The Preview Show: The Tartan Diego Simeone
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
If you’re going to make one New Year’s resolution, make it this: watch the Indian national team at the Asian Cup. Why, you ask? Trevor Sinclair has just been made their overhead kick coach.
Marcus, Andy and Jim look back on a bitterly disappointing night for Arsenal and Konstantinos Mavropanos, who had to go through the Scott Sinclair Moral Maze™ of scoring against a club he barely played for.
Plus, Roberto De Zerbi harnesses yet more chaotic energy, Phil Foden gets praise from a different bald fraud, and Jim explains how Jose Mourinho played mind games with his family on Christmas Day…
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| 0:00.0 | Let's party like it's 1999 everybody |
| 0:02.4 | Welcome to the Football Rebel preview show |
| 0:04.6 | sponsored by Betfair West Ham won at Arsenal |
| 0:06.8 | and Sheffield United are off to the Etiad |
| 0:08.3 | It's Friday to end the December. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm Marcus Speller. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm Jim Campbell. |
| 0:11.1 | No, I'm Jim Campbell. |
| 0:30.6 | It does. It's one of the best Fridays you're going to get because in a way every day is Friday and Saturday and who knows what day it is. |
| 0:36.0 | So... My giddy aren't. Jim, you were the one for my money that came up with the name Christmas Perignee. |
| 0:45.0 | I doubt that's true, but I'm happy that you and a few people seem to think that I've coined that phrase. I saw the sort of incomparable |
| 0:54.8 | Susie Dent referred to it as the Merinayam the other day which I think is that's going to take some topping. |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah, uh-huh. Well, we're all very merry in this part of the year. |
| 1:07.8 | Looking forward to the new year, of course. Before we talk about what happened last night and then look ahead to the weekend's action. |
| 1:15.6 | Our Torsheba competition starts today. |
| 1:18.8 | Everybody, we are giving you the chance to win a brand new 50 inch Tosheba Fire Q lead TV and we're giving |
| 1:27.1 | away three of the buggers everybody not just won three three different winners you can't |
| 1:31.6 | have you can't have like a one on each wall in your |
| 1:34.1 | living room that would be naughty. To enter listen to the very end of the show after |
| 1:38.7 | the adverts where Pete Donaldson will be on hand to tell you how to enter. We'll be announcing the winner of our first TV |
| 1:45.8 | on Tuesday's show and then starting another draw for TV number two that very same day. |
| 1:50.9 | So stay tuned and yes you did here right Tuesday's show of course next |
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