Don't Bash The League Cup!
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The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson and Jonathan Northcroft.
Nuno returned to Molineux and left with a Carabao Cup victory over his former side. Pep Guardiola can’t make his mind up if he likes the competition or not and Manchester United crash out (00:00)
Reading are set to be deducted points due to breaching EFL financial rules. In the same week Derby County were hit with a 12 point penalty - is the desperation to get into the top flight going too far? (18:26)
Arsenal and Spurs have been off the pace in recent matches and with the first North London derby of the season on Sunday - is this the most irrelevant Premier League match-up ever between the two sides? (30:32)
Spennymoor Town will play a game on Sunday with heading only allowed in the box in the first half and no heading whatsoever allowed after the break. Head for Change are the charity behind the research - but would the lack of heading ruin the beautiful game? (50:03)
Hendon FC beat Hammersmith FC 36-0 in a league match, so we end on memorable maulings and everyone fails to believe Gregor has only played in a side that lost 5-0 (54:46)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the game is sponsored by the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, |
| 0:04.6 | which is inviting everyone in the UK to share their experience of the pandemic, |
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| 1:00.2 | Hello and welcome back to the game Football podcast from the Times. Today we ask how good is the |
| 1:06.0 | EFL Cup and do you think it needs B-teams? Elsewhere, what's happened to financial regulation |
| 1:12.3 | in football is the North London Derby meaningless. Can City afford to lose at Chelsea and we talk |
| 1:19.4 | worse to ever-defeat? This is the game. |
| 1:26.7 | Welcome back to the game podcast. I'm Hugh. Wasn't Croft joining me this week? Greg |
| 1:30.8 | O'Robinson and Jonathan Northcroft. How are you guys? |
| 1:34.6 | Good, good, good, good. Good week in the Carabell Cup and I mean that. A positive week |
| 1:39.2 | in the Carabell Cup. Some good football, some good matches that went right down to the wire as well |
| 1:45.5 | because this is the time of the year that the EFL Cup usually is getting a bit of a bashing |
| 1:49.9 | from many in the media over whether it should even exist or whether it should be massively changed. |
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