But then you yourself wouldn’t find it wrong being a fair weather fan as you admitted that you don’t like getting tortured in sport for long. Oh well, each one to his own.

But in terms of general podcasts, my favorite one is the one on Arseblog — not because of his arsenal affiliations — but because he is very funny. His impersonations of Eboue, William Gallas, Adebayor are outstanding. You must listen just for the sake of those funny segments in between. And of course, he’s far from politically correct. For entertainment value, his is among the best.

The Guardian podcasts are also funny.

When you said we have to hope for a world-class player every five years, I think you’re being overly optimistic. As McClair said, and Fergie says every chance he gets, the current regulations on transfers of youth players prohibit us from getting players from outside our catchment area; we really can’t expect a Fabregas or Rooney every five years from just Greater Manchester. While I understand the aim of the regulations (to protect the interests of small clubs and encourage them to develop youngsters) they are greatly to the detriment of youth players throughout the UK. The best players need to play with each other to reach their potential, and to learn from the best coaches, which is unlikely to happen at Oldham Athletic. Look at the current crop of Clairefontaine graduates in France who have benefited from playing with high-quality peers on a regular basis. Hopefully something similar will happen with the FA’s proposed academy, because otherwise the best young talents in England are going to suffer. Arguably very few international class players have come up since Lilleshall closed in 99. There isn’t an English teenager I can think of who is widely regarded as a potential world-class player, although Freddie Sears looks promising.

It’s also dissapointing to think that this means clubs are essentially training players to be sold down the ladder. The “Big Four” sell to the rest of the Premier League, the rest of the Premier League sells to the Championship etc, etc. The only exception seems to be West Ham, who consistently produce players good enough to play at the top level.

That’s funny though RR, because I listen to World Soccer Daily religiously and Cohen often gets me on how he can jump on and off a bandwagon so fast and so often and yet still be in one piece. When Ballack was injured and not the flavor of the month at Chelsea I remember how SC had nothing good to say about him and questioned the man’s heart and of course the reason for buying him. He’s truly a fair weather fan. I’ll give him credit though, he does have his passion for the game even though he’d deeply rooted in that stupid political correctness. I have no problem with his co-host Kenny Hassan “Brilliant”, “Dangerous” who I think is good, but I’m still mad about the sacking of my favorite co-host and soul mate Howard Rogers. I loved the infamous “Prince of Darkness and his pro Manchester United thinking as well as his realistic and honest look at the rest of the world of football. When he would refer to somebody that he didn’t like as “crap” and “totally useless” it was like music to my heart. He was certainly honest and politically incorrect and he would get a lot of hate mail and negative press from the nauseating clean as soap, holier than thou and virgin spoon fed audience that I found Howard a breath of fresh air. In fact I have always seen myself as the Howard Rogers of RedRants. Instead of Grognard I really should be known as Son of Prince of Darkness or PoD v 2.0. I miss that lovable miserable old bastard. I’m glad you are a fan of the show RR. Or at least I assume your are.