Chelsea and Arsenal fight it out and Salah dropped
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The Times
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🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Arsenal went to Stamford Bridge without both first choice centre backs and took a point. Chelsea played the league leaders for sixty minutes with ten men and without their best player and took a point. Who will be happier?
Liverpool finally won again and dropped Mo Salah in the process. Is this straight forward squad rotation or the beginning of a transition which doesn’t include the club legend?
It’s happy times in the Northeast at the moment as Newcastle win away for the first time in over two hundred days and Sunderland come from behind to show their European credentials.
And finally, it is tough times for Thomas Frank at the Tottenham Stadium. Was he right to criticise fans who booed their goalkeeper?
Gregor Robertson is joined by Tom Allnutt, Martin Hardy and Alyson Rudd.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. |
| 0:07.0 | It was a battle at the bridge as 10-man Chelsea earned a hard-fought point against the Premier League leader's Arsenal. |
| 0:13.2 | After their gutsy display, have Enzo Moreska's side proved they've got the stomach for a title challenge? |
| 0:18.6 | Also on today's show, Mohamed Sala was benched by Arnus Lott |
| 0:21.7 | for the first time in 53 Premier League games as Liverpool returned to winning ways with a |
| 0:26.3 | two-no win at the London Stadium. Newcastle's 236-day wait for a Premier League away win came |
| 0:32.5 | to an end in style as they thumped Everton 4-1 on Merseyside and Thomas Frank called out Spurs fans for booing their own goalkeeper after another painful defeat at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. We'll be discussing all of that as well as big wins for Brentford, Brighton, Manchester City, Astinville and Sunderland and much, much more. I'm Gregor Robertson and joining me in in the studio today, we have The Times Senior Sports Writer Alison Rudd, |
| 0:56.7 | the Times London Football Reporter Tom Allnut, |
| 0:59.3 | and joining us down the line from the North East, |
| 1:01.5 | we have the Times Northern Football Reporter Martin Hardy. |
| 1:06.0 | Guys, lots of action to get stuck into from this weekend, |
| 1:08.9 | so let's get straight to it. |
| 1:10.1 | Chelsea 1, Arsenal it Chelsea 1 Arsenal 1 |
| 1:11.7 | First versus 2nd |
| 1:13.3 | Feisty London Derby |
| 1:14.8 | 25 fouls 7 bookings |
| 1:16.8 | 3 in the opening 12 minutes |
| 1:18.5 | Red card from Moises Caicedo in the 30th minute |
| 1:21.3 | What was the biggest takeaway |
| 1:23.8 | Alison? |
| 1:25.3 | Chelsea shouldn't be ruled out of a title race I mean mean, before a ball was kicked, I felt that they had a chance to do something. And who knows if Kaisedo hadn't been sent off towards the end of the first half, they might well have done. And you wrote about that on your Sunday Times call us. You've modestly overlooked that at that point. I did predict that people. |
| 1:45.1 | But give, |
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