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Hello, welcome back to the Game Football Podcast from The Times. Today, our arsenal back

under Mikael Arthetta. Who got the best boss during the international break, Norwich

Aston Villa or Newcastle will ask, why is football still marking its own homework

and why the National League is the place to be? This is the game.

Hello again, welcome back to the Game Podcast. I'm Hugh Wasn't Croft alongside Gregor Robinson

and Tom Clark. We'll also be joined by Molly Hudson very shortly to discuss the women's game,

but what a night it was in the FA Cup. First round replay between Stockport and Bolton will start

there because it was one for the ages, five, three after extra time following a tool draw in the

first leg, but Edgeley Park was electric. The scenes were exactly the kind of community experience

that remind us all what the FA Cup is about. I got through the intro without saying the word magic.

But it was. It was a great game. Of course, it's a very important tie in the area as well,

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