Gracia, Griezmann and Lampard’s young Rams
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The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Less football but no fewer football talking points for Gab Marcotti, Natalie Sawyer, Oli Kay and Bill Edgar to pore over.
Manchester City look to complete the domestic treble with an FA Cup final win as we examine the historical significance of that feat. Are they the greatest team we’ve ever seen. Or are Watford, and manager Javi Gracia, better equipped to upset City than many think?
Both Guardiola and Gracia will be joined in the Premier League by another up and coming English manager in the form of Dean Smith or Frank Lampard. Aston Villa play Derby in the Championship play-off final. What do the panel make of Lampard’s first season in management?
And with Antoine Griezmann announcing he is leaving Atletico Madrid this summer, possibly for the Nou Camp, what are the knock-on effects for Premier League clubs in terms of players Barcelona would have to let go? Does it accelerate Eden Hazard’s departure from Stamford Bridge? Or Wilfried Zaha from Selhurst Park?
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| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times I'm Natalie Sawyer. |
| 0:36.0 | And I'm Gabriel Marcotte and we thank you for joining us on this glorious Thursday afternoon. |
| 0:41.0 | Now with us in the studio, Natalie, I know you're excited because I am |
| 0:44.0 | always. It's Mr. William, David, Edgar. And for those who don't know by now, he is the Times |
| 0:51.1 | Chief Stats Officer. |
| 0:53.0 | And down the line from the lovely Hamlet of Rippenden, |
| 0:58.0 | it's Ollie Kay. |
| 1:00.0 | Later on, we'll be anticipating Antoine Griesman's next move and the knock-on effect he could have on the |
| 1:03.0 | the |
| 1:05.0 | the start by looking ahead to this Saturday and the F.A. Cup final, Manchester City versus Watford. |
| 1:16.1 | The Hornets hoping to secure the first major silverware in their history, Citi aiming to become |
| 1:21.4 | the first team ever to complete the domestic treble. |
| 1:24.4 | Ollie we've seen some dominant teams through the years in English football |
| 1:28.2 | so are you surprised that no team has ever achieved the feat of the domestic trouble? |
| 1:33.0 | I suppose when you think about how long English football has been going on in some way |
| 1:38.0 | yes because we have been very, very dominant teams in that time, not least sort of well in the in the |
| 1:45.5 | League Cup era at least that you know there's been dominance from Liverpool |
| 1:49.2 | dominance from Manchester United but if you go back to when well I I think we're all similar, when we were growing up, even to win the double was very rare. |
| 1:58.0 | Obviously, I suppose we've done it in 61 and Arslan 71, then Liverpool did it in 86, but in those, you know, |
| 2:07.8 | it's five times of the first 100 years of league football, and then there was just |
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