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The Game Football Podcast

Newcastle's identity crisis and the curious case of Chris Wilder

The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Newcastle's horror show at Leicester has left many questioning Steve Bruce's methods already - but is it too early to judge the new Toon boss?


Molly Hudson and Bill Edgar join Natalie Sawyer and Gregor Robertson for more on this, whether Chris Wilder was right to hang his goalkeeper Dean Henderson out to dry, and ask whether anyone actually wants to win The Championship.



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0:00.0

Hello Anika Rice here and Will Lyons and this is Wine Times in association with the Sunday Times wine club

0:06.0

Throughout this series we'll be sharing our love of wine and travel with a host of special guests

0:11.3

Join us as we pull the cork and twist the screw cap on some of our

0:14.6

favorite bottles and embark on a journey through the minds, lives and cultures

0:19.0

inspired by the wine route across the globe. Wine Times, a new episode every Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts.

0:25.6

Bring it on, you've a week throughout the season for all the best

0:44.3

reaction and analysis from some of the best football writers in the business. Joining us today are

0:49.2

The Times' very own Molly Hudson and Bill Edgar. Coming up we'll look ahead to a busy week of

0:53.9

Champions League action that sees Tottenham welcome the German Giants by in

0:57.2

Munich, but first let's get stuck into a brilliant weekend of Premier League

1:01.1

action and a five-star Leicester City dismantling a

1:04.8

hapless Newcastle United. Now if you have seen the game today on the front page

1:10.4

you would have seen the headline of Horror Show and it's not just Hayden's

1:14.3

tackle that will make you wince. Newcastle's five-nill defeat by Leicester was best

1:19.2

viewed from behind the sofa. Bill were Newcastle really that bad or were Leicester simply too good?

1:28.0

I think we often say it's a combination I think it really was in this case a combination.

1:39.0

Yeah poor old Steve Bruce he's had a it's so hard to follow Raffa Benite has given that he was so popular in Newcastle and he walked into the job with the massive Newcastle fans saying they didn't want him so already the mood is very negative that it's going to be hard.

1:54.0

Then the first seven games of the season so far,

1:58.0

three of them have been, three opponents have been among the big six

2:02.0

and now Leicester who are showing big six

2:05.1

form it has not been easy in that sense also they've had to contend with lots of

2:09.6

injuries particularly Matt Ritchie, it's a crucial player, left wingback.

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