Episode 1050: Festive Fights, Vital Coutinho, Jealous Scholes, Hollow Stoke

Maybe Guardiola is right. Maybe you can have too much football. Maybe we need to rethink. Not to save the players. But to save the fans. Not that Eoin cares. His solution to the oversupply of football over the last few days was to switch to darts.

“There you are…on television.”
As it’s darts season, please relive the greatest live interview in television history. pic.twitter.com/jExcqG72tI

— Mark Horgan (@Younghorgan) December 30, 2017

As the plethora of festive fixtures blur into one giant superfixture, the bits that stand out tend to involve conflict. Jose Mourinho versus Paul Scholes, Arsene Wenger versus referees, Mark Hughes versus the Stoke City fans.

Simon Hughes joins us to talk about the situation at Liverpool, who are on their best-ever unbeaten run under Jurgen Klopp, but are now facing another sustained campaign by Barcelona to prise away Philippe Coutinho during this transfer window. Can they keep him for another few months? Should they even want to?

Coutinho update….. #LFC https://t.co/0AYbUIO7fL

— James Pearce (@JamesPearceEcho) January 2, 2018

Plus there’s James McClean’s wall, Wenger’s moans, and a plethora of PhD emails.

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A bit of ‘Old First Division’ nostalgia, mixed with ‘where is this football thing going at all at all’ in today’s show – with author of ‘The Title’ Scott Murray. For all you Wolves/West Brom/Stoke/Preston/Forest/Leeds fans out there ???????????https://t.co/t804T2T2YQ pic.twitter.com/DGtDyZfrQ1

— Second Captains (@SecondCaptains) December 22, 2017