The Football Show | Parrott soars | No pep in Pep's step | Slot bemoans pesky low blocks
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is an Irish Independent Podcast.
Now, welcome everybody. Football show. We have Gary Breen on the way to chat to us all things Champions League and a little look ahead to the weekend. Happy to say before that, Ronan Mullin here in studio. Hi, Ronan. Hi, Joe. And Conor Doherty.
What are the highlights from the recent Champions League matches?
Conor. Hello, Joe. Our football show is sponsored by Sky Sports and Sports Extra, where you can watch every live Premier League match this season. So this weekend, what have we got? West Ham, Sunderland, Saturday lunchtime, TNT, followed by City Wolves at three on Premier League. the Saturday night football offering is half past five Bournemouth at home to Liverpool and then of course Super Sunday half past four Manchester United Michael Carrick's Manchester United away to Arsenal you can get Sky Sports and Sports Extra on Sky or you can stream them with now there's your weekend
Michael Carrick has already beaten Michael Arteta, of course, in his previous stint as Manchester United manager. Do you remember that game? No, not really. Ronaldo scored. Do you remember the one where De Gea lay down on the goal line, but he was actually stood on by his own player? And Emile Smith-Rowe was like, all right, I'll just kick it into the empty net then. And I still won. So, yeah, Michael Carrick has put Arteta to the sword already.
It's just a blur of inadequacy that time.
Then he handed it over to Ralph Ragnick. Here you go. You're in the top four. I got you through the knockout stages of the Champions League. You take it from here, big man.
Martin O'Neill-esque. Here you go. I've left this job nice and pretty for you.
Michael Carrick, a couple of years later, is like, OK, I'll come back. Yeah. I should mention, by the way, Will Slattery. People right about now might be saying, where is that guy? He's over in Tenerife and based on the WhatsApp he sent, watching Celtic matches on TV.
Yeah.
enjoying his family time of course we knew he was watching something he'd have some thoughts on the Liam Rossini area hopefully Rossini is still there by the time Will comes back well Champions League wrap across Tuesday and Wednesday Liverpool last night 3-0 win in Marseille first win with Mo Salah in the starting line-up since they beat Real Madrid in November Man City humbled in Norway Man City humbled game plan crumbled in Norway It's a full-on crisis now. Pep looks tired. Empty.
Empty. Done. Pep Linders is escaping a lot of grief here, I feel like, as well. He's gone in there and the trend since he's gone in is very bad. Like, they're very human at the minute. I see Man City fans even sharing clips of the good old days back in 2018. They look like they've no energy. Yeah, they don't. And they're not cohesive. And now Haaland's starting to get the ire of Man City fans suddenly. You know, people had the suspicion how he was affecting the system anyway before 2018.
the Man City fans themselves did but now they're starting to question that now that he's not delivering the goals every week it's um it's a bit of a mess all right but like Richard Keyes obviously of course said don't be surprised Maresca is in charge for that Wolves game you mentioned doesn't look like that's gonna happen but I think it's accepted wisdom across the footballing landscape now that he's gone at the end of the season which in itself is a huge sea change for that football club and I even said, I remember saying this to Gary Breen at the beginning of the season and then just to Mark Ogden at the turn of the year there. The signings they've made this year are not your archetypal Pep Guardiola signings.
Like I feel Donnarumma, Semenyo even, like they're club signings with a view to the next man up, I think. I think Pep is like, okay, fine. They're not going to be detrimental to my squad, but I wouldn't necessarily be selecting these players to build around Pep. for the future. So I think City are kind of in preparation mode for post-pep.
Yeah, just feel like a winding down period or something. So that was on Tuesday. Arsenal, a statement, signature type win at the San Siro beating Inter, who were top of Serie A, 3-1, Gabriel Jesus scoring twice.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:20
2
What are the highlights from the recent Champions League matches?
0:20–9:09
3
How is Manchester City coping with their current crisis?
9:09–14:44
4
What are the implications of Arsenal's recent performance?
14:44–21:15
5
How is Troy Parrott performing in the Eredivisie?
21:15–24:31
6
What is the significance of Manchester City refunding their fans?
24:31–40:24
7
What strategies does Liverpool need to overcome low blocks?
40:24–55:25
Speakers
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