Betting Show: Birmingham stance and introducing new BS features

Not The Top 20 Podcast

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4.7 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

George and Ali return for the first Betting Show Proper of the 25/26 season, after an encouraging start to weekend picks in the Season Betting Preview episodes. There's a tweak to the format which will hopefully freshen things up ahead of the season, but retain all the usual good stuff. Let us know what you think. Not The Top 20 Betting Show is sponsored by Sky Bet. 18+ | GambleAware.org -- Our betting newsletter, The Long Shot, seeks out value in the EFL season-long markets: https://thelongshot1.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-long-shot-by-ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The stage is set. Another massive performance needed.
0:03.8	Look at this, Jason. They're outwarming up already.
0:07.6	Listen to that. Pitch perfect.
0:09.8	George, they just keep going.
0:11.4	The best fans in the world? Probably.
0:14.4	Carlsberg. Proud supporters of Irish football. Get the facts. Be Drinkaware. Visit drinkaware.
0:20.3	Welcome to the sound of the start of your weekend. It's the Not the Top 20 betting show sponsored by Skybet.
0:28.3	This is the sound. This is the sound of the start of your weekend I'm the start of your weekend
0:38.7	This is a sound
0:41.5	This is a sound
0:44.5	Of the start of your weekend
0:47.4	Of the start of your weekend
0:50.3	Oh
0:52.1	So What? So what? So what? So that's the best piece of music ever written. Oh, welcome to the sound of the start of an earworm. How about that, George. This is, we've got a special group of listeners and this underlines it.
1:11.5	Christmas number one. About four of you listening will remember that we, I think, suggested at
1:16.1	some point last season that we'd love a jingle for the betting show. And one landed in our
1:20.9	inbox just a couple of weeks ago. James from the revertors, reverting to the mean, and the
1:27.0	mean is creating catchy tracks.
1:30.2	Yeah, they're a five-piece indie rock outfit based in Birmingham, which is pretty perfect
1:34.6	for our music tastes. James Legend is an Oxford United fan. Chris, the frontman, legend,
1:42.1	Derby fan. And they're uploading their first EP to Spotify in just the next couple of weeks.
1:47.0	Not sure if Sound of the Start of Your Weekend makes it on.
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