Is Paul Pogba Worth The Hassle?

The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson, Tom Clarke and Tom Roddy. Manchester United have crashed out of the Champions League after a poor showing in Leipzig - is time finally up for Ole Gunnar Solskjær or should United fans have lower expectations? On the subject of United - is Paul Pogba worth the hassle? Sticking in Manchester and with the derby coming up - how are City getting on so far and how important is Sergio Agüero fitness to their success? With Millwall and QPR coming together in solidarity and the events in the Champions League in the week, the discussion on racism continues and Matt Dickinson joins to share his memories of Paolo Rossi after his sad passing at the age of 64. The team pick their favourite ever World Cup golden boot winners since Italy’s World Cup 1982 hero.

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0:00.0	Introducing Apple Watch Series 9. Now there's a magical new way to use your Apple
0:06.1	watch without touching the display. Just double tap your index finger and thumb
0:10.3	together. You can double tap to accept a call, you can double tap to
0:14.3	snooze an alarm, you can even double tap to pause a song. And start it up again.
0:21.0	Apple Watch Series 9, Magic, at your fingertips.
0:26.0	iPhone 10S or later required.
0:29.0	Hello, this is the Game Football Podcast from The Times. Welcome once again. Today it is
0:38.3	Thursday. I will be taking a look back on the end of the Champions League
0:41.8	group phase which saw Manchester United
0:44.5	sadly eliminated. Lots of you celebrating that though of course. Sergio Aguero
0:49.2	returned for City ahead of that Manchester Derby at the weekend in the
0:52.2	Premier League.
0:52.8	We'll talk about what his return means and there were positive signs for anti-racism in
0:57.9	football in Paris and back home as well.
1:01.4	All to be discussed over the next 15 minutes or so with Tom Clark,
1:05.2	Tom Roddy and Gregor Robertson of The Times. Gentlemen, how are you?
1:08.6	Not bad to you, thank you very much. Probably a little bit better than you're doing this week,
1:12.3	I'm sure. It's feeling a bit low
1:17.0	Let me tell you something Manchester United's chances of winning a European trophy have
1:21.6	have quadrupled in the last couple of days.
1:24.7	I'm absolutely delighted, Tom,
1:27.3	because they were never gonna win the Champions League
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