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1:01Forkham-Belsard, you know what, that was Scousers, forced up performance. It's like praising the poor, man, for delivering your letters, these bosses, that's the job. Morning's performance rankings. Huge weekend of sport. As we mentioned, we'll start with the KDT. They're finished as a career as the undisputed super lightweight champion. She won on a unanimous points decision, 190, 190, and 90 at 91. She bows out with a record of 26 to 1. They only defeat off her career, her professional career coming. Again, Shantel Cameron in 2023. Florepili didn't really offer much to this. You would say as a fighter, as a spectacle. And if we're talking from pure fighting perspective, a boxing perspective, this was a fairly bog standard fight for Kiddit Hitler. She kind of kept her at arm's length the entire time. Yeah, I agree. Look, I don't want to take away from the whole event because this is more than just a stand-alone foe in Crowe Park.

2:02This is Katie's legacy in everything she's done throughout the years, and what she's done for every young boy, young Gael, that's Watchdard, and she's becoming inspiration to the whole country if not the whole world. So, yeah, looking at the foe was probably a little bit boring, but again, you've got to give Katie an awful lot of credit for that, because you just seem to keep Pili at arm's length just always had enough for her. And even the little Florees and the combos, the sharpness of our boxing off the back foot, just brilliant, isn't it? And when you're throwing in 40 years of age, you're like, she's unbelievable. To be honest, which end of when I heard it was Pili, looking at our background, I wouldn't say, I think I used the term last week, that Pili is going to be cannon fodder in this. I think she got a better account of herself than just cannon fodder. I think it was the seventh round. She had a bit more of a goal, and maybe landed one or two on Katie. But other than that, it was a fairly comfortable noise walk, but given how emotional it was and Katie's ringwalk, you could see her walking out and looking up and down,

3:02and taking everything in, the more I looked at it, the emotional angle of it, and I looked at me, wife at the time, and thought, this is probably a little bit too emotional for me. Even Eddie Aherne was crying on the way to the ring. These are not things that I would, generally, you would want on the way into a fight, but I thought, OK, he handled it absolutely brilliantly. She was much, much better fighter. And the last 10 seconds, like when you're comfortably ahead on the cards, to go last 10 seconds, let's have a tear up in the middle of the ring here, maybe just to the left of the middle. Unbelievable stuff from Katie. What a love to see her get the knockout, but that's not really her game. She's more in and out, and you know, makes you miss unbelievable stuff from Katie. I thought it was a bit of a bar and foot, but that's down to Katie's class and not letting Pilly get anywhere near her. Yeah, I thought that as well. And going into the fight out, I wondered how the neutral would enjoy this fight in terms of understanding what's actually going on, or understanding who's winning it,

4:02because I decided to do a couple of fights against Chantelle Cameron, and Amanda Serrano, like Kitty Taylor has really spent her career being a smart boxer, being a clever boxer, not getting involved in brawl, she's not going for knockouts. And that's sort of what she did against Pilly here. She bought her time, she got in and out with her right hook, and then just kind of danced her own the ring and made Pilly come after it. Funnily enough, Dara, it didn't seem like Pilly wanted to even really go after her Kitty Taylor here, either, because each time she got inside, Kitty would kind of like catch her off. So I think this was just pretty much just a master class from Kitty Taylor, albeit 40-year-old Kitty Taylor, who's retiring after this fight. You could see there was still that golf class and the actual brains of a boxer here. Yeah, those, just levels to this game. And I think Thor Pilly, to be fair, she probably thought a bit within herself as well, or a corner, or going mad at her. But at the time, I'd say the Ford says Ryan came around there,

5:02like you are getting just completely out of box here. You need to go for this now. And I think the occasion probably got to her a little bit, she looked quite compact and almost, you know, static at times. I was looking back to her previous fights there. And the last time she fought against Yelena, Yana Shea, a Yevich, was in front of just a hundred or one thousand people in the Lagoor Choms, the Foyer, Arrhena and France. So to go from fighting in front of a thousand people to pay the thousand plus, 82-thousand is a serious step up. So it's not surprising that she was maybe a little bit nervous, but look, I think all credit goes to Katie at the same time. She was just leveled above her. She was sticking and moving as well. She was landing that right straight and getting ahead of trouble any time, floor, kind of back to her and her corner and had her stood in front for, she got out of it. The was one or two moments where she got into an exchange and that's when Pili looked most dangerous, but I thought Katie was completely in control, tried to fight at her, those two moments. And yeah, she looked quick and like it's probably down to the opponent a little bit,

6:05but she looked as good as ever really. A 40 years of age, it's quite remarkable. Yeah, I think it's, you don't need to look into the standard of the fight too much because she literally has no one left to fight. That was the thing, do you want to fight Seranna again for the fourth time? That was never going to happen. So people were giving out about the opponent and not being up to scratch and being a poor standard of boxing. I just don't listen to that viewpoint because it's nonsense. Like, who do you want her to fight at this point? She's fought everyone. Well, it's also like it's nonsense in the sense that it actually wouldn't have been anybody else as well because Flora Pili earned the right to fight Katie Taylor by winning the IBO Superliver title. So that meant that Katie had to go and win the title. So that meant that Katie had to go and win it back if she wanted to be the only spirit of champion. So she actually wouldn't have fought Amanda Serrano or Chantel Cameron again anyway. It had to be Flora Pili for this fight. So look, whether you thought that she was up to scratch her nod is actually irrelevant because that's just the way the box

7:05it works. We did have a couple of people in Crow Park for Ligon was there for it's Matthew Brennan was there and she and was there as well. They were in the press conference afterwards. Do you want to take some of Katie Taylor in the press conference? I think so. Yeah, there's plenty to go with. We might start with an interaction that Matthew had with Katie one on one in the press conference. It was a lovely bit of back and forth between the two. So we might just play that first. I'm a Frany and Flora, the little girl or boy or third today. I was no different today. I'm at their age. I didn't have a well-emoney. We got a fancy school or any part of a fancy box as well. I have a huge dream. I'd like to work hard and I never give up. There's all secrets and success. It's a well-emore part. I never give up when the time is up.

8:05I keep on dreaming of your heart. It's as simple as that really. That's what I say to my new girl out there today. That was Katie Taylor in the press conference afterwards. You mentioned the last 10 seconds. Katie Taylor really went for the last 10 seconds of the fight here. Matthew Brennan spoke to her afterwards in the press conference. And I asked her, you were giving us a wee bit of a show there. You learned to Katie for the final 10 seconds of your career. It's just a dream and a dream career for me. I said I'd be reading a film. It was an orchestra in the world. I said 80,000 tickets for a female. I'm convinced I was doing a concert at that time. I was actually doing that. I just want to wait to end this amazing journey. It's been an absolute dream. I started off as a career. It's really becoming a Olympic champion.

9:05I achieved that with these last 10 years. I'd be on the road while the stream was a bit... I didn't think this was even possible over the last 10 years. So it's been just a remarkable 10 years. That was actually not the correct one. We'll bring you the last 10 seconds one now in a little while. We'll just look at some of the back pages because she is all over them. She's also all over the front pages as well. This is the back of the Irish Times. Ocagean rises to Taylor as she nails her final act at Crow Park. That's from Malik Eclarekin. In the back of the endow here, Kiti mastered art of making things happen from the start. At the very end of her career, Conor McEwan and the Endow there. And Golden Gloves in the back of the examiner. Kiti Taylor earns the perfect farewell. So what's next? Looks like the movie business might be next for Kiti Taylor. By all accounts, we'll chat to Kevin Byrne after it a clock about that. But he asked the asked her, we were debating about this after he mentioned that there was a play coming up.

10:07A potential movie about Kiti Taylor. Yes. And we were debating who might play her and not. And Kiti Taylor herself said, it's there she's rolling. This is one of the shots on the show as well. So that would be an interesting one. She did say she would have to work on her neck a little bit because it's not quite the size of Kiti's just yet. You know what I heard last week? Sam Alladois is bringing out like a play about East Toyam as the England manager. When he was a very short tenure, he got stitched up and then he lost the job. Apparently he does a play coming out in the next two years about that time. And Sam Alladois is career big Sam the musical. Is he going to play himself? I'm not sure he's involved and obviously he's the one telling the story. But I'm not sure he's an actor. It was literally just a pass and Tengoy saying that that could be fairly interesting. That one. I'd say so. Yeah, I would say so. Never wanted to shine away from the limelight. So I'm not surprised that he's looking to get up onto the big stage.

11:07Plenty of comments coming in in the YouTube channel. Loads of people talking about the Arsenal Chelsea game yesterday. Plenty talking about Troy Pirates goal against Real Madrid as well. So keep them coming. We'll get to some of them. And while we're obviously going to finish today Kiti Taylor, performance rankings by putting her into the Aster. Oh Jesus, yeah. The most resounding entry into the Aster. I think of everything. Yes, the greenest of all greens. If we're to go back to the old performance rankings format yet, that's it's unanimous. Yeah, I feel like there's been so many words and phrases to be used to describe what this was. You know, to try and sum up what that nice meant to the Irish people and Tyler Sporch. It completely transcends Kiti herself and Boxen and even Sporch in this country. It's a journey that's lasted 20 plus years and maybe 15 years in the spotlight of Irish Sporch.

12:07And she's had to sell herself to the world of Sporch. She's had to sell herself as a boy to even get the chance to box in her local club. To sell the idea of women boxing at the Olympics and sell the idea of a female box and superstar being a thing. And even the headline and MSG as well with Serrano and having to sell that. And she had to sell the idea of a woman headlining the fighting croak park as well. And this was Kiti's Odyssey. This was her kind of journey back home. She's been around the world selling herself and she's made the trip back home. This was her masterpiece. This was the culmination of 20 plus years of extremely hard work and graft in an outside of the ring. And it's just an absolute privilege to be able to have seen this and to live through the whole thing. I was sent a picture actually by my auntie of me and my sister, Meaton, Kiti Taylor. Just after the Olympic gold medal in 2012, I think it was a 10 or 11 years old at the time. So I've been the perfect age to just watch this and experience it as a kid and as an adult her whole career.

13:11So we'll never see anything like her ever again. And it'll be too much pressure to suggest that anyone could follow in her footsteps in any sport in this country. And yeah, we just can't say enough nice things about her. I just hope she doesn't go away too fast. I'd like to see more of her. I know she's based in American now. So we may not hear from her too much, but I'd like to see her enter the media game or even like we say, help by making a movie of herself for a player or something. Yeah, she's just a special and we're so lucky to have her in our sport and as an ambassador for the country as well. Yeah, I think that's the headline in the Irish Times probably sums it up in that the occasion rose to Taylor. She was always going to rise to the occasion. I thought she was very composed. It has to be said coming in the ring. And she obviously picked the music herself. It was like a Bible sort of him that she obviously has a lot of deep meaning behind.

14:12And she was able to just like tune herself into the song as opposed to like getting caught up too much in the motion. So I thought she did really well in that aspect. So we'll touch on Katie Taylor a lot more throughout the show as well as some of the undercard as well. Because there's a mountain of stuff to talk about in terms of the undercard at this fight as well. But we'll move on to the primary action. No, Kyle straight into the comments this morning looking at Arsenal. They look like a side who could go on beaten in the league. So Arsenal ran out to one winners over Chelsea in the basketball manager, Jeremy. There was actually a promo before this game where they had Mick LR Teta, Chabbie Alonzo and Doni Eriola, who all come from the exact same club in the last region of Spain. And now they're all primary league managers. Mick LR Teta is now a primary league winning manager. And it looks like he's going to be a double primary league winning manager case after this performance. This was as dominant as you can be against a side that are your title challengers like in terms of it was almost like a mirror image of the Katie Taylor fight in that.

15:17Yeah, sure. Like Chelsea had a couple of good moments and they looked sharp at times and they caused damage at times. But really when it actually came to Arsenal were far classier than Chelsea in this. Yeah, I think Arsenal were much better team. It's just quite a lot of stuff that contradicts itself in my opinion in this one because all you would say that Arsenal were comfortable throughout the 90 minutes. But I would also say that Chelsea looked dangerous throughout the 90 minutes. And when Arsenal have the ball and their prodding and probing they always looked really dangerous on the counter attack. The front tree for Chelsea Rogers Pedro and Palma. But all in all, if at the end of the 90 minutes, if you said to you, Joe Pedro was fairly quiet. Palma was fairly quiet as was Morgan Rogers. I know he scores a goal Rogers in the 4.70 seconds, but after that, like I watched a goal go in and I thought that was a bit soft because it wasn't the most voracious rigs with David Roya can can't quite get there. And I thought that's the best star Chelsea could have hoped for.

16:18Not quite sure going to the going away to the champions, they get their noses in front. Arsenal's reaction was absolutely brilliant. Absolutely outstanding. They end up scarring a goal true. I think it was Call of the Arty nods a pokes one home and it gets this allowed because cons is off. So it's really sold no issue there. But Arsenal just went from strength to strength. I can't Lewis Kelly the way this lad takes the ball on that pressure. And he doesn't just take it on the pressure and pop it back to you. He gets it and turns and plays far. When I see him doing it, I look and go, why not more players do that? I think I know the possession base game is a big, big thing, but I love watching the center half get our center. I mean, feel I get on the half torn and play far would reach. Do you know what it reminds me of Lewis Kelly is? Do you know what people point to Kobe Manu's strength? I mean, he takes the ball on their pressure and he's able to shimmy and get away from pressure. Lewis Kelly can do that, but he's also far more physical than Kobe Manu as well. He's defensively solid and has a lot more pace than him.

17:18And he's not even a natural center midfielder. Yeah. I just think the way he was taken on the edge of his own boxing, when he four started to deal with it, he looked at them and thought, I don't want to see you doing that too much. But he started to wear it and the right way I'm looking at him thinking, okay, he hasn't lost it in a good amount of time. Now, maybe he can deal with this. I thought, I thought Older Guard was really, really good. I thought Techno Royce was good, but Older Guard's goal, have our goal. I just thought I asked him where the much, much better team. I thought Roya Conze, Skelly Zollis on the left wing had a tough game last week up against Matti Cash. I thought Matti Cash was brilliant against him, but he was really good. And that was a big show from Mick Aloythetic, because he killed of easily put an SAA out there, or tinkered with the formation, but he didn't. He stuck with Zollis. So, yeah, I taught Arsenal players where much better individually. I taught Arsenal where the better team. I was a little bit worried about not having to send that forward, but the intelligence of Havars is unbelievable.

18:19The way he leaves that ball for Older Guard, and I know when you're watching the telly, you can go, oh, leave it. But he's at pitch level, and does all sorts of stuff happen, and he's running his heart rate is raised. He's in the 18 yard box to see Older Guard and the pass happening, and just go, I leave this brilliant composure. And he will often drag defenders into places they don't want to be. And modern day football, you've got center halves that want to go into midfield to go and engage with people. Havars does that. You've just got a sack of rolling in after Roya wings. Zollis rolling in after left wing. I don't want to get too carried away. I do expect the Arsenal to win the league because I don't see Manchester City being a strongest man. I don't see Chelsea being a strongest Arsenal, but there's a long, long way to go when injuries and red cards. And you know, when he saw it there, bad luck, but Arsenal for me look again the most well-rounded team of everybody in the Premier League. Yeah, Tony, one goal considered now in the first three games, and they've done that three times. The last two times one was I think was 1924, but the previous time before that was the time they went on Veyton and the Premier League.

19:20So they've started really, really strong. What was most impressive about Arsenal is obviously Martin Older Guard gets man of the match, and he was brilliant throughout the game. But equally like Havarts could have got man of the match. David Raya was really commanding and just pulled off a couple of superb save, but also like winning the ball from crosses as well. They were just really strong throughout the entire game. In terms of Chelsea, they were decent. They looked like a side that have definitely improved on under Shabby Alonzo and will be right in the mix of second and third. But they brought in Emmy Martinez to be this goalkeeper who's going to change their faith that's going to be a little bit more solid. He doesn't cover himself in glory for Arsenal's first goal, which is disallowed. And then Kai Havarts who opens the scoring for Arsenal, like that goal shouldn't go in as a result of... If you're bringing in a goalkeeper who's supposed to be the player who's going to be solid, then you should be saving that.

20:26When you look at the replay, and again, it's not the most verosha strike in the world, so you probably have a little bit of a courier save, but I think it's Laquois. I think it goes through Laquois legs. The amount of times if you have a shot in a goal-streeted defender's legs, it always unsoids the goalkeeper. So it's not from when Havarts strikes the ball, it's from when it gets to the other side of Laquois legs that Martinez's reaction to him has cut down to. So we have a little bit of sympathy for him, and look, he's probably not the same goalkeeper at the World Cup a couple of years ago, but he's still better than Robert Sanchez. He's still a massive, massive upgrade in him, and for seven and a half million. I mean, you can't really be given out. Well, Lamens at Manchester, you know, I think I've caused 15 million. So half that fee for any Martinez, I think is wonderful business. He's much better than what they had. I don't think he's going to be a massive talk and point this season in terms of a negative. He's a big leader. He's got a big character. I think he will end up being a good son for Chelsea, but I think there's so many little talk and points within the game as well.

21:30I mean, Gabriel get me kick in the face, and it was like a little bit of a scuffling. To be honest, are you understand? And people are saying this is key to defend an Arsenal. When Gabriel is on the ground and the ball is there, you're trying to just kick the ball, obviously towards goal. And it's going to be a follow-through. And that's where Martinez gets kicked in the head. He doesn't go, you know, vocally trying to kick him in the face. I thought Carl Palmer could have been sent off. There was a yellow card that he should have got when he had a loose touch on the edge of the 18, Arsenal 18, Eric Boxle, Lewis Kelly wins it. He kicks it forward. He just kicks Trill. Like, it's not a bad tackle, but it's a tackle. He knows what he's doing. That's for me. He should have been a yellow. And then it was, I think it was Yaccares. Yaccares have archer running in behind. And he takes him down. He should be off here. I thought Palmer was really quiet. The Morgan Rogers reaction to Declan Royce clicking his heels. What's that all about? I didn't mind that now. I was not fair enough. I thought... And you really think he should have went to the ref with that, because he might have gotten a free kick out of it.

22:34If he went to the ref, he said, help your mistress. He's clicking me. That's no problem. But going to Declan Royce, how dare you tackle me? I'm running to the edge of the box to try and score a goal again. How dare you click on the heels? It was very cynical. There's a couple of things that he's been made. Just by the way. Just by the way. Just by the way. So Morgan Rogers reaction to me was like, what have you been so immature for? Declan Royce is trying to win the game, but I reckon he's not going to let you room off him. Of course, you're going to click your heels. And all you have to be in fear, like if Palmer then gives that to Morgan Rogers and he puts in the top corner, you're fuming with Declan Royce, and take him down. Why didn't you take him down? Because they play for England when I'm getting up there with that. I couldn't believe Morgan Rogers reaction. If you go to the ref, you go fair to know if he's in St. Louis, because it's Declan Royce, he's England teaming. Do you expect him not to tackle you? It is funny though that when you look at it from face value, if you just played that, played the tackle or played the, okay, like the moment of that happening to anybody, and you ask them, who got booked here? Your answer would be Declan Rice.

23:34Yeah, I don't get it. But it's Morgan Rogers that comes out with a book, and so I can see why he's annoyed on the other side of things. I completely agree with you in terms of Declan Riceling. I think that's a challenge Declan Rice does in May last season. But now he's a league-winning midfielder and knows what it takes, knows the fine margins. And like you're saying, knows if Morgan Rogers sticks this in the top corner here, I'm the one that's getting in trouble, so I'm just going to take a moment here. That's been able to smell danger, is a brilliant thing. And when Declan, when Rogers is just slightly ahead of Declan Royce, and Palmer has the ball on the left, he must be thinking, if that ball ends up in me, tell the ref you've held me. No. I couldn't believe his reaction. I understand he's over here, so I'm taking him out. And the ref doesn't say it. It's got nothing to do with Declan Rice. And like, I understand Rogers is like, I've got me here, it's clicked, this is L of order. Blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm just rolling off of Declan Rice going, what's he saying to him? You've failed me, tell the ref you've failed me. No. I couldn't believe his reaction. I understand he's infuriated because of the fell, but to go to Declan Royce given hell, what was he saying?

24:34What you doing, fell with me. Yeah. Do you want me to let you run off me? I love that cynical edge to say more players. I'm not the Arsenal manager, but to like, go all you would rather, more you midfielder be loiter than just let people run off to merely fairly. For sure. Dermakin is in the comments to say Arsenal can go undefeated after three games as a ridiculous comment to make. Come back with that after 23 games instead. People in the comments as well saying, Esseldonor who said totally agree, your chairman, but let them think they're invincible. And Carol Larry says, Lads, nobody is saying that by our end, a comma, comma. I don't recall me saying it. I think it was no call. No call. No call. Said it at the top of the show. And I mentioned the invincible is because this is the first time since the invincible that Arsenal have conceded one goal or fewer in the first three games. It's actually we were invincible in your order last year. We got beat on penalties but PSG. And 90 minutes. 90 minutes. Let's say that. All right.

25:34We'll wrap up the Arsenal chat here. Arsenal going in the ass here. Yeah. After another one, three, one, from three. I'm actually going to put Chelsea into the good tear here because I thought, you know, they were really decent. And let's get them to the game. Undefensively were stronger than they've been throughout the season so far. Playing against the best side that they've, yeah, I think it's brilliant. But to be fair, I think Chelsea moving forward, they'll be okay. They look really, really exoiting. But against Fulham, they taught the eight percent of the ball against Bloiton, they 26 percent of the ball. And yesterday against Arsenal, they only 46 Pedro Palma and Rogers. Going to be doing an awful lot of work without the ball. And there's only so long, damn players will stay interested with you. When you beat Fulham, no problem. When you beat Bloiton, they don't care about possession. But when you go away to Arsenal and see Ian Liverpool and they're having 65 percent of the ball. And your talented lads are doing nothing but running. And I think that's going to get difficult very, very quickly. And I think the Chelsea fans might get a little bit annoyed if it has to season wears on. All right. We'll finish off the performance rankings with the other game that happened yesterday.

26:36And that was evident too. Mania and I did too. Brian and Boehmel opened the scoring for Manchester United. Tariq George scored a scorcher of a goal down the right wing for Benjamin Sashko. It popped up with a header. And he thought he had won it until Inesley, Midland and Niles fired one in from the edge of the box. Michael Carrick said after the game that they haven't started the season bad. It's not that bad. We've got that close to coming away with three points again. That's football. So that's the second time now this season out of three games that Michael Carrick has come out and said that it's not that bad. So I don't know if that's a great way to start the season or start your permanent role as the Manchester United manager. And my United are considering two goals again at this stage. I never mentioned that they're on track to concede 76 goals this season. They're not going to concede 76 goals this season. But they conceded 50 last season. And they're already on track to concede more than that this season. The fans of Lee, they haven't added anything to their team. And again, no matter how much money they seem to spend on the midfield, for me, Manchester United

27:40looked like a team who just don't know how to control the game when they're in charge of it. Yeah, I think that I wouldn't say they're incapable of controlling games. But I think you give everything credit for that. They don't lay down and let you have it. They're a very dog a team. What do we think of Manchester United? A little bit all over the place. And to be honest, the start hasn't been that tough other start. They have more points on the board. The Champions League starts next week as well. I think they've got Sabah from Azerbaijan. So that would be a two-be an easy and tough game for them in terms of the Champions League standard. But the certain things they look at the Emboemogol is lovely. The force half was fairly nip and talk everything could have scored a head or true party. You know, it hit the cross by a true Fernandez. It was a good volley. The force half was largely forgettable. The Emboemogol was really nice. I mean, you know, the fans were saying to me it's a goal of the season contender. I'm not getting that carried away.

28:41It was lovely. You know, it fans down where I was. It's the kind of thing that I think is that I think is. It was nice. He goes between two players and just passes it into the corner. I know he's goal, but it won't be in the mix of a goal of the season coming in. Especially when you've got your gorgeous goal and a nightland-noil, just goal in this game as well. I was delighted for a parchecheco. Just got his header. He's had a real tough time at Manchester United. Maybe Jordan Pickford could have done better where I know he's white. He's gone one way and he doves the other. It's a difficult one. And look at the winning goal. You just feel like you're annoyed. Could they have a little bit more game management? Just see it out somehow. But the goal from the nightland-noils is a lovely finish. And every young player should watch this because it's so tempting. When that ball comes out to the edge of the box to just put your foot through a base as forced and wall up it as hard as you can. But he just passes it. He just thinks the right way. The angle I have here, if I pass, that's naturally going to start heading towards that top corner. Brilliant, brilliant goal. And somebody that I really like when he was at Arsenal,

29:43it seems like a million years ago now at this stage. But I hope a nightland-noils does really well. And he's off to a flora. And I listened to David Moyer's after the game. He's obviously disappointed with the transfer window losing the element of the game. The window losing the element of joy towards the end of the city. But what he underlined was everybody in this building will find a way to win games of football. And I thought, that's brilliant because so often managers will give you an excuse saying the transfer window hasn't been great. We're on the back four. He's alluded to that transfer window hasn't been great. Well, that's no excuse. We're still going to win games of football here. And I think Relish will be a really good long zone for the season as well. So, all in all, I think you know it has been on the wellman. You know it should know it's going to get an awful lot tougher with a game every three days when he rolling into the champions league football. So, it's going to have to get better from you know it is. Yeah, absolutely. And just to wrap up on the performance rankings with Manchester United. As Keith mentioned, the question marks of Manchester United this year were, can they do it when they've got multiple games of season?

30:43They're not doing it currently. They haven't even started with the multiple games this week. So, it is worrying science. The lack of depth within the United team is stark because of the subs that they're bringing on and the quality that once the quality comes after it, they don't have the quality to come on to the pitch. Yeah, like there's not that many primarily teams that you can say that have great depth right now. So, it's really something being as big an issue as it seems to be. But I saw someone in the comments there. I've lost who said it, but you know they pointed out a Dallow and Shaw were the full backs eight years ago and it is the case. Don't make that caric played with Shaw. Yeah. It's gonna be like I think Luke Shaw has had good periods. He's been unlucky with injuries and whatever else he's had going on after pitch as well at times. But you know, if you're looking at the team like Rani Nide who are probably at the start of the season saying, let's try and push for a tough four, tough five here. You can't be having Luke Shaw and Dioclet Dallow

31:45as your soul full backs and not really have any other options outside of him, maybe Dorgu coming off the bench. He's fine at the same time as well. Yeah, I just I don't know what's going on. I've been kind of disappointed with the midfield so far this season. I thought Telemens was a good sign and maybe overpaid a little bit for him at his edge. But I thought he's a quality player. He's proved himself in the Premier League. I haven't been overly impressed with him. I thought a couple of many has been very good at the last couple of games. He seems to be doing a lot of work. There's been times he's picking the ball up deep there. And he's begging someone to come and pick up the ball from him. And there's just there's very few options. If it's not Bruno Fernandez, no one's doing it. So yeah, I don't know. And like it's a good point that you bring up, and the biggest issue going into the season is seeing to be the amount of games they'd have to play. We haven't even got to that point yet. And they're already faltering. And that is already an issue. Yeah, Champions League's starting this week. It's going to be a tough season for a man you know, potentially.

32:47But look, it is early days at the same time. So you can't be getting too existential just yet. Can I try one out there for the United fans? When I was watching the game yesterday, there was a moment where Tarkovsky steps into midfield and him and Bruno Fernandez go in for the balance of ball. And it looks like Tarkovsky maybe just flicks him on the ankle. Not an overly aggressive, I think he's sock moiter, got caught Bruno Fernandez. And he stays on the ground, everything got on it on a counter attacking. The referee obviously gestures to Bruno Fernandez to get up and relooses it's an ankle injury, it's not head, it's not insidious. So he just always keep playing. Bruno Fernandez decides to stay on the ground. And while the camera is on him, you can see him looking up where's the play, what am I doing with a good up here? And for me, that's not captain behavior. And he's not hot end. He didn't go off on a stretcher. His ankle wasn't broke and he wasn't limp and heavily. He wants to decide to pitch, you've 60 seconds now to wait until he can come back on it. And as soon as the 60 seconds is up, sprint back into position, get up and help your team defend. And I know, you know, he defends love him to bits and he's a brilliant player.

33:47He get all that, but lying on the ground, trying to prove a point to the referee. I mean, even Harry McGuire gone to the referee saying, you should have stopped. Why? Why? Because his ankle is hot. Does not know. And he proved that when he got up and ran after the pitch after 60 seconds. The difference, the difference, keep between him and Declan Rice. Declan Rice takes a, I can't remember who talked to free kick. He takes a blow to that. He was fired, free kick at his face. He went down initially, got open, was like stumbling around the fence, but played out. I think that's why he really loves it. He's a team, I'm in a defensive position here and me, team need me. I'm not 100% but I'm getting open, I'm being a buddy. That, look at it. The difference. I know you know, he defends love. He keeps hoiling and asking, he's an astronaut fan, but that's a brilliant example. You want your captain to go, I don't care if I'm hot. I'm going to give everything for this team. On the ball, he's brilliant, but he doesn't give me enough of that grit and determination. And yes, okay, there's a bit of clarity coming about me, ankles, but I'm going to run around and do stuff here. I'm not sure where you know it. You're fans happy with that? Because it infuriated me watching it. Yeah. And let us know in the comments what you think of Bruno Fernandez as the Manchester United captain.

34:51We're putting Manchester United into the bottom tier of the performance rankings this week. And I think I have a feeling they might be there multiple times throughout the season as well. We didn't get to mention Troy Partt after his heroics against Real Madrid, but we will come back to that later on the show. It is 10 past eight here on Off the Ball Breakfast. That is your performance rankings for the week. Off the Ball Breakfast. With Viagra Connect, 50 milligram film-coded tablets, contains sildena filferadil, man with erectile dysfunction, maximum dosage, 150 milligram tablet per day. Always read the label. Buy online at ViagraConnect.ai, subject to suitability following Farms' consultation. The Off the Ball rugby Roach show is coming to your province. Armed with the biggest stars from Lenscher, Monster, Ulster and Connacht, we'll be traveling around the country to preview the 2026-2027 rugby season. Get your tickets while you still can on Off the Ball.com forward slash events.