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The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Nat & Gregor are joined by Henry Winter to discuss problems at Watford as Troy Deeney stays away from training over safety concerns.

The panel discuss this, whether personality traits of footballers make them more likely to struggle with mental health, and a look back at one of England's finest performances as they thrash Holland at Euro 96.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is the game podcast from The Times and I'm Natalie Sawyer.
0:06.2	Gregor Robertson is with us and we are joined today by Henry Winter.
0:10.8	Henry, great to have you with us.
0:13.0	Before we start this podcast, I've just got to ask you if you had any comeback from that
0:17.5	unpopular football opinion of yours where you sort of expressed your disappointment with
0:21.7	Wembley Stadium. Did anyone come back at you?
0:23.9	Well not really, no, I mean I've been saying this for years. I'm not a fan we don't, you know, as we discussed on the last time,
0:31.3	we don't need a national stadium we got so many amazing
0:33.4	stadiums and you know look it's fun for tourists but you know the money needs to be
0:40.3	invested in grassroots and in and in the pyramid rather than in bricks and mortar.
0:45.2	But anyway, look, that's an argument I've lost.
0:47.3	It's, it's there and, you know, it's a nice car park with a pitch next to it.
0:51.9	Nicely foot.
0:54.0	Are you keeping well otherwise though, Henry?
0:56.0	All good?
0:57.0	Yeah, back in marathon training.
0:58.0	I took a couple of weeks out when it was cancelled.
1:00.0	I'm doing it for Michael Carrick's Foundation so now that we can run longer than an hour it's great
1:05.9	So yes, we're doing two two and a half hours a day just to getting out there so it's good good Good. Are you actually covering a marathon?
1:13.0	How, I mean, not a marathon as such, but how far are you covering in that time?
1:17.0	About 17-18 miles, but it's quite flat where we live, which is okay.
1:22.0	Although it's slightly humiliatinglyly coming back into the village
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