Monday Night Club: Rodgers resigns, Arsenal extend lead & Sunderland leapfrog Liverpool

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Mark Chapman is joined by Chris Sutton, Rory Smith and Andros Townsend on MNC this week!

First up on this week's episode, former Celtic striker Chris Sutton reacts to the news that head coach Brendan Rodgers has resigned from the club. Then, the panel chat Sunderland who currently sit 4th in the Premier League, and Bournemouth who are still flying high! The team then discuss set-pieces with set-piece coach Andy Parslow, and Arsenal extending their lead at the top. Finally, can Hearts make history as the first non-Old Firm side to win the Scottish Premiership in 40 years? Former Hearts boss Gary Locke joins MNC.

Timecodes: 00:25 Brendan Rodgers resigns as Celtic boss 07:07 Sunderland fan Frankie Francis joins the show 23:51 Are Bournemouth the new recruitment kings? 30:51 Set-pieces with Andy Parslow 44:46 Can Hearts go the distance? Gary Locke joins MNC 52:33 Are Arsenal finally going to win the Premier League?

5 Live / BBC Sounds EFL Cup commentaries: Tue 1945 Grimsby Town v Brentford, Wed 1945 Liverpool v Crystal Palace.

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0:47.8	Hello, welcome to the Monday Night Club.
0:49.7	Chris Sutterton, Rory Smith and Andros Townsend are with us.
0:53.1	We'll discuss set pieces on this episode with Andy Parslow. We'll chat Arsenal and Bournemouth as well. And we'll talk about hearts after they've gone eight points clear in the Scottish Premiership. But we're going to start with just Chris and the news that broke around 10 o'clock on Monday night
1:12.2	that Brendan Rogers resigned from his position as Celtic head coach
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