Can Terry avoid being Aston Villa’s alpha male?
The Game
The Times
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🗓️ 11 October 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Gab Marcotti and Natalie Sawyer are joined by Matt Hughes and George Caulkin. And it’s a very difficult podcast for Natalie as Brentford have lost their beloved boss.
Dean Smith and John Terry are the new team at the helm at Aston Villa. But given Terry was in the frame for the manager’s job, can he settle for a reduced role at Villa Park? A role that as Matt reveals, might not even be as number 2.
The Nations League is back as England prepare to face Croatia on Friday night. How excited should England fans be about Borussia Dortmund’s Jadon Sancho? And elsewhere, George talks to us about whether the legacy of Roy Keane’s post-playing career is misunderstood.
We also turn our attention to the battle to stay in the Premier League. Are Cardiff and Huddersfield lost causes as many suggest? And is staying up good enough for Newcastle?
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
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| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply game podcast from The Times I'm Natalie Sawyer and I'm |
| 0:36.5 | Gabriel Marcotte and we thank you for joining us on this Thursday now I'm excited |
| 0:40.9 | because in the studio with us today wearing his cycling running iron man gear, |
| 0:48.1 | it's Matt Hughes and down the line wearing, well I just like to imagine what he's wearing, I'm not going to tell you, it's |
| 0:55.6 | George Colkin. |
| 0:57.5 | Later on we're going to be talking about the Premier League relegation battle and the Nations League, |
| 1:01.9 | but we start with something far more important. |
| 1:05.0 | That's right. Dean Smith has left Brentford. |
| 1:08.0 | Natalie your beloved Brentford. He's taking a new job at a club in the Midlands |
| 1:12.0 | called Aston Villa. |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah, some. |
| 1:14.6 | I believe actually won the European Cup back in that 1982. |
| 1:19.0 | They had to agree compensation with Brentford. |
| 1:20.7 | They couldn't get them for free. |
| 1:22.4 | So, Natalie. with Brentford they couldn't get them for free so Natalie your thoughts is there a |
| 1:26.7 | price at which you would have let Dean Smith go I mean if you love somebody you |
| 1:31.1 | let them go right yeah and and Brentford are known for that where we know that there's always going to be a price. |
| 1:36.4 | We're kind of our scene as a stepping stone that's fair enough. |
| 1:39.6 | We've always kind of a believe that's our system that's the way we are always going to be |
| 1:43.5 | that kind of club. So I fully expected Dean to go at some point whether I expected him |
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