Nick Roberts

@NTT20Pod Relatively late to the show, discovered you through guardian FW and became a regular listener 18 months ago. Excellent unbiased critiquing and Ali's pun work is unrivalled. Apologies for Latics letting the Eggman down a few weeks back. Looking forward to the next 10 years 👍

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. NTT20.COM 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.

@WeahsCousin Should have been stopped at least 2 rounds earlier. Wardley very brave and an unreal chin but that was tough to watch towards the end.

Fabio Wardley looks like he’s gone 12 rounds with Robert Sanchez

@footballhq From memory, £5 entry and £3.50 a pint. Cheap day out is Staveley

Chicken curry and chips at Staveley MWFC 🔥 Only £5 💷 proper value for that, looks unreal 😍

Final question: "Will we sign Joe Taylor?" Lucas Danson: "I think he'll go very well in the Championship next year." #wafc

My 13 of Super League’s best of the last 30 years: 1 Jamie Lyon 2 Jamie Lyon 3 Jamie Lyon 4 Jamie Lyon 5 Jamie Lyon 6 Jamie Lyon 7 Jamie Lyon 8 Jamie Lyon 9 Jamie Lyon 10 Jamie Lyon 11 Jamie Lyon 12 Jamie Lyon 13 Jamie Lyon

@maxrushden @GeorgeElek @Sanny_Rudra @AliMaxwell_ Bit late to the party but the tackle @JohnBrewin_ was referring to was Arjan De Zeeuw (famously now a police detective) rather than Leighton Baines on Ronaldo. One of my favourite *proper* football photos

Tomorrow's FW - bit of England, and some EFL with @GeorgeElek @Sanny_Rudra @AliMaxwell_ Any questions?

@hjluks I did the marathon there last year and running through the Prater was fantastic (and very flat)

Anyone from Vienna ?? From this position, where would you walk or run in the early morning?

@MLBEurope @Harry_Brook_88 @Phillies A bazballer playing as a baseballer

Ever seen a cricketer hit a home run? 🏏 x ⚾️ England captain @Harry_Brook_88 gave it a go at Spring Training with the @Phillies. See how he got on...

@stusfootyflash Literally first thing i thought. Gonna pick Terry Magnet next to get Magnet and Steele back together @maxandpaddyline

@AliMaxwell_ Fair enough, on a club level at least he will run away with EOS awards, we were dead certainties for relegation till he (and GC) arrived. Biggest impact loan at Latics since Reece James.

@Stickolas No

Here's something I wrestle with, keen to know anyone's thoughts: Should there be a minimum threshold for minutes played, or starts, for someone to be eligible for a league-wide Player of the Season award or a place in Team of Season? If not, why? If so, what's the threshold?

@blakeykeenan @CamDonDuncan Totally agree, other than the Gardener selection think I pretty much agree with the rest.

@CamDonDuncan I’d say this is the only really bad call in all his selections. Some debeateable ones and some 50/50 but this is a bad one

My head has completely fallen off at this video of Kyle Amor picking Ade Gardner ahead of Tevita Vaikona. Wondering if I’m alone in this? Gardner very lucky to have spent a good chunk of his career outside Lyon and Gidley while Saints also had an incredible team.

@PKendrickWIG Their commentators were furious with how little they threw at us after going behind. They did hit the woodwork twice and have 2 shots off the line in fairness

Huddersfield team getting absolute pelters from the away end as they go over after the game. #wafc

@mudhutter @RealCraftyWigan Had a couple of those in Sheffield last week, Deya- not Putty, I'm not made of money. Lovely pint.

Final drop is @RealCraftyWigan and your dogsbody went for Deya, Something Different IPA, plus a little something for when I get home later 🔵⚪️ #wafc

@FootballCliches Last thing we need is Andrew in the stiffs

Finally, we're discussing the royal family's lack of strength in depth

@PKendrickWIG Happy to sell my kids if that will help the transfer kitty out for this bloke?

2-1 Latics, Joe Taylor again! #wafc

@terrythomas1 @PKendrickWIG I noticed on Sunday how he made a point of coming over to the hoardings and applauding every single fan, felt quite pointed after all hes been through with Lowe

@PKendrickWIG I like Sess big personality and very witty. Not been treated very well IMO

Not just the bodies on the line defending...but the reactions after...look at Sessegnon, barely seen all year, as pumped as Aimson at the last block...contrast to the no contesting of penalty claims last month. Totally different group overnight. #wafc

@mudhutter Christ, where were you coming from? Sydney?

Think we've over ordered lads

@JoshBuckley90 Was on the bus back to King Cross, convince myself it couldn't have been him, but it definitely was seeing this pic now.

Sean Clare in away end today #wafc

@PKendrickWIG Kendrick keeping receipts, love it

Few thoughts on the departure of Ryan Lowe. Turned into 2,200 words. My university dissertation wasn't much longer. But plenty to get through... #wafc wigantoday.net/sport/football…