Weekend Preview: Maddison's Swagger, Bielsa Burnout & Villa Post-Grealish
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The Athletic
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🗓️ 29 October 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Hosts Dan Bardell and George Elek are joined by bet365's Steve Freeth, to discuss Leicester's return to form, as Maddison 'gets his swagger back' and with summer signing Patson Daka's star on the rise... Are Leeds "too good to go down", how much does David Moyes deserve a trophy and why it's too soon to expect Villa to move on from Jack Grealish. Plus, who's worse right now - Spurs or Man United?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.9 | Hello and welcome to the weekend preview on the Athletic Football podcast, sponsored by Bet365. |
| 0:25.5 | I'm Dan Bardell, and each and every Friday we preview the best of the weekend's Premier League action, |
| 0:30.4 | alongside Bet365, Steve Freeth. Steve, how are you? Looking forward to this. Good stuff, me too. |
| 0:36.6 | And as usual, we've got George Ellick here with us as well. |
| 0:40.9 | Always says, ask George, if he's busy. |
| 0:42.9 | He's always busy. I'm not going to ask you if you're busy this way, 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. |
| 0:42.4 | So it's my I got married in July and it's my post wedding stag this |
| 0:56.7 | weekend so it's been well because it had been delayed so many times due to COVID delays my |
| 1:03.4 | my best man my brother and my best mate would be determined to still make sure I got a send-off |
| 1:08.9 | so I have no idea what I'm doing this weekend. |
| 1:11.8 | But slight, yeah, trepidation creeping in now on the eve of it. |
| 1:15.3 | So we'll see. |
| 1:16.4 | It sounds like a bit of a strange rule change, that doing the stagdo afterwards. |
| 1:20.1 | And there has been another rule change or a rule change that's upcoming in football. |
| 1:25.0 | The five substitutes, looking, thank you. |
| 1:27.3 | It was pretty poor, wasn't it? It was really not working 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 |
| 1:45.0 | better, I suppose. Yeah. That's the kind of thing that naturally springs to my mind. Yeah, |
| 1:49.7 | I think any rule change where it's going to clearly benefit those with deeper squads and more money |
| 1:56.4 | is not a good thing. There are clearly issues surrounding the amount of games that the teams are, all the players |
| 2:05.9 | are having to play through the summer with multiple different competitions, racking up |
| 2:11.2 | the miles going into Europe and all these other things where that cannot be a good thing. |
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