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Hello and welcome to the game, the football podcast,

from The Times I'm Gabriel Marcotti and this is our last one of the 2013 calendar year

before we begin do not forget you can catch the highlights from every Premier League game before anyone else simply by downloading

the Times app to your smartphone.

This week I'm joined in the studio by Allison Rudd.

Julian Lawrence, who is often in the studio, is not in the studio because he's out in the wonderful wilderness that is Cheshire.

And I am delighted, I think it might be the first time this season that we have everybody's favorite Northern correspondent James Tucker on the show and yes

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