Solskjaer’s startling start. Plus is spying part of sport?
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The Times
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🗓️ 14 January 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Natalie Sawyer and Gab Marcotti are back with Alyson Rudd and Paul Hirst in tow to talk the major issues of the weekend
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s perfect start as Manchester United manager continues, with victory over Tottenham, as he becomes the first United manager to win his first 6 games in charge. Is Solskjaer more than a just a man who puts smiles on faces and did Wembley showcase his tactical acumen as a coach? From a Tottenham standpoint, with no Son and potentially no Kane, where does Mauricio Pochettino go from here?
With Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa admitting to sending a staff member to the Derby training ground undercover, we ask if spying is an accepted part of elite sport.
Off the back of Warnock’s words on Brexit and Rio’s rant on Newcastle, what do the panel make of the amount of attention that these opinions attracted?
Also on a packed podcast, Martin O’Neill returns to Nottingham Forest, plus the hilarious and embarrassing position that Unai Emery finds himself in.
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| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times I'm Natalie Sawyer and I'm |
| 0:36.0 | Gabriel Marcotti and we both thank you for joining us on this lovely Monday |
| 0:40.0 | morning a nice crisp Monday morning I might add alongside us in the studio hey I'm excited because I think it's our first |
| 0:47.7 | appearance together of 2019 Allison Rudd I'm excited to and now on the line, the Times Man on the Manchester Beat, the man who you |
| 0:57.2 | can tell from his accent is not exactly very mank, Paul Hurst. Later on we'll be talking |
| 1:02.0 | about Leeds, Bielsa, and his spies and sort of the moral degradation |
| 1:07.0 | of the English game. |
| 1:09.0 | But we're not going to start there, are we? |
| 1:11.0 | No, we're not. |
| 1:12.0 | We're going to start at Wembley. We're only going to Solsh are we? No we're not. We're going to |
| 1:13.2 | Solshar's perfect start as Manchester United |
| 1:16.2 | manager continued with victory over Tottenham. Solshar becomes the |
| 1:20.0 | first United manager to win his first six games in charge, also equaling |
| 1:24.4 | some Matt Busby's record of winning his first five league games. |
| 1:28.0 | Paul, what have you made then of the start Solcha has made and what you saw yesterday. |
| 1:33.0 | It's been completely beyond my expectations, particularly a look at how they finished under |
| 1:38.0 | Jose Marino. |
| 1:39.4 | It looks like two completely different teams at the moment. |
| 1:43.0 | I mean, Marino spent most of his time hammering the players or certainly not praising them. |
| 1:49.0 | And so shy yesterday, the inter-press conference, had named every, you know, every united player who played in that |
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