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Not The Top 20 Podcast

Unsung Heroes of the EFL

Not The Top 20 Podcast

Not The Top 20 Podcast

Sports

4.8648 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Here's a fun premise for a podcast - let's shine a light on the unsung heroes that play in the EFL. Which player at your club doesn't get the credit they deserve, but whose absence makes the team look lost? We picked a few of our favourites and presented your answers... including getting one of your suggestions on the phone, as David Wheeler of Wycombe came on to discuss being 'unsung' as an attacking player and sports psychology, which he is studying. We also spoke to The Athletic's South American expert Jack Lang on the career and character of Reading goalkeeper Rafael Cabral! This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

When I'm walking down Main Street with my heart round your side, I collide.

0:25.1

Hello guys, hi there.

0:26.3

Thanks for tuning in to this week's NTT 20 Monday pod.

0:30.9

Ali Maxwell here, George Ellick, on the line.

0:33.9

When we've been doing these Monday pods since the start of isolation, George, it's a little bit weird because we do the quiz results and leaderboard on an Insta live at 7pm on a Sunday.

0:46.8

And this is, I mean, it's a bit more than 12 hours later, but it feels like it's only five minutes ago that we were last talking.

0:53.1

How are you doing this morning?

0:54.7

Yeah, I know you, mate, you just closed your eyes after the, after the quiz results yesterday.

0:58.9

You've opened them in your hair now, aren't you? Just a nice little 15 hour sleep.

1:01.9

But eat, I'm okay. Eat, sleep, NTT 20, repeat. That's my current, current life motto. Yeah, I could finally, it's 14 days of self-isolation as of this morning,

1:12.6

so I could go on a run today, which is very exciting, very early. But I'm, yeah, I'm good.

1:18.5

I'm good. How are you? I'm fine. And I'm just impressed and proud of your discipline during

1:24.8

what's been quite a tedious time for you with some symptoms, but not the

1:29.6

main ones. And I'm, yeah, I am genuinely proud of your discipline in your isolation. So a well,

1:35.5

a well-deserved run this morning, which you described to me as annoyingly long. So you might

1:41.2

need to be building up that fitness a little bit. Look, on this week's pod, we're obviously at the moment searching for the best topics, the most fun that we can have,

1:50.0

and also a little bit of NTT20 analysis as well.

1:55.0

So a couple of weeks ago, we did our top five managers of the season.

1:58.0

Last week we answered some excellent questions that were sent in,

2:01.0

including the best team not to get promoted and various others. This week, George, unsung

2:06.9

heroes of the EFL is our subject. Why? Where's that come from? Why are we doing it?

2:13.5

I think it's something that we do quite a lot anyway, is looking for players, managers,

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