"The Biggest Vanity Job You’ve Ever Seen"
The Game
The Times
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🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Tony Cascarino and Tom Clarke in London - and Gregor Robertson in Ghent.
Chelsea have it all to do in their Champions League second leg against Real Madrid. Was Frank Lampard the best choice and did the club wait too long to part company with Graham Potter? (00:00)
Manchester City have a lot less to worry about against Bayern Munich. Have they found form at the right time and will they finally achieve European glory? (22:07)
Dean Smith is in at Leicester City. Is he a good choice and did the club miss a trick in keeping the faith with Brendan Rodgers for so long? (40:30)
Liverpool are said to have cooled their interest in Jude Bellingham and Gregor tells us about his trip to Wrexham as we round up the other big stories of the week (52:26)
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the game podcast from the times today. We react to the two big games |
| 0:06.0 | involving Premier League clubs in the Champions League quarterfinals. It's victory for Manchester |
| 0:11.1 | City and a very comfortable one over by Munich, but Chelsea, a beaten by Real Madrid. Is that |
| 0:17.0 | their involvement over? We'll discuss Dean Smith's appointment as less the city's interim |
| 0:21.6 | boss until the end of the season. Will that give them a greater chance of staying up? |
| 0:26.0 | And we'll celebrate Rexham's victory over Nott's County through Gritty Teeth in the National |
| 0:30.8 | League. This is the game. Hello and welcome back to the game podcast. I am Hugh Wiesencroft. |
| 0:39.6 | Alongside Tom Clark, Tony Cascarino in London, and joining us from Ghent, Gregor Robinson. I don't |
| 0:45.1 | know why I said it so aggressively, but they are playing West Ham. So maybe it's that gentleman. |
| 0:49.6 | Hello, lots for us to discuss. Obviously, because Gregor is out in Ghent for a |
| 0:54.7 | Europe conference league match, you know that it is European week. And the Champions League has |
| 1:00.0 | taken center stage for the last couple of nights. We'll talk about last night's game first of all, |
| 1:05.2 | which was a defeat for an English side in the Champions League quarterfinal first leg. |
| 1:10.4 | Chelsea going to have it all to do, I think, if they're to reach the final four after they |
| 1:14.8 | lost to Real Madrid, the holders at the Bernabelle. Karim Benzema with a tap in that was his 90th |
| 1:20.4 | goal in the competition. And Real Madrid struggled to add to that lead. Neither side played |
| 1:25.5 | particularly well until Ben Chulwell was shown a straight red card on the 59th minute for |
| 1:30.9 | fouling Rodrigo with the Brazil forward through on goal. Marco Asensio got a second for Real Madrid |
| 1:36.7 | to make it seem a little bit more comfortable and make the Spanish side. I think firm favourites |
| 1:42.0 | to go through despite the fact Chelsea have a home match to come. Of course, Tony, it's your |
| 1:46.8 | former club, but really on the evening, it was kind of not underwhelming game in that some of |
| 1:53.3 | the predictions never came true at all. Really, some are thinking Real Madrid would absolutely |
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