Faye Carruthers is joined by Suzanne Wrack , Sophie Lawson , and Sophie Downey to discuss the Continental Cup Final and WSL action

On today’s pod, the panel discusses Arsenal winning their seventh League Cup title as they shatter Chelsea’s hopes of winning a quadruple. But it was Emma Hayes who grabbed the headlines after the game. Were her comments on Jonas Eidevall’s touchline behaviour fair?

Plus, the panel purrs over Khadija Shaw after she netted twice in Manchester City’s 4-1 triumph over Liverpool taking them to the top of the WSL. Meanwhile, there are two for Toone as the other side of Manchester also won 4-1 against the other side of Merseyside.

• Manchester United defender stresses dangers of heading
• ‘My son plays football and I advise him not to head the ball’

The Manchester United defender Raphaël Varane has said concussions have damaged his body as he stressed the importance of creating more awareness among players around the dangers of heading.

Varane said he had suffered a concussion a few days before playing in France’s 1-0 defeat by Germany in the quarter-finals of the 2014 World Cup, as well at his former club Real Madrid when they lost to Manchester City in the last 16 second leg of the 2020 Champions League.

• The 49-year-old is said to have bought 17,000 shares last year
• Kroes in post for just over two weeks amid turmoil at Ajax

Ajax have suspended new CEO Alex Kroes with immediate effect on suspicion he has been involved in insider trading in the club’s shares, the club supervisory board said in a statement on Tuesday.

The board said it had learned Kroes had bought more than 17,000 Ajax shares a week before his intended appointment was announced on 2 August 2023. “External legal advice indicates that he likely engaged in insider trading,” the board said in the statement.

Manager once mocked for a throwaway line has his team shooting for the Champions League and admirers on his tail

The calendar showed 1 April, but there was nothing fishy about a league table that showed Bologna in fourth place. Thiago Motta’s side have held that spot for more than a month, even if it was striking to see after Monday’s 3-0 win over Salernitana that they had closed to within two points of Juventus in third. The gap was 20 at the start of February.

April Fools’s Day in Italy is known as Pesce d’Aprile – April Fish. The tradition is for children to stick paper pesci on people’s backs and see how long they go unnoticed, but journalists have been known to mark the occasion with made-up stories, as happens in other countries. Bologna supporters must hope the headlines now linking their manager to Juventus turn out to be fake news.

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The Foreign Office has warned football fans that the beer may be stronger than they think. I say focus on quality, not quantity

With Euro 2024 kicking off in 11 weeks, the Foreign Office has issued its travel advice for England and Scotland fans planning on following their teams to Germany. Fair enough. It’s handy to remind people about travel insurance, health insurance and keeping your valuables safe. But towards the bottom of the page, there’s a cautionary note about alcohol: “Beer can be stronger than in the UK, so drink responsibly, know your limits and respect local laws. You may not be let into the stadium if you drink too much.” Are they calling British football fans lightweights?

Some of them may certainly wonder if they really need to be schooled on how to drink lager. They are generally thought to be pretty good at it. Paul Goodwin, cofounder of the Scottish Football Supporters Association, told the BBC : “There are of course many things that Scotland fans need to be warned about but we don’t really think this is one of them.”

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The words were audible in our women’s game but as president of Brann, I argue they are within freedom of expression

Have you ever been fined for expressing something that is clearly within international legislation on freedom of expression? We have. In a Women’s Champions League match in Bergen this year.

For a short period of our game against St Pölten in January our supporters chanted “Uefa mafia” after not being awarded a free-kick. Big deal? Apparently so as we were fined €5,000 (£4,275) by Uefa for it. In women’s football, that is a lot of money and about 10% of the prize money for winning the match.

The league has bared its teeth on teams in breach of profit and sustainability rules. But the current enforcement has solidified the disparity between clubs

This Premier League season will be remembered for many things: as the season when the Kop lost its Klopp, as the season of “Well done boys, good process” , as a time in which the “agent of chaos”, whether named Darwin or Jérémy or Kaoru or Kai, offered a brief and sparkling reprieve from the monotonous precision of the relentlessly rehearsed modern game. Mostly, though, it will be remembered as the season of teeth.

By near-universal consensus, the points deductions imposed on Everton and Nottingham Forest, as well as the ongoing investigation into Leicester City’s finances (not to mention the 115 charges still pending against Manchester City), prove at long last that the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules “have teeth” – or “unexpected teeth” , as one commentator put it. The Super League fiasco and the ongoing failure of the Premier League to secure an equitable deal for the distribution of media revenue down the football pyramid, meanwhile, have highlighted the need for a “regulator that has real teeth” – a need that the recently introduced football governance bill, many believe, may help address . The age of the soccer regulators is upon us, and suddenly their fangs are everywhere. Not since the days when Luis Suárez was feasting on the arms and shoulders of his opponents has there been quite so much attention paid in English football to matters of dentition.

• Head coach had been in job for just three months
• Argyle lie just above Championship relegation zone

Plymouth Argyle have sacked Ian Foster after just three months in charge. The former England Under-20 coach was only named manager of the Championship club in early January following Steven Schumacher’s move to Stoke.

The former Liverpool academy player – who was called “the perfect candidate” by the Plymouth chairman, Simon Hallett, upon his unveiling – had previously led England Under-19s to the European Championship title in 2022.