EFL Preview: Burnley & Kompany, Derby-Post-Rooney & One's To Watch
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Host Ian Irving is joined by a host of The Athletic's EFL writers, including Burnley correspondent Andy Jones, West Brom writer Elias Burke and staff writer Nick Miller, to preview the start of the 2022/23 EFL season...
The panel discuss Vincent Kompany's big rebuild at Turf Moor, why Hull City are sure to entertain this season, if Sunderland could make a surprise run at the Championship play-offs, as well as who Derby will contend with for automatic promotion from League One.
Plus, the Chris Wilder Factor at Boro and why Scott Twine, Jack Rudoni & Grady Diangana are just a few of the one's to watch this season.
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| 0:38.5 | Welcome to the Athletic |
| 0:38.6 | Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast, I'm Ian Irving and incredibly, we're just hours away now from the new EFL season. |
| 0:57.7 | 72 clubs are back in action this weekend. So a lot to get our heads around, especially if you're still on holiday or just swept up with the Euro still. |
| 1:05.5 | Over the course of this podcast then we're going to focus in on a handful of the big stories from across the divisions to get you right up to speed just in time for Friday night's championship kickoff |
| 1:14.7 | between Huddersfield and Burnley and speaking of Burnley we've got the athletics |
| 1:18.9 | Burnley man Andy Jones with us Elias Burke who follows both West Brom and Derby these days |
| 1:23.8 | plus staff writer Nick Miller is on hand as well. |
| 1:33.7 | Hello to all three. It's still July. Why on earth are we previewing the season, Nick? |
| 1:39.6 | Yeah, it's obscenely early, isn't it? I mean, I don't think I'm quite ready. You know, |
| 1:43.8 | obviously got the Euros going on at the moment, so you've had your fix of football, so I haven't quite had the summer of starvation to make me really get up for it. |
| 1:48.6 | But it does seem absolutely absurd. |
| 1:51.1 | But in some ways, fitting for what's going to be, for the championship anyway, a fairly absurd season with the kind of massive World Cup break in the middle, which we're going to know, we're going to get to later on. But I'm not ready. I hope some of the, most of the clubs |
| 2:04.5 | involved are a little bit more prepared than I am. Elias? Yeah, I think it's even |
| 2:08.8 | stranger when you're working in football as well, because you're starting in preseason, which |
| 2:14.0 | in this case started in late June, which was just so strange, just over a month, |
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