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Hello and welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast weekend preview

as we look ahead to match day three in the Premier League.

I'm Tim Spears back at the Athletics HQ in London, standing in for Adam Leventile in the hot seat this week while he's away on his jollies.

Presumably hoping that Watford don't sack their manager. In fact, who is Watford's manager these days? Nope, moving on. Okay. Right, we're here every Friday to set up the weekend's action. And with me this week, he's back once again. We can't get rid of him slash. It's lovely to see you. It's Nick Miller. I i'm just constantly available that's the that's the thing there's nothing nothing more to it than that i don't think nick's excited everybody

i can hear it uh you're you're extra excited because you're very pleased with yourself uh having just

eaten your lasagna leftovers home homemade lasagnaagna just want to clarify that that homemade by me

from scratch yeah but but I am feeling a little bit sluggish now having eaten quite a lot of it for lunch

sluggish and smug that's our nick uh Nick's excited I can feel it I'm excited we've got two

debutants on the show joining Nick this week. We're going to start with the magnificent Ruben Pinder. Hello sir. How are you? Very well. Thank you. How are you? I'm very good. Thank you. For those who aren't familiar with your work, clue the listener in. Who the hell are you, Ruben? I'm that guy off the athletics TikTok account. New it.

So go and follow us on there if you don't have 20 minutes to read an in-depth feature.

We'll do our best to sum it up for you.

It's good fun.

But yeah, thanks for having me.

Read the feature as well, though.

Obviously, listeners.

We're going to move on to our second debutant, the wonderful Namdi on Jaguara.

Is that a good pronunciation?

That was a fantastic pronunciation.

Thank you very much.

Namdi, tell us who you are and where you come from.

I was going to do the Cilla Black.

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