Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Welcome into the latest edition of ESPN FC. I'm Dan Thomas. Alongside me, Stevie Nicholl. Here is a sentence I don't say very often or indeed ever. We'll kick off today's show in Maccasfield as they were taking on Crystal Palace, the defending champions, of course, and it would be the hosts who will win by two goals to one in what was being called the up. set of the century.
Macclesfield the first long league club to eliminate the FA Cup defending champions in 117 years. Palace the first top flight club to get knocked out of the FA Cup versus a club five levels below it in the English Premier League. Clubs are separated by 117 places in the league pyramid.
Jon, 117 places between you. The first time since 1908 that a non-lead side has knocked the holders out of the FA Cup. Try and sum up your emotions for me right now.
We spoke earlier and we spoke about hope and having a chance, but I never really believed it. That was just me hoping. Wow, the boys were absolutely outstanding and the way the performance they've put on, wow, you know, we can give them a little bit on the side and help them in that sense, but they've got to cross that righty-lander and I couldn't be any prouder.
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Chapter 2: What were the highlights of Macclesfield's historic FA Cup win?
We didn't show any kind of quality. We didn't show anything. And again, it's my responsibility. I'm the manager. And for me, it's clear what I've seen today. So we have to change things. And there will be definitely some changes. And this will start with the next training session.
What a lot of fun that training session will be, I imagine. Juliana Ron is the valley for us. We'll be talking about Charlton Chelsea a little bit later on. But this, without a doubt, Jules, the biggest story of the weekend.
Yeah, I mean, one of the biggest stories in the HFC history. Really, you mentioned the stats, Dan. This never happened before, really. As embarrassing as this could be for Palace, and Glasner kind of mentioned it a little bit, it's all about Michael's fit, let's be honest. John Rooney, who's Wayne Rooney's little brother, younger brother, doing an amazing job in the National League.
They beat Slough in the last round, and then this time it's Crystal Palace, he's the holders. It was an incredible occasion and atmosphere, really, and... I'm not sure if Oliver Glasner probably knew where Macclesfield was before today. Now I think there's a lot of people around the world who know where it is. It's up near Manchester, right?
I don't like that, what he said there. What Glasner said? Yeah. Which bit? Right at the very end. It'll all change starting on the first training session. Right. But late, that's your job. Your job is to smell when things are not right. Your job is to figure out if your team are actually up for a game or not. That's part of your job. It's not giving it the big I am right now.
No, I'm going to put my foot down now. That's absolutely not the answer at all. It's too late. Jules, of course, Klaasner has been linked to the likes of Manchester United, especially over the last week, considering what happened to Amarine. Does this affect that narrative at all?
I don't think so, maybe not the game today in itself. However, this season has been a struggle, let's be honest here. Apart from the odd good result and good performance from Palace, overall they've been so disappointing, so underwhelming. OK, maybe they didn't get the investment and the support from the board, during the summer where they should have had more new recruits, more signings.
The squad is far too thin to play in the Conference League and in the league and have the similar results to last season. However, his job, like Stevie said, is to find solutions to problems that each team can bring against Crystal Palace of the scheduling and the fixtures and all that kind of stuff. And he's struggling himself. This season is not...
It's not as good as it's been in the last 18 months or so. Prior to this season, the players are not either. There's clearly something missing this year compared to last season and that's also on him. Fans loving it though, Stevie.
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Chapter 3: How did Spurs perform against Aston Villa in the FA Cup?
So the last defeat in domestic competition of Barcelona was against Real Madrid in Santiago Bernabeu. Since that day, all wins in La Liga and I think the team is enjoying a momentum. Do you think that defeat was a turning point and you learned from that? It could be, but at the end it's all about the team. How we played against Athletic Bilbao was important.
We played like a team, like one unit, and this is what I normally want to see from the team. When we play like this, I really appreciate a lot what we can do. We want to play like Basel and we did it against Athletic. Lamin Jamal could only play 20 minutes, I want to know if he is 100% fit and how important can be Lamin in this game?
Lamin is a special player and for us also very important and of course he is able to play. In situations he can also decide matches with one action and this is really good to have him in our team. And the last question, it's going to be your eighth final as a manager, third with Barcelona. You have a perfect record, seven wins.
So how do you approach this yet another final that you can maintain this perfect record? For me, it's the past. The seven are in the past. Now we are focused on... on this final against Real Madrid in the Supercoppa.
And I enjoy this, I enjoy to play against this team, to play on this level, but at the end it's all about us, about our team, how we play, how we started, how we are ready for this match and this is what I want to see. I want to see playing like a team, playing like Barca and this is our style and this is our way how we want to do it.
I tell you what, Gemma, compared to Real Madrid, Barca are boring. There's no story, no soap opera, no will the coach go? What's going on with this player? Everything's very calm. And Hansi Flick, of course, would be delighted with that. Well, Dan, over the years, you have had so much drama with the registering.
Remember, one year ago, we were with Dani Olmo registering with all the drama, the elections. So give us a little break with the Lionel Messi departure trauma. So, yeah, it's true that it's like histories of opposite momentums in Barcelona and Real Madrid, but it's true. We were at the training earlier today with Lamin Yamal training at 100%.
a so good move that they were having fun playing games. They know they are favorites, but they don't want to believe it too much. It's true that for the way they played in the semifinals and the last games in La Liga, they feel favorites. But there is some history.
that says that they are not going to win because since there is this new format, the defending champions of the Super Cup has never won it again. This hasn't happened in the last 15 years. And then who wins La Liga, so Barcelona, doesn't win the Super Cup. This happened in the last eight years. So with this new format, Barcelona shouldn't be favourites.
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