Tom Dev
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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.

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Embarrasing Dubois team celebrating like this when wardley is so badly hurt #WardleyDubois #NoClass
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@BoxeoPats @octoberreduk @MatchroomBoxing @FrankSmith Pacheco has fight left and eddies looking to renew w him
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I’ll be catching up with @MatchroomBoxing @FrankSmith early next week. More than likely pre recorded, but could be LIVE 🤷🏽♀️ as there’s plenty to discuss. Please, as you do, list questions you’d like Frank to answer during our discussion.
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I vehemently dislike Reform’s new policy on locating detainment centres in non-Reform voting constituencies.
1) in most Green-voting constituencies there will be thousands of people living there who did NOT vote Green. Why should they be punished?
2) Increasing someone’s likelihood of being a victim of crime simply because they didn’t vote for you is dictator-y. Collective punishment is for socialists.
We need a solution but this is NOT it. I hope they rethink.
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@andy_rozee @OfficialBWFC @SHD_Backup I would absolutely rather face stockport or stevenage. Any reason you would want to face the strongest team?
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@OfficialBWFC @SHD_Backup For all the money Bolton have we have finished above you in the league. Will be a great game and would rather play a footballing side that play to in than Stockport or Stevenage (both awful sides to watch). May the best team win.
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🗓️ Today's results mean that we will face Bradford City in the Play-Offs.
(H) - Saturday 9th May, 8pm.
(A) - Thursday 14th May, 8pm.
Ticket details will be confirmed in due course. 🎟️
#bwfc

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@TomDev88 Fair, but I work for Zuffa because of the kind of person he is, not in spite of it
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All the respect for Oscar as a fighter, he had a legendary career and fought everyone as the face of boxing. But to call Nick Khan a liar and say he’s never been involved in boxing? Nick managed Manny Pacquiao and James Toney and was the architect of Top Rank’s landmark 7-year, $630 Million deal with ESPN.
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@Thecityvent I'd say seriously alot of "supporters" would actually want him gone come christmas next season when we are mid table.
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At what point does Graham Alexander solidify himself as our best manager of the last two decades? Or has he already done that? Would a back to back promotion seal it?
One thing's for sure, the club stank when he came in & he's made us all believe again. #bcafc

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@ThomasWell744w @milldog357 @bo1tontillidie @OfficialBWFC @officialcarmats As a city fan I agree today they were alot better then us bar 10 mins
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@milldog357 @bo1tontillidie @OfficialBWFC @officialcarmats Always in controlled? You’ve drawn both games against us - a newly promoted side with a fraction of your budget. I’d say we’ve mugged you off fella #bcafc
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@RobTebbutt Its that not antz won’t fight him , but if you look at his career they have been world titles and a hugh challenge for him. Other than them fights , he’s had fights that are ones where he is a hugh favourite. It’s asif he wants E level fightiers or A* star fights , Bar Lyndon.
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@TomDev88 Anthony Yarde has fought Sergey Kovalev, Artur Beterbiev and David Benavidez - if the money is right, he'll fight anyone. I can't see there being a bigger money option out there.
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@AccordToBoxing There schedule is undoubtedly the best in the first half of this year? No?
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My question is, when will Eddie Hearn let things go & focus on Aspinal & Matchroom❓
Dana did his event with Conor & signed him long term so he backed his words with actions..
We’re not seeing the same on the other side unfortunately…Hearn needs to get out of his feelings & move forward..Hearn started it & now he can’t handle losing..
#Boxing x.com/jedigoodman/st…
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It’s a chess move. He knows Ben is the mandatory for that WBC belt. He can take golden boy to a purse bid and outbid them and have Garcia Benn Zuffa
Zuffa_Boxing@Zuffa_Boxing
CONOR BENN IS BACK 🥊 It’s official! @ConorNigel has signed a NEW deal with Zuffa Boxing! Big things on the horizon‼️
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@2ToneDaSupastar You ever heard of “the ring” cards they been going a while.
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So Ryan Garcia is signed to Oscar …. How we gonna get a Conor fight now?
Zuffa_Boxing@Zuffa_Boxing
CONOR BENN IS BACK 🥊 It’s official! @ConorNigel has signed a NEW deal with Zuffa Boxing! Big things on the horizon‼️
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🚨 BREAKING: Gary Neville's The Overlap has bought Manchester United influencer Mark Goldbridge's YouTube channels.
The Overlap has paid an undisclosed seven-figure sum for The United Stand and That's Football, as they seek to build 'one of the most exciting football communities in the world'.
The deal will see Goldbridge continue to front both channels, which have a combined 3.7m subscribers, while what is being described as 'a significant expansion' will follow.
The United Stand will be extended to include 'Stick to United', which will feature former players and journalists and 'The Daily United', a daily United news strand. Other major clubs across Europe will also be targeted, according to @MikeKeegan_DM
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What a fight this would be...
🥊 @jack_catt93 🆚 @ConorNigel
Who'd win and how? 🤔
#BennPrograis | #JackCatterall | #ConorBenn

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Smart move fight was only heading one way and getting out of Tottenham is an absolute nightmare 🤣
Sun Sport@SunSport
Fans were seen leaving Tyson Fury's fight two rounds early 😳
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