The Athletic. Hello and welcome to the weekend preview on the Athletic Football

Podcast sponsored by Bet 365. 365. I'm Dan Bardell and each and every Friday we preview the best of the weekend's

Premier League action alongside Bet 365 Steve Freeth,. How are you looking forward to this good stuff me too and as usual we've got George Ellock here with us as well

It always says that's George if he's busy. He's always busy. I'm not going to ask you this I'm not going to actually if you

busy this where George I'm just going to ask you if you've had a good week.

Yeah I've had a good week I've got an interesting weekend ahead of me because I'm

it's my I got married in July and it's my

post wedding stag this weekend so it's been well because it had been delayed

so many times due to COVID delays. My best men, my brother and my best mate were

determined to still make sure I got a send off so I have no idea what I'm doing

this weekend but slight trepidation creeping in now on the

eve of it so we'll see.

It sounds like a bit of a strange rule change that doing the stag do afterwards and

there has been another rule change or a rule change that's upcoming in football.

The five substitutes, looking thank you.

It was pretty poor, wasn't it?

It was really not worth it well at all that.

It looks like five substitutes is going to become a permanent feature in football after a rule change to the laws of the game.

I'll come to you first, Steve. A good or a bad idea.

I suppose the argument for the lesser sides will be the better sides will be even

better I suppose yeah that's the kind of thing that's naturally springs to my

mind yeah I I think any real change where it's going to clearly benefit those with deeper squads and more money is not a good thing

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