Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Welcome, this is the Wrexham Preview Show. It's Saturday, Millwall, two days away now. Millwall travel to... North Wales to face Wrexham, the Hollywood dream team who've just managed to get into the playoff positions. Can they make it? Can they not?
Chapter 2: What is the focus of the Wrexham Preview Show?
I don't know. I am joined by the good looking one and only host with the most
oh my how you doing fairly right i'm good mickey mate very good that's two shows on the balance with good two intros mates i'm very touched mate thank you very much honored to be here as always mate i'm good i thought if i don't abuse you then you might come back but if i do abuse you then you might not so i'm just thinking you know the way is where it is and and you know that's that's where i've that's where i'm aiming for a bit of trivia for you mickey do you know what the ground's called in wrexham
Is it a railway yard? Railway? Close. It's the racecourse ground. Racecourse, that's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll give you that, mate. Not bad. I know it began with an R, but yeah, I didn't really... I'll give you that. For you, mate. It's also allegedly the oldest ground, isn't it?
I think it's the oldest ground in Wales, but they sit there and go, it's the oldest ground and all this, but whether or not They call themselves... Don't they call themselves Wales' original football club or something? Well, I imagine that. Maybe I've just made that up. I don't know. I'm not sure.
I could be completely wrong, but I feel like they kind of live for the tagline of being the original football club in Wales or something. Yeah, I think they do. But I think the oldest ground is one of the Sheffield teams, I think. Or Sheffield-Harlem, I think. Or Halem. Yeah, so... And I only know that from when we did the regen.
We had Swiss Tony, who used to fight every fucking football battle there was and remember him having...
battles over that and he had something to do with a trophy what was one back in day dot so yeah um i take it we're going to play your intro again then we're going to play your intros you're on the show and you love this intro to be fair i love this intro it's a good it's our little tiny montage to to johnny i think and it's like i know it's this friday night live and i know it's not but
Johnny made that for us, and obviously Johnny's no longer here, and he'd be absolutely fucking screaming that we signed Bannon, but hey-ho, shit happens. We've got our own little pig now, Johnny, so yeah, we'll do that. Let's hit the intro, and we'll see you in 55 seconds. You've got enough time to grab yourself a drink or do something else for 55 seconds. Your missus could be in for a good time.
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Chapter 3: How do recent transfers impact Wrexham's performance?
And yet you were like, he's like, you know, what'd you think of this? What'd you think of that? And I was like, it's all good. But just remember one thing. You're only a custodian. And don't do things. Don't do things too quickly. Yeah, I said, it's brilliant. I went, don't you think it's a bit too much too quick?
And I remember him turning to someone else and going, he thinks I'm doing too much too quickly. He turned to Demos, didn't he? And Demos was like, I'll be glad.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of Wrexham's playoff position?
And he was like, fucking hell. That was the vibe though, right? Because it's like playing FIFA or Football Manager. You're like, right, we'll do this, this, this, this. That doesn't normally happen in real life football. It doesn't happen to me at all. And it's new. Well, it was new at the time. And you look at it now and you go, you know what? I trust every decision they make.
And I would have done anyway. But you do sometimes think, is it too much too soon? And look at us now. And I'm happy as Larry, still doing everything I'm doing the same, going to home and away games, enjoying myself even more than I was two years ago. You look back at that and go, fair play. There's a method to this madness, you could say, right? And it's brilliant.
I think, listen, I think football's changed massively. I think football is very sanitised as a whole because of, you know, the FA bollocking people for doing chants and this, that, and the EFL, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I just think that, you know, with Mark Fairbrother, we've got someone who stands up and fights us on charges with... you know, the Crystal Palace stuff and other stuff.
And I think you've got Gallen what sort of gets us and finds us players what work. I think Alex Neal just understands the Millwall dogged mentality. He understands how important it is to bring the fan base together. you know, into a game. And I think the players understand that.
I think, um, James Berylson had just hit this as a, as a business decision is as a business process rather than a, um, like a normal football owner who probably leaves the CEO to do everything. He, he, he seems to me, I mean, I don't know. I don't, you know, I don't fucking, I don't speak to him.
You can always buy us a beer whenever you want me, invite us up to the director, but any, any time you want, no problem at all. Um, But I get this impression that he comes from an investment area and he's just basically looked at it and gone, right, if we invest this, what do we get? And also, I don't want to be looking at 10, 15 year. I want to be looking at a five-year journey.
And in that five-year journey, I want to do this. If we have more people in the lounges, What does that do? Well, that makes you more money. But that means I've got to put less in. That's great. Right. Let's do this. Let's spend a couple of million there or do whatever to do that. And then that increases. And then we do that and that increases.
And, you know, you look at the fan zone, you go there all the time. You look at the fan zone. Yes, it's getting fucking packed now. But, you know, most people are drinking. Most people are eating where, you know, you never really got a lot of people at Millwall before that.
who were drinking most people were drinking down the blue now you're getting a good crowd early um which is good for the players coming in good for the kids all of that you just need to move to the kids area get it down in the lower stands at some point um you know either in the away stand maybe in the lower bit but then again the away fans will probably spit or Do a corner up.
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Chapter 5: How does the new ownership affect Millwall's strategy?
And the fact that the bookies, the pundits, everything else was talking about us at the beginning of the season, you know, Millwall were favourites, Millwall could be favourites to get in the playoffs, et cetera, et cetera, that you know that something is going in our favour. And I think the biggest thing you've got now ā
with Millwall, with being successful as much as we are on the pitch and looking up rather than looking down is that we're not listening to this same bullshit coming out from the, you know, from the club and the media team and all that of going, we can't attract these sort of players. We can't get this sort of players. Well, you know, that's pretty much bullshit.
We've got a manager who's probably one of the best championship managers in in the country. We've got a goalkeeper who took a club to the Premier League last season. We've got a youngster coming from a Premier League club and, you know, we've got Bannon and we've got other players in the team who, you know,
If they really believed the hype about us, that we're this, we're that, we're everything else, they wouldn't come to us. But we don't seem to have that problem anymore, do we? We lost Mike Guava for whatever reason, and there's legal stuff going on. You know, we step in and all of a sudden we've got a new shirt.
Normally that would have been left on with my guava probably for the next year or so until we, you know, can finally do something to get it off. But there was a decision made, fuck him, out of the stadium, get them all out. And everything was done, dusted. And I just think that when you've got that mentality at the top,
and you've got that mentality in the dressing room and you've got that mentality with the players it rubs onto the fans the other staff and it's just that wave of excitement that wave of it this year it's a possibility rather than oh we might do it if that works that works that works but this year it's like we're in charge of the train we're in charge of our own destiny and the only people what can it up is us
I'm never more certain it's going to be Wrexham 3-0 on Saturday night. Shall we do a bit about Wrexham, Shireen? Yeah, we're looking at Wrexham on Saturday. Obviously, it's a four-and-a-half-hour drive each way. We are going to the race ground. Race course. Race course. Race track. There we go, just in case. We are playing Team Deadpool. Yeah.
they are looking to make the Hollywood dream, aren't they? I mean, listen, you, you, you can't fault what they've done. They fucked it up for every other club to a degree because of their, um, uh, the way they've done stuff with their, you know, their merchandise, their overseas selling, et cetera, et cetera.
I think the AFL and the tourism and whatnot, they've looked and said, well, if I can do it, we could probably scale this up for everyone, but that's, you know, for another show, um, what we'll be doing, but listen, um, If I make the Premier League, that's the movie sorted. Hopefully they don't because I just really don't want to be in a final with them.
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