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Hello and welcome to this completely unexpected Tuesday Guardian Football Weekly,

a bit of Monday night football to begin with the game of two halves,

as Leeds should have put Everson away before they came back in the second half. Barry's actually good, isn't he, Barry? And then to the EFL, Norwich Stun Coventry, now just three points clear at the top. Middles were flying under Kim Helberg while there's a big injury time turnaround for Wrexham. At the bottom, Barry Bannon says goodbye to Sheffield Wednesday, and could Blackburn or West Brom find themselves in League 1 next season. Cardiff still lead the way in the third tier, with Lincoln still pushing them. At the bottom, it's Port Vale plus three. Interleague 2, a big win for Bromley over Swindon, while Cambridge genuinely merits a mention. The longest unbeaten run in the EFL. It's nice to have a big team who win things. And which Brazilian international wants to buy Colchester United. All that plus your questions. And that's today's Guardian Football Weekly. On the panel today, Sani Ridger-Vadjaddle. Welcome, Sani. Hello, from the University of Salford, by the way. So if it gets very noisy and there's like hungover students, that's why in the background. back good they'll be forcing wkd into your ears

like the good old student days uh apart from you san anna it is a not the top 20 takeover ali

maxwell hello hello and george ellic is here too hey george hello from my kitchen where if it gets very noisy

it'll be my wife making cup of tea lovely well. Well, let's start on the Premier League.

Monday Night Fool. We don't have to spend hours on Everton 1, Leeds 1, but you were there,

Sannie, aside from being extremely cold. How was your night at the Hill Dickinson? Yeah, solely for the pod, by the way. So, you know, I've been to the Hill Dickinson before for the WSL, but you know, for a full Premier League game, it's obviously different and you've got that, you know, excitement of a first ever game at a new stadium, you know, outright, if you like, in the Premier League sort of vibes. And yeah, I think the biggest thing I took away was Everton fans are not very happy. So I went with my brother-in-law who's a scene ticket holder. I was like, if you give us a lift, I can get you parking right next to the ground, which is like the golden ticket. Yeah, that's good. Harder to get that. Yeah, it's harder to get that than actual ticket to the game. You're expecting, you know, the famous Evertonian sort of raw, which didn't come until Tienno Barry scored very late on. it's been a very kind of subdued time. I mean, he's got a newborn second child and he's getting out of the house for games. And he's like, I've only seen them win twice at home all season. Right. I thought you meant Tieno Barry. I thought he's very young to have a secondborn child. And like, you know, it's part of the job, I guess. He's got to get out of the house to play. Yeah. No, when about this time his form was so bad at the start of the season, he was just exhausted. Anyway, carry on. So, you know, Everton fans are going there. And they're already kind of like, well, things aren't already great. They're kind of waiting for to be, you know,

get out of the seats and it's easy to then have a bit of a moan. And that first half in particular

was completely insipid from them. But on the flip side, you know, Leeds again, being excellent.

And I think Daniel Tharker, if ever he needed some credit in the bank, you know, go back before

that unbeaten run and the workhalls, there were conversations around his department. Daniel Tharker, if ever he needed some credit in the bank, you know, go back before that

unbeaten run and the workhalls, there were conversations around his departure. He's well and truly put those to bed. I don't know if you've seen the Daniel Tharka penitentiary meme that goes around every time they win a game, but when Dominic Calvert-Lewan hits the post, if that goes in, I think, yeah, again, David Moyes and Everton are joining them in the penitentiary. But second half, and I think this is the thing, like, there's quite a few teams out there that are kind of so similar that they just can't maintain the level of the rat. And however good James Justin's been at about three different positions and Jaden Bogle, again, excellent on the right fallback. They just can't keep it up and Moy's made a load of changes. Everton were able to get back in,

and having gone specifically to see Barry in the flesh, seeing him score that goal was excellent,

also then seeing him with his tail up, then dry forward with the ball, three men around him,

and backheel it to nobody was an excellent moment as well. That really kind of raised my heart and got everyone in the ground. It's going, you know, that Everton roar again, but the negative one. So overall, yeah, a game of two halves. Even when you say a scintillating run from Barry, it's very hard for me to think of anyone else. You know, James saying,

Seb on comms has just said that Barry's been ridiculed at times, potentially talking to you there, Max, as producer Joel says, disconcerting to hear Seb Hutchinson shouting Barry with such gusto. But it is a sign, George, that we judge players so early, don't we? And he's four in five. He's a youngster, regardless of how many children he may or may not have.

And like you just need it,

because there was one effort with the outside of his right foot. don't we? Now he's four in five. He's a youngster, regardless of how many children he may or may not

have. And like, you just need, because there was one effort with the outside of his right foot. And when players have confidence at whatever level, it just makes a difference. Yeah, it was a great strike that. Dala did well to read it and to parry it away. But yeah, I mean, I think it's the case with everything in football. Like, people make decisions and judgments it's about managers before they've basically even been announced,

about players before they've even signed.

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