Five in the Eye 0386 Phil's Back

PHIL Hello and a very warm welcome to Five in the Eye! This is Phil Woodford in London back in the hot seat after a couple of weeks away. Thanks so much to Tony, Valentine and Kola for standing in. Now, it’s time for episode 0386 of our weekly news review. MICHAEL And this is me - Michael Ohajuru - joining Phil via Zoom and revealing that our top story is going to be the speculation about the UK getting closer to the EU once again. We thought Brexit was done and dusted. But maybe it wasn’t! And some people are urging Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer to lead a campaign for us rejoin. PHIL What’s story number two? Well, earlier this week, Iranian football players at the World Cup refused to sing their country’s National Anthem in solidarity with people protesting against the Islamic Republic. A sign of bravery, for sure. But England players were scared off from wearing armbands by the threat of a yellow card! MICHAEL Our third story is about Wikipedia. Can we trust what we read on the popular site, after it has been revealed that the man who supposedly invented the toaster was… err … completely made up! Many visitors were burnt by the hoax. PHIL For story number four, we’re back to the World Cup and Saudi Arabia’s extraordinary and unexpected victory over former champions Argentina. Followed by Japan triumphing over Germany! MICHAEL And to wrap up the show, what about Rishi Sunak’s World Cup wall chart? The Prime Minister seems desperate to show himself to be a man of the people with what some are describing as a laughable video, PHIL On our wallchart, it says that now is the time to launch this week’s Five in the Eye! ++++