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The Game Football Podcast

BONUS: Stories of our Times - The end of the beautiful game as we know it?

The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It's a podcast takeover with the Stories of our Times podcast. The decision by the government to prevent fans from attending football matches in the UK has left many lower league clubs facing an uncertain future. What's it like to play for a National League and just how important are local clubs to their towns?


Guest: Gregor Robertson, Times Sport columnist and co-host of The Game podcast. 


Host: David Aaronovitch

Clips used: GTFC Official

Music: 'Blue Lobster' by Daniel Birch is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (looped from original).


More Stories of Our Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/podcasts/stories-of-our-times



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0:00.0

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0:06.1

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0:10.3

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0:14.3

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0:21.0

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0:26.0

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0:29.0

Hi, I'm Hugh Wosencroft, the host of the Game Podcast from The Times.

0:37.8

This is a bonus episode.

0:39.0

It's going to be in your feed this week.

0:40.9

Our very own Gregor Robertson has been speaking to David

0:43.8

Aranovich for an episode of stories of our times on the financial

0:49.4

situation difficult financial situation no less currently facing lower league clubs

0:54.8

enjoy.

0:57.8

Every weekend in the old pre-pandemic days, the one place in city or town where thousands of citizens were gathered together was the football stadium.

1:13.0

This is one thing that several thousand people gather in one place every week or every other week

1:24.6

then can congregate with a common purpose and a shared history.

1:32.3

From the exalted floodlet palaces of the Premiership, to the rickety open stands of the Vanarama League,

1:40.0

football in England and Wales was like a pyramid, each tier resting on the activity below it.

1:46.0

But even before the coming of the virus, that structure was crumbling,

1:51.0

and now at the bottom, of fans and finance it's

1:55.8

threatening to collapse. Football is not in a good state of health before

2:00.6

coronavirus and coronavirus is merely served to illuminate that very fact.

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