The Daily Football Briefing

Jan 21 2025 387 ep. 12 mins 748
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Barca win nine goal thriller (and Atletico do Atletico things)

Jan 21 2025 12 mins  
What a night of Champions League football. If you were smart enough to choose the Benfica - Barcelona game as your match of the night, well done. Pol Ballus was there and he’s still in shock. If you were watching some sort of Champions League highlights show, you may not have kept up with all the goals going in, there were 34 in total. James Pearce was at Anfield, Jacob Tanswel

Chelsea end their barren run (and what’s coming up in the Champions League)

Jan 20 2025 11 mins  
Chelsea are back in business after five Premier League games without a win, but their 3-1 victory over Wolves wasn’t always convincing. Simon Johnson was at Stamford Bridge, he tells us more. And is this really the worst Manchester United team ever? We check in with the Talk of the Devils team to find out. And what’s going on with the Champions League again? Who’s playing

Spurs lose at hands of free-scoring Everton (Man Utd lose too, but that’s hardly news)

Jan 19 2025 16 mins  
Did anyone expect David Moyes’ second coming to be quite this much fun? They tore Spurs to shreds in the first hour of their clash at Goodison Park, blotting their copybook only slightly by allowing Ange Postecoglu’s side to pull back two late goals. Jack Pitt Brooke was there. Paul Taylor was watching Nottingham Forest adjusting to a day of being overwhelming favourites. Car

Haaland signs new nine-and-a-half-year Manchester City contract

Jan 17 2025 8 mins  
Erling Haaland has committed the vast majority of his career to Manchester City by signing an extraordinary new contract that will keep him at the Etihad Stadium until the summer of 2034. Abi Patterson is joined by David Ornstein who broke the story exclusively on The Athletic. The Athletic's Senior Data Analyst shares his thoughts on how Manchester City will no look to build a tea

Amad Diallo spares United humiliation (and Brighton win for the first time in ages)

Jan 16 2025 9 mins  
With eight minutes to go at Old Trafford, the question of Manchester United’s relegation was pertinent and appropriate. They were losing to a broken team with just six points on the board. And then Amad Diallo, again, saved United. Laurie Whitwell tries to make sense of an extraordinary night. Elsewhere, Brighton won a league game for the first time since November 23, Ipswich d

Arsenal edge past Spurs (and Moyes’ return ends in defeat)

Jan 15 2025 10 mins  
Arsenal shook off their fears and just about edged their way past Spurs at The Emirates. Amy Lawrence was there to watch it all and pass comment, Jay Harris was there to quite rightly defend the honour of Spurs’ keeper Antonin Kinsky. There was no dream return for David Moyes at Everton, his side were beaten at home by Aston Villa and, goodness me, he has a lot of work to do.

Liverpool held by Forest (and will Man City ever be good again?)

Jan 14 2025 11 mins  
What a fantastic night of football for everyone apart from the people trying to put out a compact, results heavy, ten minute football podcast by 10.30pm. Liverpool (and Leicester fans) were given a real scare by Nottingham Forest, but they worked their socks off to come back and save a point. Chelsea saved a point at home to Bournemouth, Man City lost two at Brentford and Graham Po

Arsenal inquest begins (and we look ahead to Forest vs Liverpool)

Jan 13 2025 10 mins  
They’re all very down in the dumps at Arsenal. A surprisingly high number of fans seem to have lost faith in Mikel Arteta. That seems a bit dramatic, doesn’t it? We check in on Amy Lawrence and Ian Stone Are Nottingham Forest title contenders? Matt Davies Adams certainly thinks so and our Liverpool correspondent James Pearce thinks the league leaders are in for a really tough

Arsenal crash out of the cup to Man Utd (and Barcelona destroy Real Madrid)

Jan 12 2025 16 mins  
The FA Cup takes a lot of stick, from me in particular, but Sunday offered two of the best sort of games. First non league Tamworth gave Tottenham a real test across 101 minutes of uncompromising football class war and then Arsenal and Man Utd went at each other in a game that had more needle than quality. Carl Anka and James McNicholas were at The Emirates, Jay Harris was in Tam

Everton dump Dyche (and does Potter have a chance at West Ham?)

Jan 09 2025 10 mins  
We all knew Sean Dyche was under significant pressure at Everton, but I don’t think anyone expected him to sacked just a few hours before kick off in the FA Cup third round tie against Peterborough. David Ornstein and Paddy Boyland fill us in on the details. What do we make of Graham Potter at West Ham? Phil Hay has his doubts. And we have some good news for Manchester United f