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Libero 023: Held Hostage by Hodgson

Libero

Libero

Sports, Soccer, Society & Culture

4.9867 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

With Paris Saint-Germain finally ending their cash soaked Qatari quest for a Champions League title John Brewin, Jonathan Wilson and Tariq Panja discuss how its likeable young team’s emphatic trouncing of Inter may have shielded the owners from the sort of scrutiny they should have received. They get it here.  In part two (36:38), discussion turns to the Club World Cup and what FIFA’s game is with a competition that few had been asking for. Is bribing exhausted star clubs with a $125m prize for a month’s work and feeding the transfer-industrial complex really what’s expected from Gianni Infantino and co.? Well, yes.  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

Right, hello. How do I do this? Do I do this, the Jonathan Wilson way, really sarcastic?

0:06.4

Or do it the Rory Smith way, which is, I think Rory meant it, man.

0:11.3

What we're talking about here is us at Libero, we're really enjoying putting this podcast out.

0:16.5

We're really enjoying a lot of the feedback we're receiving.

0:19.5

Listen to Arsenal fans, I know I'm boring.

0:21.6

But let everybody else live, even if I'm on here.

0:25.0

So if you like the show, even if you don't like the show,

0:28.0

give us a good rating, good reviews on all the various channels.

0:33.0

So that's Apple Podcast, that's your ACAST, that's your Spotify and YouTube in particular.

0:40.2

And hopefully that may help us continue this because, as I say, we really enjoy it and it will go some way to keeping us, keeping on.

0:52.9

Right, okay, on with episode number 23. Now, you've probably, hopefully listened to episode 22, live from Munich, though obviously not live at the time, in which the chaps, Rory and Miguel and special guests, went over the events in Munich, the Champions League final.

1:13.4

But we, there's three different heads here today.

1:15.9

We've got to think of it in a different way.

1:17.8

Miguel would have joined us actually, but thanks to a combination of German-Irish inefficiency.

1:24.0

That's not his own.

1:24.7

That's of a certain airline.

1:26.5

He is currently eyeing the

1:28.6

trouser press in a Munich hotel room. But instead, we've got Tarrick Panja of the New York

1:34.8

Times. And of course, Jonathan Wilson of the extended Jonathan Wilson universe,

1:41.5

a man seen and unheard across the football media matrix.

1:46.8

So anyway, back to Munich, events on Saturday.

1:50.0

One of those games that it was decided so early,

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