72+: Leeds lead, jovial Jez George & Rowett’s return
Football Daily
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🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Aaron Paul chats EFL with Sam Parkin and Phil Brown. They react to Leeds United going top of the Championship for the first time this season. Has the pressure got to Leicester City? Lincoln City director of football Jez George joins the pod with Lincoln City on a roll and pushing for the League One play-offs. And Gary Rowett is back at Birmingham – can he save them from relegation to the third tier?
00:40 National League Kidderminster coming back from the dead 03:30 Leeds lead the way for the first time this season 07:15 Are Leicester City cracking under the pressure? 08:55 Ipswich Town the entertainers 13:10 Jez George joins the pod with Lincoln City on a roll 24:25 Rowett returns to Birmingham City – can he keep them up? 30:10 A messy Championship relegation picture
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| 0:44.7 | 72 Plus, on the Football Daily Podcast with Aaron Paul. |
| 0:49.4 | Hello everybody, welcome on to 72 Plus, the home of the EFL from BBC Radio 5 live with me this week, the former Swindon |
| 0:56.4 | Ipswich and Exeter striker Sam parking, and the EFL's favourite Sparky former |
| 1:00.8 | whole now kidding me into the Harrier's boss, as boss it's Jal Philippa to Phil Brown |
| 1:05.1 | Aran how are you some how are you I would he wanted to make some sort of like |
| 1:10.1 | Mario Luigi joke with the electrician but I know they're plumbers it's all right |
| 1:14.8 | bad it's just poor I'm not here for my car a beer no. |
| 1:17.8 | War Philip good to have you back with us on the pod how are things at kiddie to say |
| 1:21.8 | you've turned this around is an understatement. |
| 1:24.0 | Well it's it's not finished it's certainly turned in our direction and |
| 1:29.4 | pointing the right way at the moment I've got to to say it, Aaron, it's a fantastic little club, but a big club in |
| 1:36.3 | non-league by all accounts, great history, yes. We'll put ourselves in with a chance, that's all I'm saying. we've got in amongst the pack instead of being |
| 1:44.1 | bottom we're now looking up which makes it a lot more interesting Aaron a lot more |
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