What A Difference A Week Makes
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The Times
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🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson, Alyson Rudd and Tony Cascarino.
Gary Lineker will return to MOTD this weekend after everything that transpired over the last few days. Have you ever seen football presented in such a miserable way as they did on Saturday night? (00:00)
Liverpool followed their thrashing of Manchester United with a 1-0 loss at Bournemouth. Can the south coast side stay up and will Liverpool bounce back to shock Real Madrid? (08:42)
Everton got a much-needed win over Brentford. How can they stay in the Premier League and how important will Goodison Park be to them? (27:04)
It’s been suggested that Ivan Toney is in line for another England call up - but should he be involved with the possibility of a lengthy ban on the horizon? (35:42)
Leeds battled to get a point against Brighton - was Roberto De Zerbi’s disappointment a sign of how far Brighton have come? (39:36)
How important was West Ham’s point against Aston Villa in their survival hopes under David Moyes? (46:17)
We round up the rest of the weekend’s games with big wins for Chelsea and Spurs (53:13)
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| 0:00.0 | Today, we check out the bottom of the table as it gets even tighter, but there's a huge |
| 0:09.1 | win for Bournemouth, which spurs their survival hopes. Everton, as well who came past Brentford, |
| 0:14.4 | should Ivan Tony be selected for England this week, despite the charges that he faces |
| 0:19.6 | over gambling. There's a big point for West Ham United and Leeds as well, but defeats |
| 0:24.2 | for Leicester and Forrest, as well as Crystal Palace. Southampton get a viral point at Manchester |
| 0:29.6 | United World Debate, Casamiro's Red Card, all that and more on the game. |
| 0:36.1 | Hello, welcome back to the game, Bob Gast, I'm Hugh, wasn't crafted today on a glorious |
| 0:40.1 | Monday morning, alongside Tony Cascarino, Alison Rudd and Grigor Robertson. And before we |
| 0:45.8 | get into the football, you know, we've got to mention it, you know, the elephant in the |
| 0:49.6 | room. We've all been talking about it for a week. Don't really care what's happened |
| 0:54.3 | with Gary Linnaker at the BBC, although I'm looking at the news channel above me and |
| 0:57.3 | it says he's going to return this weekend, which is great for him. But it was looking |
| 1:01.5 | back at the programs that we got with the football highlights on the weekend, just a |
| 1:06.5 | weirder stick experience. I mean, it was almost like why is this even on? It doesn't really |
| 1:11.1 | do much to tell us anything about what happened in these matches to be perfectly honest. |
| 1:15.3 | It was weird, very, very weird. And just to let you all know, it makes doing this job |
| 1:19.8 | very, very hard. I didn't know how much I used match to the days of crutch to help |
| 1:24.4 | me do my job. But I don't know what to say today, because match to the day just was it |
| 1:29.2 | was inadequate. It was weird, Tony. Well, you're asking the worst person on the group of |
| 1:34.3 | people to because I don't watch matches today anyway, because I work very early on Saturday |
| 1:38.2 | and Sunday morning. It's on too late. And you can get a lot football on before match |
| 1:42.8 | to the day appears. So to me, it was a bit of a storm in a team cup. I tend to agree |
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