The Spot Kick Podcast: Episode 1

We here at The Spot Kick have gone and done the unthinkable – we’ve tossed our hats into the podcasting arena!

For our very first outing we took time out of the annual Australian celebration of the Melbourne Cup and rounded up the week’s news and results, discussed our matchday highlights, and took an in-depth look at the Manchester United/Arsenal match.

Check it out below, and we’ll be up on iTunes shortly!

The Spot Kick Podcast: Episode 1

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Time For Change: Giggs, the Back Four, and Stubborn Manchester United

Before I get started, I have to commend Tottenham for their performance against United on the weekend, especially in the first half.  They’re starting to click and really mesh together, adapting to AVB’s coaching style and looking like a proper threat again. The likes of Bale, Vertonghen, Lennon, and even ol’ Defoe upstaged United in their own home, and most importantly for the Red Devils, they (hopefully) opened the eyes of SAF and his team, elucidating which areas on the pitch need serious attention.

Post Transfer Window Concerns: Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham, and QPR

Perhaps I’m becoming forgetful, but I feel like this summer transfer window brought about more shuffling of players than previous seasons.  Sure we’ve seen Chelsea go on a splurging rampage, and then City, and now we’re seeing the ramifications of that as all the clubs do their best to try stay afloat in the league.  We’ve seen so many changes with AVB and Brendan Rodgers taking charge and respectively overhauling their teams, Arsenal losing the best player of last season as well as (the evidently less) important Song, Chelsea splurging some more, and QPR quite literally buying a new team.  Now I won’t give a ridiculously long breakdown of every single team like I did in my previous article, but rather, I’ll just go through the ones I think had the most changes, and who I think could struggle (or in Liverpool’s case, are already struggling) as the season develops.