Thomas Tuchelitis
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The Champions League is back! Today, Marcus, Luke and Jim review an evening that was disappointingly overshadowed by allegations of racist abuse in Benfica vs Real Madrid. Rest assured, José Mourinho covered himself in no glory whatsoever.
Elsewhere, Newcastle prepare for an historic two and a half thousand-mile journey to Baku. Plus, Marcus’ Thomas Tuchelitis is getting worse than ever.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm 45th generation Roman everybody. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to the Football Rumble. |
| 0:05.4 | Ugly scenes in Lisbon and Newcastle are up tonight. |
| 0:07.9 | It's Wednesday, 18th the February. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm Marcus Speller. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Jim Campbell. |
| 0:10.7 | And I'm Luke Moore. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello, everybody. Hello everybody, good to have you with us on the Football Ramble. |
| 0:29.2 | Thanks to Friend of the Rambled, Jay Hutch. |
| 0:32.0 | Go on Hucho for giving us that intro line. |
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| 0:44.2 | That opening line is from Turn the Page, isn't it, the opening song on original |
| 0:48.3 | pirate material by the streets. Okay, I didn't know that. I regularly use that song to get me up for |
| 0:53.2 | something if I'm really tired and don't fancy doing it. |
| 0:55.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.8 | And I would be very surprised if loads of people listening and watching aren't the same. |
| 0:59.9 | It's the best song to get you up for something if you're not quite filling it. |
| 1:04.1 | Along with, there's probably a top three in here, but I can think of two. |
| 1:07.2 | The streets specifically. |
| 1:08.7 | It's that song specifically. |
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