Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. Well, so much for chaos,

eh? Ten games into the Premier League season and the top of the table has a familiar look to it after

wins for Liverpool, Manchester City and leaders, Arsenal. Just behind them, Chelsea got an

important victory at Tottenham as the home fans showed

their displeasure at Thomas Frank. And at the bottom, West Ham picked up a huge three points,

while Nottingham Forest showed some fight in a draw with Manchester United.

Thankfully, Wolves introduced a little chaos to the weekend as they sacked manager Vitor

Vitor Pereira after a defeat at Fulham. I'm Tom Clark, and joining me to discuss all of that and much more. We have the senior sports writer and Sunday Times columnist Alison Rudd, the football reporter who covers teams in the south of England with a focus on Tottenham. It's Tom Allnut and the former football attorney journalist Gregor Robertson is here as usual. Hello team. Good morning. Good morning. We're back in a different studio today. Alison, you look quite upset about it.

Yeah, it's atrocious, outrageous. Yeah, you've been taking it up the chain, right? Yes, we're in a slightly different studio this week. We've been in our fancy, brilliant new studio, but we've, we've swapped out to allow our colleagues the Ruck to go in that studio today talking about the autumn internationals now we're all one happy team here

Tom it's fine make poor poor in my opinion it's the wrong ball these guys might not like it but I do make sure you go and check out the Rook podcast during the Autumn International's and there's loads and loads of football to talk about the right ball and one team perhaps not using that ball very well this season

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we've done better in the past very clunky very clunky but we got there wolves I should have just said wolves wolves sacking their manager Vitor Pereira despite only giving him a new deal in September they picked up only two points from that opening 10 games defeated at

Fulham.

Greg, are we surprised?

It's surprising in the context picked up only two points from that opening 10 games, defeated at Fulham.

Gregor, are we surprised? It's surprising in the context of the fact that he had a new deal, but not surprising in terms of their form, maybe? No, the deal was the surprising. Right. The new deal was the surprising thing, I think. Although, you know, I'd try to start that they're the first, and Bill Eggers call them today. they're the first team in top flight history to follow six successive wins with no wins in the next 14.

Yeah, it was amazing.

You know, there were grounds for that new contract.

It maybe took a little long to sign, but it was still strange after the start of the season they had.

And I don't know, he just, after kind of bringing so much energy and remarkable uptick in performances last season, you got to remember, I think it was the same.

They had one in ten games that started last season and got real.

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