Pressure builds on Arsenal and Liverpool
The Game
The Times
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🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Where does defeat to Championship side Southampton leave Arsenal? The positivity of Max Dowman's goal against Everton on 14th March seems a long time ago - out of two cups and with poor performances to boot can they bounce back?
Liverpool were thumped by a resurgent Man City, but the comments of captain Virgil Van Dijk are perhaps most concerning for Liverpool fans - he thought his team gave up. Why and where does that leave manager Arne Slot.
Leeds are in their first FA Cup semi final in nearly 40 years, but did it come at a cost as key players were injured. West Ham lost but showed fighting spirit ahead of the relegation run in.
Plus, Spurs players, Chelsea projects and Southampton away kits.
Gregor Robertson is joined by Alyson Rudd and Tony Cascarino
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. |
| 0:07.3 | Our Arsenal wobbling, our Liverpool crumbling and our Manchester City hitting their stride. |
| 0:12.7 | A fascinating weekend of Effie Cup action ended with Arsenal's pursuit of four trophies narrowed down to just two. |
| 0:19.0 | Plus Liverpool were thrashed 4-0 by Manchester City at the Etihad. |
| 0:23.2 | Southampton's prize for knocking out Arsenal is an F.E. Cup semi-final against City |
| 0:27.2 | and after an epic, epic tie against West Ham United, Leeds United will play Chelsea |
| 0:32.4 | in their first FE Cup semi-final for nearly 40 years. |
| 0:36.2 | We'll be discussing all the action, what it all means for |
| 0:39.0 | the Premier League title race and relegation battle, and looking ahead to the return of Champions |
| 0:43.6 | League football this week. I'm Gregor Robertson, alongside Tony Cascarino and Alison Rudd. Guys, |
| 0:50.1 | great to have you. Yeah, good to be here. Heck of a weekend of FFAC Cup football. I mean, the Effie Cup is well and truly alive. What do you think was the biggest result of the weekend for you, Alison, first of all? Or me, as you've added for me. For you. It's for me. It's a personal. Well, I was covering the boat race on Saturday. So that was the biggest result. |
| 1:10.9 | No, no. |
| 1:11.6 | Who won? |
| 1:12.3 | In the room, in the different teams for different races. |
| 1:16.7 | In the room, someone said to me, oh, hello, I couldn't see me for a while. |
| 1:21.2 | And they said, are you a slot in or a slot out sort of person? |
| 1:25.2 | I gave them a sensible, rational reason why Chubby Alonzo should come in, |
| 1:29.9 | ASAP, and then that person punctuated the rest of the day with Liverpool 1-0-0-down, Liverpool 2-0-down, |
| 1:37.1 | Liverpool-3-0-down, Liverpool 4-0-down. So I felt very clever, actually, because they underlined |
| 1:42.0 | the point that this is not going to be Slots job next season. |
| 1:46.0 | So that was the most significant result of the weekend. |
| 1:49.0 | Gass? |
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