A tribute to Diogo Jota
The Game Football Podcast
The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Chief Correspondent for The Times and Sunday Times Martin Samuel joins Tom Clarke and Gregor Robertson to pay tribute to Portugal and Liverpool forward Diogo Jota following his tragic death in a car accident.
After a pause Martin reflects on the Club World Cup and its potential to become an enduring tournament and a look at how the English teams have approached it.
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| 0:48.7 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. |
| 0:53.5 | We start this show with news of the tragic death of Liverpool forward Diogo Jotter. |
| 0:59.4 | The 28-year-old and his brother, Andre Silver, died on Thursday morning in Spain following a car accident. |
| 1:02.3 | Jotter had got married just a few days earlier. |
| 1:05.7 | Liverpool issued a short statement saying how devastated they were and the rest of the football world has been expressing their sadness at the news. |
| 1:09.8 | I'm Tom Clark and joining me on today's show, we have the chief correspondent for the Times |
| 1:13.6 | and Sunday Times, Martin Samuel, and the former footballer Gregor Robertson. |
| 1:17.6 | Martin, I'll start with you, just your thoughts on this devastating news. |
| 1:21.6 | Yes, it's a terrible tragedy, a club that has suffered too much tragedy really but this is a this is |
| 1:30.2 | a uh a unique one really because it it cuts to the heart of the dressing room and and |
| 1:37.8 | and everything like that and uh it's you just you just imagine the effect when they return next week probably for preseason training |
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