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Good evening and a very warm welcome to our Champions League post-match show.
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Good evening and a very warm welcome to our Champions League post-match show.
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It is so good to have you with us tonight, K-Dab.
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K...
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Oh, my God!
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Sorry.
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Oh, my God.
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Sorry, Malik.
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You've been really good tonight as well.
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What happened there?
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You had to leave me front.
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That was released in your Fox one.
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Kate Scott.
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Thierry Henry, Jamie Carragher, Micah Richards.
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Good to see you, everybody.
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We are going to do a segment about breast.
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Unfortunately, we do feel that you have consistently proven that you can't...
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Stay professional in these segments where we're talking about breasts.
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So we would just production would like to ask you Are you comfortable with just staying silent whilst we come on?
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Okay, I can do this.
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No, we we really think it's the best Not a word just silence a one visible no laughs,
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you know, is that okay?
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Can we agree? Can we agree?
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You can't trust me?
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No, we can't The experience has taught us not to trust you in this area.
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Trust me.
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I'm sorry No, if you could just agree and we can move on with the segment, please.
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Thanks very much.
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Alright, so after four games, who here likes breast?
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I like breast.
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You do too?
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I like the shape of them.
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Uh-huh.
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Yeah.
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No, I do.
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I mean, you look at the set-up from the manager he's got, you know.
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He's got a front two tonight.
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Yeah, two big...
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big...
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...pair up front that are going to try to...
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..trouble...
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Just wear a coffee chiller.
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I'm interested, how much do you enjoy watching them?
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Would you pay to watch them?
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I have to.
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Basically, one thing that you can say is,
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you don't have to be big,
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you can be small and compete.
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That's interesting.
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Good.
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Do you think Brest could get exposed tonight?
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I hope so.
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I guess one of the things you have to wonder is...
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What is this nonsense?
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HR!
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Wow!
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What do you reckon, Mikey?
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Do you think Barcelona could come a bit quickly for Brest tonight?
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Fuck.
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Whoa, I think it might have crossed the line.
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I'm not...
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You're trying to get me sacked!
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I'm taking the fifth.
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I get to spend my Valentine's Day with three great romantics.
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Mr. Vavavoom Thierry Henry, the man who loves his wife so much that he had to propose twice,
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Jamie Carragher, and ladies' love, Micah Richards.
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Ooh!
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Happy Valentine's Day, family.
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How are we?
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And to you, too.
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We're so good, thank you so much.
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Have you got a card yet?
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I didn't get a card.
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Malik do better.
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I got roses.
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Ooh!
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Malik's doing just fine, everybody.
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What did you give your special somebody?
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I've not had time to.
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I was in Vegas and I come back,
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and it's not quite worked out for me yet.
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He's always a little bit about...
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Shifty, isn't he?
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He's one of mystery.
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That's the kind of team we are.
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We can enjoy ourselves.
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Are we the type of team who will be invited to your wedding?
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Oh, here we go.
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Oh, you did it!
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I was looking when this would come up.
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Do you not want the invite?
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Just like that.
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Can you get a body, Kate?
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Whoa!
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Well, Malik wants to marry me,
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I can tell you that.
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Can you blame the man?
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Come on, now.
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This has been a night for the ages.
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At 16 years, 223 days old,
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Barcelona's Yamin Lamal became the youngest player to start a knockout round game in the Champions League.
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At 40 years, 360 days,
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60 days, Porto's Pepe became the oldest.
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Lamar was born in 2007,
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and that got our research team thinking,
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well, what were our guys doing in 2007 in July?
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And this is what Toddy and the team have come up with.
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Let me tell you, Thierry left Arsenal to join Barcelona in summer 2007 transfer window.
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Jamie coming off 2006-2007 season,
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when he was named Liverpool Player of the Year for the third time.
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Everybody signed a contract extension through 2011, being rewarded.
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Micah, 2006-2007 PFA Young Player of the Year nominee.
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Whoa!
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Don't forget about Big K.
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Who did he lose out to?
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Cristiano Ronaldo, you can't blame him.
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Oh!
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done, man.
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It's a desk of superstars.
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Oh, hold on.
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What were you doing in 2007, Kate?
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I didn't know that this was where the joke was going.
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Nikki!
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Roll round!
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Hello and welcome to Top Magazine,
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the weekly fix of science and culture on DWTV.
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In the other big football game in Europe today,
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Chelsea and Manchester United met in the newly opened Wembley Stadium for the FA Cup final.
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Once you get to the supermarket,
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it's you that pushes around the trolley.
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So presumably, you decide what goes in it.
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5-2 really does not reflect the adjusted that was this final.
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In reality, there were very few differences between the two teams.
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Even today, we could not tell who would win at any moment.
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Hello and welcome to Top Magazine,
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the weekly fix of science and culture on DWTV.
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In the other big football game in Europe today,
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Chelsea and Manchester United met in the newly opened Wembley Stadium for the FA Cup Final.
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Once you get to the supermarket,
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it's you that pushes around the trolley.
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What are you doing?
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So presumably, you just have to go through it.
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Cinco dos really does not reflect the adjusted match that was.
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What are you doing?
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Welcome to Top Magazine.
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What was you wearing?
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Have you enjoyed your Paris experience?
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Yes, I'm going to get some baguettes on the way out.
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We sent you to Paris this time for this game.
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Obviously, we're sending you to PSV,
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to Holland next time around.
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I guess we're fascinated.
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Will you be wearing clogs for those interviews?
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Or what's the plan?
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Hey, if you come on wearing a beret in Paris,
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you've got to be ready.
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Very warm welcome along, everybody.
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I'm Cade Abdo.
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Before we get to the football tonight,
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if you watched our last show,
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then you would have seen my so-called teammates decide to surprise me
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and pull up a clip of me hosting from way back in 2007.
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It was not my finest moment.
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I was mortified, and 27 million of you got to watch that on social media.
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So, welcome to The Revenge Show.
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It is maybe worth reminding you as we come into today's action
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that it is the second legs now of the round of 16 matches tonight.
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That, of course, means that we could see the ultimate tiebreaker, right?
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Penalty kicks.
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And who better to demonstrate how not to take a penalty kick than my friends at the desk?
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So, let's start by travelling back to October 2005.
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A young Micah Richards is on the bench in Manchester City as Robert Perez
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and Thierry Henry get set to take a penalty for Arsenal.
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One you will not find in any coaching manual.
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Oh, oh, oh.
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Right.
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Oh, she never normally goes to Tierney.
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That's big.
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And now, my friends, we're going to jump on to July 2006 in a World Cup quarter-final.
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The manager always wants his very best penalty-takers on the pitch for the shootout.
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So, England boss Sven-Jørgen Eriksson subbed in Jamie Carragher in the game against Portugal in the last minute of extra time.
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Such responsibility.
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We have one job.
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Just go, Jamie!
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Oh!
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Fail. And then...
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And then there's Little Meeks.
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Little Meeks.
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A man who produced a penalty so bad...
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So very bad that only our friends at Nickelodeon NFL slime time could do this penalty kick justice.
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Oh!
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Watch.
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There it goes!
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You made a big problem!
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Welcome along, everybody!
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It's so great to see you!
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You did it!
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You had your moment, well done!
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We'll take that so much.
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We have to take it,
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especially when Robert missed it, but it's okay.
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Welcome along, everybody, to part two of Revenge Week.
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I'm Kate Avdo.
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And if it's honor that you are looking for in your football pundits,
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well, you are in the wrong place, my friends.
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First up, Thierry Henry.
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Yesterday, we shared a clip of Thierry
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and his Arsenal teammate Robert Perez giving football fans a blooper for the ages
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and as any great striker would do Thierry threw up his arms into the air and blamed his teammate.
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Yeah I did, rightly so.
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Uh-huh.
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Also joining us this evening Jamie Carragher,
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the man that Cristiano Ronaldo ignored.
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Lionel Messi called a donkey
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and now added to his list of legendary admirers Harry Kane who yesterday called Jamie a liar
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and finally always up in other people's business never willing to
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reveal his own the man who yesterday rubbish the idea of lasting commitment faithfulness love
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and said marriage is no good ladies I give you big meeks What would the VT have been off?
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What?
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Okay, no, let's not go there.
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Any thoughts on who we can add to your list?
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We've got Ronaldo, Messi, Kane,
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some of the biggest names in football.
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We've got to work for Mbappé, mate, haven't we?
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Can you sort that with Mbappé?
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Can you create a fight with me and him?
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I think you can create a fight all by yourself.
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Yeah, that's what I'm here for, isn't it?
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He's the tactical man, he's the funny...
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What are you?
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What did Clive say you were?
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Erm, entertainer.
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He's the entertainer.
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I don't like that.
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And what are you?
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I think Mike is much more than that.
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What do you think he is?
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I think I've got my full package.
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I think he matches you in tactical analysis.
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You don't think he matches you in tactical analysis or what?
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Well, this is a guy who doesn't even know who Ben Shuston is.
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Ooh!
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He doesn't have to be skinny to be able to analyze something.
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He's a young man.
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What else does he match me in?
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He's a young...
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I think he exceeds you in a few other things.
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Ooh!
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I am Cade Avdo.
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Wembley, of course, is a North London legend legend and so is the man to my left,
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Arsenal great Thierry Henry.
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Next to him, the man that Borussia Dortmund fans will never let walk alone,
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Liverpool's own Jamie Carragher.
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And the man who on the pitch behind us won the FA Cup,
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played in the Olympics and scored for England.
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Yes, Big Meeks!
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Big Meeks!
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Yes!
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Hey, this is my time!
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Now we're cooking!
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Yes, this is my kingdom, baby!
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Yes!
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Oh, we've pulled it out for the final, haven't we?
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Sunday best, everybody.
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Oh, wow.
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I'd just like to say I'm looking marvellous today.
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A very warm welcome along to London, everybody.
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I'm Kate Abdo.
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No solar eclipse for everybody watching back home this afternoon,
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but you are still going to need your protective eyewear.
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That's because alongside me today, three superstars shining brightly.
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Arsenal icon Thierry Henry, Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher,
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and the face of Manchester City, Big Meeks, Micah Richards.
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When I smile though, everyone's gonna need shades though Kate, no?
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Why, you got your teeth done?
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No, just because...
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What do you mean?
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It's an eclipse, you know what I mean?
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Everyone's gonna need shades, big beats when I smile, you know?
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Yeah, special smile.
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This is a woman who is not a diva.
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She powers through, marathons in all types of weather.
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Wonderful.
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And we have got Kate Abdul.
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Scott, thanks.
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LAUGHTER What are you trying to say?
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Another down-to-earth, well-grounded...
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I know, but what's the electric cushion?
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What are we waiting for?
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You guys are idiots.
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Somebody told him about that.
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She's got an electric cushion.
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I mean, is this a heated...
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Can we see the evidence?
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I keep my heated pad over here.
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I mean, what is this?
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We're not outside, we're inside.
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What's that?
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We are inside, but don't you all go...
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How many layers are you wearing?
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Why are you looking at me?
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Because I know all of you have got a wife beater on, the shirt.
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A wife?
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A what?
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I know what I mean,
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so I know what I mean.
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It means a vest.
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It means a vest.
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A what?
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A vest.
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A vest in America means a waistcoat over here.
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So it's all very cool.
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You lot have all got a lot of layers on,
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and here I am.
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Cold.
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So rather than make you guys uncomfortable,
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down to earth, well-grounded human that I am,
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I just bring myself, bought it off Amazon,
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first time I'm using it, my own heating pad.
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Thanks.
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Did you pay for it on CBS?
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I paid for it.
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How much was it?
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Oh, I don't know.
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Do you not kick a ball anymore?
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Oh, woo!
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No, I just said you were worried about like hamstrings, health, like...
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No. Man, I saw you in the gym in Vegas with Mike.
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I just thought you were going to bang one in, top in.
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No, you were four, yeah, what were you doing?
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You can see that free kick I took with my left foot with the in the gym with him, you weirdo?
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And the man who burst onto the scene as a player,
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but in his second act,
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well, he has taken sports television by storm as well.
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Now working his fifth Champions League final,
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equaling his career total gameplay in this competition.
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Big meets Micah Richards.
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Oh, no!
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That's a low one!
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Here we are for a third night in a row.
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I am Kate Scott.
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Yes, Scott.
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Proud owner of a new ring.
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Sitting next to a man who owns a few trophies.
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World Cup, Champions League, Premier League, shall we go on?
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Jamie Carragher also has a very prestigious Champions League trophy.
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And at the end of the desk,
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the very proud owner of...
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David Beckham's sticky stuff.
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Welcome, Big Meeks' Micah Richards.
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How are we?
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Come on, guys.
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Three in a row.
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We need to bring the energy, analysis, entertainment.
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Let's do it tonight.
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We will do it.
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Let's do it tonight.
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Welcome along, everybody, to our Champions League studio.
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Good to have you with us.
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On this side of the desk,
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you have me, Kate Scott,
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professional presenter for over 20 years now.
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I've hosted some of the most prestigious events in the world of sports,
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including the Ballon d'Or next to me.
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One of the most respected minds and voices in the game,
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in the game, world champion as a player,
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medallist as an Olympic coach, Arsenal legend Thierry Henry.
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But if it's childish banter,
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drunken reporting or inappropriate jokes about human anatomy that you're looking for,
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well good news everybody, we have got you covered with the other half of our desk.
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I'll introduce you to Liverpool's own Jamie Carragher and the pride of Chapel Town Big Meeks, Micah Richards.
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Yes!
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The pride of CPT baby, I love it!
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What's up?
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Oh, we all know what's up.
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Oh, what's down?
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Yeah.
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Let's talk about Manchester City,
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because I believe that, you know,
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before the show started, we said it's a blip, not a crisis.
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But it's not a crisis!
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It feels like a perfect night.
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City with 3-0, finished 3-3.
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My son came on for Wigan.
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Hey!
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He came on for Wigan.
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They won 2-1, so they got three points. And... And?
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The bonus and the best one...
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The bonus?
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Kate Abdo was in trouble with HR.
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LAUGHTER H.I.E hasn't called me.
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What do you know?
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I don't know anything about that.
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Yeah, well, you know...
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You think it's coming?
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I think it's coming.
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You're such a stirrer, aren't you?
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Kate Scott.
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Kate Scott, everybody.
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Thanks.
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Kate Scott.
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I'm just excited I'm not the one in trouble tonight.
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You know what I mean?
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No one's in trouble.
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Well, I think there might be a big problem.
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I wouldn't be surprised if there was someone else sitting in that seat tomorrow.
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Out of those three players,
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who do you think will stay and who do you want to stay?
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I think they'll all stay.
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I think Van Dijkhl stay.
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I'm not worried about that one.
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I actually think Mo Salah is speaking about this situation a lot right now
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because I'm not sure how many other options are out there in terms of the top European teams.
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He doesn't want to go to Saudi.
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By the way,
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does anyone else remember Jamie Carragher mentioning his contract renewal a few times before it actually got done publicly on television,
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before the deal was made?
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Just wondering.
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Yeah, it's all right when it suits him.
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Last but not least, we can't win this as a team.
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It's the media personality of the year!
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Of the year!
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So, who could it possibly believe?
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Who is the biggest personality on this?
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You!
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Mika, is it you?
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No, it's not me.
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You're surely a different personality.
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It should be you.
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Titi's the biggest star, surely the biggest name.
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It's Canada!
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It's Kate!
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Who have they given it to?
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Could it be you Kate?
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Do you think you deserve that?
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No, it's only you though.
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I'm in the background.
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Are you a personality or did you just read an autocue? And the winner is...
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Dun dun dun!
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Yay!
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Thank you!
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Thank you so much!
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I've had enough of this.
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I can't take this anymore.
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Wait, I've got nothing to say!
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I've had enough of this!
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It's not safe.
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Do the show yourself then!
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Pardon?
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Do it yourself.
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No, don't you leave.
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I guess I gotta go.
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Oh, whoa.
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Come on.
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Oh, that's cold.
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I thought we're a team.
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We're not a team.
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I put my chair back.
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You can't celebrate me?
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You can't celebrate me?
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No, it's so fun.
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Enjoy.
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I thought we were a team.
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Look, putting the seats back.
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You guys are idiots.
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My mom would have killed me if I didn't do that.
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I'm glad none of you won.
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