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Are you sick of changes to our beautiful game?

Five minute stoppages for VAR checks.

VAR, the talking point again after a five minute plus delay.

Cryotherapy ice chambers.

Olls in back at socks.

XG double pivots and inferred wingbacks.

The game's well and truly gone and I'm here to bring it back.

Games gone.

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So, our first contestant today is Anthony Green in Reading. Welcome, Anthony. How are you feeling?

I'm good, thank you. Yeah, excited for this. You play tennis, real tennis.

I play real tennis, yes. Indoor game. you've got walls and sloping roofs and the ball looks like a tennis ball,

but they're all handmade, they're quite hard and they hurt like a cricket ball if they hit you.

Oh wow, okay, so it's a little bit like paddled but with a cricket ball?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, because you can use the balls too, yeah.

Wow, cool. And how did you get into that? And where did he play that? And I never knew that this

ancient former tennis still existed. I got into it because my son's summer fate had a silent

auction and real tennis is one of the prizes. and ever since I've gone and played at the

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