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@NTT20Pod @AliMaxwell_ Richly deserved success - well done lads.

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.

Difficult to know who comes in but the Silva contract can’t be doing his career and definitely not Fulham as a club any good. Sign by the end of the week or go if I’m Shahid Khan.

@MJ_Smithy @Russ_Goldman Exactly there are 10 teams in the PL who would expect to finish above us every season by right but we’ll somehow find a magic manager who will make us better than Silva and will walk us into Europe. The best silva replacement is silva.

@Russ_Goldman Today was crap and yes we were awful, but some serious consideration needs to be given to how good we actually are and the budget/investment at a club of our size! Look at Villa last week, not 1 of our players makes their starting X1!

Time to go Marco. Thank you for being a great manager of Fulham and I hope you find the right club for you. Fulham need to find a manager to take the club to Europe. Unfortunately, you are not that manager. All the best and thank you for the memories. #FFC

@Jaack Your own fans hate you

Fulham just ruining it for everyone. Pointless club.

Not sure he’d have made much of a difference today but a Sander Berge less Fulham is not a good sight. Footballs about more than goals & assists.

@madaffc @WhiteNoise1879 Everton was the worst one. Should’ve been about 4-0 up at HT

Does fuck me off with the loss at home to West Ham, drawing away to Forest. You know those kind of games where IF we had won.

@HammyEnd The best replacement for Silva is Silva but at the same time the fans/club should have some clarity by now.

Plenty of people have aimed pelters at Marco Silva. The man who got #ffc promoted at the first time of asking and broke the yo-yo curse whilst winning #sw6 derbies. They know who they are. Silva's a superb coach - and we'll miss him when he goes #coyw

Absolute scandal. Never ever gets given at old Trafford etc zzzz

@FulhamTransfer @footballontnt @lynseyhipgrave1 I thought that too - clearly the club were confident also but the delay can’t be good. What’s he actually waiting for if he is going to sign?

@tomtomkdkd @footballontnt @lynseyhipgrave1 Let's see... I've always said I think he signs. If I'm wrong then fine but I'm confident he eventually signs

"I'm preparing the future of the club, with or without a new contract" Marco Silva provides an update on his future and reacts to Fulham's impressive win against Aston Villa 👀 🎙️ @lynseyhipgrave1 | 📺 TNT Sports and HBO Max

@FulhamTransfer @footballontnt @lynseyhipgrave1 What’s going to make him sign?

@footballontnt @lynseyhipgrave1 Can't see him going.

Berge & Andersen mustard today.

2026 social media in a nutshell. No care about whether the team you allegedly support wins or loses. Interactions only. It’s got to go.

@RobbieSitch @JustinCorbin4 @DaveLovell6 @FulhamTransfer @WhiteNoise1879 @FulhamishPod Yep. Depressing “style” of football. Would want him nowhere near. Hoping Rosenior gets sacked from Chelsea in time.

@JustinCorbin4 @DaveLovell6 @FulhamTransfer @WhiteNoise1879 @FulhamishPod Not the first time I’ve heard this either mate. First thought it was just bollocks but way too much noise around it to not be something. At game yesterday also 🤦🏻‍♂️ I’ve never once admired his Football style, & just can’t get on board. Some pro’s to it I guess, a real tough one.

We should be all over Thomas Frank right now #fulhamfc #ffc #fulham @FulhamTransfer @WhiteNoise1879 @FulhamishPod

@jackellyffc @FulhamTransfer I hope we never play in an actual final if this is what we put in.

Leno: "We've got five more finals. Maybe this point can decisive at the end. Next week, we've got another big game, and we look forward to it." #FFC

We weren’t particularly good but Keith Andrews is due some serious 2nd season syndrome.

City going from Richard Dunne to Kompany/fernandinho/silva x 2 as captain is hilarious.

@TonyEvans92a I like football and travelled across Europe to watch Fulham get to a europa league final (further than Liverpool that year under Rafa 🫡) did he play football for ppl who like football?

Hodgson: the football manager for people who don’t like football open.substack.com/pub/tonyevans9…

@1966MJG @Ifield74 When omari Hutchinson is going for 37m this is decent business. Palace will have to pay the same for Guessand.

@Ifield74 He looked absolutely the business for a few games there, and since then....nothing. not sure whats gone wrong on that front. He has Something for sure, good age to buy, so I'm a yes....but we need to find way to get best out of him.

Could be a very big mistake. You only need to see the responses. #ffc #COYW #utf

Hartman & Fleming should be added to Fulham’s squad for next season. Oscar Bobb making Wilson’s negotiation position look pretty rock solid.

@maxmel171 @FulhamTransfer You’d think we got beat 3 or 4-0 reading the timeline. Would’ve taken a draw before the game - would take a draw next season whoever’s in charge.

Fans who mindlessly spam “Silva out” every time we don’t get our way should be legally required to suggest a new manager who’s going to get us into Europe and win us a trophy. A 0-0 draw away to Forest shouldn’t be met with this reaction, they’re a good defensive team #ffc