EFL Extra: Christmas Special
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
It’s Christmas but the EFL doesn’t stop and neither do Tom Clarke and Gregor Robertson – here with a bonus Christmas edition of EFL Extra.
They’re doing their end of year awards – teams, players and managers of the year for each of the divisions…and many more.
If you need a break from the festivities, go for a walk or find a quiet corner and join Tom and Gregor for all the latest from the EFL.
From everyone at The Game podcast – a very Merry Christmas. We’ll be back for an end of year episode on the 29th, see you then.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome and Merry Christmas from the game football podcast from The Times and Sunday Times. |
| 0:11.0 | Whether you're out doing last minute shopping, nursing, a hangover, or just having a walk to get away from it all. |
| 0:16.8 | We are here with a Christmas special to add an extra dose of festive cheer. |
| 0:21.4 | And what more could you want at Christmas other than me, Tom Clark, |
| 0:25.3 | and the former Football League legend Gregor Robertson, |
| 0:28.6 | bringing you our Football League Awards for 2025. |
| 0:33.1 | Gregor, Merry Christmas, be old chum. |
| 0:34.7 | I bet the listeners didn't see this one coming. |
| 0:37.3 | Merry Christmas, yeah, I can think of a few things I might want for Christmas ahead of you and me talking nonsense about the NFL. But let's do it anyway, Tom. They'll have seen the title of this show. Producer Neil have been very subtle. They'll have done Christmas special. They'll be thinking, oh, they've wheeled out Samuel, Rudd, Northcroft, maybe there's a stats |
| 0:56.4 | quiz of the year from Hamza. |
| 0:58.3 | Nope, it's just me and you buzzing off a brilliant and typically crazy year in the championship |
| 1:04.2 | league one and league two. |
| 1:06.2 | Now, listeners, the format for this, we're going calendar year. |
| 1:09.9 | It's got to stipulate calendar year. |
| 1:11.6 | So we're covering the second half of last season and the first half of this one, |
| 1:15.6 | just because I thought it made it a bit more interesting. |
| 1:17.8 | And we're going to do our team of the year, player of the year, |
| 1:20.7 | manager of the year and moment of the year for all three divisions. |
| 1:24.8 | So let's get going. |
| 1:25.9 | Let's start in the championship, Gregor. Let's have a little |
| 1:28.6 | debate around our team of 2025. Who have you got in mind? It's obvious. I know it's obvious, |
| 1:35.4 | but it has to be Coventry because not only were they transformed kind of not quite midway |
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