Episode 3524: Arsenal in the Underworld
We’re into what looks like the defining week of the Premier League season, as nine months of Mikel Arteta’s careful order, structure and planning may just be about to be confounded by the spirit of pure chaos in the form of Rayan Cherki.
Lars Sivertsen and John Brewin join us to talk about the weekend’s football. Why did the Emirates boo at the end of Saturday’s game? Have Arsenal’s efforts to hype up their title run-in fixtures proved counterproductive?
How have Manchester City of all people apparently been anointed as the People’s Champions?
Is this finally it for Spurs… and might that actually be a good thing?
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We talk to Shaiel Ben-Ephraim about how the ceasefire has been received in Israel, why so many Israelis back their government’s hyperaggressive foreign policy, the multiple interlocking crises facing the Israeli state and society and why he broke with Zionism.
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