Episode 973: Closed Doors In Catalonia, Ireland’s Goodison Goal, Bale’s Pain, Expected Goals League Table
Ireland go into the international break off the back of a stunning 1-0 win at Goodison Park, after Brady, Ward and Hendrick combined to score our best goal of 2017 to date, heaping more misery on Ronald Koeman. Simon Hughes brings us up to speed on where things have gone wrong.
Speculation, directness, belligerence and spite makes Goodison Park a hostile arena. Could Sean Dyche bring it back? https://t.co/PUNEwOD0ne
— Simon Hughes (@Simon_Hughes__) October 1, 2017
Elsewhere there is more pain for Liverpool, who keep winning on expected goals but not on real ones, while Carlo Ancelotti’s reputation is being trashed by the players who weren’t challenged enough for him at Bayern.
Robben: My son’s school training sessions are more demanding than Ancelotti’s https://t.co/5OWw8cCOOc players trained in private – Kicker pic.twitter.com/45lplmq0fQ
— AS English (@English_AS) October 2, 2017
But there is no doubt where the main story was this weekend. Barcelona played Las Palmas behind closed doors after the Spanish League refused to allow them to postpone the match due to the police repression on the city streets. Kieran Canning joins us to reflect on a momentous couple of days in Spain and what looks like a grotesque series of mistakes by the authorities in Madrid.
The Catalan leader said he’ll present the results of the referendum to the regional Parliament to make them binding https://t.co/LeKub2odBL
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 2, 2017
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Dawn Astle, daughter of Jeff Astle, on the sad end to her father's life, and football's attitude to concussion ???https://t.co/hLLxFi99rM pic.twitter.com/8YR6JRCv1n
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