Pep's politics and Pogba on the naughty step
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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After a fabulous footballing Sunday, Gab Marcotti is joined by Alyson Rudd and Paul Hirst to review Manchester City’s League Cup Final win over Arsenal and Manchester United’s Premier League victory over Chelsea.
The panel assess Antonio Conte’s pessimism, the yellow ribbon and how the Gunners were fearless. In a bad way.
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| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times. I'm Gabriel Mercotti and I thank you for joining us on this snowy, snowy Monday morning in London, |
| 0:41.0 | although I appreciate it may not be snowing where you are, but I just |
| 0:45.4 | thought I'd share it because we like it. Everything gets kind of festive, right? |
| 0:49.2 | Allison, you like Snow? I love Snow. The voice you just heard of course is Allison Rudd who is one of my excellent |
| 0:54.5 | guests today and down the line from way up north it's Paul Hurst. Later on we're going to be |
| 1:00.6 | discussing Peps Yellow Ribbon and of course, |
| 1:04.0 | Manchester United, how could we not? |
| 1:06.0 | But we start at Wembley with the first major silverware of the season, |
| 1:10.0 | the League Cup final sponsored by a Thai Energy Drink. |
| 1:14.0 | I was struck by how sort of unimpressive this first half was really from from both teams. |
| 1:25.0 | Citi turned it on in the second half and it was and it was absolutely remarkable |
| 1:30.0 | but I don't know what it was but was it did you get the sense Paul that you know he |
| 1:35.9 | did Guajola did make some changes you know Kevin de brine |
| 1:40.4 | playing in a wide area, |
| 1:43.4 | Norahim Sterling available, and he had Gondugan in there |
| 1:47.2 | in midfield. |
| 1:48.2 | Was that maybe part of the reason they weren't quite as sharp |
| 1:51.5 | in the first half, or not, me not quite sharp but what is different or is dominating as we expect them to be? |
| 1:57.3 | Yeah, the kind of the changing system didn't help and sterling is such a devastating outlet for them on that wing. |
| 2:05.3 | You know him and sanny, if you've got on both going at full pace against a very |
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