How do we protect players from pitch invaders?
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a weekend of incomprehensible refereeing decisions and inexcusable fan behaviour. Natalie Sawyer and Gab Marcotti are joined by Matt Dickinson and Alan Smith to analyse it all.
After individual pitch invaders at Hibernian, Arsenal and most shockingly Birmingham where Aston Villa’s Jack Grealish is punched, the panel discuss what can be done to better ensure player safety, as well as the perils of punishing clubs for the actions of individuals.
Arsenal beat Manchester United to leapfrog them into 4th place. What are the chances of Champions League qualification for the Gunners? And should more people be dissing David De Gea for his role in the first goal?
It’s as you were in the title race. Would Champions League progression against Bayern be a good or bad thing for Liverpool’s hopes of winning the Premier League? And how important is Raheem Sterling to Manchester City?
Plus Darren Moore, equal pay in the USA and after a bad weekend for the officials, who is the Huddersfield of referees?
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| 0:24.0 | Some shows may have ads. Hello and I'm Natalie Sawyer. |
| 0:39.2 | Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times. I'm Natalie Sawyer. |
| 0:40.8 | And I'm Gabriel Marcotti and we thank you for joining us on this fine Monday |
| 0:45.6 | after a very windy weekend Natalie. Very windy indeed. Now joining us in the |
| 0:50.3 | studio it's Alan Smith not that one the other one and down the line from |
| 0:56.6 | his secret haunt in Mort Lake where he can spy his near neighbor |
| 1:01.0 | no doubt lives in a much posture place Matthew Syed it's Matt Dickinson. |
| 1:05.2 | Later on we'll be discussing what can be done to protect players after fans invade |
| 1:09.8 | the pitch in England as well as Scotland. But we start at the Emirates where Oligonna Solchar suffered |
| 1:15.4 | his first domestic defeat as the Manchester United manager, Arsenal running out two-mill winners |
| 1:20.9 | on Sunday to Leapfrog United into fourth in the table. |
| 1:24.3 | And Matt, United are the last top six side that Arsenal have to face this season. |
| 1:28.8 | So how do you rate their chances of finishing the top fall? |
| 1:31.6 | The 12th, they, trying to predict any of this is fraud, and I guess trying to predict the Arsenal's part of it is pretty fraud. |
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