72+ EFL Pod: West Brom woes & managerless Leicester

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🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Ex Bristol Rovers boss Darrell Clarke joins West Brom winger Jed Wallace, Lyle Taylor and Aaron Paul to discuss the latest goings on in the EFL. Jed talks about life under new manager Eric Ramsay at The Hawthorns. Darrell Clarke reflects on his time at Bristol Rovers. It's 10 years since Leicester City won the Premier League and life is looking very different now. Plus Cardiff keep rolling on, signs of life at Norwich and nerves at Coventry.

TIME CODES:

2:24 Jed Wallace on West Brom's struggles under Eric Ramsay 11:27 Darrell Clarke talks about his departure from Bristol Rovers 13:49 What a difference 10 years makes for Leicester City 22:42 Are Cardiff City the model for how to get out of League One? 28:30 Philippe Clement wants to take Norwich City to the Premier League 31:44 It's a nervous time at Coventry City

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0:35.7	72 Plus, the EFL podcast with Aaron Paul.
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0:49.6	West Bromwich, Albion, Winger, Jed Wallace. Evening, Jed.
0:52.9	Evening, guys. Great to have you with us. A former championship. Now, Chelmswood striker, Lyle Taylor alongside us as well. Good evening. And two-time, League 2 promotion winner with Bristol Rovers and Port Vale. Darrell, Clark. How are I, Darrell? Good evening, gents. Yeah, I'm all good. Thanks, Aaron. Great to see you back out and about with us, Daryl. How have things been since leaving Bristol Rovers?
1:13.3	I've only come out of retirement for you, Aaron. You know that. Yeah, it's been challenging. I think when you lose your job as a manager, you need your time to process. You know, I had a disappointing six, seven weeks at the club where we had an awful running 10 games.
1:29.2	But listen, that won't define me.
1:31.7	I'll manage nearly 700 games now.
1:33.4	I'll bounce back.
1:34.5	Just took a little bit of time to get me head around it and reset and then go again, mate.
1:40.4	Lyle Taylor also alongside of, in the midst of a mad schedule. Tell us all about it.
1:46.2	Yes. So our home games are played on Monday nights. So we have just played Saturday Monday
1:53.9	this week and next week we play Saturday Monday again, then Saturday Tuesday, then Saturday
1:57.8	Monday and then Saturday Monday again. So it's a bit of a time at the moment, and the legs are going to take an absolute battering over the next four weeks.
2:09.2	Well, I didn't play Saturday.
2:10.5	We played away at Horsham, and it was on an AstroTurf pitch, so I was given a watching brief for 60 minutes before the game turned
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