Top o' the League

No Question About That - a Manchester United podcast

Studio 1878

Soccer, Sports

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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#482. United beat Burnley at Turf Moor to move *checks notes* top of the Premier League! It wasn't always pretty, but a controlled second-half performance brought Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's team to the summit for the first time this season. Ed & Paul discuss Tuesday's victory and look ahead to the weekend's top-of-the-table clash against de-perched Liverpool. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the So, We are top the leak say we are hello everyone welcome to a shameless absolutely shameless
0:38.2	celebration of 17 games into the season the 17 games into the season champions Manchester United.
0:45.0	That's right because no title prospective title winner has ever blown it
0:50.0	after 17 games ever.
0:54.0	Benny Hudson, a friend of the show, tweeted,
0:58.0	I know they don't hand out trophies in January,
1:01.0	but could they? Well, yeah, I think so. I mean, maybe if the pandemic gets anywhere,
1:07.0	they'll just have a cancel of the season.
1:09.0	So...
1:11.0	Yes, I wouldn't, I would, that would have the biggest asterisk ever, wouldn't it?
1:15.0	I mean, I was giddy, absolutely giddy with excitement.
1:21.0	We haven't been top of the league since, well at the end of a game week.
1:24.8	I mean top of the league since September 2017 and we haven't been top of the league in January since 2013.
1:32.0	And what happened in 2013, Paul?
1:34.0	What happened?
1:35.0	And we won the Ruddy League, didn't we?
1:37.0	We won it.
1:38.0	I mean...
1:40.0	I think we were seven games into the season last time we were top of the league and so that doesn't really count.
1:47.2	17!
1:49.2	Look, I still think that the chances of United were actually winning this thing are fairly small.
1:55.4	Oh yeah. For reasons that we all know of course but it's just you know I think testament to the progress that you know to be making and
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