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🗓️ 27 April 2025
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Liverpool have won their 20th league title. In his first season in charge manager Arne Slot has led his side to the top of the English game.
How big an achievement is it and how was it done?
Times Northern Football Correspondent Paul Joyce has followed Liverpool, and Slot, since his appointment at the end of last season.
Here he gives an inside track on how the feat was achieved.
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0:34.3 | Hello and welcome to a special episode of the game football podcast from The Times. |
0:42.0 | Liverpool are Premier League champions again, winning their 20th domestic league title and the first for manager, Arna Slott. |
0:49.5 | On this special episode of the game, we'll look at how Slot prepared his team for the 2024-25 season, |
0:55.7 | the key players and moments during the campaign, and what might be next for this successful |
1:00.2 | side. I'm Tom Clark and joining me for this show, we have Paul Joyce, the Northern Football |
1:04.5 | correspondent for The Times. Paul, go loads to get into, loads of brilliant articles already |
1:09.6 | by you on the Times website that listeners can read now. |
1:13.1 | But this title is a strange one. |
1:15.3 | We talk all about narratives and sometimes they go to the wire. |
1:18.0 | This is a title that's been coming for a while. |
1:20.2 | So I think it's probably worth going back and putting it in the context of the fact that, you know, this was a team with a new manager, |
1:27.0 | taking over a team, you know, |
1:28.6 | and not making loads of signings like new managers often do, |
1:31.5 | and, crucially, following a huge, huge name like Juergen Klopp, |
1:35.6 | when you put it in that context, this is a massive achievement, isn't it? |
1:40.0 | Yes, I totally agree. I think the way you've just explained it, |
1:43.6 | then, is perfect. |
1:46.4 | Everybody was sort of slightly sort of unsure of what the post-clop era would look like |
1:53.5 | because he had been such a huge persona and person within Liverpool's sort of history and the club success had been |
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