Dougie. Sam. I feel like I've got a decent gauge on how good most teams are at this stage of the season.

But Rail Madrid, now that is a complex case. Please, my friend, help me figure out how good this team actually is.

Alonzo's tactics just dismantled Barcelona, but that's only a small part of what feels like a bigger master plan, which is already transforming Madrid.

Real Madrid are back to being terrifying. What Alonzo has built isn't just a winning team. It's a new Real Madrid philosophy, disciplined, modern and lethal.

I think they've got off to a good start. You know, Chavez's a great coach. He proved that at Levy Cousin. I think he's an exceptional talent. They're one of the most confusing teams in the game right now because their results this season have been fantastic. They're top of La Liga. But every time I do watch Real Madrid, I do kind of come away feeling a bit underwhelming. Yes, hello and welcome to the latest episode of The Truth. Episode number nine, series two. Thank you. I went on holiday for one week. I genuinely have lost chuck. I genuinely have lost chuck a bit. Like, I do. My counter top left of my dock every time. Yeah. Very good. It does not take me much to be knocked off course, as you probably learned over the last year or so. You are hearing Dugie Critchley. You are hearing Sam Ty. How are you, my friend? I'm good. I'm slightly delirious. I had a pretty extraordinary day yesterday, which I won't go into too much detail about the journey back because it was absolutely hell. But basically, we're doing a talent show at Sunderland, and we've got Sondland players to be be the judge one contestant dropped out as we were on our route there and i was supposed to be co-producing it i ended up trying to break the world record for big mac meal eaten speed which is 59 seconds and i won't reveal whether i broke it or not but noa sedke and wilson is were judging me. We then had a hellish journey back,

went to bed at 2.30, had to get up at 6.30 to go on the sky. So it has been a lot going on.

Stomach has recovered, but it has been a fascinating last 24 hours in my brain.

Jeez. I mean, I've been complaining all day about my three-hour journey home from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. You saw great football, though? I did. I saw a particular goal that we can talk about, but I saw good football. I saw a good game. But I've been moaning that the cat didn't let me sleep. I got up at seven, I dealt with a kid. Then I went back in and I had to go and do some more work. And you he actually was it was yeah it was a hell of a day

what was funny is on the train like people I find when you've got a long long delay people really

separate into groups I went quiet and just like let's just deal with this internally there's so many

people that on the long journey will be like when is this fixed what is happening and you're like I don't

know nobody knows just get on with it. Oh, it was

driving me absolutely nuts, but we got there in the end at 1.13 to Kings Cross. So you're not

going to tell us if you broke the world record for fastest time eating a Big Mac? Big Mac, fries,

and a drink. And the world record is 59 seconds? Okay, so you definitely didn't break that. Okay, so my big question is, did Wilson Isidore break that record? He absolutely loved my attempt. But it was hilarious. He said it was the best thing he'd ever seen. Okay. Which I think he probably needs to get out a bit more. But he was very enthusiastic about all the contestants. And it's coming out on Sky quite soon in the next couple of weeks. So stay tuned for that. One final question on this is, I watched on Monday night, I watched Noah Siddiqui. Do his best to get sent off for the first 30 minutes of the game against Everton. I trust he'd calmed down by the time he met you and didn't try to rake your Achilles, two foot you in the shin, push your Big Mac out of your hand. This is always the factor when you do these shoots with players and there's a game the day before or two days before you're like, just don't get sent off. And 30 minutes in, not only were Sunnland going absolutely battered by Everton, but Noah Siddiqui was on a thin, thin line. But he was amazing.

I thought 20-year-olds, obviously, just arrived from Belgium.

I thought he was going to be quite shy. He was the life and soul of the party. He was Simon Cowell on steroids in terms of judging. It was, it was awesome. But had he been sent off on Monday night, he may not have ever been allowed to do what he did, because often clubs clamped down on the communications and that sort of thing happened. So we were pretty lucky on that front.

But Sam, how is your break?

How is your week off well before

we go to that because it wasn't really a week off it was the most intense week of my life we speculated

you might be taking over at panathonicos a sporting director oh it would have been nice actually

probably as stressful as chasing a near two-year-old around a hot country,

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