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You Don't Know What You're Doing

S2 Ep42: Chris Sumner the Ex Grecian Lion

You Don't Know What You're Doing

David Earl / Keep It Light Media

Comedy, Sports, Soccer

4.7 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Chris sumner joins us to chat about his time as the Exeter City FC mascot. And then he answers the 10 famous MNFC questions.

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0:00.0

Well, today we've got, sort of can't wait for this one, Chris, who was, I was the Grecian

0:26.2

Lion.

0:28.6

Yes, he was Grecian the Lion from when I was a kid all the way to.

0:32.6

I don't know him, know him.

0:34.1

We'll recognise each other, I think. But he's always been

0:38.0

Grecian and the Lion since I was a kid. I've known that for ages, so yeah. Oh, right.

0:43.9

And can you explain who the Grecian Lion is? Well, so Grecian the Lion is Exeter City's mascot.

0:50.4

Well, technically old mascot. We still have Grecian the Lion, but he's been rejuvenated into something new, and he's now got a partner called Lexi the Lion. Yeah. But yeah, Grecian the Lion was the Xer City's mascot for years. I don't know how many is exactly, but ever since I was watching it, you know, two, three years old until, you know, very recently. So, yeah, he's been a massive part of my Exeter City experience. Wow. Right, this is him. This is him. Here we go. Have you seen the, by the way, have you seen the player who's playing for Oxford? I don't know, I don't know whether, basically, I'm doing a football manager, say, with my friends, an online one. And as a player at Oxford, my football manager, say, called, like, Byown Gittins,

1:29.6

is very close toone Gittins,

1:44.3

is very close to Brian Gittins. Oh, yeah, I've seen that, yeah, Bino or something. Yeah, it was very, very tight. I speak to Jee's as he's taking over everywhere. Yeah, isn't that his surname, like Bino Gittins or something? Yeah, it's like a double-barreled sound.

1:45.5

I was like, what the hell?

1:47.3

Brian Gittins is in my game.

1:44.3

Scored against me. no Gittins or something. Yeah, by, yeah, it's like a double-barreled sound.

1:45.5

Yeah, I was like, what the hell?

1:47.3

Brian Gittins is in my game.

1:49.1

Scored against me on football manager.

1:53.6

Well, let's get, here we go.

1:56.4

The excretion, the lion.

2:03.6

Here we go. Here we go here we go here we go

2:05.6

hello hi Chris

2:08.9

hi you're nice

2:09.8

hi how you doing

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