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Liverpool Crumbling, Guardiola Crosses the Line & Muller beats Son
Podcast Episode · Week In The Tackle · 25/11/2025 · 49m
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Just how bad is the pitch in Vancouver? Can you have a good artificial pitch? Should Pep Guardiola be banned for his cameraman confrontation? And is it too early for the Christmas tree?
That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week!
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All Around the Premier League
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Hot Tips, Where in the World is @jackjcollins & More!
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Hot Tips, Where in the World is @jackjcollins & More!
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THE FOOTBALL SHOW IS LIVE!!!
All Around the Premier League
@LoreBetto on Serie A
Hot Tips, Where in the World is @jackjcollins & More!
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All Around the Premier League
@LoreBetto on Serie A
Hot Tips, Where in the World is @jackjcollins & More!
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Muller v Messi in #MLSCup and the latest in a long line of disappointments from Lucas Paqueta.
Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray!
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Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray!
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Messi v. Muller, Salah Dropped & Dunny Battles A Stingray
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December 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Muller v Messi in #MLSCup and the latest in a long line of disappointments from Lucas Paqueta.
Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray!
youtu.be/XmU4HaY3V3A?...
Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray!
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Muller v Messi in #MLSCup and the latest in a long line of disappointments from Lucas Paqueta.
Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray!
open.spotify.com/episode/1ACw...
Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray!
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Messi v. Muller, Salah Dropped & Dunny Battles A Stingray
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December 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Muller v Messi in #MLSCup and the latest in a long line of disappointments from Lucas Paqueta.
Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray!
open.spotify.com/episode/1ACw...
Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray!
open.spotify.com/episode/1ACw...
Muller v Messi in #MLSCup and the latest in a long line of disappointments from Lucas Paqueta.
Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray!
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Messi v. Muller, Salah Dropped & Dunny Battles A Stingray
Podcast Episode · Week In The Tackle · 03/12/2025 · 51m
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December 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Muller v Messi in #MLSCup and the latest in a long line of disappointments from Lucas Paqueta.
Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray!
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Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray!
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How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage.
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage.
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
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The economic damage Brexit has caused is undeniable - even Brexiteers are now admitting it.
https://www.thetimes.com/business/economics/article/we-brexiteers-must-acknowledge-the-costs-of-leaving-europe-p3mhqd66f
https://www.thetimes.com/business/economics/article/we-brexiteers-must-acknowledge-the-costs-of-leaving-europe-p3mhqd66f
We Brexiteers must acknowledge the costs of leaving Europe
Breaking free from the EU has undoubtedly deepened the UK’s malaise, and it’s no use denying it
www.thetimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The economic damage Brexit has caused is undeniable - even Brexiteers are now admitting it.
https://www.thetimes.com/business/economics/article/we-brexiteers-must-acknowledge-the-costs-of-leaving-europe-p3mhqd66f
https://www.thetimes.com/business/economics/article/we-brexiteers-must-acknowledge-the-costs-of-leaving-europe-p3mhqd66f
All political news is covered like the transfer window. Breathless gossip. Half truths. Scoops. They’ve all got addicted to the hysteria. There’s no depth.
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
All political news is covered like the transfer window. Breathless gossip. Half truths. Scoops. They’ve all got addicted to the hysteria. There’s no depth.
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I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.
The coordinated hysteria of the right wing media is making the Sunday politics shows and basically every Sunday paper impossible to digest. It’s always been right wing coded, but this is something else. They’re all in a wild frenzy, every day. They’re all GB ‘News’ now.
November 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The coordinated hysteria of the right wing media is making the Sunday politics shows and basically every Sunday paper impossible to digest. It’s always been right wing coded, but this is something else. They’re all in a wild frenzy, every day. They’re all GB ‘News’ now.
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It's definitely reasonable to criticise the pre-budget comms, which were fairly shambolic (which, as ever, comes from strategic confusion). But this is all a massive overreaction.
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It's definitely reasonable to criticise the pre-budget comms, which were fairly shambolic (which, as ever, comes from strategic confusion). But this is all a massive overreaction.
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It's completely ridiculous. Pre-budget everyone thought the headroom gap was £20-30bn including policy changes (e.g. on welfare). It was in fact £16bn.
It's hardly a massive difference.
It's hardly a massive difference.
I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
It's completely ridiculous. Pre-budget everyone thought the headroom gap was £20-30bn including policy changes (e.g. on welfare). It was in fact £16bn.
It's hardly a massive difference.
It's hardly a massive difference.
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Perhaps a good time to launch an investigation...
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Perhaps a good time to launch an investigation...
I’m being stupid. This is why the target has moved back to welfare, because migration has provably gone down. All pushing the Reform agenda of austerity and welfare cuts which worked so well for 14 years… when they were all Tories.
Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years.
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I’m being stupid. This is why the target has moved back to welfare, because migration has provably gone down. All pushing the Reform agenda of austerity and welfare cuts which worked so well for 14 years… when they were all Tories.
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
I think it’s a good thing when the state takes care of the welfare of its citizens. This ‘benefits street’ stuff is disgusting.
November 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I think it’s a good thing when the state takes care of the welfare of its citizens. This ‘benefits street’ stuff is disgusting.
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The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
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Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years.
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years.
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
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It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
Just how bad is the pitch in Vancouver? Can you have a good artificial pitch? Should Pep Guardiola be banned for his cameraman confrontation? And is it too early for the Christmas tree?
That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week!
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That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week!
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Liverpool Crumbling, Guardiola Crosses the Line & Muller beats Son
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November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Just how bad is the pitch in Vancouver? Can you have a good artificial pitch? Should Pep Guardiola be banned for his cameraman confrontation? And is it too early for the Christmas tree?
That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week!
youtu.be/qEhRBOFPVxU?...
That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week!
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Just how bad is the pitch in Vancouver? Can you have a good artificial pitch? Should Pep Guardiola be banned for his cameraman confrontation? And is it too early for the Christmas tree?
That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week!
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That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week!
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Liverpool Crumbling, Guardiola Crosses the Line & Muller beats Son
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November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Just how bad is the pitch in Vancouver? Can you have a good artificial pitch? Should Pep Guardiola be banned for his cameraman confrontation? And is it too early for the Christmas tree?
That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week!
open.spotify.com/episode/1NoZ...
That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week!
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Just how bad is the pitch in Vancouver? Can you have a good artificial pitch? Should Pep Guardiola be banned for his cameraman confrontation? And is it too early for the Christmas tree?
That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week!
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That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week!
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Liverpool Crumbling, Guardiola Crosses the Line & Muller beats Son
Podcast Episode · Week In The Tackle · 25/11/2025 · 49m
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November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Just how bad is the pitch in Vancouver? Can you have a good artificial pitch? Should Pep Guardiola be banned for his cameraman confrontation? And is it too early for the Christmas tree?
That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week!
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That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week!
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Reposted by Tom Rennie
Here was Robbie Gibb's "hugely impartial" take on the BBC, before he joined the board, as written in the Daily Mail
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Here was Robbie Gibb's "hugely impartial" take on the BBC, before he joined the board, as written in the Daily Mail
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BBC board member Robbie Gibb, whose previous jobs have included being Conservative communications director to Theresa May, and helping to set up GB News, tells MPs that he is "hugely impartial"
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
BBC board member Robbie Gibb, whose previous jobs have included being Conservative communications director to Theresa May, and helping to set up GB News, tells MPs that he is "hugely impartial"
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"One of the terrible ironies is that Reform’s leader, Nigel Farage, is now capitalising on the unpopularity of a government whose laudable aims have been frustrated by the economic damage caused by a Brexit behind which he was the prime mover." ~AA
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‘Reset’ with the EU looks more like ‘upset’ as Brexit damage mounts | The Observer
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November 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"One of the terrible ironies is that Reform’s leader, Nigel Farage, is now capitalising on the unpopularity of a government whose laudable aims have been frustrated by the economic damage caused by a Brexit behind which he was the prime mover." ~AA
observer.co.uk/news/busines...
observer.co.uk/news/busines...