The Pressing Matters Podcast

It's a big-up to Big Jupp, as Heynckes takes on his op Klopp in a palatable Pokal final. Goals aplenty at a historic time for German football; World Cup champions in 2014, while just two years earlier, the majority of...

Future Ballon d'Or winners Kaká and Andriy Shevchenko (who won at the end of this year) play together for Milan, while Vieri, Stankovic, and 99 Shot Power Adriano start for Inter in this game from 2004; the birthyear of...

Spain are World Champions after a pretty uninspiring defence by Argentina; England and France crashed out at the semi-finals but at least got to score a bunch of goals in a meaningless Bronze Final. We give our feelings...

We have some fun in the second half reminiscing about England's famous win over Mexico at the Azteca, but before all that we have the small matter of constitutional chaos as Egypt fume at their exit amidst a...

Hello, yes, the World Cup is going on and the first ever Round of 32 comes to a close. Lots of games and we talk about some but not all of them. England got past the Democratic Republic of the Congo aka the DRC, but not...

It's our long-awaited Swiss Special, so we talk about our favourite chocolatiers as they top Group B. We also cover the small matter of England, who have won 1, drawn 1 as we go into the final group game against Panama...

The World Cup is well underway in the USA, Mexico, and Canada. We've seen it all and we try to talk about everything: France's superstars see off Senegal, Håland continues his fine goalscoring form, Chris Wood lights it...

In late 2007, Fabio Capello became England Manager, a global recession dawned, and smoking was banned in public spaces, but it wasn't all doom and gloom as an 8-goal thriller played out at the JJB Stadium. Join Toby and...

We wrap up the 25/26 Premier League season by looking back at our predictions from before the season began. Who overperformed our expectations, what mistakes did we make, and did we predict that Spurs would finish 17th...

It is a great day, as Arsenal win the Premier League for the first time in 22 years. We look back at a season dictated by Mikel Arteta's hard-to-beat side. It's also a managerial merry-go-round, as Pep might be leaving...

Big drama as VAR spots a foul on Raya to save Arsenal and make life harder for West Ham, while Brentford fall victim to VAR decisions as Manchester City's high-line survives two nervy moments from Kevin Schade. Did the...

We're back to cover Arsenal's fantastic week reaching the Champions' League Final and going top of the Premier League again, we check-in on Chelsea post-Rosenior's sacking, and we look at Spurs as they settle-in under...

We're joined by special guest Luke from Cockerel Talk to cover the crisis at Tottenham as they sink deeper into a relegation battle. What went wrong since that night in Bilbao, who do the fans blame, and is there any...

Arsenal continue to stumble towards the finish line, but have they done enough to win the Premier League title? Andoni Iraola leaves Bournemouth just after beating Arsenal at the Emirates, while West Ham continue...

A gut-punch for Arsenal as a Nico O'Reilly brace assisted by Kepa sinks the quadruple dream. What went wrong for Arsenal and what do they need to do for the rest of the season? We also touch on Mo Salah's agreement to...