Arsenal VAR Debate, Is The Title Race Done? & Real Madrid In CRISIS!

About this episode

The episode discusses Arsenal's controversial win, VAR issues, Real Madrid's crisis, and player of the season contenders.

On the latest episode of The Good, The Bad & The Football, the lads react to Arsenal’s controversial win over West Ham. Scholesy and Nicky can’t believe how long officials took to rule on the incident. Paul argues Arsenal have scored plenty of perfectly legal set-piece goals this season, but Nicky says the complete lack of consistency proves VAR simply has to go. Scholesy goes even further, wondering if there’s any point having referees anymore. There’s also a big debate over Mateus Fernandes’s late chance against the Gunners. Paul insists it was a bad miss rather than a great save from David Raya, while Paddy argues that stop could end up winning Arsenal the Premier League title. The conversation then turns to player of the season contenders: is David Raya genuinely in the running and Bruno Fernandes deserve the FWA award? Nicky and Paul lift the lid on the chaos behind PFA Player of the Year voting in the past. They also turn their attention to the crisis at Real Madrid. Is Jose Mourinho the man to return? Nicky reveals what he genuinely loved about Mourinho during his time at Manchester United, why he thinks Jose really left Old Trafford, and the one thing he could have done…

People in this episode

Hosts: Scholesy, Nicky, Paul, Paddy

Topics covered

• Arsenal VAR debate
• Premier League title race
• Real Madrid crisis
• Jose Mourinho discussion
• Player of the season contenders
• FA Cup Final preview

Keywords

• Arsenal
• VAR
• Real Madrid
• Jose Mourinho
• Premier League
• FA Cup
• Bruno Fernandes
• David Raya
• Marcus Rashford

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Real Madrid, Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City

Places: El Clasico

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