Hitting the Bar: The Football Podcast
Chris Karle, a Spurs fan and Steve Kenton an Arsenal fan, with Geoff Saunders (West Ham) sit down in a civilized manner to talk football with surprising, controversial and often hilarious results. Football news, rumours, gossip, punditry, predictions and analysis. And also a look back at the history of the beautiful game, controversies and commentary with debate and disagreement over all the latest news and gossip!
Episodes
February 3, 2021 • 41 mins
We are back! Chris Karle and Geoff Saunders talk football, Lampard checks out of Chelsea as Cech's influence brings in Tuchel, how long will he last, how Rooney can become a decent manager if given time and takes his time, has Big Sam bitten off more than he can chew, Fulham and Sheffield United improve but still going down, Spur's false crisis, Winks not fit for a top six side as Bale is isolated by his own players on the ...
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December 23, 2020 • 30 mins
Chris Karle and Geoff Saunders look back at the previous round of Premier League games as Man United win the War of the Roses with Leeds, McTominay is superb and Ole keeps confounding commentators, Arsenal lose again in the league and the cup while fellow relegation battlers gain points and Arteta makes bizarre excuses as the Gunners look like cannon fodder, Liverpool hit Palace for 7 and Spurs lose to Leicester who play them at th...
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December 16, 2020 • 38 mins
Chris Karle and Geoff Saunders look back at recent games including: City and United play out a cautious friendly and Pogba must go, City allow West Brom a glimmer of hope before a change of managers, Arteta is still somehow in a job and blames his players, Hodgson is a manager who knows his limits and plays to his strengths, Chelsea lose two on the bounce but still look solid under Lampard who has the ability to learn while Spurs s...
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December 9, 2020 • 42 mins
Chris Karle and Geoff Saunders look back at the weekend's Premier League action, Pogba never been world class and has to go, City take it easy on fated Fulham, Liverpool looking like Champs, Spurs in total control against an abysmal non firing Gunners with Arteta going back 50 years with his tactics, we marvel at how he's still in a job (at the time of recording) as Mourinho gets the best out of Dier and Højbjerg is a beast...
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December 2, 2020 • 43 mins
Chris Karle and Geoff Saunders look back at all the action, including, City back to high scoring, Klopp plays the blame game, Leeds have Championship players and a top Premier League manager, Man United have 3 world class players, Cavani, Van de Beek and Fernandes and misuse all three while Palace only have one player, did Jose park the bus, Arsenal hit their worst start to a season since 1981 as they are beaten by fellow Wanderers...
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November 25, 2020 • 33 mins
Chris Karle and Geoff Saunders cast an eye over the last round of games, Brighton look good with Welbeck scoring and not getting injured (yet), Tottenham play to their strengths and beat City but is it too early to whisper ´title contenders´, Man United rely on a penalty to beat woeful West Brom and need a playmaker like, erm, Van de Beek, Fulham are the anti penalty champs, West Ham could be better if they listened to Geoff, Liver...
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November 18, 2020 • 37 mins
Chris Karle and Geoff Saunders look back at the last round of Premier League and International games, Arteta statistically worse than Emery and blames players for Villa loss, Man United's up and down season continues, Spurs unbeaten in 7 but only looking at the next game, too many penalties, off side arms, brilliant Grealish, Southgate sucks the creativity out of a skillful England side whose potential he is destroying, we loo...
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October 28, 2020 • 37 mins
Chris Karle and Geoff Saunders look back at all the action, random red cards and Maguire getting away with it, Petr Cech's in, Kepa can't keep his place, Ozil unfairly treated by hypocritical Arsenal, Aubameyang played out of position, why so many goals, Koeman bitter at Barca, Jose gives Kane freedom to thrive, we predict the next round of games and there's Geoff's trivia question!
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October 21, 2020 • 38 mins
Chris Karle and Geoff Saunders look back at the week's games, West Ham's incredible comeback overshadows Kane's perfect performance, why did Winks wimp out, Bale is back, Villa are officially the best team in Europe, Pickford gets away with common assault, VAR and refereeing standards are a disgrace and corrupt, Liverpool's title defence could be over, has Solskjaer lost the dressing room, why Koeman can't mana...
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October 15, 2020 • 39 mins
Chris Karle and Geoff Saunders look back at the last round of Premier League games, Tottenham end a great week by thrashing Man United and showing why Ole should be a gonner Solskjaer, Liverpool's bad day at the office, West Ham better without Moyes, England are pedestrian under Southgate who has to go, we look at controversial new proposals to change the PL to 18 teams, we predict the coming games and there's Geoff's t...
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September 23, 2020 • 38 mins
Chris Karle and Geoff Saunders look at the latest football news including Gareth Bale to Tottenham, we analyse last week's games, Man United pasted by Palace, Chelsea's Kepa is no keeper, Spurs have a super Son day and look good doing it, Brighton show up Newcastle and Arsenal just beat woeful West Ham who need need owners and a different manager, plus we predict the next round of games and there's Geoff's trivia qu...
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