Does Bruno Have Anything To Apologise For?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Hosts Dan Bardell and Flo Lloyd-Hughes are joined by The Athletic's Senior Writer Simon Hughes, to discuss his latest article on Bruno Fernandes' missed penalty apology and a growing trend of footballers feeling as though they have to say 'sorry' for in-game mistakes...
Do footballer's social media accounts need to be managed, who is drafting the posts - and for what kind of supporter? Plus, the impact of online abuse and players no longer just 'sticking to football' on the story.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.8 | Hello, I'm Dan Bardell and I'm Flo Lloyd Hughes |
| 0:18.7 | And welcome to the Athletic Football podcast Where every Wednesday Flo and myself |
| 0:22.6 | Pick out one article from all the writing available on the Athletic |
| 0:25.6 | And put the authors under the spotlight |
| 0:27.3 | This week senior writer Simon Hughes joins us to discuss his article |
| 0:31.1 | On the weird trend of footballers posting public apology messages |
| 0:34.5 | On social media after games |
| 0:36.4 | Yeah tons of layers to this one. |
| 0:38.7 | There's online abuse. |
| 0:39.7 | Football has growing detachment from the fans, |
| 0:41.8 | social media, PR companies and much, much more. |
| 0:44.5 | But before we introduce Simon Flo, |
| 0:46.8 | let's talk a little bit about something that just will not go away. |
| 0:51.2 | The 39th Premier League game has reared its head again. Ornstein, like a, like a, like |
| 0:57.3 | footballer, David Ornstein spoke about this in his Monday column and he discussed it on yesterday's |
| 1:02.8 | podcast. He just will not go away, will it? Yeah, and I saw a really interesting tweet actually |
| 1:07.7 | this morning, Tim Stillman, who is part of Ars blog, covers Arsenal |
| 1:11.3 | men and women. I kind of really agreed with his take on it, which is overseas fans definitely |
| 1:17.8 | deserve to see games as well, 100% true. But the problem is, is that outside of England is |
| 1:25.4 | very big. It's a lot of possibilities. |
| 1:27.9 | So how do you say just if you stick a game in Tim's example, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.