Hello, this is the game podcast from The Times and I'm Natalie Sawyer.

Joining Gregor Robertson and I today it is Jonathan Northcroft, Gregor and

Jonathan. Good afternoon to you. Hope you're both doing well. Jonathan, how are you?

Very well Natalie, yes, I'm still working through this strange period.

Home school is getting harder. I want to...

Isn't it just?. But then it is, isn't it? I also want lie and say that I've been doing that much of it. My wife's been bearing the brunt, but yeah, goshosh it doesn't get easier.

No it doesn't although this week I've found that researching films is quite good

that's what I'm saying a lot this week we've watched another film shall we

Gregor how you how are you keeping? I'm very well now how are you? Yes I'm very very well

thank you apart from the weather being a little bit gloomy.

We were all sort of excited by the summer sun, weren't we, but that seems to have gone for now anyway.

And it's only six days to go until the Premier League returns.

Next Thursday we're going to be looking back on Aston Villa Shelfel United

and Manchester City versus Arsenal.

Jonathan, we've been talking about Project Restart for so long and now we are less than a week

away.

We are and I mean, you know, thank goodness we're here.

It's exciting.

I'm not sure.

There's been times during this break that I'll be honest, I wasn't sure how excited I actually

would be.

I think maybe at first I quite enjoyed the space from the

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