years, we've seen like, you know, the dominant team like have a sticky 26 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:05,760 patch and they slowly go down, but they have like literally fallen off a cliff. 27 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:11,720 It's just, I thought they lost like seven in 10, something like that or more. 28 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:18,200 Obviously they have a run of 11 games where they won only one game in 11 games. 29 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:24,480 Of those 11 games, I think they won one game and they drew three games or something like 30 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:25,480 that. 31 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:30,440 So imagine they got defeated in most of these games. 32 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:31,440 It's unprecedented. 33 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:32,440 It absolutely is. 34 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:40,360 Because like I said, I remember, so like the Arsenal invincible team, the next year, they 35 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,600 weren't obviously they weren't invincible, but they didn't like, it wasn't like losing 36 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:44,600 every week. 37 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:50,200 Like Manchester City are like, you know, like Manchester United and other teams that have 38 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:53,360 been dominant Chelsea. 39 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,960 I'd never seen the team just crash like this so much. 40 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:57,960 It's bizarre. 41 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,120 Yeah, it's very bizarre. 42 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:06,320 That's why I need to ask you, does it really feel like a win? 43 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,440 Like can you even enjoy this as a Manchester United fan? 44 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:15,200 Because it's like, it's equivalent of kicking, kicking someone like imagine you're fighting 45 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:20,680 a boxer in the ring and you're just boxing someone who is already lying on the floor. 46 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:30,080 Yeah, well, yeah, if this was, you know, like the Manchester United of old, like under like 47 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,400 Sir Alex Ferguson, it probably wouldn't have felt like such a win. 48 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:40,880 But you know, I think as football fans, you need to like, it's all about moments really. 49 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:46,880 And when your team's not having a lot of them, you need to take the ones that you can get. 50 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,880 So and not only that, it was the the manner of it. 51 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:57,860 If for example, we had scored in the 60th minute and like 70th, right, it wouldn't, 52 00:03:57,860 --> 00:04:03,240 it wouldn't have been so dramatic, but like two goals in the last two minutes, like unbelievable. 53 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:08,520 I'm not sure if you've heard, but obviously I was watching it in England and Gary Neville 54 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:14,760 had one of his moments of like, it was just obviously probably if I was a Manchester City 55 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:16,120 fan, I wouldn't enjoy that. 56 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:17,620 I mean, he wasn't like cheering. 57 00:04:17,620 --> 00:04:18,620 It was just one of those moments. 58 00:04:18,620 --> 00:04:19,620 He had one with Torres. 59 00:04:19,620 --> 00:04:24,360 I remember when he scored for Chelsea in that semi-final against Barcelona, where he was 60 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:30,320 just almost like they described it as like having an orgasm. 61 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:32,120 It was absolutely brilliant. 62 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:33,120 Yeah. 63 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:37,480 It was one of those moments where he kind of doesn't control himself and does something 64 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:40,320 that is a bit over the top. 65 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,960 It wasn't like a cheer because obviously he's a Manchester United fan, but it wasn't like, 66 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:49,040 yes, it was more of just like, because as sort of Ahmed got the ball and sort of knocked 67 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,120 it, it didn't look like it was going in. 68 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:56,080 So he was just kind of like, and it was, it was one of those moments of like, could this 69 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:57,080 happen? 70 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,140 That is brilliant. 71 00:05:00,140 --> 00:05:05,760 It sounds more like something I would say or a sound I would make if I were to ride 72 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:07,640 on a roller coaster. 73 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:08,640 Yeah. 74 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:14,080 Oh, it very much was like that because he's knocked the ball over and then it's coming 75 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:15,080 like anything. 76 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:16,280 Is the defender going to get there? 77 00:05:16,280 --> 00:05:17,600 And it just kind of trickles in. 78 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,160 Oh, absolutely, absolutely brilliant. 79 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:27,040 There's nothing like a last minute winner and especially when it's an important match. 80 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:31,320 If it's a derby match, you know, like we're not challenging for the league, I don't think 81 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:36,200 it's going to be particularly important for our league season, but a derby match is always 82 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,840 an important match away from Manchester City. 83 00:05:38,840 --> 00:05:39,840 Exactly. 84 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:40,840 At the Etihad, right? 85 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:43,160 So Manchester City were one nil up. 86 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:44,640 They scored through Guardiola. 87 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:46,320 I think it was a set. 88 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,440 Was it a set piece situation or something like that? 89 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,640 Again, because Manchester United are terrible at defending set pieces. 90 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:55,560 There was a cross, I think from De Bruyne, it got deflected. 91 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:57,760 And then Guardiola was where he was supposed to be. 92 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:02,040 So Manchester City one nil up. 93 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:07,000 And then actually, they were not the dominant forces they normally are. 94 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,120 They are always so good at killing the game off, like seeing the game off, right? 95 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:12,400 But it didn't happen. 96 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:17,960 Even Guardiola in the post-match conference, he said they asked him a question about whether 97 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,480 they had the match under the control. 98 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:25,360 He said, no, that's not the way we look when we have games under control. 99 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:26,360 Yeah. 100 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:32,360 Although, at the same time, I think it was kind of two poor teams, to be honest. 101 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:36,320 I don't think Manchester United were particularly dominant, but it all came from that dodgy 102 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:37,320 back pass. 103 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:44,480 I can't remember who it was by, Manchester City right back, and then Ahmed cut it out. 104 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:46,560 So it came from that really. 105 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:48,040 And this is the thing about football. 106 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:54,080 I mean, I still play on a Tuesday and we might be four goals up, then you concede one, and 107 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,960 then you just feel that tide and you just can't stop it. 108 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:03,200 And so when you score in the 88th minute and there's still a few minutes left, the opposition, 109 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,660 they just get a spring in their step and sometimes there's almost nothing you can do. 110 00:07:06,660 --> 00:07:11,600 I know exactly what you mean because yesterday I played a pickleball match, not a professional 111 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:12,600 game or anything. 112 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,360 It's just a social activity where we play pickleball. 113 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:19,140 I don't even know if the listeners of this podcast know what a pickleball is. 114 00:07:19,140 --> 00:07:21,120 I don't actually know what pickleball is. 115 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,840 I'm not surprised because it's kind of a new sport. 116 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:25,560 It's like an alternative to tennis. 117 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:29,320 You play on a small record with plastic paddles. 118 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:31,320 But not, what's that? 119 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:32,320 Plastic ball. 120 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:33,320 What's the other paddle? 121 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:34,320 Not paddle. 122 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:35,320 Paddle. 123 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:36,320 No, no. 124 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:38,380 It's like paddle, but paddle has mantinas. 125 00:07:38,380 --> 00:07:44,240 It has the glass board and it can bounce off the wall like squash. 126 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,240 But pickleball doesn't. 127 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:47,240 Pickleball, right. 128 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:51,960 Pickleball, it reminds you a little bit of, it's like a cross between tennis and table 129 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:56,600 tennis, but it's still more tennis than table tennis. 130 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:01,240 And we were eight, two up in that set. 131 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,560 And you play until 11. 132 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:08,300 And I started sort of like joking around and doing stupid things. 133 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:11,560 And suddenly it was 10-10. 134 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:13,920 Almost lost the game. 135 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:14,920 It's just something, isn't it? 136 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:19,480 Like when someone's on that back and you can feel it coming and you start to panic, if 137 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:23,920 you're in the lead, you start to panic and they're getting more and more confident. 138 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:28,320 And then so when that happens, like a goal, someone like equalizes in the 88th minute, 139 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:32,040 there's always that moment. 140 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:36,520 And then it's like, if you can see that out or not, and they weren't able to. 141 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:38,800 There was a penalty, right? 142 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:40,640 You equalize through a penalty. 143 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:44,600 It was a stone wall penalty. 144 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:48,360 I actually thought we should have had another penalty in the match. 145 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:52,520 It was like a foul, I thought on Hoyland. 146 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:58,520 But the one they gave, the one which I thought was, yeah, kind of, I suppose, 50-50, that 147 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:01,120 you've seen them given kind of thing. 148 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:06,080 But the one on Ahmed, that was absolutely, again, in commentary, Gary Neville, as soon 149 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:11,480 as it happened, just went penalty because it's so blatant. 150 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:17,000 And again, because the back pass and the defender was running back, I think again, panic had 151 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,480 set in. 152 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:20,400 And so he made like a stupid challenge. 153 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:24,680 But I thought Ahmed was clever the way he sort of shielded the ball was like, if you're 154 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:26,920 coming this way, you've got to go through me. 155 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:28,280 And that's exactly what he did. 156 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:32,320 I mean, he's been a revelation in recent weeks. 157 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:33,320 It's just unbelievable. 158 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:34,320 Yeah. 159 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:38,040 And the form of Manchester City has been a revelation too. 160 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:43,880 And you're speaking about psychology and mental sort of mental state, mental strength, strong 161 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:44,880 will and all that. 162 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:45,880 It's so important. 163 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:50,680 And I think two ways this happened in this game. 164 00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:56,320 It's like the short-term mental state in that particular game, like as you said, they started 165 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,280 panicking and whatnot. 166 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:05,080 And then of course, that sort of bad run of form kind of mental state kicked in as well. 167 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:07,080 So it's like a double. 168 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:08,760 Yeah, I agree. 169 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:16,040 And when you're in that run of form, like again, from my playing career, when I was 170 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,320 like a child, we were playing, I was playing in a team. 171 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:23,440 If you're on a bad run and like you were near a victory, it's like we need to hold on. 172 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:26,280 And again, like you said, like panic sets in there as well. 173 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:27,800 Like we need this so much. 174 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:33,680 And then, but yeah, when things aren't going for you, things aren't going for you. 175 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:35,920 When it rains, it pours, right? 176 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:36,920 Yeah, absolutely. 177 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:41,600 And that's really what happened because then two minutes later, yeah, you scored the winner. 178 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,440 Oh, what a goal as well. 179 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:47,120 Quite another sort of unbelievable moment. 180 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,400 So who was the goal scorer? 181 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:53,200 So yeah, Ahmed Jalot. 182 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:57,280 And the only disappointing thing was I had Martinez in my dream team, but I had him on 183 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:00,640 the bench and he got the assist. 184 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:03,600 But the ball threw, I mean, just the run as well. 185 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:09,720 This is, I mean, it sounds so stupid, but for example, Rashford wasn't even in the squad. 186 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:10,720 Same as Garnacho yesterday. 187 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:11,720 Right. 188 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:12,720 Do you know why? 189 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:14,840 Did Amorin say why? 190 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:19,760 Yeah, he didn't obviously specifically say it, but he basically said they haven't been 191 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:21,960 training well enough. 192 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:26,680 He said, in our club at the moment, people losing jobs because of like the new ownership, 193 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:27,680 people losing their jobs. 194 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:28,680 So he said, we need to set the standards. 195 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:36,160 So if you're not coming into training, like prepared, ready, he punished them. 196 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:38,480 Well, he said it wasn't a disciplinary thing. 197 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:42,000 He just basically said they weren't good enough in training. 198 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:47,240 That sounds a bit iffy because they are obviously huge superstars on large salaries. 199 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:51,680 I think it's some sort of punishment or maybe setting an example or something. 200 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:58,000 I mean, it could, if it, I mean, it could obviously be, but I almost hope it is just 201 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,600 the fact it wasn't training well enough because it's like, look, you need to be, you need 202 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,400 to be at it all the time. 203 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:09,120 And so in the goal, if you watch it, so Ahmed was kind of like out sort of on the right 204 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,120 and just the ball. 205 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,200 So Martinez had the ball in the left back area and just, he made that run. 206 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:18,840 And I just thought like, if that was Rashford, he would have just been standing there. 207 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,220 But like, so, but like Jaller just says, I'm going. 208 00:12:22,220 --> 00:12:25,000 And then obviously he picked him out. 209 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:31,480 And it was great to see, and hopefully like, um, Amarin said, he said basically like next 210 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:35,480 week, you know, it's a clean slate for like Rashford and Garnacho. 211 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:40,000 So hopefully it will give them the kick up the backside that they need. 212 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:44,240 And hopefully it does send a message to everyone of like, look, you need to be giving everything 213 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:48,120 all the time, because if you're not, it's not even you on the bench, which I, I've thought 214 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,320 it was, I'm sort of really pleased he did that. 215 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:53,280 Not even on the bench, like you're out the squad. 216 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:58,000 Like if you want to play, you have to be like at it all the time. 217 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,960 And so, so that was great to see, but obviously because we won the match, I'm sure if we had 218 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:07,880 lost the match, there'd have been a big story and all decisions work well when you win. 219 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:12,560 Um, and especially with one of the players, like what got a goal and won the penalty. 220 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:19,000 Um, but yeah, it, it couldn't really have finished better yesterday, but my concern 221 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,080 is that I think I said to you this in the message. 222 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:27,800 Before we're playing Tottenham on Thursday in the Carabao cup, and then we've got Bournemouth 223 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:28,800 at home next week. 224 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,520 And I could easily see us losing both of those match matches. 225 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,120 This has just been Manchester United. 226 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:40,720 Um, certainly since, yeah, even say that I, Solskjaer, Ten Hag, their reigns, it would 227 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:42,080 be like, things would be really bad. 228 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:43,320 Then you would get a great result. 229 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:49,080 And for example, Solskjaer won, I think four, I saw recently, but he played Guardiola, I 230 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:55,920 think seven or like nine times, four wins for Solskjaer, four for Guardiola and one 231 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:57,320 draw or something like that. 232 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:00,480 So he did get lots of results against Manchester city. 233 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,200 And this is just Manchester United. 234 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,160 You just have these moments where you think things are going so badly. 235 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:06,560 And then there's a great result. 236 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:11,200 For example, the FA cup final, like, I mean, it was like end of the season was terrible. 237 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:16,120 You go in the FA cup final, thinking that's why, that's why, that's why Eric Ten Hag 238 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:19,520 stayed, I think, because otherwise he would have been, he would have been sacked. 239 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:20,520 Yeah. 240 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:26,120 So, and I think Ten Hag had lots of these moments actually of like getting, it was getting 241 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:27,120 so bad. 242 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,960 You think he's going to get sacked now, but then it would be like, we beat Liverpool in 243 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:31,560 the FA cup in the last minute. 244 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:35,560 For example, it just like something, you get like a really good result and then he would 245 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:36,960 stay in the job a bit longer. 246 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:38,960 And save his job. 247 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:39,960 Yeah. 248 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:45,080 So now, so with this new manager, I thought at first you had a bit of a manager's bounce, 249 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:46,080 right? 250 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:47,080 Yeah. 251 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:48,080 Manager's bounce. 252 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,520 And, and then it all went pear shaped again, because you lost to Arsenal, then Nottingham 253 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:52,520 Forest. 254 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:53,520 Exactly. 255 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:59,920 But then, then I have to also mention a game against a team from my country, Victoria Pelsen, 256 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:05,520 where I was hoping, this happened by the way last Thursday, and I was hoping it was a Europa 257 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:06,520 League game. 258 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:11,280 I was hoping that your team would before the game visit the brewery. 259 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:15,240 Victoria, like Pelsen is famous for its beer, right? 260 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:19,200 But it turned out that they visited the brewery after the game. 261 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:20,200 So. 262 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:21,200 Oh really? 263 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:22,200 So you won. 264 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:23,200 So you won, you won 2-1. 265 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:24,200 Right. 266 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:25,200 You also had to turn it around. 267 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:31,680 But you know, the consolation for me is that you beat Manchester City 2-1, Pelsen you lost 268 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:33,360 2-1 as well against you. 269 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:36,920 So we are as good as Manchester City. 270 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:39,080 So it's not too bad after all. 271 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:40,080 Absolutely. 272 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,920 But, but yeah, this, as I said, is, is Manchester United. 273 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:48,520 And it has been for a few years now of like, it's going really badly. 274 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:52,840 Like I said, we're playing obviously, like a Czech team who Manchester United would be 275 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:57,720 expected to win comfortably and then like scrape out a result. 276 00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:59,080 And then you think, gosh, things are so bad. 277 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:00,760 And then bang, beat Manchester City. 278 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:02,840 And everyone's like, oh wow, like we're back. 279 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:05,120 No, no, let's, let's calm down. 280 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:06,520 The same as the new manager, to be honest. 281 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:08,920 So some of my friends said, like, what do you think of him? 282 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:12,920 And I said, like, you know, he seems, he seems nice. 283 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:14,880 He seems good, seems to know what he's talking about. 284 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:19,600 Some good signs of like, especially this with the Rashford thing, but it was the same as 285 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:25,120 like 10 Hard, like I must admit, I didn't know much about 10 Hard before or Amerem. 286 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:29,940 And it's like, I've heard this so many times in the last 10 years of like, yeah, you know, 287 00:16:29,940 --> 00:16:34,480 things are going to change now, Mourinho's here or things are going to change now, Rangal's 288 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:35,480 here. 289 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:38,480 But it's just like, you just follow the same cycle. 290 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:43,920 So obviously you hope, one thing that I do like about Amerem, which I think 10 Hard lacks, 291 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,480 is he's got charisma. 292 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:53,200 And, and, you know, but Martin, to be honest, like compared to 10 Hard, even you and I have 293 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,160 more, more charisma than him. 294 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:57,280 So yeah, that is true. 295 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:03,840 And I'm not saying like you, you 100% need to have charisma, but I don't know, I just, 296 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:08,520 I think it helps when you're in such a big job like Manchester United. 297 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:13,720 I think, yeah, I think it helps, but I don't know, we'll have to wait and see. 298 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,000 But who we thought also had charisma is of course Pep Guardiola. 299 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,480 And this is the last question I have to ask you. 300 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:25,040 I don't know whether you saw that post-match conference, but if you haven't seen it, 301 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:27,680 the headline of like, he said, I'm not good enough or something. 302 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,120 Oh, and watch, it's such an unbelievable press conference. 303 00:17:31,120 --> 00:17:36,800 And with him, the thing is like, whenever he talks, I don't know whether he's being 304 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:43,960 genuine and he's just so honest or he is being ironic and sarcastic because he speaks in 305 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:48,940 that kind of voice that you kind of don't know like what he means actually. 306 00:17:48,940 --> 00:17:55,840 And he did sort of self-fledulently point out several times, I think, that he wasn't 307 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:59,400 good enough, that he isn't good enough right now. 308 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:03,800 And it seemed like such a bombshell. 309 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:08,200 It was hard to take in from someone like that because you have this legend sitting in front 310 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:12,080 of you and you're watching him on screen broken. 311 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:16,920 And you don't know whether this is some sort of alternative universe or what the hell is 312 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:20,120 going on there, like science fiction or something. 313 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:26,420 Because really it's the first time I think in his managerial career that things haven't 314 00:18:26,420 --> 00:18:28,200 been going well for him really. 315 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:32,080 So he obviously started at Barcelona, they won the treble in the first season he was 316 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:33,080 there. 317 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:37,440 And then the season he left, they finished second. 318 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:38,440 And that was obviously like a disaster. 319 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:40,960 Then he left, they went to Bayern Munich, won everything. 320 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:45,240 Even at Manchester City, the year, so his first year they didn't win the league. 321 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:49,760 And then I think 2020 when Liverpool won it, they're the only seasons. 322 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:53,260 But well, except his first season, which people could understand, but in that season where 323 00:18:53,260 --> 00:18:58,800 Liverpool won the league, Manchester City didn't reach the levels that they had, but 324 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:02,440 they weren't falling off a cliff thing. 325 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:05,760 They just had, they weren't great that season. 326 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:10,680 So this is the first time it's gone so badly for him. 327 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:15,720 And yeah, it's a test of how good of a manager is he? 328 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:17,120 Can he get out of this now? 329 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:22,040 Because most managers go through this at some point in their career. 330 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:23,880 And most managers get sacked. 331 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,160 He's not, he's not second. 332 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,200 So it's never going to happen. 333 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:33,120 And the irony is that everyone was hoping that the only way Manchester City don't win 334 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:41,760 the title is if they, you know, if they get punished by the FA for those 130 breaches 335 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:46,120 of financial fair play rules or something. 336 00:19:46,120 --> 00:19:48,240 But instead we are getting this. 337 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,000 Like I don't know, I don't know what to think about it. 338 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:57,080 The surprise is as well, everyone expected Arsenal to be there. 339 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:00,120 It looks like Liverpool and Chelsea are the teams. 340 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:09,440 Yeah, Arsenal had a chance to like reduce the gap at the weekend and didn't again. 341 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,920 They seem to be having lots of problems scoring goals at the moment. 342 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:17,800 So yeah, I almost feel sorry for Arsenal in some way, because you know, if this has happened 343 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:23,160 in any of the previous two seasons, then I think Arsenal would have comfortably won the 344 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,560 league because there weren't really any other challenges. 345 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:32,000 You know, at least we know there is a second meaning to that famous London underground 346 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,120 phrase, mind the gap, mind the gap. 347 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:39,520 We know there's a second meaning to that, you know, and that's, that's the one, unfortunately. 348 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:46,000 Anyway, Martin has been fantastic, always fantastic to talk to you, to use, to steal 349 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:50,720 a phrase from your podcast, which is called the Rock and Roll English for anyone who wants 350 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:51,720 to check it out. 351 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:53,840 A great podcast, by the way. 352 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,280 Thank you very much for talking to me about your team Manchester United. 353 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:58,280 No problem. 354 00:20:58,280 --> 00:20:59,280 Anytime. 355 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:00,280 Always happy to talk about football. 356 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,720 It's never a bad time for me to talk about football. 357 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:05,180 Absolutely. 358 00:21:05,180 --> 00:21:06,180 Take care, man. 359 00:21:06,180 --> 00:21:07,180 You too. 360 00:21:07,180 --> 00:21:08,180 Take care. 361 00:21:08,180 --> 00:21:12,680 Bye bye. 362 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:14,800 Welcome back to the language corner. 363 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:21,880 As always in this part of the show, I'm going to explain some language, the English language, 364 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,720 and that's because I'm an English teacher. 365 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:25,720 That's right. 366 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:26,720 That is my job. 367 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:32,080 I know it may not be obvious at first when you start listening to this podcast, but actually 368 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:40,100 I'm an English teacher and I set out to do this podcast with the idea of connecting my 369 00:21:40,100 --> 00:21:48,000 favorite interest, which is football, and of course also make use of my experience as 370 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,000 an English teacher. 371 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,480 So hopefully you guys like this podcast. 372 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:58,880 If you do, why don't you make a review, leave a review on iTunes or I don't know, leave 373 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:04,080 a comment down below the video if you're watching this on YouTube. 374 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:10,040 Anyway, I would like to explain just two idioms today, just to keep it short and sweet. 375 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:16,800 And this is from a short sentence that Martin said. 376 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:22,960 He said, I just can't believe you have seen over the years, we have seen that dominant 377 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:30,080 teams have a sticky patch and they slowly go down, but they've like literally fallen 378 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:31,080 off a cliff. 379 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:38,520 So Martin was talking about Manchester City and their form and he used two idioms. 380 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:40,920 So to have a sticky patch. 381 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:44,700 And then he said they have fallen off a cliff. 382 00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:46,480 So let's explain this. 383 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:55,560 So if you have a sticky patch, it means that you are experiencing a lot of problems in 384 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,960 a period of your life. 385 00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:58,960 Yes. 386 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:04,560 So you can go through a bad, difficult, rough or sticky patch. 387 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:11,840 All these words, bad, difficult, rough, sticky, collocate with the word patch and they are 388 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:16,320 all used as an idiom, as part of this idiom. 389 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:21,720 So you could be going through a sticky patch in your relationship. 390 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:28,080 Maybe things are not going well at work. 391 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:32,160 So you could be going through a rough patch there. 392 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,560 So it's a nice little idiom to learn. 393 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:40,800 Then Martin said that they have literally fallen off a cliff. 394 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,560 So again, he was talking about Manchester City. 395 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:44,560 Okay. 396 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:48,140 So if you fall off a cliff, you know what a cliff is, right? 397 00:23:48,140 --> 00:23:55,280 It's that high area of rock with a very steep side. 398 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,040 Often it's on a coast, right? 399 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:02,280 So wherever you have an ocean and there's a high area of rock and people often like 400 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:05,520 to look down, but it's very dangerous, right? 401 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:13,120 And of course, if you fall off a cliff, you usually die if it's very deep, right? 402 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:14,720 So you can die. 403 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,080 So nobody wants to do that, right? 404 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:22,120 Nobody wants to fall off a cliff unless I guess somebody decides to take their own life. 405 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:33,000 But in this case, it's also used as an idiomatic expression, which means to suddenly and quickly 406 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:34,000 become less successful, right? 407 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:38,800 So if you fall off a cliff, you are like you're doing all right, all right, or you are successful 408 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,360 and suddenly you become less successful. 409 00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:46,760 It almost comes out of nowhere, out of the blue. 410 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:53,480 And so that kind of was like that because I even remember Manchester City thrashing 411 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,480 Sparta Prague 6-0 or something like that. 412 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:05,700 And then out of nowhere, they had 11 games in which they only won one game and they have 413 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:07,960 seven defeats there. 414 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:09,360 It's unbelievable. 415 00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:11,720 It's unprecedented. 416 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:18,640 But I think this episode of the Footgrish podcast was believable. 417 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:23,880 Hopefully it's the standards that we keep here on the Footgrish podcast. 418 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,660 I hope you guys enjoyed this one. 419 00:25:27,660 --> 00:25:32,000 It's always a pleasure to have Martin on, of course. 420 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,640 And thank you very much for listening. 421 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:41,320 If you do like these podcasts, I wonder why don't you subscribe on iTunes or is it called 422 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:48,680 Apple Podcasts these days, sorry, or Spotify or 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