Snobbery at Sheffield, cracks at Coventry('s pitch), and inspired Ipswich
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman is joined by Nancy Frostick of The Athletic and EFL goal centurion Sam Parkin to bring you up to date on the story lines from across tiers two to four.
Covering everything from Coventry's dodgy pitch, to Preston's clean sheets, to the manager inspired by Hansi Flick to the coaches Manchester United have waved goodbye to. It's all here in this whip around the lower divisions.
All that plus Watford's transfers, Wigan and Rotherham's unbeaten records, and the first sacking of the season.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. Today we're talking about what you need to know from the race to the Premier League |
| 0:06.5 | to surviving the drop to the National League. Join me, Mark Chapman, for your ICYMIMI on the EFL, the CBS, PNE, |
| 0:15.2 | and many other acronyms in between. The Athletics, EFL writer Nancy Frostick, and E and EFL goal Centurion, Sam Parkin. |
| 0:23.2 | It'll get better, I promise. |
| 0:24.7 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 0:31.2 | Vincent Company is the new first team manager at Burnley. |
| 0:35.0 | I think we've seen obvious flaws already. |
| 0:37.0 | And Swift shoot. |
| 0:38.3 | There it is. |
| 0:39.5 | Reading and nuts. |
| 0:40.4 | This is my favourite division. |
| 0:42.0 | It really is. |
| 0:42.7 | John Jules into the penalty area. |
| 0:44.6 | Tyreys John Jules. |
| 0:46.2 | What a goal. |
| 0:47.2 | I love the way that they've started the season. |
| 0:49.3 | I think League 2 is really strong this year. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh! really strong this year. Well, Nancy and Sam, we have an awful lot to rattle through and loads of good stuff to talk |
| 1:04.6 | about on the pitch, but I'm going to start off the pitch, or in fact, with the pitch |
| 1:10.4 | Nancy, because that is Coventry's problem at the moment. He's only played two of their five games so far. Just take us through the story. Yeah, I mean, if anyone's looked at the table, they're probably thinking what's gone on there if they don't know the context because Coventry are rock bottom with, yeah, not many points because they've not played many. |
| 1:28.2 | And it's basically because at the Commonwealth Games, they had the Rugby Sevens tournament at the CBS Arena |
| 1:33.3 | and played 65 Rugby Sevens games in three days, which I think even the most durable pitch |
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