Episode 2593: Griezmann – To The Barricades?

Has Antoine Griezmann, denied the French captaincy, followed the lead of thousands of his fellow compatriots and launched himself upon the barricades?

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Well, not exactly. In fact, no.

Ken – employing his self taught French – finds out what’s really going on in the French Football Camp, beyond the screaming tweets, before cycling out to a wintry-feeling Abbotstown to hear what Matt Doherty makes of his old Boss, Antonio Conte.

Of Conte and Men.

We talk to Jack Pitt-Brooke of The Athletic, as he details where to now for the Spurs managerial merry-go-round as Crystal Palace snap up Roy Hodgson, a man whose birth is as close in time to the first ever international football match of 1872 as it is to the present day. (H/t @graceonfootball)

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