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This is a podcast from The Times. Go to The Times. Go to the Times podcast, the podcast that plays the full 90 minutes or probably more like 40 minutes. Today I'm joined by Allison Rod Patty Barclay and from a secret undisclosed location in West London in the wonderful place we call Barnes,

it's Matt Dickinson. Later on we'll be discussing footballers and their entorages.

But first, we're going to start with an apology.

Yes.

Last week in the quick hits section, we did mention the fact that Frank Lampard's Kordahatrick and we ridiculed the game

podcast panelist who had said Lampard was rubbish, but our evil producer Chris Skinner, who happens to be a Spurs fan, cut that part out of the

podcast.

So Frank Lampard didn't get his due and thereby fueling reports that there is an anti-Lampard conspiracy going on.

Frank, we apologize.

I had you in the script.

Thank you.

Now that out of the way, let's talk some England and there's one place to start I think it's a

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