Premier League thrills while Dr Tottenham leaves it late: Football Weekly Extra
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🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:12.8 | Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly. |
| 0:14.7 | Almost too much action for a Wednesday night. |
| 0:16.9 | Where to begin, St James's Park probably, a four-three with two goals and injury time. |
| 0:20.6 | It's just the kind of advert that Premier League needed after those nil-nills the other week. |
| 0:38.9 | Dr Tottenham leave it late, but give Antoine Semenio the perfect way to say goodbye. Romero puts in his most commanding performance on Instagram. It's all bleak at Spurs, but should they hold their nerve with Thomas Frank? Liam Roshenia is in the stands to see another Chelsea red card as Harry Wilson shines again for Fulham. |
| 0:38.5 | Man City dropped more points, three draws in a row now. with Thomas Frank. Liam Rosennier is in the stands to see another Chelsea red card as Harry Wilson shines again for Fulham. |
| 0:56.4 | Man City dropped more points, three draws in a row now. Darren Fletcher's in the dugout and plays a back four, but it's not enough to beat Burnley. There's hair pulling at Everton, Wolves unbeaten in three, and Brentford are up to fifth. We'll do all that plus your questions, and that's today's Guardian Football Weekly. On the panel today, Barry Glendany, welcome. Hi, Max. Hello, Johnny Lou. Hi, how you doing? Very good, thank you. And good morning, Lars Iverton. Hello, Max. How are you doing? Yeah, I'm all right. Let's start us at James' part. then Ashley says, Max, 4-3 Newcastle, the perfect score for the big man |
| 1:12.0 | on such a bad news day. |
| 1:13.4 | As much as I don't like3 Newcastle, the perfect score for the big man on such a bad |
| 1:12.9 | news day. As much as I don't like the Newcastle regime, I'll be happy for them today for Keegan |
| 1:17.0 | and that score. Yeah, Newcastle 4 leads three. And at the 90th minute, Lars, this was going to be |
| 1:23.3 | how much pressure is Eddie Howunder. And then it's not that question anymore. |
| 1:29.6 | Well, does that in itself speak to the ridiculousness that is inherent in some of those |
| 1:36.3 | sort of narrative decisions that we make? |
| 1:38.2 | You know, one goal, suddenly the whole picture changes. |
| 1:41.4 | Maybe that means the picture was wrong to begin with. |
| 1:43.5 | I don't know. |
| 1:44.8 | It was one of those things where the pictures at full time with the celebrations and the limbs, |
| 1:53.3 | as the young people would call it, it did look like an extraordinary place to be. Like, |
| 1:57.4 | it looked like the incredible memory for the people were there. And it makes you one of those |
| 2:00.7 | things that, like, there are cliches in football. And I think the sort of the, the atmosphere, |
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