A Tale Of Two Goalkeepers
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The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Tom Clarke, Alyson Rudd and James Restall.
Liverpool have won the first domestic trophy after one of the most exciting goalless draws you’ll ever see at Wembley. Was Thomas Tuchel to blame for their loss after putting too much pressure on Kepa and can Liverpool add to the silverware this season? (00:00)
FIFA have been criticised for the action they’ve taken against Russia so far. The Times’ Chief Sports Reporter, Martyn Ziegler joins us to discuss the likely repercussions and what could happen next (26:44)
Leeds have said an emotional goodbye to the man who got them back into the Premier League, Marcelo Bielsa. Was it the right decision or had he earned the right to leave when he chose to? (43:42)
Handballs are the topic of conversation in the Premier League this weekend. Do we even know what the rules mean these days? Also, Christian Eriksen finally makes Brenford debut - but did Alyson cry? (1:02:37)
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| 1:00.3 | Hello and welcome back to the game football podcast from the Times. Today, |
| 1:04.4 | when is a good time to bring a goalkeeper on for a penalty shoot out? We're review the EFL Cup |
| 1:10.0 | final. We'll also talk about Chelsea's future under Roman Abramovich. Marcelo Biels has been |
| 1:16.1 | sacked by leads. Will they stay up this season? And also, what is Hamball anymore? We completely |
| 1:22.2 | lost track of the rules. This is the game. |
| 1:31.0 | Hello again. Welcome back to the game podcast. I'm Hugh Wasncroft alongside Alison Rudd, |
| 1:35.7 | James Restall and Tom Clark. We have to start at Wembley this week where there was a pretty |
| 1:42.1 | fantastic EFL Cup final. Even though there were no goals scored, it was Chelsea Neil Liverpool |
| 1:47.5 | Neil after extra time. Eleven penalties each in the shoot out and it was Liverpool who won it after |
| 1:53.6 | a decisive miss from Kepper in the Chelsea goal. And we've got to start there because it was the |
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