The Wood And The Forest
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The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Tom Clarke and Alyson Rudd.
There were some shocks and some near-shocks in the FA Cup this weekend. Non-league Boreham Wood pulled off the biggest surprise with a win over Bournemouth and will face Everton. Could they keep the run going? (00:00)
Plymouth took Chelsea to extra time and things could have been very different had Ryan Hardie scored his penalty. Kidderminster also came close against West Ham (9:21)
Nottingham Forest took Leicester City apart at the City Ground. The Times’ Chief Football Reporter Henry Winter joins us to discuss what went wrong for Brendan Rodgers and why Forest are such a strong side under Steve Cooper (21:57)
Middlesbrough’s win over Manchester United throws up a discussion over handballs and the quality of Chris Wilder teams (29:17)
Harvey Elliott made his return for Liverpool in their 3-1 win over Cardiff and Hugh makes some big predictions over the rest of his 2022 (44:24)
Mo Salah didn’t get to take a penalty in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations - which leads to the debate of ‘should your best player take your final penalty?’ (47:53)
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| 1:32.5 | Hello and welcome back to the Game Football Podcast from the Times. Today we reflect on a |
| 1:37.6 | magical weekend in the fourth round of the FA Cup as Bournem would shop Bournemouth to move on |
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