Piling praise on Palace plus Tottenham’s troubling transfer window
The Game
The Times
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🗓️ 24 December 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
It’s Christmas Eve but Natalie Sawyer and Gab Marcotti are hard at work bringing you The Game podcast from The Times with Henry Winter and Gary Jacob.
It’s time to critique an incredible Crystal Palace performance at the Etihad as they beat the champions Manchester City. It’s a result that sends Liverpool 4 points clear at the top of the table but Henry Winter is quick to highlight the humility of Jurgen Klopp’s squad. Including perhaps the most important player in the league, Virgil Van Dijk.
Tottenham thrash Everton 6-2 but how big will the January transfer window be in terms of providing a clue as to Mauricio Pochettino’s future? And how big is the window for the top 4 hopes of Chelsea and Arsenal?
Manchester United put 5 past Cardiff in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s first game in charge. Can United be accused of cheating Jose Mourinho or are they just a group of very good players? And has Solskjaer been given the remit to show off some of the lesser seen stars?
Plus we look at Mike Dean’s flamboyant behaviour, Neil Warnock’s hair and Ralph Hasenhüttl in Rocky II.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
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| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply game podcast from The Times I'm Natalie Sawyer |
| 0:36.2 | and I'm Gabriel Marcotte and we thank you for joining us on this lovely Monday |
| 0:40.6 | morning that's right it's Christmas Eve for those who celebrate |
| 0:43.7 | Christmas and we're delighted that taking a break from the celebrations in the |
| 0:48.5 | studio with us it's Gary Jacob morning gaps And down the line from somewhere in between London and the Midlands, if I'm not mistaken, it's Henry Winter. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm Merry Christmas. Later on, we'll be |
| 1:03.6 | be discussing the race for the top four and so shire bringing the sunshine back to |
| 1:08.7 | old Trafford. But so we start with a shock for Manchester City as the champions suffered a three two defeat to Crystal Palace at the Eti hat on Saturday. |
| 1:18.0 | With the leaders Liverpool maintaining their unbeaten record this season, Pepiolo's side are now four points |
| 1:23.4 | behind the Reds in the title race. Now at City were 13 points clear at this |
| 1:28.2 | stage last season but Henry it looks like they've got a fight on their |
| 1:31.9 | hands this time around. |
| 1:33.0 | They really do and it's great for the neutral, it's great for Liverpool fans. |
| 1:38.0 | It all seems to be coming together on the urban clop. |
| 1:42.0 | That emotional connection he has with the |
| 1:43.5 | fans and with the players that just created this momentum as well as the |
| 1:48.7 | quality of the recruits with Allison and Gold and and Virgil van Dyke he's probably the most |
| 1:54.4 | important player in the Premier League at the moment if you look at his |
| 1:57.0 | impact on his club within the dressing woman on the field scoring goals now. |
| 2:01.3 | The thing about Manchester City and Guadiola probably hasn't |
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