# Cheat Week, Madrid Meltdown, Why Not Alonso? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/second-captains-1085233/cheat-week-madrid-meltdown-why-not-alonso Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/second-captains-1085233/cheat-week-madrid-meltdown-why-not-alonso.md Podcast: [Second Captains](https://stenobird.com/podcast/second-captains-1085233) Published: 2026-05-14T16:30:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/the-second-captains-podcast-1/episodes/cheat-week-madrid-meltdown-why-not-alonso Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/627a2e8f84f3d50012cf11fb/e/6a05e208382d6c4030b3ace4/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/second-captains-1085233/episodes/cheat-week-madrid-meltdown-why-not-alonso Duration seconds: 1378 ## Resource Welcome to cheat week on the Second Captains world service! It all started with the Arsenal West Ham VAR fallout and got progressively murkier as the week went on with the Southampton "Spygate" saga, Celtic's questionable late penalty against Motherwell and Florentino Perez calling out all the haters and losers at Real Madrid.   There was also the news this week that Chelsea are looking to get Xavi Alonso as their next manager, news that astonished Ken given Liverpool seem a better fit and given how Liverpool's season has gone with Slot in charge. Coming up tomorrow we have the latest in our series of Fiesta Fridays ™ - last week it was Seve - this week it's bullfighting culture wars. Its a fiver to join, it takes 30 seconds, you have instant access to every show we've ever done, and all the top stuff coming up such as Ken at the World Cup, the Premier League and Champions League deciders, Madrid continuing to be insane, Rory's majors quest, Leinster in the champions cup final, the munster hurling championship is getting red hot, and the football championship is getting real tasty too.  GO TO secondcaptains.com/join Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/second-captains-1085233/episodes/cheat-week-madrid-meltdown-why-not-alonso/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/second-captains-1085233/cheat-week-madrid-meltdown-why-not-alonso.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.