Late goals, ladles of drama and a Liverpool comeback "for the ages”
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Gregor Robertson is joined by Alyson Rudd, Tony Cascarino and Martin Hardy in The Times office in London.
Liverpool’s Darwin Núñez came off the bench to score twice late on for ten-man Liverpool against Newcastle United in a modern classic at St James’s Park. The Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp ranked the victory among the most special of his career, but just how big a missed opportunity was this for Newcastle?
Manchester United also produced a stirring comeback, after going 2-0 down in the opening four minutes against Nottingham Forest at Old Trafford. But has Old Trafford lost its fear factor?
Following a series of high-profile stories involving the mistreatment of women by men working in football, including the recent suspension by Fifa of the Spanish Football Federation’s President Luis Rubiales, we ask: is football, as an industry, failing women?
There was more late drama at the Emirates as Arsenal conceded an 87th minute equaliser against ten-man Fulham. The Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, is trying to evolve last season’s title challengers, but does he need to? And Manchester City took advantage to go top of the table with a late winner at Sheffield United, much to the relief of Erling Haaland — and Kyle Walker.
Following impressive wins for West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur, inspired by two new recruits familiar to the Premier League, could the relatively unheralded signings of James Ward-Prowse and James Maddison respectively be the summer’s most inspired transfers?
Finally, after Joachim Andersen equalised for Crystal Palace with what can only be described as a slide tackle through the legs of the Brentford goalkeeper Mark Flekken, Tony Cascarino talks us through a goal he scored for Aston Villa that was so bad it won an award.
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| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the game podcast from the Times. |
| 0:37.0 | What a weekend of Premier League football. |
| 0:39.0 | Ladles of drama and late goals everywhere you looked, and we'll be discussing it all. |
| 0:43.0 | Plus, as this enormous story involving the Spanish football Federation President, |
| 0:47.0 | Lewis Rubialis continues to make ways around the world, |
| 0:50.0 | we'll be asking is football failing women? |
| 0:53.0 | No Tom Clark today, so you've got me, Gregor Robertson, |
| 0:56.0 | alongside Tony Cascarino, Alison Rudd, and our northeast football correspondent, Martin Hardy. |
| 1:02.0 | Martin, ironically given all the late drama yesterday, |
| 1:05.0 | a very early start from here for you to, on a tranquil bank holiday, |
| 1:09.0 | to come all the way from London, great to have you here. |
| 1:12.0 | Come all the way to London, from Newcastle. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, yeah, no, it was with them trying to get to sleep last night, |
| 1:17.0 | ahead of an early train, and everything from the game just kept spinning. |
| 1:20.0 | So much happened, the match was so breathless. |
| 1:24.0 | Trent should have been sent off. |
| 1:27.0 | Virgin Van Dyke was sent off. |
| 1:29.0 | Jürgen Klopp, Mannmarked. |
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