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18 or over. Hello and welcome to the game podcast from the Times I'm

Giby Marotti and I wish you a very very happy 2018 for 2017 was good

I hope that it'll be even better.

If your 2017 was bad, then won't take much for 2018 to surpass it.

Now will it?

Now with me in the studio, it's Allison Rudd and it's Henry Winter and together we'll be doing part two of our primary league half-term report cards.

An aim means you are far surpassing expectations. A B means you're above expectations. A

C means you are meeting expectations. A D means that you are subpar and an F is a fail.

South Hampton, one of the gold standard clubs for how well they're run,

except maybe when it comes to Axing Claude Puel.

Well, the Axing of Claude Puel look rather stupid when they were heavily outclassed and defeated by Leicester recently,

by a team team playing the exciting football they hoped they would get under Puyall and

didn't get which is why they fired him even though he reached the

lead cup final where they played exciting football.

So I think they lost their base slightly Southampton and then they appoint somebody who

drifts between occasionally playing the dullest football you'll ever see,

occasionally playing quite exciting football. I'm not entirely sure what they're

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