This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. He was doing some off-key things last season, even by Pet Guadiolla standards, won't it? Scratching your face to bits because you're drawing it home to whoever it was. Call it. Self-flagellation. Yeah. Like, and the way you described it and everyone was like, he went, oh yeah, I just scratched myself and everyone, oh right, okay. What? Yeah. Yeah. His whole head looked like a dog was trying to get into a shed.

Yeah. Yeah, meanwhile, like...

His whole head looked like a dog was trying to get into a shed. Yeah. Like just claw marks

just all over it. It was insane. And literally like a gouge out of his nose. His face was

bleeding and his head was absurd. Hello and welcome to Stratford Paddock. My name is Joe. That's

Jay Motty and that is Stephen Howson and this is off the bar and we are looking ahead to the Manchester Derby. Lots of things to go through. Amarin versus Pep. Man United's new sort of goalkeeper situation. Basically the entire team isn't different but sort of feels different with the new system new players coming in plays coming out there's a load to go through but stay first of all

how are you fine thank you how are you feeling good yeah I'm good I'm feeling

very well you glad that May and I had a back we take taking away too soon I'd say

the season three weeks in and already we're off to a bloody international

break it does me head in every year.

You know my thoughts on international breaks. Yeah. You don't like international football full stop, do you? No, I don't like international breaks. All right, because I like tournament football. Right. Tournament football's awesome. Steve's theory, at the end of every year, or the non-tournament years, you have a qualifying tournament in the summer

and get it all done in one month.

And we rack through and either start the season late or the non-tournament years you have a qualifying tournament in the summer

and get it all done in one month

and we rack through

and either start the season later

or finish it earlier

because think about

we've just had two week off

for like one or two international games

we could have had three

domestic games in that time

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