Could Manchester City Be Relegated?
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The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson, Alyson Rudd and Tony Cascarino - with Martyn Ziegler.
Sean Dyche started his Everton career with a 1-0 win over leaders, Arsenal. Can he continue to make progress as the season continues? (00:00)
Arsenal were let off by City’s loss at Tottenham but how will Mikel Arteta and the team react to this bump in the road? (13:40)
Manchester City’s form continues to show signs of cracking - what can we take from Pep’s comments and recent team decisions? (19:25)
Harry Kane becomes Spurs’ all-time top goalscorer - but is he better than Alan Shearer? (33:26)
Liverpool lose again and this time it wasn’t even close. Are Jurgen Klopp and his players suffering from both physical and mental exhaustion? (39:19)
The Times’ Chief Sports Reporter, Martyn Ziegler joins us to discuss the breaking news about Manchester City’s alleged rule breaking (52:21)
We round up the rest of the weekend’s games with Forest and Brentford feeling positive while pressure mounts on Leeds and Southampton (56:38)
Chelsea and Leicester did business at the end of the transfer window and it seems like they’ve made some wise purchases (70:08)
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| 0:00.0 | This is the game football podcast from the Times. |
| 0:04.0 | Today, Everton get that new manager bounce under Sean Dijks with a massive win over the |
| 0:08.9 | league leaders Arsenal, who maintain their lead thanks to defeat for Manchester City at Tottenham |
| 0:14.2 | Hotspur. What is going wrong for Pep Guardiola and City? Liverpool lose a third straight away league |
| 0:20.7 | match for the first time since 2012. Smash by Wolves at Mollenew is Jürgen Klopp running out of energy. |
| 0:28.5 | We'll also talk about the bottom of the league, important victories for Nottingham Forest, |
| 0:32.6 | a big defeat for Southampton at Brentford, Nathan Jones under big pressure there, |
| 0:37.9 | and we'll be talking about some of the other big teams Chelsea, Leicester and Newcastle. |
| 0:42.6 | This is the game. |
| 0:47.0 | Hello, welcome back to the game podcast. I am Hugh Wozncroft alongside Gregor Robertson, |
| 0:51.8 | Alison Rudd and Tony Cascarino on this Monday morning, loads for us to discuss. We'll start with |
| 0:58.7 | the new manager bounce at Goodison Park, Sean Dijks with a dream start. Everton stunning the |
| 1:05.1 | Premier League leaders Arsenal. In front of a raulkous crowd, Dijks are pointed. Last Monday |
| 1:10.9 | after the departure of Frank Lampard sacked with the team in the relegation zone and they picked up |
| 1:15.9 | a first victory in 11 games in all competitions. Two of his former barely team combining for the |
| 1:21.3 | goal, James Tarkowski heading in Dwight McNeil's corner. Thousands before the game, |
| 1:27.1 | marching down Goodison Road, protesting against the Everton board and the running of the club, |
| 1:31.9 | a plane even flew over the ground with the words, leagues worst rung club, time to go Bill |
| 1:37.9 | aimed at the chairman Bill Ken Wright went over the ground during the game as well. |
| 1:42.4 | And it was just one of those results that so many fans saw coming, didn't they? You know, |
| 1:47.6 | is like Sean Dijks criticised for his style of football back in management against the team that's |
| 1:52.7 | absolutely flying in the shape of Arsenal and he just turned into a bigger and bigger and |
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