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It was the night before the night before Christmas and the listeners demanded an hour,

dissecting all the action from Fullen One, Nottingham Forest Nill. If for some reason we don't manage that, we'll have a little Euro catch-up, by and running away with it in Germany, Bas are leading the way in Spain, while Alonzo holds on a very tight race in Italy and PSG not top of Liga. Then we'll ask why Patrick Mosepe is changing the Africa Cup of Nations to just once every four years. Is it good for the game or is it good for one of Gianni's mates? All that plus some top 100 feedback, your questions. And that's today's Guardian Football Weekly. On the panel today, Barry Glendinning, hello. Hi, Max. Welcome, Lars Sivitzen. Hello. And bonjour, it's all, Philippe O'Lear. And, hello, it's very much. Yes. So, let's start then with Monday Night Football. Not a classic. You know, I don't know, we'll go down the annals of history. Will we remember it tomorrow? Fullum one, Forest Nill. The Aeros. Of these three. Yes. Well, you said it. Pull them up to 13th.

Forest down to 7. full of one forest nil the a nose of history yes well you said it uh full him up to 13th forest down

to 17th um settled by a penalty who wants to who wants to kick off bass go on then give us your best

i stopped watching this game after 65 minutes because I could not take any more

and I wanted to watch the darts.

So I have since

gone back to look at the highlights

and I noticed the highlights

package on Sky was

two minutes and 42 seconds long

and I was thinking, God, the last 25

minutes must have been

really really good

because

there certainly wasn't two minutes of 42

seconds worth of highlights in the

first 65 minutes but

yeah it was a dreadful game

it was so bad that even

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