Listen, I'm enjoying it, but Hastings and it's like It's so clever. I did cry, but I like constrained it because I was like I've just done my makeup like this has to last until I finish the book tonight Hello detectives who's ready to solve some mystery figuring this out I'm like Scooby and shaggy. I'm solving a mystery. Hello friends. Welcome this week We are gonna be reading all madden mysteries. Let me hear you cheer. I like to do this vlog every november Like at least once a year a week of just reading madden mysteries because they're my favorite thing I don't know november like I feel like october is horror and I feel like november's mystery I just feel like you know with like by the fireplace like winter setting in Imagine being trapped in a stately home right now solving a mystery So yeah in this vlog we are gonna be reading all madden mysteries I'm gonna have the best time ever like I feel like part of me just wants to read all madden mysteries forever But you know there's other books to read. So let's check about what we're gonna be reading together in this vlog Now originally I was gonna be reading kill of a certain age by diana ray born I'm pretty sure I put this on this month's tbr clue though, but then just as I was about to start filming this I was like, I don't think this is a murder mystery and I don't think it's I've just made a massive mistake and now I'm really annoyed I asked my patrons on on instagram and I got various responses. This is like about Assassins essentially, but I don't think any of them are murdered. It's like attempted murder mystery But I've decided to like not read this. So sorry tbr clue though I've lied to you because this is not happening anymore So I put up a poll on my patron for my team lux and rora patrons of different books I know are murder mysteries for them to choose which one of them I should read and pretty unanimously the twyford code By janice hallett won the poll so we're gonna be reading this all I know about this one Is it's to do with coding like I know it's all audio files So the whole book is told through like voice notes essentially It's something to do with like like a code in a children's book of a disgraced Children's author and like our protagonist trying to solve the code from the book or something Yeah, this was like pretty unanimously voted on which I was surprised because like ruth where I was in there for the poll But like everyone wants me to read the twyford code. So maybe it bodes well. Maybe I'm gonna love this the appeal by janice hallett I prefer really not to Not to speak. I think I was harsh. I gave it a 3.5. It is more of a 4 I gave it 3.5 because I was expecting it to be my favorite book of all time and it wasn't But I feel like maybe I will have better luck with this one Then I have been in such a mood to read I got the christie lately I haven't read an agatha christie in a long time and I've spoken about I've done a few videos lately where agatha christie has come up But I'm like, I haven't read a proro in a while especially made progress in the series chronologically where I'm reading it I've only read death on an art this year. It's been the only christie I've read this year So we're going to make more progress in the series and we're going to read perla entals. This is the next in the proro series This is how far am I in there one two three four five six seven eight? Okay? This is eight although I have skipped black coffee, which is like a play, but it's included here So technically this is my seventh that I'm reading. I've read Mert on the wrong express in death on an art which are further in the series But other than that I've only read in the order and all I know about this is that I think it's about a girl who Someone keeps trying to kill her and proro wants to figure out what's going on You know christie's books are just a comforting read. They're very short. They're just easy to get through So I feel like this will be a nice Book to also break up the two newer releases. We're gonna be reading and then finally I think I will leave this to the end because like I've just read babble by the way Go check out the vlog if you haven't seen it because youtube screwed me a little bit and like the algorithm was like Because I missed a few uploads. So it's punished it but go watch my vlog where I read babble because or babel, sorry We're going to get into the whole babble babel debate. I've spoken about it enough You guys told me either was fine. So I've been saying either and some people said no It's only babel and you're embarrassing us and I'm like, what is the truth? What is the truth? Anyways, that is my favorite book of the year It's become my favorite book of the year and this is the other book So I said earlier this year could become my favorite book of the year And it is The Bullet That Miss by Richard Osman. This is the next in the Thursday murder club series I'm quaking in my boots. I don't mean to make her nervous That much if you don't know, this is one of my favorite series ever I've given the first two five stars. The first one was my favorite book that I read last year I've heard a lot of people saying this is better than the second one. I did like the second one But I didn't like I mean, of course I loved it, but I didn't love it as much I love the first one and I'm hoping I might love this as much as I loved the first one So we'll see how it goes, but I am nervous treat this one So we'll probably with this last and we will start with the twyford code Do you miss me at all? Do you think about the things we used to do? Who you couldn't stand all? So why didn't you why didn't you call? So many years has gone by But I think about you about you all the time looks like you're changing and all Why didn't you why didn't you call? Okay, so I am halfway through the twyford code, but I thought since I was just using my serious light I would chat about them with you because they are very kindly sponsored in this video And I thought this would be a good time to chat because I've literally just been using it to read I'm obsessed with this light. I'm obsessed. 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Anyway, I'm actually on reading spirits my patrons and uspent is just about to end So I'll talk to them briefly and then I'll come back to you and chat about the twyford code Let's chat the twyford code. So I am halfway through Now this is by the author of the appeal that one is a murder mystery told through emails This one is a murder mystery told entirely through like audio files like a phone recording someone recording themselves Talking into their phone essentially basically the plot is our main character is a guy who's just got out of prison He's been in and out of crime pretty much all his life And he's just gone out of prison and he remembers a time That he found this book and his teacher took it off him And it turned out to be a book by edith twyford who is very it's very much based off edith blight That is not correct enid blighten. Oh my god. Okay. So it was this book and his teacher was like it's banned But she became very interested in it and took this class There's like six of them on a school trip and then disappeared But like he doesn't have very good memory of what happened like we got home somehow Did she drive us home or did one of us drive the van home? He doesn't know what happens But after that it seems like she maybe went missing and it seems like there's a code in Her books. Maybe there's authors books that he wants to investigate Now it does stay on the front It's time to solve the murder of the century. There hasn't really been a murder yet unless the teacher has been murdered like that Wouldn't call it the murder of the century if like the murder hasn't we haven't got a dead body yet They mean now originally because this is all audio files. I was gonna get the audio book But the audio book is one narrator Whereas this is like the perfect kind of book that they should have a full cast like it should be a full cast and also At the start of every entry and there's quite a lot. Can you see is it gonna focus? So it says audio file It says the date and time and it says the audio quality and apparently from my research The idea of when I was seeing whether I should buy the audio book or not It says all of those before each audio file and I was like, oh, I'll just go and order that Like I hate when I'm listening to audio book and like stuff is read out that I you don't like when you see it on the page You kind of scan it, but you don't read it properly Um, and I can just imagine that getting really annoying So I I didn't get the audio book in the end, but I am enjoying this I'm really enjoying it now The main thing I have to talk about is like the style of writing because it's very different The idea is that these audio files have been transcribed by a software and so some things it gets wrong So like gun gun like gonna like I'm gonna do this keeps being described as gun a The teacher is called miss aisles and it keeps being transcribed as missiles. There's loads of stuff So occasionally like things don't make sense You realize that's because the words are wrong and that's it's a very interesting reading experience Because you have to kind of like get used to it And I feel like this is the kind of book you need to sit down And read in one go because every time you put it down and pick it back up again It takes you a while to get you to the writing style So I'm Hoping to read the second half tonight really because it doesn't take long to read once you get going once you get going It's such a quick read But I find that when I'm picking up like for short bursts each time It takes me ages to get into it But it's a very unique way of telling the book and I really like our main character You know, he's an older man who's been in and out of prison who struggles with reading And he's a very interesting perspective to read from so I'm really enjoying him And it's reminding me. I when I did drama at a level I loved drama one of the plays that we performed was called little revolution. I think and that was a verbatim play So the the author of the play author Had gone round during that they were set during the 2011 riots in london and had gone around and recorded conversations on her phone And that was such fun to to perform because it's like It you have to say as it's written and like you have to make sure people talk over each other when when they're talking over each other in your life And so it's just reminding me a lot of that I really admire what janice hallett is doing in the murder mystery world because her books are so different than what anyone else is doing like she is very special and um I really she's special. She's doing something different. She's coming at us with the mix media Vibes and she she's imaginative. Even if it's I don't know if it's gonna be five stars At the moment, it's like a strong four, you know, I'm really really enjoying it And I think actually like me not loving the appeal thinking it was gonna be five stars Actually is like putting me in better stead with her books afterwards because I'm kind of just going into them with an open mind Whatever happens happens versus the appeal. I had like the biggest hopes and dreams Yeah, anyways, I'm gonna try and finish this off tonight And I will let you in the morning What I thought of it, but it's very interesting They're trying to hack they're trying to figure out this code But like you're having to infer a lot because you're not getting told like a lot of stuff happens off page And also when you are reading stuff, it can get a bit confusing. So I don't know. It's just very very unique. So yeah, I'll see you in the morning with my thoughts So I finished the twyford code and I would say for the majority of the book I was thinking, okay, this is a four star. This is a four star, right? But the ending The ending is a five star ending. It's one of my favorite endings. I've read so far this year Like I think just the way that So I've just got to take a moment This is just amazing I'm like getting goosebumps thinking about it The way that the ending comes together and like Because of the ending, this is the kind of book you want to reread like 10 times Like I think this could be such a fun book to come back to and reread.  It was such a good ending. So I'm gonna give this a 4.5 overall It's not quite a five, but I definitely prefer the sea appeal. I just thought the ending like It's so clever. I really enjoyed the different style of story You know the fact that this is like verbatim written is really interesting and um, I just call quite emotional at the end Like the ending and the way Ah, it's really hard not to spoil anything because I really feel like the ending makes this book But just the way it's like a really it's just a really clever book. It's a really clever book I think if you liked the appeal, you'll like this even more I generally feel like that because the ending really reveals so much about the rest of the book that you didn't realize right I love when a book does that. There's some acroquities that I could mention, but I'm not going to I don't want to get into spoiler territory But there's just like when a book has a clever ending that makes you rethink the way you felt about the rest of the book is so So so good. I loved it. Now there is something I want to talk about And it's is this a matter of mystery I say no Now I thought long and hard before I filmed this about how I was going to speak about this to you without spoiling anything because people get like Upset about spoilers. So if you care, I'll put the timestamp below where I finish talking about this But I I've tried really hard in the way that I'm going to frame this and talk about this to not spoil anything for you Okay, so I think you're in safe hands But if you care, you can skip ahead. So this is a missing person mystery, right? You open the book and you get told that these audio files have been found on a phone of a recently reported missing person Right, that's where they've come from and then the rest of the book goes into the audio files Now missing person mysteries can in my opinion be murder mysteries, right? Example I think of first is the Paris apartment by Lucy Foley I class out as a murder mystery in that Our main character has gone to Paris and her brother is missing and she is trying to investigate Has he been killed or has he gone missing another way? Right? There's no body. You know, he's missing But she's trying to figure out, you know, him being killed is a real possibility Because of the way this is written where you're just told at the beginning These audio files have been found here of this missing person And then almost the whole book the book's like 360 pages and up until page 320 the whole book is these audio files of the person You know the guy our protagonist who you assume is the missing person because it's his phone It's him in the past contemporaneously describing the situation of him trying to solve The twyford code, right? Trying to figure out what the truth behind this code in these kids books is And then at the end just like in the appeal There's an investigation, right? Now the appeal is a murder mystery because at the beginning you're told There has been a murder. There's a body Right and you're going to get all the emails of the suspects and then there's going to be you're going to investigate it The end this is similar and you get all the audio files and then there's like an investigation at the end of growing Right, what does that mean? What does that mean for the mystery? But in the appeal is a body And in this there's not a body now, of course it still can be a murder mystery I'm not saying whether there's death at the end of this or not But like because the book doesn't start off with like there's a body because it starts off with there's a missing person And then almost the entirety of the book is that person Talking to us to call it the murder of the century is just untrue That's the thing. I think I object to like it's it's tenuous for me Whether this could be class as a murder mystery or not the fact like it says it on the front and then on the inside It's time to solve the murder of the century I don't think that can be I don't think it can be class as the murder of the century if we don't get a body At the beginning. I don't think I've sport anything there. I really have tried not to But yeah, missing person mysteries can be murder mysteries, but I think because of this the way this is framed I don't I I wouldn't class it as that Listen, we swapped this into the vlog so that I would actually read a murder mystery and it's like it's tenuous You can tell the girls are annoyed, but What a shame. I loved this. It's so multi layered It's like when you get into it like I said it takes your world to get used to the style of writing But once you get into it like it reads so fast And it's just so clever. I loved the ending of this So yeah 4.5 and I do like actually I know I've been speaking for forever, but I do like how janis hallett's books have that investigation at the end We're like, okay Someone has gone through all the material that we've just gone through because it makes you feel like a detective Because then when the investigation is happening and then you feel like you're going through it with them So I am so excited janis hallett's next book comes out in January and I'm so excited for it because it's mixed mixed media, right? I think that's what held this back from being a 5 even though I understand why this is all audio files The next one is going to be a mix of like interviews emails Whatever, like it's going to be all types of mixed medias and it's about a cult I believe so I'm really really really excited I'm probably going to read that in January. I'm just like I'm really excited But yeah, really glad I finally read this. I am now we're saving the ball at the mist for last because I Feel we're ready to read it So we're going to have a nice quick fun time with peril end house by agatha christie and I'm very excited Equestria cooked and then got ready listen When all of a sudden I hear this agitated grating I don't like your hastings. Sorry. No offense if you If you don't know hastings is a character who's friends with proro and he narrates a lot of the early proro books And I was like, I forgot I forgot It's part of his personality and part of the running joke that he's like a pompous Man of society, I guess who is like kind of stupid and he's always wrong Like whatever he thinks is happening in the mystery. He's like very very wrong So usually if he sings like really like someone usually Suspect them But I looked it up and he only narrates like the next one lord edward dies and the abc murders And then one right at the end. So I'm almost out. Yeah, I just like I just prefer the ones he's not in I'm sorry hastings But let's talk about the plot. So basically Hastings on proro.   I'm like at least one person dies in a christie book and i'm enjoying it It's not going to be my favorite agatha christie, but it's just like such an easy read, right? Such a fun time. They're really comfort reads for me.   It won't take me long to take like an hour or something And I'll let you know what I think I finished parallel end house and I'm gonna give this 3.5 styles Which is like very unusual. I enjoyed this right? I I felt like it was just like a cosy enjoyable read, you know didn't require much brain work It was just fun to be reunited with proro, but it's unusual because I feel like the more I think about it I either give agatha christie like a low rating or a high rating You know, it's either five stars murder on your express death on the ground murder roge atcroyd or it's like low low like the big four mystery the blue train like All of the agatha christie stands coming at me for saying that clap if you find the defensive clap But I feel like this was just a you know early christie at her best You know, it's set in this stately home stately home murder mystery with this kind of like likable But unlikable cast of characters like group of friends who seemingly hate each other I just really enjoyed it and I thought the reveal was really good I did not predict the reveal, but it was like it was good christie where like Once she wants to reveal has happened and it's been explained How did I not notice that like it's so annoying thing I enjoyed probably most about this was proro was really funny in this way Proro can be a funny character right because he's like and this is where the kenneth brunner recent adaptations fail to Show him off in his best light. I haven't watched the david sushi Like adaptations yet, but I do really want to but proro is fairly like, uh, what's the word? I don't know how to describe it like vain Both in terms of his like, you know Ability as a detective but also his appearance and stuff And um, I don't know. He was just funny like he was a proro was funny in this book Also, he kept dunking on Hastings and I'm here for that like Sipping on that truity, honey.  I would really recommend if you want to get into ice christie The audiobooks are really really good. And yeah, this had a lot of good a lot of good twists I'm very excited to read the next one, which is lord edge where dies And then I'll do a reread of murder on norwin express So I feel like I'm in a good a good place for getting through my proro. Listen, it's a lifelong journey I'm literally like Up here in the list and I've got This to read but I am not in a rush, you know when I read an agatha It's a fun time It's almost like a palette cleanser and I really enjoyed it But like I feel like a full stuff for me like I have to be like, oh my god like Really enjoyed that whereas I don't know. This just wasn't quite there I was just like reading it passively in a way. It's not like a disappointed 3.5. It's like, oh, yeah Okay, 3.5, you know, oh, also, I just want to say I haven't mentioned this but I'm gonna start doing it for all of my vlogs I just made an affiliate shop or something with bookshop.org Which is this isn't sponsored or anything. I've just made The thing and I'm letting you know about it. Yeah, it's like this website where if you buy books it supports independent bookshops And I've made a shop on there and I'm gonna make lists of all the books are in every vlog each time I make a vlog There'll be a link in the description if you want to go purchase a book I've mentioned through that link. It will go to independent bookshops And I'll also get a little bit of a kickback from it being an affiliate link So I just thought I'd let you know I'll probably mention it a few more times here and there because it's like a new thing I'm doing I've never really done like affiliate links or anything But like, I don't know if I'm recommending you a book and you want to go buy it Go buy it from there and support independent bookshop at the same time and it helps me out a bit So, you know, we'll win-win Now we're gonna start the bullet. I feel sick. We're gonna start the bullet at miss by Richard Osman I'm nervous because I mean, I don't know why I'm nervous. I'm very excited. But like, you know, I want to love it really bad I do really want to love it. This is the third in the Thursday Meta Club series I'm scared there's only gonna be one more from everything I've read. He signed up for four books And I know he started writing a different series. So that doesn't bode well For me and my emotion So like once I've read this we're over halfway through the series, which I really don't like But yeah, this is a Meta mystery series following Uh group of characters out of time at village who get up to high jinks. It's a lot of fun I will try in my discussions not to spoil the first two But yeah, I'm gonna try and read the first 100 pages tonight. How long is it about okay, 420 pages I would like to read the first 100 pages tonight and check in with you It is a fairly quick read. So I don't think it will take me that long. Oh, that's convenient part one is up to page 97 part two starts on page 101 because of the page break So I will read part one and I'll get back to you 100 pages of the bit at the miss I'm Really enjoying it. I haven't even thought about what I'm gonna say to you. I've just turned up I literally got to that point reading this book and reading this series It just feels like a warm hug going back to old friends coming home. I love it so much. It's just so Comforting and just brings me so much joy and I'm already just in love I don't know what to say to you You know each of the books in the Thursday murder club series follow the Thursday murder club Investigating a different murder mystery and this one's an interesting one because it is a murder that happened many years ago It's a cold case of this young tv producer who was investigating a fraud case And she died we think She basically was seen on cctv like in her car with an unidentified passenger in it And then that car was found driven off the side of a cliff With blood in it and her clothes in it, but nobody and it's assumed that her body Was thrown from the car when it was pushed off the cliff by whoever killed her I'm here to investigate And find out what had happened and they're collaborating with like the local I love this. So somebody studied journalism and like had to Pay attention to like local bbc news. She was like a presenter for that And they're trying to collaborate with the guy who's like, oh my god There's so many of these guys and we're like he is the older guy who's been on the tv the news like local news Station for years But like he's never made it bigger than that but he's like so well known like he's like that guy so he thinks he's great because he's always just like Newsing it up, you know, but like I don't have to describe it Anyway, so they're like collaborating with him and stuff from the past couple books Is also kind of coming back to bite them in the ass, which is interesting I feel like the first book was pretty self-contained So not much of it bled over into second book But I feel like stuff from the second book is bleeding into this one. How cute is a little foxy But I just love it. I love the writing. I think rich doesman's writing is So so so good, you know, I always say to people although he is like a celebrity author in a way His background. I didn't realize to quite. Sorry, my chair is very squeaky To quite what extent but he before he was like presenting in tv was a tv Is produced the right word like he'd go to tv companies and pitch them ideas for shows and he came up with so many Famous show ideas. Let me try and find some examples for you like really well known tv shows He came up with them and then he ended up doing some presenting. This is wikipedia So like take a grain of salt whose line is it anyway? Total wipeout uh deal or no deal I don't know if he came up with those ones off. He was just involved in working with them But he can write, you know He's a clever man and the stuff that these books say about life and about loving other people And although it's about mademoisery You know loving other people and mortality because obviously it's elderly characters and I feel like Because of that it can afford to give some really insightful Looks at what life really means and what we should be paying attention to and what we should be thankful for And that's part of the big reason why I love it. I love these characters These books are just like home for me. You know, I love them. I love them. I having the best time So it's like half nine. I want to read to maybe like page 250. So I'm pretty gonna read what I can tonight Go out for a nice walk in the morning. Then come back and settle down and read some more of it That's my that's my big plan for tomorrow So I will see you in the morning once I've read a bit more Pages in and I'm still loving it. I think I prefer this to the second one I mean the second one was five stars. So like it's not really You know a competition if five stars is five stars But I think that I am enjoying this even more. What is fun about this one is that okay, so we have had Like a second. I don't know if you call it a mystery, but like You know big plot incident that the plot is revolving around happen But I'm not gonna tell you about it because I don't want to spoil anything I think it's hinted at the snobbish It's to do the Elizabeth's past who's one of our main galleys You know got Elizabeth Joyce Ron Ibrahim and it's like to do the Elizabeth's past and stuff that happened in the second Book so it's a bit more like Thrillery, so it's like it's maybe a bit tense. I feel worried right the thing is With a series with old characters people go die at some point And we're also in very difficult, uh, you know dangerous situations. So I'm just like wow I'm really fit. I'm scared we're gonna have a death like we've had deaths before in the first and second books But I'm scared we have a death that's gonna like Get me emotionally In the at the end of this book I did cry but I like constrained it because I was like I've just done my makeup Like this has to last until I finish the book tonight But that's the thing I always say about this series You know it will have you crying one second and laughing the next and it's just such an amazing look at the human psyche And the human You know the way that we feel and the way that we Want to be loved and like just everything about humanity. I think it puts such a lens up to us also being humorous And thinking about you know mad mystery I think also I am enjoying like the other the main thing I told you about is a cold case they're Investigating and I like it's a cold case a lot in the other books We've had like a murder or something at the beginning of the book like something that's happening to them in their real life At that moment and they're kind of investigating it Whereas I like this a cold case because it like they're unable to draw on as much information They're really having to like Try and make links between people or like this is years and years ago, right? The truth can get buried over a decade And so they're really trying to have to sift through people's memories and And what people could possibly have slipped up with 10 years ago to try and uncover this So I'm really enjoying that angle of it. I'm intrigued. I feel like the two things that are now happening Need to connect somewhat for the book to feel like truly whole And so I'm a bit nervous and intrigued as to how that's going to happen But yeah, I'm just gonna go ahead and go sit downstairs. I'm going to have dinner now But then after that I am just going to go Finish this book and I could not be more excited. All right. All right. All right. All right All right, sorry. I'm just sorting out the wise So it's very late, but I just finished The Bill at the Mist by Rich Ellsman Five stars. I loved it Loved it so much. I just This series it's just a treat, right? It makes me want to cry and like I did cry. I cried more if you read the series It's always I both instances in this book where I cried were with Stephen Elizabeth's husband Who I don't want to say anything because I don't know what you know in the first book, but like I'm not gonna cry Maybe I'll cry. I would just describe my parents probably downstairs My mom has read this and she loved it loves them as well. Um, I was like describing it talking about it They're seeing it. Yeah Yeah, I was thinking about it though. Like I cried like Like Torrential tears in the first book and I haven't the second and third and I feel like that's because in the first one I was just unprepared for like the sheer show of humanity that was about Take plays and just like I know I keep saying it but like The compassion that these books have and the heart and the soul Like I just don't think I was prepared for that I was I didn't know what I was letting myself in for as now I know the tone like I know what's coming So I can kind of like I guess anticipate it better but I mean listen, I love it. If you've ever thought about picking up the Thursday Madder Club series I would a hundred percent recommend you do. I really hope we're gonna get more than just one more book It's I feel like it's either gonna be one more or two more But this series can't go on forever, you know Because part of the the beauty of it is Knowing that you don't have like your whole life ahead of you anymore and being grateful for what you do have and finding joy in the now and the today And I just think these are just some of my favorite books because they teach you so much about life without being like This is a book that's going to teach you about life. Do you know what I mean? It sells it's just it sells it to you as a murder mystery. It has a great murder mystery But then there's always something more. I loved it. I love it so much. So yeah five stars What I say this is my favorite book of the year when I babble is still my fable It's still my favorite book of the year But I would say this is probably gonna be top ten Whereas I don't think the second one is gonna be I reckon this is gonna be somewhere in the top ten I don't know. I haven't really sat down and thought about that yet I'm keeping it a surprise for myself to figure out at the end of the What my top ten favorite books of the year are but it's in my my content calendar is coming I know when it's coming that day is approaching. God everyone. Are you excited for Christmas? I am so excited for all the content. I've got coming up the next vlog I'm starting on you guys gonna be so excited for I like a lot of Christmas vlogs coming wrapped ups coming back I don't know why I'm talking to you about this at the end of the video Yeah, I'm just super excited for everything and this I just loved it So, yeah, um, I hope you enjoyed the vlog me reading three murder mysteries It was a very successful vlog actually a 4.5 a 3.5 and a 5 like that is pretty successful for a vlog I really enjoyed my time reading all of these books So let me know if you've read any of them if you want to read any of them If you want to get your hands on any of them you can check out my bookshop.org shop down below Thank you so much for watching this video if you got into the end of the video Comment the dagger or like I think it's called a kitchen knife emoji comment down below if you got to end Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye


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Welcome back to the program, it's the touchline and of because, this time around, it's the fans on the f�an 17 segment where we discussed international football. The impact of corona virus also known as COVID-19 has been so massive to an extent at several tournaments, championships, leagues have been suspended to further notice English ambition being the latest of course being suspended until April 3rd and now the chances of Liverpool Ina nakuwa hwata su Mrs. Cjampiwenan, Arain Limbo, Arunutu, Toko Tutonamani,mente Yaumilu, Naalifika Njwisha, Kupilwa nunguwa, Nueva, Kava, Sini Ukeza, Kupilwa hava naunilu. Keno tato, Ando Jo Zaina, Kofu petu suhan... Fico, Cwa Nani? Ukeza, How you doing? I'm fine, thank you, and I'm happy to be in the show once again. Joe, United fans are also happy, of course not happy that COVID-19 is with us, but happy that Bruno Fernandez is finally the man they were lacking and brought a lot of changes in the team. We've seen since this departure United recording good performance. Since his arrival, they've been good performances. He was a final jigsaw in the puzzle, I believe, because there was a void between the midfielder and the attacking. Also the supply chain to the attacking front end, being the left attacking forward, right attacking forward and the centre forward. So I think and also the idea of him always wanting to run forward, always wanting to be in the box, always wanting to be on the final end of that ball to score, I think was quite important because that hunger ceased to exist. We can't take away anything from Fred, we can't take anything away from Maktumne, we can't take anything away from Lingard, but you need to execute these finishes. I think we were talking with Fred earlier on about how you can have the hunger but you're not executing and you gave us an example of David James whereby he's not having that hunger to score, yes, but he's having all these runs that he's making. So for Bruno to come in and not only change the gameplay of Manchester United to a fast pace attractive game and also to score goals that were really needed when the attacking front end or not bringing them in is quite important. Quite important Fred Openda, of course we have a lot of headlines to discuss about, one of them is the impact of COVID-19. We had earlier on talked about it at Lens but now the latest, Bundesliga also suspended. I think the suspension has come after the news that some of the players in the big leagues have come into contact with the virus and we were saying you never know where you're going to contact this virus. We saw the other day the Arsenal manager Mikaela Ateta was tested positive of the virus although the Chelsea wing did test positive of the virus. So it's good for humanity just to suspend these games because these are the games as we were saying sport brings people together. Even if you're going to play these games indoors, what if there's a case of a player that maybe has come into contact with the virus. So it's better we suspend these leagues and maybe in two, three weeks then we might be able to get which way forward. Just saying I was speaking about Bruno Fernandez, I think it's he's something else that you may have been missing in that midfield. He's creating Chelsea's scoring goals although some of them from the penalty spot but they are goals and he's been able to supply, he's been a good that link that was missing that supply chain of United from that midfield that they're attacking and I think he's gonna actually they don't even feel, do you miss Paul Pogba? Just before we get into that particular aspect of Paul Pogba's absence and arrival of Bruno Fernandez, Liverpool have been the favourites since the season started. They have been on the verge of being crown champions for 19th time and now this pandemic of COVID-19 seems like it's causing Liverpool fans sleepless nights because in the event that this situation escalates further of course we're not praying that it goes further we're hoping that it will end soon but in the event that it escalates the league might be declared null and void. We've seen English Premier League management saying that they will have a meeting on Thursday to review the way forward on whether the league should progress or it should be terminated. Would that be too unfair to Liverpool considering they are consistent twins? I think for Liverpool fans it would be so unfair for them but for the other teams especially for other teams I think it would be especially Arsenal because I didn't say Arsenal on alphabetical order but I think it's so bad for them it's so bad for them but I think it should at least give other chances other teams an opportunity you know but I would say they have already had their victory I mean they are almost coming to the point of you know beating Arsenal for nine matches and beating in that 37 so the 12 ones are maybe they'll recover next time they will recover next time. Jo from where you sit objectively speaking if you will be asked to give your advice to the management of English Premier League football what will it be? Well I'll have a word with the Football Association and tell them to be honest Liverpool have played their socks off this season I'm a much-tenated supporter but I have to agree that some of the football that been playing was quite beautiful the last one month however has been detrimental so by us saying call the league null and void you're talking about close to 700 or 800 hours of football play by some of the greats like Salah Mane you know for being all those guys and tell them you know what your trials this season basically useless that would be that would be bad I think if it stops now let it stop where the table is it is rightfully theirs the Premier League championship is rightfully theirs and let's start the next season but not to say that you know declare null and void I believe that would be a wrong move by the Football Association you know the declaration of null and void comes on the basis of right now as you speak we don't know unless the football association says as it stands the top four qualified to champions league football then just in relegation are officially relegated but also you see they have a point to argue they will say no this is not official you know Liverpool have taken the title so from April 2nd what you do now you start playing the rest of the games especially for the bottom three clubs that are about to relegated look at the difference in points between number 15 and number 18 before you go forward and say not actually and we remember we had this point based system whereby if you get to 40 points 40 42 points you're not you're guaranteed that you're not going to be relegated so now play those few few few games and then look at the teams that can be relegated but you cannot say that don't give Liverpool and also the rest of the three still remain in the Premier League no the championship will have a problem with that I think from where I stand rules are rules and if the season is declared null and void then okay it will be let's say not fair to Liverpool because really they have performed this season but we are not talking about only Liverpool in the IPL we have 20 teams we have the top four to talk about we have the Europa League qualifications we have the relegations so we can't go on and let's say maybe maybe not maybe maybe not but but if you look at the other teams and just maybe let's if if Liverpool let's say for example had won the league last season we would not actually be having that discussion you know it would be unfair and all that it's because it's been long since they won that league so if if really they come they discuss and find it you know let's just declare this league and null and void let's go back they have a team let's go back let's look up to next season let them perform again let them perform again and prove us wrong so I think if they declared null and void it will be for everybody not that you know Liverpool are almost winning it and since they have two more wins to just to win the league but if you look at Liverpool's form in the last that's an argument from an outsider for example in the last month it's been add on once a spiral so someone might come and say you know why are you giving Liverpool because they they look like they are going to lose some of these numbers to Watford in the Premier League I'm saying their form generally their form so so Masi this coming in the wake of you know Liverpool decides one month's campaign remember then beaten run was brought to a halt by a relegation threatened Watford 3 nil demolition it was then on Wednesday getting beaten by Diego Simeone's charges at Letico Madrid getting eliminated from Champions League football maybe they were looking forward emulating on Real Madrid to defend the title consecutively do you think Liverpool are praying that this ought to have come em before their miseries um obviously because their record seems tarnished slightly though like just like he said in the recent matches they've been going downwards but first looking at the match with Atletico Madrid I think for me for me what he stands out I think Klopp is very wrong in the statement that you made that the fact that Sol and Orata and the other players were were were defending for me the match for me the match was very realistic these guys played their way out through the win and as you can see for now I think Liverpool has a very big hole like it's going downwards that's true but again I wouldn't say that this thing should just be stopped and say that it's null and void I agree that they should be given the opportunity they've played well throughout the season we can all agree and everybody knows Liverpool has been to the top but again the the game is going downward the game is going downward you gain Klopp's remarks that Atletico played improper football and that they have world-class players who didn't you know play professionally is that kicks of a dying horse you know in football there is a strategy Jose Mourinho used to park bus behind throughout 90 minutes then eventually is the winner and I think that's a strategy Arsenal plays their sexy football all they want but they are trophies I think I think it was it was it was quite unprofessional for me um you know at the end of the day as a head coach or as a manager you go into those 90 minutes and you apply your tactics however the other coach wants to play okay if you lost the game because they were defending eight people and only two are upfront and also sometimes the keeper would become a defender it is up to Diego Simeone's tactics at the end of the day he came to Anfield and he told his men you know what we are going to go to war and they went to war and however you're going to win the war don't remember how many bullets he used it is the war that you won yeah and and again Sion was he was even so happy it like he wasn't even ready for what his boys would do yeah he wasn't ready he wasn't ready because he was jumping all over like what is happening and I think the added meaning was just a magical moment it's something that no one extra everybody thought the game is done and it also shows the the characters of the Liverpool players the last goal by Alvaro Morata there was no character in the Liverpool score they are giving up already at Anfield so don't blame Diego Simeone for playing I don't know five eight at the back and one out to up front no no no no no he played his game plan and it worked and he's going for now to the quarters that's it Diego Simeone came to Anfield knowing that you know what I'm going to get outplayed here so my my game plan is this let me pack the bus okay be solid at the back and try to get the chances the few chances are on the counters and and that is it and this is a game everyone plays when they go away look at Mourinho and he's won titles with it so that's I think we was that's a cry baby if I can put it a cry a cry baby character so it's just it's just a matter of accepting and you know say what the the best team won yeah we've seen we've seen you know versions by various former football great the likes of Alan Chera Michael Owen you know giving their thoughts on how Liverpool the campaign Liverpool has had throughout this particular season in comparison with you know the football we watched some time back we've seen you know comparison of the current Liverpool squad to the Invincibles of Arsenal that finished the season and beaten to the 1999 Man United squad that you know managed to win at Trebo F a English Premier Premier League title and Champions League as well to the Real Madrid squad that managed to win three Champions League consecutive titles under Zinadine Zidan you know a lot of comparisons Joe that brings us to the question what will be your what will be your you know greatest squad or team ever I think I love to go with two squads I was actually I was actually doing my research earlier and one of the squads and I know not many of the viewers would remember this team but you would remember actually was the Nottingham Forest team between 1977 to 1980 and you see when you talk about Nottingham Forest and about being in the championship but there are two times you have a Champions League winner and like some team no no no no don't go that way don't go that way because now don't attack me protect me please no some team can be Tottenham no no it doesn't it doesn't need to be actually actually you are attacking me at Masi all right Joe proceed if you if you look at him under brand cloth the greatest achievement not only was it the two-time Champions League win and also a league cup win but you're looking at they uh they were promoted from the championship and immediately the next season when and won the league okay so and you can compare that they didn't have that much money that some of these clubs have right now but that's that's time they think everyone that didn't have money a lot but what did they have they had skill then if you're talking about skill no we'll talk about the Leicester team later on which came and won the Premier League with lesser finances than the bigger teams but for me the greatest team and I know how much is needed support I think for me the greatest achievement by a manager was that Nottingham Forest 1977 to 1980 and then obviously I have to be sentimental to the 2006 2009 Manchester United team under Saalex Fargas and Agribili Agribili for me the greatest Manchester United team ever I mean they're starting three Tevez Ronaldo Rooney you're coming to the midfield you know all schools Owen Hargreaves Owen Hargreaves was still there Darren Fletcher was there um Michael Carrick Michael Carrick Geeks was coming back you're looking at the defense of David Beckham on the wings ah David Beckham had left for Madrid yes you're looking at you're looking at the defense of Martich Rio Fadinand Patrice ever on the left West Brown John Oshia on the right and then you're looking you look at that but yo stop stop pampering us with names we know very well United I think they just had a magician in the manager of Saalex Fargas that squad was so average Darren Fletcher John Oshia did you see how he's getting there was no that was excellent Mark Rooney Cristiano Ronaldo look up sports codes that they had a few players but I think Mark Jisung you see no you have 12 rotational squad I'm talking about the main starting 11 I'm not talking about the rotational squad give that squad to one of the current managers he will finish 15th I think Saalex Fargas was just a magician 15th you're leaving a dissolution a dissolution I'm telling you this is a typical Manchester United fan you you'll argue all the way out and I'll never agree so yeah as for me I think yes I'll go for of course the invisibles uh maybe you talked about nothing a forester uh a good squad at that time and apparently currently their owner was also diagnosed with yeah and it's also the honor for Olympiacos Olympiacos yes and nice I think uh so I think Tuna se ma waguwe pole because there's something that goes away and for for the greatest team I think I'll go for for the invisibles because no one has been able to do what they did of course of course of course I had a few years in my back that team of theories we had theory of course the mighty theory we have back you know in that midfield we had vihara I've not seen a vihara no you cannot you cannot come back and go look unto me he was there we had the Lawrence in the defense we had campel we had call and then in the sticks we had demon so I think we had a very very good squad at that time which was able to do something that I don't see someone doing again not even not even uh the Liverpool next season I don't think so for now that's my best squad currently I have to agree also I have to agree I mean theory hungry top scorer two seasons back to back I think at that time is when Moriniu was coming in with this Chelsea squad of 2004 and that's a time when now we said realizing that our four four three system can actually work but for the invisibles I have to tip my heart and say that team was awesome that team was really great hungry and back up that combination and having the title of the champions league is what really eluded them that's what I otherwise if they had won that that champions league they would be exactly they would be up there with the Real Madrid yeah yeah of course yeah you see you see as you keep saying all these big names mass is getting surprised because she saw you watching football yesterday and now she's wondering which team will she give as you know one of the best massi um if i'm to give teams of course I have to support my team which one beaten two or three two or four but um since I've started watching recently as he said let me prove you wrong um I think my team of the decade would be Barcelona in the time of Suarez, Neymar and Messi well that looks like a uh debater as well that's a good point MSN upfront yeah I think it's a it's a good squad they have done um things that although I think it's a team that Messi carried on his shoulders if I can put it so but it's it's a it's been a good squad uh Barcelona since the times of uh our our favorite inmates exactly so I think they've they've they've been good and uh but now uh currently there there's debate because if you look at that midfield school that they had at that point you're looking at Iniesta Shavi and Busquets oh my god and we still have Busquets there but if you look they defined the idea of you don't have to have a big midfielder to cover ground you know you can have Shavi who'll be a box box midfielder doesn't have the doesn't have the size and then you'll have an attacking midfielder like Iniesta and then Busquets just holding it I think that's when we'll define that midfielders don't have to be a big midfielder and that's why the likes of Golokante are coming in right now in the size of yes in Mason Mount are coming in right now Jack Grilish James Madison Bruno Fernandez yeah right now in the in the EPL because it's the game that we watch we've seen very very good midfielders who are who are very short yes and and the and the likes of in Golokante is as you're saying the mounts I can see are very good to radar to radar so I think we we can come up with that debate you know do you have to be big to be a good midfielder you know a few reactions on our social media platforms especially Twitter and Facebook Karen Karan Karani Evans Mutiamba is watching and of course there is another tickling comment here by Annie Lawyer we're saying she's watching but kwa ni corona or whatever in affect sport sana kwanza gambling I think you can see please your best then Aliyanro Shwaziniga Damaria say all my bets have been cancelled and then sticks returned back to the to the to the orders of the bets you know so it's it's it's there's a friend of mine of negative impact yeah of course there's a friend of mine was telling me yesterday you know what all the all the games have been cancelled and then you know you receive those messages from the betting companies you know you have won that seven shillings going to check it's all that all the games were cancelled at the odd is one so you they only return your stake oh and you still have the congratulations messages Ronaldinho Gaucho is a man who graced football we all enjoyed you know he's stylish and you know sexy football during his teens at Barcelona but right now he's facing a lot of tribulations as we speak right now he's in prison he's still in prison and I'm reliably informed he will be gracing a football match he's been signing photographs by the way yeah in prison I saw that Messi but I think what's inside Lionel Messi there at one time his teammate will be coming to his rescue to ensure that he gets it he gets out of but do you think also football as especially those who've been stas they reun uh they they misuse uh they are festerdom yeah I think it was wrong for him to fake those uh passports uh with his brother I think uh and you know the the law has to take it's it's cause even if Messi is saying you know I'm gonna to hire I'm gonna hire the best lawyer from South America South America to try and and get him out of jail I think it was wrong it was wrong for him to fake those passports I had a friend of mine who used to tell me stories of how Anderson Deco the pojogiz icon he also played for Barcelona reun allegedly reun gaucho because he used to sneak and attend discos with with gaucho what normal happens with this you know polisht talented footballers I think I would say man management after your career when you still in the career when you're still playing professional football there's man management from the staff members you know from your manager himself for your own social media manager you know someone will ask you don't go out tonight tomorrow they're training it will look bad on you but once you retire you know none is taking care of you at most you're taking care of yourself and you have a few sponsors who you know are betting on you to just take yourself so that you can go forward for example when I didn't you had Pepsi under him had Nike under him you know at some point even I did as I'd approached him so you look at the situation whereby no one else is telling you what to do anymore unfortunately you've had that fame in your mind for the last 10 to 10 to 15 years of playing so what happens is that you lose focus and once you lose focus the world and girl teaches you you know how it's done out there because why fake passports why I mean you're the you're a banando winner you're faking passports to go to Paraguay masi did you watch Ronaldinho play yeah I did I I did I did watch him play in world cup yeah oh in world cup yeah but you watched some of his videos yeah I've watched some of his videos and he's amazing do you think he's the all time best up to now or it's debate and Ronald I I think it's debatable it's debatable yeah and also just I just read a few minutes ago he played a small tournament when he was in jail yesterday yes and he still won 11-2 11-2 and he must have been doing the score sheet yes he was and you know the consolation was what they got smoked beef I know smoked pork as a meal for the inmates for his team so he's still doing it he's still scoring goals wherever he goes he can't take that talent away even in prison he can't take that talent away so I think we gonna rap because time is not on our side but before we do masi no english premium league no arsenal playing they were supposed to be losing today a seat it was supposed to beat them oh my goodness on Wednesday you know you know uh I always pity a team that is up to play against a city side that has gone in the previous game because it it would have been marauding no no no since since I started when they left city just check he's I think he he was doing a lot of work for city someone was using that pepe pepe is afraid of atata maybe truly yeah maybe he was the assistant so probably he knows all the skills that he was using I think by the if you check uh the the matches that city have played since atata left find they have won but they have struggled a little bit don't you know i'm pushing for you know uh uh nullification of the league do you attribute it to the horrible season they have had but tutinam has not had a bad season though it hasn't had a bad season I think it's just that but waste time under and under and a David moe it's it's been a it's been a rescue um yeah by him by the how many how many more games would he have rescued and then they don't go into relegation how many games would moroni have rescued for tell them to you know bounce back to top four at the end of the day I think it's a selfish decision from the two clubs to call the premier league off no there's been a lot of work that has gone into this league from September onwards and I think it's very unprofessional of them to call it off champions league football city against madrid was supposed to be played next week no more but you know dot month against PSG being played behind closed doors and the celebration of Neymar oh my goodness and you know the ridicule of Holland I think that was wrong you know this kid is a young kid you know you don't demolarize him by ridiculing him you know I think a player like Neymar you should be above that exactly and for the for the champions league matches champions league the europea league second leg fixtures which have been called off it's as I said it's good for humanity let's let's cool it down um and actually it's an advice to us guys in Kenya if you really don't have to be out there patting and all just saying those uh for the weekend city and band unique are they now the favourites now that you know Liverpool has been eliminated they're being tipped I wouldn't I wouldn't let him to watch for this champions league call off PSG or so I wouldn't call off PSG I watched the game and take take away the theatrics of Neymar but I watched how the midfield operated PSG midfield again is a very rampant midfield um Emory Khan got a red card that is just frustrating a player at the end of the game but the frustration of not just getting the game right in terms of the midfield was a big thing so you would look at Bayern Munich and possibly Manchester City to be favourites I would look at PSG getting at least into the semifinals and pulling a surprise are you telling me that if Zinedine Zidane is not going to get his game right and surprise Man City at Hatred wolves have done that that's what I was really careful not to say Manchester City one of the favourites Bayern Munich obviously yeah they are game they are game and again they just need to avoid that complacency that they normally have towards the final stages of the of the of the champions league whereby they get eliminated in the quarters sometimes even in the last of 16 so but it's in on for the taking now the champions are out we have a new champion to crown new champion to crown massi what will you be up to after the show now that no english premier leg action no has no playing this particular afternoon but good riddance because maybe they would have lost terribly because I was I was so confident about the game because Arter has brought in a lot of our whole energy you know brought the fans together so I think I was really confident about his you are really confident enjoy your part in short in terms of Paul Park bus come back do you think now his presence alongside Fred and Bruno Fernandez the new arrival will stay united to another level yes obviously with the up front three of maybe Rashford marsyal and mason greenwood and there is likelihood that jadon sancho may arrive as well yeah obviously the season here of optimism when he comes back that combination that midfield combination but again I have to state that if he continues with any other theatrics to destabilize a team that is working well so now I wouldn't be remiss to say that I wouldn't see his youth coming back you want him to live if he's coming to destabilize a school that has been working very hard to get back to where they are right now yes always a pleasure gentlemen and a lady Fred Openda Joe Sayena masoni all coming on this afternoon to give their thoughts on international football the impact of coronavirus also known as kovid 19 on the global sporting activity several tournaments several leagues have been suspended English Premier League and you know bundes league have been the latest to be suspended until father notice meaning no proper football match this particular weekend to watch and therefore these three think they will just be you know staying indoors for the better part of the weekend bina pleasure until next time next Saturday same time same place my name is maxel wasike let's get sporty every time and let's continue the conversation on social media handles at wasike maxel hashtag touchline y254 at y254 channel have a very good weekend and always keep safe and you know if possible put in place proper precautionary measures as far as kovid 19 always a pleasure God bless you and good weekend


A resident doctor's strike now enters its fifth day and doctors at the Federal Medical Center or in understates say industrial action will continue until their demands are met. The doctors obeyed the ongoing strike as directed by the leadership of the National Association of Resident Doctors. Various wards were deserted by the doctors who said some of their colleagues were being owed by the federal government. However, other health workers were seen discharging their duties. The chairman of the Association of Resident Doctors in that branch said the federal government has failed to do the needful. Moving the house officers, which are the youngest doctors indicated from the scheme of service and this will further make them vulnerable. So we are saying no to this and we are requesting for the withdrawal of this circular. Then also the other reasons why we are on this strike includes some of our members in states like understates who are working with the understate government have been owed salary up to the tune of about four months now in a more state about 18 months. As we know that this is day five of the National Association of Resident Doctors strike and we are 100% compliance as far as the resident doctors in Federal Medical Center was concerned. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.