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Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Welcome to the game podcast I'm Gabriel Marcotti and this week I'm joined by

Oliver K Stewart Robson and making his seasonal debut the Pride of Merseys

Mr Tony Barrett.

Very packed show today, obviously with the news of Wayne Rooney, possibly falling out with

Manchester United, the Liverpool Darby and John W Henry taking over, and as revealed

in the Sunday Times allegation of cash for

votes from two FIFA Executive Committee members.

We're going to start today on Merseys, Everton in Liverpool. Now, since there isn't much going on at Liverpool,

Ollie, I'm going to start out by asking you about Everton.

I thought with a lot of players missing among them, of course, Marlon Felini and a bunch of others,

they came out of the gates very strong and probably maybe showed John W Henry in the stands that you know pedigree only counts for so much

Well, yeah, I mean if you look at if you look at everything's performance

i mean well i should suggest you know afterwards it was um that

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