Soccer Sense Podcast

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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). 

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. 

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 :/

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 League, the last of its kind in terms of the 32-team format.

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 interesting ones. 

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 sweeping women's sport! You can follow Radha on Twitter @radhalathgupta and her women's sports coverage pro...

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.  

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. 

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 Napoli's current position and their last Scudetto, back in 1990. 

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 Chelsea football club and we preview the Euro 2022, where at least 6 teams have a realistic shot at the...

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. 

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?

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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 ), making sense of Jose Mourinho, and above all, a sensible, kind and humane way to enjoy the beautiful game i...