FOOTBALL IS NICE (Luton, Rice & Allardyce!)

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Russell Brand

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Hey Soccer fans! Here's a weekly bit from our show, dedicated to the beautiful game that we call, Football! If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to the Football Is Nice podcast, where we house the weekly episodes: https://podfollow.com/1686460793 This week: Is Luton Town’s 10,000-seater stadium about to make its home in the Premier League? Alan Shearer's eloquent writing, Declan Rice being nice, predictions for the relegation battle and upcoming fixtures. Plus, your comments and new invitations for us to do stuff! For a bit more from us join our Stay Free Community here: https://russellbrand.locals.com/ Watch Stay Free with Russell Brand on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/russellbrand Come to COMMUNITY - https://www.russellbrand.com/community-2023/ NEW MERCH! https://stuff.russellbrand.com/

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0:00.0	Football is nice.
0:07.0	Maybe you're an American, maybe you're a conspiracy theorist, maybe you're thinking, why the hell are those two limeys?
0:13.8	You might be thinking those bloody lymies talking about football because it provides a beautiful framing for all of our social understanding.
0:21.1	Tribalism, opposition, friendly competition, gossip, glamour, heroes.
0:26.3	The narrative itself can be found in football.
0:29.0	As someone once said, the world is not made of atoms, the world is made of stories.
0:32.8	And the stories that emerge from football are some of the greatest stories available.
0:36.9	It also gives me and Gariff an opportunity to make predictions in a game that I'm sure to win,
0:41.2	where we have to predict the scores of certain fixtures.
0:44.2	We get three points of view, 100% get it right, one point if you get the general result correct.
0:49.5	That's our system, isn't it?
0:50.9	Got lots of things to talk about who's going to get relegated from the Premier League.
0:58.0	Our West Ham United, the football club that I support, going to reach a European final,
1:04.9	albeit one that Simon Jordan of Talksport calls the Papa Johns, meaning it's sort of a low rent.
1:11.2	Papa Johns is a sort of a pizza parlor that sponsors a sort of low rent domestic competition.
1:12.5	Still a European competition.
1:14.9	It's a nice looking trophy as well.
1:19.9	And if you can get past AZ Alkma, I would say,
1:22.6	you know, they're a good AZ Alkma of Holland.
1:25.2	The big thing is that they're one of those moneyball teams.
1:26.7	The press likes to go on about it. Are they moneyball?
1:27.4	They're all been, don't get seduced by the glamour.
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