Hello everyone. This is the game podcast from The Times and I'm Natalie Sawyer.

Thank you for sticking with us during this difficult period. We hope to keep you informed and

entertained along the way as we tackle this together.

Joining me today, it is of course Gregor Robertson, but also joining us

we have the Times Chief Sports Correspondent Matt Lawton.

Matt great to have you with us today.

How are you doing during this pandemic?

Doing all right, thanks, Nat.

It's even though there's not any sport,

there's still a lot to write about and myself and Martin Ziegler in particular because sports news is our kind of role for the paper. All these developments, you know,

Euros being postponed, Olympics being postponed, the whole debate around player wage cuts and all those kind of stories and now

where the football's coming back. So there's a news agenda that needs to be

monitored every day so strangely busy the only issue is when you do bump into

neighbours or you speak to friends who say you might you can't have anything to do at the moment

and you think I wish that was true because I'm actually working very long hours but trying to you know obviously we've got less pages in in sport at the moment but they still need to be filled and hopefully they're being

filled with stuff that is informative and interesting to people.

It's interesting because we had Martin Ziegler on Thursdays pod last week and he said he felt he was the busiest he's ever been right now.

Yeah, it is. There are, I would agree with Martin to an extent.

I think he's probably forgetting how hard he has to work at an Olympic Games or at a world

when you work in a different time zones and you end up doing ridiculous hours. But, look, it's at the end of the day,

we're writing about sports.

I'm not gonna start complaining about it.

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