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It is the last Friday show of the year, but what a Friday show it is, Heat and Stuart

Barbara, we're not messing about, we've got Andy Middleton and Bradley Hayden on the blower with John.

Just to set the tone for this we are not going to concern ourselves with the famous Manchester

United's disappointing draw against wolves.

On the 3rd of January, the 3rd of January feels almost impossible to conceive of but we will start at the end we will

start with the game on the 2nd of January at 4.30 we're joined by Chris Barber and

we're going to get stuck into big time Chelsea versus

Liverpool a number of reasons but one is it is by some distance the biggest game

of the weekend Chelsea versus Liverpool Chris it's been one with a bit of a red

circle around it for a while but the like the engraving in the red circles just got deeper and deeper and deeper as Manchester City of one relentlessly in Chelsea and Liverpool if we're frank about it just haven't. So how's that's the general vibe about the fact

that the wheel's falling off?

I don't think they're falling off.

I think they, yeah, there's an MOT needed.

It's funny because when you text me to do this show our last exchange was just before Christmas

and I think the last text was the stuff you're doing for the second pints are going to be needed. And the close we've got to it, it's not, it's vulgar in it.

It's not, it's sort of,

um, it, this time last year, aish, give or take when I'm my brain,

Lampard basically questioned the mentality of the squad

and got absolute pelters for it.

And at the time I wasn't, I was kind of, I didn't really really know I've never been around a squad to know what mentality you actually need

And then you and then you sort of extend that to this year and you I was thinking on the other day like we've got quite a young squad still and I was sort of thinking

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