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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Who feels sorry for Novak Djokovic?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.5840 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 140 minutes

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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio; to join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973

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0:00.0

It is three minutes after 10. It's Monday morning. You're listening to LBC and still we rise. Here we go again.

0:10.5

It is, as I've remarked in the past to you, very occasionally a sports story is so important and so significant that it moves from the back pages, both metaphorically and literally speaking.

0:20.6

It migrates to the front pages of both metaphorically and literally speaking, it migrates to the

0:21.6

front pages of the national newspapers and indeed of the news bulletins, broadcast news bulletins.

0:27.6

And I think that the astonishing 2-1 result that Kidamister Harris secured against Reading on Saturday

0:33.1

at Agbara Stadium, clearly, by all the rules of the news, falls into that category.

0:37.7

This is an event of massive national importance, although how we're going to fare in the fourth round against West Ham is anybody's guess.

0:45.5

So I would begin, as you'd expect, and as I imagine, every broadcast bulletin in the country has done this morning, and indeed yesterday morning, with my full congratulations to get to Mr. Harris, to to the manager Russ Penn to the goal scorers of Moran, Morgan Smith and Sam

0:58.7

Austin and to all of the backroom stuff all of the team all of the all of the substitutes

1:02.7

everybody involved everyone who's ever been to Kidderminster in fact congratulations I've decided

1:08.1

on reflection not to focus upon that epic sports story today, but to focus instead upon the continuing case of Novak Djokovic.

1:18.4

Before that, though, I found myself in the very welcome and rare position of having to announce some fantastic Brexit-related news.

1:25.1

I don't know whether you are aware of this yet.

1:27.1

The Prime Minister himself has just taken to Twitter to celebrate this astonishing

1:32.6

contribution to the national pageants.

1:36.7

I can tell you that Virgin Mobile and O2 users will not face roaming...

1:41.2

I'm not joking, by the way.

1:42.7

Boris Johnson is now reduced to boasting

1:44.6

and tweeting about the fact that Virgin Mobile and O2 phone users will not face roaming charges

1:51.6

following announcements by other networks to reintroduce extra fees after Brexit. Some of the

1:58.6

detail remains a little unclear, whether it's going to be a sort of permanent

2:01.3

amnesty or whether there will be a limit on it, a time limit on it, is not yet clear. But if you

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