I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like.

Is Gascoing going to have a crack?

He is, you know.

Oh, he's there!

Brilliant!

But gee! He's round the goalkeeper. He's done it.

Absolutely incredible.

He launched himself six feet into the crowd and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip.

Oh, I say, it's amazing.

He does it tame and tame and tame again.

Drink up the music.

Charge a glass.

This nation is going to dance all night.

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First of all, guest number one, Charlie Eccleshire, how are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm not too bad.

You had a relatively front row seat on Tuesday night for Lampard versus Marino, which, and we've all seen, we've seen lots of touchline spats in our time, but this seems like a particular sort of the subgenre, because this was Master versus Apprentice. Anything that Marino would say to Lampard on that touchline felt particularly withering, and I felt bad for Lampard, just for how awkward that must have been. Like any good football spat, they kept going back for more. So just when he thought it was finished, they'd kind of turn around and put in another kind of barb. But yes, it did feel like a bit of a slapdown in Murino's part. He then explained it after, I think his point was that you don't need to do this when your team's winning. You know, you should support your team when they're losing. They don't need you now. And I think he even said, like, you know, we don't need to make it all about us, which obviously was quite amusing coming from Marino. But it's great that Marino has essentially found a way to verbalise the patronising head pat that he used to do pre-COVID and has found a kind of bioosecure way of putting down his opposite number.

Nice to see.

Alongside you virtually, Nick Miller, welcome back.

Hello, good to be back.

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