Phil Egan

I did TV stuff and I was told the same.

The pictures are there.

They can see it.

You don't need to talk.

Too many commentators are scared of silence.

But I would never have gone down the line of telling Ray Houghton that that's what he should have done.

to invite Ray to come back and say you're an idiot.

Because that's basically what it's about.

That's why you're there.

You're there because you have a facility to do different class, different class, different class.

And he's there, or she's there, to add what they know from having been down there facing the different class.

So what value is the commentator's notion?

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That just means there'll be no fans at the game at all.

It'll be very like what we experienced during COVID where there was no atmosphere and it was all very eerie.

But yeah, as you said, no real surprise that this is happening at a neutral venue.