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Hawksbee and Jacobs Daily

Avoiding Anfield & VAR Drama

Hawksbee and Jacobs Daily

talkSPORT

Sports & Recreation, Sports, Comedy

4.5808 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Paul Hawksbee and Andy Jacobs bring you another podcast of sporting unpredictability and insight. The duo kicks things off by dissecting the weekend’s Premier League action, though Andy has some explaining to do after choosing to watch literally anything else besides the massive Chelsea vs. Liverpool clash.


Former top-flight official Graham Scott joins the show to provide an expert’s view on the controversial VAR decision during the West Ham vs. Arsenal match that has the whole league talking.


Sticking with the Hammers, lifelong fan Sam Delaney drops by to assess the damage and discuss the increasingly grim reality of their fight against relegation.


Finally, Jonny Yerrell, frontman of The Reytons, joins Paul and Andy to discuss the band's massive new album and their ambitious World Tour. Jonny explains the unique logic behind their scheduling, as they plan to play every host city on the night before England’s World Cup fixtures to provide the ultimate soundtrack for traveling fans.


Whether you're looking for tactical breakdowns, refereeing post-mortems, or tour news from one of the UK’s biggest independent bands, it’s all here with Hawksbee and Jacobs Daily! Additionally, You can find more from us here:

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0:00.0

This is Paul Hawkesby

0:01.0

and Andy Jacobs

0:01.9

And this is

0:02.4

the H&J Daily

0:03.2

with some of the best

0:03.7

bits of this afternoon's show and of course we reflected on everything that went on the London Stadium yesterday and so did Graham Scott the former Premier League referee and a man who operated VAR as a Premier League official so we gave us some real insight into that and the way forward Nigel Martin enjoying this as well, didn't

0:21.7

Nigel was good.

0:22.7

It was good to hear

0:23.3

from him.

0:24.2

He's coming out of retirement to play for England, as you'll discover, not of the World Cup. No. Well, potentially. Anyway, we spoke to Johnny Yarrow. He's from the band The Raiders. He was good. And we talked a bit talked a bit of ways about to go on a world tour, which ties in.

0:39.7

A bit of Gary Neville, a link you may not have known about.

0:43.1

And Sam Delaney, broadcaster, author, journalist and West Ham,

0:47.5

reflected on all the mayhem of yesterday.

0:50.2

So that should keep you busy here, it all is.

1:27.9

Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon, Andy. Good afternoon, Paul. And I won't be commenting on the Chelsea game because I watched James Martin's Saturday Kitchen. Oh, did you? I couldn't face it. I didn't even look at my phone. I thought, that's it. I'll do a bit of drawing. I watch a bit of telly. I'm not going to, I just couldn't. It's surprising. Maybe we should build an alternative listing today. Things you watched on telly instead of watching your team play football. Because they're the sort of things. Maybe it was because you were, there may have been Arsenal fans yesterday thinking thinking I can't watch the last half hour, watch Celebrity Catchphrase.

1:31.4

It's true.

1:32.2

Because of the nerves.

1:33.4

So, um, so we're going to kick off.

1:35.9

What's on the alternative football listings today?

1:38.5

The games you couldn't watch.

1:39.7

We kick off with James Martin's Saturday Kitchen and they have a roll call of things you watched instead of the game

1:47.7

and why whether it was you couldn't stand to watch your terrible team because they're

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