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This is a podcast from The Times. Go to The Times. Go to the Times, the podcast that always picks a team to win, whoever the opposition is.

Today I'm joined by Allison Rudd, Patty Barclay, and from the great

northeast of England, the man with five cats, it's George Colkin.

Later on, we'll be discussing football men versus businessmen in the boardroom, but let's start with the action from the weekend.

Now, we're at Annfield and I want to say something clearly now in Sir Alex's defense before we start.

In matches a day when all giggly, oh, the biggest, biggest game in the world, hey,

ha ha ha ha ha, and like, oh, look, ha ha ha, you know, he's losing it.

I looked through all his quotes. I couldn't find him actually saying that

Liverpool against Manchester United was the biggest game in the world. All I found was

him saying is the biggest game in the English calendar which I think you'd have to be kind of

mad to argue that it's not. Has anybody actually heard the man? The biggest game in

English, no no I mean to clear that up I never heard him say that but besides why would you listen I mean the biggest match in the world is quite obviously

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