A bad week in the Champions League for English clubs: Football Weekly Extra
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly. |
| 0:17.0 | Another disappointing night for the Premier League clubs in the Champions League, Federico Valverde, with one of the touches of the season cushioning out over Mark Gay before hammering home a first half hat trick. All three goals were brilliantly taken. It could have been worse for Man City, Donald Rumor saving a penalty before Thibault Corsua did one of his trademark ridiculous saves. In Paris, Chelsea were good against PSG for 70-odd minutes, Then Kfarat Shalia came on. Juergensen made a mistake and it ended 5-2. Meanwhile, Arsenal scrape a drawer in Leverkusen, Madhawakey making the most of minimal contact to win a penalty and let Kai have a score against his former club. And then Bodo, the latest episode of Now That's what I call the greatest performance by a Norwegian side in Europe ever. They were comprehensive against sporting. |
| 0:56.0 | We'll do a Premier League preview, discuss Iran and the World Cup and the Iranian women's team in Australia. |
| 1:00.0 | We'll answer your questions on this very special happy birthday Barry Guardian Football Weekly. |
| 1:10.7 | On the panel today, the man himself, the man of the moment's happy 53rd birthday, Barry Glendening. |
| 1:18.0 | Thank you very much, Max. |
| 1:19.2 | I'm feeling every minute of my 53 years on this planet. |
| 1:24.1 | You don't look a day older than 52, I would say. |
| 1:45.1 | Archie Rintot, welcome. Max, delighted. To make, I was surprised given that this was an invite only pod, but, you know, I'm just happy to make it. Of course. Welcome, Nicky Bandini. Happy birthday, Bass. Thank you. Should we begin with the cake? Will he be upset? Maybe let's begin at the Burnabow. |
| 1:47.1 | Have you got a card? |
| 1:47.4 | Okay. |
| 1:47.9 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:48.5 | I'll show it. |
| 1:49.4 | Yeah, there you go. This is for the YouTube viewers. |
| 1:50.7 | It says, lucky for you I like older men. |
| 1:53.4 | Oh, that's good stuff. |
| 1:55.9 | Let's start at the Burnabour. |
| 1:57.0 | Rail 3, Man City, nil. |
| 1:59.0 | James Bench from CBS said, of our rail three man city nil uh james bench from cbs uh said best hat tricks since burg camp at |
| 2:02.7 | philbert street it's a good question isn't it i um it was nicky so brilliant the third goal |
| 2:10.7 | as i mentioned in the intro that touch is like you sort of i made a noise i was like this is |
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