How Morgan Rogers is driving Villa's unlikely title charge
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The Premier League presented a Christmas cracker of a weekend of football.
From Morgan Rogers’ magic in Aston Villa’s win over Manchester United, to Spurs’ red cards in their defeat to Liverpool.
And… after Wolves lost once again - are they the worst Premier League team ever?
Ayo Akinwolere is joined by The Athletic’s Adam Crafton and Jack Pitt-Brooke to dissect all of the action.
Host: Ayo Akinwolere
Guests: Adam Crafton, Jack Pitt-Brooke
Executive Producer: Abi Paterson
Producers: Mike Stavrou, Paul Iliffe
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayo Akimilari. |
| 0:09.0 | The Premier League presented a Christmas cracker of a weekend, |
| 0:12.9 | from Morgan Rogers' magic to Spurs' red card and perhaps the worst Premier League team ever. |
| 0:19.4 | And we'll dissect it all right now. |
| 0:24.0 | With us today, we have Adam Crafton. |
| 0:26.0 | We've also got Jack Pitbrook as well. |
| 0:28.0 | Right, let's get into the festive spirit. |
| 0:30.0 | And what better way to do it than with some heartwarming football stories? |
| 0:34.1 | We'll get to the bad a little later on. |
| 0:36.7 | But let's start with The Good. |
| 0:38.8 | And two stunning strikes from Aston Villa's Morgan Rogers at Villa Park on Sunday. |
| 0:43.8 | Rogers, as he gets it alive, he has, and he can run at Euro. |
| 0:50.1 | This is Morgan Rogers. Oh, it's a pitch! |
| 0:55.2 | That is an absolute mute. |
| 0:58.4 | The gentleman's has sighted across and it's come to Morgan Rogers. |
| 1:03.8 | He is the man. |
| 1:06.3 | His brace earned Aston Villa, a 2-1 win over Manchester United, making it 10 wins in a row for Unai-Emory Side. |
| 1:13.4 | Rogers is now on seven goals for the season, Adam. |
| 1:16.2 | What did you make of his performance? |
| 1:17.8 | He was amazing. |
| 1:18.8 | But he was like Villa's so many kind of good player on the day. |
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