Is The FA Cup Under Threat?

The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson, Tom Clarke and Jonathan Northcroft. Manchester United fall short at the semi-finals again, but what stopped them making the final this time? Manchester City are looking everything United wish they were at the back - are John Stones and Rúben Dias the best centre back pairing in the Premier League? Now the teams are decided, how will Guardiola vs Mourinho go down in the Carabao Cup final? The PFA have announced they’ll start testing EFL clubs twice a week from Monday - but why only now? Should the criteria for postponing games remain the same and is there a real risk the FA Cup could be cancelled completely? As John Stones is back in form and starting for Manchester City, the team end this episode by picking their favourite footballing comebacks.

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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, welcome to the game football podcast from The Times.
0:37.0	I'm Hugh Wiesencroft and 2021 is already shaping up to be one heck of a year but never fear.
0:44.4	We'll be with you all the way to make sure you never feel alone
0:47.7	discussing each and every week of course all the greatest stories from the world of
0:51.7	football and for now elite football
0:54.0	continues we'll discuss the arrival of mandatory testing in the EFL finally
0:59.2	but will the FAA cup be wiped out this weekend.
1:02.8	Also, Spurs are into a cup final, they'll face a once again impressive Manchester City,
1:08.5	who's seen John Stone's return to excellent form.
1:11.2	So we'll be asking you what are the best player comebacks you can
1:14.3	remember to help me through it all from the times Gregor Robertson Tom Clark and Jonathan
1:19.1	Northcroft how you doing guys?
1:20.7	Very well here how are you? It was about to be another wall of silence. I don't know if you guys are ever going to get
1:25.7	the gift of this. When I say hello,
1:27.7	I say hello back. Wait for it.
1:29.7	Oh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da.
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