The False 9

This week we welcomed back great friend of the pod Marvin Okello as our special guest! We ledoff getting our takes off on the Man City verdict, then a bried recap of this week's Champions League fixtures before launching into City's first league match since the verdict at Anfield of all places! Barcelona are a buzz-saw as they stayed perfect over Getafe, Inter and Lazio are duking out for top spot in Serie A, and the story of the early season in the Bundesliga is Freiburg who sit top after a ten mam victory over Schalke! We stopped by Wanderers Corner for some late drama from The Grounds, some news and notes from around the footy world, and finally wished a happy retirement to one of our favourite football writers John Nicholson!

This week we led off in the Prem where Chelsea won a seven goal barnburner over Brighton, and Arsenal went to Villa Park and eked out all three points! Barça have hit the ground running as they thrashed Rayo Vallecano, Malen is scoring freely for a red hot Roma, and Bayern kicked off their season with a stylish win over Stuttgart! It was a frenzied transfer deadline day as we took a look at the big moves, we stopped by Tides and Wanderers Corner, and finally congratulated Arsenal and Canada attacker Olivia Smith on her second straight young player of the year award in the WSL!

It's the annual False 9 Premier League Preview! We led off with with Arsenal off to a flying start in the Community Shield in a dominant win over Man City, then dove into our preview with ins and outs for the big teams, general outlook for each, and predictions! We combed through the transfer from the rest of Europe in the summer window, Tides and Wanderers, and a goodbye to AC Milan legend Franco Baresi!

This week we welcomed once again special guest Carlos Benitez of Pelota de Maple to the show! It's our World Cup special where we lead off with some quick favourite stories before diving into the final where Spain dominated Argentina and finally broke through in extra time to win their second world title! We touched on the semis and third place matches, dissected a historic Canada performance, then looked at the latest from the transfer window before finally saying goodbye to the great Kevin Keegan!