E is for Euros – Etims Podcast with added Transcript

It’s a few weeks now since the Cup final, we’re into postseason, the usual holidays and weddings et cetera for some

players, and the

are due to start in a couple of days and there’s quite a bit of

involvement.

So some of you who may follow us on Twitter may be aware of Hector’s

holiday tweets. Hector. Did you enjoy the Cup final? Because you were looking forward to going to local hero land and hoping to find a CIC pub as far as the name.

It’s blah, blah, blah. The name, I think it’s called the

, the

bar. It’s the tail and bar. I said, what’s it like in regards punt or split? And he went, oh, probably 5050. I was like, oh fuck. Right. Ok. 5050. He goes, but don’t worry, he goes up to you. He goes, we’re all mates. We all go on the end of the match.

Yes. Nothing happened. Tumble we can by whatever the pub was busy and it was really interesting. So the pub was actually a nice pub, but in terms of just seeing a group of people there with CIC Tops on different vintage ones, you know, like the Retro

right now, guys with

tops, then groups of them all together watching the game.

Right. So some of us from the likes of

might, you know, might seem a bit strange but that’s how it was and you can clearly see they’re all pals anyway. First half was shite nothing happening and they scored, didn’t they? And then half the pub is kind of, yeah. But then you see

complaining. So then we’re all going.

And we are. So then a couple of pints, you know, it’s like two or three pints and then there’s other people you start talking to one or two and there’s a few folk folk up from

as well.

You right? Would you want a beer? And they did? So it was one way one. It was great but two, it was never an experience. So the

, the

bar in

folks well worth a wee visit. If you’re up there, it’s right at the end of the train line so you can miss it.

Nearly fucking jumped through

when they scored, but it was one of them weird games again. I think on our WhatsApp, we were talking about them just dragging us down to their level and trying to beat us with experience.

I feel it’s just something that just keeps rolling around in my head the way that Rogers kind of kept talking about

style of football and then it all kind of came to a fucking head in the Cup final. They really, you can expect more of the same, I think next season, but I loved it.

Kind of typical

would win a Cup and a double, you know, last minute winner. And for Ida, I think just phenomenal for him as an individual to be able to, to have done that. And who knows? Maybe we’ll, maybe we’ll get him permanently to.

Does he, can I ask you a question so I can ask you to a question just so I can all forget the Cup final. So we, we’ve won, right? So it’s come from a point of we’ve won the game, but the point stands in my head. The

pitch is that the slowest pitch in professional football.

I know it the week it had been raining during the week before and apparently they never bothered watering it, that kind of idea, but that it’s definitely, I, I don’t know if the grass was long, but it looks terrible and

been questionable for quite a while now considering the number of games that’s on it, it’s shocking and then the

had to play their Cup final the next day, the following day afterwards.

I mean, so God knows what it was like for them. The

and the hearts.

Yeah, by the end of the Cup final day because we talked about before we came on, we lot what we talk about, but it was just to highlight the fact that a Hector’s

experience and it is always nice when you’re in. Always nice to win when you’re in a strange pub and you don’t win. It’s a bit weird. You always feel as though you’re creeping towards the exit.

You know what I mean? Just try to try to get out of the door before somebody says something that either annoys you or makes you turn round. But, I, I just, I had a lovely day and Sonny Kings part sitting at the back and then again, it’s all like the suicide is that it be able to sell it. And so it’s just all

fans and everybody, I mean.

See where you see to see where you stay. Right? Obviously, II, I know we stay in the

end of h it’s literally just from the one from you, right. So did you watch the full game in your back garden?

I had my

, I, I’ve got a wee bit, I can put the

in the back garden.

So that was a double Brendan delivered a double, was it what you were expecting one to be happy? And I know happy is a silly one. But given the way the season had went, any reflections on the actual season as a whole, now that we’ve wrapped up the double, we’d secured

the whole 40 million blah, blah, blah. Looking forward a little bit of looking back before we look forward.

Definitely interesting. You quote

, the power of

because let us not remember the famous head to head against

and we prepare for life in the slow lane. So, oh all things must pass, man.

So when the horrific events obviously took place in

and

supporters, as everyone knows, they have been majority of

fans have been quite strong in their support of people in

and via even flags, games are going to some of the marches in various cities across the land.

It’s when

,

, I just thought you’re fucking kidding me. I mean, and, and, but only our board I think could, could cause such division when it was unity that was needed.

And doing that remarkably coincided with being absolutely horrific in terms of drawing at home to

, losing weight to

, then losing home hearts to nothing, you know,

there. I mean,

weren’t there and the boys should other who set the opposite corner, they went out with them, they refused to attend in support of them.

You jumped to ship the last time, right? And he came back, all reserved, fairly quiet, well within himself. And it wasn’t until

when John beaten, intervened when he came out to Ben. And I think that was the point.

I think when, when, when

became Brendan was just after that, just after that game, I’d be interesting to see your results after that game. I think we went undefeated to the end until the end of the season and maybe only drew one, maybe two games.

I’ll go and double check that they became Brendan and, and, and the Brandon the fucking, as you see all the layers that came out four weeks before the end of the season, it was showing me las, I wasn’t

come alive and you know, we’ve laughed and you can visualize Brandon all week in these big fucking castle m dog park and his message, right?

The removal of

, I think was in February after windows had closed. And another one of the scouts that was a significant, a significant change. And I think Rogers is now fully in control. I don’t mean in a daft sense that, you know, but in terms of controlling who the scouts are controlling the ps of players and the budgetary element of it as well.

And, and then as you are talking also, all I can, all I can picture is if anyone follows us on

, you’ll, you’ll have seen me basically highlighting that everyone should follow the big Dumb film, the big Dumb movie show and

and

, it is brilliant, but all I can picture there as you were talking, there was Indiana Brendan Rodgers is

facing Clermont with a sword and Brendan just pulls out the gun.

And even now

are putting out we videos and shots of him in the gym here is preparing for next season. No, as if that’s a thing as if, whereas Bend and Rodgers is at his villa in

, checking his emails now and again, exactly. He’s put it like smoking cigars and drinking cocktails, maybe checking these emails in the morning just to check to see anything happening with these kind of endeavors.

But let’s be honest, turns out we’re not gonna sign anybody significant until after the

. It’s one of the, it’s one of the summers. So, and

have already signed three superstars. You know what I mean?

And like, interestingly when you, when you hear people like Matt Matt o’reilly and

speaking, now they, they talk about how it was Rogers who was basically talking them through, you know, like the last 12 weeks of the season, coon even coon came in, I know not even your star players like o’reilly mcgregor’s, your star players coon who was indifferent at best even.

And he came out and said that three each game when we saw

celebrating and acting as if they won the league. That’s when we suddenly stepped up. You know what I mean? Like that whole, he’s quite a lot. Let’s walk away. We were just, they were talking in the pitch and Hector alluded to. So then it was just a Steamroller performance right to the end, get it in the bag and then laugh and then have a week off.

I mean, like cat, Carter Vickers and

and

celebrating the week before the week before the Cup final. I’m surprised they were, they were sober come the Cup final, judging by that. I mean, like, but that sort of attitude of going jobs, done, big jobs done.

We weren’t like, even at the Cup final. I said we’re desperate to win it, but we weren’t that. I mean, it wasn’t a do or die well for

. It probably because someone who has to go to

for his first Celtic Rangers game this season and the pressures on him.

Rogers will just be checking his time for his

holidays. You know what I mean? So it’s a, I think we’re in a good position to be. But Hector, as you mentioned, we can have another transfer window like that because this is your talking. I was looking through my shock of the season I’d written down was Mark WWE getting the sack.

I’ve actually forgot about the full name and I thought I went, oh, that’s right because he came, played two games well and then just died again. I mean that was the story of the wingers, Bar James Forrest. But the most interesting thing about James Forrest, I know just going through the games the day he scored in the first game of the season.

.

I think part of it too is back to the coaching that he’d maybe get at

and that bit of confidence. And let’s be honest, probably in half of the games, maybe a lesser standard that he had to put up against in the championship. So he has an opportunity to score, he has an opportunity to be, you know, kind of idolized support.

I mean, that was, I mean, he did right, held the ball up, scored the goals for every ball. No, that way he, none of none of the prima donna nonsense this year. None of the, let’s say other players well known coming from Norries to

football who believe it’s just a case of putting on your

posts, you know, none of that, you know what I mean?

Lines in Jack is a really, I’m looking at somebody else here, so I must be looking at an old one then. Sorry. I just, I just type in

brings quotes from

. That’s fine.

Yeah, but there’s been a few, there’s been quite a, quite a big shake up, isn’t there? There’s been quite a few come in recently. And even Johnny Hayes has been the assistant, I think to

. Now that me O day, Dan O’Dea has been moved into transition manager to try.

Sadly not. I’ll give you a clue. None of them are Johnny Hayes.

sing 1st 1st? Ok. Ok. Which player un furrowed the league flag last season?

J what player,

, correct.

Ok. Hector James Brown. James Brown. Nice, nice. Hey, he, I’m watching a video and I’ve got Hector in a second delay. So it’s quite weird that he’s let me just kind of hide his face. Right. Hector, we’re back to you who scored in

first game and also in the last game of the season.

Palmer. Correct. Well done with nice. There’s a bonus still there. Right. Monty. Over to you. What is the connection between these clubs? Saint Johnson?

. Motherwell Karno. What’s the connection in respect to last season without bus fares? Sorry, hs without bus fares? No, sorry, I’ll have to go. I can go to, I can go to Hector or I can give you another chance.

Ok. If I was to tell you the next in the sequence would be two, would that help

? And then if you add it in the

final, it would be one.

I think it wasn’t

, was it?

Yes, correct. Both teams start with a and this also includes

.

I didn’t score six goals in

.

Hector and I, this is just a and that’s all games

as well.

That also includes the

free free

semi final.

Yeah, against

.

Well done, well done. The big Canadian at home, scored against and we only won like, I guess a few games. We, we scored the first minute against

and won one nil. So that’s one of the games you’ve just blanked right out of your head, you know that way as a no No.

99 against

. Who was it? Anybody remember who it was? Oh, well done. Well done, Hector. Oh, it was. Yeah, that’s see, that game. I think it was three goals in the last five minutes and three.

But as we segue into the

, I think we c it’s not any transfer news at all, at the moment. So there’s nothing really to worry about Hector. You’ve already alluded to this I saw on Twitter et cetera. Why is 12? Why is a ratio of 12 to 3 significant when it comes to players at the

?

This is us going from

into the

. So that’s a kind of clue why is a ratio of 12 to 3 significant when it comes to players at the

?

Oh

players players have played for?

So

was just, there’s, there’s four isn’t, there’s calm, there’s Ralston, there’s

and there’s

who are in the squad. You’ve got Kieran Tierney that used to be with us.

used to be with us the six Stuart Armstrong Ryan Christie

. Does he count?

I don’t know. Right. Right. Ok. It’s a weird one because you don’t really think, I don’t really think of him as a

player. That sounds daft from there’s no players who’s the other ones must be Scandinavians.

No, no, there’s one, there’s one that had a famous

song and then he left to go to

.

You alcohol, it goes with the cocktail. You got cracking, you know. Do you know that you get fire? M So yeah, so that’s that. So we’re at the

now. Expectations wise, Hector, any expectations are you this glad that we’re at the party?

And the only frustrating thing I think the boy,

is a tremendous player, a big miss for us right back. The boy is an absolute quality player and we seem to lack a bit upfront as well. So we midfield, I think outstanding group of midfield players. I’ve got, we’ve got 2000 left backs which is great.

G Adams is kind of on his own up front there. We like a wee bit but I think we can, we get through. Yes, I think we can. And I think

as a very good coach at setting up a team as he’s showing maybe not the most exciting football, but you can make it really hard to beat. And I also think you’re going in a counter attack. So I think we can do it. I’m going to go for Scotland to get 444 points.

We’re gonna draw with the

and Pump The Huns in the last game.

Not bad. Bulgaria Montenegro, Turkey, what it looks like

? So Monte recently played

. I know it was just a warm up game. But did you see anything from Hungary that you think I are not that good or maybe they are better than they appeared against

either, I think, scored against them.

There’s definitely a sea change, I think in terms of certainly

supporters. Now, the younger generation who I think are far more in favor of the national team compared to when we were young guys. We were late teens, I think, and it’s, I think it’s a good thing to see.

I think there’s a lot of them, maybe the games that they’re away to Germany just now. So I, I think it’s something that’s really good to see a generational thing. And, well, there’s far more

fans, there’s a lot less on the other side that don’t go anymore. So it’s just, it’s incredible how the last dynamic the last 20 years is, is sort of changed if that makes sense. Yeah.

So people always did view the

team as a

kind of select. I know that kind of idea. And as you say, but now with the whole unionism and kind of the way things have evolved, like you’ve got all these people posting videos about how I won’t be supporting Scotland. I will be supporting England, blah, blah. I hate the

not the day with football.

They just putting up these unionist videos idea. And again, as you say, people are buying into it, like I get like I was on the train today and there was loads of folk clearly going to

, a couple of folk with their

and their

stops seeing quite a lot of folk going through Central Station tonight.

A couple of young kids, a game with Scotland tops on. I mean, so it’s really nice to see. But again, it was always weird for me because I’m, as you see, I’m literally five minutes from

. I was brought in Tory Glen, which is right next to

. So we’d always went to

because it used to be we get a lift into Scotland Games.

So, but we and I used to go, I used to go and live with my family down in

during the summer holidays. So he had that wee rivalry might go home, the home internationals and stuff. So that was, that was always good. And I was always kind of quite proud and glad to support the Scottish team. So I never understood that as I got older.

It’s good. I generally hope they do well for

players there and essential.

Yeah. Yeah, I will be surprised. I will be surprised. Right. So, I’ve got a few quiz questions. I’ll just keep flinging them in as we go along. Monty. I’ll start with you. Right. S stands for Scotland. What s links?

and Bobby Leonards.

You can give you the finals. No qualifiers, the finals,

you’re all done with, do you know the City Stockholm Gothenburg? But Chloe well done, well done. So and again, this is a bit, this is a bit kind of favor towards you. I, I can only apologize that is never made it, Monty, I would have gave you questions.

That one in

did we, we played

in 96 didn’t we? They hosted it in Euro 96. It was two. This one’s three, the last one was 44.

Order these players by youngest to oldest right, Shay Adams,

Jack Henry Lawrence Shankland. Who do you think is the youngest? Who are Shay Adams?

Laurence Shankland, Adams I think is the youngest who, who would be the next youngest Christy Henry Shankland.

Right? Ok. Right. Here’s a good one for you then. Hector, which Manger took Scotland to its first

.

So we go to the World Cup in 1990 didn’t we in it? And that was Roxburgh? So it’s either Roxburgh or

.

He who is in

? Ok. Your options were

,

,

. And the answer was Monty,

,

. So so well done. Unlucky. You are you are you are settling the edge there? Unlucky Hector.

What was officially named

? Un Ifo Ria Unifor at the last

, the anthem, the ball, the mascot

.

I do have a music round that I’ll add on to the end of today’s podcast that everybody can play and hopefully, I guess the answers. But while we’re, while we’re here, the

is Monte. What’s your prediction? What do you think is football coming home yet again? Even though it’s a different tournament altogether.

Combined with, they’ve got really strong midfielders and they’re not the tiny

diving team that they’ve always been kind of, they always struggle with that sort of stupid fucking thing like that guy Silva. I think Portugal are the strongest a ways although the French are hard to look past, but I’m going to go with Portugal.

Spain are like the top, the top ranked team in

. They won the Nations League. A remember

get demoted. So, like, not like me, things like this go under the radar. You don’t even notice like even silly things like Hungary unbeaten.

are interesting because England’s midfield and attack are outstanding. Absolutely lights out brilliant. But the problem is they’re keeping a set of halves and the manager is a bit risk averse. I think he’s a good guy. He comes across a really good, good guy, a good man Southgate, but he’s quite risk averse.

You know, that sort of thing? And like looking at their midfielder

Arnold

, who I who I still believe is getting set up to be the scapegoat and again, I think they get beat Iceland and all every, every paper went with a picture of that.

I think it was Saka even though we don’t pitch for 20 minutes. No, these sort of things.

, Kobe Mayo

. Adam Wharton. I don’t even know Adam Wharton. Is, is he a star at Crystal Palace? Apologies for anyone who’s listening here.

Lots of wee injuries, that kind of thing.

.

could be the next Harry macguire, but to be fair,

having the balls to drop mcguire. That was a surprise to me. I thought he would have went and then Luke Shaw, they, they think he’s going to play a right back, playing left back or whatever it is. So, it’ll be interesting.

I, I have my money is on

, but I think they’ve, they’ve already had a bust up. They’ve already had a big fight in their training ground. So that didn’t. And apparently a lot of players and a lot of

media are annoyed that he’s gone with no, your goal because apparently they wanted the

keeper.

So the good chances of that will blow up is that, is that because they’re factored in when, when they’ve now factored in that

is playing for Scotland a little bit of the fear in the

that the

Factor, you know what I mean?

Oh, that, that’s the, that’s the caveat and even if they get good in their penalty. So that would be lovely. But interesting too. I know we don’t want to talk about England, but, 10 Hagg had just been confirmed as the

manager for next season. So the rumors are going for Southgate is now out the window.

So does Southgate then play it safe and no chance anything. This, so he has a unlucky exit in the quarters of the semis, but it’s another four year deal just to roll on as England manager because everyone assumed he was maybe gonna jump the ship after this and take a nice job like the

job. You know what I mean?

You’d be pleased to know that one of the priorities with the

board is to get new boardroom seats.

So they, they, they getting put in, they’re getting put in in advance of next season. So, so that whoever’s there, the great and the good will be even comfier. Second thing is there’s new dress rooms being built at

over the summer months. So I don’t know where I fucking build them, but apparently they are. And last, but not least as a big man Ryan Ryan for the

, yes.

Is, is going in and it’s going in for the specific game against the zombies. So obviously, one of the things about allowing the away fans back in is that was it 2.5 1000 or 3000, they’re putting up the relevant infrastructure with the

. So we play them, it, it, it, it stops them throwing photographs of

when they come to.

And if he could get us to that over the next two years, he can’t really take the club any further. But with the priority being Champions League and playing these extra games in

, it might fulfill him, he might stay, but I can’t see him leaving. Does he certainly not before the end of his three.

And then by that time, two years down the line, two summers, it might be ready for him to take the England job because he was always touted as on the

s top of the

list before Southgate got it. So I could see him being being right in front of the cameras for

.

So that would be and then, and then the door opens really nicely for to come back for two years, three years ago in this madness, isn’t he with them over the next 10 years by then, by then, it’ll be

time because he’ll have done a couple of years at

.

So I’m looking forward to catching up with the Washington CS C and the Philly Boys and

, Fenian Boys. There’s quite a lot of folk congregating in

. So if anyone’s listening, hopefully I’ll catch up with you there.

And then we’ve got the preseason games to look forward to and then we can really look forward to the season as it kicks in as we head towards August. All right. So I am going to leave tonight’s

special with a quiz and basically give you a clue, the answers all roll up into, the, the word mbappe songs, right? So it’s 11 songs, just take the initials and it should spell out mbappe songs, right? So that’s that.

So good luck with that. I wouldn’t give you the answers. It should be quite straightforward. It should be fairly easy. They’re all related a little bit to

or the

. So it should be straightforward. All right, folks. Thanks very much for listening. It’s just left for me to say thank you to Hector Bandido. Thank you, Hector A Dessie.

We’ll be back before the end of July Stroke near August. But everyone have a great summer. I really enjoy, hope everyone enjoys the

. Its best of luck to all the

related players. And we look forward to coming back next season. All right, folks. My name is Mon.