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Check the Uber app. This is a podcast from The Times. Go to The Times. Go to the Times, the Ozzy's Dream of Ephley Cup Podcast. I'm Gab Marcotti and I'm joined by Peter Landley, Rory Smith, and a former

pro who could never be tempted out of retirement, Matt Holland. Later on we'll be discussing

QPR and Neil Warnock, but first we got to start in Manchester.

Right, city and united and before we get into the game which had about a

bazillion subtext

there's something I want to understand Aurora you're very familiar with registration

issues and technical ones how is it possible that Manchester United could sort of say on Saturday, which I presume

it was Saturday, notify the Premier League, hey, Scolze is back, this is a squad number, but don't tell anybody. Can you do this incognito?

Apparently you can. That's what has been proven. He's been training with the first team.

We think for about a month on and off and then suddenly he

appears as Manchester United's new number 22 which suggests that the way it works is that yeah

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