What about the Champions League
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On a night where Vinícius Júnior didn't need to answer to anyone, he did anyway with a brilliantly taken winner against Benfica. The dance goes on.
Pete and Luke are joined by David Cartlidge to look back on the action across Europe last night – including further depressing scenes on both sides at the Bernabéu, as David explains. José Mourinho behaves like a prat too, of course.
We also unpack perhaps the worst red card decision in recent memory in Juventus vs Galatasaray. Poor lovely Lloyd Kelly!
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| 0:00.0 | A bin juice of a fixture at the Burnabyo and inexplicably we're doing five minutes on Lloyd Kelly. |
| 0:06.1 | Welcome to the Football Rumble is Thursday, 26th of February. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Pete Donaldson. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm Luke Moore. |
| 0:10.9 | And I'm David College. |
| 0:27.3 | Oh. Oh, it's a three-dad ramble. |
| 0:29.4 | Unprecedented three-dad ramble. |
| 0:31.0 | David Carlin's in the house. |
| 0:31.7 | Well, I'm David. |
| 0:32.3 | Welcome back. |
| 0:34.5 | New Dad David. |
| 0:36.9 | Yeah, yeah, I'm good, and I'm less tired than you. I can't believe I'm the only tired person in the room. |
| 0:39.4 | Luke's had a good night's sleep for the first time in about three years. |
| 0:42.1 | Luke doesn't let it affect him. |
| 0:44.4 | The best ramblers don't let it affect him, guys. |
| 0:47.2 | Be angry from birth, and they don't want to know if you're tired or not. |
| 0:50.1 | That's absolutely fine. |
| 0:51.7 | I've got a lovely little song for you that I've written. Oh, go on. Baby powder and coliccan poonamis and sleep deprivation and maconiums and drinking in the shower and crying in your sleep. Are you having a nice time, David, dance. And you dance. I have cried in my sleep several times. You always drank in the shower anyway. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. beer. One of the best beers. On holiday. If it's ice cold. Ice cold when you're in the shower. Oh, watching a bit of YouTube on your phone. Oh, beautiful. Oh, do you not live. YouTube on the phone in the shower? Yeah, I watch YouTube. about, I do my MSNBC roundup, see what Trump's up to, and then just crack on with everything else. It's a good start of the day. It's a good start to the day. Well, it was... Don't look up at the clock. We've been doing two minutes. What are you doing? And that's been the football roundup for another day. Oh, hours work. Yeah, I just talked about all the stuff I'll do in the shower and then just chocked off early, really. It's not everything I do in the shower. No. Well, it was a pretty solid evening of Gazprom, all told. Apart from the officiating the Dumont to an absolute toxic waste of a fixture came with an expected Real Madrid win. Real Madrid, a two, |
| 2:01.8 | one on the night against Benfica 3-1 on aggregate. I mean, it was a interesting sort of |
| 2:08.4 | start to this particular fixture. A banner with the words, no to racism was displayed in the |
| 2:13.9 | stands before kickoff, which I think might have been short for, no, we're actually stuff with racism, actually. We're absolutely full. No more of it, thanks. No more, please. Yeah, a group of Rearborated supporters are giving Nazi salutes on the telly and also chanting fascist songs outside the stadium. I'm not sure that was the tenor of Venetius Junior's point. Come on, guys, let's out-racist these guys. Don't worry. Don't worry. Everyone's, don't worry about it. I'm not sure that was the tenor of Venetius' Juniors' point. Come on, guys, let's out racist these guys. |
| 2:35.1 | Don't worry, don't worry about it. I'm not really worried about what Prestiani's alleged to have done because I know you guys have got my better. Oh, right. Yeah, okay, yeah. Can I also just interject for a very important reason? Right. And just say, for your own internal records, Gazprom ceased being sponsors of the Champions League in 2020. |
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