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Holy crap, holy crap, GFOPs, what have we just lived through together?

What a day, what a day, one of the most fascinating and complex and emotional days of Premier League football have ever seen.

I'm not just talking about the 90 minutes at Goodison Park and ever to actually stringing passes together. I mean, really, from the very first moment, old Trafford, which we'll talk about in a second, just the fusion of geopolitics and football, which football created by allowing in just all of the characters, all of the money flows, no questions asked.

Not really ever imagining that the geopolitics would catch up with a war would break out and they'd be forced to really have a reckoning and just created scenes, so many scenes that we thought we should take a minute to unpack.

I don't know how this is going to go or what questions you're all harboring.

We haven't even gotten to and I'll talk about it briefly and then I'm sure there'll be questions from Chelsea fans, Roman Abramovich's statement, which broke out in the middle of the city, everything game.

It's sort of fitting to be together for a moment and create a space to unpack it all.

As long as we all need to be honest, so ask your questions, we will bring you up onto the stage in a moment, but, I mean, overall, I'm bloody proud of football today, so many scenes which bring out the best of football, not all of them what they seem on the surface to be candid as I'll talk through.

I'm watching Old Trafford, a commercially a juggernaut, a team which has became a dynasty because of its commercial reach, football marketing team have made the decisions deep, deep even into the transfer market to watch before kick off the players just become human for a second and assemble giddily around their manager.

I'm so afraid of Frank Nick who held up a sign for peace, a homemade sign for peace.

It was nothing like let's get the kit man to make this a professional look inside.

This was this look like it had been made by Adloved to know who made the sign by an 11 year old kid. It was all a more beautiful for it.

And then Eagle, it was Bruno who back in the world, what for players and said join us join us stand and it was a that was the beauty of the moment for me.

It set a tone for everything that followed it was a spontaneous act that Manchester United executed an act that wasn't choreographed wasn't planned wasn't thought through was said to have been completely Ralph rank next idea of releasing them look so proud more joyous as he held that sign off.

I'll say so much of the Premier League pageantry is thought out painful painstakingly to the to the second you know rehearsed and and past your eyes and done safely.

This all that it was so clearly impromptu the sign the two teams that have made nature of it all I think made it all the more beautiful and and frankly poignant and you know the game itself I break down.

In the podcast and if you've got questions about that I'm happy to talk football but today honestly for me was was about transcending football football transcending football that's when we love sports when sports transcends sports that's when it's at its greatest I loved as the villas newly minted Polish international Matti cash scoring

lifting up a shirt and I'm filling a message of support for his let's be clear a new Polish teammate Matti cash his Polish route Google read about them they're fascinating they're real but they're newly discovered and to see him and fully beautiful message handwritten message of support for his Polish teammate Thomas Kedziura who plays for Dina Mokief and has been stuck there with his family again just footballers all over the world using their platform.

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