Liam Rosenior gone, could Eddie Howe be next?
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The Times
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
After five defeats and no goals Chelsea bit the bullet and sacked Liam Rosenior. Where do the problems lie at Stamford Bridge - the ownership, the players the coach or the whole project? Given the chaos who would wan tthe job?
Man City beat Burnley to go top, but showed familiar signs of frailty in doing so. They're top only on goals scored...could we be heading for a play off?
While Chelsea are in turmoil Newcastle quietly have their own problems - they're 14th in the table, european football is looking unlikely and there is talk of selling more of their star players. Who could be leaving and where does that leave manager Eddie Howe?
Tom clarke is joined by Newcastle reporter Martin Hardy, Gregor Robertson and Martin Samuel.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times and Sunday Times. |
| 0:08.6 | Managerial Sackings changes in the boardroom star players looking at the exit and there are new Premier League leaders too. |
| 0:15.3 | Just a normal couple of days by the standards of this football season. |
| 0:18.4 | On today's show, we'll discuss Chelsea's sacking of Liam Rossignor, |
| 0:21.3 | Karen Brady's departure from West Ham, Anthony Gordon's links with Bayern Munich, and the top and bottom of the Premier League table. I'm Tom Clark, and joining me today, we have the Chief Correspondent for the Times and Sunday Times, Martin Samuel. The former footballer-turned journalist Gregor Robertson is with me as usual, and we'll hear from our Northern sports correspondent Martin Hardy a little later on. |
| 0:39.6 | How are we team? |
| 0:40.7 | Very good, Tom. footballer turned journalist Gregor Robertson is with me as usual and we'll hear from our northern sports correspondent Martin Hardy a little later on how are we team? |
| 0:40.7 | Very good, Tom. |
| 0:41.6 | Happy with the shirt today Martin we've got... |
| 0:43.1 | Happy with the shirt, not happy with the imp. |
| 0:44.8 | No, see. |
| 0:45.3 | The imp looks half asleep. |
| 0:47.1 | Is that me? |
| 0:47.7 | Is it always got that sort of hooded eye thing? |
| 0:50.5 | Yeah, it's going to be a little bit menacing, you see. |
| 0:52.9 | But it's not menacing. It looks like it's half dead. |
| 0:55.2 | Yeah, well, maybe. |
| 0:56.5 | Quite like Lincoln City at a lot of times during their history. |
| 0:59.3 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. He looks far too docile. Far too docile. That's an intro as well. Dossile. Far too docile. Dossile imps. I didn't think that's where we'd go to on the start of this show |
| 1:07.7 | because we've got loads and loads to discuss. |
| 1:09.3 | So let's get stuck straight in to Chelsea. |
| 1:11.4 | There has to be started with Chelsea. |
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