Hello.

Here he is.

Apologies if I sound a bit rough.

I still recovering from my tonsils being pulled out. Oh he is. Apologies if I sound a bit rough. I'm still recovering from my tonsils being pulled out.

Oh, bloody, yeah. When was that? Friday.

Oh, so what happened? What you went to hospital?

No, so basically, when I was in Manchester, I was having all sorts of throat infections and

everything and they just sent the hospital down near a message to say, look, he needs to have his tonsils out. Can you do it while he's at home? And then just happened to fall on that Friday, really. What, did it in your dining room? In my dining room? You did it at home? No, at the hospital. Why would they do it at home?

He said, can we do it at his own?

Yeah, as in like, because I'm in Manchester. So you went to hospital? Yeah. They put you to sleep? Yeah, right under. Oh, I've never been put under. What's that like? Oh, I've had it twice, actually. Have you? Yeah, I had my gallbladder taken out when I was eight.

So I briefly remember that.

But this one was very clear. They give you like a little pre-med thing, which makes you feel like you've had about 20 pints. And you go all sort of light and your heart beat starts, go, b'bub,-b-b-b-b-and then next to you know they're like right we're putting it in

and then you try and fight it you're like right I'm not going to fall asleep and then like within two or three seconds you're gone and then you just wake up with no tonsils and was it painful when you woke up welcome to my new football club by the way no it wasn't that well it wasn't people when I woke up but it has been painful the last couple of days but it's all right

you do you just your voice does sound slightly higher. Yeah, it's a, it's a strange. It's definitely going to go lower, isn't it, over the course of this season? I hope so. For my sake. I hope so for the sake of the pod. And you've got to do commentating. Yeah, that's true. Would you make of that shot, John? I thought it's fantastic, actually. Fantastic little shot from outside the box. Oh, dear, I'm not going to live this down, am I, this episode? Oh, God. Is that a new extra kit? Yeah, this is the new home shirt right here.

Is it?

Yeah. What do you think? Oh, they've gone stripy. Yeah. What, the home kit's always stripy. It wasn't stripy last year, was it? It's got some stripes in it. No, but that looks, can I see properly? Is that all right? I can stand up if you like. Oh, that's a proper stripy kit in my eyes.

Yeah, that's the back.

Oh, right.

I haven't got a name like. Oh, that's a proper stripy kit in my eyes.

Yeah, that's the back.

Oh, right.

I haven't got a name on the back, but yeah.

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