Sometimes I feel that this may be down to the combination of commitment, talent and fortune that is required to be successful in men's football. & of course these guys are the ones where all the pieces fell into place so I can absolutely see them thinking there was a helping hand in there somewhere

Get the Etsy witches on the phone

There was a time when I was at school where all the shithead 6th formers got suspended for publicly slagging off teachers on twitter. It was the best week of school, and I would encourage New Yorkers to chase that feeling.

It is genuinely not a slur in this context in the UK, and I appreciate how crazy that is for everybody else

There will be a day - quite soon - where English cricket will be without someone like Stokes, or Flintoff for that matter. We will be much the poorer for it and maybe then we might try and open the sport up for people outside that 7%

It's not like the us has like 20 perfectly suitably sized (and much better for football) grounds that are within established football markets

Pretty sure Philippe addressed this specific point re state-owned clubs in the last podcast

I think the issue is sticking to being a close adaptation of the game. The second game is about twice as long as the first but should be treated as a piece. The TV show definitely loses something by splitting it up. (And not even shooting back to back)

I've really enjoyed previous versions of it (Canada particularly) - only seen clips of the UK one but I have to say that having all of the same people that are always on catsdown / tv doesn't draw me in. Feel like there could have been more of a mix of established / newer acts

But Theo the more physical servers we have the more people we'd have to employ in high wage economies - won't somebody think of the outsourcing?!?

Can't wait for FIFA to go all ICC and have Sudan play all their games in Mexico

It's almost like those vulgar freebos don't realise that it's us sexy paybos who allow us to all get wonderful, premium death threats rather than nasty little advertisements.

I've been getting podcast ads to 'work in nuclear' if you're bored in your job and feeling directionless - I already work in nuclear and am bored and directionless anyway, they should know that by now!