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Episode 102
Every year football's rich and powerful gather at a West London hotel to do deals, shake hands and talk about the game in a way would be quite unfami…
16 hours ago
Libero 101 | Spurs In Peril... No Longer Too Big To Fail?
In recent years it has felt as if the Premier League was permanently stratified, with the poor teams unable to win and the rich teams unable to lose.…
3 days, 16 hours ago
Anxious Arsenal And The Definition Of A Bottle Job
Episode 100
It is – it turns out – quite difficult to pin down an accurate definition of what 'bottling it' means and, therefore, which teams can be fairly descr…
1 week ago
Has Jose Mourinho Burned His Bridges At Real Madrid?
Episode 99
Jose Mourinho will take his Benfica team back to Real Madrid on Wednesday night, trying to get through to the last-16 of the Champions League.
It is …
1 week, 3 days ago
Juventus, Benfica And The Plight of Europe's Forgotten Clubs
Episode 98
It’s Champions League punishment round week, which means clubs who were among the biggest and best in Europe 10 years ago are slogging it out to make…
2 weeks ago
The Death Of Individualism
Episode 98
In a world where Jack Grealish becomes 'The Rest Station' and Jürgen Klopp insists that no playmaker can be as effective as counter-pressing, it is …
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Lads, It’s Tottenham: The Fall Of Thomas Frank
Episode 96
Another week, another manager departed from the big chair at a traditional English heavyweight. It turns out Dr Tottenham does not have a cure for th…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Slot And Guardiola: End Game?
Episode 95
Resisting the temptation to get distracted by VAR, John Brewin, Jack Pitt-Brooke and Rory Smith discuss the more immediate consequences of Manchester…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
VAR Is Football's Greatest Threat
Episode 94
There has been no bigger change to football in the 21st century than VAR. On today’s Libero, Jack Pitt-Brooke, Jonathan Wilson and Tariq Panja want t…
1 month ago
When The Premier League Is The Man I Need
Episode 93
In Libero’s lifetime, the panelists have regularly lamented the spectacle served up by the Premier League, but after a bumper weekend, Rory Smith, Ja…
1 month ago