The Preview Show: Can I get sacked in the morning?
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Enzo Maresca is set to embark on a new career as a novelist. Will his first book be a tragedy by any chance?
Today, Pete, who is still covered in Christmas Pâté, is joined by Jim and David to share their thoughts on Chelsea’s decision to part ways with Enzo Maresca. Plus, there is extremely devoted fans and political turmoil at AFCON. Would we wish for anything else?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello? Yeah, JT here. Now, thanks, Todd. I'm making shitloads from the Baller League. Welcome to the Football Rumble preview show. It's Friday, 2nd of January. I'm Pete Donaldson. I'm Jim Campbell. And I'm David Cartlidge. |
| 0:13.8 | Good timings, guys. Great start to the year. |
| 0:25.8 | Happy new year, gentlemen. |
| 0:27.0 | Happy new year. |
| 0:30.0 | I just loved, like, David Cartley's didn't crash the vocals. |
| 0:31.1 | It was a perfect start. |
| 0:32.0 | You know. |
| 0:34.7 | We'd start in the, yeah, right, I'm loving it. |
| 0:55.5 | Yes, yesterday we kicked off the year by reliving the best moments from our patient-exclusive content in 2025. You can listen to that Ramble uncut recap below this episode in your podcast app. And if you enjoy it, make sure to sign up to the Football Rumble Patreon. Just search for patreon.com forward slash football ramble. Or just type that into the top of your Chrome browser if you're a Chromist. Maybe you're a Firefoxist as well. |
| 0:56.3 | You'll find it. |
| 0:57.0 | You'll find it. |
| 0:59.4 | Or you can click the join button on YouTube to get involved. |
| 1:00.6 | Now, wow. |
| 1:03.9 | Wow. |
| 1:04.8 | I had a lovely picky tea last night, Jim. |
| 1:07.9 | I had pat air. |
| 1:09.1 | I had cheese. |
| 1:09.9 | Oh, lovely. |
| 1:10.5 | I had crackers. And Chelsea YouTube as well, which was just absolutely... How many picky teas have you had over Christmas, though? It has been... My partner's been ill, so I have just been demolishing everything that's in the fridge. I am very paté-based at the moment of time. It's the season for it, isn't it? It is the season. |
| 1:30.9 | And is picky tea a northwestern thing, David? Because I never really had them in the, in, when I was a kid. It was never a thing. Yeah, I was going to see, we always used to say, like, oh, we have on picket at night, sort of thing. So that was, that was always it. Yeah, exactly, yeah. little rear |
| 1:41.3 | yeah |
| 1:41.8 | little rear |
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