00:00 And look, I mean, the Keen vs Fiera debate is so badly played out by this point that
00:04 everyone watching this is either going to be too young to care, or sufficiently old
00:09 that they would have made up their minds 15 years ago.
00:11 So I'm fully aware that we are beating the deadest horse you could possibly imagine at
00:16 this point.
00:17 Hello, I'm Jason Jones, one of the three ad administrators of Fantasy Fiberside, a
00:28 programme in which we put together the best possible five man team based on some extremely
00:31 specific requirements.
00:32 This week, we're going to come up with the best possible team made up of Premier League
00:36 captains, and I'm joined by Matthew Gregory to help me out.
00:39 Here's how it works.
00:40 We each take it in turns to propose a legendary former captain from the Premier League for
00:44 our team, have a heated argument, and then settle on a skipper that will make it onto
00:48 the pitch.
00:49 And as always, we do have to start in net, so I'm going to propose that we begin our
00:52 Fiberside team with Peter Schmeichel.
00:55 Probably the greatest son of a Polish jazz musician ever to play in top flight football.
01:01 A gigantic figure on and off the field, just filled the frame of the goal pretty much every
01:07 single game he played.
01:08 He seemed to be twice the size that he really was.
01:12 Captain of course, when Manchester United won the treble in 1999, he had the armband
01:16 during the Champions League final in the Nou Camp, and just a massive figure.
01:21 He was always famous for shouting the pants off of the defenders in front of him.
01:26 He was one of those real generals, one of those guys who would just scream a defence
01:30 into order.
01:31 And he was just such a titanic figure.
01:33 I think he put off so many strikers that he was...
01:37 It wasn't just that he was a great shot stopper that allowed him to make so many saves, keep
01:41 so many clean sheets down the years.
01:42 It was that he was just enormous.
01:45 And he would just terrify a lot of opposing strikers into making bad finishes, into getting
01:51 things wrong, because you'd see this gigantic red-nosed Dane bearing down on you.
01:56 And I think it just was one of those things that put the frighteners up quite a lot of
01:59 the opponents.
02:00 And if we're building a fiver-side team, I think terrifying the opposition into submission
02:04 is a reasonable strategy to go about things.
02:06 So they're certainly not going to get any high-quality management off of us.
02:10 So if we can just use psychological warfare, I think that's probably our best bet.
02:14 So yeah, I think Peter Schmeichel would be a pretty great addition to the side.
02:18 You imagine how good he'd be in a seven-a-side net as well.
02:20 We're talking about him playing in an 11-a-side net.
02:22 In a seven-a-side net, he'd probably dwarf it, wouldn't he?
02:26 When I was a kid...
02:27 Yeah, he made full-size goal look like a fiver-side goal.
02:30 Absolutely, mate.
02:31 When I was a kid, I used to think that his name was Peter Schmeichel.
02:36 I thought his surname was Michael.
02:38 Yeah, I know.
02:39 Bit of a rude awakening.
02:42 Yeah, no, I think it's hard to disagree with Peter Schmeichel.
02:46 I think that there's a strong argument to him to be made for him being maybe the best
02:51 Premier League goalkeeper of all time.
02:52 He's certainly in the sort of top three, top five in that discussion, isn't he?
02:55 So yeah, I think that's a very, very fair shout.
02:58 I'd quite like to give an honourable mention though to Hugo Lloris.
03:02 Now, I know Hugo Lloris maybe doesn't have the sort of domestic silverware to compete
03:07 with a Peter Schmeichel, but we are talking about a World Cup winner here, of course.
03:10 And I think what he did, obviously he's still at Tottenham, although it would appear that
03:14 his time is sort of slowly winding down there, but what he's done during his spell at Tottenham
03:20 and he's been captain for a long, long time there as well, let's not forget, has been
03:23 quite remarkable.
03:24 He's consistently been one of the best shot-stoppers in the Premier League.
03:29 He was really a key figure in sort of reinvigorating that Tottenham side when you think about Ronda
03:34 Pochettino, the likes of Kane and Ali, when they really sort of pushed on and looked like
03:38 title contenders.
03:39 Lloris was obviously there through all of that.
03:42 And yeah, I just think he's been a wonderful mainstay, a real steadfast figure at Spurs
03:46 for such a long, long time and a real model captain as well.
03:49 The other end of the spectrum is Schmeichel, obviously you're talking about this real sort
03:52 of vocal figure.
03:53 I feel like Lloris is perhaps a little more understated, maybe goes about things in a
03:58 slightly different way.
04:00 But I still think that he, throughout his time at Tottenham, has shown fantastic leadership
04:04 credentials.
04:05 And I do think that he's been really a remarkable presence in the Premier League for a long,
04:09 long time.
04:10 That being said, Matt, I do think I'm going to sort of struggle to argue against Peter
04:15 Schmeichel on this one.
04:16 I think he might have this one in the bag, mate.
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