Jimbo’s joined by Seb Stafford-Bloor, Pol Ballús & James Horncastle for a deep-dive into all the latest action and headlines from across the continent.

There’s only one place to start - and the news that broke late on Monday afternoon that Xabi Alonso has been sacked as Real Madrid head coach - and replaced by the club’s reserve team coach Alvaro Arbeloa. The Athletic’s Guillermo Rai joins us for the immediate reaction to the news which followed the 3-2 defeat by dear friends Barcelona in the Supercopa on Sunday evening.

There’s drama of a title race variety in Italy - where the hunt for the Scudetto was reignited once again as Inter, Milan and Napoli all dropped points to open the door for chasers Roma and Juventus.

And in Germany - the Bundesliga returned from the Winterpause in style with goals galore across the weekend including Bayern putting EIGHT past Wolfsburg, while Frankfurt and Dortmund played out a 3-3 thriller on Friday night. Vincent Kompany’s side couldn’t win the title by a record-breaking points margin, could they?

All that plus the latest from the Coupe de France as Endrick marks his debut for Lyon with a winning goal, reminiscing on the ‘Mohawk Trident’ - and dramatic snowscapes in Hamburg.

Produced by Lucy Oliva.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1: Moments of the weekend - pencils, dodgy banners and fairytale ascents (00.45)

• PART 2: La Liga review - Alonso out! Arbeloa in! With Guillermo Rai (12.45)

• PART 3: Serie A review - Yet another title race turn (27.30)

• PART 4: Ligue 1 review - Endrick’s goal on debut and tapestries… (45.05)

• PART 5: Bundesliga review - Bayern’s total dominance and intriguing Kovac (48.15)

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Jimbo’s joined by Daniel Storey, Adrian Clarke and Tom Williams after an historic FA Cup 3rd round weekend.

Macclesfield, 117 places below holders Crystal Palace in the football pyramid, are victorious 2-1 at Moss Rose on Saturday. All hail John Rooney and the Silkmen.

Ryan Reynolds’ Wrexham also knock out Premier League opposition as Forest fall on penalties on Friday night. Could they meet again next season?

Daniel was there to see Man City hit 10 goals against Exeter on Saturday. Elsewhere, there’s more misery for Spurs against Villa, while Liam Rosenior is victorious in his first game in charge of Chelsea, a 5-1 win at Championship Charlton.

And Maher Mezahi joins us to preview a mouthwatering set of AFCON semi-finals as Nigeria take on Morocco and Senegal face Egypt.

Produced by Charlie Jones

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1: Macclesfield 2-1 Crystal Palace (06.00)

• PART 2a: Wrexham knock out Forest on penalties (19.00)

• PART 2b: Man City 10-1 Exeter (29.00)

• PART 2c: Man United 1-2 Brighton (34.00)

• PART 2d: Newcastle progress after thriller with Bournemouth (39.00)

• PART 2e: Spurs 1-2 Aston Villa (43.00)

• PART 3: Carabao Cup semi-final preview (48.00)

• PART 4: AFCON semi-final preview with Maher Mezahi (55.00)

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Jimbo is joined in the Athletic studios by Charlie Eccleshare and Tom Williams to discuss Arsenal Liverpool and Jay Harris joins from Morocco to preview the AFCON quarter finals.

Arsenal and Liverpool finished goalless at the Emirates as the gunners failed to capitalise on Man City dropping points on Wednesday. Last seasons champions frustrated this years title hopefuls with the two teams generating one of the lowest XG games of the season (1.02) in the driving North London rain.

Jay Harris drops in from Morocco to preview the 4 mouthwatering AFCON quarter finals with Mali V Senegal, the hosts Morocco v Cameroon, Nigeria v Algeria and Ivory Coast v Egypt.

Plus 'On This Day' Julio Baptista scored 4 & Rafa Benitez's 'Facts'.

Produced by Charlie Jones and Jesse Howard.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1a: Jimbo and Charlie clear up their 90’s music fact from yesterdays pod (00.40)

• PART 1b: Arsenal v Liverpool (3.00)

• PART 2a: On This Day - Baptista scores 4 (16.20)

• PART 2b: On This Day - Rafa’s facts (19.20)

• PART 3a: AFCON quarter final previews (25.15)

• PART 3b: Trophee Des Champions in Kuwait (36.25)

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