EFL Extra: Play Off previews and predictions

The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

It's play off finals weekend. Is it something fans love or hate? For some it is hard to enjoy the stomach churning, nerve shredding matches with so much at stack. For others it is a free hit at glory, a day out at the national stadium and the tantalising hope of what if we actually win…

In the Championship both Sunderland and Sheffield United have appalling Wembley records, one will at least be changing that.

In League One Leyton Orient are the club on a charge Charlton have the irrepressible Nathan Jones in charge, in League Two Walsall have had a season or two very district halves, while AFC Wimbledon boast the best defence in the division. So, who wins…over to Tom Clarke and Gregor Robertson…

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the game at a football podcast from The Times.
0:07.9	This is our Football League Extra show where we discuss the championship,
0:11.5	League one and League two, and the time has come, listeners.
0:15.3	It's finally here, playoff final weekend.
0:19.0	The three matches adored by the media, loved by the neutrals,
0:23.7	and absolutely detested by fans of the teams involved. I'm Tom Clark and joining me to discuss
0:30.1	all three finals. We have the former Football League defender and journalist Gregor Robertson.
0:36.1	I'm not wrong. Am I always that my link and bias because we always
0:39.3	tank in the playoffs? Is that that coming through? I think I'm generally right, aren't I?
0:43.6	I think you are. Yeah. I mean, the pressure, there's no enjoyment, no pleasure to be gleaned from
0:48.2	the 90 minutes plus of football. Often it is plus as well. You just want to be on the right side of it at the end
0:55.1	or you know agony and ecstasy
0:56.9	that's the way to sum it up
0:58.5	did you have many playoffs
0:59.8	I was trying to I was trying to remember
1:01.2	because you won with Grimsby didn't you
1:02.5	in your final game
1:03.4	yeah that was the playoffs
1:04.8	but did you have many others before that
1:06.9	there was two playoff campaigns with Grimsby
1:09.8	no we won the league with Chesterfield.
1:13.3	We always seem to like, before that, fall away right at the end. Finish seventh a lot, I seem to
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