Marie-Louise Eta makes history (again) and the Premier League title race heats up
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Musa and Ryan begin with Union Berlin appointing Marie-Louise Eta as interim head coach of their men’s team until the end of the season (02:46).
Eta becomes the first woman to take charge of a men’s team in Europe’s top five leagues, but is no stranger to the Union dugout, having already been a trailblazer for many years already. So, they chat about why the appointment makes so much sense and how it could pave the way for other clubs to do the same in the future.
They then move onto the Premier League title race (15:05), after a weekend where Manchester City closed the gap on Arsenal, following the Gunners’ home defeat to Bournemouth and City’s win away at Chelsea. And not to say Ryan’s taking it badly, but he did volunteer to go to the moon and has talked about starting a golf podcast.
Down the other end of the table, it got worse for Spurs, as they slipped into the relegation zone on Friday night, thanks to West Ham’s impressive win over Wolves, and stayed their following their own defeat to Sunderland.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the studio podcast. I'm Misukwanga. I'm Ryan Hun. |
| 0:26.7 | Ryan, how you doing? I'm all right, thanks, man. I'm more chill than I thought I would have been, |
| 0:31.7 | given the results and the circumstances, let's say. How are you? I'm good, but not as good as Roy McRoy. No, I imagine not. |
| 0:40.9 | No. Can I just say this? I want to say this because I was texting a friend of mine. Shout out to |
| 0:44.1 | Chris. Um, does a bit of music promo, radio promo. We're just chatting. A friend from the London days. |
| 0:49.6 | And we were talking about Royal Macquarie and the liberation that comes with winning one huge tournament you've craved your entire life. |
| 0:58.3 | And he played with liberation for the first half. |
| 1:00.4 | Then I think he remembered very much where he was. |
| 1:04.6 | It's that guy that walks between the kind of the two towers and then like looks down. |
| 1:10.7 | But yeah, he did the job. And I just |
| 1:12.6 | think there's a thing of like seeing somebody liberated when the whole world is watching, |
| 1:18.1 | expecting you to fail for years. And you come through and now it's like it never, he plays like |
| 1:25.8 | some of that tournament like the last couple of days as if like |
| 1:28.3 | the old pain was never there. So yeah, just really, really happy for any athlete that can do |
| 1:33.2 | that. That double on four very much is losing at home to Bournemouth moment, I'm hoping. |
| 1:39.4 | Oh, no. Sympathy for any Premier League club that's playing the Champions League that comes out of that and has Iriola waiting in the weeds for you |
| 1:47.7 | there's no one that deserves that. |
| 1:51.4 | Especially when you're not going to have got a really long injury list. |
| 1:54.0 | It's just like, no. |
| 1:55.5 | And then that guy, oh no, I'm not here. |
| 1:57.2 | We'll chat about that later, I'm sure. |
| 2:02.7 | Yes, we will. |
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