Hello, season's greetings.

Welcome to the Not the Top 20 podcast, The Monday Pod.

I'm Ali Maxwell, he's George Ehrlich, and this podcast is sponsored by Betfair,

who we thank hugely for their continued support of the Not the Top 20 pod,

allowing us to cover the EFL twice weekly as best we can. George, it was a

heavily reduced EFL slate over the weekend and you were in at Quest. I'm intrigued to know

because we both know how busy it is and I'm sure the listener can appreciate how busy it is when

you've got 36 games to talk about. What's it like when there's only 16?

A bit quieter, I must say. I kind of went into it. Normally, you, the stress of making sure you're

not going to miss any amazing goals or any big moments. You know, the last thing you want is to be

sitting in the studio watching the highlights

as the people at home are watching them and suddenly you see something that you didn't know

it ever happened, such as, you know, a red card that shouldn't have been a red or something

like that. So it was a bit easier to stay on top of things. It was, I had a lovely day with

Colin Murray and the fantastic Joby McEnough.

Ehrlich and McEnough, brilliant duo.

Interestingly, we had a, we had kind of family Christmas yesterday because I'm not with my family for Christmas.

And both my sister-in-law and my mum, both due on Friday night and both said how much they enjoyed

Joby. Now, I don't know if they're talking about his analysis or about the fact that he's a fine

looking human specimen. I've got a feeling it might be the latter. Could be either. He's the all-round

package, isn't he? Both are true. And brilliant footballer as well, of course, he was.

I mean, it feels like we're filling time because we haven't got as much as we normally have to talk about.

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