The Ronaldo dilemma and is Joka’s job in jeopardy?
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The Times
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🗓️ 22 October 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Gab Marcotti is joined by Paul Hirst, Gary Jacob and Bill Edgar after a big weekend of football and ahead of a big week to come.
With Cristiano Ronaldo returning to Old Trafford with Juventus, Lucy Holden has been to Turin and his birthplace Madeira to study the devotion to a football icon, in the midst of rape allegations that Ronaldo has denied.
After a fiery conclusion to Chelsea’s draw with Manchester United, does Jose Mourinho deserve respect from Blues fans just because he was successful at Stamford Bridge?
Newcastle lose their 5th home game in a row and are still winless this season. Does Benitez deserve more blame? Or do Newcastle’s problems as a football club pre-date Mike Ashley?
Fulham were the 5th biggest net spenders in Europe in the summer. Yet they lost to Cardiff. Did they really need to go out and buy a whole new squad in the summer? And how much longer will Slavisa Jokanovic be at Craven Cottage?
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| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply game podcast from The Times. I'm Gabriel Marcotti and I thank you for joining us. |
| 0:37.0 | As you may have noticed, I am flying solo today. |
| 0:41.0 | Natalie Sawyer isn't with us probably because Brentford lost while Dean Smith's |
| 0:45.9 | Villa won so she needs to get a bit of time to recover. But to make up for this we have not |
| 0:51.9 | one but two guests in the studio. We've got Mr Gary Jacob |
| 0:56.4 | Morning gaps and the Times resident stats man actually can you we decided you're the Times' Chief Stats Officer, yeah? |
| 1:04.1 | That'll, yeah, it's got to be different every week. |
| 1:06.7 | There you go. |
| 1:07.7 | Bill Edgar, and down the line from the lovely hamlet of Kharkiv, it's Paul Hurst. |
| 1:15.0 | Later on we'll be looking at the bottom of the table with the nightmare at Newcastle and |
| 1:18.8 | the failings at Fulham. |
| 1:20.8 | That's a clever alliteration there, isn't it? But we start with the return of |
| 1:24.1 | Christina Ronaldo to Old Trafford. So we start this segment on Rinaldo's return by going a slightly different direction. |
| 1:34.0 | Lucy Holden has written this piece which features prominently in the game and |
| 1:40.0 | Lucy you didn't write the headline. |
| 1:42.0 | It kind of I thought in some ways kind of sums up the dilemma at the center of your piece. |
| 1:46.0 | The headline is, what do you do when the man you idolize is accused of rape? |
| 1:52.0 | And you obviously, you went to Madera where |
| 1:55.6 | Christina Ronaldo's from home to the Christina Ronaldo museum the |
| 1:59.5 | Christina Ronaldo hotel and so on as well as Turin, and you spoke to people about how they felt. |
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