The 3 Added Minutes team built the best five-a-side team possible from the Premier League players who shone for just a single season. Will Michu make it in over Payet? Can Klinsmann make the cut?
Who was the real one-season wonder in net? Kuszczak or Mendy
Which one-season wonder would you want at the back? Bassong or Beye
Which flash in the pan would you prefer? Stead or Januzaj
Which one-season wonder shone brightest? Michu or Payet
Which striker was the biggest short-term sensation? Klinsmann or Mido
Who was the real one-season wonder in net? Kuszczak or Mendy
Which one-season wonder would you want at the back? Bassong or Beye
Which flash in the pan would you prefer? Stead or Januzaj
Which one-season wonder shone brightest? Michu or Payet
Which striker was the biggest short-term sensation? Klinsmann or Mido
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00:00 I mean if we do this show and John Stead doesn't get included in the team I am walking off camera
00:04 right now and never coming back.
00:05 [Music]
00:12 Hello and welcome to a brand new series from the crew at 3 Added Minutes and National World.
00:17 This is 3 Added Minutes by the Side.
00:19 Every episode we'll be building the best possible by the side team
00:23 to some extremely specific requirements for your entertainment and quite frankly
00:27 just for the hell of it.
00:28 I'm Matthew Gregory and this week we'll be building the best team of Premier League
00:32 One Season Wonders and with me is my colleague Jason Jones.
00:35 Okay so here's how it works.
00:37 We're both going to take a turn and pick a player from one of the spots in our five side team,
00:41 explain why we think they should make the cut and then argue about it briefly until we decide
00:45 upon a winner.
00:46 So let's get straight into it Mark.
00:47 We might as well start with the goalkeeper.
00:49 I mean every team's got to have one whether they like it or not.
00:52 I'll let you go first mate.
00:55 Who would be your ultimate Premier League One Season Wonder goalkeeper?
00:58 First thought that sprang to mind was Thomas Kusak.
01:02 The bane of any newspaper sub-editor because his name is still impossible to spell.
01:06 I've known about him for about 20 years.
01:08 I still don't know how to spell his name.
01:09 I don't know where the Zs go.
01:10 I don't know where the Ss go.
01:11 I don't know where the Cs go.
01:13 I just know that in 2005-2006 he had a brilliant season for West Brom.
01:18 Absolutely superb.
01:19 He was flying around the goal, stopping just about everything.
01:22 He hadn't really been a regular first team keeper before.
01:24 He'd only played a few games.
01:26 He suddenly turned into this sort of Polish Superman, just stopping absolutely everything.
01:30 It was one of those seasons where West Brom were getting battered.
01:33 I think they did go down in the end, but it wasn't for any want of anything Kusak did.
01:36 He was absolutely immense.
01:38 Obviously got a move to Manchester United off the back of it and pretty much spent the next
01:43 sort of five, ten years, most of the rest of his career sat on a bench, popping up in League Cup
01:48 games and that was sort of it.
01:50 So he was around the Premier League for a long time, but he only really had one
01:54 season where he was the starter, the undisputed number one and he was brilliant.
01:59 And he just never got the chance to shine again.
02:00 He spent the whole time sat on the bench at Old Trafford.
02:02 I think it's a pretty cushy life, isn't it?
02:06 You know, number two at Manchester United.
02:08 It's pretty much a dream, isn't it?
02:10 I think, at least it is for me.
02:11 I'm incredibly work shy, it has to be said though.
02:14 I think...
02:14 No, same.
02:15 I have nothing but respect for anyone who does no work whatsoever and gets paid enormous
02:18 amounts of money for it.
02:20 I've got part of that down.
02:21 I'm 50% of the way to it and I do no work whatsoever.
02:24 It's just that nobody really pays me.
02:25 So, you know, it's halfway there, halfway to the dream.
02:29 I think if I had to pick one, right, because I've thought long and hard about this and
02:34 I think automatically when you think one season wonder, I think there's a tendency to get
02:38 a little bit nostalgic.
02:39 You sort of cast your mind back and you think about the players who might have been playing
02:43 like you were saying, sort of 15, 20 years ago, whatever it might be.
02:45 But I actually think in terms of goalkeepers, there's one who's much more recent and who
02:51 I think is an absolute shoo-in and it's Edouard Mendy.
02:54 You know, when he signed for Chelsea, that first season he had at Stamford Bridge was
02:59 absolutely phenomenal.
03:00 I think it was a very strong claim from being, maybe not in terms of his all-around game,
03:04 but certainly in terms of shot stopping, the best goalkeeper in the Premier League that
03:07 season.
03:08 He was absolutely incredible.
03:10 Won a Champions League.
03:11 He obviously won AFCON with Senegal as well.
03:14 You know, he was continental champion of both club and international level.
03:19 And then you saw a hard cut to 12 months later and he's being kicked outside by Kepa.
03:23 And you know, nothing against Kepa, but he's Kepa, you know what I mean?
03:28 So I'm sort of still a little bit baffled as to the downfall, sort of speak of Edouard
03:34 Mendy.
03:34 Obviously now he's gone to Saudi Arabia and while that isn't necessarily the sort of death
03:38 knell for sporting credibility that it might once have been, it's still a massive backward
03:45 step from being champion of Europe and champion of Africa just a couple of years ago.
03:48 So I think that as far as a goalkeeper goes at least, it's got to be Edouard Mendy, surely?
03:54 Yeah, I mean, I thought about Edouard Mendy too.
03:58 And when you say like there's a tendency to get nostalgic, by the way, I'm just going
04:01 to pull you up on that.
04:02 The reason I thought first about Thomas Kuczak is just because I'm much older than you.
04:05 And the reason you thought about Edouard Mendy is that you're barely out of the womb.
04:10 So that's the reason that we went there.
04:11 But my only sort of query about Edouard Mendy is he had two seasons.
04:17 And is he a one season wonder because he was brilliant one season, absolutely fine the
04:21 next season and then he's gone and he's kept at Arita Balaga and he's off to Saudi Arabia
04:25 and so on and so forth.
04:26 It's my only sort of reservation.
04:27 But apart from that, if we're building the best five-a-side team, I would definitely
04:31 agree Edouard Mendy, best possible goalkeeper.
04:33 I just think that he had one very good season, one okay season where he wasn't so wonderful.
04:41 And I just think that the sheerness of the cliff face that he fell off
04:46 has to sort of squeeze him in there because to go from where he was at to where he is
04:50 now in such a short space of time, might not be one season specifically, but I think he's
04:55 just got to squeeze himself in there as far as I'm concerned.
04:58 All right, I have to take your point there.
04:59 I think first name on the team sheet then, Edouard Mendy in our five-a-side team, one
05:03 season, one deserve.
05:11 Okay, second position, every five-a-side team also needs a reluctant defender.
05:16 I'm going to argue for Norwich City 2012/2013 legend, Sebastian Basson.
05:21 Now, anyone who calls me up on the fact that Sebastian Basson played quite a few seasons
05:26 of the Premier League is definitely right.
05:27 But I will point out that he spent several years at Newcastle and Spurs and he was largely
05:32 rubbish.
05:32 He went to Norwich City, had one season where he was incredible and then spent several more
05:37 years at Norwich City and was rubbish again.
05:40 He was one of those players who did nothing until for just one year, he was magnificent.
05:44 He was Norwich City's player of the year.
05:45 He kept them clear of relegation.
05:47 He was a man possessed.
05:49 He was inspired.
05:50 He was heading everything that came anywhere near the Norwich box away into the distance.
05:54 He was playing well above himself.
05:57 He's playing brilliantly.
05:58 And then you get to the end of the 2013 season, this ridiculous nonsense tabloid story erupts
06:03 where he posed with a gun, taking some photos.
06:07 Like it looks a bit of an idiot basically, and he was fined by the club.
06:10 Lots of people called him a moron and he was back in the first team next season, but he
06:14 was a shadow of his former self.
06:16 That one year of inspired Sebastian Basson gave way to the Sebastian Basson where Newcastle
06:21 fans were used to, which wasn't much for a player, which Spurs fans were used to, which
06:25 wasn't much for a player.
06:26 And he was just never there again.
06:27 And he was just an inexplicable one brilliant season of a relatively mediocre player.
06:31 And yeah, so that's my pick, Sebastian Basson in defence for me.
06:34 - I think my only protestation to Sebastian Basson at Norwich would be that prior to you
06:41 just mentioning him there, I had no recollection of him playing for Norwich, which I would
06:46 sort of question the extent to how much of a wonder he was if, I mean, look, you know,
06:52 I'm not particularly great at my job, but I do think I have a relatively decent knowledge
06:55 of Premier League football.
06:57 And I literally don't remember that whatsoever.
07:01 It's interesting that you mentioned Newcastle though, because the player that I've gone
07:05 for, to be fair, he's not exactly the most memorable chap, but Habib Bey.
07:10 - No, I'm kidding.
07:13 Carry on.
07:13 Of course I remember Habib Bey.
07:14 Yeah.
07:14 - So he signed for Newcastle 2007, 2008 season.
07:20 In 2008, he was the Newcastle's player of the season.
07:24 That first campaign, he was absolutely magnificent at the heart of defence.
07:27 Had a really good chant as well too.
07:29 You know, the happy days theme tune, Sunday, Monday.
07:31 - I was going to mention that they did a very good tiebreaker there.
07:34 It's Sunday, Monday, happy day, Tuesday, et cetera.
07:37 That was one of the all-time great Premier League chants.
07:39 - Made even better by your dulcet tones there, Matt.
07:41 - Thank you so much.
07:43 - But yeah, so that first season, really good.
07:46 2008, player of the season at Newcastle.
07:48 Season after that, and I can't remember which order it happened in specifically, but he
07:52 got sent off and he suffered an injury over the course of the first few games of the campaign.
07:57 And then when he came back into the team, he was just ridden with mistakes.
08:02 He was just really shaky, inconsistent, not at all confident.
08:07 And I think from that point onwards, I think he was at Newcastle for three or four years
08:10 or something like that.
08:11 I should really research this a little bit better, shouldn't I?
08:13 But from that point onwards, he was just never quite the same.
08:18 A little bit similar to what you're saying, if I sound a bit unfair.
08:21 But I just think that to be player of the season at a club like Newcastle, and then
08:26 to go from that to being, I just dross for want of a better word, again, just such a
08:33 fall off.
08:34 And if I had to pick one, I personally would go with Habib Beer, but I don't know if you'd
08:38 have him over there, Sebastian Basson, personally.
08:40 - I think purely based on the brilliance of his chant, he deserves his place in our little
08:47 One Season Wonders Hall of Fame here, because if Sebastian Basson had a chant, I don't remember
08:52 it.
08:52 And therefore, we want our fans on the sidelines of this Fiverr side team to have something
08:56 good to sing.
08:57 And I think Habib Beer provides them with something that Basson simply doesn't.
09:00 So yeah, I'm happy to go with your call again.
09:02 Habib Beer joining Eduard Mendy in the Fiverr side team.
09:05 (whistle blows)
09:06 (upbeat music)
09:13 All right, next name up on the team sheet for me is Johnstead.
09:16 Now, I'm going to confess that I do have a bit of a bias here.
09:18 I'm a Blackburn Rovers fan, and to any Blackburn Rovers fan who remembers the 2003-2004 season,
09:25 Johnstead is one of the greatest legends the club has ever had.
09:28 For a beautiful five-month period, he was the greatest signing in the club's history.
09:32 For the rest of his career with Blackburn, which wasn't very long, he was not.
09:36 But for that five months, he was the most important player in Blue and White Hearts.
09:39 And for anyone who doesn't remember him, he was a young lad, born from Huddersfield town
09:42 for about a million quid.
09:44 He was supposed to be warming the bench, playing the odd 10 minutes at the end of a game here
09:47 and there.
09:48 Instead, all the strikers ahead of him got injured.
09:51 Blackburn, bang in the middle of a relegation battle, suddenly find that they're down to
09:54 this one callow kid who's barely kicked a ball in senior football.
09:59 And he was brilliant.
10:01 He was on fire.
10:02 For the next five months, he was our best player.
10:04 He was on the end of everything.
10:05 He scored incredibly crucial winners against Everton, against Fulham, scored a famous goal
10:10 in a 1-0 win against Manchester United, which was the game that all but mathematically confirmed
10:14 Blackburn's survival.
10:15 He was fantastic.
10:17 Very next season, gave him the number nine shirt, his first name on the team sheet, and
10:21 he was rubbish in the nicest possible way.
10:23 He seems like a lovely, lovely man, but he wasn't very good.
10:26 And the rest of his career is a slow, gentle wander down the league ladder.
10:30 He goes to Sunderland next, and then you go fast forward a few years later and he's playing
10:35 for Notts County and he finishes up for Harrogate Town.
10:37 And frankly, I think he was a very fine League One, League Two player.
10:41 He was never a Premier League level player, except for that one half season where he single-handedly
10:45 kept my club in the Premier League.
10:47 So I'm not going to hear any arguments against him, but please, by all means, pretend there
10:50 is someone worthy of going up against John Stead, Jason.
10:53 I mean, if we're in the business of confessing biases, Matt, I am a Sunderland fan.
10:59 And like you say, we had John Stead directly after you.
11:02 I think he scored twice for us.
11:05 So in terms of arguing against his status as a sort of EFL footballer at best, I'm not
11:12 necessarily going to do that.
11:15 And I do think there's a very strong argument for John Stead.
11:17 One name that sprang to mind for me, though, is Adnan Yanazai.
11:21 And I know it's a bit of a tricky one, because he has gone on to have a relatively decent
11:25 career by any metric, you know, in the league with Real Sociedad and that.
11:29 But when he first burst onto the scene with Manchester United, and again, there's one
11:34 performance I remember against Sunderland in particular where, I don't know if he scored
11:37 once or twice, but he absolutely murdered us that day.
11:40 He was unplayable.
11:40 There were Ryan Giggs comparisons.
11:43 There were suggestions that he was going to be the next great starlet at United, who was
11:47 going to make it big, you know, talks of him potentially being the sort of club's talisman
11:50 for the next decade to come.
11:51 And he just never made good on that potential whatsoever.
11:54 You know, Yanazai was good for a while.
11:56 Again, I haven't researched this particularly well.
11:59 I'm sure it was about a season.
12:01 But beyond that, he just, he was never the player that he could have been.
12:06 And I think that, you know, if we're talking about players sort of reaching their full
12:11 potential and sort of, you know, your Honourable John Stead was never a Premier League footballer.
12:15 Adnan Yanazai absolutely was.
12:18 And he just never really turned into a consistently sort of game-changing one.
12:23 And I think if I had to make an argument against John Stead, and I'm not particularly bothered
12:27 about making an argument against John Stead, I think you made a very valid point.
12:31 But if I had to make one, it would be that Yanazai's potential was so much bigger than,
12:37 you know, pretty much anybody at that time.
12:38 You know, there were real suggestions that he was going to be one of the best players
12:42 in world football.
12:42 And he just is completely fizzled out since then, really.
12:46 So if I had to, you know, throw a name out there, although you seem pretty dead set on
12:50 John Stead, then I would give an honourable mention to Adnan Yanazai.
12:54 Yeah, I mean, if we do this show and John Stead doesn't get included in the team, I
12:59 am walking off camera right now and never coming back.
13:01 But for the sake of professionalism, I think I should point out that if we're doing a strictly
13:05 a one season Wonders team, John Stead, there is no question that he was a wonder in only
13:10 one season.
13:10 Adnan Yanazai, if we're saying that he was about one season's worth of good before going
13:16 on to be good elsewhere, I'm not sure, strictly speaking, that he's holding a candle to the
13:20 wonderful Stedinho himself, as we called him very briefly at the time.
13:24 And stop calling him very quickly for that because we realise it sounded stupid to me.
13:28 So next on the team sheet, I'm going to propose Mithu, a Swansea City legend, a wonderful
13:41 Spanish player who spent one incredible season, 2012/2013, where he simply tore the Premier
13:46 League in half.
13:47 Across all competitions, he scored 22 goals in 43 games, about the same ratio in the Premier
13:52 League as he did in all the cups.
13:53 He was just magnificent.
13:54 He was quick.
13:55 His first touch was incredible.
13:57 He was just running through defences for fun.
13:59 He was scoring volleys.
14:00 He was scoring long ranges.
14:01 He was scoring headers from six yards.
14:03 He was just an absolutely unplayable midfielder.
14:07 He was looking like one of the best in the world.
14:09 He's pretty much a player at the peak of his powers.
14:11 And then next season, there's a bit of injury.
14:14 There's a little bit of a decline in form.
14:16 And then there's injuries and injuries and injuries and injuries.
14:19 And the poor man basically stopped having to play professional football within a few
14:24 years.
14:26 His peak was just so incredibly short and he burned so bright for such a short space
14:29 of time.
14:30 I think every Swansea City fan probably still has an unbelievably visceral reaction to
14:36 Michou's name.
14:36 He was the best player they've ever had, but just for one year.
14:39 So for me, he's a shoo-in, but I'm happy to hear who you've got to put up against him.
14:43 I mean, I'll be completely honest with you, mate.
14:46 When we sort of settled on doing this topic for the first episode, the first name that
14:52 sprang to mind was Michou, and if you hadn't just said Michou, I would absolutely be arguing
14:57 Michou as well.
14:58 I think he is the quintessential one season wonder, you know.
15:00 Certainly as well for people of our generation, he just absolutely tore it up.
15:08 Yeah, he was unbelievable.
15:09 And then like you say, the drop off was just seismic, wasn't it?
15:12 So I think let's have Michou in the team.
15:16 I'm going to do another honourable mention.
15:18 I'm going to shout out Dimitri Payet.
15:21 Now, it's a tricky one, this, because Dimitri Payet is a fantastic footballer and has never
15:26 not been a fantastic footballer.
15:27 I think part of the reason that he sort of feels as if he could sneak into this team
15:32 is because his time in England was so fleeting.
15:34 You know, he was with West Ham for two years and 2016 he was named, you know, Premier League
15:40 Player of the Year, sort of London Football Writers Awards, whatever the official title
15:44 of that might be.
15:46 But then beyond that, you know, he never really got to make good on his full potential in
15:52 England because as soon as he sort of hit his stride, it felt as if he was off to Marseille.
15:55 And obviously he joined Marseille in 2017, so there was a little bit of a gap there.
15:59 But certainly if you look at what he did for that West Ham side, I think there was a very
16:03 strong argument for him being one of the best players in the league at that time and where
16:07 West Ham were at that given point, that wasn't necessarily the norm for them.
16:12 And then to have him sort of ripped away from them in the manner that they did, I'm sure
16:15 that it still probably wrangles a little bit for West Ham fans to even think about, you
16:19 know, and I know that he's probably a player that is still thought of with an awful lot
16:22 of fondness in East London.
16:24 So while I don't necessarily...
16:25 Oh, I don't know about that.
16:26 You had a heel turn, I think you're forgetting about.
16:29 This was like, he had a villainous second act as he went from hero to villain because
16:33 he didn't just get bought, he really forced his way out quite vociferously.
16:38 And there was, I think if memory serves, I might get the details of this wrong, but they
16:41 had like a mural somewhere around the London Stadium, which had his face on it among others.
16:45 And they had to, I think, post a guard to it to stop people defacing Dmitry Payet's
16:49 face, like on the mural, because he became so unpopular so quickly forcing his way out.
16:53 So, and I think this might be sort of the tiebreaker between Mishu and Payet is if we
16:57 were to get a Swansea City fan on here with us, they would, you know, wholeheartedly be
17:02 trying to force us to put Mishu in this team.
17:04 If there was a West Ham fan, they would be trying to wholeheartedly force us to put Mishu
17:08 in this team, which I think could be a good argument for just including Mishu and not
17:12 upsetting any West Ham fans list.
17:14 All I'll say is I've seen EastEnders, Ian Beale has been married seven times, people
17:19 in East London have short memories, and if they haven't forgiven Payet by now, then they
17:23 probably should.
17:24 I know football's football, isn't it?
17:25 Players leave when you don't want them to.
17:27 And I agree, the way he went about it wasn't fantastic.
17:29 But in terms of what he did on the pitch, I think there will be a fondness in recollecting
17:35 his sport and contribution, shall we say.
17:37 Some of the things that he did for West Ham during that period were absolutely magnificent.
17:42 And while I agree Mishu should be in the team, I think it is worth pointing out that Payet
17:48 has a shout purely on the basis of the fact that it felt as if he was ripped away from
17:51 English football just a little bit too soon.
17:52 Fair enough, but I still think we've got Mishu joining Jon Stead and Javi Baye and
17:58 Edoard Mendy in our team.
17:59 All right, one last slot to fill in our One Season Wonders Five side team.
18:11 For the very last position, bang up front, I'm going to suggest Jürgen Klinsmann.
18:15 Cast your mind back to the mid-90s.
18:17 Jürgen Klinsmann genuinely was one of the biggest names in world football at the time.
18:21 I don't know how Tottenham Hotspur persuaded him to sign from Bayern Munich, but they did.
18:25 One of the greatest strikers in Europe, kind of one of the most controversial because he
18:29 had a reputation as a bit of a diver, a bit of a cheater at a time where that wasn't
18:33 in Britain at least seen as being the norm, where that was still seen as something sort
18:37 of unpleasant and new and there was a lot of people fussing at him about this.
18:41 The tabloids really didn't like him.
18:43 But not only was he brilliant, he scored I think 20 goals in 41 Premier League games
18:48 in that one season.
18:49 Not only was he a fabulous player, but he endeared himself to everyone.
18:53 He was the German who came over here diving around, he was the pantomime villain.
18:57 And when he scored that first goal and celebrated by doing a gigantic swan dive across the field
19:01 just to take the mick out of all that criticism, I think everyone fell in love with him straight
19:06 away.
19:07 Every neutral loved him.
19:08 The kids, I was a kid in the playground kicking the ball around.
19:10 Jürgen Klinsmann was the kind of player you pretended to be, you know, like you pretend
19:14 to be Roberto Baggio or Gabriel Batistuta.
19:17 Klinsmann was up there too.
19:18 He was just a fantastic player.
19:20 He's as good sort of technically and skillfully as almost any striker the Premier League's
19:25 had, but he was just here for one year and then he was off again.
19:28 Just one golden year, had a really good time for the Premier League as a whole.
19:31 And yeah, just a fabulous player and a very one who sort of, you know, made himself very,
19:36 very popular from a very unpromising beginning.
19:38 See, I was born in 1995, so I have literally zero recollection of this.
19:45 Klinsmann was gone before I was even in this world, so I can't really pass too much comment
19:49 on him.
19:50 I will offer forward another Tottenham striker though, Mido, who I do have a better recollection
19:56 of.
19:56 He obviously joined Tottenham on loan from AS Roma, that's 2005, 2006.
20:03 Went on to score some ridiculous like 13 goals in 30-odd matches, looked like he was the
20:07 real deal, looked like he was really going to do a job for Tottenham.
20:10 So they took the decision to sign him permanently and then from that point forward, I think he
20:14 scored once or twice, something ridiculous like that.
20:16 You know, and then again, much in the same way that you talked about John Stead, it just
20:20 felt as if he sort of had a slow sort of descent, not necessarily down the leagues, but certainly
20:26 down the sort of scale of relevancy until it was sort of accepted that he absolutely
20:30 was not the sort of striker who should be playing for the likes of AS Roma and Tottenham.
20:34 I think he ended his career with a single appearance for Bollinsley or something ridiculous
20:37 like that.
20:38 And so I think the reason that Mido sticks out for me, it's not just because he scored
20:44 all of those goals one season, then didn't the next, but I think there's a certain sort
20:49 of added dash of insult to the fact that he scored all those goals on loan, convinced
20:55 Tottenham to then go and sign him.
20:57 And then as soon as he was actually their player and he was permanently on the books,
21:00 he just sort of forgot where his shooting boots were.
21:02 So I would offer forward Mido at the same time, though, I absolutely accept what you're
21:07 saying about Klinsman.
21:08 I do think it's interesting, kind of similar to Payet, where we're talking about players
21:11 who were absolutely wonderful, but who we just didn't get to see enough of.
21:15 I think that that's not necessarily the first thing that springs to mind when you talk about
21:18 one season wonders.
21:19 But I also think it absolutely should, you know, Klinsman, like you say, scored all those
21:23 goals, made such an impact as well.
21:25 Like, you know, obviously I didn't get to see him play in England, but even I'm aware
21:29 of the big dive celebration and the sort of impact that that had on a sort of cultural
21:33 level, I guess.
21:33 But, you know, so I think he's a great, great child.
21:36 But if I had to offer forward a potential counterpoint, I would probably go with Mido.
21:40 I've got a lot of love and respect for Mido because it's another one of those points where
21:45 we were talking about earlier about we're quite work-shy and have a great deal of respect
21:49 for anyone who can't really be bothered.
21:51 My recollection of Mido is that after he got his lower move, and it was, sorry, his permanent
21:54 move, I should say, after he got his big payday, he basically, there were a lot of questions
21:59 about his attitude, we'll politely say, and there were a lot of, there was some visible
22:03 evidence around the waistline.
22:04 And clearly he's not the world's skinniest man myself.
22:07 I have a lot of respect for anyone being paid a large amount of money and not really caring
22:11 about his weight at the same time.
22:12 But at the same time, I'd have to ask, when you were a kid knocking a ball about in the
22:17 back streets, did you pretend to be Mido?
22:20 Because I was pretending to be Jürgen Klintzmann.
22:22 I mean, the short answer is yes.
22:25 Without a shadow of a doubt.
22:28 Who wouldn't want that during his spell at Barnsley?
22:30 Who wouldn't want to be Mido?
22:32 Do you remember his crossbar challenge?
22:34 Ever seen that?
22:34 His Soccer AM crossbar challenge?
22:36 No, I don't remember it, no.
22:38 It's incredible.
22:39 So it genuinely ends up close to the corner flag, to the point where I think he actually,
22:43 he came out and made a statement saying that it was deliberate and that he was passing
22:46 it to his mate who was stood near the corner flag.
22:48 But I've seen that video a few times and I can't see no Mido.
22:51 But yeah, okay, let's go with Klintzmann then.
22:54 But yeah, a nice little nod to Mido as well.
22:57 Yeah, the absolute legend that he is.
22:59 Well, that's our squad complete.
23:08 Eduard Mendy in goal, Javi Bey, John Stead, Michu and Jürgen Klintzmann.
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23:27 This was produced for National World by Mark Wilson.
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