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Talk of the Devils: The Athletic FC's Manchester United show

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Is He a Dennis Irwin?

Laurie has been to Barcelona a couple of times, but not to the new camp for some reason. And my cousin's buzzing because a lot of people have suggested that he looks like Dennis Irwin. So I saw him at the weekend and he's coming down for the Carabao Cup final on Sunday as well. We've got like a little group of us. Obviously, I think I'll be doing the press side of things, but a few tickets for me family. so that'd be nice.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, absolutely. Laurie, I love some of your social media from Barcelona. We sort of touched upon it in the podcast to preview the match. But going back to the scene of 1999, the ticket story that you've told a few times, you had your pitch taken in roughly the spot where you were back then as well. I mean, that must have just been a very special occasion because on top of that, it was a fantastic football match as well, wasn't it? And United, well, they should have won actually. Let's get sort of to the point. They're in a strong position at two all, but they should have won, shouldn't they?
Speaker 2
They probably should have won. Yeah, I mean, certainly Eric's an Ag thought, so after the game, he thought they could have scored a couple more. I think certainly Barcelona could have scored as well, so maybe 2-2, fair result. And we'll do it all again, you know, all traffered on Thursday night. It was really nice being back there first time. I've been to Barcelona a couple of times, but not to the new camp for some reason, or the camp now, sorry. And yeah, I did a quick thing with Sky Sports from Alyssa Reddy, and it just so happened that actually I was studying the same spot when we kind of looked at the camera angles. And my cousin's buzzing because a lot of people have suggested that he looks like Dennis Irwin. So he's quite happy at the comparison. So I saw him at the weekend and he's coming down for the Carabao Cup final on Sunday as well. We've got like a little group of us. Obviously, I think I'll be doing the press side of things, but a few tickets for me family. So that'd be nice. I always thought he looked a bit more like Ali McCoist. I'm going to say that rather than Dennis Irwin. I don't know if they're kind of...
Speaker 1
Are we talking about Dennis Irwin and Ali McCoist when they were playing or Dennis Irwin and Ali McCoist now? Because I'm not sure either those comparisons are particularly favourable.

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