Mailbag: Has Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City failed in Europe?
Football Ramble
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4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
With several sides looking to restore some PROPA NAUGHTY ENGLISH PRIDE in the Champions League this week, Marcus, Luke and Jim wrestle with a potentially divisive opening question: should Pep Guardiola’s European record at Man City be seen as a failure?
Elsewhere, after Max Dowman’s historic goal for Arsenal at the weekend, Marcus, Luke and Jim reflect on their favourite ‘burst onto the scene’ moments in football history. Plus, is David Raya the best goalkeeper in the world - and has commentary got worse?!
Yes, is the answer to both of those.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:01.9 | Welcome to the Football Rumble Mailbag. |
| 0:04.8 | Pet Guardiola, David Ryron, bursting on to the scene of the orders of the day. |
| 0:08.4 | It's Tuesday, 17th the March. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm Marcus Speller. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Jar Jai Jarpink. |
| 0:11.6 | And I'm Jim Campbell. |
| 0:27.5 | Right. Right, you're going to do the whole show in the style of Jarga, I bet you said. No way! |
| 0:28.4 | You think you're being big, do you? |
| 0:29.4 | No way, I can't. |
| 0:30.1 | It's not, it's insensitive to do it in that voice. |
| 0:32.1 | Would you like to tell the listeners why you said that? |
| 0:34.1 | Because I, to prepare us for the shows every time we record, I like to type a really serious thing into chat GBT, BT, and ask them to expand to me in the style of Jar Jar Binks, and then read it to you guys to make you laugh because I'm a disgusting clown who needs validation and attention at all times. We won't say what the subject matter was. It was Slobodan Pralliiac killing himself at the Hague for war crimes. That it was. There we go. To be fair, you've choked a fire. Don't complain about the smoke. Contain the line glug, glug. It did. It did. It did. I didn't think you'd be the one who would say checkmate in that conversation, but fair enough, I've been done now. |
| 1:11.2 | He has been playing chess. |
| 1:12.2 | He has been playing chess, absolutely, yeah. |
| 1:13.9 | Maybe we'll do one of these jar-job things on a ramble-uncut when you're next on. Probably not, no. No, probably not. You can do it yourself. Luke's told you how to do it. And now it is mailbag time. You can split your free resource, remarkably. |
| 1:25.3 | Remarkably. |
| 1:26.3 | Get involved with the mailbag. |
| 1:28.4 | Message us on X, Blue Sky, or Instagram at Football Ramble. Comment on YouTube, email us show at Football Ramble.com. And, of course, Friends of the Ramble, you get priority. Patreon.com forward slash football ramble or sign up on YouTube. Do it. Here's a question from Moon on Discord, a very active member of Discord, |
| 1:44.3 | we're going to see always getting involved in the mailbag as well. |
| 1:47.5 | He asks the following. |
| 1:49.1 | Has Guardiola's time at Manchester City been a failure in terms of the Champions League? |
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