Best Tareque Laskar Podcasts (2025)

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S15 Ep3: Comm-on Sense 19:41

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16d ago19:41

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The full panel of Vishal, Karan, and Tareque are back to talk about a tale as old as time - poor communication between management and employees - as we try to separate the sense from the sensationalism of l'affaire Mo Salah and try to figure out Arne Slot's blueprint going forward.By Soccer Sense

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S15 Ep2: Rage Against the Slot Machine 18:18

2M ago18:18

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Vishal and Tareque subject the opposing runs of Arsenal and Liverpool to the scrutiny of the SenseMeter and try to explain what seems to be ailing Slot's Liverpool, and if Arteta's Arsenal are the real deal now.By Soccer Sense

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S15 Ep1: Under New Management 17:37

3M ago17:37

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Vishal and Tareque discuss the existential threat that looms upon the vaunted position that is the football manager and how the future of football itself might be intertwined in this owner-manager power struggle.By Soccer Sense

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S14 Ep19: Parisian Ending 16:35

7M ago16:35

16:35

Karan, Vishal, and Tareque convene one last time for this season to look back at the Champions League final, and discuss how Luis Enrqiue's joyful football philosophy put the spark back in Soccer Sense's own footballing funk.By Soccer Sense

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S14 Ep18: 3B or not to be? 27:42

7M ago27:42

27:42

Karan, Vishal, and Tareque are back for a full panel pod about the joys of finishing on the pinnacle of English football positions: 8th, 9th, and 10th. We talk about the beauty of the three Bs - Bournemouth, Brighton, and Brentford - who finished there and why these clubs in and of themselves are fascinating case studies of what the essence of foot…

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S14 Ep17: Serie A for "Aaaaah what is happening??" 20:40

7M ago20:40

20:40

Tareque and Karan bring you a special follow up episode to our last week's Serie A roundup episode because apparently drama that would have even Lenin shook was packed into one weekend and affected all parts of the table.By Soccer Sense

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S14 Ep16: Issa Serie A! 🤌 22:20

7M ago22:20

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Tareque and Soccer Sense's Calcio Correspondent Karan make up the panel this week that gives you the Soccer Sense season primer of the Serie A season - which Milan is annoying Juve fan Karan the most, and how is Gasperini like Ethan Hunt, and will Serie A see the holy vacation trifecta in it next season? All of these, answered.…

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S14 Ep15: Inter mezzo opera 18:17

8M ago18:17

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Vishal and Tareque get together to question Karan's conspicuous absence of reaction on the epic that was the Barca v Inter semifinal, and train the Soccer Sense Meter on the tie, with some surprising insights about age and experience from Vishal himself.By Soccer Sense

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S14 Ep14: Perch-ance to dream - Liverpool get to 20 27:43

8M ago27:43

27:43

The panel convenes to elect a new pope seek the sense in how Liverpool put together a title winning run, and what Arsenal need to do in their Champions League semifinal second leg.By Soccer Sense

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S14 Ep13: Fergielicious Throwback Thursday 26:44

8M ago26:44

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A sense busting throwback Thursday from Manchester United who party like it's 1999 and our panel tries to recalibrate our Soccer Senses to understand their dramatic elimination of Lyon. Also featuring, a primer on your new fav Norwegian football team.By Soccer Sense

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S14 Ep12: European Reunion 21:53

9M ago21:53

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Was Pirlo on the PS5 controller when Rice stepped up to take the freekicks against Real Madrid? Are Bayern Munich cut out for an Italian Job? And will Villa Park be metal enough in the second leg? All these and many more questions tackled in our Champions League Quarterfinal Reviews as Tareque and Soccer Sense's European Correspondent - Karan - tak…

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S14 Ep11: United Rations Organisation 31:18

10M ago31:18

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This week, the panel - none of whom are even capable of filing their own taxes - pore into the financials of Manchester United and discuss the dilemma of how a big football club can balance commerce, community and conscience while dealing with an existential crisis, and figure out if there are indeed sensible ways to think about their current posit…

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S14 Ep10: European Knights 19:20

10M ago19:20

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This week there was heist in Paris, and next week there could be a Cinderella story happening in Lille. It's all happening in the Champions League as the panel, led by European Correspondent Karan, break down the Round of 16 Leg 1s and look forward to Leg 2.By Soccer Sense

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S14 Ep9: City Stall 23:51

10M ago23:51

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After Liverpool's 2-0 away win at the Etihad, the panel addresses the non-addressing of the Manchester City decline, and also discusses why Arsenal seem to be manifesting poverties they don't suffer from and enquires if there are buses being hired in advance in the city of Liverpool yet?By Soccer Sense

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S14 Ep8: Whose Cup Is It Anyway? 19:43

10M ago19:43

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This week, the panel grapples with the existential question - if a cup was won with no one around was a cup still won? Football's expansionary push and its potentially devastating consequences are put under the SenseMeter, with a little help from Ted Lasso.By Soccer Sense

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S14 Ep7: Battle Real 17:57

10M ago17:57

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This week, much like Manchester City's midfield, we put in only 2/3rd of the effort, as partial panel Tareque and European Correspondent Karan break down the sense and nonsense of the pulsating Champions League encounter between Real Madrid and City and look ahead to the return leg.By Soccer Sense

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S14 Ep6: Soccer Zen-se 17:40

11M ago17:40

17:40

This week the panel reflects on how Arsenal carved Manchester City apart to serve them a 5-1 beatdown, and wonder how to separate sense from nonsense in the tactics and the turmoil when the stakes and the emotions run as high as they did at The Emirates.By Soccer Sense

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S14 Ep5: What's A Manager For? 24:37

11M ago24:37

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This week, the panel gets philosophical about football managers and their role in the modern game where they seem to be pulled in different directions by forces of commerce and chaos. We explore what rock bands can tell us about the football manager, and what lemons life may chuck at Arne Slot who at this point may be forgiven for thinking that the…

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S14 Ep4: 2 BASEket 2 Ball: This Time it is UEFA 20:20

11M ago20:20

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The panel convenes to wrap their heads around the new fangled UEFA Champions League format, and how it resembles March Madness, or even worse, the Baseketball format. What sort of unintended consequences hath UEFA wrought? We look at the dynamics.By Soccer Sense

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S14 Ep3: Gunners, Ahem! 17:34

11M ago17:34

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It's that time of the season when in the Premier League the panel turns its attention to North London, partly for the comedy (this time it even features Monty Python!) and partly for the enigma and how to separate the sense from the nonsense if you are an artillery themed football club.By Soccer Sense

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S14 Ep2: We're still preoccupied... with 1985! 20:01

12M ago20:01

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The Soccer Sense panel convenes to discuss the 2-2 draw between Liverpool and Manchester United and what it means for a Man U team in turmoil and their manager, who was *gasp* born (b. 1985) after the release of Return of The Jedi (1983), a fact causing grave concern for the panel (about their own mortality).…

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S14 Ep1: The Sense and Nonsense of 2024 19:39

12M ago19:39

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Vishal, Karan, and Tareque are back with a new season, beginning with a look back at 2024, and seeking the sense behind Nottingham Forest's rise and City's fall. And on a cold Wednesday night, somewhat removed from Stoke, Karan tries to explain Juventus' strange unbeaten Serie A run.By Soccer Sense

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S13 Ep1: Times Like These We Fall In Love Again 22:12

1+ y ago22:12

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Tareque and Vishal are back after a long hiatus - older and wiser - about how they fell a little out of love with the game and how they are reconciling themselves to fall in love with the game again. And oh yes, somehow Manchester United are still crap :/By Soccer Sense

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S12 Ep5: Mapping Europe 21:22

2+ y ago21:22

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It is time for our European Correspondent to spike his hair up, dust off his notebook, and set off on a cross continental adventure with his do-- oh wait, that's Tintin. In this week's episode we have Karan, Soccer Sense's european correspondent giving us the full preview of the UEFA Champions League, the last of its kind in terms of the 32-team fo…

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S12 Ep4: Mad(ness) Max 20:12

2+ y ago20:12

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Tareque, Karan, and Vishal are back again with a new instalment of searching for Soccer Sense amidst all the madness this week of France and Australia's penalty theatrics literally spilling over into a theater, and a Premier League opening weekend that answered a lot of questions but raised many interesting ones.…

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S12 Ep3: And Then She Was : The Women's World Cup Preview 21:58

2+ y ago21:58

21:58

Soccer Sense's resident women's football correspondent joins us for a special preview of the Women's World Cup where we discuss who to look out for, the strides the women's game has made, and the steps it still needs to take, and how you, the listener, can be a part of the revolution that is sweeping women's sport! You can follow Radha on Twitter @…

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S12 Ep2: Jose Encounters Of A Turd Kind 23:15

2+ y ago23:15

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This week, the full panel returns to talk about the podcast's designated Devil's Advocate, Jose Mourinho, and his shenanigans after the Europa League final, and also look ahead to the Champions League final which Karan desperately wants Inter to lose.By Soccer Sense

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S12 Ep1: Soccer Sense 2.0 : We Begin Anew As The Season Ends 27:38

2+ y ago27:38

27:38

The full panel of Tareque, Karan, and Vishal is back to look at the trends that have emerged from a chaotic season of football in Europe, assesses the last decade of this podcast and sets a direction for the future.By Soccer Sense

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S11 Ep2: We'll Always Have Naples 18:48

3y ago18:48

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Soccer Sense finally makes a comeback, having slumbered through Argentina's World Cup triumph, but we sure as heck are not going to miss the Napoli Narrative. Tareque and Karan take a look at the state of affairs in the Serie A, and pull the lens back to try and catch the throughline between Napoli's current position and their last Scudetto, back i…

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S11 Ep1: Soccer She-nse 20:47

3+ y ago20:47

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A special kickoff to season 11 of Soccer Sense, as we talk to Radha Gupta, a women's sports advocate and founder of She Talks Ball, which looks at advancing conversations and content on women's sport. Radha talks of how to break the chicken and egg situation in women's sport, of her affinity to Chelsea football club and we preview the Euro 2022, wh…

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S10 Ep1: Premier League Four-sight 15:12

4+ y ago15:12

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Vishal and Tareque kick off a new season of the pod and the Premier League by training the SoccerSenseMeter on the four key title contenders this season - the two Manchesters, Chelsea and Liverpool - and wonder if Pep already has a bag of excuses in place.By Soccer Sense

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S9 Ep17: Il Finale Euro 2020 Final Review 20:47

4+ y ago20:47

20:47

Tareque, Vishal and Karan celebrate the Azzurri's win in the Euro final, and put Gareth Southgate and Roberto Mancini's tactical battle under the SoccerSense Meter, and ask - where do Italy go next?By Soccer Sense

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S9 Ep16: It's Coming Home/Rome? Euro 2020 Final Preview 24:32

4+ y ago24:32

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It is a full panel episode again as Vishal, Karan and Tareque break down the two semifinals, talk about how Italy pulled off a win against Spain by not panicking, and ask whether England finally have been able to summon mental fortitude for the crunch situations.By Soccer Sense

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S9 Ep15: Euro 2020 Quarterfinals Review and Semifinals Preview 22:09

4+ y ago22:09

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The full panel of Soccer Sense convenes - Tareque, Vishal and Karan are on the same pod for the first time in over a year to review the quarterfinals at Euro 2020 through the Soccer Sense SenseMeter and look forward to two fascinating semifinals.By Soccer Sense

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S9 Ep14: Madness Ahoy! Euro 2020 R16 Review and Quarterfinal Preview 27:40

4+ y ago27:40

27:40

Tareque and Vishal try to make sense of how and why the thrilling Round of 16 manifested in the Euro 2020, Vishal presents a secret theory about Gareth Southgate, and the Soccer Sense panel looks ahead to the Euro quarterfinals.By Soccer Sense

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S9 Ep13: Euro 2020 Round of 16 Preview 25:05

4+ y ago25:05

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Tareque and Soccer Sense's European correspondent Karan sit down to take a quick look back at the Euro 2020 group stage and look forward to some mouthwatering clashes in the Round of 16.By Soccer Sense

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S9 Ep12: Love At Fox Sight 23:37

4+ y ago23:37

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Vishal and Tareque finally get around to recording an episode in a difficult season, only because the beauty and purity of Leicester's FA Cup triumph made them hopeful enough to do so. Also, an assessment of Pep Guardiola's seminal English season.By Soccer Sense

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S9 Ep11: Liverpool's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad 2021 15:21

5y ago15:21

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A tragedy of Liverpudlian proportions has befallen the defending champions in the Premier League over the last 8 weeks. Vishal and Tareque train the Soccer Sense Meter at Liverpool and try to make sense of the unravelling.By Soccer Sense

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S9 Ep10: The Burst Bubbles 14:06

5y ago14:06

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Vishal and Tareque are back mostly to say we told you so on the bursting of the bubbles of many a title challenger (including the defending champs) and to talk about how Manchester City avoided that fate. Also, our City-Liverpool preview.By Soccer Sense

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S9 Ep9: Fan Special: Our Resident Lilywhite 48:51

5y ago48:51

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Soccer Sense finds its resident Spurs fan as we chat with young designer Sneha Nanavati, who fell for the North Londoners in the Pochettino era and revels in every moment of watching football. We talk to her about her football doodles (available to view on Instragram.com/bubblegum.factory), making sense of Jose Mourinho, and above all, a sensible, …

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S9 Ep8: The Lampard Lemma And Chelsea Conundrum 19:37

5y ago19:37

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As the title race in the EPL gets crowded, confusing and compressed, Tareque and Vishal look at how Chelsea managed to find themselves out of it, and also look forward to one of the highest stakes Manchester United - Liverpool clashes in years.By Soccer Sense

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S9 Ep7: The 2020 Euro Trip 13:39

5y ago13:39

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It's time for our annual around Europe episode with Soccer Sense's European correspondent Karan, as he and Tareque look at what's going on in the other European leagues and how Serie A is doubling down on its drama.By Soccer Sense

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S9 Ep6: Contentions on Contenders 17:31

5y ago17:31

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This week our SoccerSense Meter is trained squarely on Manchester United as Vishal, the resident Red Devil, assess their title challenge credentials, while Tareque wonders if Spurs are reverting to Spursy again. We also gingerly mention another North London team.By Soccer Sense

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S9 Ep5: JoseWatch 20:14

5y ago20:14

20:14

Vishal and Tareque are back after a hiatus to look at Tottenham's trajectory to the top of the table and look forward to the top of the table clash as Mourinho and Klopp face off just before festive fixture pandemonium sets in.By Soccer Sense

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S9 Ep4: I Love It When A Plan Comes Together 13:32

5y ago13:32

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With the Premier Table going all topsy turvy, Vishal and Tareque turn their attention to one quietly humming team that seems to have its plans coming together very nicely as the others' best laid plans have Jordan Pickford sized disruptions running through them.By Soccer Sense

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S9 Ep3: Disasterclass 21:29

5y ago21:29

21:29

Vishal and Tareque try to process the shambolic performances dished out by Manchester United and Liverpool over the weekend in this howler in the form of a podcast episode.By Soccer Sense

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S9 Ep2: Outfoxed City And Blue Blues 18:05

5y ago18:05

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Vishal and Tareque break down the astonishing results for Chelsea and Manchester City, critique Jurgen Klopp's high line and take a look at a certain other Merseyside team's impressive manager and his progress.By Soccer Sense

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S9 Ep1: The Premier League Bugle Is Blown 18:53

5+ y ago18:53

18:53

It started in a frenzy, and to tactically breakdown that madcap game that was Liverpool v Leeds, Soccer Sense's resident tactician Vishal joins Tareque as we usher the new season in.By Soccer Sense

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S8 Ep22: Seasonal Regressions: The 2020/21 PL Season Preview 16:08

5+ y ago16:08

16:08

Karan and Tareque look ahead to the 2020/21 Premier League season where, while the chasing pack has brought in reinforcements, the champion and the contender will have to deal with that nasty thing called regression to mean.By Soccer Sense

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S8 Ep21: Incroyable Finale : UCL 2019-20 Final Preview 13:54

5+ y ago13:54

13:54

Vishal is back as he joins Tareque to analyse how Bayern Munich will match up against PSG in the Final of what has been a protracted Champions League season but may have one final intriguing encounter still left in his tank.By Soccer Sense