Episode 2904: Science vs Poetry, Our Terrifying Football Future
A great weekend of football at Tallaght Stadium, at Anfield, at St James’ Park, at Stamford Bridge, at Croke Park – joy, fun, excitement everywhere except at the Etihad Stadium where Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta’s two sets of brightly coloured robots offered a terrifying portent of the future.
Jonathan Wilson and Jon Mackenzie join us to talk about what it all means. Was this game bad? If so, whose fault was it? Did this game represent a decisive episode in the ongoing ideological war between positionism and relationism?
Frustrations boil over at the Etihad… ? pic.twitter.com/arhcznAjlD
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Are we ready for a football future in which everything is under control except the egos of the coaches?
We also discuss a thrilling Saturday in the Premier League, the Klopp era and the Gus “Pojet” project’s failure to launch.
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With a film out today on Netflix and one already in cinemas we chat to Tom Vaughan-Lawlor on The Beautiful Game and Baltimore. https://t.co/CNmbkSunOZ pic.twitter.com/R2K8cXWL5k
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Caitlin Clark is the greatest shooter in the history of men’s or women’s American college basketball. She’s also re-drawing the March Madness rule book, as she becomes the biggest name in either bracket.
US Murph tells us why she’s such a phenomenon.https://t.co/zSjEblfsYX pic.twitter.com/LT7JeG3FR4
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