Monday Night Club with Mark Chapman
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Tottenham coming up trumps, Dowman delights at Arsenal & everyone’s happy for Grealish. Mark Chapman is joined by The Observer football correspondent Rory Smith, Theo Walcott and Steph Houghton. Rob Green drops in to talk goalkeepers and defend James Trafford after his error. Also hear from Tottenham boss Thomas Frank and catch what former Arsenal academy coach Temisan Williams had to say about Max Dowman.
02:10 Positivity at Tottenham! 07:55 Thomas Frank after beating Man City 15:15 Rob Green drops in to defend James Trafford 22:15 Rob Green on goalkeepers at corners 33:00 Max Dowman and his bright future 44:10 Everyone’s happy for Grealish
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.1 | This is the Monday Nightclub with Mark Chapman on the Football Daily Podcasts. |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome to the Monday Night Club. |
| 0:14.9 | You can watch us on the IPlayer or on the BBC Sport YouTube channel. |
| 0:19.9 | If you are watching, there are two or three things you already have noticed by complete |
| 0:24.3 | fluke. |
| 0:24.8 | We are all wearing a white t-shirt tonight. |
| 0:26.7 | We look like we're some 90s boy band. |
| 0:29.9 | You will also notice there's no Chris Sutton this evening. |
| 0:33.3 | He has other commitments, which is disappointing. |
| 0:36.5 | And you will also notice that Rory looks like he's in Alan Titchmarsh's Garden Shed. I'm not, I'm in the Alps Chappas. Are you? I'm broadcasting to you internationally. Now, that is commitment. It's not a holiday unless you have to break off in the middle of the evening to speak to you. That's my attitude on holidays, Chapas. |
| 0:55.0 | Did that go down well with the family? |
| 0:57.2 | Generally, my wife is of the view that it's better if I'm not there. |
| 1:02.6 | Theo, as ever, out of any pundit, has the best background possible. |
| 1:07.8 | Have you changed your sort of trophy wall for the new season? I'll be honest chappas, |
| 1:13.3 | I've not earned anything else. I have brought this though little guy I got actually, |
| 1:17.6 | someone that it's a little Walcott 14. Yeah, little bubblehead. Yeah. So I got given that. So I thought |
| 1:24.4 | he's going to stay in the office with me. So he's the new addition to the to the trophy cabinet. Okay. So you've got a statue, a very small statue of yourself. Very small. It's not like to hear that outside the Emirates. Blime it. And I thought Sutton had the ego on the show. Right. So Theo, Steph is in the studio with me, so there's nothing really to, there's nothing really to bring up there, isn't it? Not really. Just |
| 1:44.7 | your normal. Just do you. Just do you. Just do you. Just do you know. Yeah. Just be in the studio, you know. Well, you could, you could go first then on our, on our first subject. There is so much to talk about tonight. Obviously, week two of the Premier League season. We'll talk goalkeepers. We'll talk Castle and Max Dowman, Jack Grealish enjoying this football again. |
| 1:44.1 | But we're starting with good news. We'll talk goalkeepers. We'll talk Arsenal and Max Dowman. Jack Grealish enjoying this football again. |
| 2:02.7 | But we're starting with good news. We're starting with positive news and we're started with |
| 2:07.3 | Tottenham. And that hasn't really gone together very often over recent seasons. Definitely not |
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