Welcome to Episode 60 of The Half & Half Scarf Football Podcast with Nick & Dom.

This episode is simply entitled "Observations & Stuff"

After 7 back-to-back episodes of World Cup distraction and then last week's excellent Episode 59 with Sports Writing "Royalty", Harry Harris, we are back to our heartland for our listeners and viewers - domestic football across various divisions.

Whilst it may seem odd that we don't cover the recent Infantino scandal, this episode was recorded BEFORE his announcement to "sell off the family silver", but we do start with a couple of legacy World Cup observations, and we are confident that Mr Infantino will create more scandal and headlines for us to jump on in the coming weeks.

We then move on to a host of random observations from pre-season to season-eve, including, though not exclusive to;

• Comparisons between La Liga & The Premier League from one of the game's legends
• Where we saw a Half & Half Scarf - why, and who is buying them?
• Chelsea & Villa swapping players - unfairly!
• Why would Summerville want to go to Saudi at his age - oh wait?
• Why Championship clubs should fear Bolton over 98 minutes?
• What we think the chances are for Wolves, Burnley & West Ham all going straight back up?
• Are Sheffield United in trouble & how will Chris Wilder react?
• The best ever "vote of confidence" in a Manager
• Preston spending BIG on a great young player
• What award can a Stoke player win this coming season?
• And more.....

A proper clear the decks" episode before the new season kicks off..... We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed recording it....

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