Do England need a £5m manager and your favourite cult hero?
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The Times
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🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
What makes a great cult hero – amazing skill, trying hard, being a bit weird or relentlessly dependable. From Tony Hibbert to Jay Jay Okocha via Lee Trundle and Dimitar Berbatov…we want to know your favourite cult players.
Alyson Rudd has a theory – England don’t need a manager, certainly not one on five million pounds a year. England have some much quality they would have to work hard not to qualify. Thereafter they should appoint an English manager for the tournament - one who has worked for a club all season and is match sharpened.
Tom Clarke, Alyson Rudd and Gregor Robertson discuss.
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| 1:04.7 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from the Time. So what makes a footballing cult hero? |
| 1:13.2 | Is it skill, a wonder goal, a weird celebration or something else entirely? |
| 1:17.7 | And can the most talented players be cult heroes? |
| 1:21.3 | On today's show, we'll be discussing this topic after an interview with a man who has become a football league legend and will be nominating |
| 1:27.8 | our own cult heroes too. We'll also discuss former big name players in management as Robbie |
| 1:33.1 | Savage excels at Forrest Green. Jack Wilshire takes over at Luton and Stephen Gerard turns |
| 1:38.0 | down Rangers. We'll also discuss the latest international action and debate what Thomas |
| 1:43.0 | Tuchel's ruthless selection might mean for |
| 1:45.4 | England's star names. I'm Tom Clark and joining me today we have the Senior Sports Writer and |
| 1:50.0 | Sunday Times columnist Alison Rudd and the former Scotland under 21 international superstar |
| 1:55.8 | turned football writer Gregor Robertson is here. It's international break week. We need to give him his Scotland |
| 2:01.8 | credentials, don't we, Alison? I love him being Scottish. Yeah, that's the only thing we like |
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