Hello and I'm Gabriel Marcotti and I thank you for joining us.

Now if you're a regular listener you might be wondering what happened to my voice.

Well, it happens occasionally. You lose your voice, owing to the fact that I stayed up very, very late last night to watch the Philadelphia Eagles upset the evil empire in a really phenomenal I thought but of course it always seems

better when you go out and win Nick Fools is your Super Bowl MVP so there and they

even felt a tiny tiny bit sorry for for Tom Brady

but no not at all actually a little bit sorry for Bill Bellachick but then you

know what you made your mistakes and it's tougher to win when you're not cheating anyway

right with me in the studio today it's a real treat because with me is

former Crystal Palace and Lester City striker James James Croft and down the line speaking to us from

his Leafy Gaff in lovely Aripenden, drop by whenever you like it's somewhere in the north of England it's the chief

football correspondent at the times ollie k.

Later on in our debate we'll be talking about the dismissal of West Ham's head of

recruitment Tony Henry,

after comments he made about African players,

will be touching upon the atmosphere at Old Trafford.

And again, I have to remind people of this

because it is extremely significant. James Gocroft here is

Baps the only former professional footballer of any note that I know who actually

pays for his own tickets. Mark Albrighten, unless there's a big Aston Villa fan.

Does any play at the same time?

Not all the time.

He goes to watch Philer a lot though.

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