Premier League season preview: Part Two
The Game
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🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
The Premier League season is back and The Game podcast previews the new season with a special two-part show.
In Part 2 Tom Clarke, Alyson Rudd, Gregor Robertson and Tom Roddy discuss the rest of the teams in the Premier League.
They are joined by Paul Hirst to discuss the Community Shield, debating the title hopes for Manchester City and Arsenal as well as discussing Manchester United's pre-season preparations.
They assess whether Brighton and Brentford can hit the same heights and share some concerns over Everton, Fulham, Bournemouth, Wolves, Nottingham Forest and Crystal Palace.
Aston Villa, Newcastle and Liverpool are the big clubs with big talking points to conclude the show.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the game podcast. This is part two of our Premier League season preview. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Tom Clark and joining me again, Alison Rudd, Gregor Robson and Tom Roddy. |
| 0:14.7 | Now if you're a contrarian like me and don't want to do things in order, |
| 0:17.8 | you don't want to be confined by part one and part two. I just want to let you know that in part |
| 0:21.6 | one you've missed debate around the newly promoted teams, as well as chat about Chelsea, West Ham, |
| 0:26.7 | Tottenham and a smidgen of the women's world cup. Now also at the start of the previous episode, |
| 0:32.0 | we had a little joke, didn't we guys ask you for a quick fire answer on who was going to win |
| 0:36.0 | the Premier League? We had Alison Rudd with her usual delusions about Liverpool's grandeur |
| 0:40.8 | and the other two guys went for Manchester City. Well, City will have to hope they're going to win |
| 0:45.8 | the Premier League title because they missed out on an early season trophy, losing the community |
| 0:50.0 | shields to Arsenal. At Wembley was everyone's favourite Yorkshireman, Paul Hurst, and he joins us now |
| 0:56.3 | to discuss that match. Hursty, how you doing? Yeah, I'm good, thank you. I'm honoured by that tag, |
| 1:00.8 | unsurprised. Such a modest man, that's why we love you. I'm happy to stick with it for the rest |
| 1:10.0 | of the season, I promise. Now, tell us about the game. It sounded to me from the outside and |
| 1:15.2 | watching the highlights like your kind of vintage community shield type affair. It was dull, |
| 1:20.0 | it was very dull. Sorry, I can't really say in any other way, I can't really big this match up, |
| 1:26.8 | I've got a bit of a thing about the community shield, I just think it's such a waste of time |
| 1:33.2 | really. I know it obviously, it's done for a reason, charities get money and that is obviously |
| 1:38.0 | brilliant, but in terms of the spectacle, it wasn't a great match at all, I think both teams |
| 1:44.6 | kind of stood off each other a little bit and Cityward didn't really create anything for Harland, |
| 1:50.3 | I think he only had 13 touches. He was only in the second half when Guadiala brought |
| 1:55.8 | De Bruyne a run of Phil Ford and the city cable live, and yeah, so it wasn't a true reflection |
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