The Curious Case of Mesut Özil

The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Hugh Woozencroft and Gregor Robertson are joined by Tom Clarke and Jonathan Northcroft. The Mesut Özil situation has got even messier in the last few days - but is Mikel Arteta really a failure for not getting the best out of him? Footballers are using their positions for activism more than ever - does anyone have the right to tell them to ‘just get back to football’? The English success in Europe this week also falls under the spotlight. Get The Times free for a month: thetimes.co.uk/thegame

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0:00.0	Introducing Apple Watch Series 9. Now there's a magical new way to use your Apple
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0:29.0	Hello, you're listening to the Game Football Podcast from The Times.
0:37.0	I am Hugh Wiesencroft.
0:38.0	And today we'll analyze the curious case of Mezzarzel, the World Cup winner now left out of Arsenal's Premier League squad
0:46.0	was its activism at the heart of the issue? We'll discuss when it's right for a
0:50.8	player to speak up.
0:53.0	Also, what a result for Manchester United in the Champions League this week.
0:56.6	We will see if they can carry that momentum into their game against Chelsea at the weekend.
1:01.6	And as Georgino becomes a bit of a school teacher at
1:05.3	teaching Tiago silver English we'll ask what football phrases to players in
1:10.0	England need to know that all coming up over the next hour or so to help me
1:14.9	through it all Jonathan Northcroft Tom Clark and Gregor Robertson hello guys
1:18.7	hello Hugh how are you yeah I'm feeling a little bit melancholy about Meza Erzel.
1:23.2	That's a player that I've loved in the Premier League over the last few years and not to have the opportunity
1:29.4	to see him even in the, you know, Arsenal's, I guess, least important Premier League games is very
1:36.1	sad and look people have contrasting opinions about it, some saying there are 350,000 reasons every single week why Meza Erzel shouldn't care.
1:45.5	But I still think from a sporting perspective to see a player like him who's been great, let's
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