How important is momentum? Should you protect star players? And greatest ever midfielders…
The Game Football Podcast
The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Leicester are relegated, would they have fared better if they had stuck with Steve Cooper? Manchester United, fresh from a thrilling European come back crashed back to earth with a home defeat to Wolves. Would they have fared better if they had stuck with Ruud Van Nistelrooy? While Amorim lost momentum, Mikel Arteta maintained it at Arsenal but was the cost of a potential Bukayo Saka injury worth it?
Hamzah takes a closer look at Brentford and in particular Yoane Wissa and Bryan Mbeumo. The two front men have made the loss of Ivan Tony barely noticeable.
Lastly the start of the greatest ever Premier League midfielders debate…what is the right question to ask?
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| 0:37.1 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. |
| 0:41.2 | Lester are down, wolves are safe, and Liverpool are just three points from claiming their |
| 0:45.5 | 20th top flight title. Kevin de Broiner is fuming, Brentford are in the goals, but Manchester |
| 0:51.0 | United can't seem to score unless Harry Maguire is on the pitch. |
| 0:55.0 | On today's show, we'll discuss all of that and much more, including debate who are the |
| 0:59.0 | greatest midfielders to have played in the Premier League. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm Tom Clark, and joining me today we have the senior sports writer and Sunday Times |
| 1:05.6 | columnist Alison Rudd, the football reporter and tactical analyst Hamza Khalik Luna, |
| 1:10.2 | and the former football return journalist |
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| 1:22.7 | Absolutely |
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