Tom Williams

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340 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jun

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The Athletic FC Podcast · What next for Arsenal? & Is Iraola better than Slot? · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

So yeah, I think it was fair enough in the end.

Yeah, it was a beautiful moment.

Obviously, Marquinhos and Gabriel are Brazil teammates, but I think what Marquinhos would have had uppermost in his own mind was the fact that he knows what that feels like.

He was the fall guy when Brazil lost on penalties to Croatia at the last World Cup and

there is no bigger event in football than Brazil going out of a World Cup.

And when you're the guy that's responsible, that's something that you have to live with for the rest of your life.

And Marquinhos has been there.

So it was a very, you know, very tender moment.

And, you know, Marquinhos has been applauded for that.

There was an article about that moment in today's edition of Le Keep with that fantastic photograph that we saw on a lot of the front pages of the British newspapers yesterday morning.

So yeah, a very tender moment.

And yeah,

I kind of feel like football deals better with penalty misses than perhaps it used to.

Obviously, in this country, England fans have had their own traumas over the years.

But we've always known that people who miss penalties shouldn't be blamed.

And I think there is generally, and as Art was saying, talking about the response from the Arsenal fans, a feeling that those players do need support and do need a bit of extra attention.

I think the fact that Marquinhos is...

First instinct, having just won the Champions League for the second time in a row, was to go over to his international teammate and try and comfort him.

Yeah, and I think his appointment by PSG coincided with a realisation within the club that something needed to change fundamentally because they tried the Galacticos model and it hadn't got them over the line in the Champions League, which is the one thing that they were desperate to do ever since the Qatari owners came in in 2011.

And they'd had, you know, years of stockpiling these superstar players and it hadn't worked out in that respect.

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