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Sunday Supplement

COVID causes chaos in the fixture list and are Arsenal genuine top four contenders?

Sunday Supplement

Sky Sports

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

3.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Julian Warren is joined by Darren Lewis and Lianne Sanderson to reflect on a Saturday fixture list ravaged by COVID, with Arsenal thrashing Leeds the only result from a scheduled six games. They also discuss Arsenal's top four hopes, the title race between Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea and look at how the new COVID variant could affect football going forward.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Sunday Supplement Podcast brought to you by Bet365 and at Bet365 they don't

0:06.5

do ordinary. It's where every game, every goal and every point matters. Whatever the sport,

0:12.6

whatever the moment, it's never ordinary at Bet365. Please gamble responsibly over 18s only.

0:22.8

Welcome along to the Sunday Supplement with me, Julian Warren alongside me this week is

0:27.1

Daily Mirror assistant editor Darren Lewis and former Arsenal Chelsea and England forward

0:32.6

Leanne Sanderson. We'll discuss the ongoing COVID crisis in the Premier League with multiple games

0:38.3

postponed over the weekend. We'll also reflect on Arsenal's 4-1 win at Leeds and what has gone wrong

0:43.7

from our cello-be-else side. And we have extended interviews with Liverpool Manager Yogan

0:48.3

Klopp and Newcastle head coach Eddie Howell. So, good morning, welcome along,

0:55.7

Novicki, I'm afraid today, so you're stuck with me. Sorry guys, good news is that Leanne Sanderson

1:00.5

and Darren Lewis as always are here with us, good morning to you both. If you're watching this

1:04.9

time last week, by the way, Darren Ambrose was here, wasn't he? He was waiting for news on his phone

1:09.4

of a baby that was imminent. It didn't arrive last week, but little George was welcome to the world

1:15.7

yesterday. So, congratulations to Darren to Wife Rachel, who we're here as well and

1:20.5

and little George. And I think the five aside team apparently is quite nicely now, baby number five.

1:25.3

So congratulations from all of us here to you, Darren, if you're watching. I'm sure you've

1:28.6

already signed them up for one of the future shows. Yes, good boy. All in good time, we shall see.

1:33.8

Anyway, lots to get to today and we have to start with the very serious note of the ongoing COVID

1:38.9

issues and the postponements and the impact it's having on football and of course the Premier League

1:43.7

clubs continue to grapple with the crisis. At this stage, three of the four scheduled Premier League

1:49.6

games are going ahead today. Of course, Asterville's game with Burnley was called off

1:54.6

little more than two hours before the scheduled 3pm kickoff yesterday due to an increase in cases

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