Sports Show: What the Hell is Wrong with Liverpool FC? w/ Avantika Goswami
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🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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In the latest episode, Matthew and Jonah discuss their Super Bowl feelings and differ over whether MLB Hall of Fame voters should discriminate against suspected drug cheats. They are joined by Avantika Goswami (@aygoswami) to discuss all things English Premier League: Liverpool's struggles, Manchester City's rampaging form, Manchester United's title prospects, Chelsea's coaching change, West Ham United, Leeds and the Super League proposal.
Avantika Goswami covers Liverpool for SB Nation at The Liverpool Offside.
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| 0:00.0 | I am Matthew Miranda, as always, here with Jonah Birch. |
| 0:13.4 | This is episode 4 of the award winning someday podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | You can follow us on Twitter at JacobinSports. |
| 0:23.6 | You can email us any thoughts or questions at JacobinSportsatgmail.com. |
| 0:29.2 | We've already had one complaint about our Celtic discussion, so please keep the mail coming. |
| 0:33.5 | Can we just go through that, you know, I want to hear about the, the, the, the email that |
| 0:38.9 | we got, you know, the angry, I think I'm with this, you know, whoever the listener is. |
| 0:45.2 | I expected you might be. |
| 0:47.2 | And it's, I will say it's not an unfair point. |
| 0:49.5 | So let me, let me just summarize quickly. |
| 0:53.6 | We received an email from Dave, Dave is a Celtic fan like Jonah, it afflicks people in |
| 0:58.6 | all walks of life. |
| 1:00.3 | And Dave mentioned listening to the second episode where we had Dave's iron on. |
| 1:05.4 | And if you heard that episode at the very beginning of the broadcast, Dave, who was a native |
| 1:09.6 | New Yorker and myself, were bonding over our shared upbringing of hating the Celtics. |
| 1:18.1 | And in particular, being taught to think of the Celtics as the epitome of racism and |
| 1:24.5 | regressive politics like in sports are certainly in the NBA. |
| 1:28.8 | And totally and yes, to be factually correct, you know, if you need a disclaimer, not |
| 1:34.8 | everything you hear on the show is going to be literal, you know, beliefs, we will mess |
| 1:39.7 | around. |
| 1:40.7 | But the both in the Celtics first team in NBA history to hire a black coach, first team |
| 1:46.5 | to draft a black player, first team to have an all five starting lineup made up of black |
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