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119 | The Cult Of The Manager
May 5, 2026
1h 00m 05s
118 | Saudi Arabia: Football's House Of Cards
May 1, 2026
59m 39s
117 | Diego Simeone And Atletico Madrid, The Club Moulded In His Image
Apr 28, 2026
1h 00m 25s
116 | Liam Rosenior, Chelsea And A Crisis Of Their Own Making
Apr 24, 2026
57m 25s
115 | Was Manchester City's Win Against Arsenal Really A Title-Decider?
Apr 21, 2026
59m 00s
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| 5/5/26 |  119 | The Cult Of The Manager | Join SC Libero, the most important of the least important membership clubs, now: liberopodcast.com. — From Matt Busby to Liam Rosenior, even harking back from the Wilsonian era of the late 19th century, how has the role and the standing of the football manager changed? Certain football clubs may act as if managers and head coaches are no longer their most important employees but certain managers still overshadow their clubs. Join Rory Smith, John Brewin and Jonathan Wilson for the first of a two-parter, the second episode available only to SC Libero's Einsteins, Special Ones and El Puta Jefe later this week. P1: (03:56) P2: (35:40) As you may have seen, we are doing our first live show. It's on 22nd May, doors 7pm at The Venue on the ICMP Queens Park Campus in west London (home of the Long Play Sessions). There will also be copies of the various books of the Liberi on sale and they may even sign them for you. The link for tickets is here. Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via getintouch@liberopodcast.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Join our Discord @Libero Podcast Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.com Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 00m 05s | ||||||
| 5/1/26 | 118 | Saudi Arabia: Football's House Of Cards✨ | Saudi Arabian sports investmentsfootball priorities+4 | Jack Pitt-BrookeRory Smith+1 | PIFNewcastle+1 | Saudi ArabiaLondon | Saudi Arabiafootball+5 | — | 59m 39s | |
| 4/28/26 | 117 | Diego Simeone And Atletico Madrid, The Club Moulded In His Image✨ | Diego SimeoneAtletico Madrid+4 | James HorncastleJonathan Wilson+1 | Atletico MadridSC Libero | — | Diego SimeoneAtletico Madrid+5 | — | 1h 00m 25s | |
| 4/24/26 | 116 | Liam Rosenior, Chelsea And A Crisis Of Their Own Making✨ | Chelseasoccer management+3 | Tariq PanjaMiguel Delaney | ChelseaBlueCo+2 | — | Liam RoseniorChelsea+5 | — | 57m 25s | |
| 4/21/26 | 115 | Was Manchester City's Win Against Arsenal Really A Title-Decider?✨ | Manchester CityArsenal+4 | Jack Pitt-BrookeRory Smith+1 | Manchester CityArsenal+2 | — | Manchester CityArsenal+7 | — | 59m 00s | |
| 4/17/26 | Libero 114 | Arne Slot, Liverpool Manager: The Case For And Against✨ | LiverpoolArne Slot+4 | Jack Pitt-BrookeRory Smith+1 | LiverpoolSC Libero+2 | — | LiverpoolArne Slot+6 | — | 57m 07s | |
| 4/14/26 | Libero 113 | Why Does No One Want Arsenal To Win It?✨ | Premier LeagueArsenal+5 | Miguel DelaneyRory Smith | ArsenalBournemouth+5 | — | ArsenalManchester City+5 | — | 1h 01m 16s | |
| 4/10/26 | Libero 112 | Cracking The Code Of Premier League Survival✨ | Premier League survivalsoccer strategy+3 | Jack Pitt-BrookeJohn Brewin+1 | SC LiberoTheS**thouses | — | Premier Leaguesurvival battle+7 | — | 59m 14s | |
| 4/7/26 | Libero 111 | Football Has A Ticket Price Problem✨ | ticket pricesfootball+4 | Rory SmithTariq Panja+1 | SC Liberoliberopodcast.com+1 | — | footballticket prices+5 | — | 1h 01m 48s | |
| 4/3/26 | Libero 110 | Will Infantino And Trump Break The World Cup?✨ | FIFAWorld Cup+4 | John BrewinMiguel Delaney+1 | FIFASC Libero | — | InfantinoTrump+5 | — | 53m 06s | |
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| 3/30/26 | Libero 109 | Can England Win The World Cup?✨ | World Cupsoccer+4 | Jack Pitt-BrookeJonathan Wilson+1 | SC Liberoliberopodcast.com | EnglandUruguay | EnglandWorld Cup+5 | — | 59m 12s | |
| 3/27/26 | Libero 108 | Do National Teams All Play The Same Way Now?✨ | national football identityfootball styles+3 | Jonathan WilsonJames Horncastle+1 | SC Liberoliberopodcast.com+2 | — | footballsoccer+5 | — | 1h 00m 39s | |
| 3/24/26 | Libero 107 | Chelsea, The Oligarch And One Of Football's Biggest Scandals | SC Libero, the most important of the least important membership clubs, is now live! Get on the bandwagon early, before broadsheet journalists start describing us as doing 'interesting things' at liberopodcast.com. --- Chelsea’s fine for secret payments from the Premier League between 2011 and 2018 might have been a record £10 million but within the game that punishment and suspended transfer ban have brought complaints of leniency. Do off-book payments that secured the likes of Eden Hazard sully the club’s successes during that period under Roman Abramovich’s ownership? Is that leniency protecting the Premier League product? And now, post-Abramovich, how is the club faring under the ownership of asset managers and venture capitalists. Miguel Delaney and Tariq Panja discuss the then and now with John Brewin. P1: (06:01) P2: (38:11) Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via getintouch@liberopodcast.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.com Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 01m 25s | ||||||
| 3/20/26 | Libero 106 | Are Arsenal's Lost Years Over? Why The Carabao Cup Final Matters | SC Libero, the most important of the least important membership clubs, is now live! Get on the bandwagon early, before broadsheet journalists start describing us as doing 'interesting things' at liberopodcast.com. --- Sunday’s Carabao Cup final could be a historic day for Arsenal. It is their first final since they won the 2020 FA Cup and could mark the start of a glorious climax to the 2025/26 season. On today’s episode Rory Smith, Jack Pitt-Brooke and Jonathan Wilson ask what it would mean for Mikel Arteta to win his second major trophy as Arsenal manager and reflect on the club's wilderness years reaching back to thir last Premier League title under Arsene Wenger in 2003/04. Was it to do with the lack of investment? Or an out-dated decision making structure? So have Arsenal stepped into the future, or have they just found a modern manager? P1: (07:13) P2: (29:06) Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via getintouch@liberopodcast.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.com Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 01m 42s | ||||||
| 3/17/26 | Libero 105 | The Paradox Of The Premier League's European Struggles | For all of the Premier League's clubs financial advantages over their European rivals, they are facing a wipeout in the Champions League. Is it fatigue? Is it tactics? Is it a massive waste of resources? Or are Miguel Delaney, James Horncastle and Tariq Panja going to looking a bit silly on Thursday? P1: (01:36) P2: (28:26) Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via getintouch@liberopodcast.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.com Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 57m 40s | ||||||
| 3/13/26 | Libero 104 | Where’s Your Famous Atmosphere? The Premier League’s Sanitised Matchday | Atmosphere is one of the Premier League’s biggest selling points to broadcasters, but ask anyone who regularly goes to games and they will tell you that atmospheres in English grounds are in stark decline. If we do accept that atmospheres are getting worse, why is that? On today’s episode John Brewin, Jack Pitt-Brooke and James Horncastle try to unpack what exactly we mean when we talk about a ‘good atmosphere’, and whether we are taking a selective view of English football's vibrant year gone by. P1: (02:41) P2: (31:19) Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via getintouch@liberopodcast.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.com Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 55m 18s | ||||||
| 3/10/26 | Libero 103 | What Era Was Peak Champions League? | Libero might like knocking the Champions League, but even we know there's nothing like European knock-out football for compelling drama. But with six English clubs in the last 16 and Manchester City playing Real Madrid, again, is this really as exciting as it should be? Is this as good as it once was? This week on Libero, Miguel Delaney, Tariq Panja and Rory Smith ask when the Champions League was at its best, what it was that made it so special, and whether that can be recaptured. P1: (10:45) P2: (37:11) Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via getintouch@liberopodcast.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.com Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 57m 56s | ||||||
| 3/6/26 | Libero 102 | Trying To Make Sense Of The Business Of Football | Every year football's rich and powerful gather at a West London hotel to do deals, shake hands and talk about the game in a way would be quite unfamiliar to anyone not in the posh seats at 3pm on a Saturday. Several Liberi were in attendance at the recent FT Business of Football Summit, so they found a quiet corridor to discuss what they'd overheard at the conference, as well as the detachment between those who seek to profit from football and the game itself. You'll hear from Tariq Panja, Rory Smith, Miguel Delaney and James Horncastle. There's also a fabulous cameo from The Mirror's John Cross. P1: (00:27) P2: (25:03) Produced by: Tom Bassam, who apologises for the lack of proper video on this episode. Email in via getintouch@liberopodcast.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.com Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 48m 45s | ||||||
| 3/3/26 | Libero 101 | Spurs In Peril... No Longer Too Big To Fail? | In recent years it has felt as if the Premier League was permanently stratified, with the poor teams unable to win and the rich teams unable to lose. But Tottenham Hotspur have the ninth biggest revenue in Europe and they are at increasing risk of going down. On today’s episode Jack Pitt-Brooke, John Brewin and Jonathan Wilson discuss the possibility of Spurs’ relegation from the top flight. Jonathan tells the story of their relegation in the 1970s, and the team ask whether that is comparable to a big team going down in 2026. Because if Spurs do go - and they still have a four point gap - what would it mean for English football? Would it tell us that the Premier League is in fact starting to de-stratify? P1: (05:39) P2: (27:34) Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via getintouch@liberopodcast.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.com Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 57m 06s | ||||||
| 2/27/26 | Libero 100 | Anxious Arsenal And The Definition Of A Bottle Job | It is – it turns out – quite difficult to pin down an accurate definition of what 'bottling it' means and, therefore, which teams can be fairly described as having committed this failure of will in the past. Miguel Delaney, Rory Smith and Jonathan Wilson give it their best shot at outlining the true meaning of the phrase and discuss the most famous 'bottle jobs' in football history. With the nerve of Mikel Arteta's Arsenal being severely tested as they seek to end a 26-year wait for a Premier League title, are we about to see another egregious example of 'bottling it' or would it be unfair to apply that description to this Gunners side? All covered in a landmark episode of Libero. P1: (02:43) P2: (27:46) Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via getintouch@liberopodcast.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.com Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 00m 46s | ||||||
| 2/24/26 | Libero 099 | Has Jose Mourinho Burned His Bridges At Real Madrid? | Jose Mourinho will take his Benfica team back to Real Madrid on Wednesday night, trying to get through to the last-16 of the Champions League. It is now almost 13 years since Mourinho left Real Madrid but his three year spell there remains one of the most interesting periods in modern football. Never before or since has Florentino Perez handed over the keys to a coach so determined to work against his players rather than with them. On today’s episode John Brewin, Miguel Delaney and Jack Pitt-Brooke look back at Mourinho’s time at Real, the triumph of the 2011-12 La Liga win and the toxic descent in his final year. Was this the peak of his career? Or was it the turning point before it all started to go wrong? P1: (06:26) P2: (36:48) Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via getintouch@liberopodcast.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.com Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 01m 16s | ||||||
| 2/20/26 | Libero 098 | Juventus, Benfica And The Plight of Europe's Forgotten Clubs | It’s Champions League punishment round week, which means clubs who were among the biggest and best in Europe 10 years ago are slogging it out to make it through to the last-16. The question on today’s show is what these sides - especially Juventus, Benfica and Borussia Dortmund - can realistically achieve in a European game that is now stacked against them. Jack Pitt-Brooke, Tariq Panja and James Horncastle discuss whether they ever build a competitive team to last, or whether they will just get picked off by the vultures at the first sign of success. And if they can’t hope to win any more, are they left with a sense of identity that they can fall back on? P1: (10:28) P2: (31:50) Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via getintouch@liberopodcast.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.com Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 02m 47s | ||||||
| 2/17/26 | Libero 097| The Death Of Individualism | In a world where Jack Grealish becomes 'The Rest Station' and Jürgen Klopp insists that no playmaker can be as effective as counter-pressing, it is fair to say that the game's creative geniuses are being marginalised like never before. Has systems football stunted players' ability to think for themselves? Do free spirits have no place in modern tactics? A trio of Libero mavericks, Miguel Delaney, James Horncastle and Jonathan Wilson, attempt some free-thinking to discover the root cause of this troubling trend. P1: (01:53) P2: (27:44) Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via getintouch@liberopodcast.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.com Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 52m 03s | ||||||
| 2/12/26 | Libero 096 | Lads, It’s Tottenham: The Fall Of Thomas Frank | Another week, another manager departed from the big chair at a traditional English heavyweight. It turns out Dr Tottenham does not have a cure for the club's own malaise and so Thomas Frank must go. Are Spurs trapped in a gilded cage of being the Premier League's sixth biggest club? Are the demands in north London unreasonable? Where will the Lewis family turn for their first appointment of the post-Daniel Levy era? John Brewin, Rory Smith and Jonathan Wilson pick through the issues. P1: (02:00) P2: (31:15) Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via getintouch@liberopodcast.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.com Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 57m 29s | ||||||
| 2/10/26 | Libero 095 | Slot And Guardiola: End Game? | Resisting the temptation to get distracted by VAR, John Brewin, Jack Pitt-Brooke and Rory Smith discuss the more immediate consequences of Manchester City’s win at Anfield. It was a result that leaves Arne Slot with no margin for error as he tries to keep his job, but does it also tell us something about Pep Guardiola’s future? Is his new-found activist streak evidence that he’s in his final few months in the Premier League? And if he is, what will we talk about once a fortnight on Libero once he goes? P1: (06:28) P2: (36:32) Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via getintouch@liberopodcast.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.com Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 59m 52s | ||||||
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