95 Days Later..
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The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson, Alyson Rudd and Tom Clarke.
Southampton have parted company with Nathan Jones after a whirlwind 95 days in charge. Does this actually go down as the worst Premier League appointment ever? (00:00)
City cut Arsenal’s lead to 3 points with a 3-1 win against Aston Villa. Do they have the momentum to overtake the Gunners and leave them in the dust? (18:15)
VAR was once again a huge talking point over the weekend, with changes for the next couple of games already made by the PGMOL (38:24)
Chelsea were held to a 1-1 draw by West Ham - did another mistake in that game hold them back? (45:48)
Spurs lost 4-1 at Leicester City. Are their inconsistency problems ever going to be solved and where will they realistically finish this season? (53:16)
We round up the rest of the games with Alyson giving special praise to a Fulham defender (60:30)
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| 0:00.0 | This is the game football podcast from the Times. |
| 0:04.6 | Today we react to Southampton sacking their manager Nathan Jones after just 95 days in charge. |
| 0:11.1 | We'll talk about a narrowing title race after Arsenal drop points to Brentford and Manchester City beat |
| 0:17.0 | Aston Villa but big VR decisions cost Arsenal and Brighton as well in their game against Crystal Palace. |
| 0:24.0 | We will though look ahead to that big match between Arsenal and Manchester City in the Premier League |
| 0:28.8 | on Wednesday as well as reacting to some of the big storylines from the weekend, |
| 0:33.1 | including Chelsea dropping more points against West Ham United, Spurs given a hiding by Leicester City. |
| 0:40.5 | Bournemouth getting a vital point against Newcastle United, |
| 0:43.9 | a big win for Manchester United and Fulham as well. This is the game. |
| 0:52.5 | Hello, welcome back to the game. I am Hugh Wazencroft alongside Gregor Robertson, Tom Clark |
| 0:57.0 | and Alison Rudd to discuss another busy weekend of Premier League football, but we start with a |
| 1:02.8 | managerial second. Nathan Jones gone from Southampton after just 95 days in charge. |
| 1:09.5 | Last and longer than his trust, congratulations. Former Luton town boss leaving, |
| 1:14.1 | bottom of the table after their 2-1 loss to 10 man wolves. |
| 1:18.7 | It becomes Southampton sure to serving boss in the Premier League era. |
| 1:22.4 | He lost 9-14 matches, including 8 defeats in 9 Premier League games and 4 straight defeats |
| 1:28.5 | at St Mary's. He's the 8th Premier League manager to be sacked this season. |
| 1:32.7 | It's a weird one. It was a hard one to predict because obviously it was a hard one to predict. |
| 1:38.5 | In so much that it happened so rarely that a manager has gone so early that you think |
| 1:45.0 | they've made a big decision to Southampton. They brought in a manager from the championship. |
| 1:48.7 | They obviously knew he was going to need a bit of time, but then obviously during the course of |
| 1:53.4 | this short period, he's rhetoric, the view of the fans. Last week's fan forum, the pressure was |
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