It’s a holiday podcast, with Portugal taking the day off work to celebrate the restoration of independence from their nasty Spanish neighbours. Due to the fact that two of the grandes are playing later tonight (Monday 1st December) we’ve decided to just bring you a 2-part podcast, a podcastinho if you will.
In part one we report the welcome news of the cancellation of Estrela Amadora’s strike action after their players received two months’ worth of payments owed to them. We also report on Leixões, who are still top of the table despite a 1-1 draw at home to Naval. However, their star player Wesley has announced he will be moving to Abu Dhabi at the end of December, to play for Al Wahda FC. With many other Leixões players announcing their desire to move to bigger clubs in the new year, we discuss whether Leixões are doing the right thing, letting what is a fantastic starting 11 break up so easily.
In part two we cast our critical eye over the abominable displays of Sporting and Benfica in last week’s European games. Both teams were thrashed to within an inch of their lives by Barcelona and Olympiakos, respectively, results that will be hard for both to live down.
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Thanks for listening.
Steve & Phil
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