Will O'Callaghan

Fantastic.

Richie's definitely got the symptoms on the brain here as well like literally just before we came on you said someone has actually replicated Homer's super moon waffles I've DM'd it to you oh wow yeah so enjoy that when we finish up this I can't help but think first of all that's a cardiac arrest in a treat 100%

But at the same time, I'm intrigued that someone has followed that directly.

I realise that nostalgia as we get older becomes more and more attractive and it's great to go back to your childhood and all that.

But there was definitely part of me in the pre-internet, particularly the pre-Twitter age, which actually loved the idea of picking up a newspaper or one of the soccer magazines and seeing potential transfers that could happen, going to CFAX or going to RTE and clicking page 220 just to see if that transfer has gone through.

I remember even when, say, Manchin had signed Juan Sebastián Verón, who was this player that you saw on Gazeta and he looked like this amazing player in Italy.

And next thing you know, Manchin had to buy him for a shared load of money.

There was something really attractive about that.

And it almost broke...

basically when it happened.

I appreciate the Photoshoppers at the time who had to put a little bit of work into it.

They needed to find a jersey that actually, you know, roughly fit and then they would have to find a way of pasting it on.

Nowadays, it's just like, AI, give me a picture of such and such at stadium wearing a Chelsea jersey and bang, it's out there.

And I remember looking at it and really weirdly, I think Andy Townsend was definitely one that was there.

So was Ray and Tim.

transfers still intrigue everyone though I remember once upon a time you would have say the transfer rumours on BBC would disappear come the first week of September now the next day they'll still go transfers that almost happened transfers that could happen in January we're obsessed with this yeah we are and I think the series looks at it and I think the genesis of it all goes back to the 50s really and the first real

You're adding the player of his time.

It was the live golf of its era.

You were going to be banned by FIFA by playing in it.

I don't want to give away this episode too much, but is it simplistic when people claim that Franco got involved and that's the reason the transfer didn't happen?