The Game’s Premier League Preview 18/19
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The Game is back for the new Premier League season and it's double trouble. Gab Marcotti is joined by new co-host Natalie Sawyer. We’ll be bringing you a half-hour show every Monday and from next week a new preview show every Thursday.
Alyson Rudd and Matt Hughes join us in the studio to discuss the major talking points ahead of the big kick-off. Are Liverpool the team to provide a title challenge to Manchester City? Are Manchester United bored of Mourinho? And which new signing is a poor man’s Neymar?
Elsewhere, Gab is looking forward to seeing some Sarri-ball while Natalie is fearing Fulham as a force this season. And is it a case of Cardiff and Huddersfield PLUS ONE in the battle to beat the drop?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm Gable Mercotti and I am so excited. Welcome to the game podcast from the Times. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Gabriel Mercotti and I am so excited and so delighted, |
| 0:16.7 | not just to be back, but to be joined this season |
| 0:20.3 | by my new co-host Natalie Sawyer. |
| 0:22.4 | You heard her during the World Cup. You all loved her, you all |
| 0:24.8 | love the podcast, and some of you even said that I might benefit from having another |
| 0:29.8 | adult in the room, or maybe just one adult in the room. So welcome Natalie. |
| 0:35.0 | Oh Gab, thank you for that introduction. That's lovely of you and it's great to be back as well. |
| 0:40.0 | And as you say, not only are there two of us this season, but there'll also be two shows a week. |
| 0:45.2 | We'll be bringing you a half hour show every Monday and from next week a new preview show every Thursday as well. |
| 0:53.0 | Now if we sound a little bit wonky there's an explanation. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm not actually in the studio with Natalie right now, |
| 0:59.0 | but I will be this season, never fear. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm actually coming to you from a special secret layer |
| 1:06.6 | where people stash drug money and stuff like that in Lugano in in Techino in the southern part of Switzerland, but don't worry, I will be back in time for the start of the season. |
| 1:18.0 | With Natalie in the studio, our Times writer Allison Rudd and the very excellent deputy football correspondent of the times |
| 1:26.4 | Matt Hughes. Welcome to two of you. Now today we're going to get right into it because we've got a |
| 1:31.3 | big season to preview and where better to start than with |
| 1:34.4 | the title race. Allison it's a straight fight between Manchester City and |
| 1:39.2 | your beloved Liverpool isn't it? I like being contrary but I can't be on this occasion right |
| 1:46.0 | now as we speak right now it does look that way for big reasons and little |
| 1:51.6 | reasons the little reasons. The little reasons first, just from the community shield, |
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