{"id":246289,"date":"2025-10-28T12:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246289\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:19:10","slug":"brendan-rodgers-quits-celtic-and-an-efl-special-football-weekly-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246289\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Rodgers quits Celtic and an EFL special \u2013 Football Weekly | Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Rate, review, share on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/football-weekly-the-guardian\/id188674007?mt=2\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/guardianfootballweekly\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Soundcloud<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/channel\/football-weekly\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Audioboom<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/guardianfootballweekly\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mixcloud<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acast.com\/footballweekly\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Acast<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/guardianuk\/football-weekly\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stitcher<\/a>, and join the conversation on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GuardianPodcasts\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardianaudio\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/audio\/2025\/oct\/28\/mailto:footballweekly@theguardian.com\" data-link-name=\"in body link \" https:=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On the podcast today; as with what seems to be every Football League-facing podcast, breaking news the day before gets in the way. This time it\u2019s Brendan Rodgers\u2019 decision to leave Celtic and the incredible club statement that followed it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Elsewhere, Sheffield Wednesday enter administration, their fans rejoice. Coventry are top of the Championship in what looks to be a very open league, with all of last season\u2019s relegated sides outside of the top six at this stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Plus, the headlines from League One and League Two, plus your questions answered.<\/p>\n<p>Support the Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/theguardian.com\/euro-support\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">You can also find Football Weekly on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/guardian_footballweekly\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@guardian_footballweekly?lang=en\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@FootballWeeklyPodcast\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: UEFA Champions League - Play Off - Second Leg - Kairat v CelticFILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - UEFA Champions League - Play Off - Second Leg - Kairat v Celtic - Ortalyk Stadion, Almaty, Kazakhstan - August 26, 2025&#10;Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers before the match REUTERS\/Pavel Mikheyev\/File Photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2918.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"356.09150102810145\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"\/> Photograph: Pavel Mikheyev\/Reuters<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-246289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}