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Flintoff, Savage and the Ping Pong Guy

Fools Gold

Flintoff, Savage and the Ping Pong Guy

BBC

Sports

4.88.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Fred, Robbie and Matthew discuss awards, fair and unfair criticism they’ve received during their careers and which sports team they think is the greatest ever.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Multi Award winning podcast Flint Huff Savage and the ping pong guy.

0:23.1

It was of course a very good friend Matthew Sayid.

0:26.8

I can't carry on this anymore. I know I should present in this because I did win best new presenter of a sure that I don't even present.

0:33.8

I'll tell you talk about rubbing it in. I was already upset. I didn't get even nominated for that award despite being the presenter.

0:39.6

You go and win it and then you hog the opening line to the big question. Why are you here?

0:46.4

What am I contributing to this thing?

0:48.2

Matthew, show us what you've got. You pick it up now. I've tried. Go on. Tell us what we're doing this week.

0:52.4

This week we're all going to talk about getting criticized in sport, the greatest team of all time in any sport.

0:59.1

And remember you can use the hashtag Fred Savside. Get in touch through the week and suggest future topics.

1:04.5

But let's talk about the radio academy awards. I mean, unbelievable night for this.

1:08.9

Do you know you want to know? Yeah, where were you?

1:11.2

It was second. I asked one of you for a speaking gig. You didn't fancy coming out. Oh, this work we've put in. This was our moment.

1:16.4

Thing is Stanley paint the picture for what was it like on that?

1:19.3

So so basically because I was there last year was six or six and luckily enough one in a word.

1:27.5

And I said to Fred, you know, you've got to come to this award. He was rehearsing for fat friends in London.

1:33.9

And I formed him in the morning. So you're ready for tonight. What time your train get there?

1:37.2

And he went, what's it going to be like? I said, it's massive. It's at least a year and it's huge.

1:41.8

3000 people stayed. There's two thousand when we check it on the phone in the week.

1:46.1

About two or three thousand was there. So anyway, he said, really?

1:50.6

It's a photo is just going to be in an hotel. I thought that I thought I was going to come to

1:53.8

do these awards things. You turn up to a dinner and you sit down and you get food. You don't really want

1:58.1

and you're going to make small talk on a table with people you don't know.

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