MNC: Arsenal's slump and can Slot turn Liverpool around?
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🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman, Chris Sutton, Rory Smith and Phil Jagielka assess how damaging Arsenal's FA Cup defeat at Southampton could be for the rest of their season.
German football writer Rafa Honigstein joins the podcast to look at Tonda Eckert and why Germany is bringing through so many young coaches.
With Virgil Van Dijk saying Liverpool "gave up" during their defeat at Man City, the panel discuss whether Arne Slot can turn things around.
And assistant coach of Iraq, Rene Meulensteen, tells us about his side's extraordinary qualification for the World Cup.
TIMECODES 00:30 Arsenal's disappointing cup exits 17:15 Southampton's excellent display 19:00 Rafa Honigstein on young German coaches 32:18 Did Liverpool "give up" at Manchester City 43:08 Rene Meulensteen on Iraq's World Cup qualifcation
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.2 | Welcome to the Wayne Rooney show. |
| 0:09.3 | Wayne Rooney, Kay Curd and me, Kelly Somers, |
| 0:11.8 | break down the biggest stories in the Premier League and beyond. |
| 0:14.9 | He's gone in quite quick, but he hasn't caught him high. |
| 0:18.1 | I just don't think it's the red card. |
| 0:19.6 | Plus, we'll hear the funniest and most outrageous stories from Wayne's career. |
| 0:23.8 | I was going into positions and doing things I shouldn't have really been doing, |
| 0:26.9 | but you do it because you feel like you have to, |
| 0:28.9 | and I helped us drive on and win the FA Club. |
| 0:31.1 | The Wayne Rooney Show. |
| 0:32.3 | Watch a night player, listen on Towns. |
| 0:36.7 | This is the Monday Nightclub with Mark Chapman. |
| 0:40.1 | On the Football Daily podcast. |
| 0:42.5 | Welcome to the Monday night club, Phil Jagealka, Rory Smith and Chris Sutton with us this evening. |
| 0:48.7 | The F.A. Cup will dominate. |
| 0:50.6 | We'll talk about Southampton a little bit later on. |
| 0:52.8 | Liverpool and Manchester City. That leads win. Let's start with Arsenal then. We'll praise Southampton a lot in a little |
| 1:01.6 | while. But from Arsenal's perspective, which performance was worse, Phil, for you? The |
| 1:08.7 | FFL Cup final defeat? Or what happened at Southampton? Slightly different players, I appreciate. It's a tough one to call, to be honest. I think the manner in which they lost, obviously we all know if Man City do turn up. They're a really tough team. So you can sort of, I wouldn't say let them off because obviously if you're an Arsenal fan, it's a cup game you'd expect them to have tried to go out there and bring the first piece of silverware home and then arguably one of the better draws they could have had to get themselves into a semi-final again you've just lost a chance of a quadruple now it's obviously trying to do the treble they're the sort of things that you want to be doing and the team itself massively |
| 1:46.1 | unperformed. |
| 1:47.0 | Which one would worry you more, Chris? |
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