Tutto Balutto

Tutto Balutto is a Swedish-language football podcast hosted by Gusten Dahlin and Thomas Wilbacher, running new episodes twice a week, year round. The remit is world football, and the show takes that literally. One episode can start at the Emirates and end at a Swedish cup final. The Premier League gets the longest look. Michael Carrick's Manchester United beating Arsenal in north London, a Patrick Dorgo strike unlikely to be repeated, Chelsea putting three past a Palace side described as finished and checked out, Newcastle losing the Tyne-Wear derby at St James' Park after a mauling in Barcelona. Managers get named and judged. Arne Slot is identified as the man under the hardest pressure, and his line about performances being better than results is dismissed rather than debated. Thomas Frank's Spurs draw open bafflement. Nuno's West Ham draw credit, along with Jared Bowen and his new contract. Italy is not an afterthought. Genoa's turnaround against Bologna, Atalanta's win over Parma, Lazio's stalemate at Lecce, Max Allegri's knack for beating sides who refuse to come out — all of it gets the same weight as the English weekend. Sweden gets more. A win over Ukraine prompts a long conversation about a defence set up to mirror what the available players already do at club level, about a constantly running midfield, about whether a manager can install a philosophy in two training sessions or should simply work with what he has. Selection arguments run hot: Lukas Bergvall's media confidence reads as a man who knows he should start, and one good assist against Ukraine is not deemed enough to keep Benjamin Nygren in the eleven. Allsvenskan and cup football sit alongside all of it, with Mjällby, Sirius, IFK Göteborg and a penalty shootout treated as genuine news rather than filler. Then there are the detours, which are half the appeal. A CIES Football Observatory list of the most dangerous passes played under high pressure per thirty minutes of possession becomes a small seminar on centre-backs who break lines. Calcio storico prompts a tangent about whether fighting belongs in sport and where modern hockey went wrong. Poland's national team landing at Arlanda in the dusk becomes a bit about how the country needs a reality check. The tone is blunt, quick and unbothered about tidiness, and the delivery shifts between two hosts arguing in real time and a single solo monologue reading the weekend aloud. It closes warmly, usually with a direct word to whoever has been listening.