Chances are you have already listened to this episode, originally posted at the beginning of April, but if for whatever reason you haven't, and need to binge old episodes of the pod to catch up on the 2019 J1 season, I'm reposting it. This episode was the casualty of the five Tuesday April that meant I had to delete one pod in order to post our first April J2 Special pod at the end of the month. Upload limits and all that - the reason we are now on Patreon.

Ryan Steele guests to chat about Urawa 1-1 FC Tokyo from Matchday 5 (to 23:05), Alan Gibson reviews a brighter time for Vissel Kobe - their 4-3 away win over Gamba Osaka - and many of the other games from the round, as well as Japan's most recent friendlies (to 1:13:30), and Neil Debnam returns after Kawasaki had posted their first win of the new season away at Matsumoto.

#Also experimenting for the first time with ads on Podbean, this repost is a perfect opportunity to do so.#