I never fell out of a tree
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Leeds return to the Premier League with a trip to Anfield on Saturday. Can Bielsa’s side spring a ...
Arrow in the flesh
07 Sep 2020
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The domestic seasons across the continent are on the horizon. Except for in France where they’ve b...
George Costanza style
06 Sep 2020
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Part 1 of our Premier League preview focuses on the top end. Can Liverpool find the motivation to go...
Sometimes you just have to nail a Danish pastry
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the Nations League returns to our screens the team give you the lowdown on all the key matches ha...
The common touch
30 Aug 2020
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Lionel Messi handed in a transfer request at the Camp Nou. Is he Manchester City bound? Has he burnt...
Roll the loaded dice
24 Aug 2020
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Bayern are kings of Europe for a 6th time. How do they keep getting away with it defensively? Has Ha...
The olive in the martini
22 Aug 2020
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Sevilla won the Europa League. It’s what they do. What are the knock-on effects for Inter? Will it...
Distinct Khal Drogo stylings
20 Aug 2020
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The favourites progress to the final with a 3-0 win over Lyon. But did Bayern’s defensive vulnerab...
There's an omen looming
19 Aug 2020
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As the French champions eased to a 3-0 victory over RB Leipzig, are they more than just a team of su...
Not the face
18 Aug 2020
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Inter sweep aside Shakhtar to book a final date with Sevilla. Have Inter fans got their club back an...
Outstanding in their field
17 Aug 2020
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Manchester United lose the semi-final to Europa League juggernauts Sevilla, with some shoddy defendi...
Too many vowels
16 Aug 2020
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Lyon upset Man City with a 3-1 win in Lisbon to become the 2nd French team to progress to the semi-f...
Gary Neville against West Brom
15 Aug 2020
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Bayern Munich shock the world with an 8-2 victory over Barcelona to progress to the Champions League...
Shouting in the middle of the ocean
14 Aug 2020
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Leipzig upset the odds and knock out Atletico Madrid to reach the semi-finals. How big a night was t...
A uniquely moist experience
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Atalanta 1 - 2 PSG (01m 00s) • PART 2: A word for the vanquished (1...
Squirt emoji
12 Aug 2020
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RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Sevilla 1 - 0 Wolves (01m 30s) • PART 2a: Shakhtar 4 - 1 Basel (10m 4...
Prince of trigonometry
11 Aug 2020
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United progress to the semi’s after extra time despite an incredible performance from the Copenhag...
Banking and smoking
09 Aug 2020
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Juventus shock the football world by sacking Maurizio Sarri and then replacing him with Andrea Pirlo...
Luxury Kevin Davies
08 Aug 2020
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Manchester City sweep aside Real Madrid in possibly their biggest European statement yet. Alvaro Rom...
Deliberate ego
07 Aug 2020
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Wolves squeak past Olympiakos into a European quarter-final. Up next, a sumptuous Sevilla who dispat...
Cooks you slowly
06 Aug 2020
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Inter Milan and Manchester United progress to the last 8 of the Europa League - can anyone stop them...
Non-original pirate material
02 Aug 2020
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Arsenal are FA Cup winners once again with Aubameyang proving he is world class. With questions surr...
Multi-goal ding-dong tussle
30 Jul 2020
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Arsenal take on Chelsea this Saturday in the FA Cup final. With each side’s attacking strengths an...
So it was all Pogba
27 Jul 2020
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Juventus win their 9th title in a row, a Scudetto that’s received more criticism than celebration....
Who’s laughing now?
27 Jul 2020
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Bournemouth are victorious but go down with Watford as Villa stay up. Was it Grealish’s last game ...
Oh Kepa!
23 Jul 2020
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The Champions League chase goes down to the wire as Leicester take on Man Utd. Big game for the Foxe...
Fort Boyard
21 Jul 2020
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RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: No Ballon d’Or! (01m 00s) • PART 2a: Juventus 2 - 1 Lazio (05m 00s)...
Culturally notorious
20 Jul 2020
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It’s an Arsenal Chelsea final in the FA Cup as London reigns over Manchester.Did Solskjaer priorit...
Like Sammy Kuffour
16 Jul 2020
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Arsenal defy the odds and the stats to beat Klopp and co at the Emirates. They may be champions but ...
No camaraderie, no sweetness either
14 Jul 2020
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The Champions League quarter-finals look lopsided with some big names on one side of the draw. So co...
Backup for wooden barns
13 Jul 2020
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Norwich are relegated but the other 4 in the bottom 5 are all victorious, including an incredible tu...
Control of the Stokenchurch bypass
09 Jul 2020
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It’s the North London derby on Sunday as Tottenham and Arsenal compete for bragging rights and not...
They want a name on that bench
06 Jul 2020
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Bayern complete the double with victory in the Pokal. Will Lewandowski win the Ballon D’Or? Will T...
Dispensing tactical justice
06 Jul 2020
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Southampton stun Man City as Liverpool labour to victory over Villa. Brighton seem safe but it looks...
Pep might wash his jet
02 Jul 2020
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West Ham shock Chelsea in a thrilling London derby. The Hammers move up to 30 points – could that ...
Susceptible to a bit of flattery
29 Jun 2020
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It was a terrible week for Barcelona in La Liga as they lose ground and Messi loses respect. But eve...
Pied Piper march
29 Jun 2020
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It was a weekend of quarter-final football, as well as Premier League action, where we possibly lear...
And now it’s there
26 Jun 2020
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With the help of Duncan Alexander, Rory Smith and devoted Red Sasha Goryunov, we react to the end of...
60 million pounds of nothing
25 Jun 2020
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Liverpool wipe the floor with Palace and could be champions by Thursday night. Man City’s game wit...
Emotion escaping from somebody’s body
22 Jun 2020
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No doubt that it was a dour derby on Merseyside but the weekend prompted plenty of questions. Did Mo...
Beginning to age disgracefully
18 Jun 2020
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It’s an evening of firsts in England with the first Premier League games behind closed doors and t...
Blurry masses
15 Jun 2020
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With the 2019/20 season set to get back underway on Wednesday, we look at the key talking points sti...
Classic embarrassing move
11 Jun 2020
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2004/05 saw a Champions League winner that finished level on points with Bolton. Rafa Benitez’s Li...
Let’s just use teletext
07 Jun 2020
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The pod travels back 20 years, giving us a chance to bang the Marcus Stewart for England drum, remin...
Intellectual doping
04 Jun 2020
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03/04 was the making of Mourinho on the world stage and the unravelling of Ranieri at Chelsea. We lo...
The clang of modern football
31 May 2020
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The last Premier League season of the century. A time when Roy Keane was player of the year and Phil...
Grass art maniac
28 May 2020
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The 2002-03 Champions League campaign saw Serie A come roaring back after a few seasons out of the s...
Matching pink Ferraris
25 May 2020
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98/99 brought us the highest quality of title races, John Gregory’s big mouth, and Van Hooijdonk a...
Sausage factory owner
21 May 2020
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The 01/02 campaign saw Real Madrid win their 9th European Cup at the expense of Bayer Leverkusen, wh...
Conglomerate striker
18 May 2020
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The panel look back at the 97/98 season. Home to one of the best individual performances of the Prem...
More centimetres to score
14 May 2020
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The panel look back at Bayern’s first European Cup win in 25 years. It was the final with all the ...
Football with broccoli
10 May 2020
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Back in 1996/97, there was an Italian influx, Manchester United were the worst champions ever and Le...
After 90 minutes of sheer hell
07 May 2020
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The Champions League season at the turn of the century was lit up by Batistuta’s Fiorentina, Mihaj...
Get a Wim Jonk while you’re at it
03 May 2020
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The 94/95 season saw Shearer and Sutton fire Blackburn to their first title in 81 years. And Forest ...
Airplanes in the belly
30 Apr 2020
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98/99 is defined by Man United’s treble success. We force Rafa to relive the United Bayern final -...
Blobby In, Branfoot Out
26 Apr 2020
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United’s second season in the Premier League wasn’t so difficult as they crushed all opposition ...
Club of the humble
23 Apr 2020
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Jupp Heynckes’s Real, thanks to the heroics of Predrag Mijatovic and Christian Karembeu, turned ov...
Current wine importer
19 Apr 2020
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The 2011/12 Premier League campaign saw Manchester City pip rivals United to the title on goal diffe...
The human can opener
16 Apr 2020
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The panel travel back to 96/97 when Dortmund and Schalke did a European double. Dortmund’s only Ch...
Eight more votes than Theo Zagorakis
12 Apr 2020
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Roman Abramovich arrived in England but nobody could beat Arsenal in the Premier League in 03/04. Do...
Snake power rankings
09 Apr 2020
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We travel back in time to the 95/96 season of the Champions League which gives us a chance to rave a...
Division One rolled in glitter
05 Apr 2020
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Today, the panel look back to 92-93, the very first Premier League campaign that saw Manchester Unit...
Like a luxury Stewart Downing
02 Apr 2020
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Flicks and Kicks sees the team review United Passions – the FIFA-funded film about FIFA with Tim R...
Die Hard henchman
30 Mar 2020
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PSG had a team to drool over, Milan were permanent fixtures in the final. But 94/95 was arguably Lou...
Dawn of the dour
29 Mar 2020
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The 04/05 season saw Chelsea end Arsenal and United’s dominance of English football, plus the grea...
Baked bean cake
26 Mar 2020
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Today we take on the film Escape To Victory, where football and POW camps collide. Starring Michael ...
Volcanic characters
24 Mar 2020
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The panel look back at the 93-94 Champions League, a place in which was turned down by PSG!Featuring...
I’m a butterfly, you’re worker ants
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keegan’s entertainers up against Fergie’s fledglings. We review one of the great title races in ...
Pat Jennings’s oil filters
19 Mar 2020
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Rory Smith is back to bring us an update on the latest moves within UEFA, as to how to salvage the s...
A few transfusions
17 Mar 2020
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We look back at the first Champions League final in 1993, which pitted Berlusconi against the Berlus...
Couldn’t defend for butter
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With all major European leagues suspending football amid the coronavirus pandemic, we discuss with R...
Elongated Lionel Messi
12 Mar 2020
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Last year’s Champions League finalists Liverpool and Tottenham are both knocked out at the last 16...
Qatar karma
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Like many games this week, PSG v Dortmund will be behind closed doors. Can the Parisians end their k...
Clown running through a minefield
09 Mar 2020
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It’s another man of the match display from the boy wonder Billy Gilmour at Stamford Bridge. Are Ma...
Siegfried Sassoon vibe
05 Mar 2020
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Tottenham head out of the cup as Eric Dier heads into the stands to confront a fan. We ask if Spurs ...
I’m not the midfielder you’re looking for
03 Mar 2020
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Real Madrid win the Clasico, leading many to assume Barcelona – and Lionel Messi – are in declin...
Defence and justice
02 Mar 2020
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The bottom 3 all taste victory in the Premier League. Emma Saunders pops in to discuss whether Watfo...
Driving through the smoke
27 Feb 2020
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Man City make a statement in Europe with their win at the Bernabeu – next up Aston Villa in the Ca...
The most important of the least important things
25 Feb 2020
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Will Bayern and Juve show they deserve to be among the favourites for the Champions League this week...
An abject lack of responsibility
24 Feb 2020
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There’s refereeing controversy in Burnley, Nottingham and Inverness, to name but a few. In the Pre...
Niche beef
20 Feb 2020
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Liverpool and Tottenham are both undone in Europe, both posing very little goal threat. The same can...
Full gas
18 Feb 2020
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Will Dortmund v PSG deliver the goal-fest we all expect? Do Leipzig have the experience to progress?...
Very particular about his black Diadoras
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran Maguire from the Price of Football helps us discuss the ramifications of Manchester City’s ...
86 different pairs of shorts
13 Feb 2020
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Can Norwich add champions elect Liverpool to their list of Carrow Road scalps? Will Wolves and Leice...
Put him in the fridge
11 Feb 2020
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Inter come from behind to win the Milan derby and go top of Serie A. Could the consequences be serio...
Gusty movements
09 Feb 2020
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Everton are flying under Ancelotti but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t big up Big Dunc and pick o...
Electric shock salsa
06 Feb 2020
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We look ahead to the first half of Matchweek 26 in the Premier League with a six-pointer at the bott...
It makes a hell of a cocktail
04 Feb 2020
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Kylian in the name of? What's gone on with Tuchel and Mbappe?Is Haaland scoring enough goals?Which S...
Regrettable
03 Feb 2020
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Liverpool are 22 points clear at the top of the table and could win the title in the Merseyside derb...
A Hotel Babylon vibe
30 Jan 2020
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There’s the League Cup semi-finals, Premier League weekend and closing of the transfer window to b...
Mountaineering metaphors
28 Jan 2020
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Atletico Madrid have slumped under Simeone, as La Liga as a whole asks where have all the goals gone...
His legs are human legs
27 Jan 2020
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Shrewsbury force a replay with Liverpool thanks to the “Poundshop Jamie Vardy.” But did Jurgen K...
Vortex of heritage
23 Jan 2020
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There’s not a lot of love for Solskjaer after Manchester United’s home humbling to Burnley at Ol...
Like the T-Rex in Jurassic Park
21 Jan 2020
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Erling Haaland scores 3 on his Dortmund debut, but it’s Timo Werner who’s the top scorer in the ...
Unserious football individual
20 Jan 2020
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Liverpool take a step closer to the title and Bournemouth a step closer to the drop. Plus we discuss...
Younger than Damon Albarn
16 Jan 2020
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RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: FA Cup 4th round replay reaction (01m 00s) • PART 2: Arsenal v Shef...
When there is no structure, there’s chaos
14 Jan 2020
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Valverde is shown the door at Barcelona. Does the club’s courting of Xavi, Koeman and Pochettino s...
The barrier to fun
13 Jan 2020
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RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Tottenham 0-1 Liverpool (02m 00s) • PART 2: Aston Villa 1-6 Man Cit...
Villain in a Playstation 3 game
09 Jan 2020
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RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Man Utd 1-3 Man City & Leicester 1-1 Aston Villa (01m 00s) • PA...
We can’t have nice things, can we?
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: The magic of the cup? (01m 00s) • PART 2a: Brighton 0-1 Sheff Wed &...