Is This Season Actually Any Good?

The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson, Tom Clarke and Alyson Rudd. Fans continue to trickle back into stadiums, but has the 12th man shown any advantage to teams in Tier 2? Arsenal’s poor run continued with a loss at home to Burnley - is Mikel Arteta starting to show the signs of a manager under pressure? Fabinho’s non-penalty gets The Game VAR treatment with mixed opinions and it leads to a bigger discussion on whether this season is actually any good!? The Final Word takes a look at footballers hugging after matches - should opponents be interacting like this on the pitch!?

During the recording of this podcast, we heard the sad news that former Liverpool and Aston Villa manager, Gérard Houllier had passed away. Alyson Rudd shares her favourite memory of the man she worked with, while she reported on Liverpool during his time at the club.

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1:00.9	Hello again, This is the Game Football Podcast from The Times. I'm Hugh Wosencroft.
1:08.6	It is Monday and today what difference has the return of fans made in Premier League football,
1:15.2	even if it's only 2,000 inside a massive football ground?
1:19.8	Not much really, if you're at the Emirates Stadium in particular to see pressure build on
1:24.5	Mikhail Artetta, we'll discuss him.
1:26.9	And is this the best or the worst season ever?
1:29.8	It seems like the Premier League has leveled out in terms of quality. Is it as good as the championship though?
1:35.9	That's the big question. And finally, to hug or not to hug, that is the question as well of course,
1:40.5	after John Stones and Harry McGuire make acquaintance once again.
1:44.8	With me to discuss a pretty intriguing weekend, Allison Roth, Tom Clark and Gregor
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