Bonkers Bodo and Lammens shines for Man United
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The Times
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Giants Real Madrid and PSG just managed to qualify in the Champions League last 16 but who is the best we've seen in the competition so far? Bode Glimt may not win it, but what a team - a town of 54,000, a wage bill a fraction the size of most Premier League teams and a playing style which is hugely adaptable.
Domestically, Man Utd are on a charge, led by one of their unsung summer signings - Senne Lammens. What difference has the goalkeeper made?
Lastly, how would two former pros fair in todays game, which team would they be best suited to and how has their position changed?
Tom Clarke is joined by Gregor Robertson and Tony Cascarino
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game, football podcast from The Times and Sunday Times. |
| 0:08.6 | Rail Madrid and Venetius triumph over Benfica. Holders, PSG squeeze past Monaco while Newcastle |
| 0:14.5 | cruised through and we are all bonkers for Bodo glimped. It was a thrilling conclusion |
| 0:19.3 | to the Champions League playoff, but who are the best teams that we've seen so far? On today's show, we'll also discuss Manchin United's success on the pitch and their financial results off it, ask, our goalmouth scrambles, spoiling the spectacle, and we'll quiz our two favourite former footballers on how they think they would cope in the modern game. Speaking of, I'm Tom Clark and joining me today, we have those two former favourite footballers with us, the former Ireland, Millwall and Marseid, striker-turn columnist Tony Cascarino, and the former Scotland under 21 Nottingham Forest and Chesfield Defender and journalist. Gregor Robertson is with us. All right, lads. All right, Tom. We need a big sell on this one. The proper, we're leaning in. We've got no other bloody journalists and reporters on. Clouding it with their big opinions, waffling on for ages. Smart ideas. Yeah, big ideas. Big ethereal thinking, philosophising. Shut up. Let's just chat to the former pros. Let's get stuck into the Champions |
| 1:12.7 | League then. I mean, I was editing both these days, both these nights. I thought there's some |
| 1:16.0 | fascinating games. Let's talk about Rail Madrid's win against Benfica. Venet, of course, |
| 1:21.4 | making headlines this time for all the right reasons with a wonderful goal. Rail Madrid |
| 1:26.1 | just about deserving to win this game, I think, Gregor. |
| 1:29.4 | But this is not the Rail Madrid that I think neutrals and maybe English fans are used to |
| 1:33.8 | watching, as I'm sure probably plenty of people tuned in on this one. No, it was really, really odd |
| 1:38.3 | game to watch. I mean, first of all, how poorly Real Madrid started the game. And then just |
| 1:44.0 | the kind of how many errors |
| 1:46.0 | there were and throughout it, it was really odd. I mean, unless Vinicious got on the ball and found |
| 1:51.8 | himself in a little pocket of space or drifted in centrally and they found them, they had very, very |
| 1:57.7 | little threat at all. And there was also some players popping up all over the place |
| 2:02.0 | it doesn't seem to be much |
| 2:02.8 | much direction or if there is |
| 2:04.7 | it's not that clear |
| 2:05.7 | in the Enri-humoured team at the moment |
| 2:07.9 | so open they were so open |
| 2:09.6 | yeah look you've got to obviously say |
| 2:11.4 | they're missing |
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