The Joy of Football - With Martin Tyler & Neil Barnett
Oct 20, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min · 21 segments
On this week's episode of The Joy of Football Podcast, legendary commentator Martin Tyler and Chelsea TV icon Neil Barnett return to discuss another extraordinary week of football, from dramatic…
Neil BarnettHost
We start with what I saw this week, which, of course, takes us a week back into last week.
Well, I did the Champions League game, which was an amazing game, really, Roma against Real Madrid.
But the fact was that with 10 minutes or so to go, Real Madrid were 3-1 down and got themselves a 4-3 win.
And you would think by playing sort of extravagant football with bags of individual inspiration, cutting aside a wearing defence.
which would seem very much against the history and the traditions of the club, but it served them particularly well.
We have a lot of incidents, don't we, in our football with the organisers of the set pieces getting quite a lot of camera coverage.
And they're one of the few clubs who have started with two victories, and they've both been against Italian clubs, having beaten Inter and Roma.
It still amazes me that Italy haven't won the Champions League since 2010, when Jose Mourinho was in charge of Inter.
And the reason I just wanted to raise it with you, Neil, in that way, to do it that way, Good headers, were they, or muddled in? One was a very good header.

We start with what I saw this week, which, of course, takes us a week back into last week.
Well, I did the Champions League game, which was an amazing game, really, Roma against Real Madrid.
But the fact was that with 10 minutes or so to go, Real Madrid were 3-1 down and got themselves a 4-3 win.
And you would think by playing sort of extravagant football with bags of individual inspiration, cutting aside a wearing defence.
which would seem very much against the history and the traditions of the club, but it served them particularly well.
We have a lot of incidents, don't we, in our football with the organisers of the set pieces getting quite a lot of camera coverage.
And they're one of the few clubs who have started with two victories, and they've both been against Italian clubs, having beaten Inter and Roma.
It still amazes me that Italy haven't won the Champions League since 2010, when Jose Mourinho was in charge of Inter.
And the reason I just wanted to raise it with you, Neil, in that way, to do it that way, Good headers, were they, or muddled in? One was a very good header.
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