City keep losing; Chelsea keep winning. Plus sackings and the greatest saves
The Game Football Podcast
The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
If Pep Guardiola is the greatest manager of the modern era, its time for him to prove his worth.
Manchester City are a “crumbling dynasty” losing again in a derby where they looked nervous throughout. While a Chelsea team with four ex City players in it and a manager honed under Guardiola are now two off the top and “having a lot of fun, playing with palpable joy.”
Rubin Amorim has again showed who is in charge by dropping Marcus Rashford from the squad and has his tram playing in his patterns.
Elsewhere, time to give Nottingham Forest due credit; managerial sackings and great saves.
Paul hirst, Tom Allnutt, Alyson Rudd and James Gheerbrant join Tom Clarke to analyse a very busy weekend.
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| 1:09.7 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. |
| 1:28.3 | Well, thank God for Ahmad Diallo. That is not just the view of jubilant Manchester United fans, but also journalists and editors across the land as the United Winger sparked a dull derby into life in the final moments of the game. On today's show, we'll talk about a remarkable match at the Etihad Stadium, Ruben Amarim's tough love with Marcus Rashford and another defeat for Manchester City and Pep Guardiola. |
| 1:34.1 | We'll also discuss Chelsea Tottenham, two sacking in the Premier League and ask, did Emmy Martinez |
| 1:39.7 | make the best save we've ever seen? |
| 1:42.5 | I'm Tom Clark and joining me today we have the senior sports writer and Sunday Times |
| 1:46.0 | columnist Alison Rudd, the football writer and Times columnist James Gearbrand. |
| 1:50.3 | And hopefully at some point the train sought themselves out and Tom Ornott will burst into |
| 1:54.5 | the studio as well with some views on Nottingham Forest and Ashton Villa. |
| 1:58.0 | But thankfully while we wait for Tom, we have the perfect deputy, |
| 2:01.3 | as Paul Hurst joins us down the line from Manchester to discuss the Derby. Hurstie, hello. |
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