Who are the ‘Big Six’? And how long will Ange last?
The Game Football Podcast
The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
What is the future of Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou? With his Spurs team sitting in their worst league position at this stage since 2009, injuries galore and the pressure mounting, what happens next? For Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest life couldn’t be better. Andoni Iraola is drawing rave reviews for his style of football as his team are one point of the Champions League places. Forest are in the title race, let alone the race for Europe.
After the break, a tribute to Denis Law, is it time we drop the term ‘Big Six’ and did Villa play well or did Arsenal mess up?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. How low can Anj Postercoglu possibly go? |
| 0:11.6 | I defeat at Everton for Tottenham means they are in their worst league position after 22 games since 2009 and have a fan base split over the manager's future. On today's show, we'll |
| 0:22.8 | discuss that future and try our best to cover loads of the weekend action, including Nottingham |
| 0:27.4 | Forest, Arsenal, Bournemouth, Liverpool and loads more. I'm Tom Clark and joining me today, |
| 0:32.0 | we have the senior sports writer and Sunday Times columnist Alison Rudd, the football reporter and |
| 0:36.9 | tactics analyst Hamza Khalik Lunat |
| 0:38.7 | and the former defender turned journalist Gregorobson. |
| 0:41.0 | He's here, as usual, team, how are we doing? |
| 0:43.1 | One week on, we're back to fall out. |
| 0:44.9 | I've got some big and worrying news for you. |
| 0:47.3 | I don't normally drink coffee. |
| 0:48.4 | I'm normally a decaf kind of guy, |
| 0:50.2 | and someone's just on a coffee run this morning, |
| 0:52.2 | and I think they accidentally brought me a proper coffee. |
| 0:55.0 | I am absolutely buzzing. So the first half of this show is going to be very, very lively, |
| 1:00.0 | going to be on times two speed and then in the second half of the show I'm going to have a panic attack. |
| 1:05.0 | So let's get stuck into it. Alison, how's the cold? How's the cough? |
| 1:09.0 | I think I'm 38 days into the 100 day cold. |
| 1:12.4 | Not that I'm counting or anything. |
| 1:13.9 | No, definitely not. Not feeling sorry for yourself at all. |
| 1:16.5 | Hamza, I was on the office floor and listening to Joe |
| 1:19.1 | give you a nice little pep talk. Joe, one of the editors as well, |
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