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Conte is talking himself out of the Chelsea job

The Game

The Times

Football, World Cup, Lionesses, Sport, News, Soccer, European Championships, Entertainment News, Premier League, Champions League, Sports

3.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

England World Cup goalscorer Matthew Upson makes his debut on The Game podcast alongside Gab Marcotti and Matt Hughes to discuss the Premier League weekend as the champions submit to the champions elect.


It’s time for another Arsenal enquiry and the panel try to unlock the Glenn Murray mystery. Also on the agenda - Martin Glenn, Scott McTominay and the Korean Thomas Muller.


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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times. I'm Gabriel Marcotti and I thank you for joining us.

0:38.0

The cold weather's gone, which means that in the studio is Mr. Matt Hughes making his way in from far west London somewhere

0:46.5

near Matthew Siaid's house right?

0:48.0

The shed at the bottom of the garden. There you go. In fact, he's Matthew sides groundskeeper for those who didn't know.

0:55.0

And we're joined not just by former England Defender.

0:58.0

That would be pretty generic and ordinary here, but one who scored in a World Cup.

1:02.0

That's right, making his game podcast debut, it's Matthew Upson.

1:05.9

Later on we'll be discussing some of Martin Glenn's silly comments.

1:10.7

He's the chief executive of the FA and until recently I thought the more

1:14.8

grown-up of the two between him and Greg Clark, but we start with the

1:18.2

Champions and the Champions elect at the Et. Chelsea line up with no center forward.

1:25.0

They had two of them on the bench.

1:29.0

They played a very conservative game.

1:34.0

It was condemned as anti-football by some.

1:39.0

Where do you stand on this?

1:41.0

Because you could also look at it the other way and say yeah okay so

1:45.8

we just sat back and then try to score we kept it close and then laid on Moses

1:50.6

at a chance and maybe we could have nicked something.

1:53.0

Was that the right approach or was that actually kind of embarrassing?

1:57.0

You know, in many ways the approach is the approach. I don't think it matters too much.

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