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Michael, can you just repeat what you said just before we went live then?

So I've got a massive fucking headache.

It's absolutely robin.

Which is weird really because it was stressful, but not, won't it that game? No, they were just passing the ball from side to side, and then someone would tackle them. Yeah, they had nothing, really. Yeah. I mean, they had loads. I was sweating so much. They had loads, but so did we. Can I just have loads of chances? Can I just say, I just want to start this show just by saying,

well done to Daniel Farker. I think given, I mean, I thought he was done. I want to say that. I thought it was all over. I thought he wasn't going to make the changes tactically necessary to give us a shot this season. I thought it was too wedded to his ways. And whether it's happened by accident or by design and whether it's better late than never.

On the basis of tonight,

he's delivered me a great night.

So a huge credit to him for that. And the players as well absolutely put themselves through the ringer tonight. Like, they were all dead on their feet. Yeah. These tactics have basically beaten Man City and Chelsea. Because I'm going to exclude the second half, the first half, obviously.

But we've ducked really dangerous against two of the best teams in the league with these tactics. Now, I guess there's a danger that if we keep playing these tactics, people will know we've played these tactics and they'll find a way around it. I mean, it's no guarantee of anything still at this stage. But Christ, forget it all. Enjoy tonight because tonight's fucking mint. And I will say, I think it's harder to find a way around, like, being absolute bastards and just, just, like, being dogged. We made it very difficult to play against. When we were talking recently about, like, being a little bit soft, it's so much easier to just get it up teams and destroy things.

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