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*PREVIEW* Britainology 61: the Mad Lads of Football feat. Joey D’Urso

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TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

For this month's first Britainology, Nate and Milo get expert advice from The Athletic's Joey D'Urso, a lifelong football fan and a source of extremely funny anecdotes about the nutters and eccentrics of the English Premier League. We learn about Gazza, Georgie Best, Vinnie Jones, and many more. Hope you enjoy! Check out Joey's work here! https://theathletic.com/author/joey-durso/ Get the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/83471133?pr=true *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which airs 9-11 pm UK time every Monday and Thursday, at the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/trashfuturepodcast *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s upcoming live shows here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows and check out a recording of Milo’s special PINDOS available on YouTube here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRI7uwTPJtg *ROME ALERT* Milo and Phoebe have teamed up with friend of the show Patrick Wyman to finally put their classical education to good use and discuss every episode of season 1 of Rome. You can download the 12 episode series from Bandcamp here (1st episode is free): https://romepodcast.bandcamp.com/album/rome-season-1 Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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And she said that one day they were leaving and there was this guy with his dad there who was like

0:05.6

quite elderly and they'd come to like wait at the player's exit to try and get hold of Paul Gasco

0:11.1

and get him to sign an autograph. And apparently Gaza's coming down. He's being like kind of

0:15.6

bundled out of the stadium because he's in a hurry. And then this guy comes up and he's like my dad

0:19.5

is like old like the 80 year old bald man. He's like oh he's a big fan. And then this guy comes up and he's like, my dad is like old, like the 80 year old bald man.

0:21.7

He's like, oh, he's a big fan of yours.

0:23.0

He wants an autograph.

0:24.3

And you can see like Gaza kind of like looks at this man and then looks around all these

0:28.2

people who are like hurrying him out of the building.

0:30.0

And he sort of panics because he sort of doesn't want to just sign an autograph and apparently just grabbed him and just kissed him on the top of his bald head and then left that's become a whole thing in the last few weeks with

0:43.1

this sort of social media shaming of footballers who are perceived to be ignoring these kids will be

0:47.7

like looking for that we're having their like beats headphones on in the zone and we'll just walk

0:52.3

straight past them and everyone kind of lost their shit about um about this but it was kind of fake news i think there's this little girl who's a

0:58.8

mascot for arsenal and her dad sort of tweeted like oh no all the players like were really nice

1:03.5

and had photos and these leave like my kid is now incredibly stressed by the fact that 50 million

1:08.4

people have said that that you know yeah it's like it just got this huge wind out of nothing.

1:13.0

And these guys were obviously like about to play a match over a bit.

1:15.3

And then afterwards were,

1:16.9

yeah,

1:17.1

I think that kind of feeds into something deeper,

1:20.0

which is the idea that footballers now are really like inaccessible and,

1:23.2

you know,

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