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🗓️ 22 August 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Natalie Sawyer and Gregor Robertson are joined by James Gheerbrant, and Bill Edgar to look ahead to a mouthwatering weekend in the Premier League. Early front runners, Arsenal and Liverpool go head to head, so could Arsenal come through their first real test and prove they are serious title contenders?
They also discuss the horrible social media scenes, and disgusting racial abuse aimed at Paul Pogba following his penalty miss on Monday.
And, after a big week of EFL action, Gregor discusses Bolton and Bury's worrying battle to survive.
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0:00.0 | Hello and I'm Gregor Robertson. We're with you twice a week throughout the season for all the best reaction and analysis from some of the best football writers in the business |
0:16.2 | Yeah and joining us today are the Times's very own James gearbrand and Bill Edgar |
0:20.6 | Coming up. We'll look ahead to the weekend's |
0:22.6 | Premier League action, which includes one of England's classic fixtures, |
0:26.1 | as unbeaten Liverpool and Arsenal go head to head at Anfield. But first, |
0:30.5 | to the fallout, which marred Manchester United's one all draw at Wolves on Monday night, |
0:35.4 | as Paul Pogba was racially abused online following his missed penalty at Molinee. |
0:40.1 | Or Pogba's Manchester United teammates, Harry Maguire and Marcus Rashford, have come out in support of him following the incident, |
0:47.2 | calling on social media companies to stop racist messages being published. |
0:51.5 | Maguire tweeted, it was disgusting that social media need to do something |
0:55.2 | about it. Every account that is open should be verified by a passport or driving license. |
1:00.9 | He said stop these pathetic trolls making numerous accounts to abuse people and |
1:05.2 | Marcus Rashford added on his own account enough now this needs to stop |
1:09.6 | Manchester United is a family Paul Pogba is a huge part of that family. |
1:14.6 | You attack him, you attack us all at Manchester United. |
1:17.8 | Now Pogba is the third player in a week to be racially abused on social media |
1:22.4 | following a penalty miss. |
1:23.8 | That's after Tammy Abraham's miss spot kick in the Super Cup against Liverpool. |
1:28.9 | And then there was a Yakumetay, the Redding striker who was also abused for his miss penalty in a game against Cardiff. |
1:36.3 | Phil Neville, the England women's head coach has been asked questions about social media. |
1:40.8 | He suggested that clubs and footballers should boycott social media over |
1:44.8 | the racist abuse and I know we'd all agree that social media companies need to do more |
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