FA Cup Magic Returns

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Sports, Soccer

4.2 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew react to Wrexham's victory over Nottingham Forest and praise manager Phil Parkinson for consistently getting his team ready for upsets in the FA Cup. Plus, the guys break down the fallout of Vinicius Junior and Diego Simeone's confrontation during Real Madrid's Supercopa winer yesterday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi there. Surprise.
0:02.1	30 for 30 presents Booja.
0:05.2	Can I get a witness from the congregation?
0:08.1	You can't stop authenticity.
0:10.0	Boo ya!
0:11.0	Stewart was exactly like you saw him on camera, off camera.
0:14.5	He dialed it up 10%.
0:15.7	Can you imagine the impact of young black boys and girls looking at that going, I feel seen.
0:21.4	He changed the culture.
0:22.7	He changed sports.
0:24.2	Stream Booja, presented by Madelo, right now on the ESPN app.
0:34.7	Hello, everyone, and welcome into our ESPNFC studios for the latest edition of the show.
0:39.3	I'm Alexis Yunus alongside Shaka Histop.
0:42.3	We're going to kick things off in the Premier League because on Thursday it was an enticing matchup with the League leaders' Arsenal facing off against the Premier League Champions Liverpool, but it ended in a nil-nill stalemate. This is a look at what the
0:56.0	English papers had to say. Sigh of the storm. Ooh, the Battle of the Guns did not turn out
1:02.9	to be the blockbuster we expected. This is how it affected the table. Not that much. Arsenal
1:07.6	still flying clear at the top of the table, six points ahead of Manchester City and Aston Villa.
1:12.6	Let's welcome in our Julian Lorenz for this one. Jules, we know how close you are with Arsenal after the nil-0 draw with Liverpool.
1:20.6	Are you cool with that result?
1:24.6	I was at the game, Alexis. And to be fair fair I agree with some of the headlines that we've
1:29.4	just showed it was not the most entertaining game.
1:32.1	Usually on the show we say it was very tactical, which it was KG.
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