Italian heartbreak and Tuchel’s selection headache – Football Weekly podcast
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:13.6 | Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly. |
| 0:15.8 | Italy missed a third world cup in a row. |
| 0:17.5 | What was unthinkable 12 years ago is now, well, thinkable. |
| 0:20.8 | They battled so hard with 10 for so long, but the Bosnia has held their nerve in the shootout. The streets of Sarajevo filled to bursting while the Azuri have to deal with reels of people asking Dad what the World Cup was like. Elsewhere, the Czech saw off Denmark on penalties while Yokores won it late for Sweden, who qualified despite only getting two points in their qualifying group. And the Dark Horses Turkey made it, of course they did. A great night for managing |
| 0:41.7 | expectations for England, defeat and deserve defeat to Japan, who scored a beautiful goal |
| 0:46.0 | slicing through an anonymous England midfield and defence. They should have been further ahead |
| 0:49.5 | when two called through on Harry Maguire and Dan Byrne from some real DNA get it launched and |
| 0:53.6 | almost got something, |
| 0:54.7 | perhaps time to reassess the spreadsheet. Also today, Deserby to Spurs, ban protests and a slightly |
| 1:00.0 | worrying examination of how he starts at clubs. How many of his five years will be in the second |
| 1:04.2 | tier? We'll do that, answer your questions, and that's today's Guardian Football Weekly. |
| 1:17.9 | On the panel today, Barry Glendning, hello. |
| 1:19.0 | Hi, Max. |
| 1:20.4 | Alar Sivinson, welcome. |
| 1:21.6 | Hello, everyone. |
| 1:24.4 | And we had so many messages like this. |
| 1:25.5 | Matt, no questions. |
| 1:28.4 | Please pass my condolences on to Nikki. Nick, oh, Nikki, I'm sorry. Mike, no question. Just give Nikki a virtual hug from me. Yes, Bosnia won, |
| 1:34.7 | Italy won. Bosnia threw on penalties. Nicky, I'm sorry too. Me too. Me too. Honestly, |
| 1:41.7 | it was interesting taking in the different way people reacted last night. I feel |
| 1:47.1 | like unsurprisingly on the timeline you see a lot of anger and I feel like I'm well past the |
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