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4 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Max Rushden |Barry Glendenning |Will Unwin |Sid Lowe |Joel CooperAlex Grove |Danielle Stephens
Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. On the podcast today; the Club World Cup might have started to entertain? South American sides are enjoying themselves, Nicolas Jackson is not.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Barry Glendenning
COPA LOAD OF THISSet to the theme of “A New Era Begins”, the opening ceremony of the Club World Cup featured performances by assorted Fifa-approved rappers and crossover artists we’d never heard of before. As a daily email of a certain age our knowledge of the Miami music scene begins and ends with the 80s legend that is Gloria “Paging Dr Beat!” Estefan, whose husband produced this spectacular track but apparently couldn’t find a place for her in it.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Barry Glendenning
ROUTE 12If the football doesn’t work out for him at Real Madrid, Trent Alexander-Arnold can try his luck as a regular panellist on the Spanish version of Just A Minute, a popular BBC Radio 4 comedy show, in which assorted comedians and luvvies are challenged to speak for one minute on a given subject without “hesitation, repetition or deviation”.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Max Rushden |Barry Glendenning |Nick Ames |Paul Watson |Joel CooperAlex Grove |Phil Maynard
Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. On the podcast today: the panel set the scene for the Club World Cup. There are serious issues, ICE providing security at games, troops on the streets in LA and a travel ban. There are also concerns about player welfare, ticket sales and – alarmingly – the potential to expand the tournament to 48 teams next time around.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Max Rushden |Barry Glendenning |John Brewin |Joel CooperAlex Grove |Danielle Stephens
Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. On the podcast today; is it the end of the Thomas Tuchel honeymoon at England – did we ever even get one? England followed up their disappointing win over Andorra with an even more disappointing friendly loss to Senegal.
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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Barry Glendenning
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Barry Glendenning
LET’S BE FRANKAs the wait goes on for Thomas Frank to be announced as Tottenham Hotspur’s new manager, Football Daily can’t help but wonder what exactly is causing the delay. On Sunday it was reported that personal terms between the Dane and Daniel Levy had more or less been agreed, a compensatory fee in the region of £10m for Brentford was deemed to be adequate and all that was left to be decided was how many of Frank’s coaching staff would be joining him.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Barry Glendenning
CIAO, LUCIANOWhen Italy were humbled by Norway in their opening World Cup qualifier on Friday night, the response from Gazzetta dello Sport was as measured as you would expect. “ENOUGH!” screamed the pink paper’s front-page headline the next day, while the lengthy howl of anguish over which it appeared declared that the country’s “World Cup is already at risk”.
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2 weeks ago | 
malaysia.yahoo.com | Barry Glendenning
Barry Glendenning9 June 2025 at 9:55 am·5-min readCIAO, LUCIANOWhen Italy were humbled by Norway in their opening World Cup qualifier on Friday night, the response from Gazzetta dello Sport was as measured as you would expect. “ENOUGH!” screamed the pink paper’s front-page headline the next day, while the lengthy howl of anguish over which it appeared declared that the country’s “World Cup is already at risk”.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Max Rushden |Barry Glendenning |Silas Gray |Phil Maynard
Rate, review, and share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. On the podcast today, the panel discusses England’s World Cup qualifier as they edge past Andorra in a game that raises familiar questions – low block, players out of position, and why is Jordan Henderson playing?
