Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times.

I'm Gabriel Marcotti.

I thank you for joining us.

Now with me in the studio today, it's the excellent Allison Rudd.

And down the line, looking radiant radiant it's Matt Dickinson.

Later on we'll be talking some video assistant referee type stuff

given some of those wonderful officiating decisions

the last couple weeks.

Please, no more paucin.

But we need to start at the place where the

Premier League may have ended this weekend and that is the Etahad Pep versus

Poch. Dicco I want to be overly dramatic, but you know, I imagine there were people out there

sort of going, you know, help us OB-WAN Pochitino, you're our only hope to actually have a Premier League race this year

and Manchester City just kind of stomped all over taught in them.

To some people I guess, you know, beating United.

That's it, that's over and sort of end a title race sort of yawned.

But to me, actually the way city you're playing the sort of run they're putting together

there's a fascination just in seeing how good they can become and how you know can they

win every game like this can they break records that that's that's the narrative now and it's no less

interesting to me than the competitive league just when you see a team playing

in a sort of singular style yeah I'm delighted to see it because Guadiola brought that reputation people as we like to do

question it and pick at it and he's putting together one hell of a retort in a pretty spectacular way.

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