Arsenal v Man Utd and why play extra time?
The Game Football Podcast
The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Did Manchester United display fantastic spirit, organisation and grit or were they lucky and should have lost by three if Arsenal could finish?
For Mikel Arteta has his Arsenal team stagnated?
Is extra time a good thing or a bad thing for smaller teams?
On Tuesday Nottingham Forest play Liverpool. Will it be blood and thunder or a cagey stalemate?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. |
| 0:08.2 | Altai Bayendeer and Joshua Xerxie are Manchester United Heroes. |
| 0:12.8 | Less than two weeks in and 2025 is already full of surprises. |
| 0:17.2 | On today's show, we'll discuss another spirited and invigorating performance from Ruben Amarim's side and ask what defeat means for Arsenal's stuttering season. |
| 0:26.2 | We'll also discuss the rest of the FA Cup action as the footballing decision makers Rob Tamworth of a replay and Tottenham trudged through in extra time. |
| 0:34.5 | Is it time for us to go straight to penalties? |
| 0:37.4 | And if that wasn't enough, |
| 0:38.5 | we'll look ahead to the midweek action two in the Premier League and that top of the table |
| 0:42.7 | clash between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool. I'm Tom Clark and joining me today, we have |
| 0:46.9 | the senior sports writer and Sunday Times columnist Alison Rudd, the reporter and tactics writer |
| 0:51.5 | Hamza Khalik Loonat and the former Football League defender turned journalist Grega Robertson is here as usual. |
| 0:56.8 | Our team important starting point, this is a podcast, listeners, a regular, Alison, can we hear how you sound with your new croaky month-long cold voice? |
| 1:06.6 | Yeah, a doctor said, I might have the 100 a year cough, no, the 100 day cough. |
| 1:12.2 | And then she looked at me and said, that's really nasty, that one. |
| 1:15.0 | You've got a bit of the Phoebe buffet about friends about you with that kind of voice. |
| 1:19.2 | A wobbly. |
| 1:19.8 | Yeah, it's all right. |
| 1:21.1 | It'll be fine. |
| 1:21.6 | But, yeah, no, like the good boss I am, I knew that you had a cold, so I was like, right, let's send you to Arsenal Man |
| 1:28.0 | United, the biggest game of the round so far. And there's absolutely tons to talk about from |
| 1:33.2 | this game. I was in the office yesterday. Let's not talk about the first off, because that was |
| 1:37.2 | quite frankly dreadful as speaking to James Gearbrand after the game. And he said he turned |
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