Beckham's Basement Podcast

Critty and Nick end the episode with their picks for the Club of the Year, Manager of the Year, Player of the Year, as well as biggest disappointment and biggest surprise of 2023! Before they get to that though, they recap a crazy week of action in the Premier League and Serie A. Manchester United play their best half of football this season, Liverpool are top of the table again, Man City edge back into the top 4 AND win the FIFA Club World Cup, and Arsenal already proving they are the best bottlers in the league with an underwhelming defeat to their London rivals, West Ham. Inter continue to take care of business and Mourinho guides Roma past ailing Napoli. This and much much more!!!

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It's Christmas in the basement! Critty and Nick celebrate the year that was in football, give their three biggest football Santa wishes for 2024 and recap all the action in the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga and perhaps the most exciting league in the world right now, Serie A! There is bas singing, Bad Santa, FIFA Club World Cup and much much more on the basement Christmas special!

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Manchester United are a one club tabloid-material-producing gem. They simply cannot help themselves. The Basements boys could have simply talked about the complete and total embarrassment against Bournemouth, but no, United could not let well enough be alone. The Red Devils go crashing out of Europe entirely with a massive thud. What happens now and who, if anyone, can save this disaster of a club? 

The lads also talk FIFA Club World Cup, the end of the UEFA Champions League group stage and breakdown of the week that was, including a brutal gang beating of Bayern Munich at the hands of Eintracht Frankfurt. No, that was a not a typo. Juventus-Napoli, Girona on top of La Liga, and Aston Villa just keep laying it down. What is next for Unai Emery's outstanding Villans? 

This and so much more!!!!!!

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Critty and Nick are battling the season as their voices take a beating. But, the show MUST go on! The boys talk about the club that is making ALL the noise this season in England, Aston Villa! It was high time to give Unai Emery the credit he deserves and recognize the success of The Villans this season. What is going on at Tottenham? After a 1st place start, Spurs find themselves in a massive tailspin. How do they recover? The story of the week though, Santos, Brazilian royalty, are relegated after 111 years in the top flight, and the club and the city burned in the aftermath. Nick gives a full recap of the dramatic events surrounding this historic fall from grace. Can Santos recover or will they suffer the same fate as so many other former glory clubs before them, and be sentenced to purgatory in the second tier? This and much much more from the basement!!!

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Critty and Nick talk Liverpool vs. Man City and Inter and Juve as the Premier League and Serie A races are in a virtual deadlock. The UEFA Champions League also reaches it's climax as the guys talk yet another Man United flop, a surprise Lazio round of 16 entry as well as Dortmund leading the charge atop their group. Their is also a beer break, some bourbon tasting and all the fun surrounding the best leagues in the world!

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On this Thanksgiving week, Critty and Nick recap the final international break of 2023 and make their predictions as to who will get the final spots for the 2024 European Championship in Germany. They look ahead to the weekend and some of the major matchups (Juve/Inter, City/LFC, Milan/Fiorentina, Napoli/Atalanta). Lastly, they take a deep dive into VAR and why it has had such a profound impact on the game. Are you for it or against it? They give a full breakdown where they stand and what, it anything, should change about it. 

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Grab a beer or some bourbon! This is a jam-packed episode from the basement! Nick was live in person for hometown Charleston Battery's USL championship match against Phoenix Rising - he gives us the full recap. 

Europe is as competitive as ever up top as Serie A, La Liga, the Bundesliga, the Premier League and Ligue 1 are all in white-hot title races. Leverkusen, Girona, and Nice are looking to crash the party and the Liverpool-City and Juventus-Inter rivalries are the talk of the continent heading into the international break. 

We break it all down and look ahead to some major Euro 2024 qualifiers, World Cup qualifiers and the biggest week of club football yet in a mere 8 days. 

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Critty and Nick open the show with a review of the Copa Libertadores final and review the top five prospects from both Boca Juniors and Fluminense as the Brazilians bring the trophy home. Manchester United have yet another meltdown as they capitulate to Copenhagen in the Champions League. Borussia Dortmund bow down to the kings as Bayern destroy their little brothers for a 10-match league unbeaten streak against Germany's big-match choke artists. Full Champions League recap as well as the weekend that was in Europe's top five leagues and a quick glimpse into the second tier of each nation as well. This and so much more from the basement!

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Critty and Nick tackle the week that was in Europe. Recapping the drama surround Manchester United's terrible week, Barca's care-free loss to Real Madrid and Bayern's humiliating loss to minnows FC Saarbruecken in the DFB Pokal. Also covered is the Copa Libertadores final in South America and the serious, sad, and depressing state in which Olympique Lyon find themselves in, despite a hall of fame manager at the helm and new ownership. All of this, predictions for the weekend and so much more!

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On this special episode of Beckham's Basement, Critty Smith is joined by his old friends and hosts of the SchalkeMerica podcast Richard Kharman and Jack Mangan! They discuss all things surrounding the royal blues of German football. From their triumphant 2nd place finish in 2017/18 to a relegation only a few years later. The mismanagement of funds, poor reinvestment, COVID aftermath and declining youth academy and scouting department. We take a deep dive into one of German football's absolute giants and walk our way through one of the most unimaginable falls from grace in the past 25 years of the game. What can be learned from Schalke and more importantly, how do they move forward?

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