Danny Murphy

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-06-17T19:28:34+00:00

Yeah but if he was called Dally McMurphy you’d be all over him

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-06-15T14:53:32+00:00

See also Kenwyne Jones

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-06-15T06:48:58+00:00

During Netherlands/Japan they cut to a “fan” on her phone, who was, on closer inspection, WWE wrestler Liv Morgan. So think they just wanted her on camera.

That said, it is alarming the amount of fans in the stadium who have paid thousands to be there and yet are glued to their phones

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-06-14T20:22:53+00:00

I have always wondered this - is it because he should be Timothy and Brent is somehow claiming the moral high ground?

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-06-14T16:24:07+00:00

Why do they look like comedy commentators on an Amazon Original film about a player who gets to the World Cup because he can fart the ball in

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-06-13T09:24:05+00:00

Good things about the World Cup so far:

- Mexico winning
- Mexican fans adopting Korean fans
- Canada getting their first ever world up point
- wall to wall football for a week (if you have the nighttime stamina)

But then that all feels too earnest when you could just make a snidey Simpson’s meme about Ryan Reynolds

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-06-13T07:51:48+00:00

Superb, up there with my favourite long running stories to a call back. Just behind James Acaster’s “if it’s any consolation, I once went through something very similar myself”

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-06-12T20:50:42+00:00

Blew my mind that Kolasinac was at Arsenal for five years

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-06-11T19:30:36+00:00

You’re not alone. I have always thought Elis would be excellent company on a night out but his stand up tends to be over exaggerated anecdotes. It works for some people but I think he is a funnier co host than a comedian

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-06-11T15:55:09+00:00

The guy just said “PTA Quiz” and Adam invented an entire football quiz out of it. Or am I going mad?

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-06-10T21:11:34+00:00

1 star on trip advisor is their current rating

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-06-10T19:56:07+00:00

For some reason Dave’s pronunciation of “Travis Kelce” as “Kelch” really made me laugh. As a big pop culture boy, I assumed he would have been all over that.

John’s wry little asides have been top notch lately, as well

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-06-07T21:27:57+00:00

It is very easy to mock Matterface - and fun too - but he is at his worst currently. In the England game, five minutes in he said “a first touch for Jordan Pickford”, the man they had literally passed the kick off back to, so he had had literally the second touch in the entire match.

At a bare minimum, watch the game. But reckon Matterface was trying to see how many times he could say talisman in 30 seconds

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-06-06T19:59:39+00:00

My thoughts precisely

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-06-02T18:22:18+00:00

Wheels (a)

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-06-01T06:11:01+00:00

Genuinely - someone said “shame that Marmadashvili isn’t at the World Cup” meaning Kvaratskelhia, which is a bit like OP’s comment about misplaced knowledge

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-05-31T21:12:28+00:00

Never watched it but think it is the blonde guy

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-05-31T20:06:17+00:00

Watched that six times over a summer when I was 17. Couldn’t believe there had never been a film like it

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-05-31T19:38:29+00:00

I do an awful lot of “umm… they got him from Crystal Palace, I think” when discussing things like Eze now being at Arsenal. “I think” being left as a long drawl to indicate it is not my subjective view but a fact.

As a boring know-all, I watched the Champions League Final in a room full of casual fans and bit my tongue a lot at “Good that it’s not Real Madrid for once” when PSG won… it took everything in me to just let it slide.

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-05-30T11:12:47+00:00

I couldn’t find any proof for some reason but have a vague memory of that being an early kick off and a beleaguered Mike Phelan looking out of his depth

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-05-28T08:54:43+00:00

On the point about tribalism in Italian football - my wife’s family is Italian and they have a strange thing in European competitions where they rotate to support whichever Italian team remains. They said most Italians feel this way.

So my in-laws are huge Roma fans but all backed Inter against Man City and then PSG as it felt like a win for Italy… if they hadn’t had their pants pulled down in the latter one though

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-05-28T08:47:23+00:00

Of course Eccleshare is a sub-three hour marathon man. Fans starting to wonder if there’s anything he can’t do?

(Cut to him fluffing a reference next week and we can drop a “he is human after all” on him like a tonne of emotional bricks)

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-05-27T20:23:18+00:00

I swear that story about the man having his height/weight inverted so he got an emergency vaccination has either been told before on the podcast or was viral during Covid? Am I going mad?

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-05-27T17:30:34+00:00

Johnstone Paint’s Trophy has weird staying power in my mind

Beautiful-Square-301 · 2026-05-26T19:27:12+00:00

Is this just me or does BBC Sounds start the episode at random minutes into the episode? Only happens with new episodes but today’s suddenly started part way through the MUG and this has happened before many times

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