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slash NQQ-A-T-P. So, I can't remember what we predicted on the show Ed but I'm pretty sure we both said six-nill win right?

That seems like the tone of the last show was for a six-nill win.

From B. 45 red.

Something. bit 45 red something I you know what I can't even remember because I'm not sure much of a preview given that we didn't actually know who were going to play

at the time of recording the last

podcast. It felt entirely inevitable that we would have to play on that pitch

though given everything that was going on and it doesn't so far touch wood like it's

nine o'clock on Sunday evening. I'm not seeing tons of

reports about united players with broken legs just yet. Fingers crossed. Yeah I mean

they were able given the early goals, to ease off, especially in the second half.

And hopefully that saved some legs for our upcoming famous victory on Wednesday Night over a city. We'll get to that in a bit.

So I guess this game really, there are two talking points as far as I can tell, one the

formation and I think really that talking point extends to, yeah,

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