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talking about if such one, United One.

I'm Ed with Wayne.

How's it going?

Yep, a great new era.

And I am positively thrilled.

Oh, sound it. Yeah. I mean, plenty of challenges with this one, clearly. I mean,

Ruben Amram said afterwards that they'd had two training sessions. It's understandable.

Players didn't know what they were doing. Yeah, I've called out the unfortunate Johnny Evans.

It's like, I mean...

Yeah, it was a little bit, oh, sure.

I want to think that he was talking about the player who would be asked to do that job in the role in the team,

but he was Johnny Evans.

He wasn't the player who's being asked so like then when he gets brought off he's thinking all right it's a little bit

harsh when he's probably been the most consistent centreback of the last season and off he has been

but he's specifically asked to progress the ball out of, in those wide areas.

It's the old Terry Venables thing. He liked to play fullbacks in those wide areas of the

back three, one for the sort of passing range and progression and two, like being comfortable

in those kind of channel areas and probably not Johnny's, I don't know, not the best role for him. Anyway, I don't think we need to

labour the point there, but he just mentioned him as an example, I think, rather than being a dick.

Yeah, yeah. And generally speaking, I mean, you look at the, initially when the team came out,

an hour and 10 minutes before the game, as it does these days.

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