Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times.

Well, it's a funny old game, isn't it?

A game in which the runaway league leaders can suddenly look a little suspect at home

when faced with a team battling turmoil, change and a terrible run of form.

A game in which one player can make an attempt to head the ball,

make contact with the ball,

but also make a little bit of contact with an opponent

and be punished with a penalty and two points drop for his team.

And another player can deliberately shoulder charge an opponent in the face

and only get a yellow card.

And a game which was only missing a last minute Harry Maguire winner

to complete this quirky analogy

of an intro. But hey, you can't have everything in life, can you guys? On today's show, we'll

be discussing Liverpool 2, Manchester United 2 and looking at Chelsea, Arsenal, Crystal Palace,

Bournemouth and Tottenham. I'm Tom Clark and joining me today, we have the football reporter who covers

clubs in the south of England with a particular focus on Chelsea it's Pete Brutzler the former footballer turned

journalist Gregor Robertson is here too and down the line from Manchester we have Paul

Hurst Percy hello how you doing yeah I'm all right thank you I'm just about

just about out after yesterday it was a wet and windy blustery affair glad they got the

game on, though.

At one point, it looked like we'd have nothing to write about, or talk about.

Yeah, that's true.

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