MNC: Spurs’ bad habits & Arsenal bounce back
Football Daily
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4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman, Chris Sutton, The Observer’s Rory Smith and Theo Walcott discuss the weekend’s football.
How much trouble are Spurs in after defeat in the Igor Tudor’s first game in charge against Arsenal? Can Viktor Gyokeres spearhead Arsenal’s title challenge? What next for Crystal Palace and Oliver Glasner?
The panel also pay tribute to the record-breaking James Milner and former Hearts captain Gary Locke joins the show to breakdown another dramatic weekend in the Scottish Premiership title race.
TIMECODES –
00:34 - How does Igor Tudor fix Spurs’ bad habits? 13:48 - Gyokeres and Arsenal bounce back 22:46 - Glasner’s souring marriage with Crystal Palace 35:00 - Record-breaking James Milner 43:41 - Advantage Hearts in Scotland
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
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| 0:12.1 | You might. You might. It is called Sightraught with me, Nick Grimshaw. |
| 0:15.2 | And me, Annie Mack. And we talk about the week in music. |
| 0:18.2 | All the news, all the cultural happenings in the UK and beyond. |
| 0:22.2 | And great guests. |
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| 0:29.9 | Everything from my six music breakfast show to Radio 3 Unwind. |
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| 1:11.1 | So if you like music, listen on BBC Sounds. This is the Monday nightclub with Mark Chapman on the Football Daily podcast. Welcome to the Monday Night Club. Chris Sutton, Roy Smith and Theo Walcott are with us. I haven't seen you for ages, Theo. I've gone great, have no. Yeah, yeah. haven't I? Yeah, yeah. I mean, you have a little, yeah. Just thought, why not, isn't it? Yeah, no, I've been a little bit busy, but yeah. But when I... It's all good. Do you miss me? You miss me. Yeah, I mean, you haven't been completely busy, haven't you playing golf in that Thailand football thing? That's busy, isn't it? |
| 1:12.0 | That's not busy. |
| 1:14.6 | We're going to start tonight with Spurs. |
| 1:17.6 | They're just four points above the relegation zone after being thrashed 4-1 by Arsenal. |
| 1:23.7 | We'll hear from Igor Chudor now and then we'll pick the bones out of it from a Spurs point of view. |
| 1:29.3 | It shows me that on Tuesday we need to start work hard but hard and seriously |
| 1:34.3 | and change the habits and then trying to resolve it without problems |
| 1:39.3 | because now in this moment the team is full of the problems |
| 1:43.3 | and the only only key is work on the training. |
| 1:46.2 | Day by day, be humble, stay down, see what you can do. |
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