Inside the Six, Ep. #67: Weekend Review, including African Cup of Nations Update
It’s been almost exactly one month since we last released an episode of Inside the Six. Call it a holiday or call it a point of personal privilege. Regardless, call it over.
Inside the Six is back, with its first show of the week, and from here forward, we are officially daily.
To help start our rebirth, Kevin McCauley makes his second appearance on the show. Kevin is an American writer and broadcaster best known for the All Things Footy podcast. After this month, he’s going to be best known for the great work he and are are going to do on the Set Piece Analysts’ African Cup of Nations podcast – a daily update on Africa’s continental championship.
That’s the second part of the show, a segment that we jointly distributed with Set Piece Analysts today.
Before then, Kevin and I talk about the weekend action in the three big European leagues.
We start in Italy, where first place Internazionale needed two goals in the last five minutes (from Wesley Sneijder and Walter Samuel) to beat Siena. If that sentence doesn’t seem weird to you, it may be because you’re missing this information: Siena came into the weekend in last place, and played at the team leading the table, yet was up 3-2 late in the match. Two dead ball goals from Sneijder helped Inter avoid embarrassment.
Elsewhere in Italy, Milan trounced Juventus 3-0, continuing to make their case for being the best team, at the moment, in the league. Going in the opposite direction, the Old Lady showed that need to work more about staying in a Champions League spot than challenging for the scudetto.
In England, most matches were cancelled because of weather, though both Manchester United and Arsenal played. Neither took advantage of their chances to gain on first place Chelsea. Manchester United drew at Brimingham City while Arsenal drew at the Emirates against Everton (who debuted some American – have you heard about this?).
In Spain, Barcelona trounced Tenerife while Real Madrid got a strong win over Mallorca.
We talk about all that and more on this, the weekend wrap-up edition of Inside the Six.
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About Richard Farley
Richard Farley is a U.S.-based contributor to World Soccer Reader. He also hosts Inside the Six, the site's regular podcast. He can be reached at richardfarley at gmail dot com and followed on Twitter, username "richardfarley." And while you are at it, feel free to check out RF Football.
