Second Captains Part II

That someone is magnus carlsen. It was really interesting actually. I saw the clip myself earlier I'm the week and was like how lame is it that real Madrid felt that they had to control the brand to such an extent that an interview with a chess player had to be edited to align with their marketing interests.

Yeah, I found the Magnus Carlson bit very interesting too. He's not a man that would compromise for anyone. It was similar to how Real couldn't disclose that Bale was signed for a world record fee so as not to hurt Ronaldo's feelings.

Instant fast forward.

It must be amazing to be aware of every sporting event, and its kick off/throw in time, happening every weekend.

To be fair if it's half way through Friday and you are only hearing that a sports event is on that weekend are you really into it? You just can't be. Anyone who is into something knows it's on that weekend. For the redord I like when sometimes they talk about what the mother will watch and her takes on a sport before or after the guide. But the guide for me personally is absolutely pointless.

Thomas Tuchel announcement out early enough for the lads today. Not a Chelsea fan but it caught me by surprise, change half the squad under one manager then sack him before there's time to bed in everyone.. a manager who won CL a year and a half ago. New owners going for continuity from the old regime

They aren’t copying the old regime. There is no Maria grinowskia or petr cech in this regimes organizational structure.

It may be similar to Roman’s early reign at Chelsea. Football was simple back then, you could throw money around and be stupid with it and still have a huge advantage. Now everyone has loads of money so you need to be rich and smart, not just rich.

I like Rory and I like Ken, but that interview bored me to tears. Turned it off after about 15 minutes.

Not even one mention of the queen on last Friday's pod - how funny but also refreshing! (I'm fairly sure there was no mention, open to correction though).

They mentioned that they were recording around 10AM so they didn't yet know if the matches would go ahead or not.

US Murph seems like a persona to me where he's trying too hard to be entertaining , it's just a bit too OTT

Although I really enjoyed him a few weeks ago talking about that US commentator who died as he wasn't as full on but he's one of my lower ranked contributors

I think part of the problem is that more people are interested in and exposed to American sports now. So we want actual analysis not being talked down to. I can't remember exactly what he was saying but something like " you guys know there is a punter, a kicker,...he had something else here..well there is also this guy called a long snapper". Most people know the basics of the sport, maybe not the long snapper part but it was a bit like you idiots at least know this much. Most of the first part was about him supporting San Francisco. We get it, you support the 49ers. Maybe give us some analysis though! Murph doesn't help here though. Going on about "oh Brian you are telling yourself that it shouldn't matter but it does, chuckle chuckle".

Most people don't to be fair. Honestly it's a very small percentage of people care about American sports let alone actually know the ins and outs of positions/tactics.

I think the guys talk about sports they're interested in. So, they have a small interest in American football so we get some of that. Zero interest in horse racing, cricket, motor racing etc so pretty much none of them.

I have a very small interest in us sports, I watch 3 or 4 nfl games a year so it suits me