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Hello and welcome to the Game Football Podcast from the Times. I'm Tom Clark and joining me today is Gregor Robertson, Johnny Northcroft.

And for the first time this season are new signing, who'll be joining us every Thursday. It's Martin Samuel. Welcome to the Game Martin.

Thank you very much Tom. You delighted to be here.

You delighted to be here. I started the game with a lot of other times colleagues in 2007. It was the reason they got me to be their chief football writer.

And now you're back on the podium.

It's still going. So there we go. It must have done something like that.

Now we'll be getting to know Martin a little bit later on, including the time he nearly blew up the entire press back on a trip to South America.

Save that for later. We'll also be asking him about his scariest managerial meetings.

But we've got lots of football to talk as well. We'll be talking West Ham. We'll be talking Wolves. We'll be talking about that title decider at the weekend at the Etihad already.

We've got a title decider. That's right after one game this season. But we're going to start with Manchester United.

They kicked off their season with a 1-0 win against Wolves at Old Trafford. But Martin, you, like many others I think, weren't particularly impressed.

Your column in the Times on Tuesday was headlined. Manchester United are still a working progress and Eric Tenharg is to blame.

So tell us more.

Well, the second part of that I've thought was a little bit of an extrapolation.

Yeah, I was just looking at it and I thought they were two players short.

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