Champions League Week, My Beak Is Soft, Troy Media

The English teams have been tearing it up in the Champions League so far this week. We chatted to Lars Sivertsen about Martin Ødegaard’s blistering early-season form and signs that adoption of  tactics long-favoured at Arsenal and Manchester City might be helping Liverpool turn a corner under Andoni Iraola?

The Parrott theme was strong throughout the week given he’s scored the winner in the last two game. Ken was irked by some beak/peck errors on Real Betis’ social media accounts and the commentary of TNT’s Jonathan Pearce.

We also covered Mary McAleese going nuclear on the GAA, Trump’s Doonbeg trip, Erling Haaland’s able deputies at Manchester City (there are none), and Souness destroying Declan Rice.

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