The Athletic.

Well, we've actually got some positive stuff on the pod today.

We'll talk about Newcastle who are into the top four.

And we'll also talk about Aston Villa who demolished Brentford over the weekend, but we will also talk

about them dismissing Stephen Gerard and look at what went wrong and who might replace him. But we are going to start with a downbeat story,

Leeds, beaten again at the weekend. So where does that put Jesse Marsh? I'm Mark Chapman,

this is the Athletic Football Podcast. Reed. That's done brilliantly. Still going. There's the goal to see it.

For Willier, his first full and goal.

There's three one in front now. His first full and goal.

There's three one in front now

and that might just spell the end for Jesse Marsh.

We are unified here, really the board to the to the staff to the players.

We are hurting. I understand that that fans are not happy and the ire should be directed

to exactly at me and I've got to find ways to get us better and find ways to help us get

points.

Let's start with Leeds then, well beaten at home by Fulham. So that's now four

Premier League defeats on the spin. Our Leeds writer Phil Hay is with us. He didn't speak like a broken man afterwards

but he didn't half look like a broken man for for sort of the last 20 minutes at the game and then into post-match media.

I'd agree with that. I noticed that at full time. I was watching him as the game finished and he did look, he looked fairly shellshocks, I thought and beaten was the word that I used at the time.

He went around the pitch applauding the fans and there was some applause in

in return there was plenty of dissent as well at one point he

walked past a ball that was on the pitch and hoofed it towards the West

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