Hello and welcome to a brand new R-Splug R-Scast right here on R-Splug.com.

How are you?

Well, you should be happy enough this Friday morning. We're back to winning ways after losing three in a row.

We scored three goals last night to beat Valencia 3-1 in the first leg of our Europa League semi-final.

That of course will be the running theme throughout this podcast. I'll be chatting in a few minutes time to James Banger,

football London. We're going to talk about that game, about the performances collectively individually.

And look ahead, I suppose, to this weekend against Brighton as well.

You'll have to excuse my voice this morning. It's a little bit croaky. I don't know whether I've got a bit of a cold or something,

but I've got a real frog in my throat. And you know, that's not really the ideal place for a frog.

It should be in a pond, I guess, on a lily pad or wherever it is that frogs hang out. I don't know.

Frog bars and restaurants and nightclubs and wherever it is that people congregate to have a good time.

Jimnasiums, soreners, where else? I don't know, bus stops. People don't really hang out at bus stops to have a good time.

They just sort of wait there for a bus to arrive. Anyway, the point is that, you know, I might just sound a little off at times during this

during this podcast before we get going though on the football and all that. Something I did notice last night.

It was particularly prevalent and it's something that has has become a thing over the last number of years is footballers when they talk to each other covering their mouths.

I guess this is because there are so many cameras in football stadiums, stadiums these days.

And I don't suppose as a footballer, you can be sure if there's a camera on you or not, you could just be sitting there on the bench,

minding your own business as Burndlenner was last night, tucking into what seemed like a healthy meal.

You had a big, big mouthful of food. Maybe he was just doing a shake given impression. I don't know what it was.

But you can't be sure if there's a camera on you and you turn around and you mouth the words, look at that fucking

Asia to somebody beside you and all of a sudden the cameras have picked it up and they're going, who is he calling a fucking

Asia? I don't know. So now when footballers talk to each other when they're on the pitch at half time, going off at half time, after the game,

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