AFC Wimbledon return home and is Brendan Rodgers underrated?

The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson, Tom Clarke and James Restall. As we head back into lockdown, the pause on grassroots sport returns - but why is women’s football not considered elite when the men’s professional game continues? Brendan Rodgers is under the spotlight - is he underrated and what would prove his quality if so? As AFC Wimbledon play their first game back at Plough Lane, the team discuss their remarkable rise as a phoenix club. Diogo Jota’s impact at Liverpool has been remarkable, but which other players have had such an instant impact on a team?

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0:00.0	This is the story of that day you cleared out the garage.
0:03.0	Classics were the best MC in the galaxy.
0:06.0	Or the story of that workout when you lifted a weight off and harnessed the power of your emotions.
0:12.0	Or the story of that long haul flight sat on the
0:14.7	plains of the Namibian desert soothed by the returning rains. From the
0:19.7	corrupt FM podcast to Darren Brown's boot camp for emotion and sleep sound with Myajama for the
0:24.4	story you need right now listen on audible subscription required see audible.
0:28.7	co-dot co-dot UK for terms.
0:39.1	Hello welcome Hello, welcome. This is the Game Football Podcast from The Times. I'm Hugh Wosencroft and today we examine the management of Brendan Rogers will ask if the Leicester boss is undervalued
0:44.9	because of his nationality. Meanwhile Diogo Jota says Adios Senior at
0:50.1	Liverpool and AFC Wimbledon complete the story of stories by returning to their
0:55.6	spiritual home.
0:57.2	All that and more on another action-packed game podcaster with me this week, Tom Clark, James Restall and Gregor Robertson. How you doing guys?
1:05.4	Very well, Hugh. All good, thank you. A bit tired. I've been staying up late,
1:09.3	transfixed to CNN. I don't know about any of you. I don't want to I know we don't want to push
1:15.8	the Americanization of football but if CNN were in charge of the Champions League
1:20.4	draw it would be the most captivating and enjoyable experience ever
1:24.4	because I swear to God I've been watching a guy talk about math and numbers for
1:29.2	hours and I can't stop honest to God you think of all those boring champions leave draws,
1:34.1	put these guys in charge of it instead and we'd be absolutely fine.
1:37.3	You just need a magic wall.
1:38.9	You just need a magic wall and that's it.
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