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The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson, Alyson Rudd and Tom Roddy. We delve into the world of football conspiracy theories, which seem to be increasing while we’re all sitting at home! Surely the transparency of VAR discredits some of the more believable theories? Ole Gunnar Solskjær referred to an article on the Chelsea website potentially influencing the referee - is this one of the most baffling claims we’ve heard!? After another weekend with more baffling confusion between VAR and referees - are the officials losing control? Brighton are slowly drifting down the table - are they sleepwalking towards relegation? One of the teams to have taken 3 points home from the AMEX are Crystal Palace - should Roy Hodgson get another contract? You can read Tom Roddy’s article on football analyst Jack Lyons and his route into the game thanks to Brendan Rodgers - he gives us more around the piece and we ask our resident former pro, Gregor Robertson what part these roles play in modern teams. After Dean Smith banned his players from playing Fantasy Football, Alyson Rudd enlightens us with her thoughts on the matter and why she thinks it should be banned all together! Get your digital subscription to The Times and get a month free: thetimes.co.uk/thegame

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0:00.0	Hello, this is the game football podcast from The Times. I'm Hugh Wesncroft. Today has
0:06.5	the age of football conspiracy hit us. Elsewhere, a Brighton more XG football than sexy football
0:14.2	to predictable palace. Have a shocking store for Roy Hodgson. How an unknown analyst
0:19.0	is impacting the game and we ask should players be banned from fantasy football. It is a busy
0:24.6	Monday ahead for you. Hello, to Alison Rudd, Grigal Robertson and Tom Roddy. How you doing,
0:30.1	good? Thank you, thank you. It's been pointed out to me that I'm always happy at the start
0:37.4	of the podcast and often the three people I'm speaking to are less than enthused and frankly
0:43.4	it's just impolite. From here on out I will not accept it but I'm glad to know that you
0:47.1	three today have given me the appropriate response because why wouldn't you want to be happy
0:52.7	to be on a football podcast and pay to talk which you are. So here's the time to do the
0:57.2	job. Let's start by discussing why I wanted to talk about for a while football conspiracies.
1:03.9	Every weekend it seems that one club or another thinks the world of football is against them
1:08.5	and that someone somewhere is so desperate for them to have drawn a game an insignificant
1:14.1	match or whatever that they're talking about conspiracy theories pretty much and I wonder
1:19.3	whether it's just the age and the society and what's going on outside of football that
1:23.1	is now making people think that football is involved, you know, whatever crazy things
1:28.7	they're seeing on Facebook or being delivered to them on WhatsApp has filtered into the game
1:33.8	as well. Frankly, I just think it's insane but I wondered Alison Rudd, what you think?
1:39.4	Well, I think you're onto something, Hugh, because I have of late being getting emails
1:45.2	in the style of the old fashioned letters written in green ink which you always knew
1:51.2	it was going to be something strange when someone wrote to you in green ink and they'd found
1:56.0	your home address that was strange too. And then the internet came along and it all dried
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