Libero 106 | Are Arsenal's Lost Years Over? Why The Carabao Cup Final Matters

Libero

Sports, Soccer, Society & Culture

4.9 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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SC Libero, the most important of the least important membership clubs, is now live! Get on the bandwagon early, before broadsheet journalists start describing us as doing 'interesting things' at liberopodcast.com. --- Sunday’s Carabao Cup final could be a historic day for Arsenal. It is their first final since they won the 2020 FA Cup and could mark the start of a glorious climax to the 2025/26 season. On today’s episode Rory Smith, Jack Pitt-Brooke and Jonathan Wilson ask what it would mean for Mikel Arteta to win his second major trophy as Arsenal manager and reflect on the club's wilderness years reaching back to thir last Premier League title under Arsene Wenger in 2003/04. Was it to do with the lack of investment? Or an out-dated decision making structure? So have Arsenal stepped into the future, or have they just found a modern manager? P1: (07:13) P2: (29:06) 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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1:20.7	Hello and welcome to Libero, the podcast about the most important of the least important things, as Asen Venger once said.
1:30.9	My name is Jack Pitbrook, I'm from The Athletic, and I'm joined today by Rory Smith of the Observer
1:35.6	and by Jonathan Wilson. Now, as ever, we're going to start the episode with a plug,
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