FINAL ONE STANDING: ‘We’re judging Manchester City on legacy…’ | The FA Cup weekend
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Well, well, well. The final one standing. Mick McCarthy is still here. He is no longer standing. He is still one of our colleagues. He has not disappeared over the horizon. 500 grand to the richer.
Yeah.
Welcome back, Mick. I'm sorry for your trouble.
No, thanks. I very much enjoyed my run. Week 18. Week 18 is insane. Well done, Mick. I will say though that it got to the point where for the previous three weeks that I got through, I had picked one of six, one of five, one of four, and they were the only teams that won. So that was my three proudest weeks. None of the teams won that I had left in week 18. So obviously I didn't play it properly because with so many people in, the Sharks had sharps and obviously kept some bigger teams, but yeah. Yeah, look, whoever did win, congratulations to them. Who knocked you out? Or what team? Oh, it was a good one. It was a Soccer Saturday Fest watching West Ham with Michael Dawson on the call at home to Fulham and every time it went to him,
Callum Wilson had missed the chance right and then it was like Callum Wilson no friend of mine no friend of Aston Villa you know so he missed the chance constantly and then finally I heard that familiar Soccer Saturday scream where I recognised the voice I knew it was the London Stadium but who's it gone to Michael Dawson 5 minutes left to go 85th minute yeah Fulham there you go I should have known Harry Wilson best footballer in the Premier League at the moment with the assist as well yeah
Who else? That was the 27th of December.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not a Christmas ruiner. Who else could you have picked that week? Burnley, who drew, actually. Or Wolves. Enough said. And Burnley didn't win. Neither Burnley or West Ham won the next week either.
Mick, what did you learn about yourself in the experience on the journey?
It pays to be a football nerd. I suppose I'm better at predicting football matches than I thought I was.
Well done.
Thank you. Of course, I did win our own internal game. What was it called? Who you got last year? Yeah. Dominated. Had a bigger gap between first and second than there was between second and last.
Which nobody remembers.
Well, I just reminded everybody there.
You can say that now as a fact and we'll be like, yeah, okay, fair.
SKG, dig out the graphics there, will you?
We should talk a little bit about last night's football, which was the final league game for a week because obviously it's FA Cup weekend. I'm not sure we did this last year with the FA Cup. But anyway, what are our takeaways? Arsenal, the game's ruined by the weather. Is that the first thing? That actually had a big impact?
The atmosphere was horrendous, but maybe that was because of the weather and because of the tetchiness on the pitch.
Some of the best games I can ever remember have been in that kind of rain.
was the thing that they were banging on about for the first five minutes just to kick off in fairness Gary Neville said I think the weather's going to have an impact here and not being smart but how was the commentator going really what are you talking about yeah it's really windy it's hard he didn't have an answer But he was right.
My take from it was that you had City's form over Christmas has given Arsenal that thing that they seem to want so much, which is ability to go conservative.
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