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The Thought Police

9: Sports journalism

The Thought Police

The Thought Police

Soccer, Sports, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.5861 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Matt celebrate England's cricket success, MG revels in his baseball knowledge, the pair discuss Manchester United's potential resurgence, and the extra curricular activities of a certain former England striker are put under the microscope on a bit of a curveball of an episode of the Thought Police...

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0:00.0

The The Oh, So welcome to yet another exciting edition of the Thought Police

0:50.0

podcast it really is taking off and people have a lot of people have been

0:53.4

saying to us Matt it's me by the way Mike Graham and Matt Kelly have been saying to me

0:57.4

why do you guys do a bit more sport to which I said well once the football season

1:01.2

gets going well no I said once the football season gets going you know that's a bad

1:04.1

Liverpool fan yeah I'm sure it'd be boring the ass of everybody about how great

1:07.0

Liverpool are and how they're going to win the league again

1:09.6

almost certainly now what I didn't expect that we would be doing though is talking about

1:13.8

cricket no because I'm not much of a cricket fan to be honest but we have just

1:17.3

witnessed what is apparently the greatest game of cricket of all time ever played in

1:21.0

the history of cricket. It was

1:23.0

and it was almost like they had to sort of invent new rules to cope with it.

1:26.1

Well I mean I was listening to or watching Wimbledon because in our house tennis is more of a

1:31.6

thing both of my kids you played tennis.

1:33.4

They've given up now now that they're 14 and 12. You know for a while they wanted to play tennis

1:37.6

and we got them tennis lessons and all that. So one of them is still quite keen on tennis.

1:42.4

And as I was kind of with two hands I was playing

1:45.1

with my phone I was kind of keeping an eye on Twitter keeping an eye on the

1:47.9

cricket and suddenly I started looking at the phone more than I was at the

1:51.3

screen and thought you know when it when it went to sort

1:53.2

I kept saying now this is no use you know at one point I saw Pierce Morgan was there

1:56.4

that's right and he had gone oh my god 84 for 4 or something and I went oh dear you know

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