A European curse
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a bad week for the English clubs in Europe. But don’t worry, if we just keep calm and carry on, we are sure to get ‘em next week, chaps.
Today, Pete, Jim and Vish celebrate one of the great Champions League hat-tricks from Federico Valverde. Plus, Pete is concerned about a potential curse he has put on Bukayo Saka and Rodri’s neighbours aren’t too happy with him…
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| 0:00.0 | These sausage munching tea slurpers, they don't like it up, them, do they? |
| 0:04.7 | Welcome to the Football Rumble. |
| 0:06.5 | It's Thursday, 12th of March. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm Pete Donaldson. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Jim Campbell. |
| 0:10.2 | And I'm Vesha Hunter Roger. |
| 0:25.8 | Vish and Jashen Jani. Vision Jim are on the pod. |
| 0:30.1 | I'm hosting against the football ram's better judgment and much to report on. |
| 0:33.0 | The Champions League happened once again last night. |
| 0:54.4 | And none of the six English teams remaining in the Champions League this week won their games in the opening legs in the round of 16. And last night was the first time that two English clubs have lost by three or more goals on the same day in the European Cup slash you wear for Champions League history. That's an all right status of bores, in it, Vish. It is. We're never getting back in the EU now, are we? We never get back in the EU. |
| 0:56.1 | We're embarrassed ourselves. We've done. We really have. What have we done? We really have. We used to be a country. No, we can't beat Real Madrid away from home. Yeah, Real Madrid 3, Manchester City, nil. I mean, Real Madrid |
| 1:10.6 | with a very patched-up side |
| 1:12.8 | to a certain extent, but there's really no |
| 1:14.8 | subject. Manchester City, Nell. I mean, Real Madrid, with a very patched-up side to a certain extent, but there's really no substitute for experience, is there, Jim? Apparently not. Even though Round Madrid featured 318-year-olds throughout the game, but it doesn't seem to matter with them, does it? House always wins. The DNA is just in there, isn't it as a Real Madrid football. Apparently so, that's returned. I mean, it is worth looking at the players they're missing. |
| 1:45.4 | It's obviously... matter with them, does it? House always wins. The DNA is just in there, isn't it? As a Real Madrid football. Apparently so. That's returned. I mean, it is worth looking at the players they're missing, obviously these are high profile players that everyone knows is missing in Jew Bellingham, Killingham, Killeen Bappe and Rodrigo. But, you know, the shift put in by, obviously, Ernesto Valvedai gets the applauded. but I thought Brahim Diaz anddegula were really really impressive as well but that is that's one of the great European hat tricks |
| 1:48.0 | isn't it? That's not an overstatement. |
| 1:50.7 | Incredible stuff. |
| 1:51.7 | Shall we sort of go through it? Because |
| 1:53.8 | I mean I think it's worth doing each goal in turn |
| 1:56.6 | I mean the first one |
| 1:59.0 | Cotois with a Norwegian like 1990s Torre Andre Floreka to Valverde, |
| 2:06.3 | who had so much to do, knocking it around the keeper and then finishing from a really, really tight angle. |
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