Good Dog, Mad Dog: England prepare to face the Netherlands, Germany take on Spain and Gareth Bale coins it in for Wales
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Richard E Grant, Starbucks, “adult“ Froobs… it’s international week so things get weird quickly!
We discuss England’s goalkeeping situation and nutrition plans, there's a birthday wished for a Ramble (Speller) favourite and musings on Spain’s twin defensive totem poles.
On top of all that we learn of Ronaldinho’s political misunderstandings, Gareth Bale breaks records and we hear your suggestions for how to improve international football. Samba do good crazy!
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| 0:00.0 | I've got my heebie jeebies hidden in a bag, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the football |
| 0:13.0 | ramble preview show sponsored by Bet365. My name is Marcus. |
| 0:16.1 | Bella Luke Moore is here. All right, Jim Campbell's here. Hello, and pouring himself another |
| 0:20.7 | cup of lady Grey. It's Pete Donaldson. I like Lady Grace nice. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome everybody. Welcome. It's the most wonderful time of the year international friendlies. |
| 0:57.6 | Could it be happier me? No, no, no, no, not him. I thought that's what you were doing. No, |
| 1:04.9 | I stopped myself. Okay, because I remember. |
| 1:07.2 | Spice World. Anyway, weren't they all all of Spice Girls? Any British actor from 1995 through |
| 1:17.8 | to 2008 was either in Spice World the movie or one of the Harry Potter films. Yeah, I think |
| 1:25.0 | it was written. It was like 15 characters in across the lot. Can you tell this international |
| 1:29.4 | week? It's Richard E. Grant week. Yeah, you know it. It always is. There's some really good |
| 1:34.4 | matches in this weekend of international matches. Name them. Oh, no, there are. You're absolutely |
| 1:39.2 | a John. That's a big one for some people. But what's the big one first mark? The big one |
| 1:44.4 | first is of course the Netherlands who haven't qualified for the walk up satellite against |
| 1:48.3 | England who have who very much have. Because the Netherlands have never won the World Cup. |
| 1:54.1 | So England have another difference between the two nations. Yeah, and so Netherlands don't |
| 2:00.4 | have Harry Kane. And of course England very much do. Yeah, anyone else want to? Of course |
| 2:08.1 | point of course. Netherlands don't have Jake Livermore. But of course England very much |
| 2:12.8 | do. Yes. So they do have strupe waffles. They do. I bloody well love those as well. |
| 2:18.3 | They're very nice. Yeah. My old Dutch. So they win. Yeah. Hopefully England will win |
| 2:23.5 | Jim. That's not loose sight of that. At Garas Southgate though is getting tough with the |
| 2:28.4 | players. Yeah, we're King tough. We weren't sure if he could. But these banned the Starbucks |
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