Crottster.

WBA.

[Crottster. @GeeCeeWBA]

@FootballCliches you had a feature on MHD a while ago about bad world cup bunting, look at the absolute state of this in my local. India, Israel and Somalia all included

[Crottster. @GeeCeeWBA]

After what dicks Southampton were throughout our playoffs with them, this is absolutely glorious 😂😂

[Crottster. @GeeCeeWBA]

EUROVISION ULTRAS, ASSEMBLE

[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.

[Crottster. @GeeCeeWBA]

If you're feeling like you enjoyed last night's game too much, have a listen to Guardian Football Weekly, to remind you it's all actually shit and you shouldn't enjoy things.

[The England Pod @England_Pod]

March Squad Reaction Pod. 🚨

@AliMaxwell_ and @D_C_W react to Tuchel’s 35-man England squad and his comments on some big omissions and surprise call-ups. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🎙️

[Crottster. @GeeCeeWBA]

You can't beat a comfortable to wear shorts away day

[Req💎𓅪 @EliteReq]

West Brom's last 5 away wins on a Saturday 3:00pm kickoff:
August 2024: 2-1 vs Stoke
September 2023: 4-0 vs Preston
April 2023: 2-1 vs Stoke
January 2023: 3-2 vs Luton
October 2022: 2-0 vs Reading

[UTA 𓅪 @Albion316]

23rd in the championship before him

5th under him

21st after him.

A player who ran like he was towing a caravan talking about intensity. Laughable. #wba

[James @JamesFl]

The amount of white-haired folks in that audience; positively giddy at the prospect of dictating how *I* should work and earn - to pay all my taxes - to fund their ironclad pension hikes and fortnightly dawdle down to the GP.
Least self-aware generation there'll ever be.

[Crottster. @GeeCeeWBA]

@theenglishwolf Came through about half 7 last night 🥳

[Crottster. @GeeCeeWBA]

World cup tickets secured for this fellas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 VINDALOOOOOOOOO

[Daniel Hewitt @DanielHewittITV]

Tactically tonight again the subs were a mess. Grant was dominant out wide but was moved into the middle; Mowatt had to go off but Diakete was never the right replacement; Maja is bang out of form and has showed no signs of changing. Subs killed the momentum. Again. #wba

[Crottster. @GeeCeeWBA]

@Yas_Wisden @StocksC_cricket In fairness they thought they'd get more days per test to practice

[Crottster. @GeeCeeWBA]

Goals since the 17th November:

Erling Haaland: 0

Aune Heggebo: 4

@norway #wba

[Crottster. @GeeCeeWBA]

Molumby starting. FFS

[Crottster. @GeeCeeWBA]

Hope Molumbys one and only brain cell feels as bad as I do this morning

[Crottster. @GeeCeeWBA]

@England_Pod Was Tuchel just trying to wind Ali up finally resting Kane the first time in ages no one's talking about it being needed?

[Crottster. @GeeCeeWBA]

We will never ever learn our lesson about taking players from Villa, especially on loan. It doesn't work!

[Lewis Cox @LewisCox_star]

Exclusive: Albion in for Villa winger Samuel Iling-Junior on loan. Offer in. Left-sided attacker and can play deeper, LWB/LB. Has other suitors but optimism deal for Eng u21 int. can get done. #wba #avfc
https://t.co/VoBsGu0BCH

[Crottster. @GeeCeeWBA]

Who on earth convinced Ipswich our old back 5 would get them promoted?