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english football in my opinion is

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probably the best football out there at

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the moment i've had

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times when i've actually locked myself

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into changing rooms my feelings are it

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was given to qatar through bribery and

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corruption my son's really crazy on

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manchester united

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yeah yeah the brighton fans peed on the

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crystal palace fans off for an over

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overpass

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had crystal palace in the uh

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right and changed

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oh my god

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welcome to easy english

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so this week i thought we could talk

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about all things football i want to know

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what teams people supported if they're

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watching the euros if they'll be

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watching the controversial qatar world

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cup and what football means to them

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english here we go yeah what football

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team do you see i support brighton

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railroad which is my hometown who do you

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support which football team manchester

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united

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well obviously i'm city but then i am

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brighton do you support a team

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yeah liverpool basically i support

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manchester united

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i

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grew up in south london so my dad

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dragged us along to crystal palace

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brighton hove albion oh really i'm born

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and bright and bred well depends on

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which country we're talking about but

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now we're in england i think manchester

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that's my favorite team and

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i thought that was obvious but no i

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guess not

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not anymore

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and how long have you supported them i

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supported them for about i'm 73 i was

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about

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708 when i first went there so we're

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talking about 65.

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yeah how long have you supported them

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for since

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1972 i think it was

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since uh

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my dad took me to my first game when i

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was about sort of

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12 13. how long have you supported

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manchester united since i was a very

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young kid and are you from manchester i

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am not i am from the us okay and so then

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why manchester united why not where

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where about seniors are you from

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connecticut

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who is your like relevant football team

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relevant like

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[Laughter]

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relevant will be like it's still

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manchester united anywhere else

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yeah but like who's your respective

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football team in connecticut we don't

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have any like there's no like football

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teams

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not even american not in american

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football not even america

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really it's a small town what do they do

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in connecticut

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nothing much nothing just we just chill

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around and so then can i ask why

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manchester united

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uh

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i

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actually i don't know it's always

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it's always just been manchester united

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i from from the time

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since i was just a small kid i just

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loved them are you watching the euros at

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the moment oh i've watched some of the

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euros yeah and what's your opinion of

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the england team uh well it was a great

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result against norway the other night

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absolutely uh obviously they've got

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northern ireland next which won't be too

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much of a

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challenge i don't think but yeah

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it will get tougher after that what's

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your prediction

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as in for the whole tournament oh not to

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see england play france in the final i

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think and and we win five nil

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[Laughter]

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i tried to get tickets the other night

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for the england match

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yeah yeah and what are your predictions

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for the women's team how far they're

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going to get oh

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well after seven nil thrashing of norway

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i know but everybody puts england under

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pressure that way

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as soon as they win everyone they're

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going to go all the way

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that's what happens there's a massive

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disappointment and then there's a huge

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disappointment so but i feel that i'm

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trying not to go down there okay yeah

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but i feel that's kind of part and

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parcel of being an english football

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supporter what eternal disappointment

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building everything up and then being

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let down right at the end kind of yeah

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and that's what they're going to do with

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the women's society england smells of

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cigarettes and disappointment yeah

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[Laughter]

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will you be watching the qatar world cup

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um

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and what are your feelings kind of

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towards the qatar world cup because it's

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a bit controversial now my feelings are

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it was given to qatar through bribery

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and corruption um i don't think that

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it should have been held there not with

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their record and

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i

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feel a bit ashamed of our own fa they

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didn't speak up at the um

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sort of unveiling ceremony and the

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scandinavian countries were the only

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ones that did is that right yeah or it

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felt like it okay and then yeah

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controversial question well after that

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will you still be watching it anyway

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um probably not as much as i would have

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usually yeah but the trouble is you tend

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to watch the game wherever it's held

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well i will watch it because you know my

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england's playing i'm supporting england

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this year but we're in the same group as

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usa

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i really support usa i've never

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supported us even in 2014 i did support

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usa really yeah what is it about this

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kind of loyalty thing in football

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actually i don't understand why why

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people are not glued i mean if you have

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a

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club then i don't think you why how can

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you just change i mean it's for me also

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it's a kind of in your

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in your heart but you you you can't

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change your wife either of course you

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can but i don't think it's a good idea

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and i don't know that's a famous saying

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bye who said someone said that like did

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eric cantona say that or something or

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some famous footballer said you can

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change your wife but you can never

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change your football team yes that's who

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i i don't know if it was kensington

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maybe it was but i i i remember that

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someone said that yeah do you know what

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a die-hard fan is or why disappointment

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is part and parcel of english football

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my son's really crazy on manchester

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united you're a die-hard fan yeah yeah

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but i feel that's kind of part and

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parcel of being an english football

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necessarily just brighton what is it

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that what does football give give to you

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i've always loved football um

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growing up i played at the youth level

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because when a school we couldn't play

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but when we got to about 12 30 40 we

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could join a youth team and i went and

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played for the local wooden dean

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as a team and then um

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i went refereeing i went refereeing for

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about 40 years

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doing all-round sussex and all that

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refereeing local teams

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and um going i even done an fa cup game

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so i sort of worked my way up doing that

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and brave man yeah

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and by doing that i met

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a lot of people you know i mean

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all different people through different

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life you know

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and it was quite you know traveling and

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meeting people was lovely you know did

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you get much stick a lot of sticks yeah

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but then you've got to have us you know

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go in and bear it and just sort you know

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yeah so yeah i've had i've i've had

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times when i've actually locked myself

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in the changing room and waiting for the

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team yeah well because i've made you

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know i've sent a player off or i've made

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a you know decision that i didn't think

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was right so yeah i've had that yeah why

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do you think um

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england

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uh

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is

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like notoriously so

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in love with football as opposed to

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other nations

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oh across all about the working class

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and bread and circuses isn't it really

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yeah uh

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it started off as poor man's game right

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and you you know

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a lot of the football clubs are related

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to work

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yeah milwaukee's dockers west ham

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dockers

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either side of the river fierce rival

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between the two teams all the locals go

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and support them because there's not a

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lot else to do and then sort of tenants

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it all began in 1898 or whatever

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it's all going to do with the industrial

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revolution yeah or the development of

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modern society i love your answers

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celtic rangers catholic protestant two

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sides of the city i absolutely hate each

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other what does football then mean to

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you is there some sort of spiritual

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meaning or is there like a

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it's almost like a romance because you

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went there with your dad um no it's just

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i just enjoyed the game really yeah um

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yeah and uh i i just sort of

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when i grew up at the school in well

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when i went to school in brighton

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it was the 80s so most people supported

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liverpool and not brighton

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but um yeah i just support my local team

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and do you play football um no you

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used to

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not very seriously um like you know

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jumpers for goal posts in the park uh

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that sort of thing

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um but no

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i was never very good what does support

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in manchester what does just football in

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general mean to you

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it's a sport where anyone can play no

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it's not like

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it's not like you can't play we all can

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play it's not like american football

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where you have to put a paddle and have

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to be built strong

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yeah i thought you meant like it's

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there's no sort of exclusivity in the

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same way that like yeah like cricket or

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rugby yeah

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like america's same as american football

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you got to be strong you got to be like

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fast

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soccer anyone can play you can just kick

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a ball and then you're like you don't

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have to go to like a special school you

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don't have to do it no you don't have to

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what does football then mean to you then

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um what kind of

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part does it play in your life well it

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it does not play a huge part anymore of

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my life but

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in my childhood and when i was a well i

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played football myself

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pretty much until i

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had family and then

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it kind of

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died out my own activity but but now i

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just follow it as much as i can in tv

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but it's not it's not like i'm a

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huge fan that that goes to the stadium

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every weekend at all but i like football

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my son played football my my daughter

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plays football and i'm a coach myself in

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the local club yeah so i do think it's

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it's the best sport that young people

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can

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can do because you have

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physical activity and you have social

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stuff and it's just you have

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coordination everything is there so and

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it's not very exclusive then if you

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think all the things you're saying shows

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me that football is maybe they're one

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the most open

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armed kind of sports you know it's not

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like rugby or cricket or something nope

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nope nope it is football and i i

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actually don't like rugby and cricket i

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don't i don't

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i mean i don't i don't think that's

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well i just think football is

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it's a bit

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the sport

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thanks for watching this week's episode

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let us know in the comments below the

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football team you love the most why you

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love football and if you'll be watching

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the euros and the world cup in qatar see

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you next week

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