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Hi everyone, I'm on my own today.

This is a special episode where I spoke with Carl Anker from the

athletic and in the first half he's so Carl's Southampton correspondent for the athletic and also the host of Talk of the Devils,

their United podcast and he's a United fan.

So I thought would be fun to talk to Carl.

The first half of the show we talk a lot about

United and what's going on at the moment and the second half of the show I sort of asked him

about what it's been like to cover Southampton this season so I hope you all enjoy it and we'll be back next week after the Chelsea game with a regular show and it turns out when Ed's not here I kind of miss him

wherever you are Ed I hope you're well. Anyway here's my

chat with Carl. So I'm absolutely delighted to be joined by Carl Anker, the

athletics Southampton correspondent and also the host of the Talk of the Devil's

podcast which I think I'm illegally allowed to call the second best Munches

United podcast on the internet. What the first is we can compete to find out.

How are you doing Carl?

I'm doing well.

I'm doing well.

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