BIRDSONG
Kenny!
All right, boss!
HE LAUGHS
Wahey!
Pepinho!
Gaffer, the gaffer...
Almost 53 and still get birthday presents.
All right, boss?
Good morning.
Good to see you.
Yeah, very good.
Short and sweet.
You OK?
Oh-ho-ho-ho!
How are you?
Have you been on holiday?
Yeah, have a look, I'm nearly the same colour as you now.
Morning, boss.
How are you?
Good to see you, man.
- How was your time off? - Yeah, all right.
I was in at five to, I was ahead of time, and if there's anyone you wanna blame,
then Joe Gomez, because he was in the wrong thing and I was delayed for him.
If you just follow Joe, mate, he'll take you to where you need to go.
Nice to meet you, Matt McCann from the press office.
I'm Paul, nice to meet you, mate.
Good to see you, you good?
- Yeah, you? - Good, thank you.
Sepp!
Nice to meet you. My God, you're tall.
Yeah, that's impressive, it's different when you see all the images.
- Nice to have you here. - Yeah.
How are you?
Yeah, good.
All exciting, or now a little bit after the big thing...?
Yeah, I'm excited, but also a little bit nervous.
OK, that's normal, but you don't have to be.
You don't. You see, I'm smaller obviously than you see on television.
So, let's get started.
So you put your right foot at the front, left foot at the zero.
- Here we'll do a 17. - What, that?
Nice one, mate.
And then head touching the pole, glutes stay touching the pole.
And again?
Jürgen, welcome back. How was your summer as a European champion?
Actually better than I expected, to be honest, because it's long ago that I won something,
so I didn't know exactly how it feels anymore, but it was good.
A big difference to last year, when I met people and they wanted to have a picture
it was always like, "Sorry, unlucky," all that sort of stuff,
this year it was different obviously, there was no open wound which we carried around,
it was all good. A holiday is always good after a long, intense season,
I think everybody understands that you need a couple of days off and that's what we had,
but it was long enough to be really full of energy and ready to go again.
Yes, boys, welcome back. We've obviously got the lactate test now,
you've all done it before so I'll keep it quite brief.
The first two levels are obviously quite slow so we'll use that as a warm-up,
we'll start with two laps then it builds up to three
as we get quicker and quicker, and then the last few laps, four laps.
So if you guys want to grab someone here from John Moores,
they'll take your sample then we'll get going.
Andreas, happy?
OK, gents. Three, two, one...
Off you go, nice and slow to start.
10km now.
Well done, boys.
Four laps.
If you could do that, that would be fantastic.
JÜRGEN: Come on, now it gets interesting.
Three more laps, boys, keep going, well done!
ANDREAS: Come on, come on, come on, come on!
Ox is done.
Keep going, boys.
Two more.
Keep the speed, come on, come on.
Very good.
Ready?
Come on, Joe, keep with it.
Come on, Joe!
Boys, keep going.
APPLAUSE
Well done, Millie!
Nice one, Millie.
Don't know why I'm giving you that, I meant to give you this.
Smashed it, didn't he?
All right, yeah.
Stiff upper lip.
Chambo's like...
First session of many this pre-season.
- Yes. - Ease us in.
Well done, boys.
Why are you out there? You just want to see pain, don't you?
You caned me for my shoes, so I thought, "I'll see how he does..."