72+: Epic title race & should snus be banned?
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Aaron Paul and Jobi McAnuff are joined by West Brom winger Jed Wallace. They dig into the week’s big EFL stories. Are Ipswich and Leicester going to deliver the best Championship title race ever? Jed talks about West Brom being in the mix, and what Christmas is like for an EFL footballer. Hear from a Rotherham fan on the appointment of Leam Richardson as head coach. Stoke City sack Alex Neil. And does the EFL have a snus problem?
01:15 QPR - Martí Cifuentes has them firing 03:25 Is this the best Championship title race ever? 11:30 Jed’s West Brom in the chasing pack 19:55 Rotherham appoint ex-Wigan boss Leam Richardson 26:10 Stoke City sack Alex Neil as manager 30:55 Snus – does the EFL have a problem?
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| 0:44.0 | 72 Plus, on the Football Daily Podcast, with Aaron Paul. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome along to 72 Plus, the home of the EFL from us here on five live sport. We're heading into the |
| 0:55.2 | Christmas period and we got plenty of festive treats. We'll be taking a deep dive |
| 0:59.4 | into the championship title race. Are Ipswich and Leicester going to deliver the best one ever? |
| 1:06.2 | Alongside me to discuss is our very own mince pie. |
| 1:09.8 | strobing my can off. I don't know why I called you that. I don't know why I did. But Job's |
| 1:15.0 | Reading 106 records are there to be broken. They are but I've got to say that's one I feel is a real tough one to break just because of how tougher season it is in the championship |
| 1:26.9 | and you know you have little dips throughout it and to maintain that level of consistency as that group did |
| 1:32.4 | and we got reminded about it a lot you know maintain that |
| 1:33.0 | level of consistency as that group did and we got reminded about it a lot, |
| 1:35.0 | you know, being the second championship winning team, |
| 1:38.0 | but we were always chasing that bit of history and listen, |
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