School's back in: Pep and City pick up another trophy, Sarri doesn't know his size, and Warnock's back in the big time
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 6 August 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Hello again friends, we're back and bloody excited for the new season!
And there's plenty to get our teeth into as well - Pep Guardiola's Man City outwit Chelsea in the Community Shield, but we're still a way away from the full Sarrification of those Blues. There's also transfer news a go-go, particularly at Liverpool, and Jose Mourinho seems to be on a one-man mission to undermine everything at Old Trafford.
Meanwhile, the Championship is back with a bang, and Pete spends quite a bit of time comparing the show to a big bouncy castle. A tortured analogy, and probably not the last one you'll hear from him this season, let's be honest.
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Further reading:
Pep thinks Sergio Aguero is going to have a big season: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-city-guardiola-aguero-prediction-14994692
Neil Warnock is loving life: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/cardiff-boss-neil-warnock-happy-12947933
West Brom's new mascot is an actual boiler: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/08/04/west-brom-unveil-boiler-man-greatest-ever-mascot/
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| 0:00.0 | Schools in everyone, welcome to the football rambble today. Community Shield, Liverpool's |
| 0:05.3 | transfers, Frank Lampard's Derby, West Brom's new mascot and so much more. Here we go! |
| 0:24.3 | Back to life, back to reality everybody, my name is Marcus Speller. |
| 0:28.5 | Sadly Jim Campbell is not with us, he is in the Edinburgh Festival doing some |
| 0:32.8 | comedies, but don't worry, look more in Pete Donaldson here, bloody good to see your |
| 0:36.3 | chaps. Yeah, we're doing some comedies, Dune Sooth, keeping the home comedy fires burning. |
| 0:41.7 | You don't need to get a Scotland to be funny. You don't. So they tell me. |
| 0:46.9 | Well Jim didn't get that memo. No. He's up there. It's a new season everyone. |
| 0:50.7 | It is a new season, it's a new season. Domestic footballers back. |
| 0:54.4 | The dirty unfashionable unrefined version of the World Cup. |
| 1:00.3 | Question, can we go back to hating each other now please? |
| 1:02.8 | Yes, and all the clubs that other people support. |
| 1:05.1 | Yeah. Good. Good. People are being a very unkind about the very short amount of time |
| 1:11.8 | between the end of the World Cup and the start of the domestic season. |
| 1:15.2 | Why are you listening then? Football's brilliant, football's back. Let's do this. |
| 1:19.7 | Pete's wearing a football shirt, that's on my face. I'm wearing a football shirt. |
| 1:22.4 | The trouble is I'd ran out of clothes. I've been on all day. Just got back off the 12-hour flight |
| 1:26.6 | from Seoul, Korea, you might say. And I would say. That is what it's called. So you probably would |
| 1:32.4 | call it that. The only clean shirt I had was a Japan shirt. So I hope the security staff who made |
| 1:38.1 | it very difficult for me to live the country enjoyed really applying the vice. |
| 1:43.4 | Pete, like rip on my clothes. So I'm conscious that because it's a new season, |
| 1:47.8 | and people will be looking for new football podcasts, they might stumble upon the football |
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