Episode 1402: Football Is The Asylum And The Players Have Taken Over, Liverpool Struggle On
The moment when Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga refused to come off at the end of yesterday’s Carabao Cup final might have been sadly indicative of the insanity of Chelsea’s dressing-room, but Eoin McDevitt believes it might have more widespread implications for the game as a whole – was yesterday the day the lunatics took over the asylum?
Miguel Delaney found himself in the heart of the action yesterday as he interviewed and interpreted for the young Spanish goalkeeper after the game, and we’re also joined by Dion Fanning and Jonathan Wilson. And as you’d expect, Jonathan has an example from the dim and distant football past… and the story is peak Jonathan Wilson.
Kepa a disgrace, and impossible not to feel sorry for Sarri – but sums up his luck, and his situation. Even when he gets it right in the game, something as wrong as this happens, and player can feel he can do ithttps://t.co/odzaQhPY4p
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Kepa’s run-in with his manager overshadowed Jordan Henderson’s own mini-strop on the sideline after Jurgen Klopp took him off, but what’s going on with Liverpool? They failed to fire again against a severely-understrength Man United.
Plus there’s Eoin vs Kinger, at least Chelsea’s PR unit are a team, and as football tears itself apart over Kepa, the GAA world says ‘so what, this happens every week’.
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Ex ROI and Palace player Damien Delaney joins us to talk about Sarri’s troubles at Chelsea, what it means when a manager has “lost the dressing-room”, and what prompts a team of pros to down tools
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We talk to @JamesPiotr about the story of Bahrainian footballer Hakeem Al Araibi, and what it tells us about the relationship between sport, FIFA and politics in the Middle East#HakeemHome https://t.co/lOMUDYl5g6 pic.twitter.com/G9ASk9OKuQ
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Richie is back with another Players Chair, and today’s guest is the most decorated Irish footballer of all time – @emmsb30 spent 16 years at Arsenal where she won a Champions League, 9 FA Premier Leagues and 9 FA Cups
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