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Back like Salah's hairline.

Maybe you can cheat on your taxes, but NEVER cheat on your barber. It's not a problem Paulo has, but Senzo tells us how deep it goes. Coming up this week: - **Liverpool’s Salah Saga**: Why are Liverpool hesitating on Salah's contract, and is Mo using Klopp's hair guy? - **Mbappé is on Fraud Watch**: Is the French superstar living up to the hype, or are the critics sharpening their pitchforks for no reason? - **World Cup 2034 – Desert Dreams or Nightmare Fuel?** FIFA’s Saudi Arabia decision has us all questioning life (and football). - **The FIFA Club World Cup Draw**: We’re a little excited! Rhulani Mokwena might get a potential date with his man-crush Pep, but will either manager still be around by kick-off? - **Percy Tau is playing hardball with Al Ahly** – just give him all the money already, we say. - **Paul Pogba Drama**: Now it involves his mama. Just when the guy should be sorting out his future, the noise surrounding him cranks up the volume. Senzo says, "Just sit down and work it out like brothers." Paulo opens up the gates to GOAT Farm and inducts an entire tournament for the first time. The tournament in question? The **1994 FIFA World Cup**. Mavericks, Colombian executions, surfing goalkeepers, a ball that was all G-spot, and Paulo's cursive handwriting – what's not to love? Finally, Senzo’s **non-football story of the week** dives into the SARU equity deal D-Day. Why isn’t rugby more profitable? I mean, you can even buy a Springbok sim card now!

I think I can beat Mike Tyson

What international break?!? Paulo and Senzo fire up a pod that hits harder than peak Mike Tyson. Danny Jordaan AKA, "Teflon Jordan" got arrested this week, but what difference will it make because he has the ability to walk away from explosions. What’s R20 000 bail going to do, rather make the guy a groundskeeper at some of the amateur clubs who have vanished under his ‘’leadership’’. When you out-villian Sepp Blatter, you deserve a lot of praise to be honest. David Coote is the ref who became a lines man. Should 42 year old men be behaving that way? You decide, one thing's for sure. Don’t film it. You’re not a high school kid. A video trashing on Liverpool and Klopp, another video of him snorting coke. We eagerly await his sex-tape. Youtubers are ruining everything and defiling the bastion of football purity that is the Argentinian league. A publicity stunt that has gone very wrong. Who signed off on that? Danny Jordaan? The Goat Farm opens its gates for The Baddest Man on the planet. Iron Mike may be a cuddly grandfather type these days - albeit with a face tattoo, but we go back to the days when he was the most feared man in short-shorts. Jake Paul has turned him into a side-show but we remember him as the youngest world champ ever and even though Paulo grew up on the Fresh Prince song, ‘’I think I can beat Mike Tyson’’ and once beat him in the video-game, ‘’Punch Out’’ - he really hopes that a mistimed punched unleashes the beast and Mike does what every middle-aged man really wants to do - beat the crap out of a Youtuber.

The most Beckham, Beckham has ever been.

Sunglasses, boots, Gianni Infantino. Is there anything in the world that Beckham can't make look better? OK the last one might be a stretch even for him. United are a club haunted by the ghosts of nostalgia. The pale and sickly appearance of Paul Scholes. The incessant and uncanny shrieking of Gary Neville. Do we need to add the spectre of Ruud Van Nistelrooy to the job young Ruben already has on his hands? Admittedly the Dutch legend looks amazing in a coat but we ask why would you have someone, “who knows the club’’ sitting next to you while you untangle a decade long mess? There must have been a Ballon d’or ceremony at the Bernabeu this week because Real Madrid didn’t show up again. Paulo and Senzo refuse to remove the Fraud Watch on Mbappe’s name. He’s getting in everyone’s way and the only thing that can solve it is someone who rolls his studs over the ball. The ultimate skill, don’t @ us. We feel sorry for Neymar after his latest injury. Shame, poor guy is going to end up living in Miami with Messi, Suarez and Becks. But what is his legacy, would a 2014 World Cup win have put him on the Mt Rushmore of Brazilian players. Paulo doesn’t even think he gets ahead of Romario. We in no way belittle FC Noah with ill-advised puns and the gates of the GOAT Farm are back and Ayrton Senna drives his McLaren MP4/5B into the paddock.

The Amorim Affair. A Sporting Fan Speaks.

Throw out the running order Man Utd are looking for a new manager. Erik gave his goodbye Hags and next lady for a shave is a lovely little Portuguese man that made this shows' resident lovely Portuguese man believe again. Paulo makes a last ditch attempt at convincing United to “give it Ruud” to help save his beloved Sporting from going back to the doldrums. What can United expect from Ruben? We talk his management style. His tactics. And how he needs to deal with Rio. We also take a moment to talk about the Galactico tantrum. Fergie said never trust Real Madrid and while we were calling them big, classless children - we haven't once mentioned how a literal child told the Bernabéu to sit down. The Devil's greatest trick and all that. Flashy tricks will never beat a tucked in shirt. It's the law of life. When we weren’t hitting refresh on Fabrizio Romano's Twitter feed we took some time to watch the Amazon documentary series, Game 7 - specifically the episode about the 2006 Western Conference semifinals between the Dallas Mavericks and the San Antonio Spurs, two Texas rivals with rich histories. It has NBA prejudices about European players, the most boring, best team in NBA history and Mark Cuban. We don't know if that's a good or a bad thing.

The most NFL team that never existed

*** THIS EPISODE WAS RELEASED AN HOUR BEFORE THE ERIK TEN HAG NEWS BROKE. ERIK RUINED OUR PODCAST, BUT ALSO. GOOD RIDDANCE**** Senzo is all full of Fanta and bouncing around the studio like a hyperactive 2-year old, which is exactly the make-up of 90% of the Barcelona team who thrashed the European champions and FC Hollywood in the same week. Arsenal vs. Liverpool also surprised us and Paulo thinks Arteta is building a very flashy Stoke City. Will Ten Hag still be United coach by the time you listen to this, and maybe he can ‘’Hag’’ his fellow Dutchman Max who is a very unhappy F1 Champ. No slow start in the NBA as teams are getting better every season. Is it sports science? Is it analytics? Is it something juicier? A coffee break conversation between Paulo and Senzo has turned into us creating the definitive list of fictional sports teams, including “Steamin’ Willie Beamen,” the only team who had Jordan and Lebron on the roster, AFC Richmond and the foul-mouthed Roy Kent, Supa Strikers and El Matador, Shakes Mokena, a white man who can jump, side-boob, A Bo you outta know and Netflix’s Club de Cuervos. Lastly, a review of Chasing The Sun 1.5 AKA Two Sides - about the British and Irish Lions tour in 2022, got Paulo wondering why everyone was so upset about Rassie’s video but it highlighted why the SARU equity deal might not be that bad after all. After all, we can’t waste money more than New Zealand have, can we?