Hello, this is the game podcast from The Times and I'm Natalie Sawyer.

Joining me today it is Tom Roddy and Jonathan Northcroft.

Guys, how are you Tom, how are you keeping?

Yes, good thanks, night, yourself.

Yes, very, very well, thank you.

It's going to be a busy one I think on this podcast.

There's lots been happening this week, so it's going to be good to get our

teeth into it all. Jonathan, how you doing? I'm really good in that. Yeah, I'm very well. How are you? Yes, all is fine, this

end. It seems crazy that this weekend we've got the

community shield and then it's sort of back to football it all kind of

of kicks off the following weekend with the EFL cup action and it's like it's never stopped and it hasn't in some ways.

It's bizarre and I actually can't go to the community shield because I'm still

quarantined from the Champions League in Lisbon yeah so I'm almost serving a band from last season

before this one's done.

Oh my goodness.

That's cruel, very cruel.

But yeah, Tom, it's sort of all coming around fast, isn't it, this new season?

Yeah, it doesn't feel like there was a break at all.

And for certain clubs, they definitely weren't at all.

But no, I I mean I think as well like the fixture

list coming out I never get that excited about them anyway really but especially

this season it only just finished you

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