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2:03home of the higher seed. And then the winners of those will play teams three and four in two-legged semi-finals before a final at Wembley. I really like this. I think it's a great decision, and I very much hope that we get to see this also done for League One and League Two. Half-pospons the women's Afcon, just 12 days before it was set to kick off in Morocco. It's been rescheduled to July due to unforeseen circumstances. Those unforeseen circumstances be a bombing campaign that's illegally taken place by two entities, maybe, maybe, yeah. Why is Delhi Ali training at Tottenham? I assume he's hoping to get fit and find a new club, and Tottenham have been gracious
3:07enough as the club where he made his name to bring him back and allow him to train there. It's great to see because he did great things for the club. How old firm Copti could provide premiership momentum? So, yeah, Rangers and Celtic meet this weekend in the Scottish Cup Quarter Final. Obviously, they played at a two-two draw in the League last weekend. Both are in the mix for the title this year, though for this moment in time, it's very much cards who are in the driver's seat, so we will see how that plays out. Iran, previously silent, Iran players sing and salute their national anthem. So the women's Asian Copt is going on at the moment.
4:08The Iranians played their first game, I believe, against Australia, and no, their first game was Monday against South Korea. This is their second game. The players had stood still, hadn't done anything, just stood there real silent, real, obviously concerned about what's going on at home. At this time, they sang the national anthem and they saluted the national anthem, which was quite a powerful moment. How relegation could cost Spurs $250 million, wow. So obviously, TV revenue is a huge part of that. Their matchday revenue would be hit hugely because you're not charging an average of 76
5:14quid per person in the championship. So you'd likely lose all your Champions League money for starters. So you're getting that this year, that's 71 million, but that's not something that's affected it normally. Your broadcast revenue would go from $128 million to $45 million, which is a parachute payment, which you only get two of them and then they run out. Your matchday revenue, they are estimating, it would drop from $130 million to $79. I wouldn't be surprised if it went further. Your commercial revenue would drop from $279 to $224, again, I think that's being conservative. We also don't know what language is in any of those commercial deals and how much of
6:15anything is predicated on being in the Premier League. So yeah, I mean, not ideal, not ideal. They can't afford to go down, simple as that. They cannot afford to go down. Our big game players keeping Celtic in the title hunt, yes, absolutely there. A Real Sociedad beat Athletic Club to reach the Copa Del Rey final, a Mikael O'Yarris about penalty, giving Sociedad a 1-0 win on the night, 2-0 win on aggregate. And now they will play Athletico Madrid in the final. So Athletico will be favorites, I think, to win that, but Sociedad I haven't recently. So we'll see how it goes. Pap Guardiola's Manchester City have blinked first in the Premier League title run in and Pap says he doesn't point fingers.
7:17Well, they didn't so much blink first, it should get tonight a Stonewall penalty, but yeah, they did blink because they were ahead twice and obviously gave it up. Really good profile on the BBC website, on Kim Helberg, who is the Middlesbrough head coach, who has just been so impressive since taking over from Rob Edwards in what wasn't the easiest of circumstances. He did tremendous work with Hammurby before joining and yeah, he's gone from strength to strength with Middlesbrough, so fair play to him. Give that piece a read. Garrett Bale is on the most recent episode of The Overlap and he said that a back injury apparently is what ended his career. Probably shouldn't have been playing so much golf then, because that puts quite a lot of torque through your back. I tore a disc in my back when I was, I don't think you can tear a disc, I just don't think
8:23you can. He said he played his whole career with it. A lot of calf injuries which are due to my back. Yeah, if you tore a disc in your back, you're not getting out of bed. To be honest, you're certainly not sprinting and obviously, he says then, the Spanish joins were unaware of this back issue. I mean, it sounds like it's kind of making some excuses here. Ultimately, if you'd had that back issue, one of the clubs you played for would have had it repaired, simple as that. Ghana to ho, Wales to holds Ghana in historic World Cup warm-up, okay, fair enough. Ending else, injured canes, ever-present league record and Harry came with his first
9:30game of the season, first Bundesliga game of the season of this game, because he's injured, fair enough. Only one team tried to play, yeah, herselier came out last night after that bright and Arsenal game and he properly ripped into everybody. He didn't name names, but he made it very clear here we was talking about, including that carrot with the Lego head. I'm going to go break and we'll be back after this. America leads the world in medicine development. It matters. We get new medicines first, nearly three years faster. Five million Americans go to work because we make medicines here at home and not relying on other countries keeps us safe, but China is racing to overtake us. Will we let them or will we choose to stay ahead? When America leads, America cures. Let's tell Washington to keep us in the lead. Learn how at americacures.com, paid for by Farma. Spring is here, and the shopping list is long. Time to make a lows run. Buy three bags, get three free, stay green, one cubic foot garden soil.
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11:33And Doni Iroola is contemplating signing a new contract, despite interest from Crystal Palace and Tartnum. I wouldn't blame him quite frankly. I wouldn't blame him. Elliot Lee is back training at Tartnum. We've had that Crystal Palace have added Thomas Frank, their list of potential managers. That's a fit I could see working very well. Rail Madrid are considering replacing Alvaro Arbolo with Max Allegri for next season. That would be very rail Madrid, to be honest. Arsenal Liverpool and Manchester United are weighing up a move for Kevin Turam in the summer. Really like Kevin Turam. I don't want him at Liverpool, the others are welcome to him. Did want him. Did want him. Better player than the soft fellow, but just not the type midfielder midfielder we need now. Antoine Griesman faced the decision of whether to stay at Atlético or join Orlando City.
12:36At this point, it's time to go to Orlando City. Bayern Munich are considering a move for Victor Ossmann as they look to prepare for Harry Kane's eventual departure. I just assumed Harry Kane would be signing a new contract. I still assume that's the case. Arby Leipzig will want 70 million if they sell Jan Diamonday, whose link to Liverpool and Manchester United. Liverpool have switched their attention to Diamonday is going to not believe they'll be able to sign Michael Olese. No, they won't vote. Will eventually claim 2 million from Kerr McEenan's, Kerr McNeenan's, Kerr McNeenan, whose birth to join Manchester City is a 16-year-old Scottish under 17 international. He plays in midfield and he has signed a pre-contract to join City. It's a fair play to him. That's me. I will see you all tomorrow. Have yourselves a great day. Enjoy the rain, because if I have to, everybody has to, bye-bye.
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