Owning the own goals

5 Live's World Football Phone-in

BBC

Sports

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Summary

Arsenal win a match against Wolves 2-1 without scoring a goal themselves. We hear your stories of own goals and high scoring matches. As AFCON looms, we ask callers which players their side will miss most when play starts in Morrocco.

Dotun and Tim are joined by North African footballing expert, Maher Mezahi and author Jay Mwamba.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.0	My Christmas Mix is pure 90s festive nostalgia.
0:11.1	You know, the Christmas songs you listen to on repeat.
0:14.0	Ho!
0:14.3	Ho! Ho! No, no, no.
0:17.5	I'm all about the big hitting Christmas anthems.
0:20.4	Come on, guys. What about those tunes that really slay?
0:23.7	It's Christmas kitchen disco season, surely.
0:26.4	Give me hip-hip-hop Christmas bangers every day.
0:28.6	Those Christmas tracks that are straight out of Lapland.
0:30.9	Get all kinds of Christmassy.
0:32.6	Just search Christmas music on BBC Sounds.
0:36.1	I am a football fan. I am a football fan.
0:38.3	I am a soccer fan.
0:40.1	I came to see Maradona who is going to score in Nepal.
0:43.7	Yeah, the real sounds of Africa to once again kick off our world football phone in.
0:47.7	Good morning.
0:48.7	Good evening.
0:49.9	This is the nightclub.
0:51.7	BBC Radio 5 Live is point of reference to your comments and thoughts about the events of the day.
0:59.6	On a Tuesday morning, we turn our attentions to the beautiful game, aka football,
1:04.8	and talk about everything to do with that and everything else under the sun.
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