England disappoint and the Tudor era is over at Spurs – Football Weekly podcast
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:14.7 | Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly. |
| 0:16.8 | Fortunately, England's draw with Uruguay was three days ago now, so you've probably |
| 0:19.8 | forgotten all about it. |
| 0:20.8 | Sadly, we're going to bring it up again. |
| 0:22.1 | A lot of nothing, a couple of bad fouls, paper aeroplanes, Ben White, booed for coming on, booed for scoring, booed for giving away a penalty. I guess it's something. McGuire did okay, and then Tugel said he's fifth choice. Did anyone further their chances? Palmer, Garner, Wharton, maybe. |
| 0:36.2 | We'll look ahead to tonight's European playoffs. |
| 0:38.0 | Paul Watson takes us further afield, of course. |
| 0:39.9 | We welcome it. |
| 0:40.8 | And then to Spurs, parting ways with Igor Tudor after quite a disastrous month. They want Deserby, despite protests from a number of fan groups. And while Tudor lasted 44 days, it's 44 years since Roy Hodgson was the Bristol City manager. And here we were thinking he was just meandering through the West Country without a purpose. |
| 0:55.8 | We'll do all that, discover we are just one step away from the Uruguine ambassador. |
| 1:00.0 | Answer your questions, and that's today's Guardian Football Weekly. |
| 1:07.1 | On the panel today, Barry Glendening, welcome. |
| 1:09.8 | Hi, Max. |
| 1:28.8 | Hello, Jacob Steinberg. Hello. And from the excellent sweeper podcast, Paul Watson, hi, Paul. Hi, Max. Let's start then with England. That one-all-draw with Uruguay on Friday night. It does feel a while ago. Jacob, you were there. Have you forgotten all about it? We were forgetting all about it while we were there. It was a very strange game. I mean, but Barney, who I was sitting next to during the game, |
| 1:34.2 | was having a particularly bad time. He tweeted out that on balance this was maybe the worst |
| 1:39.4 | football match ever. I did sort of point out that maybe there have been some, well, there've been some worse |
| 1:46.6 | England games, thinking back to Algeria at the 2010 World Cup maybe, and if you support |
| 1:52.1 | a lower league side, maybe you've seen some worse quality football, but it was so flat. Because |
| 1:58.9 | of this split squad, the two-call name, this oversized squad, we kind of ended up |
| 2:03.7 | with almost the England C team. You were sort of running through the starting 11 and thinking |
| 2:08.9 | that there's at most, maybe two or three, who'd have a realistic chance of maybe starting the |
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