Libero 015: The Greatest Champions League Semi Of All?

Libero

Sports, Soccer, Society & Culture

4.9 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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There was nowhere else to start than San Siro after the Champions League semi-final between Inter and Barcelona. Was it the best of all? Why are semis over two legs usually miles more entertaining than finals? Jonathan Wilson, Miguel Delaney and John Brewin share their memories, and hail gambling man Hansi Flick as football’s greatest ringmaster. After that (16:55): a missive from Mexico triggers a conversation on the cult of the football hipster. Is that era over? Or did books like Wilson’s 'Inverting the Pyramid' trigger an enduring legacy of earnest investigation into Sparta Rotterdam’s use of Wiel Coerver’s methods and the like? We lounge on Athletic Club cushions to consider the fashion(!), the music and the writing a wider perspective on football has added to modern culture. Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in at liberopodcast0@gmail.com Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.bsky.social Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 15 of Libro. I'm Jonathan Wilson. I'm joined today by Miguel Delaney of the Independent
0:16.9	and John Bruin, who flies under his own flag. Today we'll be looking at hipsterism in the second half, but before that we're going
0:24.3	to be dealing with Champions League semifinals.
0:26.9	So we should say we're recording this before the PSG Arsenal game, but after
0:31.2	Intervie Barcelona.
0:33.4	And into Barcelona last night was just one of the most incredible games I think I've ever seen.
0:38.4	John?
0:39.1	Yeah, no doubt about that.
0:41.3	Incredible drama.
0:43.3	Incredible, let's use that word, narratives all over the show.
0:48.2	Unexpected happenings.
0:51.0	Some hard look stories.
0:53.5	I mean, the look on Lewandowski's face at the end, you know,
0:58.6	he suddenly looked, I mean, I say this as someone who's older than him, but he suddenly looked very
1:02.4	old. Like, he suddenly looked, like, you know, one of those Hollywood actors that goes from being
1:07.5	Brat Pack, Harthrob, to sort of older man playing the family man type of.
1:13.4	You suddenly looked like that.
1:14.5	It looked a sort of gear at 50 sort of thing, you know.
1:18.2	And the rest of the, I mean, beyond that, you had, the first leg was all about laminia
1:25.5	mal, but we forgot.
1:44.6	It was actually three all. And if you watch the end of that first leg was all about Laminia Mal, but we forgot that it was actually three all. And if you watch the end of that first leg, you would see that the Barcelona players are the more disappointed after the first leg. Well, rightly so. I mean, in any rational world, I mean, maybe less so now that the away goals will doesn't exist, but the away team draws 3-3. Yeah, they've had a great result. They're the ones who should be happy.
1:45.7	Yeah.
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