Welcome to Thursday's Not the Top 20 Pod betting show.

Ali Maxwell speaking here on the line with me today is George Ellick.

We're going to look ahead to the EFL weekend, making some betting selections.

That means this podcast is for over 18s only. We would ask if you are listening

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be gambleaware.org. George, it's been an exciting week for us, a busy week. We had a bit of

a first, I suppose, for the podcast. We co-produced a BBC Radio

5 Live special, which was kind of titled How to Run an EFL football club, but it was a subject

that sort of sprung up about a million subtopics, wasn't it? And over the last few weeks,

we've worked fairly hard, along with the BBC producers, to put something together. And I think and hope that it's gone down quite well.

Yeah, it was very good fun to make. Thank you to the BBC for asking us to do this.

You know, another something maybe we can add to the conversations surrounding the EFL, but I must say you

were absolutely superb in the studio yesterday with Chappas and Mark Pallios and Kieran McGuire.

And yeah, anyone who hasn't listened to it yet, if you look on BBC Sounds app or if you

look at any podcast app and search for football daily, you will find, it's kind of condensed

into just over an hour of the interviews that we conducted with old the X-Nox County owner

Alan Hardy, the current Burton owner, Ben Robinson, and the possible future wickam owner, Rob Coogh.

So some absolute interesting stuff in there.

Paxman-esque questioning from my friend and colleague George Ellick.

It really was like Pac-Ban, I think.

It was fantastic.

And yes, so thanks again to the BBC.

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