The Preview Show: A Christmas ding dong
55:33 Share

When it comes to weight loss, no two people are the same. That's why Noom builds personalized plans based on your unique psychology and biology. Take Brittany. After years of unsustainable diets, Noom helped her lose 20 pounds and keep it off. I was definitely in a yo-yo cycle for years of just losing weight, gaining weight, and it was exhausting. And Stephanie. She's a former D1 athlete who knew she couldn't out-train her diet, and she lost 38 pounds.

My relationship to food before Noom was never consistent. And Evan, he can't stand salads, but he still lost 50 pounds with Noom. I never really was a salad guy. That's just not who I am. Even through the pickiness, Noom taught me that building better habits builds a healthier lifestyle. I'm not doing this to get to a number. I'm doing this to feel better.

Get your personalized plan today at Noom.com. Real Noom users compensated to provide their story. In four weeks, the typical Noom user can expect to lose one to two pounds per week. Individual results may vary. Ryan Reynolds here for Mint Mobile. You know, one of the perks about having four kids that you know about is actually getting a direct line to the big man up north. And this year, he wants you to know the best gift that you can give someone is the gift of Mint Mobile's unlimited wireless for $15 a month. Now, you don't even need to wrap

Give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch. $45 upfront payment required equivalent to $15 per month. New customers on first three-month plan only. Taxes and fees extra. Speeds lower above 40 gigabytes on unlimited. See mintmobile.com for details. Shape your tomorrow. X-Trackers offers innovative opportunities to enable you to take your financial future into your own hands.

With ETFs that make access easy, transparent, and cost-effective, start your investment for the future at xtrackers.com.

If recent temperatures are any indication, it looks like we're in for another cold winter. Make sure your residential or commercial heating system will keep you warm all season long by calling the five-star heating experts at Crop Metcalf. A Crop Metcalf five-star technician has the training and tools to provide you with the best heating options for your home.

And remember, Crop is the one with five stars. Crop Metcalf, home of the five-star technician.

Listen to this Acast show ad free on Amazon Music with your Prime membership or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's official podcast advertising is transcending audio. Marketers can now tap into audiences across all of our creators channels from social media to video live events and beyond.

And ACAST's new report proves it works, with 84% of podcast listeners having taken action after seeing brands promoted in a podcast-first omnichannel campaign. Get these insights and more by downloading the full report at podcastpulse2024.acast.com. It's the most wonderful time of the year, except for goalkeepers. Welcome to the Football Rumble PD Show, brought to you by LiveScore Bet. It's Friday, 20th of December. I'm Pete Donaldson. I'm Luke Moore. And I'm Jim Campbell. Woo! Woo!

So

Christmas. Yes. Christmas, Jim. Not yet. No, Jim's got his lovely festive cardigan on. As do you. You've got a lovely festive jumper on you. Where's your festive jumper? I didn't get the brief. You're wearing festive briefs down there. I know. What's going on? Neither of ours are sort of official Christmas. No, we're Christmas adjacent. Well, people have got to save all that Christmas spirit for the Christmas Day edition of Jackson Cycle.

That's a very good point. There's a Santa hat next to you that you're not wearing as well. Well, I can't get it over my headphones. I'll put it on for Jack's Encyclopedia. Later. Friday edition. Friday before Christmas. Okay. Where's Marcus? I don't know. In the words of Sean Connery in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, where's Marcus? Where's Marcus? I'm crying out loud. I don't know. I think he's, maybe he's just revving up for Christmas. Probably is. Probably working on his hot rod. He's already stepped into Christmas. Ah.

Ah, okay. He can't come back. He'll have the keys, won't he? Yeah, he's got the keys to Christmas. The door is sort of closing and he's just got to grab his hat. His Santa hat. He's taken the keys to Christmas up to Santa. Well, I mean, it feels like it's maybe just where Christmas is sort of lying day-wise in the working week. It's kind of last night's football match in the old EFL Cup that overfluffed with the Carabao. Tottenham 4-1.

Man United 3, it's just a little bit too much for Christmas. I think it's just... It's like you're eating turkey sandwiches before Christmas dinner. I'm not having it. It was... I watched it and I was like, sorry, what was that all about? I had other things to do. It did feel like opening a present early. Yeah. All this is indulgent. It was a ding-dong. It was a Christmas ding-dong. It was brilliant. Fraser Forster was essentially performing some kind of avant-garde theatre. It was very...

I just sort of think with him, both times, he makes a wonderful save before the first mistake. Yeah.

And he probably could have rescued the first mistake if he hadn't been so annoyed that the attending defender hadn't sort of taken the impetus to run towards him. And sort of, I kind of get that. But for the second, he was exactly the same. He was just a bit like static. He didn't seem that interested in remembering that you can actually use your foot to sort of slide tackle people. I don't know. Can we not as well let those two goals, you know,

obscure the fact that he also should massively have done better on the third one as well. Yeah, yeah. He's relaxed about that one. He's like, no one's going to notice, but you have noticed, Jim. Yeah, you have noticed, yeah. Forster, look at the look on Forster's face when he suddenly realised that

that Amadialo is really fast. It was like, I realised it, but I can't do anything about it. There's nothing I can do now. It's gone. It's gone. Yeah, it's impossible not to feel sorry for him in that moment, isn't it? He just looks absolutely wrecked. I mean, his speed was wonderful. It was like, I'm going to turn these afterburners on and he's on me. Yeah. It was like you planning in goal for your team. Oh, that's a bit rude, isn't it? It was, wasn't it? Yeah, pretty much. But I would say that...

I think the positioning of the body as well made it actually quite difficult for him to do anything apart from pick it out of his own neck. Because his body is very big as well. His body is very big. There's an element of it where he's got to try and unroll, unfurl everything that's happening. All kinds of turning circles going on. Yeah, the levers that are involved to do something quickly are a lot tougher than for someone like Diallo who's quick and smaller. Yeah, and...

It almost makes Altair Bandeir the 6'6 goalkeeper for Manchester United. Is he really 6'6? He used to be a striker. He's three centimetres shorter than Fraser Forster. Wow. That's amazing. Two big men. Do you think that that should have been reset under VAR rules? I think it would have been, yeah. I think, you know, he's holding his arm. If someone goes to kick a ball away, but you grab their leg...

Not allowed. And is it that different? I found myself...

cleansed by watching the Carabao Cup with Noval. Yeah, North London's really well out of that. It was very good. Yeah, they have. So, I mean, like, it wasn't... Obviously, Spurs went 3-0 up and it was kind of looking very, very safe for them. But a couple of goalkeeping mistakes and Man Utd were back into it as well. But I think, obviously, the pivotal chance was Son on the 88th minute whipping in a corner and the goalkeeper just kind of...

had his arm held. Did he though? Yeah. By a child? The arm he wasn't going to use, wasn't it? Which is the compensation. As a father of one, if I couldn't do anything every time my arm was brushed by a child, I would get nothing done. So I'm not accepting that from the goalkeeper. A child has come up and just gone,

Like that. Little rub. Little rub. Was there a goal last season where something similar happened to Edison and it was disallowed? I'm sure. Goalkeepers are very protected on that stuff, aren't they? Which is why I think it would have been disallowed. They are generally. I like having different rules. We said yesterday there should be more experimentation in the rules of the EFL Cup because nobody cares about it. I don't know. There's four really good games. They want that 100 grand. LAUGHTER

If it was sponsored by Monster Pit, you'd be up here early. I'd be right up there. Can I put forward perhaps a Matt Letizia tinfoil hat theory about why we're seeing the games being refereed in this way? Like a sound effect in there. To make the Premier League look better? It's because referees subconsciously are used to having things sorted out

by VAR. Right, yes. So they're much more likely to let things go. Even if they tell themselves there's no VAR, they've obviously got used to refereeing in a certain way. So they're much more like, we saw it with the Southampton player, Cameron Archer being brought down, wasn't given as a foul, it was a little crazy. This one you guys are talking about,

you know, even the assistant referee, perhaps when Jesus was, let's be honest, quite a long way offside, not given. It's a subconscious thing, I reckon. Yeah. And do you think that we will see an adjustment of that next season? Because it has been a great round of fixtures, but I imagine the referees are probably a bit furious about it. It's happening. You guys are right to say, I'm extrapolating here, but you've alluded to the idea that the EFL Cup...

is probably the next head on the chopping block, isn't it, for the fixture congestion. So they're going down fighting, boy. They are saying... They are making it fun, fun, fun. It's prison rules. Score as many goals as you can and then people will remember us fondly. That's what they're saying. I also think it's...

remarkable how many average players Manchester United will put out on the pitch. I mean, it's incredible. Yeah, the defending was playground stuff at times. I mean, that sort of, was it a Martinez? I think a little tepid sort of side foot clearance for him on Martinez. He's such a funny second because he can be a really, really good player but then he has moments like that

and it's hard to figure him out I think if he goes to Spain and plays for a decent Spanish team he'd be the best defender in the league right it just looks like in the Premier League it's just it's just all wrong like if you look at the 11 players that started the game for Man United last night I mean going through them one by one it's a combination of like players who are completely past it aren't good enough or who might be good in the future we just don't know yet so like Bayern there haven't really seen enough of him um

A lot of Man United fans have said, not just for this match, but where they have seen them, they're not necessarily impressed. Lenny Lloro, for too early to say, massive prospect. But the problem with that as well is it's not a great environment for a prospect like that. Totally. They're in the wrong environment anyway. Lindelof, not that good. Martinez, talked about him. Masraoui could be good. Eriksen, way past it. Igarte, not really sure. Dalot's been quite good. Fernandes is obviously a good player. Anthony's one of the worst players I've ever seen. And Hoyland might be good at some

point it kind of really exposed every sort of facet of Manchester United's feeling over the last few years like Solanke's opener defenders just weren't on their toes the second Martin has just been a bit you mean the clearance the clearance was really like a tepid yeah really tepid little clearance and then for the third like the offside is just beaten and well beaten and they just didn't have the pace to get back it was it it

A lot to think about for Ruben, Jim. Yeah, I mean, I'm also so confident that if Son doesn't score from that corner, Man United don't score a third goal. Right, yeah. Because I think Spurs kind of switched off themselves a bit and were very, very sloppy. And I think obviously working with the goalkeeper kind of led to the rest of the team on that.

on that corner. But yeah, they, yeah, there's so much for Amarim to do. He spends so much time on his haunches looking like he absolutely hates Man United, which as we've said before, I think will, for a time, will make him quite relatable to the fans. Yeah, he's fed up with it as well. Already,

Like, it is... Yeah. He's like the guy in the canteen in our building. Yeah, genuinely. He's a poor, very light, but hates them. Absolutely hates them, yeah. So there was a point where Gary Neville said, Ruben Amerind drops to his knees again. It's like, again? He's had like five games. Tell him when he's not on his knees. How's he spending that much time on his knees in despair? Also, it's the League Cup. The other thing, when you know you're really through the looking glass with your man United and they're just not getting out of this any time soon, it's like, Johnny Evans comes on, 36 years old, plays quite well, scores...

What reality is this? It was a good header. Incredible. Yeah, well, elsewhere, Jim Ratcliffe has increased his stake in Manchester United by 1.2%, paying around £79 million. Cheap at half the price for such a global brand. He saved that on scrapping steward bonuses.

Yeah. So he might as well invest it in the club. Yeah, well, yeah, he scrapped £100 attendance bonuses for regular stewards and £50 Steward of the Week bonuses, which I think is lovely stuff. Ange Possekoglou has said that a Premier League manager has a tougher job than the Prime Minister and said that however many times, you know, Keir Starmer has an election, I get one every weekend. We've got an election every weekend and I either get voted in

or out I don't think that's true it's an approval rating isn't it it's more of a poll isn't it a very vocal poll I don't think he's correct

possibly apart from in the case of Ruben Amarim at the moment. But you know it's big news for Ange because last night getting through this game he was very very vocal and typically forthright in the most Australian way imaginable when he corrected that journalist who said that they usually win he usually wins things in his second season he said no I always win things in my second season. He's gone for it then. I'll be honest with you Ange this is the

only competition you've got a single chance of winning. But I think that's really smart because I think that confidence is going to translate to the players, right? It feels like a challenge to them but also an encouragement to them. Fraser Forster as well, do you think? Translate to him? Fraser Forster might need to get into his head a little bit. I don't think anyone's going to be patting back to him. If we did one of those word soup infographics that you see online for Fraser Forster, how big do you reckon the word confidence would be after last night? I think it would sneak in at

prefixed with lack of yeah fine Liverpool at the weekend I know exactly I wonder if they've noticed that good god it was it was a really really wild game it was great entertainment it was it was a lovely way of bringing in the festive season Peter if you're going to sum up the performance on Ruben Amram's side of things in one noise what noise would you make oh an Ange yeah

You've chosen a word, but it somehow still counts as a noise. It's just an Australian noise. If I had my time again, I'd probably change it to, are you? I mean, he should be celebrating, but he must be quite annoyed about it.

how it at all game management is all about um not doing that oh he looked he looked properly disapproved the word to use is disapproving yeah when Forster was doing his bit yeah but on the Amarim side the analogy I would use actually would be that Ruben Amarim is clearly uh

Say, for example, he's great at putting up a tent. Like, he's brilliant at putting up tents. You give him a tent, whether it's a ten-man tent or one-man tent, he doesn't need the instructions, he'll put up the tent, it'll be brilliant, and it won't let any fucking water in, and everyone will have a lovely time camping in the tent. However, there's a permanent hurricane. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So every time he tries to do something, it'll go to shit. I was thinking just a herd of Harry Maguire elephants. They're just constantly trying to trample it. I think Harry's done okay. All right. In the early stages. But...

But my point is just that you can't have a go at someone for not being able to put up a tent when there's a hurricane. It's not the right time to be putting up a tent. What was the new Yacht Mets NRG used on the WhatsApp yesterday? Well, it was the New York Jets who are disastrously bad and have been for some time. Right. Who keep changing their coaches, keep changing their players around, flip-flopping around on different bits. And the point was that the owner, Woody Johnson, is the problem. And the...

unnamed source from the club who works at the club said, we can change the players all we want. It's not going to make any difference.

If someone diagnoses you with a brain tumour, there's no point amputating a foot. It's not going to make it any easier. That's a nice analogy. I like it. Yeah, it is. And I think that given the fact that Man United seem to be taking their cost-saving measures so far that they can't even hire a decent PR firm, it doesn't bode well. It does not bode well at all. It's not going to translate onto the pitch. They've got some good young players, but the rest of them need to be

shipped out quickly and obviously the transfer window makes that tough but they've got to do that at some point there's going to be a huge turnover of players and they've got to back hammer him and give him a bit of time but in the meantime like I say it's a hurricane and do you know what it's not even a hurricane of rain it's a hurricane of piss we need a totemic kind of player to absorb all of the chaos rather than having it spread right throughout the squad Paul Pog

Paul Pogba is looking for a new club when his ban from football potentially ends in March. Apparently an escort website in Brazil has offered Corinthians, well, £515,000 a month to cover the costs of signing Paul Pogba. The director of the company said, we'd like to express our interest in actively contributing to make this operation possible, which certainly represents a unique opportunity.

opportunity for everyone involved. They do sponsor Vitoria in the Brazilian top flight and it's all rather distasteful. It's a staggering amount of money. They must be doing really well. Yeah. Hey, oldest job in the world.

Yeah, but I mean, their business fundamentals must be very sound. Oh, yeah. To be dishing out half a million a month just for Paul Pogba to play for Corinthians. Yeah, we're changing him fucking himself. Tottenham play Liverpool on Sunday. Spurs will...

also play Liverpool in the Carabao Cup semi-final while Arsenal play Newcastle. It's a big weekend and it's a big future for the EFL Cup, I tell you. I think, do you know what? You and I, Pete, we waxed lyrical, well I did and you kind of nodded along, about how great it would be if Newcastle were to win the Carabao. I think playing Arsenal's probably, if you were going to choose Spurs, chaotic, never know what you're going to get. Liverpool, top of the league. Arsenal, Newcastle have had their number in recent seasons. Yeah, especially given the

It complicates it as a two-legged game, doesn't it? Because it's been one where the home team has won regularly recently. So essentially, that could make for a really good game because I think it's going to be the home team's going hell for leather in those fixtures. I just feel like... Because I said, I don't know if you heard it, but I said on Wednesday night with Pete that I think that... I don't know when the games actually are, but if they're around...

which they probably will be a really congested part of the season for Arsenal, the EFL Cup's not going to be their priority. And I thought the same for Liverpool, of course. But the problem is, I have confidence that Newcastle can do it. And then for some reason, as soon as the draw happens, I think, nah, not going to do it. I don't know. I think so, obviously, as Pete said, yeah,

Last couple of seasons it's been 1-0 at St. James' Park, isn't it? And also a few seasons ago there was a really attritional 0-0. Is that why Newcastle were time-wasting? Yes. So it might... I've been a nasty boy. Were you at the game? Yeah. You time-wasting as well. They've got that approach there and it's frustrated Arsenal before and it's worked. And obviously they've got good players as well. So it's...

it's going to be a really interesting battle. Can I also just put one more, one more bone into the conversational broth and say that Newcastle played a really strong team. Hmm.

on Wednesday. Yeah, yeah. And Arsenal probably won't play a strong team. I don't know about that. I think the way that he's been talking about the Carabao, I think he's starting to care about it. Care about it. Because obviously they need silverware. It's one trophy in five years from now. So he's been talking about the galvanising effect of winning something. So I suspect that he will actually play a strong team. But we'll see, won't we? But not if he's got a key Champions League game or a key...

Who knows? Who knows? The future is, insert some phrase about the future. Yes, production company A24 are set to produce a drama series about Liverpool under Bill Shankly in the 1960s. Bill Shankly? Shankly.

How am I doing, boss? I'm terrible at pronunciation, it turns out. I would say that this company are famous for some of the best Oscar-bothering films, but A24 can't be getting involved in football. We've got an A22 who are getting involved with the Super Leagues. It's very confusing. We hate them. We like A24. Are they going to do a good job? Is it going to be a tearjerker? Are they going to get the rights for Ferry Across the Mersey and other...

Anfield Classics. There's some good people involved. It's also, yes, made with Box to Box. Bill Shankly. Who made Drive to Survive. It's about the great Bill Shankly. Shankly, yeah. Jack Thorne is on board as a writer. He's done a lot of very successful stuff. He did Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which is excellent. I'm going to be honest with you guys and say that I don't really like

historical dramatizations of spot. I like, no, just generally, I prefer the, give me a doc. Give me a doc, right. I want the real shit. I want the real shit. Oh yeah, I want Larry Olivier, The World at War. Is it because I forced one COVID season for you to watch United Passions? Yeah, you've affected my taste in culture quite a lot during that COVID period in many different ways, Peter. You did that to all of us. In many ways, I took away my own taste in the world.

in many ways. I really like that drama. I haven't said that. I really like that drama about the Munich air disaster where Matt Busby was played by Dougray Scott. Right. I thought that was really good. So there are exceptions, obviously. Is this kind of like generation of football teams so far in the past that not many people alive will have... Well, not many people alive, but some people obviously will have seen them. But they...

I think it's not going to be us watching 1990s Premier League and sort of go, it didn't look like that. Do you know what I mean? It was kind of everything is black and white. Yeah, because the 1990s stuff, to take that kind of example to its conclusion, for us sitting here now...

production company A24 were producing a drama series about the Premier League in the 90s Classic Barclays they'd call it Yeah There's no actor alive that could feasibly for us play Alan Shearer Yeah Or Adrian Paz It would be ridiculous I think that would be okay I'm not quite sure what role he would play Tim Sherwood Neil Shipley Yeah No one's playing those people Yeah So

With the 60s, I guess it's so far removed, you can actually probably get away with it. I'm sure it'll be good. I'm sure it'll be fantastic. It'll be passable. Well, speaking of films and Christmas films specifically, we weren't. The festive football season is truly upon us. Loads of Premier League players are currently one booking away from not playing on Boxing Day, which is very exciting. This happens every year. Jim, on the WhatsApp, you mentioned that this makes you feel more Christmassy than a thousand presents. It does, actually. Yeah, really.

It really does. It's the sheer volume of it as well. I am very confident that players do this deliberately. There are 39 players on bookings this year. Yeah. I'm going to... Should we have a little punt? Yeah, how many is it going to be? I think it's going to be as high as 12. Right. I think there are players...

In relegation battles, you probably won't do that. You would hope, anyway. There are some players where it will be genuine coincidence. Gabriel Jesus is on for this, but he's also in a bit of a scene of form. How is he on there? He never plays. How has he done that? I imagine Christmas is very important to him in particular. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, I reckon 12 players. I think some it will be by accident, some it will be very deliberate. So my feeling is that if I was a manager...

And I suspected, as Jim suspects, that I wouldn't be smudged a good name of top-level footballers by saying the things Jim said. A friend of mine is an agent and said it definitely happened. So I'm going on that. If I was the manager, I would say to the lads, if you do get booked, don't think you're missing the Christmas game. You're coming anyway. Yeah. You've got to watch it, yeah. Or maybe I would say, depends on the booking. If it was a really important pullback of

of an opposition player with five minutes to go and we're 1-0 up, I'll let you have it. What would be great is if there's a situation where like three or four players are in the position to do that and they all go for it. Yeah. But if you repeatedly foul throw on purpose... Looking at you, Gabriel Jesus. I'll push Alan Rickman off a skyscraper. Yeah. I'd love it if Gabriel Jesus were all when he was on the bench. Because you can bring him to the bench.

Just flick it to me. Just do it there. Back off. So I reckon it could be... Jim, I reckon... I was going to say higher than 12. I'm going to go 15. Yeah. Yeah, I think 15 as well. Can we go for a joint bid for 15? If you want to, yeah. We'll probably forget about this for the next show, won't we? Thank you. Yeah. Soft hands. Let us know as well. Get in touch. Let us know what your... He's doing the weird hand thing. Let us know what your number is and show you're working. Yes. Yes, please. Lovely. All right. Well, coming up after this, Everton have got a new owner.

This episode is sponsored by HIMSS Hair. Lads, let's face it, when you're heading out the door, it's phone, wallet, keys, and for some of us, a quick grab for a hat because the hairline is starting to look a little bit offside. But don't panic, HIMSS has got you covered. And no, not with another hat.

Hair loss is about as common as a goalless draw on a rainy Tuesday night. But unlike those, you can actually do something about it. With HIMSS, you can start seeing results in as little as three to six months. They've got clinically proven treatments like finasteride and minoxidil, and everything's delivered discreetly to your door. No awkward chats in the waiting room required. It is simple. Just answer a few questions online and a licensed medical professional

We'll be right back.

Hymns.com forward slash ramble. Results may vary. Based on studies of topical, neural, monoxidil and finasteride, prescription products require an online consultation with a healthcare provider to determine if a prescription is appropriate. Restrictions apply. See website for full details and important safety information.

This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. What is your favourite part of the holidays? Maybe it's organising a Christmas dinner for all your friends, catching a Christmas light show, or cozying up on the sofa with a hot chocolate for the festive football period. We all look forward to sinking into those holiday comforts and taking a well-earned break at the end of a busy year. But let's be honest, it's not always as easy as it sounds. Sometimes the holidays bring their own kind of chaos, or maybe they remind us of challenges we've faced throughout the year. If that sounds familiar, taking some time for yourself

could be just what you need. Therapy can be a great way to carve out that time, a space to reflect, reset and prepare yourself for the year ahead. Therapy isn't just about tackling big issues, it's about giving yourself the comfort and support you deserve, no matter the season. It helps you build habits and tools to stay with you even when the festive lights come down and life picks up again in January.

If you've been thinking about therapy, why not start with BetterHelp? It's entirely online, designed to be convenient, flexible and suited to your schedule. Just fill out a brief questionnaire to get matched with a licensed therapist and switch therapists at any time for no additional charge. Find comfort this December with BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com forward slash ramble today to get 10% off your first month. That's betterhelp, H-E-L-P dot com slash ramble.

Ryan Reynolds here for Mint Mobile. You know, one of the perks about having four kids that you know about is actually getting a direct line to the big man up north. And this year, he wants you to know the best gift that you can give someone is the gift of Mint Mobile's unlimited wireless for $15 a month. Now, you don't even need to wrap

Hey, Prime members. You can listen to this show ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today.

Oh, my honey, right foot. Oh, cheesy peeps, man. Never gets old. Never, ever gets old. Good Lord. Love that. Chelsea 5, Shamrock Rovers 1 in the Conference League. Guys, what are we doing here? What's the actual point? I know. I mean, Shamrock had their moment. They got their goal and inexplicably, they're still

during the competition. What is happening? I mean, Shamrock Rose threw to the knockout rounds via a qualifier as I punched the desk with anger. Kukaria scored a goal in this match on the 58th minute to wrap things up. I love him. Why? Because he's the chaos muppet. He's just always fun. There's always stuff going on. I just think he'd be an absolute dick. Oh, of course. But, you know, we don't have to hang out with him or play against him, do we? Was it because he's not a very good singer? No.

Is that because you're a good singer? No, it's not. You know what? You're talking about the song about him after the winning of the Euro. Yeah, that was terrible. Yeah, the reason it was terrible, and I'll tell you why, it's nothing to do with his ability to sing or not. I've got no beef with that whatsoever. I'm a big encourager of Marcus Singer, and he's not a great singer. It's because he didn't commit to it.

It's like, it's almost the, it was like the song equivalent of like when you're cycling through town, not signaling proper, just putting your finger out. Fucking embrace it. Yeah. Do it. If you're going to do it, do it, mate. If all your, all your teammates have stood up after a Euros final win and said, there's a song about Marco Carrillo, I'd like you to sing it. And he's up there just fucking phoning it in. It's not acceptable. Commit. Yeah. Commit or fuck off. He did. He did do a little knee slide after his goal. Yeah.

And we know you can slip about the gaff, mate. We've seen you do it so many times. We missed the fact that that was a new boot launch. I know. Yeah, it's Puma, wasn't it? So he's got his boot. He's got his new boots. And Puma probably spent millions of pounds launching a new boot. Give it a mark of career. And he's managed to just chin off points on the share price. It's amazing. I think Puma themselves did do some quite interesting work.

funny marketing stuff afterwards. Right. Did they, right? Okay, well, set and fire them and stuff. For me, I don't think they did that, no. Why do you always go to set and fire stuff straight away? That's just my default setting, fire. It's man's greatest, um, four. LAUGHTER

That's great as foe. That man's great as foe. Pete Donaldson, he lights up a room. My big takeaway from the Chelsea 5 Shamrock Rovers 1 game was that the equaliser for Shamrock Rovers, they had about 7 or 8 minutes where they were on level terms at 1-1. They had a couple of chances. It was scored by Marcus Poom, who is the son of Mart Poom. Oh, I like that very much. He actually played for Portsmouth briefly. And Arsenal. And he played for Arsenal as well. And he's given his son a more English name so that people who called him... No, it's Marcus with a K.

It makes it more Estonian. But it's easier to say because people would always call him Mark Poom, didn't they? Back in the day. Not me, mate. Not you. This is an extended showbiz training tour for Chelsea. Six out of six wins in the Europa League group stage. I mean, this was very much a third string side, so I don't know why Kukere is celebrating. There was a point in the summer where there were reports that they couldn't afford to enter it.

Oh, they are just swanning through it. Well, Mark Guillaume, he smashed himself into the post as hard as I've ever seen a player hit the post after he scored. And he just styled it out because toilets are where we cry, people. Like a proper teenager. He didn't do anything, did not. He is a properly exciting young player. Yeah, he's good, isn't he? And he looks cool as well. So, I mean, the fact that he can style out absolutely...

garropping himself on a post is a great bonus. It was a real poor laxer. It was a real, I'm just going to stay down, but he was up and about and celebrating. Chelsea are off to Everton on Sunday. The freaking group has completed its takeover of Everton. The Premier League approved the deal that had been signed back in September. It's over $400 million worth of takeover. And it means that Fahad Moshiri is finally out. I mean...

The era of untested strikers and creaky midfielders is over Jim potentially. I mean it's certainly good news in the short term isn't it? We

we've heard a lot of doubts about the Free King Group's ability to bring sort of true success. But compared to what's just come before, when you look back at the Moshiri era, there's been obviously a lot written about everything that's happened there. He's put like £450 million of his own money into it. And the reports are that he'll walk away with as little as £25 million, which shows you the sort of... the level of just...

kind of wasted money there. It's astonishing that they stayed up, really, in all that time, especially giving points deductions and things like that. I think it's a long period of time and they're a well-supported club. Yeah. 400 million over that amount of time. Like, football is a good place to park your money if you're going to... Well, maybe you're bad at it. Well, clearly. Surely it depends, though. I mean...

Is it a good place to park your money? It depends what you're kind of after. It depends on what products you guys invest in, I suppose. Yeah, I don't know that it is a good place to park your money. I think it's a very, very easy way to lose money. If you look at what's happened here, it's very, very difficult to...

to essentially buy success, which is the attempt of essentially every transfer, isn't it? And it can be an absolute money pit. It can be a complete black hole. And in the case of Everton, it's because they're competing with people with...

far greater resources. So, yeah, I mean, I think Everton fans will be certainly happy about this in the short term because they've had so much chaos for such a long time. The points deductions in particular must have been so infuriating because not only are we bad on the pitch, we're bad off of it.

and that's going to make things even harder. So hopefully for their sake, just as they move into a new stadium, this will be a little bit of stability. Seven full-time managers across nine years in charge and some pricey little names in there as well, you would suggest. Rafa Benitez in there as well. I almost forget that that happened. There's something about football, isn't there, that makes a lot of...

wealthy, successful people just almost lose their minds. Definitely. Behave like they don't understand money. That's how it looks from the outside anyway. Because the list of decisions that Moshiri has made, not just with the thing you're talking about with the turnover of managers or...

whatever. But he tried to sell to triple seven partners who were clearly very problematic to say. Yeah. Now that might well be because he just wanted to get as quick as he could and they didn't care. Yeah. But, but his judgment just seems to be so poor to the point where you think it was like the whole Mike Ashley thing. Mike Ashley's incredibly successful. And as far as I understand, it has gone on to carry on being successful after Newcastle. But when he gets to Newcastle,

He just gets it so wrong so often. And I understand there's different reasons. He got it wrong on the pitch, though. But it was a useful kind of project for him, wasn't it? I don't know. Sports Direct Stadium and all that stuff. But I'm talking about the decisions he makes. They don't seem to be able to do right for doing wrong. Yeah. Because it's almost like they don't understand that football is...

a completely different kind of set of parameters to the business world they used to. And in many ways, actually... It's the Wild West. It is the Wild West. Ashley said that. He said it's still the Wild West and it's still just like no other business on Earth. Yeah. The way it's operated. I mean, freaking had their fingers burned at Roma. They sort of came in and tried to sort of, you know, turn over tables and stuff. But like they're apparently this time going to be a bit more softly, softly, nonchalantly.

Not Fairey Daishi, kind of immediately. They fired Daniel Ida Rossi, didn't they? Which is very, very unpopular. So you would hope that they'd learn from that. That said, they do have Chelsea Man City Forrester in the next three games. It's not particularly ideal. But I would say that this is a time to consolidate for Dan Friedkin, the owner of the whole set-up. He flies all military aircraft. He does. So he could do his own banner work. Yes, of course. He was in...

Dunkirk, wasn't he? We talked about this before when he first got linked. He's a very avid military plane collector. Yeah. And a pilot himself. He's obviously got an exec credit on Parasite as well, so he'll probably live in the stadium in the basement. Nice. Together. Good throwback to a Korean Oscar winner. And he's all about conservation, so Nigel Martin will be back in goal. Sorry.

Everton have got weather warnings to contend with yet again this weekend. So it's just, it's becoming a little bit like The Last of Us there, I think, a little bit. I can imagine this stadium is just going to be absolutely deserted. So in that analogy then, Sean Dyche is what, the adult? And who's the girl that's running around with him? Ooh.

I don't know. Dominic Calvert-Lewin. Dominic Calvert-Lewin. Because he wore that skirt that time. Unbelievable. All right. Well, Man City travel to Aston Villa on Saturday lunchtime. Are City waiting for the kind of levy to break on results and points? What is going... Like...

They've got a lot of injuries, but they should have enough to sort of deal with some of these fixtures. I'm looking forward to Man City guys more and more every week. I was on the same page as you, though. Never discount them. But that is getting a thin... And I'd like people to remember that you said that and I said that. But I changed my mind.

I changed my mind week to week. I said on Monday, I'll agree with Marcus now. After seeing them more closely, to be fair, when this all started happening, I was away. I didn't see them as closely. Going to Aston Villa is... The problem is it starts to become a self-fulfilling prophecy, right? Because every team they play against now goes, we've got a chance. And you say they've got injuries. They've got injuries to...

some players, key players, you know, Rodri's obviously the big one, but Nathan Allen... The older ones are fit as a fiddle, though. Yeah. There's a massive, massive form issue as well with individuals that's contributing. I just don't think they've got as many injuries as anyone else. They've got Rodri out, Oscar Bob's out, Ake and Manuel Kanji are out, and Kanji's been important for them, I understand that, but I don't think that's...

That is the smallest of tiny fig leaves. That's not even covering one of the nuts, let alone the cock and the other ball. As a fig leaf, good time for Christmas boxers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We mentioned recently Villa have kind of struggled a little bit after the European Games, but they'll be well rested ahead of this and they need to kind of

course correct a little bit as well as they lost to Forest in the last game so this is another tricky one for City which he never used to say did you? Yeah he didn't used to say that and the whole thing is becoming exponentially more difficult for them the more it continues the pressure just piles up and it's partly because they've been so good right and that's why the pressure comes along because people notice when they do stuff they don't normally do which is never win and

Right, it's time for the Football Ramble Bet Builder on that note. Brought to you in partnership with our friends at LiveScoreBet. This season you can experience total betting for yourself with LiveScoreBet. It's everything you love about LiveScore, like the latest scores and cutting-edge stats, alongside great odds, offers, free-to-play games and a slick bet.

Everything is in one place. Every preview show throughout the season, we'll be placing a charity bet builder on the Saturday lunchtime kickoff with all proceeds going to charity, of course. So this week's bet builder is for tomorrow's 12.30 game between Aston Villa and Man City. Peter, you're up first. Well, like you said, Luke, I think a lot of teams are playing Manchester City, especially at home, and thinking they get something out of it.

Oh, here we go. I think Aston Villa are going to win. Villa's last five results, three wins, one draw, one loss. Man City, toilet. You've rolled your trouser leg up for that. I've got my trouser leg up for that, yeah. That's how serious you are for it. That's how my predictions go on this week. Aston Villa to beat Man City, Jim. How do you feel about that? I feel positive about it. I do too. I think it's a great shout. I would agree with you. Next up is Andy. What did Andy choose? Hello all, Andy here.

I've gone for John Durant to score at any time. Of course, the scorer of the winner against Southampton last week, the scorer against Leipzig in

in the Champions League. Look, this is John Durant's season and the rest of us are just taking our time to figure that out. He knows it already. So John Durant's score, any time. Nice to hear Andy underwater there. Yeah, in Pyongyang. Yeah, exactly. But I agree with this selection as well. Great stuff. John Durant's force is way at the start of the night for Aston Villa and it'll be great if he does score for Albert Jim.

I have gone for over 6.5 corners. I will show my work in. Man City have taken the most so far this season with 139. Villa have taken the fifth most with 103. And I think it's going to be busy at both ends of the pitch. So lots of corners feel likely to me. I like that, Jim. And I've gone for over two and a half goals. So three or more goals scored in the game. That's happened three of the last five Premier League games these two have played against each other.

I just think it's really difficult for me to imagine this game being low scoring. So I've gone for over two and a half goals. So in summary, we think Aston Villa will win. We think John Duran will score. We think there'll be over six and a half corners and over two and a half goals in the game. A £10 stake with a live score bet returns £120.

Thanks to them boosting the odds from 9.5 to 1 to 11 to 1. And if we win, all that money will be donated to Prostate Cancer UK for the third time this season. We've had two wins already and we're not even at Christmas yet. Head on over to the LiveScore bet app to get involved and you can check out the bets made here marked up as Football Ramble boosts in the app.

Odds are subject to change. Teas and seeds apply. 18 plus and please bet responsibly. For more information on responsible gambling, head to gamblerware.org. Before we get to the brick, look at me. Yeah. Erling Haaland, bit of a falling out reportedly between him and Pep Guardiola. Pep Guardiola, obsessed with systems. Erling Haaland, quite an instinctual, instinctive striker. Yeah. Where do you think this is going to go? I,

I think that the manager will win out. Yeah, okay. Apart from... No, actually, I actually think that it's surprising that we've not seen more people break in ranks after the terrible form they've been in. And Haaland does seem like an emotionally led character. Yeah. And Guardiola definitely is. So, I mean, I'd love it to explode in public. Yeah. I'd be able to make that quite clear. Erling Haaland is like a kind of very, very talented but...

but simple guy. Right, yeah. And I think it might be outmaneuvered by Pep's mind games. Yeah, well, he's not going to leave in the January transfer window, is he? So we'll have a bit more clarity on Guardiola's future in the summer. Barcelona have got the money to pay for it. It's interesting that Barcelona are the ones linked, isn't it? It makes you think that it's essentially hot air. Maybe both of them could go at the same time. Absolutely. I mean, as far as I understand it, and we'll defer to our OTC cousins,

but it's just fucking impossible. They can't even register Danny Olmo for the second half of the season. He already plays for them. Yeah. There's no way that's going to happen. All right. Well, coming up after this, Jamie Vardy continues to find new ways to be a bit of a nuisance.

When it comes to weight loss, no two people are the same. That's why Noom builds personalized plans based on your unique psychology and biology. Take Brittany. After years of unsustainable diets, Noom helped her lose 20 pounds and keep it off. I was definitely in a yo-yo cycle for years of just losing weight, gaining weight, and it was exhausting. And Stephanie. She's a former D1 athlete who knew she couldn't out-train her diet, and she lost 38 pounds.

My relationship to food before Noom was never consistent. And Evan, he can't stand salads, but he still lost 50 pounds with Noom. I never really was a salad guy. That's just not who I am. Even through the pickiness, Noom taught me that building better habits builds a healthier lifestyle. I'm not doing this to get to a number. I'm doing this to feel better.

Get your personalized plan today at Noom.com. Real Noom users compensated to provide their story. In four weeks, a typical Noom user can expect to lose one to two pounds per week. Individual results may vary. Hey, I'm Ryan Reynolds. Recently, I asked Mint Mobile's legal team if big wireless companies are allowed to raise prices due to inflation. They said yes. And then when I asked if raising prices technically violates those onerous two-year contracts, they said, what the f*** are you talking about, you insane Hollywood a**hole?

So to recap, we're cutting the price of Mint Unlimited from $30 a month to just $15 a month. Give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch. $45 upfront payment equivalent to $15 per month. New customers on first three-month plan only. Taxes and fees extra. Speeds lower above 40 gigabytes per detail. Hey, Prime members. You can listen to this show ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today.

Leicester Wolves Sunday at 2pm. A massive one down the bottom of the table. Leicester, their 17th. Five points ahead of Wolves in 19th.

Wolves this season, man. You just always think they're going to sort of climb out of it and put some runs together, but they've just not managed it thus far, have they? No, but they've got an absolute madman at the helm now. Yeah. That's a good point, actually. It couldn't be better. No, it's... It couldn't be better. This is less... Just vintage Barclays. What little Christmas present for all of us. Let's remember, we were staring down the Barrowden Moyes. The most we were going to get was some barely disguised sexist abuse. No, I don't think Moyes was ever going to go there. And now we've got this fella. Mm.

It's brilliant. I mean, we've sort of seen all of the clips of him doing his work in... It was Saudi Arabia, wasn't it? Yeah, Saudi Arabia, where a man kept trying to tell him to talk about something other than what he wanted to talk about. And he kept saying, fuck off, basically. I'm going to talk about what I want to talk about. And then he tried to leave and then he remembered who was in charge and then he was like, I've probably got to sit here for a bit, haven't I? I'm a big fan of managers saying to themselves in press conferences...

I can answer the questions, but this is also really my time. And I can stare as long as I want. And I can answer the questions in a way which means I can just air quite a lot of grievances. Yeah. Well, he's obviously an interesting character and he seems to have that kind of Pep Guardiola work obsession, which means not that he sort of bides his time and chooses jobs correctly. He will just panic and go, I've been out of work for three days. I need a football job and jump into everything.

any old muck that's gone around. And now I'm everyone's problem, essentially. Yeah, I'm a big fan of that. Was it a South American press conference as well where a journalist asked him if he was right about getting sacked and he said something like, do you know how much money I've got, mate? Yeah, I'm minted. I'll be absolutely fine. He's going to be fantastic.

however it works out has he got good English I believe he does actually he did him back in the day and I think that's sort of what cost him the Everton the first Everton pitch he's absolutely gutted about that he was probably in a better state to be honest probably had Rooney for the second time to play with apparently he popped in to see Pep

Guardiola when he was at Bayern Munich for a week before giving Pep a lot of advice on how to fix their defensive issues. It's absolutely brilliant. He's in the gym and he's telling people how to lift. Brilliant. This could be a rare example of something being good for the Ramble and good for your team because him being a maniac is still going to be funny even if they're successful because of it. And he's not just going into the gym telling people how to lift. In this case, he's going into like

Mr. Universe and telling him how to lift which is fascinating I hope we see a lot of fun stuff from him

It's a Sunday afternoon kick-off, so it's going to be on the TV, so that's good as well. It's quite the departure from Gary O'Neill, who seems like a very kind of... Quite a good bloke. Yeah. Quite sensible. Very British. It's chalk and then difficult cheese. Yeah, absolutely. Like a really aggressive veiny job that's got hard rennet on the side. Yeah, a lick at the inside of a cave-type cheese after a delicious slice of mild cheddar. Lovely chalk. But...

The way I am as a football fan means that if my team are doing shit, I quite like the idea of a madman coming and giving all the players a kick up the arse. Not because I necessarily think it's that productive, but just because it'll make me feel better. And I think this is a case of that, I think. Yeah, well, like Gary O'Neill, Southampton manager Russell Martin was also sacked this week. Still no word on who's going to be replacing him. But yeah, Rusky's back in the dugout. Love a bit of Simon Rusk. Are you enjoying that they can't find someone to...

be the manager yeah I mean it's how the club is it's how the club is we have to all here be really hopeful that we'll witness history in terms of the worst Premier League team ever yeah because they've got what was it Derby got 11 points and we're almost halfway through the season and if Southampton don't pick up another point

they're going to be on par to be worse because they've got five points now. It's not even half of 11 because half of 11, Pete, is five and a half. Thank you very much. You can't do half points in the Premier League. Don't let anyone tell you you can. Famously. That's what we've got to hope out for. Big six, isn't it? Absolute cabal. We need the next Southampton manager to be...

like properly bad yeah like really really bad like down the Pompey Highway bad that's unfortunate use that terminology Pete well I mean hey you got Frankie Lampard at the weekend oi oi I know Pompey aren't having the best time in the championship but do you think do you think a reunion is possible next season we all want this for you yeah I think it's certainly more possible that it's more likely that Portsmouth get out of the problems they're in than Surampton do for sure I mean Surampton are basically relegated Portsmouth aren't relegated necessarily they've got a game or two in hand against most of the teams in the league and they've

Yeah, there's been a...

you don't want to hear about this but just very quickly Pompey have done a great line in playing quite well but losing and peppering it with the odd abysmal performance where they get battered and that's not a great recipe but there is time there is still time there is indeed well Jamie Vardy on the lesser side of things has revealed his pre-match preparation to help him piss off opposition players he learns different insults in their native language this is what you like to see it's like when you go on holiday to like wherever you're going to be you learn a few languages you learn a few words

where's the toilet? Can I have a beer, please? And he's doing his best. He's still with the other way around. Yeah, well, that's why I drink my beer. Are you a big fan of this, Luke? Yeah, I like it. It's like his version of Eddie Redman in Day of the Jackal. He learns the language, ingratiates himself into the local culture and is able to perform his duties and then disappear off into the night. Church should get banged. Yeah.

Whereas Jamie Vardy is doing kind of the same thing, but in a much more high-profile way. I just think it's inspirational that he's still finding new ways to grow and to learn at 37. It's an inspiration to young players, really. It would be an incredible plot twist if we found out post-retirement that because of this, Jamie Vardy is proficient in like four different languages. Yeah, he's like a polyglot. He's a duolingo kind of... From nowhere, he does a last year in like...

in Saudi Arabia or Qatar and he can speak the local language perfectly well I mean he's the duolingual owl but he's just shouting piss and shit instead and Red Bull yeah Tora Russell Tora Russell also at Leicester he's Eddie Red Bull also at Leicester Hamza Chowdhury has pledged to play for Bangladesh which is a big move um

Vish wrote a book about him, didn't he? With him. With him, yeah. Cole wrote a little kind of manga book, I think. It was capped seven times by England's under-21s, but Bangladeshi fans have been messaging him on social media for years, trying to get him to play it for them. It's a big movie. Such a kind of important figure, I think, for certainly British Asians. And, you know, it's...

It's going to play some dads in it. It's going to play some dads. It's an amazing, amazing move. I mean, I can, I mean, perhaps shamefully, I couldn't tell you a single other Bangladeshi player. And if you look at their most recent squad, all the players in their squad are playing in Bangladesh. So like, it's not even, they've not really got any players that come and play in, in, in Europe at all. So it's not, not just interesting for him, but it's also incredibly important for Bangladesh because the,

the influence and the kind of not education but like experience they'll get from having like a Premier League player in their squad well he said hasn't he that he wants to help them sort of climb up the world rankings and change the infrastructure and maybe bring some more European ideas to that set up so it's potentially really positive well let's hope he knows the Bengali for fuck off yeah

To be fair, I should just say, by the way, they are also coached by a Spaniard, though, who's quite a well-respected coach. He's got a pro license, all the rest of it. So it may well be that they are a good combination. Good luck to Bangladesh. All right, time for this. Here we go.

I don't know what that means. Oh, I don't know what that means. I'm a purist, Pete. I close the laptop. Yeah. Some people don't. Some people don't. Jim just saw... I think he tries to confuse us by using it as a partition. No, yeah, that's it. So it's so that you don't accidentally look over and see what I'm writing down. Yeah, but have you got, like... I can see your kind of computer desktop on your Apple Mac, Indosh. Have you renamed some of the folders to give Luke a bit of abuse? I'm so fucking desperate to click that finances folder. LAUGHTER

Double click on that. It's just a spider dancing. See how much wedge he's got. It's all in red. Last week. It's a screen cry. Is it a nice colour? There's vinegar coming out of its pots. Last week, Andy Brassel put in one of the most embarrassing performances in Jackson's cycling

He's not going to say it anyway. Losing to the Luke Nation. It's not easy under the pressure, is it, of course? No, exactly, yeah. And now Jim is back to defend the Intercontinental title against Luke. I want this fucking belt back. Yeah, you want it. It's a simple game of categories. You know how it goes. Let's kick off with you, Lukey Moore.

Let's have it. Every goal scorer in each of Southampton's 9-0 defeats. What a delicious, delicious situation. So Leicester and Man Utd combined? Exactly. Every goal scorer in each of Southampton's 9-0 defeats. How many are there? That's funny. There are 13. Okay. I'm going to go for Jamie Vardy. He definitely did. Yeah. Bruno Fernandes. Bruno Fernandes. Yes. Well done, mate.

I've got a sneaky suspicion that... Tough round, this. Aaron Wan-Bissaka, I think, scored for United. He did. Well done, Lucky Mo. Well remembered. I'm going to go for Marcus Rashford. He popped up. James Madison. He did. Very good. This is actually a really tough round. It's a little while ago now, isn't it? Good opening salvo, I think. I'm going for Anthony Martial. Oh, nice. Nice.

Very good, Jim. That's excellent. The only one I've got... Strong showing. I don't know if this is going to be right. Christian Eriksen? I don't think he would have been at United, would he? Let's have him on, Jim, to get the round. Wilfred Ndidi? Oh! Back in! Come on! Oh, my goodness me. Doesn't make it any easier coming back in, does it? Ricardo Pereira?

Not in there. It's a difficult one. It's a difficult one. Could be anyone. Jesse Lingard? All right, that's it. No points. No points. Could have had Iose Perez, Ben Chilwell, Dan James, Edinson Cavani, Jan Bednarek with an oggy. Ha ha ha!

I should have got that. Yeah, I know, right? I love that. Big old Jan. Scott McTominay and Yuri Tielemans as well. So there we go. Tielemans is gettable. Strong round, great performance. Enjoying the game. All right, second round to you, Jim. Every Premier League club's top Premier League goalscorer who currently plays for the club. Every Premier League club's top Premier League goalscorer who currently plays for the club. Okay, so they're still at the club. Still at the club. This only includes Premier League goals scored for the club they're currently at.

but it can be across multiple spells with the club. Chris Wood. Oh, I like it. Not in the forest. Dominic Calvert-Lewin. He's in there. Everton. I was really nervous about hearing that. Matthias Kunja. Matthias Kunja. Wolves, correct. Fucking hell, Jim. That's excellent. I never would have got that. This is a bit of a random one, but if I've understood the question properly, I think Liam De Lappe's got to be in there.

Clever. He's in there. Good stuff. Jungmin Son, surely? Jungmin Son. Correct. I mean, I'll be stunned if this isn't correct. Mo Salah? He's in there. Surely Bukayo Saka as well. Correct. Jim, you're flying. You are flying, my friend. I'm trying to... Maybe I'm being too clever here, but I can't think who else it would be. Antoine Semenyo for Bournemouth?

Yes. Wow. I'm going to stick my neck out and go for Erling Haaland. Oh, that's good. He's got to be. He's in there. Well done, Jim. Now, this is a tricky one. This is between... Oh, fucking hell. Marcus Rashford? Yes. Fucking hell. Do you know what? I almost went for fucking Bruno Fernandes. Mikel Antonio? No.

Fucking hell, Jim. Jim, this is like a walk in the park for you. Romans V believed he might be back home for Christmas, which is excellent news. That would be great news. That would be very good. So how many have we had? Two, four, six, eight. We've had 11 already. Yeah. My goodness me. Okay. I'm trying to think of, I'm just trying to think of a club. Teams, yeah. Oh, Jamie Vardy. Oh, great. Oh, great. Yeah. Okay. Olly Watkins. Oh, God. Yes.

Jim! Forgot about the ears. Jim's too good. He's too good. I thought I was going to win today and I'm not. I don't even know what clubs we've got left. Um...

Oh, ghosted out. Ghosted out. Point to Jim. Well done, Jim. You got that point. You could have had Adam Lallana at Southampton. I thought of Southampton, but I couldn't think of anyone. Of course it would be him. Who's Newcastle United's... Is it Wilson or Isaac? Callum Wilson. Correct. Cole Palmer. Danny Welbeck. Jean-Philippe Mateta.

bullying in midweek I was getting think of the clubs I was getting think of the clubs yeah Raul Jimenez at Fulham and Wisser at Brentford oh ok so there's one left I could get a tiebreaker I guess you could get a tiebreaker yeah exactly alright third round Lukey every club and country managed by Marcelo Bielsa excluding youth and Olympic teams every club and country managed by Marcelo Bielsa please ok Leeds United

Leeds are in. Leeds are in there. Uruguay. Uruguay. Athletic Bilbao. Chile. Struggling with this. Good. He managed America. Club America. He did. God. Yeah.

Rosario Central. It's great to hear they get a miss. Yeah. That's a point. Oh, lucky. I had Argentina as well. He managed Argentina, right? He did manage Argentina. And Lazio. And Lazio. And Espanyol. And Lille. And Atlas. Back in the game, Jim. And Marseille. And Newell's. And Vela Sarsfield as well. And Newell almost. One of them he managed for a day. Yeah.

Yes, he did. Fuck this. All right. What does it take for Bielsa to think a club is a bit much? In a day. It's a chance for the tiebreaker? Yeah, lovely. Lovely. All right. I'm going to kick things off with you, Jim, if that's all right with you. Every European club set to compete in the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup. Fuck it, Doc. Every European club set to compete in the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup. Man City? They're in there. I mean, I'm going to...

Let's take a punt and say Real Madrid. Barcelona. Got to be, surely. Oh! Oh, dear, idiot. Luqui, just give us one. I've got no idea. I'm just going to... Chelsea. They've got the squad and you've got the win. Well done, Luqui Moura. Intercontinental champ. Far below, you idiot. Lift that belt. They can't afford to travel. They can't.

Salzburger, innit? Can I have that much? Red Bull Salzburg, PSG, Porto, Juve, Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Benfica, Bayern Munich and La Atletico. I had Juve on my list as well. I was literally just guessing big clubs. It was a great performance and to be honest,

I would have run to the hills for that first round awful thank you for listening to the Football Ramble part of the Acast Creator Network we're back tomorrow for the Mailbag follow us on X Blue Sky TikTok and Instagram at Football Ramble and subscribe on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts what will you be doing on social media over Christmas Peter what kind of content can people expect I'll be liking some hardcore pornography in my likes now they're not visible anymore so yeah absolutely fine maybe retweeting some

some seditious material I thought you'd be doing some DIY stuff around the house or something I don't really have the sort of time I wish I did to be honest my house has gone to my house has gone to rack and ruin at least sort out some of the pests at least yeah I took two mice to the train station last week

The way he's phrased that, they've got little briefcases. Yeah, absolutely. Little outfits. They go for a job interview. Befriended them at home. The rat race, if you will. Yeah. I take them to behind the turn section. So I imagine they're avoiding the problems. You didn't put them on a train? No. You didn't put them on the tracks, did you? Tied them with a little moustache and a top hat. Mwahaha.

Do you want to explain that? Don't move on. Yeah, I need to know what you've had to. We've got some mice. That's where you've got to take them. In the house. So I've got two humane mousetraps, but you've got to take them a couple of miles away from your household. They'll come back. Yeah. Why do they like my house so much? Probably because there's a lot of crumbs. I'm racking my brain. I mean, you were eating hot

tamale sweet before 9am. Yeah, it's my second box in 24 hours. It's not ideal, is it? Is that linked to why you did a pump before we came in? I did do a little pump. It must be an absolute feast on the floor of your place. All kinds of lovely stuff. Not if you don't like cinnamon sweet. Alright, say goodbye, Lukey Moore. Goodbye. And say goodbye, Jim. Bye, mate. And it's goodbye from me. See you tomorrow. The Football Ramble is a Stack production and part of the Acast Creative Network.

Join Bank of Clark as we make an impact through our Give with BOC campaign to make a difference in our community. For the rest of 2024, our branches have chosen a charity to support through our hashtag Give with BOC. To learn how you can help, visit our website at bankofclark.bank slash givewithboc or follow us on our social media channels and the hashtag givewithboc. Show your support and consider giving at your local branch today. Bank of Clark, we're the bank for that.

Happy holidays from all of us at Bank of Clark. Member FDIC. Equal housing lender. This podcast is brought to you by Aura. 2024 has seen a surge in high-profile data breaches, raising serious concerns about the security of personal information. Dell's breach exposed 3.9 million customer records. That's why we're thrilled to partner with Aura. Aura monitors the dark web for users' phone numbers, emails, and social security numbers, delivering real-time alerts if any suspicious activity is detected.

Additionally, Aura provides up to $5 million in identity theft insurance, offering a robust safety net in the event of a worst-case scenario. For a limited time, Aura is offering our listeners a 14-day trial plus a check of your data to see if your personal information has been leaked online. All for free when you visit Aura.com slash safety. That's Aura.com slash safety to sign up for a 14-day free trial and start protecting you and your loved ones. That's

a-u-r-a dot com slash safety. Certain terms apply, so be sure to check the site for details.

It's official. Podcast advertising is transcending audio. Marketers can now tap into audiences across all of a creator's channels, from social media to video, live events and beyond. And ACAST's new report proves it works, with 84% of podcast listeners having taken action after seeing brands promoted in a podcast-first omnichannel campaign. Get these insights and more by downloading the full report at podcastpulse2024.acast.com.