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Rodgers and Potter out on busy Premier League weekend – Football Weekly

Football Weekly

The Guardian

Sports, Soccer

4.59.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Jonathan Wilson and Barney Ronay after two top-flight managers depart on the same day. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/footballweeklypod

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:14.1

Hello and welcome to Guardian Football Weekly.

0:16.0

Now this pod cannot complain about managers getting sacked the day before we record.

0:19.9

But there was quite a lot to get through before Leicester and then Chelsea made their decisions.

0:23.6

We'll begin with Graham Potter. Is it surprising that he lasted so long or that Todd

0:27.1

Bowley decided now was the time to move? What next for Chelsea and for Potty?

0:30.8

You don't get too many goes at the top table, something that Brendan Rogers will attest to,

0:35.0

rebuilt his reputation at Celtic and then at Leicester.

0:37.3

And now what? Amidst all of that, it's as you were at the top. First off, City came back to

0:41.2

demolish Liverpool before Arsenal maintained their eight point lead with an ultimately

0:44.6

comfortable win over Leeds, who are still in trouble along with half the league, down their

0:48.3

huge wins for West Ham and Bournemouth. The big win for Newcastle and the race for the top

0:52.6

four Manchester United in the title race a couple of weeks ago now could miss out on Champions League

0:56.8

football for another season. There's the invisible saliva of Daniel Podent's and the inevitable

1:01.3

apologies for not noticing how good Austin Villarreal had failing to spend the requisite time on

1:05.4

a six goal thriller at the hammock. So all that plus your questions and that's today's Guardian Football

1:09.3

Weekly. Adam says the big beasts of football weekly, Dave can't wait

1:22.4

the golden generation of football weekly just never achieved what they should have done.

1:27.3

Barney, Ronnie, they're all new. Barney, Ronnie, welcome. It's funny, isn't it? Because Nick

1:30.8

Cave also said whenever I listen to a podcast, there's always something really shit going on

1:37.0

and it's football weekly with a load of middle aged blokes have been on for years. He said about

1:41.7

the rich hot chili peppers, didn't it? It's always there. As Nick Cave not, I think, is Nick Cave not,

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