The Arsenal-Barcelona rivalry, Arsenal was very consistent. Yeah, no, right? They were very consistent. And it wasn't just that. It was the little bit of video that I could see. Arsenal, their style of play back then, especially as well, there wasn't... there was not too many teams playing as smooth as they did. Right. Like that, that kind of balance of like power and strength and fucking, you know, they, nobody was playing like them.
And so it was, it was also fucking more entertaining to watch. Like that, that was another thing as well. It was like, they actually had entertaining football, Chelsea. I just. Yeah. Yeah.
Would you? Okay, so like, I think it's interesting, because a lot of people like even, well, I would say historically, you would say like the World Cup is where people or players get discovered. And you literally just described that kind of like moment where like, oh, you discover this player. And that was your gateway to the drug, which is like the game, but also like playing FIFA.
I don't know if it's that far, but in, um, bro, you know, actually there's a song that there's a couple of FIFA songs, but the, the fucking, um, I can't think of what year it came, but the Franz Ferdinand, uh, what is it? Yeah. If you want me blah, blah, blah, blah.
That shit was fucking, that song is forever. Like it's on one of my, it's on my Spotify playlist somewhere. Uh, cause that song will ever end. Fuck. There's a couple other songs. Fucking, um, these are all more recent from one of the recent ones. I can't think Honestly, if i if i popped it in, I'd probably fucking Like, this is a bang Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I would hear and be like, oh, shit, like, in fucking word for word uh but no nothing like nothing from that far back it's it's funny thinking about, like, these fifa playlists, because they were what, like, Spotify wants to be now.
Like, you get exposed, like international music that's because EA back then fucking had the model, right? Like, everybody forgets EA. EA put so many artists on early right they their their fucking notion of go out, discover fucking cool music all they really all they fucking really did was just listen to college radio. That's all they fucking really did. Like, let's be real. But, you know, having lived in college towns, like, that's where the music always comes fucking first and Well, yeah, they basically kind of kept up with that model, right? And so you'd hear so many songs before they ever went big came out on FIFA first. There was a ton of songs that we'd probably be like, yep, that fucking... Yeah. I think part of this exercise or in the future will be like, hey, give me your songs from this game. You know what else?
FIFA also introduced me to, and I don't know who else did, which was... you know, playing, I fucking, fuck, I used to play with Winder Berman, actually, as well, with the fucking Bruins League, just because that was, like, a buddy of mine's, like, family was German, and that was their team, and that was the only person I knew who fucking, like, supported a professional football team. So, yeah, so we used to play. But, fuck, you know what it really introduced me to, which was fucking all the random-ass lower-tier teams, and the geography. Man, I can't tell you how many people I meet fucking from around the world that like, I'm like, oh yeah fucking oh fucking blah blah blah yeah that's that's over there. And they're like, how the fuck do you know that? I'm like, oh yeah, FIFA. It's like, especially when it comes to the UK, it's like, Jesus Christ.
Uh, I, we were, we were, we were fucking somewhere and we met some English people and they were like, oh yeah, I was like, they have their accents and I was like, I can't quite tell. Um, I was like, where are you guys from? And they were