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Hello, mate. How you doing? Happy Christmas. Is it Happy Christmas or is it Happy New Year? I'm always a bit confused. You can look back. At this sort of time. You can look back. Is it Happy Festive Season? No one ever says that. It's Happy Christmas, Happy New Year. I like your top. Is that new? It is new. From Beyond Balls locker? It is Beyond Balls locker. Nice. You'll have your feeler. You'll have a bit of Deodora, a bit of feeler. Yeah, I don't mind it, mate. Back in the 80s. You look good. Is it alright, yeah? Yeah.

So, you ever been taken up at the Arsenal? No. Have you not? No. I look at you and I think, because you've played the game, so I think you must have been taken up at the Arsenal loads of times. Do you know the one thing that really confused me as a young boy growing up? Yeah. They had their sponsor, JVC. JVC, yeah. And I'm Jason Victor coming in.

So you thought it was you as a kid? So they had me on their chest. Oh, that's nice. That's nice, isn't it? Anyway, they took on McKenna Ziptwitch. I know Ron Talks Ball too. It was commentary of Hurtless Brighton. It'd be Thomas Franks Brentford. Now, Stinks, O'Hara, numbnuts O'Hara's away. Where was he? I don't know, mate.

To be quite frank, mate. Have you not looked at his Instagram? He posts all over. I couldn't get this. I'm fine, I couldn't get this. Anyway, it was me and Coley taking all of your calls. Joe Cole? Oh, Joe Cole. Love Joe Cole. No, wasn't Joe Cole, mate. Oh. He's probably my favourite Cole. Okay, what about George Cole? He used to play Arthur. No, George Cole is Joe Cole's dad. What, from Minder? No, not from Minder. He's George Cole, but he's... What about Martha Cole, the writer? Martha Cole? Never heard of him.

It's a woman. Never heard of her, either. Right, OK. What goal is it? At Talk Sport, we bring you all the Christmas storylines. This is the 10th Premier League commentary in two days, and we ain't finished yet. Low cross through the six-yard box, and there's Havertz to touch it home, and there's the opening goal for Arsenal. Here's Erdogan trying to do something about that. Slalom in his way into the box, and he gets up to his left foot. Drives it high towards the far corner, and it's over the top of the crossbar. Expected goals, 0-1.

Ball possession, 16. - Can't be zero. - Expected goal, zero. They haven't had a shot, have they? That's why. - De Lapp and Gabriel get involved in their familiar tangle, and that's left space for Rice, he's hit it first time on the volley, it's stopped by Müric. - I mean, they just look like a championship side today in Switch. I would expect a championship side to play exactly like this. - It's eight wins in ten for Mikel Arteta after their autumnal blip, a blip they hope they...

isn't too costly. It's finished here. Arsenal 1, Ipswich 0. You didn't have Bakayo Saka available today and that's going to be the case for some while. So a different attack from you today. How do you think they performed? Yeah, in some moments we have a lot of fluidity. As I said, in some of the moments we're still...

need other connections, not only on the right side, on the left as well. Things should improve, like in every game. The way we started the second half, we could have improved as well. So a lot of positives and that's the main thing, that the team is really stable, really hungry and keeps winning. So that's good.

You didn't have too many attacking options on the bench tonight. Is that something that you'll look to rectify in January? Well, unfortunately, we lost Bukayo and Rash in the same moment. We had certain options, especially with attacking midfielders, not at front, because I decided to play with two nines today with Kai and Gabi. But we knew that, but overall very happy. We wanted to stay in the game and defend compact and show good resilience and give ourselves a chance to play

be in the game in the later stages and really push to get a result. Some of that went well, some could be better. Of course, we were disappointed with the first goal. The first 20 minutes, really, they had more territory than what we would have wanted and we weren't able to really get a foothold in the game. But from where it was at that point on 20 minutes in their stadium with them on full confidence and a goal up to where the game was in the 93rd minute when

you know, Nathan Broadhead's in their box having a shot at 1-0. I think there was a lot of good work and the players did really well out of possession and we groomed it in the second half and we just weren't able to find the last little bit. These two may both be in the bottom six in the recent form table, but if either can get back to winning ways this evening, it would get them right back in the hunt for a European place. Here comes Brentford at the other end, ball forward to Wissam, inside the penalty area and Johan Wissam

Picks out the right corner and Brentford have the opening goal. The red line's come across and the commentator called it right, he was off. At the moment this match feels a bit like Christmas Day when you've had your presents and you've had the turkey and the trimmings and then your grandad falls asleep on the sofa. And the referee blows the full-time whistle, one or two boos from the Brighton supporters. Very disappointing but that's it.

where we have to learn to win these games. But in the end, I think today we invested a lot and then all the chance we

We made, we all invested and in the end you need in some moments the momentum, you need in some moments also the game luck and you have to work hard for this game luck. Today was not on our side so we keep pushing, we try to stay positive, we try to be honest with each other, analyse the game and try to get the right reflection out of it.

I thought it was a very good defensive game in many ways. I thought that we defended fantastic high and low and middle and also the last minutes blocks when you need to. I thought it was a little bit a game of two halves. I thought Brighton were better than us first half and have some opportunities without creating big chances. Second half I thought we were better.

very good in the high pressure and good spells up there where we just lacked the final moment to cross or play the ball to create an even bigger chance. So I thought in the end it was a relatively fair point where we had the opportunities to maybe get even more, but then you need to show more quality.

Now, Man City spent their Christmas in search of a needed win. But Santa was nowhere to be seen, Jake. It wasn't Stinks. No, he didn't empty his sack over there. No. After the draw at home to Everton, Troy Deeney was critical of the big man. What's... Hold on, big man...

Santa! He can't be critical of Santa. Honestly, he works his absolute tail off. Licked 24 hours, flies around the world, delivers presents. He's not talking about Santa. Look, there's not one child who gets disappointed. He can't be critical of the big man. He's not talking about Santa. He's talking about Pep Guardiola.

He's allowed for excuse and complacency to slip in. It's human nature, right? He's trying to look after his team. He's trying to give them, not give them ways out, give the press ways out to kind of like look, a little bit of slight hand with magic. I think when I listen to it now and I know players, we'll never blame ourselves. It's never our fault first. It's always, if I'm a strike, Harlan's not going, it's my fault I missed a penalty. He's going, yeah, but if I had three more shots in the game, I'd have scored. Do you know what I mean?

Do you get what I mean? That's just kind of what we do. And I just think when the manager starts saying, you know, but we've got loads of injuries, you know, you as a player then can go, oh, you know what? When everyone's fit, we'll be okay. You start falling into the trap of believing all these excuses.

If City thought they were in for an easy time in the new year, they were mistaken. Although the new year's not started yet, so they might not be mistaken. No, who knows? Gabi Agbonoha also laid into Erling Haaland. Oh, dear. No, he was talking about it on my drive show yesterday. Oh, OK. I watch Haaland because I watch the Strikers because I played their...

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Now, the naughty list kept growing in Manchester as United slumped to a 2-0 defeat. What's going on in your club? I was going to say you had a slump.

i'm gonna tell you now yeah that was a bit late for this yeah yeah when the toilet slump oh did you yeah what's that like slumped everywhere you know i uh there's a noise coming from trap two is that what you were no there's a trap one oh something else was slumping next time oh you know i think there was well i think it's mike graham slumping jeez that's terrible thought anyway the big man was on breakfast yesterday and believes who mike graham you're joking

I believe big man Mike Graves slumping all over breakfast and believes the culture is all wrong at Old Trafford. The wide players, you watch Diallo, he'll get dragged in. Alanga's bit the dust, Martial's bit the dust, Ronaldo bit the dust, Sancho bit the dust, Rashford's bitten the dust, Gnaccio, he'll be gone. They seem to get dragged into this culture of you don't really have to sprint. You don't really have to work hard. Talk Sport Daily.

Now, Ruben Amrim has now collected seven points. Well done. Good work. Seven points. What a great return. I guess he's an online celebrity. You know when you go in and you've got to put your hand down a little when you get seven stars? You've got seven stars? You've got seven stars. That's all right. The camp will leak tonight. Don't leak. Don't drop them out of the little bag. You know the little pouch? Yeah, you don't want to do that. You don't want to leave there, mate. Stop dropping them. No. It's not I'm a celebrity. It's actually from his six league games in charge at Old Trafford. Oh, it stinks. It stinks. What's happening there, matey? I don't know. Honestly. So often. No.

The manager of Manchester United cannot be never, no matter what, comfortable.

And I know the business that I'm in. So I know that if we don't win, regardless if they pay the buyout or not, I know that every manager is in danger. And I like that. I like that because that is our job. So I understand the question.

and you can say that I'm here in a month ahead for trainings but we are not winning so I have that this is that is a reality and I'm quite don't forget United played Newcastle on Monday evening oh dear game you can't even talk about who do you think will win that come on United take all three points alright yeah come on just take three points it's all you want just United take three points mate honestly Jay yeah they're both United the black and white ones

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American Public University. Value for the whole family. Learn more at apu.apus.edu slash military. Talk Sport Daily. Spurs carried on being Spurs-y for Christmas with another defeat tonight in the forest. Big Ange has his excuses at the ready. Honestly, mate, injuries. You think he's the only club that's ever had injuries. Big Ange looked down at his feet and told everyone about his injuries. Not to his big toe. Yeah, but it's what he does, mate. We're in a tough spot.

we have been for a while we've been kind of you know getting through it for quite a while now and keeping our fingers crossed we don't get any more issues but uh yeah the nature of football and um yeah the kind of fixture scheduling we've had has just meant that you know we've always kind of been on a fine line of just being able to get through but um it's another test for us but um it is what it is whatever whatever we need to deal with we'll deal with and get ready for sunday your career have you ever experienced no not at this level no not at this level not for that

extended period of time there's always kind of been issues at different times but not to this extent where I say I think we've had close to pretty consistently 10 first team players not available for a run of quite a significant run of games so yeah definitely yeah first for me now don't forget TalkSport 2 brings you live commentary Spurs

Sorry, cut that out. Versus Wolf tomorrow at 3pm. And you can't watch it anywhere else, Stinks, in the UK. Now, probably the most famous Redknapp was on The Breakfast Show. Sandra, come on, you've been with Sandra. Go on, go on, San. What? San? Why would Sandra Redknapp be on The Breakfast Show? Don't know. No, she wasn't. It was Harry Redknapp.

after watching Spurs. And here he gave his thoughts on where Big Ang should be focusing. I think he should be focusing, Stinks. Not on his belly button or his toes. Focus on picking up results. You've got to get him out every day there and spend... Forget doing any other silly...

you know, passing drill, whatever else, shape, you know, shape, get them in shape, get the back forward together, get them organised, you know, get them working, pushing up together, like, you know, a piece of string together. They're making sure that no one's dropping when the other three are pushing up. You've got to work on that. It comes with practice and they need to do that. Whoever the coaches are at Tottenham,

Ryan Mason or whoever the young coaches they've got that's their job now is to make sure they stop shipping goals and get that two mid like you were talking about in Knox Forest the two midfield players sit them in there don't go anywhere well that's it that's all we've got time for Happy New Year Stinks well done matey what a year it's been 2024 great year good year Jason 28 yeah I know that Stinks it's a rhyme remember the rhyme what are you talking about 30

30 days have September April, June and November all the rest have 31 except December and February I've got 28 in each No you've got that wrong mate No Each leap Each leap What day is it? Each leap What? You didn't go to school did you? No No

Anyway, thanks for listening on the Talks About Where We Get Your Podcast From. And there'll be another one of these tomorrow. Stinks, make sure you hit the five-star review. Like, kiss, lick, flick. Give a good old flick. Yeah. Suck. Yeah. Tickle it. Make sure you give it all the love you can. How was your Christmas, anyway? Was it all right? Did you get what you wanted? I did sing, so I told you what problem I had. Yeah. Yeah. It cleared up, did it? No. It's still there? The cream. I got the cream. Yeah. Yeah, there's still a couple of little red bits, but I think the cream's...

I might need to borrow it. Have a look at this. Is that normal? It should be three of them, shouldn't it? Gosh. I'd take one of them. You can have it. This has been TalkSport Daily.

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