After many weeks enjoying TRIF I cannot imagine any circumstance in life where Gary’s puns, Al’s random sweary outbursts or Micah’s hysterical laugh couldn’t make me lose it laughing. A fantastic tonic, thanks as always gents and keep up the great work!

Just what's needed before Monday night football

Foden & Bellingham can easily work in midfield. Have Rice sitting, Bellingham playing the box to box with Foden sitting in-between the lines further forward. Noone takes the ball in tight spaces on the half turn than Foden, while Bellingham can play his late runs from deep into the box for the flick on in behind or on to Kane ⚽⚽⚽

@j.s3300

3 ай бұрын

Better teams would eat that up. International football is defensive...also, watch Jude. He is a 10 now

@kierancasey1436

3 ай бұрын

@@j.s3300 do I care about your opinion on my choice? Or is it a hypothetical comment because Southgate will play 2 pivots and Henderson so it's a moor point. Also I don't watch la liga. It's pointless and poor quality, just like every other league outside of England.

@francishughes3422

3 ай бұрын

Hahahaha Kieran casey is a top class bell end

@masterchief1520

3 ай бұрын

​@@j.s3300foden is more creative and glides through tight spaces.

@j.s3300

3 ай бұрын

@@kierancasey1436 derp

Pep no puso toda la carne al asador, para que se dieran cuenta que faltaba el mejor, en el segundo tiempo con el ingreso de Julián Álvarez cambió la dinámica del partido 💙

Anyone else spot Micah had Roy's book on his shelf 😂

@craigwilson8813

3 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Hope Roy paid him hahahah.

@josht3610

3 ай бұрын

Noticed a few weeks ago can’t believe Gary or Alan haven’t noticed

Best way to start the week! Banger of an episode

Micah's laugh is the greatest. 🤣🤣🤣

Easily one of the best pods going. Absolutely brilliant.

Great vlog again. Insightful, humorous and genuine

Thanks guys ……lot to digest in this episode. Always a great way to start a Monday 👏🏻♥️

Already, know this will be a banger episode.

Alan's reactions, is pretty much how i felt about Mr Gladiator, madnesz😂😂

They really spent the entire Forest V Liverpool segment talking about a menial refereeing error, something akin to giving a throw in the wrong way.

"unwritten rules" are a huge problem with the refereeing standards. If it's unwritten, it's not a rule. That's like saying a clattering in the first minutes shouldn't be a card, even when it is throughout the rest of the game. Way too much "interpretation" in refereeing and no consistency.

@shootatsquare

3 ай бұрын

If we write down every interpretation, there'll be almost infinite rules. Unwritten rules are a necessary evil, I'm sorry

@jasonlee7649

3 ай бұрын

There are too many written rules. Not enough common sense

@farnaghtom

3 ай бұрын

😊😊😊😊

@ashoriordan1

3 ай бұрын

Policy writer here. Couldn’t agree more. All that is needed are the rules and the overall ‘objective’ of the rules dictating the direction/purpose for the rules to make ambiguous scenarios simple

@jasonlee7649

3 ай бұрын

I don't get it. Does football just have a team of people to sit around and think. How can we change this 150 year old game and keep our jobs?

Not sure if you'll read this but Mark Clattenburg's role in the club is to prepare the players for how the referee in each game looks at decisions, he provides packs and analysis to assist players in their decision making on the pitch. This is a role that has been involved in Rugby for some time and as we know they have had their own VAR for many many years, which is actually sucessful compared to football's

Absolutely brilliant podcast 😎

Phil Foden is an amazing homegrown talent always been one of my faves and in my Fantasy team, love the podcast guys keep it up.

You have rushed the segment names on this one, blooper from Harry?

@Adamo99

3 ай бұрын

I thought I clicked on last week's episode for a moment!

Are you able to increase Gary's audio respective of the other two? I don't know if it's cos Gary sits further from the mic but he's noticeably quieter than Alan and Micah in pretty much every episode. I often turn it up but then Micah blows my ears off lol

This England squad is the best I can remember .... Will we win the Euros? Impossible to say.... do we have a squad that can win it? Andolutely yes.

@PRCOM

3 ай бұрын

True England's squad is by far the best they have had in years, however they won't win anything because of the lack of tactics Southgate has. He plays far too defensive.

29:55 Holy Moley! Meeks corrected his own grammar! Never thought I'd see the day. Now apply the same to your those/them and were/was moments and you're golden :)

Here's my outlook of the Manchester Derby as a Manchester United fan:- Did I expect to win the Derby? No. As sad as it sounds, I would have taken a point before the game. I always knew our gameplan was going to be to sit back and counter. And to our credit it worked quite well, until that Haaland chance. When Haaland missed, I felt it could be our day but when I saw the first goal go in for city, I knew we weren't coming back, I immediately turned to my friend and said "The match is going to end 3-1 or 4-1" and so it came to be. I was watching the match at a pub so I couldn't fully concentrate on the tactics and stuff but I don't think Pep changed anything particularly with regards to tactics. That said, Rashford missed a couple of great chances getting in behind but felt the heat with Walker with him, I genuinely felt that if he would have put one of those away, we could have walked out with a draw.

The result in the paper the day after's all that matters 😎

This brings nothing but joy. Well done lads 😂

Thoughts please guys re. Liverpool; whoever decided to move the Firsts to The AXA and got the U21s and U18s playing the same way, and Klopps enthusiastic usage of this has massively paid of now we're still on for 4 trophies with our current injury list?

@PRCOM

3 ай бұрын

I think it's the best way to future proof your team by getting the u18s u19s u21s ect ect the same way as the first team. Not only is it beautiful to watch it also enables the young players to step up into the first team knowing the system and what's required.

Yes lads let's go 😎🙏💙

Love this show 💯👏👏👏

The most consistent 🌲’o on KZread 👌

Muniz is actually spitting dabs of Jermaine Jenas! 😂😂😂

Gary needs to get closer to his mic. He sounds so low compared to Micah and Alan.

Mr Foden was the difference.. Loves the game and now on a new level. Man City Machine

Okay, about the "Which player from Utd will get into Man City team" qstn... Which player from Real Madrid or Barcelona will get into this Man City team... U may say, Bellingham, Pedri? But really, over Kevin DeBruyne and Rodri in this system. None other than Mbappe and Alisson in my opinion will get into this team. Also may be someone like Saka or Salah instead of Doku..but generally, that is a sort of perfect team.

the amount of talent we have for England! COME ON

@Chungu22

3 ай бұрын

Still not coming home

@bluemoon1716

3 ай бұрын

Doesn't matter as long as Southgate is at the helm

The time stamp bookmarkers are incorrect

Shearer is spot on about the Man Utd players❗️

@user-yu7ko6do4k

3 ай бұрын

Almost! A fit Luke Shaw gets in City`s team

@KP00777

3 ай бұрын

@@user-yu7ko6do4kwhat are you smoking?

@user-yu7ko6do4k

3 ай бұрын

@@KP00777 Even City fans will tell you this as they dont have a left back

@KP00777

3 ай бұрын

@@user-yu7ko6do4k please watch football and rethink what you’ve just said. No one touches City’s XI, and most definitely NOT Shaw.

@pije2362

3 ай бұрын

​@@user-yu7ko6do4kyeah I agreed with you, Shaw is a good left back, can defend and cross the ball, but I think pep tactic is different, he prefer defenders to join the midfield instead of side lane

How tame for such a derby game.

Onana might be the only goalkeeper I've ever seen time wasting in the first half 😂😂

@ChocolateMilk..

3 ай бұрын

You're forgetting Mourinho's 2nd Chelsea. The worst team I've ever seen. Unsportsmanlike through and through. Litterally starting games by wasting time.

@irawangani1

3 ай бұрын

Pickford anyone?

@j.s3300

3 ай бұрын

Happens all the time

@gavhowarth1350

3 ай бұрын

It was ridiculous, have a bit of pride

It should have been a free kick for a Yates high boot. So... No problem with the ball going to Kelleher.

Man city ambassador but an arsenal fan. Big Meeks!!

Don’t forget that Manchester united had a couple of key players out injured. Martinez, Shaw and Hojlund especially. City had a fully fit squad.

33:43 lol 😆

Question for the Q&A what is sweary Al's opinion on the blue card

Lol I said Spain 2010 about 5 seconds before Gaz! Great minds eh!!!

Getting refs to chip in insights is full blown straight genius, reminds me of when we thought Wenger was weird at first with nutrition

The Bellingham one was weird because it’s quite clear that the Valencia players stopped playing so you can’t guarantee Bellingham would’ve scored anyway even though it was a very weird place to blow up. People don’t realise that the ref did it in the first half to Valencia too, ball was literally in Madrid’s box and he blew his whistle so it’s not a Madrid agenda just seemed like the ref wanted the headlines. Seems to be a trending topic

Hang on a minute how can Micah Richards say jarrad branthwaite (21) and marc guehi (23) it’s come to soon for them to play for England when he himself burst onto the scene at such a young age ??

09:29 Gary's inner Gollum came out!

Lo malo del Manchester City es el medio campo hasta llegar a portería. La defensa es muy mala hombre

Trent Rice Bellingham Saka Foden Kane

Lads can someone please explain to me how the ref who made a complete balls up giving the ball back to Liverpool and what was his assistants looking at and he gets dropped from the next game and his punishment or ours is being put on VAR duty for Arsenal/Brentford game OH WHOOPEE F💥CKING DO COYG❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I still find it weird that "Champions" League is the top 4 of some leagues....but 5 now....that's just wrong =p

@MjolnirMarks

3 ай бұрын

Quarter of a league 😂

The idea that Southgate will probably take Rashford over Gordon and/or Bowen makes me angry.

La diferencia la hizo JULIÁN ALVAREZ SPIDERMAN 🇦🇷🌎💙 Campeón de campeones al ingresar con la presión alta y asistencias. Julián Álvarez es el mejor delantero del mundo 🌍 y el hombre del Manchester City 🌎❤🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️💪💕💖🇦🇷💔

Clattenburgs been brought in because they feel they’ve been on the wrong end of loads of decisions recently and they’re gonna make an appeal. Pretty important considering they could go down because of it

@janvanveelen

3 ай бұрын

THey go down because they did not take any of the 4 excellent chances they had to score. One ref mistake is no excuse.

@n4ht4n80

3 ай бұрын

@@janvanveelen no mate I agree and that isn’t the point I was making. Before the Liverpool game the reason they’ve got clattenburg in is because they feel they’ve been getting on the end of unfair decisions and with them being near the bottom half, feel they need to question it. Not saying I agree but that is literally what clattenburg has been brought in for to question referee decisions because they feel like they’ve been on the end of unfair ones recently

Regarding Liverpool v Man City, they both play in Europe this week: City at home on Wednesday against Copenhagen with a 3-1 aggregate lead to protect; Liverpool away in Prague on Thursday night for the first leg of their Europa tie. It’ll be interesting to see the sides both clubs put out but obviously Liverpool’s current injury problems and the fact they’re travelling to and from an away tie in Eastern Europe might give City a bit of an edge. I’ll be very surprised if it ends 0-0, both sides concede chances and both tend to take them. Meanwhile, Arsenal are thumping everyone, aren’t they. If they can do it again against Brentford next weekend and Liverpool & City draw, they’ll get their noses in front right before the International Break.

Shearer: "I said friends didn't I" Micah: Laughs and stretches his arms to bring attention to Roy Keane's book on his shelf. Micah, you are the only person that can bring Roy and Alan together for a legendary conversation! Please do it!

@colincolin5696

3 ай бұрын

Roy keanes miserable.. Wouldn’t suit the style of this show.

England definitely has a super squad for the Euros but France has for every position an absolute top player.

Forest should have defended better, lost the ball three times between Kelleher having the ball and Darwin scoring

It's laws of the game, not rules.

Gary insulted JJ's footballing ability with the Muniz compliment as well. 🤣

We didn't "get a bit lucky," we should've had a penalty before that, tbh. And Shearer is wrong, it DID happen in the first half. Watch it again. Perhaps Shearer should've listened more in his coaching lessons and Newcastle might not have got relegated? As for "dropped an absolute clanger" - bollocks! It's the equivalent of giving a throw-in the wrong way or a corner instead of a goal kick, which happens EVERY WEEK. It's also utterly embarrassing how much Liverpool are looked down on!

@ifstar3

3 ай бұрын

I remember the absolute shit fit Liverpool threw earlier this season over a refereeing decision. It's the comical hypocrisy of football fans that tickles 😊

A bigger question. Would any of Man Utd’s squad make City’s bench?

@geraldbutler5484

3 ай бұрын

No!

@robertthirtle9630

3 ай бұрын

Yeah the gk hahah

lol knowing harrys luck, he will be injured in the Euros, Watkins will replace him and England will win

Just started watching, it pleases me to see theres 6 mins or so on villa rather than the usual minute or two. With regards to the Manchester derby, united chose to sit in with a low blockbwhich is an easy option to take but it didn't work, even gerrard managed a draw against city doing the same thing, says it all about ten haag. Watkins shouldn't just be going to the euros, he should be starting with kane somehow. If we had a good manager that could fit rice,saka,foden,bellingham,Watkins and kane into a side we'd be at least in the final

@janvanveelen

3 ай бұрын

It says little about Ten Hag but everything about the quality of the squad.

@alexavfclineham7301

3 ай бұрын

@janvanveelen many of which he recruited, and even using that excuse there should at least be a style of play being installed, it doesn't look to me like they have a clear plan from their manager, except 11 behind the ball against city

see that's where i have an issue with the termonology of world class. i mean obviously it makes sense to define it like that. but i think that was when the term was brought up for the first generations who got classified like that. for example i think for center backs, i just don't see 2 players at world class currently. the difference in talent and skill is just too great. i mean you could argue that van dijk is already at an elite level of something like goats but i think we will have to wait for his career to end to really be able to judge that. i just don't see a 2nd cb who i would put in world class without restrictions. as well as goalies. i what makes a world class goalie. manuel neuer was for a long period the best goalie in the world, some even said in history. but honestly i think that currently the only one who fits that worldclass description is ederson. becker has been injured (otherwise i'd see him too), onana has great peaks but has some horrible mistakes in his game. donnaruma can't catch a ball if his life depended on it, most of the time it goes well but literally every other goal psg conced you see him blocking it and the 2nd attempt is the goal, manuel neuer is still recovering his world class form from his long injury, ter stegen is an absolute beast at barca but he seems to be a 2nd grade goalie for his national team. there are so many examples who might be in there but i can't really find an argument for most of them to get over the hump.

Southgate’s done a good job to getting this squad to this point. But there is absolutely no chance of winning anything with him in charge purely because he does have the tactical nouse to deliver at the top end, he’s proven that multiple times. That’s completely ok, he’s one a good job not sure why all pundits can’t see he’s the issue !!

Champions always seems to get the rub of the green when not at their best.

Will the podcast continue with 2 episodes a week after the season finishes?

@johnadesola6992

3 ай бұрын

I’ll hope so considering the euros, fans Q&A, summer transfers, micahs holiday escapades lol etc

I think Haaland has only been offside once all season! Amazing. Chelsea have had strikers who had whole seasons being offside 😂

An error but what about the wrong throw-ins, corners given or not given can we called them awful errors?

I said friends didn't I 😂😂😂

On the subject of VAR why doesn't the FA talk with rugby union and rugby league on how they made VAR work. Ok there are still problems at times with it but not nearly every other game each weekend? I think VAR should only be involved WHEN the ref asks them is there any reason the goal can't be awarded or along those lines. Not very kick being checked out by VAR

70% of the season finished and the 6th- and 7th-place teams have negative goal differences? But "the table doesn't lie"?

Micah's Burnley analysis is the most daft analysis in the history of analysis...😑🤣

City rule

dismantle? took them 70 minutes to score a wonder goal then united gave them the other 2. City were poor considering how bad united have been this season. Wuill have to wake up if they are to catch liverpool or arsenal. Especially with the way the refs are just giving liverpool everything

@bluemoon1716

3 ай бұрын

United had one shot on target the whole match. City never really had to go into top gear and still put up 3 goals. Haaland and kdb still rusty coming back from injury

@MANC_BLUE

3 ай бұрын

City took yoonited apart. Yoonited had 3 shots 1 on target

@n4ht4n80

3 ай бұрын

Haaland missed from a yard out before half time. You reckon it’s taking us 70 minutes to score again if it’s 1-1 at half time? We had more shots than United had possession we completely battered them. Sometimes (every game bar about 3 in the league against city) when there’s 11 men behind the ball it’s hard to break through, doesn’t mean we were poor

I always thought "its coming home " is because we invented football ⚽? I've been wrong this whole time? 😢

wrong time lapse

I do have to disagree with Micah regarding the city have another gear this season comment, normally they unlock that by gameweek 23 where they basically just start destroying teams for fun, but this time it feels genuinely like they are scrapping by and struggling for goals, in other words foden is carrying them at the moment

Bruno Fernandes would get into that side based on his talent. Pep would change him a little to fit his system but let’s not pretend like Bruno Fernandes isn’t a world class player. That’s the problem with questions like this, we all say “oh Bruno can’t play for city” but in all reality what would Debruyne do on Man U setting up garnacho and rashford and hoilund? Ask yourself this question, why is debryune borderline invisible on Belgium if he’s so great? Oh I know…it’s because of peps system which is exactly why Bruno could play for city.

Has VAR improved the game? Were the referees really this bad before VAR and we didn't notice as much or has the ref's standards dropped since VAR??

Are we seeing the emergence of the Super League in the way the Champions League is supposed to be restructured!

the wrong decision by Tierney was the same as giving a corner instead of a goal kick it's silly a ref would make it but jesus refs do far worse each game and forest had every chance to see the game out

Love the podcast boys you give Man City too much credit its like giving support to somone under 115 count of fraud if the charges stick all this could get taken away credit to their way of play but if 1 person had those charges people would be acting like he is Voldermort he who shall not be named.

@MANC_BLUE

3 ай бұрын

Too much credit. You sound very bitter kid.

Why does Gary look like he's made from clay 😂 sort lighting out Harry lad

The word Talent was invented for Mr Foden!

City with a huge deduction of points can save Sheffield not Burnley. The deduction for City comes from one of their ambassadors believing he was a better footballer than one of the most reliable players ever. Gary Neville..

🩵👏🏽

I don't get the outrage over the Forest decision. Yea it was the wrong but so what? Forest would've got the ball about 40 yards from goal and they had more than enough chances to stop Liverpool scoring. If we're doing ifs and buts, then Van Dijk would've scored from the corner that wasn't given Liverpool's way after the Bobby Clark shot and Bradley would've ran past the whole Forest team and scored had Hudson-Odoi not dived that the ref missed. At the end of the day the decision didn't directly result in the goal.

I am a neutral and watching the Manchester derby I clearly saw a team who came and park the BUS! The term used now a days is “Low block” let’s be honest it’s Parking the Bus! 😢

Moment of the week should have been Haaland's miss, not going to see too many of those!

@romanoonamor7690

3 ай бұрын

The guy scores a goal a game, but yeah, let's highlight a miss.... today's mentality...........

No room for Arsenal?

It was a Liverpool drop ball because Ryan Yates fly kicked konate in the head 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

There's a very high possibility that we'll look back at this weekend as the title decider. Kyle Walker should have been sent off, which could have completely changed the outcome of the game. Forest should have been awarded a last minute penalty and Liverpool should have lost 1-0. I think that rant by Kompany about inconsistency was quite justified...

Ppl asking “ were are Man Utd at “ … I’ve been saying to anyone that will listen … ( long suffering Everton fan btw 😂 football goes in cycles .. and not 2/3 year cycles .. 10 years plus cycles !!! How long did it take for Liverpool to win that title !!! Was it 1990 they last won it ( don’t jump o me if I’m wrong here ) but it was well over 20 years ago …. It’s took them so long to get back to challenging and eventually winning .. yeah theve won champions leagues but the premier league is what every side wants domestically … Arsenal … 20 years ago since they won league .. been finishing 7th 8th and been miserable .. 20 years it’s taken them now to be challenging again and they haven’t won it again yet but 2 season on the bounce there challenging at the end of the season … Chelsea … 10 years r more is it ?? There no wear near yet .. and Man Utd … over 10 years again and there another 5 years away imo from even challenging for the title .. even Man City … almost out of the football league many years ago now arguably the best team in the history of the premier league .. but when pep leaves get ready .. football runs in 20 + year cycles … even us Everton best team in the world in the mid to late 80s .. Jesus Christ were closer to going down than finishing even in the top 10 .. great podcast .. rant over pmsl

It's getting ridiculous now, Alan. Come on. ONE MINUTE AND FIFTY SECONDS LATER, and Forest even had possession during that time. Sorry, but these things happen. Are we supposed to stress like this every single time a referee gives a corner when it should be a goal kick? Or a throw the wrong way? After all, the whole game changes from there, right? "Might, might, might." I get it was a mistake, but as Neville said, it's hardly this big thing you're making it out to be. You're just saying it because it was when it was, and Liverpool scored after. The vitriol changes, but the mistake doesn't.

what about when clark deflected shot went for a goal kick instead of a corner. liverpool couldve scored from that also 🤡 shearer

Cyprus has ex referees on their sports programs to explain the decisions.

Take a shot every time Gary rubs his nose and you will probbaly be brown bread by end of episode

Hey come on Micah, Newcastle were robbed... and Milan come to think of it, Newcastle rightfully should be in the Europa League and it should have been Milan going through to the knock out round, had PSG not got that absolute sham of a penalty in the dying minutes, it would have meant PSG finishing bottom and yet they continue to progress in the competition with a pretty easy route too 🤦 this being a team spanked 5-2 over two fixtures by Newcastle