Weekend Preview: Can Sunderland add to Newcastle’s misery?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The Weekend Preview returns for 2024 with an FA Cup special.
Headlining the show is the first Tyne-and-Wear derby since 2016, as a wounded Newcastle head to their local rivals Sunderland.
Meanwhile, the highest-profile clash sees fourth-place Arsenal welcome table-topping Liverpool on Sunday. Arsenal are in poor form, but how much will Liverpool miss Mo Salah, who’s just left for AFCON?
Another all-Premier League tie is Brentford vs Wolves, which Jon Mackenzie is off to attend. With Brentford only a couple of places outside the relegation zone, could a cup win re-ignite their season?
And finally, we whip out the crystal ball and offer some predictions for the year ahead, covering winners, losers, new trends and best players.
Host: Adam Leventhal
Guests: Nick Miller, Jon Mackenzie, Tim Spiers
Producer: John Rogers
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi there, this is the Athletic Football Podcast weekend preview. |
| 0:07.6 | We are back for 2024 and it is an FAA Cup weekend. Hi there, everyone. It is Adam Leventile. Happy New Year to you all. And welcome to our guest panel. John McKenzie. How are you? Really good, thank you. I'm |
| 0:39.3 | raring to go for a new year. How are you? I'm very well, John. Thank you very much. I'm all set. |
| 0:44.2 | Tim Spears is back again. I noticed not wearing your t-shirt. Tim? No. Two sizes is too small for me, |
| 0:52.4 | so, you know, it would look silly. Okay. Okay, fine. But it is good to have you back |
| 0:57.1 | on board. And Nick Miller is here as well. How are you, Nick? I'm very well. I'm very well. I noticed |
| 1:03.3 | I haven't got a t-shirt of any description. Can't help but feel a bit left out. I also feel left |
| 1:08.4 | out for the record. Well, you'll both have to just simply get over it |
| 1:11.3 | because we've got a show to do. |
| 1:12.8 | And just a reminder to everyone |
| 1:14.2 | that all of the episodes of the Athletic Football Podcast |
| 1:17.6 | are now available on the YouTube channel. |
| 1:20.5 | Most of the time, we will be in the studio. |
| 1:23.7 | This week we are remotely. |
| 1:26.2 | The fixture formation, a little bit of a difficult one, this, |
| 1:28.9 | because there are so many games and it is an FA Cup weekend. |
| 1:33.1 | So this is the fixture formation, 1-3-198-1. |
| 1:39.4 | That's ridiculous. |
| 1:40.5 | From Thursday through until Monday. |
| 1:43.2 | I know it's ridiculous, Tim. |
| 1:44.3 | I know. |
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