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As Spurs suffer again, is Tudor headed for the chop? Football Weekly

March 11, 2026·50 min·4 clips

Lars Sivertsen calls Tudor's handling of Kinski 'pathetic' and says he has no business being in the job.

The mood starts in Spurs therapy. Max brings in Mark Langdon, Lars Sivertsen, and Barry, and it quickly sounds less like a preview than a support group with fixtures. Listener messages pile in with sympathy, compassionate-leave jokes, and the usual Football Weekly pleasure in turning misery into group work. Igor Tudor gets the grim headline slot. The cold open treats his spell as potentially historic for all the wrong reasons, and the Spurs-heavy panel makes the setup feel knowingly cruel. Then Newcastle take the floor. At St. James' Park, Barcelona are unusually bad: little threat, plenty of openings, and very much there to be beaten. Harvey Barnes looks like he has grabbed it. Then Danny Olmo slips into the box, Malik Chaw trips him, and Lamine Yamal scores the penalty. Suddenly the tie has a pulse again. The added-time complaint does not get much sympathy. A substitution gives the referee room to add time, and Anthony Gordon's giveaway before Barcelona go forward is folded into the case against Newcastle. They still get their credit. Joel Linton is excellent, Lewis Hall keeps Lamine Yamal quiet, and Jacob Ramsey survives the post-mortem in decent shape. The transfer chat lands harder. Johan Wiss and Wouter Madde stay on the bench, and the panel treats that as a small but ugly footnote. Anthony Alanga avoids disaster, though not criticism. He misses a decent chance and lacks the final pass or cross when Newcastle need a cleaner touch. The tie is still open. The catch is that Barcelona may not be that bad again, especially once the second leg leaves Newcastle's comfort zone. Elsewhere, Liverpool lose narrowly at Galatasaray, which the show frames as a live argument: lucky to lose by one, or unlucky not to get something. Bayern put six past Atalanta, prompting the dry verdict that Italy may struggle to send anyone into the quarterfinals. By the end, the laces are loose: another missed Panenka, an EFL round-up, listener questions, and jokes about voice notes, birthdays, stoicism, and total humiliation.

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A brisk panel sweep through Spurs misery, European chaos, and the small details that ruin a night.

Football Weekly leans into the mess rather than trying to tidy it up. Spurs draw sympathy, Tudor looks under real pressure, Newcastle take late heartbreak at St. James' Park, and Liverpool and Barcelona pull the conversation in different directions.

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