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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Presented by James Richardson, Produced by Iain Chambers

Football Weekly: The Venerable Bede and a general freeze

James Richardson's got Barney Ronay, Jonathan Wilson and Paul MacInnes in the pod for today's Football Weekly.

We start with what little English football managed to beat the big freeze, among it Sunderland's win over Bolton, which develops into a discussion on how Wearside invented football and the Venerable Bede and the very notion of England ...

Then there's the Championship, Club World Cup, the Bundesliga and Serie A, while Sid Lowe joins us to discuss Barcelona's smiting of Espanyol and a special post-match press conference from José Mourinho.

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