Predictions for 2025 and are Manchester United in a relegation fight?

The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

It goes from bad to worse at Old Trafford, are they really in a relegation fight? Will Amorim change his system, can he change his system? Ipswich have their first win in the Premier League this season at Portman Road; it came at the expense of a stuttering Chelsea side. Are Maresca’s problems self-inflicted ?

It’s time to give Nottingham Forest enormous credit, and Nuno Espirito Santo in particular. Forest are second, will they hold on to Champions league football?

Finally, Alyson Rudd, Charlotte Duncker and Gregor Robertson join Tom Clarke to offer their bold predictions for 2025.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times.
0:07.8	Well, 2024 just couldn't help itself.
0:10.3	We just had to have one more round of madness in the Premier League, didn't we?
0:14.6	Manchester United lose again, this time 2-0 to an increasingly impressive Newcastle United,
0:20.0	as Ruben Amarim admits he's
0:21.9	embarrassed at being United's coach at the moment.
0:25.1	Elsewhere, Ipswich complete a brilliant year with a 2-0 home win against Chelsea.
0:29.5	Villa produced a thriller against Brighton, and also on today's show, we'll talk Liverpool,
0:34.4	Manchester City, Tottenham and Nottingham Forest.
0:37.3	Joining me, Tom Clark, for all of that, we have the senior sports writer and Sunday Times columnist Alison Rudd,
0:42.3	the football reporter who covers the Northwest and the Midlands.
0:45.1	It's Charlotte Dunker and the former footballer-turned journalist Gregor Robertson is here as usual.
0:50.0	Team, here we are.
0:51.1	New Year's Eve.
0:52.1	We're all pumped and ready to talk about football one more time in 2024.
0:55.8	Greg, are you in the loft?
0:56.7	You look again like you've been taken hostage by someone?
0:59.3	You're happy, you're all right?
1:01.1	I'm okay, Tom, yeah.
1:02.3	I'm okay.
1:02.9	I'm not hostage, apart from a hostage to a three-week-old baby who's not letting me sleep.
1:08.4	But anyway, we'll leave that.
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