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Libero 100 | Anxious Arsenal And The Definition Of A Bottle Job

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Libero

Sports, Soccer, Society & Culture

4.9 β€’ 867 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

It is – it turns out – quite difficult to pin down an accurate definition of what 'bottling it' means and, therefore, which teams can be fairly described as having committed this failure of will in the past. Miguel Delaney, Rory Smith and Jonathan Wilson give it their best shot at outlining the true meaning of the phrase and discuss the most famous 'bottle jobs' in football history. With the nerve of Mikel Arteta's Arsenal being severely tested as they seek to end a 26-year wait for a Premier League title, are we about to see another egregious example of 'bottling it' or would it be unfair to apply that description to this Gunners side? All covered in a landmark episode of Libero. P1: (02:43) P2: (27:46) Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via getintouch@liberopodcast.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.com Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.4

You haven't got the stones. Hello and welcome to Libero, the podcast about the most important of the

1:05.2

least important things, something Tim Flowers once bellowed into a Sky Sports microphone.

1:14.2

I'm Rory Smith, and I self-identify as being from Men in Blazers and the Observer.

1:18.4

And joining me today are The Independence Medell Delaney.

1:21.7

Hello, Miguel. How's the form?

1:23.4

All good. All good.

1:24.6

And Jonathan Wilson, spiritual grandfather of Michael Cox.

2:01.1

Jonathan, howie? Oh, thank you. I'm very glad you pronounced it in the weird side way, not the Italian side way. I appreciate that. Is that a traditional greeting of your people? No. No, it means come on. It would be a very strange thing to say. Unless somebody was sort of lagging and you were trying to hurry them along, you know, maybe you're sort of meeting at a metro station, you've got a bus to catch, you sort of see them in the distance you're like, how way. That would be the way it might work. What about, why I? Sorry? Or is it Y.I? Yeah, is it, is why I the traditional? I've literally never heard anybody say that. Alan Pardier says it in that episode

2:01.6

where he's...

2:02.0

Look,

2:02.7

people who, you know, it's like saying top of the morning. Nobody, nobody has said it in the area that's alleged to say it for at least 100 years. That's annoying because I wish I'd started this with them. So whenever I do second captains, which are very rarely, they say to me, how's the form?

2:20.0

Which I associate has been very Irish. wish I'd started this with, um, so whenever I do second captains, which are very rarely,

2:17.9

they say to me, how's the form? Which I, I associate, it's been a very Irish greeting, but I wish I'd said top of the morning to midiologist, he'd have found it quite offensive. That's a missed opportunity for me. We can say it for Patrick's Day, it's going up in three weeks, so. Is it? Yeah. Do you celebrate? Not really. I'll probably be at a Champions League game.

2:34.5

All right. But you know what Not really. I'll probably be on a Champions League game.

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