The So, Ed how are you have you recovered are you are you okay I know it's been there an international break, I know this is difficult for you,

no United Games last weekend or in two mid weeks in a row. Have you been alright?

Yeah, well, international football is methadone to club football's heroin, isn't it?

It just doesn't work the same for me.

It was all right, it was all right, the international right.

Please get a lot of football on and what with the internet and Euro sport and sky and all these various

other channels.

You can watch a lot of stuff.

It's just don't have quite the same effect does it.

So I'm looking forward to the premanship this weekend

and of course Richard Scooter Moore delighted to hear you compare his product with

heroin no doubt the well I suppose is it's there's an inelastic demand for football isn't there?

There certainly is yes.

That's a reference to the wire there in case you were wondering ladies

gentlemen.

The international break was all alright. I used to really

really like international football when I was, especially when I was a kid, I think in

a way I sort of preferred it. There was more international football on television. It felt more special.

It was just like, I loved the idea of the best players from each country playing against each other to see who had the better players.

But it just doesn't feel special anymore.

And I really do think, I couldn't be more of a kind of liberal, generally

left, center, left leaning politically and socially and all those kind of things but I really think

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