The interim and the intermediary
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Gab Marcotti and Natalie Sawyer are joined by Matt Hughes and Paul Hirst after a good weekend for the Manchester clubs.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s sensational performance as interim manager at Old Trafford makes the possibility of him not being given the job permanently more and more improbable. After another victory over Leicester, would the appointment of anybody other than Ole cause uproar? And could anybody have done what Solskjaer has done?
Pep proves to be unpredictable again at the Etihad, fielding Fernandinho at centre-half. Is this another example of Guardiola’s tactical flexibility or a more long-term solution? Plus what next for Emery’s Arsenal?
There were emotional scenes at the Cardiff City Stadium on Saturday, at Cardiff’s first home game since the disappearance of record signing Emiliano Sala. We discuss what the transfer of Sala has revealed about the inner workings of football and ask why are there so many people involved in these deals?
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| 0:24.0 | Denney's left it. |
| 0:25.0 | Well if they're in trouble before, they are definitely taking on water now. |
| 0:29.0 | They're 59 for 4 still trailing by 60. |
| 0:32.0 | Hello, I'm John Norman, host of the following on podcast from Talk Sport, |
| 0:36.0 | which follows England's path through the three tests, five ODIs, and three T20s here in the Caribbean and while it may be sunny in the West Indies |
| 0:46.5 | there's a dark cloud hanging over England after they were dominated in the |
| 0:51.1 | second test. To be out of the new over, short and pulled away by Campbell for the winning runs. |
| 1:00.0 | He punches the air in celebration. |
| 1:02.6 | The West Indies have beaten England. |
| 1:06.4 | Can it get any worse? |
| 1:07.8 | We'll join us every day to find out. |
| 1:10.3 | It's the following on podcast, |
| 1:12.1 | and we'll see if the West Indies can make it a clean sweep. Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times, I'm Natalie Sawyer. |
| 1:35.0 | And I'm Gabriel Marcotti and we thank you for joining us on this Monday morning and I'm especially |
| 1:40.3 | psyched because in the studio with us is Mr. Matt Hughes who I will reference we have a |
| 1:47.3 | wonderful story in the paper today with Foster from from Watford talking about |
| 1:52.0 | middle-aged men in Lycra and how he joined the ranks of the |
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