Soccer Sense Podcast

<p>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.</p>

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. 

09-20
17:37

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. 

06-01
16:35

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 fascinating case studies of what the essence of football truly is. 

05-26
27:42

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. 

05-19
20:40

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 season? All of these, answered. 

05-16
22:20

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.  

05-08
18:17

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. 

04-30
27:43

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. 

04-18
26:44

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 and Soccer Sense's European Correspondent - Karan - take the mic. 

04-10
21:53

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 indeed sensible ways to think about their current position. 

03-12
31:18

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. 

03-06
19:20

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?

02-24
23:51

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. 

02-17
19:43

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. 

02-13
17:57

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. 

02-04
17:40

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 who at this point may be forgiven for thinking that the PL and the UCL are easy peasy, lemon squeezy. 

01-28
24:37

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. 

01-23
20:20

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. 

01-16
17:34

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 own mortality). 

01-08
20:01

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. 

01-01
19:39

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