Episode 3502: Pep Out Of Europe, Chelsea Take Notes, Happy Saint Parrott’s Day
We learned on St Patrick’s Day that the Mayor of New York knows who Troy Parrott is, but not a lot else about our island nation. What even is corned beef? Maybe some day an American will explain it to us.
Liam Rosenior is taking heavy flak for taking copious notes: that will happen when you lose a Champions League tie 8-2. Yet Chelsea fans are not averse to a bit of note-taking themselves, judging by the detailed record of a conversation with a club director that was posted by one Chelsea protest group earlier this week.
Mark Critchley joins us to talk about Pep Guardiola, who will not be adding a second Champions League title in what most of us are expecting to be his last season in Manchester. Where does his legacy stand now? Did he ever succeed in transforming City into a ‘big club’? And might the decline of the last two years actually cast his work in the previous eight in a more flattering light?
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