David Wilson

And he absolutely...

tore into him he was like what are you doing why are you not giving me that ball and I think he was a bit tired and he didn't get back for quite some time but they weathered the storm the goal the first goal I need to mention actually for the football nerds out there Mohamed Beloumi came off the bench for Hull bit of a funny one where they got an injury and he wasn't ready didn't have his boots on didn't have his shin pads on and Yakirovich was absolutely tearing into him he came on scores this worldly of a goal has an unbelievable assist a ball with like a Travella outside of the boot over to Joe Gellhart and scores but he's actually the son of

of Lakhdar Balumi I don't know if you're familiar with who he is widely regarded this is something if we ever got the chance to do something a bit weird widely regarded as the greatest Algerian footballer of all time so if you have a bit of time to yourself go and dig into it because it's an interesting story but yeah great game and John Egan back to the point was great not much Irish involvement outside of that Danny McNamara was on the bench for Millwall didn't get a run out and Will Smallbones nowhere to be seen at the minute so it'd be interesting to see what he does during the summer obviously when he returns to Southampton

Yeah, Toby Collier's not getting much of a run, but he was decent at the start of the season, or when he joined there after being at West Brom, but yeah, they have an eclectic bunch of players, they really do, and the defence they've got there is, people remember Samuel Jay as well, who was of course from Nigeria, and Charlie Hughes I'd be very familiar with from his time at Wigan.

Hull got him for a very cut price and he's been one of the best defenders in the championship this season and he'll be playing in the Premier League regardless of how this goes on for Hull but I wouldn't say it's a fairytale story just purely because they've got this transfer round because they spent too much money but they did survive relegation on goal difference last season so to be where they are now and Hull as well here's a little bit of a stat for you

have won every single playoff campaign they've been in.

They've only been in two, but they've won both of them.

And Millwall have never won a game at home in the playoffs, in the championship.

I don't know how many they've played, but it's more than one.

Yeah.

a bit like Bielsa lead style did you see the Hull fans last night in the final whistle chanting Maul by the Tigers over to the Maul fans the Maul fans are having to be held back by the students roaring back at them it's brilliant because it's such a rage baiting challenge isn't it brilliant it's great I also thought in the same vein would get great laugh out of Middlesbrough winning and doing the Spidey thing back to

Southampton fans are the players doing that I would like that as well that Leeds Derby playoff from a few years ago was amazing playoffs are just amazing that's the standard isn't it that's like peak 13 years to the day since Troy Deeney got offered through that semi-final which they went on to lose in the final which I think everyone forgets about but we were watching it on telly this morning they were showing the replay of it but tonight will be great like as you say loads of Irish involvement on the Southampton side you're going to have

Alan Brown and Alex Gilbert might make an appearance he's been kind of in and out of the team for them Hayden Hackney's injured Hayden Hackney's out for today should be back for the playoff finals that'd be a great boost if they do get there but Middlesbrough are one of these like unbelievably pleasing teams to watch on the eye if anyone did manage to watch the first leg on Saturday they were

they played Southampton off the park to be frank they were like unbelievable but that's something they'd be doing to pretty much every team the entire season and just not being able to score and I'm not sure if that's due to the fact that their strikers are starting up to it or if there's an underlying problem there but they'll be raging now tonight like if they don't they spent I think as much time as anyone else in the top two so if they don't match up they'll be annoyed but the game itself will be brilliant because it happened around this outrageous run that everyone's familiar with at the minute and

I'm sure Finesse and Ray Manning will have a part to play obviously the main underlying story there outside of the spying is the fact that Finesse spent so much time at Middlesbrough and kind of left under a bit of a cloud and when he left he sort of said that he feels something along the lines of it feels good to be at a Premier League level club and Middlesbrough fans obviously didn't take that too well I don't think he meant it in that way

But obviously they were going to take it in that way.

So every time he touched the ball on Saturday, obviously Middlesbrough were at home, he got a fairly bad reception.

So I think you'll still get a bit of that tonight from the away fans.

But yeah, that'll be a cracking game.

He was, yeah, no, he was very good.