The Independent football writer is in the studio for episode 31 of the Betway Insider Podcast...
Jack Pitt-Brooke, football writer for the Independent, joins host Tom Bowles and resident tipster Alan Alger in the studio to discuss:
- Why Jose Mourinho’s public criticism of Luke Shaw was unfair.
- Mourinho’s motivational methods and why they don’t work with the current generation of players.
- The reasons why gifted young English players – especially at Arsenal – have not fulfilled their potential in the last decade.
- Why the Special One is considered by bookies to be more likely than Mark Hughes and Sean Dyche to lose his job.
- The renaissance of Premier League teams playing three at the back, and how sustainable a formation it is for both Chelsea and Tottenham.
- Whether mangers changing formations on a game-by-game basis – which Mauricio Pochettino did for the north London derby – is a modern-day phenomenon.
- How that draw between Arsenal and Tottenham affected Premier League title prices.
- The best thing is about the international breaks (without sounding like a UEFA publicist).
- The role Jack’s blog, the Lonesome Death of Roy Carroll, played in him starting his career at the Independent.
- Supporting Manchester City and whether that has changed since he became a football journalist.
- The football writers whose work he admires.
- His second team, Dulwich Hamlet, and why following them doesn’t necessarily make you a football hipster.
- The difference between interviewing overseas players compared with English ones.
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