EFL EXTRA: Our Friends in the North

The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The top of the Championship is dominated by teams from the north – Sheffield United, Leeds, Burnley, Sunderland, Middlesborough and Blackburn.

Martin Hardy joins Tom Clarke to look at who is best placed to kick on. A Leeds squad with great depth, a rejuvenated Sheffield United or a Burnley team with a very tight defence?

Sunderland had a rough November but got a win last time out. Is their success based on two teenage midfielders? Middlesborough play a style of progressive football which reflects their manager, Michael Carrick. And Blackburn Rovers are a “neat, tidy and controlled team.” Will it be enough for the play offs?

A quick look at League One and League Two and Martin’s wonderful story about Andy Carroll.

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0:33.1	Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times.
0:40.6	This is our EFL extra show.
0:42.6	Every two weeks, we discuss the highs and lows of the championship, League One and League
0:47.1	two.
0:47.9	I'm Tom Clark and joining me today for a special show on the Northern Dominance of England's
0:52.4	second tier.
0:53.3	We have the Northern sports correspondent
0:55.1	for the Times, Martin. Hi, Martin. Do I have to speak in a really thick, deep northern accent
1:00.1	a day and? Well, that is my next cue. Martin, of course, you're standing in for Gregor,
1:05.9	who is away on paternity leave, so we've got no Scottish accents, but we've got some good
1:09.4	northern dulcic tones on
1:11.0	this show. I think by the end of it, my northern swangle have gone up even more. I'll be talking
1:15.7	like this by the end of it. Thanks very much, Martin. Nice to speak to you. But anyway,
1:19.5	you... Lee one will understand the word we're saying. Bonnie Land. There we go. I think,
1:25.1	I think some Sunderland fans will be fine once we get to their section.
1:27.9	But you are the perfect man for the job because as we head into another round of busy midweek fixtures at this time of year,
1:34.0	we currently have, as we record this show, all six promotion places in the championship filled by clubs in the north of England.
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