Eze shines but is Frank out of his depth?
The Game
The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Eberechi Eze scored a brilliant hat-trick to win the North London derby for Arsenal and proved he is now a certified star at the very top of the Premier League.
Arsenal are six points clear but the 4-1 defeat leaves Spurs in ninth and further questions about Thomas Frank's suitability for the big job at Tottenham.
Elsewhere Leeds missed another chance to pick up points at home as Morgan Rogers starred for Aston Villa.
It was another defeat for Liverpool - how does Arne Slot turn around a disastrous season?
We also hear about an interview with a commentator who had his big moment ruined by Gary Neville!
Tom Clarke is joined by Gregor Robertson, Alyson Rudd and Kit Shepard
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. |
| 0:10.4 | Arsenal are six points clear at the top of the Premier League table. |
| 0:13.9 | Ebericci, Eze is their hat-trick hero, and Thomas Frank is under even more scrutiny as Tottenham |
| 0:19.3 | manager. |
| 0:20.4 | On today's show, we'll discuss the North London Derby. |
| 0:22.8 | Aston Villa's win at Leeds, another defeat for Arna Slot, more. |
| 0:27.4 | More St James's Park Magic from Newcastle and loads, loads more. |
| 0:31.5 | I'm Tom Clark, and joining me today we have the senior sports writer and Sunday Times columnist Alison Rudd, |
| 0:36.3 | the football reporter Kit Shepard and the former football attorney. Gregorobson is here as usual. Team, I'm nearly doing my Times 2 speaking because there's so much to discuss. So much to cram into this show. So let's get straight to it. To the Emirates. Alison Rudd, you were there for us covering this match for the times. 4-1 to Arsenal. |
| 0:57.2 | I think 4-1 was just about right, actually, for this game. |
| 1:00.1 | You could have been 4-0, let's be honest, without that remarkable goal for Tottenham. |
| 1:01.1 | Would you agree 4-1? |
| 1:02.5 | Accurate score? |
| 1:03.2 | Fair score? |
| 1:15.5 | Well, I mean, if you've got an expected goals of 0.0.07, then getting a 1 was quite the boost for spurs but it could but it was a wonder goal that's why it came low on the expected goals and probably one of the nicest goals ever |
| 1:19.9 | scored in the northland and derby but it was not enough to save Thomas frank from the scrutiny |
| 1:24.9 | you mentioned in your intro. But yes. |
| 1:32.1 | So Tottenham set up with five at the back. |
| 1:37.2 | So you sort of got a heavy hint there that they might be going for a nil-nil. |
| 1:38.7 | Certainly going for absorbing. All right early on, I thought, actually. |
| 1:40.4 | You were going fair enough. |
| 1:41.8 | You know, pretty negative, but later on right. |
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