Managerial magic at Old Trafford but misery for Frank and Glasner
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The Times
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Michael Carrick brought back a touch of the glory days for Manchester United fans on Saturday. his team were on the front foot as they beat a lack lustre Manchester City. Was it a one off or is he finally the man to bring back some cheer to Old Trafford?
With City losing it was time for other to capitalise. no one did. Arsenal eeked out an extra point, but the top four look a little tame. Is it a poor season or is the rest of the league just getting better?
At the AFCON bizarre scenes saw Sengal leave the pitch in protest at a refereeing decision. Can that ever be justified...?
and shoudl anyone be feeling sorry for Thomas Frank or Oliver glasner?
Tom Clarke is joined by Gregor robertson, alyson rudd, Paul Hirst and Ian Hawkey
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times and Sunday Times. |
| 0:08.5 | A thrilling Manchester Derby as Carrick beats Gwadiola protests and Penenka's in the Afghan final. |
| 0:14.2 | One manager on the brink of the sack, another one basically asking to be sacked, and no one in the top four can win. |
| 0:20.2 | Just another normal weekend in the world of football. I'm Tom Clark and joining me today for a jam-packed show. We have the senior sports writer and Sunday Times columnist Alison Rudd, the former football return journalist Gregor Robertson, and in the second half of the show, we'll be joined by Ian Hawkey reporting from the Africa Cup of Nations. But first, joining us now, we have the football reporter who covers clubs in Manchester for The Times. It's Paul Hurst. Hursty, good morning. Morning. You can definitely claim, I reckon, to being one of the busiest men in 2026, I think, surely. It's been a busy old start to the year, isn't it? Yeah, it's been interesting, eventful, yeah. |
| 0:55.7 | That's proved by the fact that you're already not in Manchester right now. |
| 0:59.4 | Well, that's it. |
| 1:00.0 | I usually get quips about being the most northern person who works for the Times, |
| 1:04.1 | but now I am definitely the most northernmost person |
| 1:06.3 | because I am inside the Arctic Circle. |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah, freezing on the behalf of the times. |
| 1:13.3 | Alison, you're excited. |
| 1:14.1 | Always nice to have Hirstie with us, isn't it? |
| 1:15.5 | Oh, I love him. |
| 1:16.3 | Yeah, we all love him, don't we? |
| 1:17.8 | Always excited to my Northern accent to come into the things. |
| 1:20.6 | You haven't been able to understand me in that 20 minutes time. |
| 1:23.5 | Anyway, let's get right to it. |
| 1:25.1 | As I say, Hirstie, I'm referring to that busyness because your patched Manchester. It's been packed with news stories, changing managers. Manchester City making signings as well, and it all came together, Old Trafford, in the lunchtime kickoff on Saturday. Manchester United with a brilliant win in this one, Husty. Just sum up what it was like in the stadium, new manager, |
| 2:01.4 | a bit of DNA, all that nonsense. It's happy old times, isn't it, for 24 hours for Manchester United? Yeah, I'm sure I've heard this film before. We have heard this one before, yeah. How does it end? Does it end with the former One United player getting a long-term contractor and then hank in the club after a couple of years, maybe? I don't know. |
| 2:01.0 | Yeah, no, it was a real sense of like you four. player getting a long-term contract and then hank in the club after a couple of years maybe. I don't know. |
| 2:02.1 | Yeah, no, it was just a real sense of like euphoria, I guess, particularly in the second |
| 2:06.5 | half when United pulled away. |
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