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Jun 2019
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Best of 2011/12: Cloning Ian Woan, Didie...

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You join us again in the time machine as we head back to the 2011/12 season! This time around, there is a truly fantastic array of jewels from the Ramble crown. We check in with Gigi Becali for the first time this series, hear of Jonathan Woodgate nutting a glass bottle in Ibiza and get our teeth into a Dog XI. Plus, the seminal work ‘If We Could Clone Ian Woan’.


All that plus Euro 2012 predictions, Bob Hippy and loads more! Bobby dazzler!


Many thanks to infamous YouTuber Linford Grimes for their inspiration and help in compiling old content. We salute you.


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