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#NUFC

[Andy S. 🇩🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @AndySTHFC]

Yeah let's give the most financially lucrative sporting event in the world to a country that hates football AND foreigners. What's the worst that could happen??

[Not The Top 20 Pod @NTT20Pod]

NTT20 at 10.

On May 11th 2016, we sat down in Ali’s kitchen to record our first podcast.

How would Sean Dyche’s Burnley and Aitor Karanka’s Boro - plus strikers Andre Gray and Jordan Rhodes - do in the Premier League? And how will Carlos Carvalhal and Barry Bannan’s Sheff Wed fare in the Play-Offs?

Then we had to work out a name for this show. We ended with something a bit weird and a bit of a mouthful - Not The Top 20 ffs - but it wouldn’t matter much would it because who would actually listen?

At first, a few hundred of you. Now, tens of thousands more. And now this is our full-time job and we absolutely love it.

So much has happened in that time - too much to remember on this 30 minute tube journey.

The landscape of media, podcasting and football itself is completely different. Specifically, how about the EFL content landscape? Bloody hell. We started with a mission to provide Football League podcast chat to fans of Football League clubs, because it literally didn’t exist. Now, EFL fans have everything they could possibly want at their fingertips. We’re so pleased to be a part of a thriving landscape, so pleased at how many people spend their own time making amazing content around these amazing leagues.

Our personal and professional lives certainly look very, very different! We’re lucky to have incredible family and friends, and pleasingly we are still incredibly close friends. There is no doubt that none of this could have happened without the friendship that we already had before we began, and the determination and single-mindedness that we’ve shown as a partnership. Better than the sum of our parts? Absolutely. High floor over high ceiling? No doubt.

Our consistency is perhaps what we’re proudest of - we’ve not missing a show during the season for about half a decade now, even when we both had babies within 4 weeks of each other! The content hamster wheel can be relentless but we always spur each other on.

What stands out is the sheer number of amount of amazing opportunities we have had because of NTT20. People we’ve met. Friends we’ve made. Work we’ve done. Places we’ve been. Laughs we’ve had. Hot rain, win-to-nil winter, John Seymour, get your Rushian Hepburn-Murphy name etc.

It’s honestly beyond anything we could possibly have dreamed, mainly because none of this existed until the last ten years of this history of the world!

Thank you to those who have listened to - or watched - the show, and to all of you who have done much more than that. NTT20 Squad. https://t.co/xtCzb2d6wC subscribers. Live show and meet-up attendees. Friendly commenters.

Thank you to everyone who has lent us their talents and their time to work for NTT20, to help us do things we can’t do ourselves and make the content so much better and the business so much more viable.

Thank you to anyone that has ever paid us, either as sponsor or subscriber or merch-buyer or a TV/radio producer. Building out the business has been exciting & challenging, particularly over the last few years. The exciting highs of a few years of TV work were followed by some scary lows when it all vanished 😬

Anyone that has decided that we’re worthy of some £££ is responsible for the fact that we’re still going, doing more and more and more than ever and owning it all ourselves.

We’ve added The England Pod with DCW into the mix and, while that’s one for another day, good God that really has been wild - today we had our Visas approved to go and cover England at a World Cup. What is going on?! Who knows, but let’s not stop to wonder. We’re gonna keep growing and growing and see what happens.

This year, NTT20 Pod’s audience has increased by 44%. How on earth that happens ten years in, we’re not sure. We thought people would get bored of us. Maybe they will, but the growth is incredibly encouraging for the next ten… NTT20 at 20? God, that’s going to be a long post.

Thank you for reading. Thank you for everything. We march on, EFL till the earth explodes. Beers tonight with 50+ NTT20 ultras. Wow. Go well.

[Josh @JoshAlexCairo]

The UK public celebrates a genuine national treasure on his centenary, which coincides with a landslide of council votes for a political party that rejects net zero, wants to defund the institutions that Attenborough's life has enriched, and doesn't care about nature. Go figure.

[MJs Nose Job @ewwww2345]

Read the comments and you'll see why this is happening. These people aren't bots. They are parents and grandparents. They're racist and they're teaching their children to racially abuse other children from early. To the point where their children cannot be in a classroom with children of colour because they can't stop using slurs. They'll then cry that working class white children are being left behind. This is Britain now 👍🏾

[ben @bobson46]

Spare there for tomorrow, gallowgate fv #NUFC

[Richy @RichySouthern]

I’m honestly done with this season. Haven’t enjoyed it one bit.

You catch yourself wishing it away, then realise what’s coming next… another summer circus.

It’ll start with that shocking home kit launch, then straight into weeks of transfer noise.

Romano and Ornstein getting a boner linking half of our players with moves.

Calling it now. We’ll see the following transfer speculations from the off.

Joelinton to Saudi
Bruno to Man United
Tino to City
Gordon to Liverpool
Tonali to Arsenal
Trippier to Everton
Woltemade to Bayern

Same script every window. Different names, same shite.

[James Copley @JamesCopley_]

Newcastle United have not put a player forward for interview by the written press after their loss to Sunderland.

I think that’s appalling. You have to front up after a performance like that and speak to your fans.

#SAFC | #NUFC

[ben @bobson46]

@NTT20Pod Nice one, cheers!

[ben @bobson46]

@NTT20Pod hi lads, wanting to join the betting squad on telegram?

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

I Just fucking despise how we have a Possible Future Government out here Campaigning on Making everything 10 times worse for us all, while enriching themselves, & the UK Public Cheer for it.
A Born & Bred, Back-Broken Country, Locked in a Peasant mentality.

[George Scaife @Scaife51]

My thoughts on the deflection in the media around Newcastles poor form.

Newcastle fans let me know your opinions specifically on the Woltemade talk led by Shearer. #nufc

[f @finnandoalonso]

@ZakFarren My point was that yanks hate disabled people unless it's entirely self inflected as a result of their disgusting culture of consumerism. Health care fees alone make it virtually impossible to live as a disabled person, I'm not surprised they've seemingly never heard of tourettes.

[f @finnandoalonso]

Yanks think Tourettes isn't a proper disability but being a Plus Size Park Hopper is. Ridiculous country.

[Rhys @rhys_jb]

My first year of uni was completely online due to Covid in 2020 and even in my second year probably half of my lectures/seminars were still online.

Everything was literally just someone reading a PowerPoint, word for word, and half the time they genuinely didn’t even know what they were “teaching” us (they told us that themselves).

During my second year I reached out to student support and explained I was depressed and struggling with my assignments, and I was told to simply email my tutors (who then didn’t even respond to me).

Subsequently, I failed second year and chose to retake it, hoping to have a better experience now that Covid was essentially over, however it was much of the same shite, which eventually lead to me unofficially dropping my classes and getting a job instead.

£27,000 (not including the maintenance loan + tax) of debt and I’ve got no degree or even work experience (trust me, I tried) to show for it.

[juan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇭 @juasanalghaib]

my whole timeline of people just not knowing what tourettes is. do yanks just get taught nothing at school except their national anthem

[𝐃𝐈𝐆𝐁 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @_DIGB]

In fairness the yanks discovering Tourette’s syndrome is a step in the right direction

Just wait until they discover gun control and not electing paedophiles as their president

[ben @bobson46]

@CraigHope_DM Hypocrisy is mental considering if you put Murph’s brain in a sheep it’d bark like a dog. Almost always makes the incorrect decision

[ben @bobson46]

@EwanWishart_ Think it’s fair to suggest the mags could be back

[CPFC HQ @CPFCHQ]

Fucking hell hahaha

[Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @Toadsanime]

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple was very, very, very good, and I'd like you all to see it please as it's not doing so hot at the box office and I'd like the third film to happen, cheers.