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5 Live's World Football Phone-in

Is Robert De Zerbi the right man to keep Spurs up?

5 Live's World Football Phone-in

BBC

Sports

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Summary

Dotun and Tim are joined by Sports Journalist Paul Sarahs to discuss De Zerbi to Spurs, scrapping VAR and England v Japan.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts.

0:05.6

Hello, I've just nipped in before your BBC podcast starts to tell you all about

0:09.4

You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Also from the BBC

0:13.9

and presented by me, Greg Jenner. I should have told you that at the beginning. Sorry.

0:17.9

Anyway, like many other BBC podcasts, such as Desert Island Discs,

0:21.2

evil genius, or in our time,

0:23.2

your dead to me is available first on BBC Sounds,

0:26.3

a whole month earlier than anywhere else, in fact.

0:29.2

So if you can't wait another day

0:30.8

to hear the very latest in history

0:32.6

and loads of other good stuff,

0:34.3

then listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:59.1

I am a football fan, I am a soccer fan. of other good stuff, then listen first on BBC Sounds. Yeah, the real sounds of Africa to once again kick off our world football phone in.

1:04.0

And hey, listen, we've got the legendina, of course, Tim Vickory, who is based in Rio to cover everything you want to know about South American football and players from over there playing in our leagues,

1:08.5

plus everything else, obviously.

1:10.1

Tim, good morning. How are you? Yeah, very good morning. Very good morning. Yes, World Cup fever is upon us. Is it not? Is it? Is it? Really? Already? Well, if it isn't with you, that's your problem, Pat. Because it is with everyone else. So I don't really care if it's not with you. Forget it.

1:29.6

Browse yourself, as Brian Taylor said.

1:30.4

Look for your win.

1:40.4

I was watching today, this lovely little kind of 10, 12 minute clip from the BBC one week into the 1966 World Cup.

1:43.0

It's a kind of nightly report on the World Cup. It's a kind of, you know, nightly report on the World Cup.

1:46.2

It's quite remarkable.

1:48.3

Jonathan, David Coleman, leading the discussion.

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