Hello and I thank you for joining us.

Hello and welcome to the Game Podcast from The Times.

I'm Gabriel Matkotti and I thank you for joining us.

Now at the very top we need to take this opportunity to wish Sir Alex Ferguson a speedy recovery.

I've had the privilege of spending some time with him on

several occasions. He played a key role in when I wrote the Italian job together with

Chilu Kviali a few years ago. Obviously right now football is less important and all

that matters is that he get well soon and he's got so many people pulling for him.

So get well soon Sir Alex. Now as you can imagine because it's

bank holiday Monday and people are all off with with their families it's been a

struggle to get people in so the only guys I was able to get in this weekend were James

Gerebrandt who of course is still very much a single man around town right?

You don't have you don't have a partner in children, yes, in tow?

So you're forced to come in and work.

There you go.

Very eligible, Bachelor, I might add.

And Julian Lawrence, who does have a family, but of course they don't like

him and they send them away at every opportunity.

Exactly.

Later on, we're going to be discussing the latest addition to the Premier League, Cardiff City. But first let's start

with last year's champions and this year's championship finalists at Stamford Bridge.

James, you were at this game.

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