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I really like talking about football | Presenter @NTT20Pod & @TheAthleticFC Football Tactics Pod. : changing the written EFL coverage game.
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There’s a time and a place for cute defending, sometimes you just have to clear your lines!
Massive thanks to
@leytonorientfc
for the footage.
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Inspired by that Kammy video, I was sittin' there thinkin' “is it worth recreating another vintage Soccer Saturday moment?”
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Amos from The Traitors being Luton’s Club Doctor has really made my day.
You can see him sitting behind Rob Edwards on the bench. Youngest first-team club doctor in the PL!
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I just caught a high, sliced defensive clearance with a massive, meaty header on the full in the away end at Orient and I can’t remember the last time I felt this level of adrenaline.
My whole body is fizzing.
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8 of the 20 current Premier League managers either never played professionally or retired before the age of 30 due to injury/pivot to coaching.
Thomas Tuchel, Thomas Frank, Ralf Rangnick, Roy Hodgson, Bruno Lage, Eddie Howe, Brendan Rodgers, Marcelo Bielsa.
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Wow! One of L1's best players will be playing in L2 next season.
McGoldrick is two players in one: scores goals, creates goals, draws defenders & beats them with craft.
I thought it'd be Wrexham buying the best from L1 👀
Notts Co have played an absolute blinder.
#Notts
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Levi Colwill is going to play a lot of football matches for the Three Lions of England.
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Charlton Athletic hire Swindon Town's manager, and sign three of their players... then this filth 👇
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If you were a Football League goalkeeper between 2008-11 and you had the misfortune of coming up against a heavily rotated, average-age-of-22 Arsenal side in the League Cup, then Carlos Vela was going to dink it over you and there was nothing you could do, those were the rules
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That’s been my favourite hour of televised sport since Ben Stokes at Headingley - similarly filled with incomprehensible moments.
Complete bedlam. And so much still to come.
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Five years, two months, four days ago, this fixture took place in England’s fourth tier.
Now they play each other for a place in the Premier League.
And a draw after 90 mins is definitely
on the cards…
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Fuming that someone has updated Rob Edwards’ Wikipedia photograph now that he’s all Premier Leaguey. His previous one was an all-timer.
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This is... absolutely insane from José Sá?!
Is it the highest total 'goals prevented' number since you started recording it,
@OptaAnalyst
?
And surely the biggest gap between top & next best, both in terms of total prevented & goals prevented rate.
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Wigan boss Paul Cook's voice goes from '15 year old' to '15 year old trying to buy booze in Londis' in a split second.
h/t
@edwardssport
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Why isn’t Rubin Colwill a bigger deal? He’s a ridiculous profile and offers plenty in and out of possession.
If he played for Blackburn or Bristol City he’d have 75 Champ starts rather than 33 and be touted for 10m+ moves.
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freaks my nut that the team 3rd in the Championship on New Year's Day have scored just 3 goals in 12 games since then, and dropped just one place to 4th
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“I want to be the coach of the team, not the manager of the whole football club.”
Wow, never heard anyone in his position be quite so explicit before on ‘Head Coach’ v ‘Manager’. Unimaginable ten years ago & unimaginable that Sunderland would be a club so far down that path.
Watch Michael Beale's first interview following his appointment as our new Head Coach.
📺👇
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Gareth Southgate rightly getting praise, but lovely to see plenty of credit for Steve Netherlands as well - crucial member of the backroom staff.
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This is Nettle 👋
Netbuster, to her friends.
She is the puppy that you may hear in the background of various podcast recordings in the future. And she’s keeping me very busy! 🐶
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“This isn’t awkward at all.... but it is quite funny” 😂
When
@bglendenning
collected the FSF Award for Best Podcast from James Richardson.
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Beyond excited to say that I’ll be making my Football Focus debut today, in an EFL segment in the second half of the show.
Always grateful for the opportunity to represent
@NTT20Pod
on the big stage & discuss the many brilliant stories the
@EFL
chucks up weekly!
#FootballFocus
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7 years of
@NTT20Pod
🎂
Thanks to everyone that’s supported us!
And thanks to
@GeorgeElek
for putting up with me.
The experiences we’ve had, the people we’ve met & worked with - it’s been a dream.
To do it all with your mate & feel the strength a partnership brings. Magic!
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Watching Bend It Like Beckham and I've got some questions about the tactics employed by Joe, boss of the Hounslow Harriers.
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EFL goal of the season shortlist - interested in your thoughts (particular those who don’t watch much EFL!).
Santi Celina’s goal for
#ITFC
had slipped my mind but dear me what a treat it is 🤤
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Not news, but still worth saying -
@jobimcanuff7
is an absolutely incredible pundit/broadcaster!
Always spot on in terms of research & knowledge but also analyses games on a technical, tactical level as well as sharing experiences & insights on the psychological element.
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Every week there's bizarre anger & confusion about 'late offside flags'.
"Soon someone will get injured when they were offside anyway!" gets trotted out.
This is why, right? So that really tight offside calls, that can impact results, aren't stopped by a potential human error?
LIVERPOOL HAVE ONE FOOT IN THE FINAL! 🤯
Jota's excellent chip is originally given as offside until VAR rules that Gabriel was keeping him on!!
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Thursday,
@MarkCarey93
on the Tactics Pod: “You’re not going to have a headed shot with your second touch.”
Saturday,
@cakpom
: “Hold my beer.”
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LOOK HOW EXCITED LEONID SLUTSKY IS TO BE MANAGING A THREADBARE HULL SQUAD IN THE SECOND TIER WITH MASSIVE DISCONNECT BETWEEN FANS & OWNERS!
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Love that Armstrong's first PL goal was the most deliciously precise finish.
Last season's insane shot volume (much of it bad shots from range) obscured the fact that he is - and always has been - a clinical finisher.
Not his best debut goal, though…
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Cervical cancer is a cancer that many find difficult to discuss & some don’t understand.
My mum called it an ‘unfashionable cancer’ before her death in 1999.
But it’s a *PREVENTABLE* cancer & in her name,
@JoTrust
are working towards eradication.
#CervicalCancerPreventionWeek
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Waking up and remembering Philogene’s rabona is an own goal.
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Re: Burnley.
People going for the ‘young and naive’ line already.
Lost to City, Spurs, United - who cares about those games for a promoted side? It’s not where you get your pts.
First half vs Villa was too open. Better side away at NFFC & looked more likely to score at 1-1.
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Can’t lie, I am so chuffed that
@NTT20Pod
is nominated in Best Football Podcast at the FSAs.
@GeorgeElek
& I don’t overthink it. EFL chat. Twice a week for 10mths of the year. We have fun & get amazing support from our audience. This means a lot.
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There are ways in which Dale Vince is an incredible football club owner.
But he undermines himself with what seems to be a naive belief in, and attraction to, Big Names / Media Attention. It’s compounded issues two years in a row & will likely contribute to double relegation.
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Congrats
@SheffieldUnited
👏
Built on last season, got better on both ends, coped with injuries (good squad depth helps).
Bit of a winning machine all season, handled the tough moments & pressure applied.
Heckingbottom’s managed it perfectly. Ndiaye has magic in his boots. 🗡️
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Twenty years.
Very hard to get my head around that. What an astonishing legacy she has in Jo’s Trust. I feel very proud and lucky to be Jo’s son.
Sending love to all who have worked hard to made
@JoTrust
what it is today, and to all those affected by cervical cancer ❤️
Today marks 20 years since Jo Maxwell sadly died from cervical cancer. Her amazing family and friends set up Jo’s in her memory and our thoughts are with them and all of her loved ones today ❤
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Last night: The Valley.
A strong Rotherham side that met a
@johnnie_jackson
Charlton team up for the battle!
Really enjoyable to watch & be part of the excellent
@CAFCofficial
@CharltonTV_
coverage with Curbs &
@iamscottminto
.
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FT: 1-0. FC Broxbourne Borough, in the NINTH tier, beat Yeovil of the 4th. They are into the Last 16 of that FA Youth Cup. This is amazing.
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Amazing campaign. A team with no serious flaws… and a very, very high floor 😉
John Mousinho simply impeccable management. Rich Hughes masterclass. A team with so many contributors. Shaughnessy, Pack, Kamara, Norris & more.
A strong, confident Pompey are back in the Champ.
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Handsome Rob has gone mainstream. Just look at those numbers.
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Carlos Vela has his first
#WorldCup
goal, but still has some way to go to match his tally of 39 ‘Dinked League Cup Goals’
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21/22 Championship top two are in good shape, then. Cool cool cool cool.
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Mini-retirement starts now after 150+ podcast episodes in 22/23 for
@NTT20Pod
&
@TheAthleticFC
.
I feel so lucky to enjoy the work that I do, and to have such fun doing it with those involved.
Time to catch up on 😴, 📖, 🏏, ⛳️ among others things. We go again in 6wks!
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when you've won 3 Russian PL titles & managed your country at the Euros but Frazier Campbell as a
#10
is the greatest adventure of them all.
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Leicester City on course for a Championship record points tally after suffering a surprise, traumatic relegation.
Everyone must be feeling good about that, right? Right?!
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Callum O’Hare is my favourite player in the Championship. Everything I love in a footballer.
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If I were a Sunderland fan, I’d be feeling pretty proud right now. Fantastic performance from the team, and so many individuals. The story continues.
Looking forward to being at Kenilworth Road on Tuesday night, all set up for a cracker.
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Cervical cancer is a cancer that many find difficult to discuss & some don’t understand.
My mother called it an ‘unfashionable cancer’ before her death in 1999.
But it’s a preventable cancer & in her name,
@JoTrust
are working towards eradication.
#CervicalCancerPreventionWeek
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If you had to be handcuffed to an EFL manager for 48 hours, who would you choose?
I reckon I could listen to Uncle Tony Mowbray talk about anything for an unlimited amount of time… not to mention he’d have plenty of pocket chocolate.
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Tyrhys Dolan scores for England U20 tonight vs Germany - here’s our segment on him from EFL 21 Under 21.
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I absolutely love Jes Rak-Sakyi. Some these goals are a joke. Nice variation too.
What this *doesn’t* show is that he was also the best dribbler in L1.
& only two players got more OP assists.
& how many 20 y/o first time loanees start 40lg games?
#cpfc
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ITK ⚽️ always confuses me. How did no-one break the Tuchel sacking (story was on CFC site for 5 mins before it got to Twitter), but since then it’s as if half the journos are sharing an office with Boehly & the other half travelling to CFC with Potter & sitting in on discussions!
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QPR 0-0 Argyle.
More impressed with
#PAFC
on the night. Much better first 25’, sloppy QPR start, Argyle didn’t quite execute but more threatening.
Defended strongly after the red card, coping with Chair, Willock & tons of crosses.
Away end impressive in number & noise!
📍 Loftus Road tonight.
Martí Cifuentes, Steven Schumacher.
Ilias Chair & Chris Willock.
Azaz & Mumba & Cundle & Whittaker.
And three points between the teams. Big!
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What is the point of gnocchi?
Not as good as pasta. Not as good as (normal) potatoes.
I don’t understand it.
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Second half starts with Janelt scoring a 50:50 tackle from 20 yards. Obviously.
That’s been my favourite hour of televised sport since Ben Stokes at Headingley - similarly filled with incomprehensible moments.
Complete bedlam. And so much still to come.
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Unforgettable game & performance from Coventry City. Penalties again - horrendous. But a fanbase lifting an impressive team (& vice versa) is great to witness.
Antony cupping his ears to goad the Cov players after the winning pen 🤡
Maguire went straight to console them 👑
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Jaden Philogene Disgrace, more like. Incredible skill but if the very rules of goal... attribution... are being eroded in front of our eyes, what left is there to believe in?
The EFL have ruled that Jaden Philogene did score Hull City’s equaliser at Rotherham last night ⚽✅
Philogene produced a nutmeg and a Rabona, which deflected off two players being going in.
It was originally given as a Cameron Humphreys own goal.
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@danielstorey85
(That made it sound like I run a 6 a side team in Colombia, which is sadly untrue)
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Squashed ‘em… in the end.
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Loving
#PVFC
at the moment - forgot to mention that it was a complete performance today with five first-teamers out!
Where did they come from? 😲
Up to 6th, 4⃣ wins in 5⃣, all of them against top half sides,
@OfficialPVFC
have snuck into the
@SkyBetLeagueTwo
promotion race
#EFLonQuest
- Saturdays at 9pm |
#PVFC
|
#UTV
|
@onevalefan
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Just cracked open a can of Diet Coke. It must be a Dortmund fan, it shouted the name of its favourite player.
#Piszczek
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That was fun! Cheers
@ColinMurray
for guiding me through it - quiet one to start with, a 5-4, an alleged manager assault and a promotion.
Also cheers to
@NTT20Pod
listeners 🍻
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Special guest on Football Cliches - I’m going to need a new ‘dream podcast appearance’!
Huge Jay Bothroyd vibes, getting called up for the Big One due to performances in the EFL.
Building the Pure EFL XI, out now.
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Graham Potter....
On the one hand, professional career for over a decade, 300+ apps in the Football League.
ON THE OTHER HAND... make it 9/20!
@AliMaxwell_
@TBSwans
he did play his last professional game before 30 though (29 and 11 months to be precise)
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James Trafford is a brilliant young 🏴 goalkeeper with great temperament & leadership qualities.
His improvement throughout the season was immense & now putting in flawless ENG u21 performances.
2-3 years down the line, it'll look an incredible signing even at this fee imo.
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Youngest ever Championship team?
In the almost 20 seasons of Transfermarkt's Championship 'Average Age of Starting Line-up' stats, Sunderland's team on Saturday was the youngest named. And by quite some distance, too.
#SAFC
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Zonal Marking pod team bonding trip.
@Zonal_Marking
got the tactics cam he requested.
@Worville
is trying to count PPDA.
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Elijah Adebayo has a Premier League hat-trick. That’s quality.
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Nice, if a little unusual, to see East Midlands Railway advertising the Champions League Final.
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@GaryLineker
@empireofthekop
Not by anyone on MNF, as we realise it’s not easy. I know you spend the majority of your time on twitter but just look after MOTD & we’ll do the same on MNF. If you ever want to come on with no autocue you’re welcome.
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the League One version of this:
AFC Wimbledon are winless in 17 games, the longest streak by any team in the EFL this season.
They were 6 points above the relegation zone at the start of the run, haven't won in more than three months & are still one point above the dotted line.
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Wanted to try something a bit different.
A video on Swansea City & why it’s unforgivable that
#Swans
haven’t given Russell Martin more support.
Loads to improve on in terms of YT delivery, but I hope some find it interesting. Feedback appreciated!
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Happy Birthday
@GeorgeElek
!
The best golf travel companion, football-talking business partner & supportive, generous pal you could ask for.
You’ve reached the age where clubs only offer max 2yr contracts but you start to get plaudits for what you ‘bring to the dressing room’.
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Two teams that couldn’t be separated in normal time. Or extra time. Even the first 10 penalties were neck & neck.
But Luton Town are Premier League. An amazing story, in so many ways, continues.
I am especially buzzing for
@Blades_analytic
and so proud. Elijah Adebayo MOTM 🤝🚀
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Ben Sheaf linked to Barcelona.
🚨 Barcelona are looking for a profile like Yaya Touré for the defensive midfielder position.
(Source:
@sport
)
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Came across a website called 'Pun Generator' while looking for a Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink pun, and I'm in tears at some of these.
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Crouch hitting that shot left footed in the Paddy Power advert is winding me up more than it should. He’s never hit a left footed shot like that in his life - have they mirrored it? If so, why?!
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My girlfriend quit her job to become a florist, and she’s genuinely amazing at it!
She sends her bouquets nationwide. They are made & packaged beautifully.
If you fancy sending some Mother’s Day flowers for next week, give Mallow & Moss a go!
👉
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What a picture! Gary Gardner grinning at his older brother Craig after a Barnsley goal today - the result took Barnsley above Birmingham who drop into the relegation zone.
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