Lengthy-time buddies and musical specialists Amfo and Stephens compete every week in Make Me a Mixtape – but it surely seems they agree on which staff they help… properly, type of.
Amfo: Full disclosure: I’m a good climate soccer fan. I’ve at all times loved it by a popular culture lens versus the lens of the game itself. It is issues like World Cups, the Euros and Africa Cup of Nations the place I actually get .
I nonetheless comply with the Premier League, although. I’ve received 4 brothers who all help completely different groups – two of them are Liverpool followers, one helps Chelsea and the opposite Manchester United.
Stephens: That may be a ridiculous mixture of groups!
Amfo: It is the Amfo manner, babe. It is simply who we’re!
Stephens: I’m an Arsenal fan, born near Highbury… Whittington Hospital, Archway, thanks very a lot! Arsenal by and thru!
Amfo: I truly suppose as an grownup I’m inclined in direction of supporting Arsenal.
Stephens: As try to be!
They’re additionally each massive followers of Gunners star Bukayo Saka, who starred for England at Euro 2024.
Stephens: Saka is my hero, and he’s 10 years youthful than me.
Amfo: He’s unbelievable. Once I see him in interviews, he’s so poised and grounded, however he nonetheless looks as if he’s having enjoyable. Contemplating the degrees of disgusting abuse he was subjected to after lacking a penalty at Euro 2020, that’s fairly unbelievable. I absolutely fee him.
Stephens: He was picked to take the final penalty in a shootout within the ultimate of his first main match, after which received horrendous abuse.
This time? He put the ball on the spot within the semis… and went ‘Growth!’ He isn’t just my favorite participant, he’s my precise hero.
