Hello, everybody and welcome to Goldbridge Save's Football Podcast.

We're live in the studio for this one because we've got a big event going on in Manchester

where we might see some of you a little bit later.

But for those listening to the podcast, which you are, what a week to discuss.

Prater the week is going to go off.

We're going to be talking about these Joey Barton comments, which everyone's talking about. We've got some interesting takes on that, but also a massive contender from Michael

Owen throwing apples at walls, the bravery, and they think that nurses have it hard. We'll also be

talking either ors, we've got the quiz, and we're going to be talking about the sack race.

Podgetino or Tenhag, ordinarily, maybe would be being sacked. Should

they be sacked? We'll talk about that. And Liverpool, are they title favourites? Will?

It's been, honestly, I really feel like the Premier League is alive and kicking this last week with

a midweek football, everything that happened at the weekend, talking points, a lot of positive stuff

as well. It's just been absolutely brilliant. And I'm, you know, I'm really glad that we can do

this in person today. VAR is still shit. I just think it's been pushed down the agenda a lot

because we are almost being just suppressed by it. I thought there was some shocking stuff

at the weekend, especially the way the Liverpool Palace game was officiated. And then Villa Arsenal had most of the same things going on that

weren't penalties or weren't yellow cards. It's incredible when both teams are in a title race.

But let's start off. We may as well start off with the sack race, I suppose. It's been a very

interesting week. And I must just say as well,

let's not be, and I want to get into this as well, Aston Villa, you know, what a season

they're having and this talk of whether they're better than or could do a Leicester City,

which I think is absolute nonsense. We'll talk about that as well and a few other things. But let's

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