Episode 579: The Clausura group stage end game begins
This week Sam, English Dan, Chris and Andrés discuss the beginning of the end game in the 2026 Torneo Clausura group stage, with Estudiantes...
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20 of 515 episodesEpisode 578: Messi's final Argentina match
This week Sam, Andrés, Chris and English Dan look back on Argentina's farewell to Lionel Messi, as he scored his 126th goal in his 208th – a...
Episode 577: River return to AFA ExCom as the Clausura starts to take shape
Sam, English Dan, Chris, Santi B and Andrés met this week to discuss the movers and shakers in the group stage of the 2026 Torneo Clausura g...
Episode 576: We need to talk about Racing
This week Sam, Chris, Andrés and English Dan do something Dan would rather not do, and discuss Racing's recent form. The group stage standin...
Episode 575: River's Ponzio scheme has started well
This week Sam, English Dan, Chris and Andrés discuss a second win in a row for Leonardo Ponzio's River Plate, an entertaining draw between G...
Episode 574: Lionel Messi retires from international football
This week Sam, English Dan, Chris, Santi B and Santi S discuss a piece of news that in normal circumstances would be the biggest of our week...
Episode 573: Coudet in hot water and Independiente underwhelm
This week's episode was recorded on Wednesday, before Eduardo Coudet was sacked as River Plate manager the day after they went out of the Co...
Episode 572: River finally win and Boca advance in the Sudamericana
This week Sam, English Dan, Chris and Andrés review last weekend's Liga Profesional action, which saw River Plate finally win a match – 2–0...
Episode 571: Argentinos look good, River look very bad and the Copas are well underway
This week Sam, Andrés, Chris and English Dan look at yet another defeat for River Plate, whose boss Eduardo Coudet is under a lot of pressur...
Episode 570: What is going on at River Plate? And there are 29 other teams in the top flight ...
The Torneo Clausura 2026 is well underway and this week Sam, English Dan, Chris and Andrés meet to ask what on earth is going on at River Pl...
Episode 569: the 2026 World Cup post-mortem ... and what's next for Argentina?
This week Sam, Chris, Andrés and Santi B look back on the 2026 World Cup final, and the tournament as a whole. Just what were Argentina tryi...
Episode 568: how Argentina beat England and previewing the 2026 World Cup final
Argentina are in another World Cup final, and here Sam, Chris, Andrés and special guest Rob Adcock review their semifinal win over England a...
Episode 567: previewing Argentina v England in the World Cup semifinal
Saturday saw Argentina beat Switzerland and England beat Norway to set up a potential World Cup semifinal for the ages. Sam, Chris, Andrés a...
Episode 566: Argentina just refuse to make it easy for themselves
This week Sam, Chris, Andrés and Julián sit down to attempt to analyse Argentina's advancement to the quarterfinals of the 2026 World Cup, w...
Episode 565: Argentina coast through 2026 World Cup group J
We're back! Sam, Chris, Andrés and Santi S review Argentina's near-perfect start to their attempt to defend the World Cup title, after they...
Episode 564: Independiente Rivadavia win the clásico and Boca thrash Defensa
This week Sam, English Dan, Chris, Andrés and Santi B discuss a clásico mendocino that didn't go as expected for the first twenty seconds, b...
Episode 563: Boca win the superclásico and ... are Newell's good now?
This week Sam, English Dan, Chris, Andrés and Santi S gather to discuss a superclásico win for Boca Juniors that was narrow – and might have...
Episode 562: River and Boca can both look forward to the superclásico
This week Sam, English Dan, Andrés and Santi S look at last week's league results and the midweek continental matches, both of which brought...
Episode 561: Independiente win the clásico and the continental group stages begin
This week Sam, English Dan, Andrés, Santi S and Santi B discuss half a round of Torneo Apertura action that saw Independiente scrape a win o...
Episode 560: Scaloni edges closer to finalising Argentina's World Cup squad
This week Sam, English Dan, Andrés, Santi B and Santi S look back on Argentina's two friendly wins in the Bombonera over Mauritania and Zamb...