EFL Extra: New faces and lofty ambitions
The Game
The Times
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🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
More new managers in the Championship as Swansea, Middlesborough and Norwich all appoint. In South Wales Vitor Matos wants to bring back the DNA of the club…but what does that mean?
Are Birmingham starting to find their feet in the Championship? Off the pitch they have unveiled ambitious plans for a new stadium and redevelopment of the surrounding area.
Coventry continue their free scoring run, with a goal difference of +28 and seven points clear at the top, can they keep it up?
League One seems up for grabs this season with most teams capable of beating or losing to each other. Peterborough and Wycombe are on an upward trajectory while Port Vale are sinking and Bradford are still second but with no win in six.
In League Two the Gregor Robertson derby ended in a draw and Christina Fuchs – a Premier League winner with Leicester City - has joined rock bottom Newport County. We wish him well.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. |
| 0:08.1 | This is our EFL extra show with me, Tom Clark and the former Football League legend Gregor Robertson, |
| 0:13.9 | looking at the highs and lows and plenty of managerial changes in the championship, |
| 0:18.8 | League 1 and League 2. Gregor, we're back. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm taking a little break next week. |
| 0:23.6 | There's been so many managerial changes that we thought we'd come back for back-to-back EFL extra shows. |
| 0:29.6 | We've got some managerial appointments. |
| 0:31.6 | We discussed them last week, some potential names in the frame. |
| 0:34.6 | There's some names here that we're about to discuss that we're never even on our radar. We could have done a nine-hour show and some of these names wouldn't have come up. But let's start with one that we did briefly discuss last week. Kim Helberg in Middlesbrough, Utah at this one last week, predicted this one coming. We believe this was happening. They drew one all with Oxford at the weekend. he's got an exciting job on his hands, I'd say, Kim Heldberg, hasn't he? He certainly has, yeah, and he said as much. He said the way the team are playing, the way that they want to play, the kind of the power behind the team at the moment within the stadium, within the Riverside meant it was definitely the job for him. |
| 1:11.4 | If you listen to the noises coming out of Middlesbrough, |
| 1:14.7 | he was someone who'd been on, |
| 1:16.0 | it sounds like he'd been on quite a few championship clubs radar. |
| 1:19.2 | We obviously know he was in talks of Swansea as well. |
| 1:22.9 | Swansea looked at him before they appointed Alan Sheehan, |
| 1:25.0 | but it seemed like he's certainly one of the more |
| 1:28.2 | kind of up-and-coming managers in Scandinavia. And as being quite a rise, he played pretty much |
| 1:35.2 | lower league football in Sweden. He's been a coach for a decade, worked his way up the ladder, |
| 1:40.4 | and he's done a good job at Hammerby. He's finished second and back-to-back seasons in the Swedish top flight. |
| 1:46.4 | He says all the things that many managers do nowadays. |
| 1:48.9 | I want us to play quick and aggressive football, |
| 1:52.0 | try and win the ball as quickly as possible if we don't have it, |
| 1:54.7 | be quick on goal, create a lot of chances. |
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