Hello and welcome to the two Robby's podcast, your destination for in depth discussion and analysis of the Premier League and the Champions League. I'm Robby Musto, he's Robby Earl and here are today's topics.

Manchester City, perhaps slamming the door shut on Chelsea's title hopes, thanks to Kevin DeBron is superb goal at the Etihad.

Liverpool keeping pace as best they can after dismantling Brent for the landfill, a dream return to the Premier League for Philip Petinho as he and Ashton Villa spoil Man United's bright start, and Raffa Bonitas out as Everton manager after the top is fell to one at Norwich City.

That's what we've got coming up on today's episode.

But before my friend, we get to the games that did happen this weekend. We thought one of the biggest games that we may have started this podcast with was the North London Derby Spurs versus Arsenal, the game postponed because of Arsenal's camp and too many Covid, too many injured, too many away suspended.

Now, this one's been really pushed back from Spurs, they made a statement about this Rob and I kind of I understand where they're coming from.

The whole point of these, the kind of rule of, you know, 13 outfield players and the goalkeeper, you've got to play the game was all based on clubs having a real big problem with Covid, two, three, four, five, six, seven players.

We've seen other clubs affected, which obviously a bit of a feature ability to put outside.

But this one was was different because only one player when the game was requested to be postponed by Arsenal was affected by Covid.

The rest was Africa combinations, suspensions, injuries, meant that they didn't have the requisite number of players to play.

Now, rules are rules, I get that and they're primarily going well away of the rules Rob.

And I don't know whether you can change mid season now because teams have worked around these rules and teams have been thrown out there by other clubs.

I don't let through under 21 players out there to get a team.

It feels wrong because only one Covid case affected this Rob.

I mean, this was not, this is, is it just a loophole or?

This isn't what, this isn't what the Premier League design, there's this postponement in the protocol in place for.

So you've got people at African combinations, you get somebody suspended, you put two players out on loan and you've got one Covid case.

That doesn't seem to me. It feels a bit like the clubs and it's not just Arsenal, Rob.

Arsenal has come to light because of this situation, but clubs are almost manipulating this situation.

It looked to me like clubs are looking and thinking, what state are we in?

Are we got enough fit? No, let's go for the Covid thing.

And that's not right. That will skew the league and change and challenge the integrity of the league when we finish.

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