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Soccer Sense Podcast
by Soccer Sense
Soccer Sense, the sensible football podcast takes a weekly look at all that is sensible on the pitch and off it with a focus on the English Premier League. Each week Vishal, Karan & Tareque strive to keep it 100% hot take free.
Episodes
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S15 Ep13: World Cup (of ode to) Joy
Vishal, Karan, and Tareque are finally able to find a window to breathe and to record an episode reflecting on the summer euphoria of dreams of a perfect world that is the FIFA World Cup despite all the ills that plague it off the field. We talk Cape Verde's breakout, France's imperious touch…
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S15 Ep12: A New Hope Is Now Canon
Vinayakk M, longtime Arsenal fan and sports journalist returns to the pod after a decade to bask in the afterglow of Arsenal's title winning PL season, and help us train our SenseMeter on the dawn of a new Gunners Era. You can read his Substack post about Arsenal here and follow him on Twitter/X...
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S15 Ep11: Top Gunners: Mavericks
The full panel is here to talk about the end of Arsenal's 22-year quest for a Premier League title, separating the sense of the destination from the riff raff of the journey, and discussing how winning a league, like finishing a marathon, need not always look aesthetically dignified for it to be...
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S15 Ep10: Putting On Our Run-In Shoes
The full panel is back as we break down how Arsenal are likely to handle the run-in, speculate about Pep and talk about the madcap finish in Scotland.
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S15 Ep9: We Are The Championsss(hip)!
Soccer Sense's EFL Championship correspondent - Karan - gives us a lowdown of a dramatic final day in the league, and the madness of following three games at once with playoff places on the line. Championship - where sense is thrown to the winds, and it is mostly just... football madness. Tune In!
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S15 Ep8: London Marathon, Manchester Sprint
Karan and Tareque put the top of the table clash between Manchester City and Arsenal under the SenseMeter and ask - what does the run-in look like for the two title contenders, with a cameo from Loki himself.
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S15 Ep7: The Italian Bottle Job
Karan, our calcio correspondent, joins Tareque, as we break down the history behind the heartbreak of the Azzuri missing out on a men's World Cup berth for an incredible third time in a row. But is it really that incredible, or is there credible incompetence behind it? We train our SoccerSense...
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S15 Ep6: Whither The Art Of Football?
Vishal and Tareque get existential trying to figure out why the Champions League knockout games were that one-sided and look for silver linings on spotting the soul of football this World Cup year.
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S15 Ep5: Around Europe In 20 Games
The full panel is back with Karan, the European correspondent, breaking down the chaotic final matchday in the Champions League and resident Red Devil Vishal breaks the sense down behind the madness of Michael Carrick's first two results as (caretaker) Manchester United manager.
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S15 Ep4: Ruben In The Dust
Vishal and Tareque convene an emergency pod to try and separate the sense of the disease from the hysteria of symptoms of what ails Manchester United, in the wake of their latest managerial ousting - Ruben Amorim. Also featuring, can Arsenal be stopped by the team that denied Leeds scoring...
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S15 Ep3: Comm-on Sense
The full panel of Vishal, Karan, and Tareque are back to talk about a tale as old as time - poor communication between management and employees - as we try to separate the sense from the sensationalism of l'affaire Mo Salah and try to figure out Arne Slot's blueprint going forward.
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S15 Ep2: Rage Against the Slot Machine
Vishal and Tareque subject the opposing runs of Arsenal and Liverpool to the scrutiny of the SenseMeter and try to explain what seems to be ailing Slot's Liverpool, and if Arteta's Arsenal are the real deal now.
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S15 Ep1: Under New Management
Vishal and Tareque discuss the existential threat that looms upon the vaunted position that is the football manager and how the future of football itself might be intertwined in this owner-manager power struggle.
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S14 Ep19: Parisian Ending
Karan, Vishal, and Tareque convene one last time for this season to look back at the Champions League final, and discuss how Luis Enrqiue's joyful football philosophy put the spark back in Soccer Sense's own footballing funk.
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S14 Ep18: 3B or not to be?
Karan, Vishal, and Tareque are back for a full panel pod about the joys of finishing on the pinnacle of English football positions: 8th, 9th, and 10th. We talk about the beauty of the three Bs - Bournemouth, Brighton, and Brentford - who finished there and why these clubs in and of themselves are...
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S14 Ep17: Serie A for "Aaaaah what is happening??"
Tareque and Karan bring you a special follow up episode to our last week's Serie A roundup episode because apparently drama that would have even Lenin shook was packed into one weekend and affected all parts of the table.
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S14 Ep16: Issa Serie A! 🤌
Tareque and Soccer Sense's Calcio Correspondent Karan make up the panel this week that gives you the Soccer Sense season primer of the Serie A season - which Milan is annoying Juve fan Karan the most, and how is Gasperini like Ethan Hunt, and will Serie A see the holy vacation trifecta in it next...
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S14 Ep15: Inter mezzo opera
Vishal and Tareque get together to question Karan's conspicuous absence of reaction on the epic that was the Barca v Inter semifinal, and train the Soccer Sense Meter on the tie, with some surprising insights about age and experience from Vishal himself.
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S14 Ep14: Perch-ance to dream - Liverpool get to 20
The panel convenes to elect a new pope seek the sense in how Liverpool put together a title winning run, and what Arsenal need to do in their Champions League semifinal second leg.
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S14 Ep13: Fergielicious Throwback Thursday
A sense busting throwback Thursday from Manchester United who party like it's 1999 and our panel tries to recalibrate our Soccer Senses to understand their dramatic elimination of Lyon. Also featuring, a primer on your new fav Norwegian football team.
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S14 Ep12: European Reunion
Was Pirlo on the PS5 controller when Rice stepped up to take the freekicks against Real Madrid? Are Bayern Munich cut out for an Italian Job? And will Villa Park be metal enough in the second leg? All these and many more questions tackled in our Champions League Quarterfinal Reviews as Tareque…
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S14 Ep11: United Rations Organisation
This week, the panel - none of whom are even capable of filing their own taxes - pore into the financials of Manchester United and discuss the dilemma of how a big football club can balance commerce, community and conscience while dealing with an existential crisis, and figure out if there are...
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S14 Ep10: European Knights
This week there was heist in Paris, and next week there could be a Cinderella story happening in Lille. It's all happening in the Champions League as the panel, led by European Correspondent Karan, break down the Round of 16 Leg 1s and look forward to Leg 2.
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S14 Ep9: City Stall
After Liverpool's 2-0 away win at the Etihad, the panel addresses the non-addressing of the Manchester City decline, and also discusses why Arsenal seem to be manifesting poverties they don't suffer from and enquires if there are buses being hired in advance in the city of Liverpool yet?
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S14 Ep8: Whose Cup Is It Anyway?
This week, the panel grapples with the existential question - if a cup was won with no one around was a cup still won? Football's expansionary push and its potentially devastating consequences are put under the SenseMeter, with a little help from Ted Lasso.
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S14 Ep7: Battle Real
This week, much like Manchester City's midfield, we put in only 2/3rd of the effort, as partial panel Tareque and European Correspondent Karan break down the sense and nonsense of the pulsating Champions League encounter between Real Madrid and City and look ahead to the return leg.
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S14 Ep6: Soccer Zen-se
This week the panel reflects on how Arsenal carved Manchester City apart to serve them a 5-1 beatdown, and wonder how to separate sense from nonsense in the tactics and the turmoil when the stakes and the emotions run as high as they did at The Emirates.
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S14 Ep5: What's A Manager For?
This week, the panel gets philosophical about football managers and their role in the modern game where they seem to be pulled in different directions by forces of commerce and chaos. We explore what rock bands can tell us about the football manager, and what lemons life may chuck at Arne Slot…
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S14 Ep4: 2 BASEket 2 Ball: This Time it is UEFA
The panel convenes to wrap their heads around the new fangled UEFA Champions League format, and how it resembles March Madness, or even worse, the Baseketball format. What sort of unintended consequences hath UEFA wrought? We look at the dynamics.
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S14 Ep3: Gunners, Ahem!
It's that time of the season when in the Premier League the panel turns its attention to North London, partly for the comedy (this time it even features Monty Python!) and partly for the enigma and how to separate the sense from the nonsense if you are an artillery themed football club.
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S14 Ep2: We're still preoccupied... with 1985!
The Soccer Sense panel convenes to discuss the 2-2 draw between Liverpool and Manchester United and what it means for a Man U team in turmoil and their manager, who was *gasp* born (b. 1985) after the release of Return of The Jedi (1983), a fact causing grave concern for the panel (about their…
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S14 Ep1: The Sense and Nonsense of 2024
Vishal, Karan, and Tareque are back with a new season, beginning with a look back at 2024, and seeking the sense behind Nottingham Forest's rise and City's fall. And on a cold Wednesday night, somewhat removed from Stoke, Karan tries to explain Juventus' strange unbeaten Serie A run.
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S13 Ep1: Times Like These We Fall In Love Again
Tareque and Vishal are back after a long hiatus - older and wiser - about how they fell a little out of love with the game and how they are reconciling themselves to fall in love with the game again. And oh yes, somehow Manchester United are still crap :/
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S12 Ep5: Mapping Europe
It is time for our European Correspondent to spike his hair up, dust off his notebook, and set off on a cross continental adventure with his do-- oh wait, that's Tintin. In this week's episode we have Karan, Soccer Sense's european correspondent giving us the full preview of the UEFA Champions...
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S12 Ep4: Mad(ness) Max
Tareque, Karan, and Vishal are back again with a new instalment of searching for Soccer Sense amidst all the madness this week of France and Australia's penalty theatrics literally spilling over into a theater, and a Premier League opening weekend that answered a lot of questions but raised many...
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S12 Ep3: And Then She Was : The Women's World Cup Preview
Soccer Sense's resident women's football correspondent joins us for a special preview of the Women's World Cup where we discuss who to look out for, the strides the women's game has made, and the steps it still needs to take, and how you, the listener, can be a part of the revolution that is...
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S12 Ep2: Jose Encounters Of A Turd Kind
This week, the full panel returns to talk about the podcast's designated Devil's Advocate, Jose Mourinho, and his shenanigans after the Europa League final, and also look ahead to the Champions League final which Karan desperately wants Inter to lose.
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S12 Ep1: Soccer Sense 2.0 : We Begin Anew As The Season Ends
The full panel of Tareque, Karan, and Vishal is back to look at the trends that have emerged from a chaotic season of football in Europe, assesses the last decade of this podcast and sets a direction for the future.
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S11 Ep2: We'll Always Have Naples
Soccer Sense finally makes a comeback, having slumbered through Argentina's World Cup triumph, but we sure as heck are not going to miss the Napoli Narrative. Tareque and Karan take a look at the state of affairs in the Serie A, and pull the lens back to try and catch the throughline between...
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S11 Ep1: Soccer She-nse
A special kickoff to season 11 of Soccer Sense, as we talk to Radha Gupta, a women's sports advocate and founder of She Talks Ball, which looks at advancing conversations and content on women's sport. Radha talks of how to break the chicken and egg situation in women's sport, of her affinity to...
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S10 Ep1: Premier League Four-sight
Vishal and Tareque kick off a new season of the pod and the Premier League by training the SoccerSenseMeter on the four key title contenders this season - the two Manchesters, Chelsea and Liverpool - and wonder if Pep already has a bag of excuses in place.
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S9 Ep17: Il Finale Euro 2020 Final Review
Tareque, Vishal and Karan celebrate the Azzurri's win in the Euro final, and put Gareth Southgate and Roberto Mancini's tactical battle under the SoccerSense Meter, and ask - where do Italy go next?
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S9 Ep16: It's Coming Home/Rome? Euro 2020 Final Preview
It is a full panel episode again as Vishal, Karan and Tareque break down the two semifinals, talk about how Italy pulled off a win against Spain by not panicking, and ask whether England finally have been able to summon mental fortitude for the crunch situations.
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S9 Ep15: Euro 2020 Quarterfinals Review and Semifinals Preview
The full panel of Soccer Sense convenes - Tareque, Vishal and Karan are on the same pod for the first time in over a year to review the quarterfinals at Euro 2020 through the Soccer Sense SenseMeter and look forward to two fascinating semifinals.
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S9 Ep14: Madness Ahoy! Euro 2020 R16 Review and Quarterfinal Preview
Tareque and Vishal try to make sense of how and why the thrilling Round of 16 manifested in the Euro 2020, Vishal presents a secret theory about Gareth Southgate, and the Soccer Sense panel looks ahead to the Euro quarterfinals.
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S9 Ep13: Euro 2020 Round of 16 Preview
Tareque and Soccer Sense's European correspondent Karan sit down to take a quick look back at the Euro 2020 group stage and look forward to some mouthwatering clashes in the Round of 16.
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S9 Ep12: Love At Fox Sight
Vishal and Tareque finally get around to recording an episode in a difficult season, only because the beauty and purity of Leicester's FA Cup triumph made them hopeful enough to do so. Also, an assessment of Pep Guardiola's seminal English season.
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S9 Ep11: Liverpool's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad 2021
A tragedy of Liverpudlian proportions has befallen the defending champions in the Premier League over the last 8 weeks. Vishal and Tareque train the Soccer Sense Meter at Liverpool and try to make sense of the unravelling.
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S9 Ep10: The Burst Bubbles
Vishal and Tareque are back mostly to say we told you so on the bursting of the bubbles of many a title challenger (including the defending champs) and to talk about how Manchester City avoided that fate. Also, our City-Liverpool preview.
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S9 Ep9: Fan Special: Our Resident Lilywhite
Soccer Sense finds its resident Spurs fan as we chat with young designer Sneha Nanavati, who fell for the North Londoners in the Pochettino era and revels in every moment of watching football. We talk to her about her football doodles (available to view on Instragram.com/bubblegum.factory)…
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Soccer Sense, the sensible football podcast takes a weekly look at all that is sensible on the pitch and off it with a focus on the English Premier League. Each week Vishal, Karan & Tareque strive to keep it 100% hot take free.
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