Matt Slater

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3,219 appearances 19 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 4d ago

Matt Slater’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 19 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 7.

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Champions League boom + Garry Cook on Manchesterism · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

It's the most misnamed thing of all time, right? voice-verified

Th the idea that this based on these sort of chess tournaments, the way those tournaments work is they redraw after each round. voice-verified

So you can imagine doing a fixes list or you know, as a broadcast, it'd be a complete nightmare. voice-verified

The idea is voice-verified

You know, you sort of winners play winners, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

So the the tables are always moving. voice-verified

Anyway, that's not what they do. voice-verified

They use this pots system, so four pots. voice-verified

And this goes to Rob's point that we do get in every match week, we get a couple from the from the first pot, don't we? voice-verified

And I don't think voice-verified

you know, there's much jeopardy there for the reasons that Rob and both Adam and but they both pointed out that they've got eight games and they've also got that kind of lucky lose around as well. voice-verified

That we've seen PSG and Real and others come through. voice-verified

Those it's almost like you try and avoid that to rest your squad. voice-verified

And I think that only really applies to the Premier League. voice-verified

I don't think other leagues see those extra two games as as such a voice-verified

as such a burden because they can already you know, this is the thing about PSG, isn't it? voice-verified

They have almost two squads, they have a a League Earn squad and they have a voice-verified

a Champions League squad. voice-verified

So look, I I I don't think it's ideal, but one of the reasons we got here is because we were having these dead rubbers in the group stage of the of the of the you know before. voice-verified

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