PREMIER LEAGUE PREDICTIONS
The Game Football Podcast
The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The new season is nearly here! On the eve of the first game who will be fighting for the title, who’ll be the surprise package and who will be scrapping at the bottom? After a season of some surprises will we revert to type this season?
Almost a billion pounds has been spent in the transfer market, the Isak affair rumbles on and Arsenal finally have a number nine. Will any of the promoted clubs manage to break the recent trend and avoid relegation? There is a lot of be excited about, and much to look forward to. Jonny Northcroft, Tony Cascarino and Martin Samuel join Gregor Robertson.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. |
| 0:07.6 | A new Premier League season is almost upon us. |
| 0:10.3 | Ten months packed with hope, fear, joy, despair, theatre, drama and above all else, |
| 0:16.4 | the best football on the planet. |
| 0:18.6 | It all kicks off again when the Champions Liverpool host |
| 0:21.5 | Bournemouth at Anfield on Friday night and, as ever, we'll be with you twice a week all |
| 0:25.9 | season to discuss all the biggest talking points and best action. I'm Gregor Robertson and joining |
| 0:31.4 | me on today's show we have. The Chief Correspondent for the Times and Sunday Times |
| 0:35.5 | Martin Samuel, the Sunday Times football correspondent Jonathan Northcroft, and the Times columnist and former Chelsea, Aston Villa and Millwall striker Tony Cascarino. |
| 0:45.7 | Guys, what are you most looking forward to or excited by or intrigued by in the new season ahead? Johnny, I'll start with you. Tons, actually. I mean, at this point in time, I'm at Spurs on Saturday, |
| 0:57.7 | and I'm just excited for that first game of the season buzz. It's a unique feeling. |
| 1:03.1 | Walking in the press box, seeing the full stadium. And there's a new manager. There's some |
| 1:07.5 | interesting signings like Kudis on the the pitch and that's going to be replicated everywhere |
| 1:12.1 | so it's a general answer but it's just that magic of football being back |
| 1:16.1 | it's just that you know it's going to be an even longer journey than ever |
| 1:20.8 | we're ending in a World Cup and it's you know we're going to take the first steps |
| 1:25.1 | at the weekend and it's just that feeling of it's like the beginning of isn't it? It's what's ahead of you, everything's stretching ahead and it's a unique day in the year. Holiday gets shorter and shorter than summer as though, don't they? Cass, what would be you? What are you looking forward to? Because there's so much change in the Premier League at many different levels from the teams that are coming up to teams that |
| 1:44.3 | are going to try and survive to the teams that want to challenge and get to Europe and then |
| 1:48.1 | the team's fighting for the title and you look at the change and you look at all the disruption |
| 1:52.0 | that happens with transfers loads of clubs spending loads of money you know which is just |
| 1:57.6 | it's not unprecedented but it feels like every year we go |
| 2:01.1 | it's more than it was last season |
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