Arsenal's Quadruple chase, Tottenham's managerial speed dating, and appreciating Mo Salah: Men in Blazers 02/16/26

Men In Blazers

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🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Rog and Rory are back to break down all of the action from this FA Cup weekend, including the paradox that is Arsenal's quadruple chase....the closer they get to it, the harder it becomes. Plus, Tottenham's managerial marry-go-round continues with Igor Tudor filling in for the recently-sacked Thomas Frank...will another new manager fix any of Spurs' problems? And Mo Salah puts on a vintage display in the FA Cup against Brighton...are we witnessing the dying embers of his English career?

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Meninblazers media network, Suboptimal Radio.
0:06.2	I'm a little bit more upbeat on Eze than quite a lot of people.
0:09.7	I suppose the worry is, this kind of magic in his mind, these twinkling feet and this streak of individualism
0:16.4	that is either coached out of him to get him into the team or is not coached out of him and he
0:21.2	eventually falls out of favour. That is the worry that we are functioning with with ESE.
0:28.9	What a weekend. We brought dog 14 F-A-Cup fourth round games and threw ourselves into their
0:35.7	splendour with the passion of Carlo
0:37.7	Ancelotty at Carnival in Rio. Arsenal's quadruple still lives and breathes. Liverpool
0:43.7	and leaves some sensual, central football. There's two giants, Manchester City and Rexham
0:49.6	also romp. The real action was happening at Tottenham Hotspur oh who have a new ball dad club down bad like the quad god
0:58.0	but here to lift us all up is the crown prince of harrogate a man
1:01.7	oh survived a night in hell to be with us it's my friend in football
1:05.7	to mr Rory Smith a very cold night in hole Roger very cold night in hole
1:10.5	there is no other kind I do want to acknowledge some A very cold night in hole, Roger, very cold night in hole.
1:13.2	There is no other kind.
1:18.6	I do want to acknowledge something talking about the weather that I thought a lot about watching football these past couple of weeks in just utter deluge after deluge.
1:24.1	We think we've survived unprecedented storms here in the United States. I thought we have terrible
1:30.0	weather as a look outside at like 12 feet of snow. But British weather roar, it's a torment in
1:36.1	like a creative, traumatic way. It's not to stop raining there in weeks, as it? It's like a biblical
1:40.7	play. There's various statistics that you can judge it by, Rod. So apparently, I'm currently on the northeast coast, which is sort of north of Newcastle. It has rained here at some point every day this year. We are in the middle of February. Aberdeen, which is not in England, admittedly, but is in Scotland, has not had any sunshine in 2026. I read this. They have not seen the sun.
2:02.2	This is, by the way, this is not ripped from the pages of Genesis, you know, a biblical
2:06.4	plague of frogs or blood.
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