Do Not Scratch Your Eyes - Benjamin Bloom Special - S2 Ep23

Justin, Carl and Peter have a quick chat on the news that would have been unthinkable before we kicked off against Sheffield Utd at the end of July - Rob Edwards...is now the...Luton manager?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

17 Nov 202213min

Justin and Pete get to meet Ann Swanson, in her seat, in her stand. The lady that was the driving force behind Graham's vision of the family club by establishing the Junior Hornets in the early 1980's is back at the club - and the club is better off for it. We chat about the old days and the new era for the Junior Hornets, we hear tales about Ian Bolton and Steve Sherwood and the way that the modern football world makes it harder to do now, what was done in the 1980's but there appears to be no lack of trying. We hear that Rob Edwards short reign might have a legacy on match days and how Ann how Ann was introduced to the Aldershot chairman - but the thing that gives Ann the most joy is in trying to get us back to or continue to be "the Family Club". This lady has created such a legacy that it will be difficult to match moving forward but it is great that she is involved in helping Barry, Phil and Chris to try to do just that. COYH!! Also, Pete promises to swear less but nobody believed a word of that! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

16 Nov 202232min

Well, the big news was that at one point a seagull flew across the pitch!!! Really it was!!! A dull 0-0 game before breaking for the least anticipated and most controversial World Cup - but despite this we had a good and lively debate. Pete asked what motivational or tactical innovations people would make if they were Bilic for 30 seconds (or half a minute for Rich). We found that Uncle Ron has a pool, but he wasn't reclining by it. We discovered Greg was wandering around Bristol trying to find his car and Brett fresh from his Blue Cheese episodes had been Jazz Drumming (which we really hope isn't a euphemism). Loads of great calls, commenters and reviewers offered a balanced view on proceedings - even if the game had been rubbish. Oh, and we have badges - so if you see us ask for one and if we have one - it's yours. Oh and did we mention that seagull? We did! Well, it was that kind of afternoon! Thanks to everyone who contributes and especially - Get Well Soon to Natasha - our squad's number 5!!! COYH! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

12 Nov 20221h 26min

An opposition view without any opposition so we do the normal and talk about Paul Ince, Milk Shakes, Rivals merging or not, Robert Maxwell, Pornographic club owners, Bristol Rovers nicknames, old grounds, Only Fools and Horses, Roy Hodgson, Nigel Pearson, the difference between estuaries and channels, Pete’s friend Tim, Predictions, Steve Bruce and a lack of enthusiasm for the World Cup and Pete has a rant about FIFA (instead of the FA this time), England and then London Transport Museum sock prices and Justin confesses to being a London Underground fan who’s favourite line is the Circle line. It's all go! COYH!!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

10 Nov 202245min

This is good! Part 2 of the post-match Reading reactions see Charlie/Sean lament that KFC isn't open but then reveals that Blue Cheese Brett is a stadium neighbour!!! We catch up with Jason Rose as he makes his way back to Wallingford and then Adam Leventhal once of Sky and now of the Athletic but always of Watford joins us to chat about Technical Directors, World Cup breaks and coverage and we take the opportunity to have a gratuitous discussion about beating Luton plus Pete tries to co-opt Adam and the World Cup into the strange cheesy goings on at DNSYE! COYH! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

9 Nov 202247min

The first half of the Twitter Spaces post Reading. A strange game which never really burst into life and Pete seems to feel a bit odd about it, but we discover how good the burgers are at the top of Occupation Road and people point out to Pete, the good bits that went on today. Two lurkers - Woody and Steve jump the fence and we discover that Bretts wife wasn't all that impressed with drunken cheesy Brett on Saturday. Part 2 out soon includes some great callers and an excellent last minute substitute appearance from Adam Leventhal (nee Emmenthal) that Pete seems intent to bribe into carry on the daft cheese shenanigans into the World Cup in the name of charity - but we also are bought up to date on the Technical Director news when Adam can finally pull Pete away from Cheese based idiocy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

9 Nov 202245min

We originally recorded a Reading preview on the day of the Queens passing, so the game was postponed. However, if we have one rule (that we don't ignore-ish) - we have to take a contestant's first answer!! We have to have some standards. So here is a sort of preview show that descends very quickly into one disaster after another involving Blue Cheese and Coventry but finally ends with a crescendo - before Pete forgets that Stilton is a blue cheese, and it all goes wrong again!! Thanks to Mike Smart who provides our first (and very possibly last) addendum COYH!!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

6 Nov 202228min

Genuinely one of the most surreal Twitter Spaces we’ve had – and don’t forget that includes one where Carl was bitten by a horse – so that’s saying something!!!! Mrs Wendover Horn makes a first appearance, Rich cuts a frustrated figure or half a figure, and then Carl and Brett who have been enjoying the delights of hospitality all day come on with a blue cheese fixation and one set of head phones between them, Uncle Ron quotes the “Smiths” and then starts talking about Oil Tankers before requesting that the squad be sent to an Army camp to be “tarred and feathered for the duration of the World Cup, Charlie then comes on pretending to be Sean (who simply wants have KFC and go home) and asks Pete lots of questions and then gives the Coventry pre match talk! Some great calls from other regulars and concerns over the fitness of the squad in the last two games before the World Cup Break. Our condolences to the family of Ben Bray who passed away this week. COYH! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

6 Nov 20221h 22min