Manchester is red and chaos at the Afcon final – Football Weekly
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:12.6 | Hello and welcome to The Guardian Football Weekly. |
| 0:14.7 | Happy Carrick, Sad Frank, abandoned Glasner and the Mist Pernenka. |
| 0:18.8 | Manchester United completely dominate the Derby. |
| 0:37.6 | Those fans got a chance to feel again. Is it as simple as just do all the things Amarim didn't? Meanwhile, our city in crisis. Crises are relative, of course. Hello, Dr. Topham, rescuing West Ham from their worst run in 19 years. All the goodwill in the world is surely not enough to save Thomas Frank voice note incoming. |
| 0:56.3 | Meanwhile, poor abandoned Olly Glasner desperately tries but fails to do a Moreska, wonder what those clear-the-air talks with Steve Parrish on Sunday morning were like. Elsewhere, Liverpool continued their miserable, unbeaten run. Liam Rossini gets a lucky first Premier League win and Villa blow the chance to go second. And then to Afcon, just extraordinary. Brian Diaz is presumably still lying in bed, |
| 0:57.7 | staring at the ceiling, thinking, |
| 0:59.4 | why didn't I just do a pressman? |
| 1:01.4 | Sadie O'Mane getting his team back on, |
| 1:02.8 | Senegal winning it in extra time. |
| 1:06.2 | Just the kind of wild scenes no-one brackets everyone wants to see. |
| 1:08.4 | All that plus a glorious home goal in Stockport, |
| 1:31.6 | your questions, and that's today's Guardian Football Weekly. On the panel today, Barry Gleddenning, welcome. Hi, Max. Hello, John Bruin. Hello, though. And good morning, Seb Hutchinson. Hello, Max. Let's start then. A lot of people saying, let's start with Afcon. We will get there, but we're going to do the Premier League first. And we'll start at Old Trafford. Manchester United 2, Manchester City, nil. You were there, John, and it may be a flash in the pan. We don't know. But for |
| 1:37.3 | Manchester United fans, how liberating just to feel something, anything again. Yeah, it felt |
| 1:43.5 | like I was alive again. it felt like I was alive again. |
| 1:45.5 | It felt like I was... |
| 1:47.1 | It doesn't sound like it. |
| 1:51.0 | Did you want me to express it in some sort of... |
| 1:54.7 | You got criticised last week for not being a happy enough McElspield fan. |
| 1:58.2 | We know your tone. |
| 1:59.4 | We know the MacLone. |
| 2:00.1 | Well, I was going to say to when we express express it like Noel Coward or something, you know. |
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