Matt Davies-Adams
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685 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Sep
Matt Davies-Adams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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People still talk about the defensive side.
It's not really the case.
It's more of an emotional challenge, particularly when you go there.
It's so oppressive and such a... It's like having a blowtorch held towards you.
Then you can absolutely make the argument that there's going to be a fatigue issue there.
But I don't know.
I think...
I think whenever we see, for instance, a team with nothing to play for, a team that can focus on things, a team which is motivated by this, you end up looking silly.
Look at Forrest's win against Sunderland on Friday night.
Sunderland had everything to play for.
They were chasing Europe.
And then all of a sudden you're 4-0 down at halftime and everybody who's predicted something or rationalized in a certain way looks like an idiot.
So it's very, very hard.
And like with a lot of these things, including some of the stuff that Mikel Arteta says, which is supposed to motivate his players, if it goes well,
It looks very, very smart.
If it doesn't, he gets pilloried and YouTubed and memed forever.
And yeah, it's the same for us, right?
Just in a smaller way.
I was softened to the blow because I was lagging behind and so people on my WhatsApp group spoiled it ahead of time.
So I was protected.
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