Monday Night Club with Mark Chapman
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Manchester City’s worst start in 19 years and Graham Potter’s under threat at West Ham. Mark Chapman is joined by Joe Hart, Chris Sutton and The Observer football correspondent Rory Smith. They also tap into Arsenal and hear from a West Ham fan. Plus, Chappers is carrying an injury and Rory shares his ice cream recommendations.
03:30 Did Man City go too defensive? 11:50 Are Man City lacking strength in depth? 16:10 Is Man City’s bad start going under the radar? 18:00 Joe Hart on whether Donnarumma should have done better 21:50 Is Arteta picking the right players? 27:10 Arsenal ‘not sure’ how to play with Gyökeres? 31:30 Does defensive team selection affect player mindset? 39:20 West Ham eyeing up a new manager 51:55 Would you rather be West Ham or Wolves right now?
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| 0:07.2 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
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| 0:17.2 | Many of them are very funny. |
| 0:19.1 | Which I think means... |
| 0:20.3 | A hatful of ha-hars. And energy. Even if we do very funny. Which I think means... A hatful of ha haas. |
| 0:21.7 | And energy. |
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| 0:40.2 | On the Football Daily podcast. |
| 0:44.3 | Welcome to the Monday Night Club. |
| 0:46.1 | Chris Sutton, Rory Smith and Joe Hart are with us. |
| 0:49.3 | And it won't surprise you to learn that Rory has been particularly smug this week on the |
| 0:56.8 | on the WhatsApp hasn't he, Chris, after Carabag's performance away to Benfica? |
| 1:04.4 | Because... |
| 1:04.8 | Yeah, he has. |
| 1:05.5 | Well, there are a couple of things for this. |
| 1:08.0 | The first being, he said that Carabag were a team to watch in this year's |
| 1:11.9 | Champions League and they came from two down to beat Benfica 3-2. But what it also did was |
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