Weekend Preview: Palace give Patrick Vieira the push, will Saint Selles save Southampton & Dyche's Dogs of War head to the Bridge
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🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Dan Bardell is joined by George Elek, Dan Barnes and bet365's Steve Freeth for a relegation special, ahead of this weekend's Premier League action.
With Patrick Vieira sacked by Crystal Palace, ahead of a visit to Arsenal, the panel give their reaction as well as speculating over who could take the reigns at Selhurst Park.
Jacob Tanswell shares the tale of Southampton's sorry season, prior to taking on Tottenham - and Paddy Boyland discusses Sean Dyche's impact at Everton with the Toffees travelling to Stamford Bridge this weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | There's absolutely no denying that the job that Vira has done this season has been pretty poor. |
| 0:27.5 | Whilst there's fires everywhere, I feel like Bournemouth might have slightly just... |
| 0:31.6 | You kind of feel like they could sneak under the radar and be the ones that sort of just crawl by their fingernails and by their toenails just over the finish line at the end of all this. |
| 0:41.8 | I can see Leeds pulling away and it wouldn't surprise me if they got something out the game against the against wars at the weekend. |
| 0:59.5 | Hello, welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. I'm Dan Bardell and this is the weekend preview. |
| 1:07.4 | I'm joined by George Ellick, Bet365 Steve Freeth and Dan Barnes as we focus on things at the bottom of the Premier League. |
| 1:11.8 | With just five points separating nine teams, the battle for survival has never been tighter. Our Southampton doomed, can Bournemouth back up their win over Liverpool at Villa |
| 1:17.3 | Park and who'll come out on top as Wolves welcome leads. That's all to come here on the weekend |
| 1:23.3 | preview. But first, we must get into the big breaking news this Friday morning. Preview. |
| 1:32.0 | But first, we must get into the big breaking news this Friday morning. |
| 1:34.7 | Patrick Vieira has left Crystal Palace. |
| 1:36.5 | Bizarre time in George. |
| 1:37.5 | Have they panicked? |
| 1:39.3 | Possibly. |
| 1:41.8 | I mean, panicking has negative connotations the whole time. |
| 1:48.6 | I mean, they've definitely acted swiftly and made a decision quickly, which he can't say was the case when they appointed Vieira. |
| 1:54.6 | Whether or not they panic will probably be decided after the event when we see who, whether or not they've got somebody lined up to replace him, who that person is. But there's absolutely |
| 1:58.5 | no denying that the job that Vieira has done this season |
| 2:02.0 | has been pretty poor. We spoke about this a lot on the show last week in terms of the massive |
| 2:07.3 | drop-off, not just in performances as a team and results, but also just the style of play, the |
| 2:11.8 | individual form of certain players, the development of certain young players, everything just |
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