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Sunday Supplement

Arsenal's perfect start | What's going on with Man Utd's recruitment? | Pep talks player egos and holidays

Sunday Supplement

Sky Sports

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

3.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Miguel Delaney, chief football writer at The Independent, joins Vicky and Darren this week to discuss Arsenal's perfect start, Manchester United's ongoing recruitment issues and where Everton are at following their first few matches.

Vicky chats spaghetti, the Qatar World Cup and player egos with Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola and Gail Davis speaks to Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel following last week's spat with Antonio Conte.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Sunday Supplement Podcast brought to you by Bet365 and at Bet365 they don't

0:06.5

do ordinary. It's where every game, every goal and every point matters. Whatever the sport,

0:12.6

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0:19.5

Hi there and welcome along to this week's Sunday Supplement with me, Vicki Gommasur. Joining

0:24.2

the assistant editor of the Mirror DARREN Lewis and myself this week is Miguel Delaney,

0:27.8

the chief football writer at the Independent. We discuss top of the table Arsenal's perfect

0:32.0

start of the season, Manchester United's Torrid Start as they prepare to face Liverpool and the

0:36.0

Monday night football. Plus, I sat down with Pep Guardiola as he tells me why spaghetti gets a bit

0:41.3

tiring. Yes, really. And how this part of the transfer window is pretty dangerous.

0:48.3

Right, let's start with Arsenal because they are top of the table at the moment aren't they?

0:52.0

After this comprehensive 3-0 win over Bournemouth, two goals from their new captain Martin Oedogard

0:56.7

inside the first 11 minutes, set them on their way to three points. Miguel, I just wanted to look

1:02.1

back, rewind the clock if you like, 12 months ago because actually three defeats on the bounce

1:08.4

and everyone was talking about Michael Arthetta potentially getting the sack. I'm guessing

1:13.7

on reflection, they're quite glad they start with him. Yeah, absolutely. And I suppose it's a

1:17.6

great show of the value of faith in that regard and sticking this to a longer term project because

1:23.6

I think the last four clubs in the Premier League that would have pushed the both and actually

1:27.3

twice in Arthetta's reign really because it was a similar situation nine months beforehand when

1:31.7

he went in that really bad run before they got the win against Chelsea in the full lockdown season

1:36.8

in 2021. But also, I mean, it's not just a result that are completely different to be fair.

1:41.4

It's also the context coming into the game. If you go back to that Brentford game,

1:45.6

well, they had something like three or four key players out. Arthetta still didn't have the team

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