Will City or Arsenal stay unbeaten?
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The Times
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Where is your money now? Man City have made it a proper title race by beating Arsenal. What was the difference between the two teams, tactics, personal, injuries or mentality?
With only five and six games left can either go unbeaten until the end of the season?
Chelsea fell further back in the race for Champions League qualification, how much responsibility lies with Liam Rosenior? What happens to a billion pound squad if they don't qualify for the Champions League?
Is Morgan Gibbs White now the form number ten in the league...will it be enough to get hi ma World Cup spot?
And are Leeds and Forest safe now, is it a two horse race between West Ham and Spurs...who wins it?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times and Sunday Times. |
| 0:08.6 | It's Advantage Manchester City in the title race, but is it all over? |
| 0:12.9 | Can Arsenal come back and just how many more twists and turns will there be in this remarkable season? |
| 0:18.2 | On today's show, we'll discuss all that, another defeat for Chelsea, the Merseyside Derby, Tottenham's dropped points, Morgan Gibbs White, a thriller at Villa and loads loads more. I'm Tom Clark and joining me today we have the reporter who covers Arsenal and other London clubs for the Times. It's Gary Jacob. Good morning. The football reporter who covers Chelsea and clubs in the south. It's Peter Rutler. Really enthusiastic. Yeah, yeah. I'm enjoying the new introduction of the Good Morning. That's good. I'm establishing off of four-night. Yeah, absolutely. And the former footballer turned journalist, Gregor is with me as usual. Morning Tom. There you go. That's nice, isn't it? Never happened before. Loads to discuss. No more intros. Gary, thank you for setting the tone there. |
| 0:55.2 | City Arsenal. |
| 0:56.0 | It was a cracker, wasn't it? What a really, really great game. I was on the editing floor for the times yesterday. Everyone, we were all nervous about this, weren't we? We thought it was going to be a bit of a cagey game. It was a really, really good game. Gary, let's start with just some general thoughts because you were there |
| 1:10.4 | at the Etty had with Ballhurst, Martin Samuel, |
| 1:12.9 | and Charlotte Dunker for this one. |
| 1:14.9 | Before we get into title races and what it all means, |
| 1:17.8 | a really good game, how did you see it pan out? |
| 1:19.9 | Was cities win fair, do you think? |
| 1:22.0 | Small margins. |
| 1:22.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.2 | And the margins went against Arsenal yesterday. |
| 1:25.5 | You know, the chances and probably the two goals are sort of slight, |
| 1:29.2 | well, certainly the second goal, the slight luck on the goal. |
| 1:32.8 | But I think also overall we really pleased. |
| 1:35.0 | They attack well. |
| 1:36.6 | Unlike the final, where he kind of said him up to be a bit defensive and he couldn't play through him. |
| 1:39.9 | He actually said him up to be attacking yesterday. |
| 1:42.4 | And they caused city problems with the press |
| 1:44.6 | they they created chances and they looked threatening and they weren't overroared and |
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