Respecting the right to rotate in the FA Cup
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The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Gab Marcotti and Natalie Sawyer are reunited in the studio and are joined by Matt Dickinson and James Gheerbrant after FA Cup 3rd round weekend.
Newport knock out Leicester in the most magical moment of the weekend but why do Premier League clubs, particularly those in mid-table, insist on resting star players when there’s a trophy up for grabs? Should we respect a coach’s right to manage their squad? Should these clubs be more honest with the supporters about what their ambitions actually are and whether league position is more important?
We look ahead to the Carabao Cup semi-finals as Tottenham take on Chelsea. How much longer will Callum Hudson-Odoi be a Blue? And there’s the curious case of Alvaro Morata. Scoring but seemingly unhappy.
Also on the agenda, Chesterfield’s crooked spire. And Roy Hodgson’s aversion to Netflix.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm |
| 0:03.7 | Gheber MacKotte. |
| 0:08.7 | Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Natalie Sawyer. |
| 0:13.4 | And I'm Gabriel McCottie and I am back for the new year. |
| 0:16.7 | Yes, everybody's so excited. |
| 0:18.4 | In fact, one of our guests here is doing cartwheels as we speak and that would be |
| 0:21.9 | James Gerebrandt down the line possibly |
| 0:24.3 | also doing cart wheels although I can't confirm it because I can't see him it's |
| 0:27.6 | Matt Dickinson. Later on we'll be looking ahead to a titanic tussle between |
| 0:31.8 | Tottenham and Chelsea in the League Cup semi-finals. |
| 0:36.0 | But we start with the FA Cup where for a large part of the weekend the Gulf in divisions |
| 0:40.0 | was very much visible in the third round with seven nil wins for Tottenham and |
| 0:44.4 | Manchester City but roll on Sunday afternoon at Rodney Parade as League 2 |
| 0:48.8 | Newport County knocked out 2016 Priming winners Leicester City. And Matt, did this game make you feel the magic of the cup? |
| 0:57.0 | It did absolutely to be on. I was sat at home and I saw the score, I saw Newport winning after the hour or so and I grabbed my kids and we made |
| 1:07.0 | sure we sat down on the sofa and watched the new one and we were thrilled to do so. |
| 1:12.2 | No, I was great and that and watching being at Loftus Road and watching |
| 1:17.0 | QPR win a cup game and yeah we were overflowing with the magic of the cup now i mean that it's you know the |
| 1:25.2 | the competition has |
| 1:26.4 | i'm i'm sure we'll get into it has has has challenges in the in the in the |
| 1:30.0 | great |
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