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Libero 104 | Where’s Your Famous Atmosphere? The Premier League’s Sanitised Matchday

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Libero

Sports, Soccer, Society & Culture

4.9867 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Atmosphere is one of the Premier League’s biggest selling points to broadcasters, but ask anyone who regularly goes to games and they will tell you that atmospheres in English grounds are in stark decline. If we do accept that atmospheres are getting worse, why is that? On today’s episode John Brewin, Jack Pitt-Brooke and James Horncastle try to unpack what exactly we mean when we talk about a ‘good atmosphere’, and whether we are taking a selective view of English football's vibrant year gone by. P1: (02:41) P2: (31:19) 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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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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0:07.0

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0:08.0

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0:10.0

I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong.

0:11.0

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0:13.0

You destroyed my family.

0:14.0

I will not rest until I've destroyed yours.

0:17.0

A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.

0:20.0

Hello and welcome to Libero, the podcast about the most important of the least important things, as Archibald Leach once said.

0:32.0

Walk in silence. Don't walk away in silence. See the danger.

0:38.4

Always danger.

0:40.0

Endless talking.

0:41.4

Life rebuilding.

0:42.9

Don't walk away.

0:44.3

Yes, that's right.

0:46.9

On today's Libro, we are talking about atmosphere.

0:52.6

Or, more specifically, what has happened to atmospheres in Premier League grounds in recent years.

1:12.3

My name is Jack Pitbrook from The Athletic. I'm joined today by Libero's number one Joy Division fan, John Bruin. Hello, John. Hello, I know the cobbled, well, it's not a cobbled street, the street on which those very lyrics were written. Yes, I walked past it many times. I went to the same school as Ian Curtis, which is what I tell everybody, because I've not got much else to me. That's a good former alumnus. Yeah, I mean, it's like, as cool

1:16.9

school alumnus goes, I don't think many beat that, do they? I mean, you know, maybe you went to

1:22.8

Dartford grammar where, you know, or the one that Keith Richards went to or something like that.

1:27.5

There's not really much beyond that, is there?

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