EFL Preview Show: Leagues One and Two
The Game Football Podcast
The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
It’s nearly back! Leagues One and Two kick off this weekend.
Following two successive relegations Luton are among the favourites in League One alongside the likes of Cardiff, Stockport and Bolton. At the other end could it be a long season for Rotherham, Peterborough or Wimbledon? In League Two Walsall will try to go again while Gillingham and MK Dons have high hopes. Who will be fighting to stay in the football league at the bottom?
Fans across the country will be full of hope and expectation but will their hope prove well founded or misplaced?
Former football league defender Gregor Robertson joins Tom Clarke to assess the runners riders and also rans.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. |
| 0:08.5 | The new season is here and it starts in the football league. |
| 0:12.8 | For the 2025-26 campaign, the game podcast team will continue to bring you a dedicated show covering all things EFL and we begin with a preview for League |
| 0:23.1 | 1 and League 2. I'm Tom Clark and joining me as usual we have the former Nottingham |
| 0:28.8 | Forrest, Rotherham, Chesterfield crew, Northampton and Grimsby Defender turned journalist Gregor |
| 0:34.0 | Gregor Robertson. Hello Gregor. Hi Tom. Full're back again. Full list. New season, full list. |
| 0:40.4 | Just in case we've got new listeners want them to know what a big dog we've got on this EFL show. |
| 0:45.2 | A man who's been there, done it, all three levels, seen the lot, won the lot, played in every single |
| 0:51.9 | circumstance. You took it too far now. Possible. |
| 0:57.0 | Absolutely everything covered. |
| 0:57.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.6 | Thought I'd give you the big sell. |
| 0:59.4 | We're excited, aren't we? |
| 1:00.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:00.7 | Absolutely. Yeah. |
| 1:01.2 | Doing all the research and stuff for these, |
| 1:03.1 | just every year I get excited about it. |
| 1:05.8 | And even then, every year it throws up drama and sort of unexpected things that just only the football league can |
| 1:12.5 | brilliant the football league absolutely very special but before we get to that two quick things before |
| 1:17.4 | we begin firstly for regular listeners we've talked about new listeners for regular listeners have you |
| 1:22.1 | had to explain to your young daughter why she cannot support the triumphant english lionesses |
| 1:27.2 | no of course not as As she said, Dad, can I have a Leah Williamson England shirt? No, Dom, she's four, like, I mean, I don't think she could quite articulate that yet. When that World Cup rolls around, you better get ready. No, I think you're probably right. I think you're probably right, yeah. Although, you know, with a good justification for why she's going to wear a Scotland shirt. |
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