Andrey Arshavin

Well, I mean, if we're gonna be doing worst all-time 11s, I mean, Mustafi and Shamakch certainly are potentially getting onto that.

Arshavin's not getting in over Alexis, is he? Um, Philip says, "Tom, I apologize for wasting so much time with this.

[laughs] I won't mention any other 11s." [laughs] It's fine, Philip.

It's the international break.

Yeah, yeah

... as like Arshavin or someone maybe?

Sun Jihai.

Sun, yeah.

Very good.

My favorite, which I didn't know, but I remembered, is that Andrei Arshavin, in his early days at Zenit, got a degree from the University of St. Petersburg in fashion design.

Is that right?

How about that? Yeah.

He...

I can't remember exactly what happened, but he said, I'll have what she's Andre Arshavin.

Nice.

Which I really, really liked.

[laughs] Knew it.

Andrey Arshavin.

Ooh, Russian diet.

I think it might be something a bit off kilter, like, some sort of, like, tomato or grapefruit juice.

So he's like, I come to Liverpool.

I went to watch Liverpool Arsenal when Arshavin scored four goals.

Like I've never, he was so football mad.

And I was like, well, when you come, like give us, we followed each other on Instagram.

He came close to scoring several times.

In fact, I think he did score but there was an offside decision and I think the game, if I'm right, the game I'm thinking of where he scored a couple of goals, or he could have scored a couple of goals, was the one where Arsenal won 2-1 with the last-minute goal from Arshavin, which I think I've got Adam to play the audio on this programme a couple of times.

So, you know, the best individual performance I've ever seen live was actually Cristiano Ronaldo playing for Manchester United in his first where he absolutely tore us apart in the Champions League semi-final at the Emirates and it was just just before he went to Real Madrid and it was the most comprehensive one-man show I've ever seen I probably didn't see the best of Lionel Messi but just to see him there as part of that twinkling Barcelona line-up is something that I'll you know Tell my son about, you know, and anyone else that will listen, including you.

I'll listen.

We were all a bit under the weather.

But he was blowing up because they didn't have Andrei Arshavin on Arsenal because it was the outdated FIFA.

So if you know Ryan, who supports Arsenal, who's from Auckland... who is, uh, has strong feelings on Zondo Arshaven.

Do get in touch.