Weekend Preview: Arsenal’s Anfield test and 2023 in review
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🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Adam Leventhal returns to preview the last set of games before Christmas.
First up, a Christmas cracker at the top of the table, with Arsenal visiting Anfield. The Gunners lead the league but are without a win away to Liverpool in over a decade.
Elsewhere West Ham host Man United, where they have a chance to overtake the Red Devils in the table, while guest Jon Mackenzie shares his controversial take on David Moyes.
Other storylines ahead of this weekend include Everton going for 5 wins in a row versus Spurs and a debut at Nottingham Forest for Nuno Espirito Santo.
And finally, for our last show of 2023, we look back on our best and worst moments of the year, and make some Christmas wishes for 2024.
Host: Adam Leventhal
Guests: Jay Harris, Jon Mackenzie, Tim Spiers
Producer: John Rogers
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:04.8 | Hi there, this is the Athletic Football Podcast weekend preview. |
| 0:08.4 | It is the last set of fixtures before Christmas, and it is our last show of 2020. Hello everyone and welcome to the show. |
| 0:33.5 | I'm Adam Leventhal and season's greetings to our wonderful panel. |
| 0:39.1 | Jay Harris is here. How are you, Jay? |
| 0:48.4 | I'm a little bit wet. Ah, yes, you are. Do you want to explain? I've very stupidly knocked a glass of water over myself and my laptop. |
| 0:54.1 | Will you be able to do any more articles for the rest of the year? I think I'll just about manage to power through. Okay. Is that good news? Is that bad news? Who knows? Tim Spears is here, as always. How are you? Yeah, good. I feel like we've already done the podcast with our pre-match chat. Yes. Which people might like to have listened to. We've been talking about. Various issues, including banning long throw-ins, which i'm all for john mackenzie is here |
| 1:14.2 | as well from tifo how are you oh good it is great to have you all on the show just a reminder for |
| 1:20.1 | everyone that you can listen in all the normal podcast places as you are right now but you can also |
| 1:26.1 | watch the show on our YouTube channel. |
| 1:28.9 | We hit 200,000 subscribers on the channel this week. So thank you to everyone for sharing some love. |
| 1:35.1 | You sounded surprised by that. Well, no, I think that's a healthy total. Fixed your formation in a |
| 1:39.8 | moment's time. We will also, just a flag for you later on in the podcast, have a little bit of a review |
| 1:45.9 | of the year, our panel's picks, and also a special quiz for you. But the fixture formation is |
| 1:54.1 | a 11-61 set up from Thursday through until Sunday. Listeners will note that that only adds up to nine games. |
| 2:03.6 | Of course, Manchester City against Brentford was postponed due to |
| 2:06.8 | City's involvement in the Club World Cup. |
| 2:09.2 | We've already had Crystal Palace against Brighton on Thursday night. |
| 2:13.2 | The Friday evening game, Aston Villa, who could go top with a win, |
| 2:17.2 | are up against bottom of |
| 2:18.4 | the lot, Sheffield United. The early kickoff on Saturday, 8th against 7th, West Ham against |
| 2:25.9 | Manchester United. Then we have four Saturday, three o'clock. Tottenham, four points clear in |
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