The Fields: Recent Episodes
Emilio Calderon
"The Fields" is a weekly soccer podcast with an emphasis primarily on the Premier League and Champions League with occasional deep dives on other top European leagues and international sides. The show has a focus on weekly news, analysis, and opinion along with interviews, features, and deep dives on various aspects of soccer culture. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thefields/support
So, after a few days of diligently editing the audio for this pod, Audacity corrupted the file over the weekend so this week, we have a special unedited episode of The Fields. On this week's episode, Emilio is joined by friend of the pod Mike, who is more commonly known as @povertygru on Twitter for his involvement in rap twitter circles, FIFA Ultimate Team meta, and his masochistic Arsenal fandom. The two attempt to unravel the fantastic fashion in which Arsenal have crashed and burned in the years following Arsene Wenger's departure and also ponder what their future looks like with Mikel Arteta and their current crop of players. Mike treats us to rambling on FIFA Ultimate Team and its, err, "character building" in his younger years, as well as letting us know what he's listening to and finally, someone on the podcast (that doesn't support Manchester City) predicts that Manchester City will win this season's Champions League.
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Back and better than ever, we go international this week as Emilio sits down with Anis Bazza, British-Libyan football writer and Manchester City supporter. The two sit down to quickly vent about the Manchester Derby but also to expound on how we digest soccer in a modern age. They talk about how growing up in English and American environments have affected how they view soccer, ponder the increasing popularity of advanced analytics in soccer discourse, and also wonder when the era of pressing and work rate in Europe's biggest leagues will end. Lastly, they answer some listener questions and serve up some hot, fresh takes. Also, yes, we changed the music again.
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We're halfway through one of the most bizarre and competitive Premier League seasons in the competition's history, so we felt it fitting to tackle it in weird and unorthodox fashion. Joined by Josh of the Counter Press podcast, Emilio take stock of the teams in the top half of the Premier League -- with the exception of Arsenal, sorry Gooners. We make calls on who we're buying and who we're selling; which teams will finish higher than where they are now? Which teams will fall? We ponder which teams will finish in the top six, whether or not Frank Lampard will have a job by the end of spring, and whether John Stones is half Jamaican.
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Back from our holiday break, Emilio goes solo and gives his midseason awards for the Premier League ranging from player of the season to biggest disappointment. He also makes his predictions for who will finish in the wide open top four race and the dreaded bottom three. In our listener question section, we're asked to turn a new leaf: we talk about trading cards. We're going blind into the world of card trading and helping one of our listeners out by looking at young players across Europe whose cards are already valuable and may yet become more valuable and also look to pick out some sleeper picks who haven't yet flooded the market who it may prove valuable to be an early investor.
Transfermarkt page for Orkun Kokcu, midfielder for Feyenoord: https://www.transfermarkt.com/orkun-kokcu/profil/spieler/454567
Transfermarkt page for Mitchell van Bergen, winger for Heerenveen: https://www.transfermarkt.com/mitchell-van-bergen/profil/spieler/393239
Transfermarkt page for Charles de Ketelaere, attacker for Club Brugge: https://www.transfermarkt.com/charles-de-ketelaere/profil/spieler/435772
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On this edition of The Fields, we welcome Vijay Vemu to the show to discuss what's happened to Barcelona in 2020 and the fallout of a tumultuous year. VJ is a basketball writer who talks about the Chicago Bulls for Blog A Bull, the Big East on SB Nation's Big East Coast Bias, and analytics in basketball at Fansided's Nylon Calculus. Most importantly, he is a Barcelona supporter, so today we brought him on to talk about what has led to the decline of the Catalonian side following the Pep Guardiola and Luis Enrique years, what the Josep Bartomeu presidency and departure from the role means, how Ronald Koeman is attempting to keep a fractured squad together, and if there is any hope for Barcelona supporters in the near future.
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On this week's episode of The Fields, we have our first ever guest on the pod and it's our good friend Mark Kastner! Mark is a contributor to The Liverpool Offside blog, SB Nation's home for news and analysis of the Reds, as well as an editor of Sounder at Heart, SB Nation's home for Seattle Sounders-related content, and a cohost of the podcast of the same name. We talk in length about the 1-1 draw between Manchester City and Liverpool, what it means for both teams going forward, as well as evaluating their title chances in the strangest of seasons. We also discuss who we believe are the favorites to finish top four in the Premier League and who we believe will struggle with the relegation races at the bottom of the league. Also, we changed the music because honestly, the old music kind of sucked. No offense to whoever made it.
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On episode three of The Fields, Emilio discusses what appears to be Lionel Messi coming down to earth. His physical decline is aligning with the rest of Barcelona's squad declining -- what does it mean for both him and the club? We take a look at who we believe is the heir apparent to Messi's best player in the world title and their side being favorites to win the Champions League. Finally, we have very first mailbag! We got some listener questions about Mauricio Pochettino going to Manchester United, Pep Guardiola leaving Manchester City, and who will replace Jozy Altidore in the United States Men's National Team.
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On episode two of The Fields, Emilio takes a look at how the table is shaping up in the Premier League and categorizes the teams he believe will compete in the top half of the table and those who will struggle in the relegation battle. We also gauge Atalanta's title credentials again after their disappointing 3-1 loss to Sampdoria and talk about the young, exciting Milan team as well as fallout from Real Madrid besting Barcelona 3-1 in El Clasico and the three major title contenders in Germany.
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It's the first episode of The Fields! Emilio keeps it simple and takes a look at some high-stakes fixtures coming up this weekend in the Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A, and La Liga headlined by Manchester United hosting Chelsea and the season's first edition of El Clasico. We also evaluate Atalanta as title challengers in a wide open Serie A and try to diagnose what's wrong with Bayern Munich's defense.
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This is a trailer for The Fields, your favorite new podcast for analysis, opinions, and stories about the wide world of soccer. Join host Emilio Calderon and a variety of guests as he explores the good, the bad, and the ugly of the beautiful game.
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