This is Paul Hawksby.

Charlie Baker.

And this is the H&J Daily,

but the best bits of this afternoon show. We had a birthday spread, of course, which was close for, as always. Graham Stack and Lee Trundle joined us. Graham has been putting together these footballers boxing evenings. And Lee Trundle, the Swansea legend, will be on the bill again. I think he's bitten off more than he can chew, but we'll find out.

Yeah, we spoke to both the guys

and Lee was telling us how much he's getting into the boxing. Reese James, the comedian and spurs fan, join us. He's a regular on Mock, Louis. Back on Mott-Lewich, isn't he? That's back. Which is back. And Tim Vickery had some interesting stories in the world of South American football.

So. And it spread porn.

Yeah, there's spread. Here it all is.

Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon. Charlie.

Afternoon, Paul. Afternoon, Paul. It's nice to see you. You were on the show yesterday.

I was. I was. I came on the immediate aftermath of Thomas Frank being sacked. You're on your own show. You're on your own show. You're on your own show. That's right. It was, yeah, it gave me a chance. Good, it was gave me a chance to vent. I mean, I did. I was, it was, I'm not listening back to it. Why would I? But you were very good. It was quite scatter gun and covered a lot of ground. It's very interesting that there's going to be a,

we're going to talk to Reese James later on. He's a Spurs fan and he's part of Mock the Week, which has returned. And they've been playing lots of clips from the overlap that Ange Poster Coglu has done. And I watched the clip earlier on the day. And he basically says everywhere you go at the club. I'm sure people have seen it. But if I haven't, he says everywhere you go at Tottenham, you're just this phrase, the Latin phrase, to dare is to do, is wherever you go in the ground. He said, but in reality, they don't back that up.

No, no one's daring and no one's doing. I mean, he talks about the players he wanted to buy, shortlist for players. And, you know, this has been the story for Topner managers, more or less during the whole Enoch period. Yeah. The only thing I think may have changed now, this is a real wake-up call for them. I've always sensed they're waiting for the right moment to sell it.

And it's always been a situation where they've been able to... now, this is a real wake-up call for them. I've always sensed they're waiting for the right moment to sell it.

And it's always been a situation where they've been able just to maintain the club.

We're kind of in a bit of a not quite as bad as new, but it's a sort of Mike Ashley doom loop scenario

where you find yourself with an ownership who sort of go so far just to sort of keep you in the division. And I think that's where they're at. They're happy to tread water. And they've been able to get away with it for years. You know, by fair middling players. You buy a 70 million quid player. They get lucky with a purchase like Delhi Alley for 5 million. And they get a great player. get sometimes they get lucky with with that sort of

fair middling recruitment or they get lucky with a player like harry kane who's a generational

talent but they're just kind of happy to sort of tread water they yeah if we get lucky we'll be

top three or four if not we'll be fine we might go down to 10th the 11th but we're going down. We're not going to get involved in a relegation dogfight. But Andy and I often talk about this, and he's absolutely right. So the Premier League is so much more competitive now. You can't get away with that. You can't be fair at Midling because teams are coming up with real hunger. They're coming up with money because of the amount of money in the Premier League. And if their recruitment's better than yours, which in some cases it is, Sundland to this season, you know, you get dragged in. Last year, as Ange Poster Cogglow said, they were well off for going down because there was three very bad teams. But there isn't three very bad teams. With respect, there's two pretty bad teams, and the rest is up for grabs.

So this should be a wake-up call to them that you can't get away with this forever.

This season, hopefully will be it.

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