Anatomy of a Derby: United's Existential Binary, Arsenal's Swagger, and Spurs' Paralysis

You're listening to the Men in Blazers media network. Subopt a more radio. Massive Premier League weekend, the Hoi Manchester United, Hoi Manchester City, answering the age-old question, who went to fight between a giant gold-scoring baby, early in Harland, and then a origami past Master Buno Fernandez. Arsenal, go north of the wall, can they stay down jacket in the wildings of Sunderland, and Tottenham Hotspur got your first point of the season, standing between them, and their first win, Everton Football Club, can the Tottenham Other South beat the Tottenham Other North? This is Big Weekend Preview, all into all of those massive burning questions. Oh, from the Premier League this weekend, I'm here with the Arthetta Hare Helmet of Football Writers, Mr. Rory Smith. Don't have to take that, and the only money football, Bigger than the Knips, which is Goldkeeper, some fee car. What up? As they say, feedback poured in from episode 1, Bus Boys. Not sure if this is good or bad. At FL Mandan, M-U-F-C, Thrupple Vibes. Oh, sure. Well, you know, is it a good thing? I'll get it on a mug for a slads. We begin in Manchester. It's Derby Weekend, Sunday 1130, AM Eastern, on P-Cock. I believe it was Eric Cantana, who said, on Derby Day, the Blues and the Reds invade the streets, and if your team wins, the city belongs to you. Those are the stakes, but this early season clash, that's about lasting supremacy, more an opportunity for either side to take control of their own peculiar knee-jerk narrative, raw, simple question, match week four, who needs a Derby win more? Michael Carrick, it united, or Enzo Meresca, Tesco Peppett City. Michael Carrick is the correct answer to that question, Raj. Enzo Meresca has made a basically flawless start at city, and as much as he's been helped by having $500 million worth of midfielders, as much as the performances haven't always been Uber convincing. They were a little bit lucky to squeeze past Bournemouth. He has won all of his games. He's got a little bit of credit in the bank, I think. There's only two states for Manchester United, Raj. They are either back or they're in crisis. There is nothing in between. If they win, then they are back. If they lose the Derby on Sunday, then unfortunately, because of losing at whole, because of the dagger blow of conceding not one but two goals to Everton, a team without a striker, the risk is that they slip into another of those seasons where every united defeat feels sort of existential. I love a lukewarm bath. Humpf. It's a thin line margin game football. Michael Carrick knows that, playing for United, 12 wins, 10 losses, two draws in this game. This epic rumble also, probably fittingly, is first game as last season's inter-ramera. Home Derby, adult Trafford, listing United, shot the world under him, they won 2-0. They have real emotional cathartic release, and in the aftermath, Carrick Riley noted, emotion can't be the only fuel for United. They have to have control, they have to have intention, and that needs to be cultivated. Carrick wants to control games, but if anything about it is united, they often not make natural when they do play bigger teams, when they can see the ball to attack, when they can play in transition, counter-punch, 55% possession of the game's Everton last weekend, was probably too much. As angely made in the Niles, get ultimately proved, God bless you, you God. I want to know what you think about Carrick as a permanent manager, because he is so low-fi, he is anti-ora. Like everyone before, the season was saying we're so calm, it's so simple, that's your traction. But in football, there's a thin line between quiet, and unassuming, and in control, and being seen as boring, too low-key, and out of your depth. Yeah, there's such a delicate balancing act, I think, for the top teams of trying to ensure that you create an environment where your players can thrive and do well, but also that word used aura. Games at this level, such marginal games and games can make a massive difference, and having your players genuinely believe that they are the overdog going into a game, can present them with an advantage. You can create that aura of invincibility, growing up as a football fan. Imagine I would just this unassailable team that, you know, through Fergie Time, and through financial power, and through everything, just dominated English football for such a long time. And now they are sort of in danger of feeling like they are a natural fifth and sixth place club. So for Carrick, it's a difficult job. He's got to get his players up for games, and he's got to find a way to sort of imbue them with that sense of, okay, when we play Everton, we play Leeds, when we play whoever it is, down the bottom half of the table. It is only the natural law of the football jungle that we will kill and consume our enemies. He's also got to use kind of history, but not use it too much, because he has to, I find that really fascinating about United that Carrick has to kind of speak to the history of which he's a part. So part of the reason he's got the job is because he is redolent of those furthest in teams. He's a representative of this glorious past. But then if you turn the dial up too much on that, it suddenly becomes really oppressive, and it seems to kind of intimidate the players almost. And at the same time, he's going to deal with all that psychological star in the last few years, the fact that they know that if they have two or three bad results back to back, then suddenly it is a full blown crisis, and they're under scrutiny, and everyone's saying they're not good enough. It's such a delicate club to kind of manage, I think, for Carrick. And he did see in the last six months of last season really well-suited to it. But then he was playing once every three months. They had a squad that was stacked for what they were needing to do. And now he suddenly got expectations and pressure on his shoulders. And we haven't seen how Michael Carrick responds when that happens. So it's a whole new dawn for Manchester United. I like that idea of like use the history, but not too much him just giving out copies of the end of history to all of his players, having the choir walking around with him. Let's play with the last man, the last man lads. There is another team in this Manchester City who kept up there, quite perfect, but still kind of working progress campaign rumbling through the Champions League fixture at Porto with two second half goals from that talent, baby, early in Harlan, record 59 goals and 59 Champions League games. He's the entire Champions League of Farmers League. Maresca is maybe a different lineup in every single match to start the season, all those new additions in midfield, finding rumbling through the different combinations cultivating the chemistry. That's the focus. So to that end, Maresca revealed this week that he now wants players to blast music during training. He set up speakers. I love the detail at their city-branded speakers around the training field. We all laughed when Michele Arteta did that lads, but now it's standard and that the players have chosen a lot of house music. Since I'm old enough to remember the simpler days when you managers would simply come in and either band catch up or unband catch up as they go to power move. When I saw what music he choose, Maresca said, different music. Humph, rule. The question everyone in football is asking themselves, what songs do you think would go on the end zone Maresca training playlist? Oh wow. Well, I think, you know, you have to look to sort of the kind of Italian Eurovision hits of recent memory, Manesca in I think they were called Monoskin. Oh, there is an accent over the A, isn't there? Yeah. And yeah, so this is a distraction. I made a real idiot of myself there. This is disrespecting the Monoskin. Just not make me on the halfway line effects. Monoskin are really good. I really like this. They are great. Yeah, they are great. I'm a big Eurovision fan. I love Eurovision, so this is yet another thing. I also adore Eurovision. But we have to remember about Maresca is he's not really Italian. So I always want to suggest RTA Povery, which is one of those big like 80s Italian disco bands. But Maresca's, all of his influences are Spanish. He's a more international person. So I sort of went down that line a little bit, wondered whether maybe he'd be into itana or someone like that. But then I realised that he has a sense of the epic. So maybe win beneath my wins. I think it's the greatest epic song ever written. And then I thought, is there a thing we can do with the Testropep? So I'm going to say copycat by Billie Eilish. Tell us in the comments for the sound on, is he? What, Bully Eric Beats? Is Maresca riding? Well, that's here. You're Derby Day predictions, Gents. I think, although there are two trajectories of the clubs, maybe you feel a little a little bit like this at the moment? I'm going to suggest they're going to meet in the middle, one, one. I've gone for two, one to City Rodge. I think the United do lift themselves for this game, and they're retarded throughout the kind of city dominant years has been pretty good in the Derby. But I think Maresca quietly is building quite a good season. And also in the interest of just someone, anyone, keeping pace with Arsenal, I think City need to keep winning. So I'm going to one city. I also, Rossi, a city win, 3-1 playlist FC. Next up, Sunderland against Arsenal, which kicks off Saturday 3pm each and on USA Channel. First off, Gents. I'd love to know three games in the league, three wins, who's been Arsenal's best player at the season so far and why? I think the answer is relatively obvious. No, that I've had two seconds to think about it. And I think it's probably Martin Odegard, isn't it? Yeah, I mean, obviously Odegard has been brilliant. I am going to sort of just an attempt to sound sophisticated Ricardo Califuri, I think Arsenal defensive unit has been incredibly good. And that feels like where they are a little bit ahead of the game for some of their other potential challenges. I agree, by the way. You could say Solis for assists in his first five games, all comps. You could very seriously make the case for a rejuvenated Martin Odegard, but Califuri. I will say, when he signed, I just assumed Arsenal had paid $54 million. Solis for his own parallel good looks to upgrade the player calendar sales. But man, can do it all. Both ends are the pitch, pound for pound. I think you can make the case. He's the best footballer in the league right now, you can. And certainly in terms of flexibility. He's a centre-back who came to England and was immediately transformed into a left-back. And now on the pitch, he's sometimes a sort of midfielder. And sometimes he plays as a sort of central number 10 playmaker. And that level of versatility is really, really rare. So Califuri has been outstanding this season. I just, to me, Odegard looks like a player who knows that he was a little bit more on the sidelines of the title when then he'd like to have been. He wasn't a central figure in the title when despite being captain. And I think that his, his sense seems to be right. I want to go and win one for myself now. Yeah, man of the match in almost every game, I think of this season swaggering display against Chelsea in that grinding win at Napoli this week. The slightly rotated attack. It did take 75 minutes to find their clinicality. But then come with the man, come with the Odegard. What a delicious finish. His ballon door campaign for 2027 has begun. I spoke to Ben White last week. You can find the link to that. Quite delicious interview in the show note, diosteim. If it feels like I was playing with less pressure, with a different pressure having finally won the title, kind of shrugged off the reality. But Rour, do you see a difference? Especially in how awesome are going forward, 100% of the goals this season scored from open play. Is it as simple as they're just more liberated or is you a tactical adjustment that you see in it kind of accounts for how they're moving? Are you asking if it's time to start questioning Nicholas Yover? He's finished. He's finished. He's a fraud. He's chopped. Is chopped good bad or salad? I believe that's bad. But I don't quite know. I think it's your appearance maybe. I think it's your outfit is bad. You're chopped. But I don't know. I think the three of us, oil paintings, as we are, have no right to ever use the word chopped in public. And I think you're very fun looking man. Oh, it means ugly. I thought it meant, oh, okay. Yeah, apologies. That's that's why I didn't want to cast as versions on your appearance. The new segment chopped or not chopped. But what you see, can I get a sound of this? What it looks to me is it's mainly psychological. I'm sure that that there have been kind of tactical adjustments that are tetas made tweets to what Arsenal do to make make sure they don't become predictable or teams aren't quite forewarned about what's coming. But they look lighter. They look like they are playing with a little bit more freedom. I don't know whether they maybe want to prove a little bit that they can play their way through teams as well as find ways to get Gabrielle to charge straight through them. The main difference strikes me as being they know they have already won. That weight has gone so they can kind of swank around. It's also solace on the left. Having that true legitimate creative threat on both wings keeps backlines honest in a way they haven't in the past. It reminds me of like speaking to our tetter, the beginning of last season, I talked to him about the set pieces which were really well two years ago until everyone found them out. We talked to him and I said, how are you going to evolve to keep that to be such a weapon? He said we have new strategies. Maybe this strategy this year is to figure out the set piece completely to give up that line of attack everyone was expecting and almost attack the city walls by a vulnerability. No one was expecting from Arsenal. Just joyous, creative, inventive, free play. As we know, all the best teams do evolve and they do find ways to shake up their dynamic. I think it's one of those things where we may end up seeing in three or four weeks time. There's been a few towering Gabrielle headers from corners and we find ourselves thinking they've still got that in their locker as well. But to be in that kind of driving seat, you've got to always be evolving otherwise you're in big trouble. In football and in life Arsenal drew two two at the stadium of light last November, pegged back by a late late Sunderland equalizer. What a ferociously tenacious team they are, really the embodiment of their captain, one granite, Jacques. One of them is magnificently competitive players in the Premier League, spent seven years, of course, at Arsenal, complicated relationship. It became captain in 2019 was then stripped of that captaincy with in six weeks after falling out with the home fans. We rebuilt his career under Michaela Teta, came so close, twice, to leading the club to the Promised Land became a double winner, ultimately, really redemptively, wondrously, under Shabby Alonso in Germany, with Biolay Vakuz, and there's matured aged into one of the league's most cultured midfield generals with Sunderland. Last year he reflected honestly on the night he stripped of the captaincy and he always seemed like he cribbed Charles Dickens as he said, it was the worst day of my life, it was the best day of my life. Which begots the question everyone in the football world to ask in Humphrey, it's just a single more Dickensian player in the Premier League than one granite, Jacques, a genuine character, is ultimately so tight to his circumstance. I mean, it's hard to think of one, but I mean, you can throw out various options. Who is the Bob Cratcher to the Premier League? Is it hard working, well-meaning, as probably, you know, Gareth Barry or James Milner, someone like that? James Milner. James Milner, do you think I'm allowed to cut Dickens' respect? Yes, you imagine that he's been up at a chimney or two in his time, if necessary, inhaled a huge amount of suit. Would you bring James Milner with that line, Humphrey? Would you be like, oh, James, that's a minute, do you look like you've been up at chimney or two? It sounds like quite a serious allegation. If he goes to one of his beautiful house, wherever that is, and discovers that some birds have nested in the chimney, do you think he's calling someone out? Do you think he's sorting it out himself? I think James Milner's sorting that straight out himself. He's not a pampered, you know, man of, man of inaction, like you and me, Rory. He's a guy that grasps every problem by the scruff of his neck. Can you imagine a young James Milner walking out to the terrace of his beautiful Victorian kind of arcing crescent and just singing in a very high pitch voice, who will buy my sweet red roses for the thing he's for a penny. Oh, no, oh, it's so beautiful. It's a lovely voice as well, Raj. So sorry. Don't even know where that came from. Most Dickensian football characters at all time. This is the Hillel Dyle. Rory Hodgson, I do believe, was lifted straight from a Christmas Carol. Which ghost is he? All of them seem, is he Marley? Is Marley and Marley? When he resigned from England in his final press conference, he even dropped to Dickens' reference. He said, I don't want to come here as Uriah Hiep, which is genuinely. Well, in Rory Hodgson famously is a man of letters, right? Yeah. And there he's worked. We've always talked about Rory Hodgson. Always happier, apparently, at book readings across London in the years in football settings. But before we go off the rails here, prediction, Sunderland against Arsenal to you first, top three. Sorry, Sunderland fans, with Sunder Neil Arsenal 3. You know, Sunderland, I think, is sort of not really so far looked quite as effective as they were last season. Arsenal, on the other hand, looking so ominously capable, so I'm going that way. I've gone the same outcome slightly less harsh on Sunderland 2. I went to this game last year, which was also at night time on Wearside. And it was a brilliant atmosphere. Sunderland fans were really up for it. And for 45 minutes, they gave Arsenal what is known technically, Raj, as a growing over. But I think Arsenal would be wise to that this time, and will not sail through, but I think they were dark in the stadium of light. I think 2.1. Oh, so I see what you did there. I ain't also going to have the work hard. I think it's going to be another grind after the Champions League endeavors. And I do ultimately think the number of games Arsenal are going to play maybe one of their greatest opponents this season. But I see Ezek off the bench. Big Gabby. Yes, off a corner. It's happening again, Arsenal. Next up, El Sadeq, Tottenham Hotspur, face a visit. From Everton Football Club, 12.30pm Eastern on NBC Proper, the press Spider-Man points at the press Spider-Man. But there's no goals on the season, just one point Gleene from a game against Forest in which they had sure shots on target. Mahmush is going to Mahmush. I guess not every team can have a generational attacking talent like Ainsley-Mate and Niall's rule. This is an incredible statistic. Tottenham have won none of their past 44 games after they've gone behind a record that dates back a year and ten months. I do think that captures really something about the mental state we find at Tottenham Alpergents. Do you know how many games Total Spurs have won at home in calendar year AD 2026? I'm going to say three. This is one of those things where if you if you just too low or too high it ruins the game. Yes, you know when someone says science, when someone says how much does this cross and you guess $7,000. It kind of spoils it for them and they're like no it's 50 but that felt like a lot. It can't be many. I think it might be one. And they thought we're one rule, which it is. Who was it against? Have a guess. I'm guessing it was the Tottenham of the North, Roch. Yes, it was that must win that save them for relegation. The one they'll when they need it at most and who rolls back in. It is ever done. I love this F-Duck club of mine. One of our players scores. Sully's to hit the doogie another place football in any position. He can just have his amateur film photography posted across official club accounts. Even David Moise essentially shrugged when asked his expectations for the season quote. Who knows how it will go? Humphrey. Meatland Niles said when he hit that beautiful, beautiful proton torpedo down the air duct that destroyed the death style. He said it was a blur but that's football isn't it. It's life really. Some days here, Meatland Niles, other days here. You know, Harry McGuire. Yeah, oh, Harry, yeah. Well, at least he managed to retain his dignity in that photograph. In other situations you might have revealed a little bit too much of himself. Listen, it was a great moment. I was watching that live as it were, sit with my feet up on the sofa and say I did slightly punch the air. Even though I am a proto-liberal fan, it's, you know, you can never not enjoy a late equaliser like that, especially for a fortunate club that needs every scrap of vaguely joyful moment at present. Everton Money Night is my favourite fixture of the entire year because no matter what happens, someone's unhappy. Yeah, it's the, you only win as a Liverpool fan wheneverton play Money Night is. That would be a real catalyzing moment, Raj, for, yeah, all the other time means I know, led obviously by Raj. I'm really down about this season but you think you look at them and they've got a story, they've got a narrative purpose, you know how powerful this stuff is Humphrey, they've got, oh yeah, they've got a thing to tell themselves they're doing. Very few clubs get that. Moise is brilliant at harnessing it, they've, the Swads not that bad, Tieno Barry exists, like they're, they're gonna be okay. Well listen to you two red bastards, I just read a book about tunnel rats in Vietnam, the very brave soldiers who went down to the tunnels where everything was a booby trap and I'm not picking up the little bit of hope that you're throwing my way because I know, I know. There's a pungy stick underneath it, whatever it is. Trials and tribulations have been laid on ever since shoulders for the season are so vast that it does feel like you're at the start of like a sort of cone in the barbarian movie where football has arrived like a sort of invading army and burnt evidence village and killed evidence parents and then but then by the end of the movie Everton will be absolutely jacked in a furry loincloth with some hot 80s babe on its arm when when they narrowly avoid relegation by two points. What do we end up becoming the governor of California? Is this what you're telling me? Exactly. I'm not sure I want that future let's hear some predictions. What will the score be? What I'll landish off pitch moment will happen to Everton this weekend? Oh, by the way, don't give me cone in the barbarian. All I receive is the book of Joe pump take it away. I've gone one one for this game. I think neither team is good enough to win the game. That's my brother. That's my brother. By your arm off to not be good enough to win the game believe is something raw. I'm doubling down on spurs. I said spurs would win last week and I was you will have noticed wrong. I think they'll win this week instead to one but I don't think it'll make any difference to Everton season which will end with them finishing 13th. God, I think winner gets Rich Allison which is where it'll be a 1-1 drill. Rodge do you think spurs are the Everton of the South more than Everton of the Tottenham of the North? I don't know. I mean, there's such a philosophically great question. I don't know sometimes where my Everton ends and where the spurs begin and honestly until recently where the Chicago bears and the white socks kind of blood into that just large double helping of Johnny Cash caliber hurt sadness. By the way, many blazers live at the hill Dickinson. First ever live show ever in England. Stone and Magnificent King and Juice Behold. I love that man. Also, my mum is in it debuts on peacock on Sunday. I'm so proud that our first live show was with the club. I love it. It is deeply, deeply uplifting even if the football might not be this weekend. Last on the docket Liverpool. How's Fulham's had to they 10 a.m. each since I'm on peacock. Fulham. Windless. And the one-time Liverpool defender Alvaro Albaloa. Second from bottom. Rumblings have a fallout with the manager swirling on social media. Meanwhile, Adoni Erole has gone through the official Liverpool manager initiation ritual considering a goal to mark off your rentay and athletic aim with Dread. 2-1 win ultimately. Come back for Liverpool first time in a long time. Erole is coaching W and the Champions League. First time we see this side go behind, dig deep and win and even shoot some defensive now closing out the game. Again, it's a quite, quite cheeky athletic home with Dread. Look, we've seen in spurt that there's Erole Albal in the concentrated intensity and spells. We've seen what it can look like. There's a blitz against Ipswich. There's hunting athletic home with Dread in their own third to get back into the game. But both of you are red. What is such a directory of Erole Albal? The green shoots that you see coming and where do you still see plain old honest plots at this? Well, look, I mean, I think it's hard to escape from the feeling that Liverpool is still quite a few pieces short of where they need to be. In the last few games, Senua Araoho has kind of announced himself as this potential opportunity as a right back that everyone's quite excited about. But you were that wanting to cast aspersions on the left hand side of Liverpool's defence, it all looks a bit dodged, as they say. So while Erole Albal looks in flashes to be very exciting, it's kind of pressing this in the second half yesterday against athletico, all looked a little bit more like it was supposed to, I think, like there was a plan, like there was a team there. The square pegs that were brought for round holes two summers ago remain resolutely square. Yeah, I think you sort of see little delimpses, don't you? And you think so there was one move in it's that let it go. We're Bradley Barclad back heeled it and then Vert surged onto it and then waited and waited and waited and played the through ball through someone's legs and then Barclad it went through and missed. But you think, okay, like if that, if that's suddenly in the locker again, then that's good. There are still, like, vast periods of Liverpool games where you're not quite sure what they're trying to do or what their idea of how we're going to hurt these opponents are. Well, I would say is watching that athletico game, I actually thought after the first half hour, they kind of shot athletico down completely and that because they they conceded obviously a goal, it's marked off your end date, they should just let him straw, they should give them kickoff and then insist that he's given the ball, refused to tackle him, let him straw and get it out the way, but once they kind of got that out of their system and let him have his goal, athletico didn't create anything at all, their other main chance was a Julien Alvarez shot from 30 yards, you take that, I don't know, it's one of the better teams in Europe. So that does suggest that irrealist Titans have a bit of a bit of joy defensively, they're still quite porous in midfield. The issue for me is they're going to need time to get that attack, worrying into gear and to do that, they're definitely going to need Florian vert. Well, I thought played well against athletico to really step up and justify it, so it's still there's still a team in glimpses. What's fascinating to me is how elated Liverpool are the fans with jacket, you know, how we're like, oh, we don't even miss Canarte, very unlippable way that discards are being reassessed, you know, Canarte suddenly, you know, when he used to be injured, people would be full of dread. Oh, we don't even, and particularly Curtis Jones playing for Inter Milan, coughing the ball up against Real Madrid, very unlippable in a way, or how I think of their fans, kind of glee, or was it PTSD than many Liverpool fans? Look at that, we all familiar with that Curtis, too many touches coughing up that ball. It was just fascinating to see mentally, less season has taken some toll and it's almost like a cleansing. I think there's an element of psychological defence, isn't there? You want to, when you lose a player or sell a player, you want to prove that that was the right thing to happen. I watched that Real Madrid Inter game and thought Curtis Jones apart from that moment played it extremely well, and I was very sad when he gave the ball away. Does I want those players to do well? I want Trent to do well. I want Canarte to do well. I want to think, in five years time, I'm delighted that they played for Liverpool, particularly with the two who are scouts, I think that's really important. I find that very sad, but I guess that it's a natural thing. To be honest, I think Humphries may be hit upon the player who best encapsulates the Liverpool fans mood at the moment, and that's a Raoho who came in and a lot of people were very like, why are Barcelona letting him go on loan? He looks a bit dodgy. He lost his way the last couple of years, and in the space of about three weeks, he has become a colossal cult hero. He is a bit of cumbersome, he is a bit unwieldy, but you can tell he's trying really hard and he loves the tackle, and that is what you need. Follow-up, I've just realised no one hates a player that leaves my team instantly more than I do, and that was a bit of powerful in the kettle, but that was leaders to predictions, Rao. I don't ever predict Liverpool to win, Raj, but I think people might be wise to that to my attempts to incite to the worst and the hope that the best will happen. I think Liverpool will win to one, playing well in patches, but unconvincingly for others. I've been a bit bullish. I've gone for one Liverpool, which is maybe a little bit of wishful thinking. Follow-up obviously, with their start and season, not much to write home about, discontent at the camp, it feels like a lovely time for Liverpool to get to play for them. Discontent at the camp sounds like something that my Latin teacher would have made his translate when we're all about the seven. If discontent at in Castro Puella, I foresee also a very comfortable three-one, a lot of this over the weekend. A lot of pointing back to the carnage I just created, and I'll pull over once a red, always a red, which leads us to one last big thing. The last word on the storylines of the weekend ahead, I will go to you first, Mr Rory Smith. I'm going to go for Bournemouth, who are playing Brentford, which I think is an interesting game. Brentford had an amazing start. They are even more serious than they were last year when they were incredible as well, but I'm fascinated by the psychology of Bournemouth, all those late-dolls they've conceded. How do you get out of that trap? If you can't be two or three nil up by the 80th minute, your opponents know that you're worried about conceding late-dolls, you know that they know, they know that you know that they know. It's just, I love that kind of Dordian knot of psychological torture that Bournemouth find themselves in, and watching Marco Rosa, who I really like as a coach, watching him on pickets should be really interesting. So I've done for, yeah, the psychology of being Bournemouth. Dordian knot sounds like a player that whole city will sign in the January transfer window home. That's called the Segway. My one last big thing is whole city versus Chelsea. This is the, you know, this is the game that really, you dream of. When you, as someone who has a passing interest in the championship football and was, to throw out the disappointment by whole city success last season, I'm really thrilled by by their brilliant start to the season. This feels like the biggest test so far. Can they allow the rest of us minnows to dream of coming up to the Premier League and giving Chelsea a bloody nose by which I mean, not getting pumped too badly by them. I'm giving Aston Villa against Naughty and Forest. Just a fascinating clash. Forest under all of a glass and I've looked wonderfully resilient and a little blunt. No side has ever failed to score in their first four games in back-to-back seasons. Unai Emery is going for it. It's got the chance to do the funniest thing, but then let's not tarry. Let's see all of our predictions for all 10 of this weekend's games producer bed. Reveal the table. And as a reminder, we are keeping a running tally of our accuracy all that they're of, producers award one point for guessing the correct result three for the correct school. And after last week's episode, we've got a league table to reveal. Look at this chance as it stands furthest from first place with three points. Mr Rory Smith, Rory, you're chopped. All right. Let's not get too personal about this. I've had a rough day. It was a late last night. That's another thing. Second place, Mr Humphrey Calf, four points. I had to check. This was not a typo in the commanding. It's got to be said first place with seven points, seven correct results, mind blowing, to me. I don't mind that. You know I'm not worth the leads. You know I've got a big lead, El Crumble. If you get a big enough lead, I am going to say we should stop putting the table up. I mean, my stalking horse position just behind Rosh, let him get ahead and I'll reel him in. You're not that kind of player, are you? I will take my ball home, Roger. Don't you? We love you. We want to know from you viewers, what should be the prize for this rumble throughout the course of the season? Tell us why it should be. There should be a forfeit for this one. Drop it in the comments what you want to see. And let's get out of here. Bus boys, you know, thank you, Humphrey. Thank you, Rory. You beautiful human beings.