The Kickabout with Johnny Vaughan.

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Happy Saturday.

We are an alternative build-up to the weekend sporting fixtures.

Happy Saturday.

I'm Johnny Vaughn. I'm joined, as always, by Gavin. Hey, Woodman, Woods. Morning, Gav. Happy Saturday, Johnny. Gav, do what I love is that we are an alternative buildup to the weekend sporting fixtures. It's nice that there are now some weekend sporting fixtures to be an alternative buildup too. Absolutely, yeah. Because it kind of helps, even though we're not going to talk about it. No, in fact, it's nice to have some sporting fixtures not to be an alternative. Yes, because at the moment... Welcome back, fixtures we're not talking about. Yes, because recently there's been no sporting fixtures that we haven't to not been able to... It's been difficult. To not be an alternative to. I know. And that's been, well, I've got to tell you, I've been broadcasting nearly 30 years, Gavin. It's been one of the biggest challenges of my career. Sure. Absolutely. Just doing an alternative buildup to something that doesn't exist. It's hard enough being an alternative when it does. It's not easy. But my God, when it doesn't, then you, I go away, if I walk away from here every Saturday, and I stand out in that square. Yeah. And I smoke a lonely cigarette just wondering, what the hell am I doing? What was that, you think? What have I just been doing? What have I just been talking about? literally think to myself one o'clock when we finish 11 to 1 every Saturday I stand there gav yeah lonely wind whistling around me what the

just happened coming up before 12 Gavin I got our take on the good the bad the ugly

of the world of sports also Also, great news, great, great news. After a long absence, we'll be joined by F1 experts. We've signed them up for another season. Two hundred and twelve days since that last Grand Prix. Wow. A long time. And what's weird about that is two hundred12 days since the last Grand Prix. It doesn't seem like it. No. It just seems like it never ended. It really does. That's because I've got Sky F1. And if you watch that and you miss a lot of Grand Prix, it just seems like it's just one rolling season. But what's weird is 212 days since the last Grand Prix. Gav. In fact, it's about 180 since the last false start in Australia. Yeah, yeah. But what's weird, Gav? Do you know that stats I got this morning off the telly? Yeah. Is that we were only talking about it like 50, 50 days ago. That's right, yeah. We were right ahead of the curve. Yeah, we're so far behind the curve. We caught the curve. We lapped the curve. That's right. Yeah, right. Anyway, Graham Tash and Jeremy Markham return for Tire Talk, the world's most glamorous sport returning this weekend in Austria. First, though, luminaires on the kickabout. Do you know what? Happy Saturday.

Radio X. I'm Johnny Vaughn. Over there is Gavin.

Happy Saturday, John. Happy Saturday, John.

Happy Saturday, Gavin. Pubs open. Smollings is Sam.

This is the kickabout with me, Johnny Vaughn. Over there's Gavin.

Every Saturday we pick the good, the bad and the ugly of the sporting week.

As usual, we're going to kick it off with the good. The good for me, Gav, is...

It's what Jeff Boycott will call creak eat.

Yeah, creak eat. No, no, it's not creaky. It's not creakit.

The good for me this week. Crick eats later in show. Don't mention cricket, cab. We want listeners. All right. Okay. You can see what you like about cricket. It never got more listeners. Yeah? There's only one way that graph's going. Yeah? So don't say cricket. Yeah? Unless you can say naked before it. Wow. Yes.

I had a chance. only one way that graph's going, yeah? So don't say cricket, yeah? Unless you can say naked before it. Wow. Yes. That had changed the interest. Coming up, yes, good. Coming up, naked cricket. Wow. As we talk candidly to two English captains. Cricket laid bare, naked cricket. As we talked to two English captains. That's coming up, Ledger on the show. So that is good anyway.

Yes. We've got two Ashes winning cricket captains on the show. I'm going to say that at the start of everything. Yeah, don't miss it. Every sentence. Start of every sentence, I'm going to mention that. But, Kav, what's been good this week is that Yergen Klopp, yeah? Yeah. It's not super nice as we thought

He's actually got a reassuringly spiky side

Yeah because he was What's been good this week is that Juergen Klopp, yeah? Yeah. It's not super nice, as we thought.

He's actually got a reassuringly spiky side. Yeah, because he was bucking the German stereotype of being that mean competitor, wasn't it? He was being the nice guy too much. But he Yerger, he cleansmed it. He did, didn't he? It's Klop and Klop and Klinsman. It is. It's like, it's like Clopton, Chopton changed.

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