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Libero 067 | Is The Premier League Boring?

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Libero

Sports, Soccer, Society & Culture

4.9867 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A quarter of the way through this Premier League season, people are starting to ask: is the football we are watching this year any good? Or has the rise of set pieces turned it into a different game? For almost a decade, Pep Guardiola’s brand of possession football felt like the dominant form but even Manchester City are now playing in a different way. Is there no future in the positional game? Or does Andoni Iraola carry the torch for attacking football? On today’s episode Jack Pitt-Brooke, John Brewin and Jonathan Wilson try to explain why the game has changed so much, and why even the best teams have decided to take a more direct approach. P1: (11:08) P2: (29:03) Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via liberopodcast0@gmail.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.bsky.social Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions 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

Hello and welcome to Libero, the podcast about the most important of the least important things,

0:04.8

as Austin McPhee once said.

0:06.9

Firstly, we want to say a big thank you very much to all of you for listening and for interacting.

0:11.7

We're very grateful for it.

0:13.2

We need it.

0:14.1

Please keep it coming on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X and Blue Sky.

0:25.0

Thank you. Apple, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, and Blue Sky. So today I'm joined by the Baron of Bethnal Green, John Bruin.

0:28.7

Hi, John.

0:29.5

And the man they're calling the start holder of Wonsworth, Jonathan Wilson.

0:33.7

The start holder?

0:34.8

Yeah, like a kind of Dutch, you know, like the kind of...

0:37.7

Oh, start like that, sorry, yeah, with double A, yeah, sorry, yeah, I know, happened to be that. I don't know where that came from, but I felt it suited you. We are... So today we're going to talk about the Premier League, and specifically you two, you guys were both at Premier League games this weekend. John, you were at the Amex? I was, yeah, a regular haunt of mine

0:54.8

these days, and I do enjoy it down there. Brighton's performance this season over 90 minutes,

1:01.1

so rare clean sheet. And when you go to Brighton, this is how it works. You see another

1:06.6

young player that you think, where did they get him from? And this time, Diego Gomez from

1:12.5

MLS into Miami, David Beckham's. Yeah, they were really good. Leeds fans, if you're listening,

1:19.7

I think you know that your team was no good in this game, probably their worst performance

1:24.4

of the season, chatting to some of the local lads. That was beyond them really.

1:28.1

Brighton are playing a level of football or played a level of football above Leeds.

1:33.1

It's funny with Brighton, you watch them and the talent is there, but because it's talent

1:39.1

and it's not flourish, it's not fulfilled, it's not peaking just yet.

1:43.7

It can be a bit bit bitty, but that was the best I've seen them.

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