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You're listening to the Meninblazers Media Network, Suboptimal Radio. It's Rodge. It's Friday.

And what a weekend of football that lies in front of us.

It's an F.A. Cup final weekend.

Oh, the two usuals. We'll do an epic rumble up at Wembley.

Yes, Manchester United and Crystal Palace, who might just be the greatest neutral's favourite of all time.

Just Manchester City fans, and probably Brightford and Brentford fans will be cheering for the

sky blues. But the rest of the world, we'll just be baying for joy and wonder for Chris Richards boys

as they're no and officially around the world. And in this show, we're going to give you a couple of

interviews that will set you up

for the weekend with the human beings who will be making it happen.

In a minute, we're here from Virgil Van Dyck, the captain of Liverpool.

We'll also hear a couple of words from Jamie Vardy, the Inemissible Wonder, who is playing

down to his last two games in Alester City, Jersey.

As Joni Mitchell, no doubt a big, big Jamie Vardy fan would have said,

don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

Yes, Joni, we will enjoy his last two games, living out the martial law chat shit, get banged.

But first, a conversation with a truly fascinating human being, Crystal Palace manager, Oliver Glastner, who I revere for the way calmly, strategically, so creatively and thoughtfully arrived at Selhurst Park. It's been difficult at times,

but then he's made winning seem stealth easy. In the league, turning Crystal Palace into a

profoundly effective unit, a steel defence and the ability to move at pace through Aze and Mateta, but also in his own life.

What an incredible journey as a young man, a brain hemorrhage out of nowhere that turned his

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