91: Fool Britannia

The Thought Police

Soccer, Sports, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.5 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Mike Graham and Kevin O'Sullivan get stuck into the week's big talking points including: Harry Maguire's ill-fated trip to Mykonos, footballers abroad, Gareth Southgate's selection blunder, Boris Johnson fighting back, Land of Hope and Glory, the ongoing pandemic panic, kids returning to schools, the next large-scale march, London's travel chaos, the British Museum, television's woke agenda and the death of the TV licence. Put the remote down like everyone else and fire up the Thought Police instead. Good call!

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0:00.0	The The Oh, Welcome to another exciting edition of The Thought Police, the fast-growing podcast that I do with Kevin O'Sullivan, I'm Mike Graham.
0:54.3	Kevin, a very good afternoon to you.
0:55.3	Hello, Mike.
0:56.3	Welcome back.
0:57.3	Another busy old week.
0:58.3	There's no shortage of stories to talk about, but should we kick off for a change with the football? Kick off with Harry McGuire, who kicked off in Mikkenos.
1:06.3	Now I didn't know basically until I was talking to,
1:09.2	funny enough, Will Genny's about this the other day,
1:11.2	that Mikkenos has become this kind of magnet for the celebs.
1:14.1	It's the new Ebeta. I didn't know that. They've especially gone there this year
1:18.6	because Spain is surrounded by threats of quarantine and Greece less so.
1:24.0	So they're all heading to Mikinos and this of course suits the average
1:27.4	Flash footballer down to the ground.
1:29.6	Harry and his mates were able to spend 65,000 quid.
1:32.7	How do you do that?
1:33.7	I mean, you and I have spent some money in our time
1:35.5	on the drinking circuit, but I think 65 grand in five hours.
1:39.5	I mean, that's take some doing.
1:40.6	This is the thing about Harry McGuire.
1:42.3	He had this image as the quiet, gentle
1:44.6	giant of football, nice guy, wouldn't say Bhutu Agus. Okay, I'm sure he is like that, but clearly
1:50.6	when he gets a few drinks in him he's not this appeal against him
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