Potter Set For A Chelsea Spell?
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The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson, Molly Hudson, Tom Roddy and Tony Cascarino.
***This episode was recorded on the morning of Graham Potter’s appointment as new Chelsea manager***
Thomas Tuchel has been fired - did he see it coming? (00:00)
Tom Roddy broke the story in The Times and he tells us his understanding of what happened behind the scenes? (9:50)
At the time of recording, Graham Potter was heavily rumoured to be taking over at Chelsea. How suitable will he be at Stamford Bridge? (19:55)
Liverpool had a night to forget in the Champions League on Wednesday. What’s going wrong for Jurgen Klopp’s side at the moment? (35:08)
Celtic and Rangers both had disappointing evenings in Europe - our resident Scotsman and former Celtic striker give their thoughts (46:41)
The WSL season gets underway this weekend and Molly Hudson brings us up to date with some last minute transfers (51:43)
Spurs take on Manchester City in the Premier League this weekend - can Antonio Conte get one over Pep Guardiola? (60:10)
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| 0:54.4 | This is the Game Football Podcast from the Times. Today we react to the news that Chelsea |
| 1:01.0 | have sat their manager Thomas Tuchel and predict Graham Potter replacing him in the role. |
| 1:06.2 | What will Potter bring to Stanford Bridge? And was it too soon to dismiss Tuchel after winning |
| 1:11.4 | the Champions League? Speaking of which, a poor result this week for Liverpool in the competition |
| 1:16.4 | will also speak about how Celtic and Rangers got on Spurs and Manchester City prepared to |
| 1:21.1 | meet in the Premier League this weekend and will discuss the start of the new WSL season. |
| 1:26.4 | All that and more on this episode of the game. |
| 1:32.8 | Hello and welcome back to the game podcast. Hope you're all well. I'm Hugh Wozncroft. I'm |
| 1:36.9 | alongside Gregor Robertson, Tony Cascarino, the former Chelsea striker is here as is Molly Hudson. |
| 1:43.3 | Tony, we've got to start by saying congratulations to joy you, Anniversary. Happy 60th is |
| 1:51.0 | why you weren't with us on Monday. Do you have a good time enjoying yourself celebrating? |
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