Spurs in full cry here.

Lonella! Welcome, well, well worth the wait.

Welcome, listeners, to the extra inch.

My name's Wendy, and I'm joined today on a special bonus episode by a young man called Sam Ricketts.

Hello, Sam.

Hello, how's good?

Good. Sam,

you got in touch with me after listening to us talk about referees in episode 43 because it struck a

particular chord with you. And we're going to talk a lot about your experiences as a young referee.

But firstly, tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from? What do you do? How long have you been a football fan, that kind of thing? I'm 16 years old. I'm from Devon, which is a far away away from Spurs, but my mum and her

family are originally from North London. So I'm a Spurs fan through them. And me and my dad

try and get up semi-regularly to watch them, which is great. So I've been a football fan.

When I was younger, I didn't actually like football that much, which is surprising.

But I say I started getting into football.

It was that the last, no, not the penultimate AVB season, where Bayel was, I'd say Bayle was the player that, you know, you often talk about

what player made you fall in love of football, Bayer was definitely the player for me.

I think you're not alone there.

I think a lot of fans started following Spurs at those times because it was so exciting

to watch.

So have you been playing football for a while as well?

Yes, yeah.

I play every weekend for my local, well,

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