Hey everyone this is Ed here quick note on today's show

Unfortunately, tech failed us again and my mic was not plugged in probably so sorry about the poor audio quality on my side, you can make it out okay.

Enjoy the show. So, All right Tom. Tom. How's it going? Yeah really good. Thanks. How about you? Yeah all good.

We've witnessed a routine carabile cup third round victory third round

while I was talking about quarter final victory quarter final oh sounds exciting

you know I see it in the semi-finals first season for 10 nugs.

Still haven't been played about two games to get here though.

It does feel like that, doesn't it?

Has it been three?

Has it been three? Yeah it been three? Yeah, I guess it has been yeah. It's one round fewer, isn't it? Because United are in Europe.

Actually, this is an aside, but the discussion paper that is being discussed, circulated around Premier League clubs is at the moment, is talking about any clubs in Europe could play an under 23 side in this tournament.

So making it look more like the Pepper Johns trophy.

Yeah.

Something like that.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean that's scrappy all together really.

That's kind of what we went through a stage of basically doing that anyway, didn't we?

And Arsenal definitely did as well. There was kind of that period where

Venger and Ferguson took this tournament really super un-seriously, but it's kind of

found, it's found a bit of a re-generation of late hasn't it really I guess like there's not many

competition every year yeah yeah well there are many competitions to win it gives you does does it give you it gives you passage into the Europa League?

Yeah, yeah, it's still Europe isn't it and then city take it seriously or they've got 25 players of all basically the same quality and so rotating doesn't make much

difference. I guess that's the thing as well like squads are a lot bigger these days

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