Hello and I thank you, thank you for joining us. I go and beat in the table the way John Oliver does, but I'm not on television, so you'll just have to imagine it. Now I am quite excited because with me in the studio today making his

debut on the game podcast it's Alex K Jowski and you might be wondering, who is this guy?

I never read his byline.

Well, he's the sports editor of the times and therefore my boss.

So if you notice that I don't cut him out or talk over him or shout at him the way I do with other guests.

Even with Henry Winter sometimes, you'll know why.

Down the line, we have another one of my personal favorites.

It's possibly one of the three greatest living Aberdeen fans.

It's a Sunday Times football correspondence.

Mr. Jonathan Northcroft.

Good morning.

Thanks for the build-up. Later on we'll be talking about

England's under 17 World Cup Triumph. Tremendous, tremendous comeback

against Spain and Sam Haler dice of old people wrote an interesting column about that today in

the game which found me very broadly in agreement.

But first we need to start with the Premier League and a rainy hideous day in Manchester, but a good day for Josia

Marigno.

Johnny, I'm going to start with you. It seemed to me like beforehand the debate was,

Will Marino park the bus against Spurs and blah blah blah.

And to kind of did and he was kind of

indicated right he was yeah I mean I I hate to go down the whole marine

master class route of analysis because I think it's always

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