126 | Is PSG v Arsenal The Future Of Football?

Libero

Sports, Soccer, Society & Culture

4.9 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The Champions League final between PSG and Arsenal has a rare quality in this fixture: it pits clearly the two best teams in Europe against each other. Both clubs have had brilliant seasons, each winning their domestic league, adding to an epic feel for the game in Budapest, but the fixture has a sense of freshness, because Arsenal have never won this competition, and PSG won it for the first time last year. On today’s Libero, Jack Pitt-Brooke, Miguel Delaney and Jonathan Wilson ask why the finalists are only coming as powers in Europe now and whether there is a geographical explanation. With just three European cups between them, all of them in the last 15 years, why have London and Paris traditionally underperformed in this competition? And is that finally starting to change? P1: (02:24) P2: (27:55) Join SC Libero, the most important of the least important membership clubs, now: liberopodcast.com. — Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via getintouch@liberopodcast.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Join our Discord @Libero Podcast Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.com Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:34.9	Hello and welcome to Libero, the podcast about the most important of the least important things,
1:39.5	as Simon Cooper and Stefan Schimanski once said.
1:46.3	My name is Jack Pitbrook. I'm from The Athletic. I'm joined today by Jonathan Wilson and
1:50.8	Miguel Delaney of the Independent. We want to start today by saying a huge, heartfelt thank
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