14 Aug 2025
451 EP.1: English Premier League Bad Signings, Big Problems & PSL Pressure!
Episode one. We break down the Premier League's worst business of the window, the problems money can't fix, and the pressure building in the PSL.
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Released 14 Aug 2025
What we do
One brand. Every format.
Long-form analysis on YouTube, short explainers built for the feed on Instagram and TikTok, and writing you can sit with.
What we cover
Every league that matters.
South African football first, then the rest of the game with the same depth.
PSL
Chiefs, Pirates, Sundowns and the rest, covered as the main event.
Premier League
The money, the mistakes and the managers on the clock.
La Liga
Spain's giants and the sides quietly doing it better.
Serie A
Where tactics still decide games before the whistle.
Bundesliga & Ligue 1
The talent factories the rest of Europe shops at.
Europe & beyond
Champions League nights, internationals and the big transfers.
Interactive
The tactics board.
Switch the shape, tap any player, and see the job they are actually being asked to do. The same breakdowns we do on the podcast, laid out on grass.
4-3-3
Tap a player
The shape as it lines up on the teamsheet, before the ball moves.
The default
4-3-3
4-3-3Three forwards holding the width with a midfield triangle behind them. The shape most sides default to because it gives natural passing angles in every direction and covers the pitch evenly.
Formation
Three forwards holding the width with a midfield triangle behind them. The shape most sides default to because it gives natural passing angles in every direction and covers the pitch evenly.
- Strength
- Width high up the pitch, and a spare midfielder to build through.
- Weakness
- The single pivot gets isolated when both eights push beyond the ball.
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Football IQ.
Five rounds on the things that actually decide matches. Every answer comes with the reasoning behind it.
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Five rounds. Eight questions each. Every answer explained.
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League code
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The table
Top 5 of 50
1Pap & Saka-lakaLesedi Kutumela470
1Can't Get Any Wirtzglynn mckiernan470
3DMK Denizens F.CRick Leitch-24446
4Classic XINdaba Ncube-39431
5Alisson Wonderlandrachel mckiernan-46424
Full table & league stats →Team of the week · GW 3
Sagie's Team
Sagie Chetty
72
Points
HUL
Tzolakis
6
ARS
Gabriel
2
MCI
Guéhi
8
EVE
Tarkowski
3
LIV
Gakpo
11
MCI
CSemenyo
12×2
MUN
Mbeumo
8
CHE
VRogers
6
NEW
Wissa
1
LIV
Isak
13
BRE
Thiago
2
Bench
23 left on it
BHA
Verbruggen
3
BHA
De Cuyper
4
EVE
George
10
LIV
Virgil
6
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