The Game changes the game
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
For the final podcast of 2018, Gab Marcotti and Natalie Sawyer bring you a one-off special, as the great writers at The Times give us their ideas for changing the game of football forever.
What measures and rule changes would we bring in to improve the sport we love? Full-time buzzers? Physios in play? The ball never out of play? Hear from Henry Winter, Alyson Rudd, Oli Kay and many more.
Also on the agenda, VAR, the Super League…and mascots.
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| 0:24.0 | Some shows may have ads. Hello and I'm Gabriel Marcotti and I thank you for joining us on this New Year's Eve. |
| 0:45.7 | That's right. |
| 0:46.7 | 2019 is around the corner. |
| 0:48.2 | We wish you a happy and serene and healthy one of course. |
| 0:51.7 | We're releasing this podcast today we've taped it |
| 0:54.2 | earlier I can't believe you told them am I spoiling the magic of yeah no because people |
| 0:59.1 | actually think that we meet here we're such losers that we meet here at like |
| 1:02.3 | eight o'clock on the evening on New Year's. |
| 1:04.0 | Because we're celebrating New Zealand together. So anyway, we're not really here. We left the studio days ago. |
| 1:08.6 | We do have lives. But here's a pre-recorded special. Indeed, yes, we've been asking writers from the Times to give us their ideas for improving |
| 1:16.6 | the game of football, whether it's rule changes, structural changes, you name it, and we've |
| 1:21.8 | been picking the brains of journalism's finest minds as they share |
| 1:25.4 | their bug bears. |
| 1:27.4 | In the studio with us today, or not really today, but the day that we're taping this, it's |
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