The Preview Show: Absolute Lims
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Marcus, Luke and Jim bring you good Ramblings on Christmas Eve! They discuss Arsenal's confidence and bank account-boosting win against Crystal Palace last night and look ahead to the best of the Christmas action, including ONE Boxing Day fixture. We are outraged.
We also salute the Rangers fan who chose to watch Elf in the stadium instead of their own team, and an even bigger salute for the fan in Portugal who travelled 900 miles (on his own) to watch his club draw 0-0.
Plus, a listener provides a modicum of vindication for Pete Donaldson. Emphasis on modicum.
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| 0:00.0 | Guide us to thy perfect light, everybody. |
| 0:02.7 | Welcome to the Football Rumble. |
| 0:05.1 | Arsenal are in the semis. |
| 0:06.5 | It's Wednesday, 24th of December. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Marcus Speller. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Luke Moore. |
| 0:10.3 | And I'm Jim Campbell. |
| 0:31.3 | Well, hello everybody. It's Christmas Eve, and we three kings of Rambul are bearing gifts we banter afar. |
| 0:38.6 | Thanks to Friend of the Rambles, Santa for giving us that intro line. |
| 0:44.0 | If you want to submit an intro line for a future episode and get an extended edition of today's show, then become a friend of the Ramble on our Patreon. |
| 0:47.4 | Just head to patreon.com forward slash football ramble now. |
| 0:50.0 | And if it's good enough for Santa, then it's good enough for you, I would say. |
| 0:54.7 | Now, gentlemen, we're just one day away from the big day, of course. |
| 0:58.4 | It's reaching fever pitch down here at Ramble HQ. |
| 1:02.6 | I want to start, though, Jim Campbell, with Arsenal 1, Crystal Palace 1, |
| 1:07.0 | in the quarter-final of the Lee Cup, sponsored by Carabelle once again. |
| 1:12.3 | Arsenal went through 8-7 on Penns. |
| 1:14.9 | Oh, hey, a semi-final against Chelsea, you get to play them twice, your lucky thing. |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, so many games in January and February now. |
| 1:23.6 | I'll be honest, boys, though. |
| 1:24.6 | There was a point where Mark Gaye scores that late goal, goal. And I'm thinking, maybe the quadruple is off. Oh. Maybe, maybe this is the first beginning of that. Also, very disrespectful to the 25,000 pounds prize money that they've backed. Oh, I've come into that. Yeah, yeah. Coming to that. I mean, that's that, who needs a quadruple when you got that kind of cheese in your pocket? |
| 1:45.7 | I'll tell you what is truly remarkable, |
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