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Hello and welcome to the game podcast from the Times I'm Gabriel Marcotti and this week I am super excited because some of my favorite

guests are back. No, not Rory K Smith obviously, but we've done much better than that. We have

Allison Rudd and Tony Cascarino in the studio and as a special treat speaking to us from the great northeast, it's George Colkin.

Now it's a bit of an odd week because it's international week and some of us find it a bit of a bummer

so we'll be talking about different and in more interesting things possibly

certainly more interesting in some of these games but of of course we have to start at Wembley, the home of football, England and Malta.

Now, listen, I'll start with you. England, when 2-0, I don't know how much there is to talk about the game

itself other than the fact that England started a little slowly then they scored two

goals in the first half and they didn't score in the second half I think that about sums it up anybody

of anything interesting they want to say about the game itself no no no no well I

think there was unanimity on Twitter which there often isn't that Jordan Henderson played

rather well okay and because Jordan Henderson's from the northeast do you want to

weigh in George yeah I thought he looked he look good but I mean then how are you

judging it what are you judging it on what's the quality of the

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