What’s the story Gab and Rory?
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In a special episode, Gab Marcotti welcomes back Rory Smith to The Game podcast, as they pore through some of the biggest issues in football today.
While Manchester United look to be filling their managerial vacancy with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, are they in danger of neglecting their structural failings as a club?
VAR will be in the Premier League next season but is it battling against a narrative of heroes and villains, the laws of the game and an attitude towards officials that is too demanding?
Is the European Super League an inevitability? Or will smaller cross-border leagues from around the continent become a reality sooner?
And with Raheem Sterling again on the receiving end in Montenegro, what measures are appropriate to combat racist behaviour in the stands?
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| 0:39.3 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and we thank you for joining us. No I'm not, I'm Gabriel Marcoti. And this is a very special |
| 1:04.4 | podcast. You probably may have noticed that we're coming to you a day later. That's partly because it's |
| 1:09.2 | international week, partly because Natalie Soy isn't here, and partly because today I'm joined by an old friend and if you're a long |
| 1:16.8 | time listener and reader of the times an old friend of yours as well he's been a |
| 1:21.0 | key figure from game podcast in the past and he's now the chief soccer |
| 1:26.2 | correspondent for the New York Times. |
| 1:29.4 | Please welcome back Rory K Smith. |
| 1:33.4 | Today, Rory and I are going to discuss four of the bigger talking points in football at the moment, |
| 1:38.6 | including VAR, the European Super League, other bits and bobs. We all have a tendency to talk too much because we both love the sounds of our own voices, so our producer Charlie will cut us off probably at about 10 minutes or so into each talking point. |
| 1:52.8 | But before we get into that, |
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