Soccer Sense Podcast

Soccer Sense Podcast

Soccer Sense, the sensible football podcast takes a weekly look at all that is sensible on the pitch and off it with a focus on the English Premier League. Each week Vishal, Karan & Tareque strive to keep it 100% hot take free.

Episodes

April 20, 2026 13 mins
Karan and Tareque put the top of the table clash between Manchester City and Arsenal under the SenseMeter and ask - what does the run-in look like for the two title contenders, with a cameo from Loki himself. 
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Karan, our calcio correspondent, joins Tareque, as we break down the history behind the heartbreak of the Azzuri missing out on a men's World Cup berth for an incredible third time in a row. But is it really that incredible, or is there credible incompetence behind it? We train our SoccerSense Meter on it. 
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March 19, 2026 15 mins
Vishal and Tareque get existential trying to figure out why the Champions League knockout games were that one-sided and look for silver linings on spotting the soul of football this World Cup year. 
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January 29, 2026 19 mins
The full panel is back with Karan, the European correspondent, breaking down the chaotic final matchday in the Champions League and resident Red Devil Vishal breaks the sense down behind the madness of Michael Carrick's first two results as (caretaker) Manchester United manager. 
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January 5, 2026 13 mins
Vishal and Tareque convene an emergency pod to try and separate the sense of the disease from the hysteria of symptoms of what ails Manchester United, in the wake of their latest managerial ousting - Ruben Amorim. Also featuring, can Arsenal be stopped by the team that denied Leeds scoring opportunities and held Fulham to a draw at Craven Cottage?
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December 9, 2025 19 mins
The full panel of Vishal, Karan, and Tareque are back to talk about a tale as old as time - poor communication between management and employees - as we try to separate the sense from the sensationalism of l'affaire Mo Salah and try to figure out Arne Slot's blueprint going forward. 
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November 8, 2025 18 mins
Vishal and Tareque subject the opposing runs of Arsenal and Liverpool to the scrutiny of the SenseMeter and try to explain what seems to be ailing Slot's Liverpool, and if Arteta's Arsenal are the real deal now. 
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September 20, 2025 17 mins
Vishal and Tareque discuss the existential threat that looms upon the vaunted position that is the football manager and how the future of football itself might be intertwined in this owner-manager power struggle. 
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June 1, 2025 16 mins
Karan, Vishal, and Tareque convene one last time for this season to look back at the Champions League final, and discuss how Luis Enrqiue's joyful football philosophy put the spark back in Soccer Sense's own footballing funk. 
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May 26, 2025 27 mins
Karan, Vishal, and Tareque are back for a full panel pod about the joys of finishing on the pinnacle of English football positions: 8th, 9th, and 10th. We talk about the beauty of the three Bs - Bournemouth, Brighton, and Brentford - who finished there and why these clubs in and of themselves are fascinating case studies of what the essence of football truly is. 
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Tareque and Karan bring you a special follow up episode to our last week's Serie A roundup episode because apparently drama that would have even Lenin shook was packed into one weekend and affected all parts of the table. 
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May 16, 2025 22 mins
Tareque and Soccer Sense's Calcio Correspondent Karan make up the panel this week that gives you the Soccer Sense season primer of the Serie A season - which Milan is annoying Juve fan Karan the most, and how is Gasperini like Ethan Hunt, and will Serie A see the holy vacation trifecta in it next season? All of these, answered. 
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May 8, 2025 18 mins
Vishal and Tareque get together to question Karan's conspicuous absence of reaction on the epic that was the Barca v Inter semifinal, and train the Soccer Sense Meter on the tie, with some surprising insights about age and experience from Vishal himself.  
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The panel convenes to elect a new pope seek the sense in how Liverpool put together a title winning run, and what Arsenal need to do in their Champions League semifinal second leg. 
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A sense busting throwback Thursday from Manchester United who party like it's 1999 and our panel tries to recalibrate our Soccer Senses to understand their dramatic elimination of Lyon. Also featuring, a primer on your new fav Norwegian football team. 
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April 10, 2025 21 mins
Was Pirlo on the PS5 controller when Rice stepped up to take the freekicks against Real Madrid? Are Bayern Munich cut out for an Italian Job? And will Villa Park be metal enough in the second leg? All these and many more questions tackled in our Champions League Quarterfinal Reviews as Tareque and Soccer Sense's European Correspondent - Karan - take the mic. 
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March 12, 2025 31 mins
This week, the panel - none of whom are even capable of filing their own taxes - pore into the financials of Manchester United and discuss the dilemma of how a big football club can balance commerce, community and conscience while dealing with an existential crisis, and figure out if there are indeed sensible ways to think about their current position. 
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March 6, 2025 19 mins
This week there was heist in Paris, and next week there could be a Cinderella story happening in Lille. It's all happening in the Champions League as the panel, led by European Correspondent Karan, break down the Round of 16 Leg 1s and look forward to Leg 2. 
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February 24, 2025 23 mins
After Liverpool's 2-0 away win at the Etihad, the panel addresses the non-addressing of the Manchester City decline, and also discusses why Arsenal seem to be manifesting poverties they don't suffer from and enquires if there are buses being hired in advance in the city of Liverpool yet?
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February 17, 2025 19 mins
This week, the panel grapples with the existential question - if a cup was won with no one around was a cup still won? Football's expansionary push and its potentially devastating consequences are put under the SenseMeter, with a little help from Ted Lasso. 
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