Pep overthinks it again, why Messi isn’t the Barca villain and how United can beat Sevilla
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On The Football Spin Paddy McKenna, Noz Choudry and Reuben Pinder discuss the Champions League quarter-finals. Paddy asks if the ghost of Ronnie Rosenthal's genre-defining open goal miss can be put to bed after Raheem Sterling's glaring effort against Lyon. Reuben looks at how Pep once again conspired to beat his own team by picking three holding midfielders and Noz asks if he will ever be able to stop overthinking the game for long enough to pick his best team in big fixtures.
Who is the Barca villain? After a lacklustre performance there were some braindead takes identifying Ronaldo now as the GOAT. Reuben argues that Messi is and the GOAT but he's the best player in the world anymore, that accolade belongs to Neymar, he argues.
Thomas Muller's amazing Lewangoalski gag gets a mention and the panel finishes up by discussing if United are equipped to beat Sevilla in the semi-final of the Europa League. Oh and there's a quiz at the end about the fastest player in the Premier League. It's not Adama Traore.
Paddy McKenna, Noz Choudry and Si Lloyd unpick another hectic weekend in the Premier League starting with the Jordan Pickford and his horrific tackle on Virgil Van Dijk which saw the defender ruled out for 7 months at least with a damaged ACL. Noz makes the point that you can argue the tackle...
Published 10/19/20
On The Football Spin, Reuben Pinder, Noz Choudry and Paddy McKenna discuss the return this weekend of the Premier League after a bleak fortnight of international football. The panel review the history of the A23/Costa Coffee derby and try to get get to the bottom of how did a shit on the Crystal...
Published 10/16/20