On The Continent: Remembering Pape Diouf and The Sommelier strikes back
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
We start today’s episode of On The Continent with a deserved tribute to one of French football’s favourite sons, as former Marseille president Pape Diouf sadly passed away this week. We remember his incredible journey from humble beginnings in Chad to establishing himself as a respected football journalist and eventual club president, all while endearing himself to the French football public.
Elsewhere, as clubs around Europe struggle with the financial fallout from the Coronavirus pandemic, we discuss whether the decision should rest on the players to donate some of their wages to non-playing staff or if that should be up to clubs and the authorities. There’s also time for a lowdown of the increasingly tense relationship between Lionel Messi and the Barcelona hierarchy, as well as some powerful statements from Atalanta supporters’ groups.
And finally – roll up, roll up, it’s time for the clash of the century. It’s the F1 car vs the go-kart; it’s beautiful goals vs beautiful features; yes, we make time to discuss the Karim Benzema vs Olivier Giroud beef!
Fancy getting in touch? We are now releasing episodes of the Mailbag exclusively to Patreon! Email us at otc@footballrambledaily.com and visit patreon.com/footballrambledaily to get involved!
**Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*
For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello and a very warm and especially warm welcome to this lock down episode of On the |
| 0:09.8 | Constant. I'm Luke Moore. I'm Andy Brassel. |
| 0:18.8 | Andy how the devil are you chap? I know you've been a bit under the weather so I thought |
| 0:22.8 | I'd just check in with you before we get into the meat and drink of the show. Are you feeling |
| 0:26.8 | better? Yeah, yeah. Onwards and upwards, Lukey. Of course I was revitalised by the company |
| 0:33.2 | of the renewed Jules Breach on Tuesday on Football Ram with Daily which definitely helped but |
| 0:38.9 | plenty of interesting stuff to chew through today. Absolutely. We shouldn't really be talking |
| 0:43.9 | about things being infectious but the only thing more infectious than coronavirus is the |
| 0:48.4 | Jules Breach in the Theosiasm which we welcome. It's good to see her back on her feet as |
| 0:53.5 | well and pleased to hear you're feeling a bit better too. You sound a lot better so good |
| 0:58.0 | stuff. Alright, unfortunately we have to start with some sad news this week. Former Marse |
| 1:04.5 | president Papa D'Euth has sadly passed away from coronavirus. I mean it was only a week |
| 1:12.0 | or two ago. We were talking about ex-real Madrid president Lorenzo Sands sadly suffering |
| 1:17.0 | the same fate. But plenty of our listeners and I include myself in this. Wouldn't have been |
| 1:22.5 | overly familiar with the Papa D'Euth story. He was listed in the obituaries as ex-Marse |
| 1:30.4 | president. But the story he had to come from where he came from to reach where he eventually |
| 1:36.4 | reached was actually quite a remarkable one. I wonder if you can give us a quick potted |
| 1:41.3 | history of his life and what he was able to achieve and how he did it. Yeah, well he's |
| 1:46.8 | a born in Chad to a Senegalese family and grew up in Senegal, came over to France as |
| 1:55.1 | a teenager which was always the plan because his dad was very French loyalist. And what |
| 2:05.4 | he didn't imagine I think is that his son who studied political science at Aixon Provence |
| 2:11.7 | would go on afterwards to become a journalist when he was at the university Aixon Provence. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Stak Production, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Stak Production and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.