Soccer AM

Yeah.

So it's still in the, you know, still back in the Soccer AM days where women-

Yeah

... were like second-class citizens, you know, when it came-

So today, when a shot goes in the top corner, it gets called top bins.

Is that a Soccer AM legacy thing?

I think that's the first time I heard it was Soccer AM.

I would never say it was school.

It was never a thing at school.

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it's proper football law, that, isn't

it? Would you, as players, would you be, like, excited if it's like, oh, Soccer AM are coming to the training ground today to do crossbar challenge, yeah, yeah, was like a big

But-

I remember him being on Soccer AM and they ask him about his hair, and he's like, "No, this is, this is just my hair." And even like today he has very odd haircuts-

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...

It was always funny that he ...

I just thought that it was a part of this, the, the show, but it wasn't, it was just his hair.

And I m- remember him getting really insulted on Soccer AM because they asked him about it.

[laughs] Yeah, I would be, too.

I, I-

This is why I used to like it on Soccer AM when they used to do this, didn't they? They used to...

For whatever your mileage might be on Soccer AM, they used to have the if you've turned up on the show and you were a guest, it'd be like you have to have a football team.

Yeah.

So then the...

And it's creating an interesting situation for the band.

It's a bit like Kasabian, actually, when they started getting taken on by a lot of football teams and ended up becoming famous from being on Soccer AM a lot.

And a lot of the members have been like, I actually hate football, so I don't know how this has happened.

That's sort of how the Vitellis feel.

All references to the

Soccer AM video.

In Ponsapri, they're asking people what their nicknames are.

Yeah, I love my hometown.

And Arsenal in the final again at Cardiff beat Chelsea and again...

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But he is old Arsenal right.

I mean he can never shake that off despite as David said being a very fine part of this new era.

I assume that it's not, you know, a local fly posting company that you need to contact to get that one up.

And I just thought, yeah, this says now that he's a big enough name and face to do that.

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Yeah, some huge transfers that you've mentioned there and some huge fallouts ahead as well