Hello and welcome to Libro Episode 25, the podcast about the most important, ever least important things, as Carl Angelotti put it.

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So maybe you're in the queue with Café Nero.

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I'm Jonathan Wilson. I'm joined today by Terek Panta, who I seem to be on with a lot these days.

It sounds not as good as normal though, so he apologises for that. And if you're watching on YouTube,

he seems a long way away, but he's actually just really small. So that's just a perspective thing.

And also joined by James Horncastle, who is about to dash off to Miami for the Club World Cup, which he's really looking forward to. So James, should we start with you? And we're going to talk about the weekends football, the internationals. We'll get on to the Nations League, which is what we were going to talk about. But what on earth is going on with Chenna Spiletti and Italy. Italy lose 3-0 to Norway. He appears to be sacked but then just turns up

George Costanza, Sile, and is going to do the game as Moldova anyway, and hope there be noticed. Does that right?

Yeah, that is right. I mean, I'm going to Miami, Jonathan, because, yeah, I might not be going to America next year when Italy failed to qualify for a third consecutive World

Cup. Yeah, I mean, this ultimately comes after they lost in Oslo, 3-0 against Norway and their first

World Cup qualifier. They were 3-0 down at half-time. Not the first time that's happened under Spiletti.

There were 3-0 down at half-time against Germany in the Nations League

quarter-final in March. And, you know, I suppose a lot of people thought that Spility

should have gone already this time last year when they were eliminated from the Euros

against Switzerland in the round of 16 after a really insipid performance. But, yeah, the Italian

Football Federation at the time

recognized that he'd only been in a job like seven or eight months because Roberto Mancini

had basically come up with an excuse to resign saying that, oh, the Italian Football Federation

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