Examining Ozil’s illness and Owen’s injuries
The Game
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🗓️ 27 August 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Gab Marcotti and Alyson Rudd break down some complex issues on this Bank Holiday Monday edition of The Game.
Arsenal secure their first win under Unai Emery but Mesut Ozil is missing from the squad against West Ham through illness. With rumours of a training ground bust-up denied, are people too quick to rush to judgment on Ozil?
With Michael Owen’s revealing interview on BT Sport highlighting the impact that injuries had on his mindset, the panel debate how the clubs and physios working with Owen failed to notice his change in approach.
Jonathan Northcroft joins us to try and determine whether Roman Abramovich is ready to sell Chelsea. Plus did Willy Bolly have a moral obligation to admit to handling the ball into the net against Manchester City? And have Wolves offered up the blueprint for how to play against the champions?
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
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| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply game podcast from The Times. I'm Gabriel Marcotti and I thank you for joining us. |
| 0:36.8 | Now you may be wondering what's going on. I want a Gabon Natalie not one or the other. I want both and you're right you can have it all |
| 0:44.8 | however Natalie's entitled to her holiday time and sometimes I'm not here and |
| 0:49.6 | sometimes she's not there and I'm not going to be here on Thursday either |
| 0:52.3 | I'll be in |
| 0:52.9 | Monaco for the Champions League draw so you'll have Natalie all to yourself but |
| 0:56.0 | hopefully I don't want to get ahead of myself hopefully a week from today we will |
| 1:00.3 | both be here both in the studio. So start getting excited for that. |
| 1:04.9 | Incidentally our Predictions League is ongoing and I'll tell you what I won't reveal who's ahead |
| 1:09.4 | Allison. Yes that's right Allison Rudd joins us today, but it's a wafer thin margin. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm traveling with excitement. |
| 1:17.0 | Or I always think back in the Monte Python film, Waffir-thin. |
| 1:20.0 | Anyway, joining us later from The Sunday Times, it's everybody's second favorite shaven-headed |
| 1:27.8 | Scottish football journalist, it's Jonathan Northcroft. |
| 1:31.6 | The other one in case you're wondering lives in South Africa and |
| 1:34.3 | this is awesome because it's my second Dunkin Castle's reference two weeks running. |
| 1:38.2 | That's pretty good. Lots of discuss this week including Roman Abramovich and Michael Owen, but we start with a congested German. |
| 1:48.6 | Allison, so Arsenal play West Ham and it's one of those stories which kind of sort of there's a story |
| 1:56.1 | before the story because can you just describe it you were there just tell us about your day |
| 2:00.8 | because I'm assuming on your way over you heard oh look or when the lineups came out you heard oh look |
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