Worst weekend; Spurs, Liverpool, Arsenal or Newcastle?
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The Times
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🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
What was the most significant result of the weekend?
Could Arsenal losing in the cup final affect the rest of their season?
Spurs losing to Nottingham Forest puts them one point clear of relegation and looking unbelievably fragile. could a club this big go down?
Liverpool slipped up again, is Arne Slot now under serious pressure with Xabi Alonso waiting in the wings?
Chelsea were thumped at Everton, are big players losing interest?
And Sunderland can't lose against Newcastle, where does the result leave the Newcastle project?
Gregor Robertson is joined by Gary Jacob, Paul Hirst and Alyson Rudd
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. |
| 0:07.5 | Manchester City win the Carabow Cup and the kid with the Manchester dialing code tattooed on his arm is the hero. |
| 0:13.4 | Two goals from City's academy graduate, Nicco O'Reilly, secured victory against Arsenal at Wembley, |
| 0:18.6 | but will the result have an impact on the Premier League |
| 0:21.0 | title race? Tottenham Hotspur are stunned by Nottingham Forrest in the relegation battle six |
| 0:26.0 | pointer are Igor Tudor's days as spurs manager numbered. And after another miserable day for |
| 0:32.1 | Liverpool, Newcastle and Chelsea is patience among supporters reaching breaking point. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Gregor Robertson and joining me in the |
| 0:38.6 | studio today we have the Times Senior Sports writer Alison Rudd, the Times London football reporter |
| 0:43.4 | Gary Jacob and making his first appearance in the studio of the season. The first for ages. It's the |
| 0:49.1 | Times Manchester based football writer Paul Hurst. Thank you. What a lovely welcome. That's a nice welcome. Why they're the red carpet outside as well. Great to have you here, Hurstie. I'm sure I had the capuchina. Thank you. Can't afford that. Gonsal. Hirstie, you were here for the big final last weekend. This might sound like a strange question to start with, given that it was |
| 1:11.9 | a cut final weekend. But it was a huge weekend of football on many levels. So I'm going to |
| 1:17.0 | start by asking you which result was the most significant of the weekend for you. Alison, |
| 1:22.5 | I'll start with you. For me. For me, it was Liverpool's defeat. |
| 1:27.7 | Surprised, surprise. Well, no, for me, it was Liverpool's defeat. Surprised, surprise. |
| 1:29.7 | Well, no, for grown-up reasons, I think a lot of people got carried away with the performance against Galatasaray. |
| 1:39.0 | Galatasarai were not very good, but the idea that that had arrested all the problems at Liverpool was shown to |
| 1:46.1 | be untrue by the performance of Brighton, which was much more like the performances against |
| 1:51.4 | wolves and spurs. I have argued Liverpool need a reset and at the end of the season they should |
| 1:58.0 | bring in Chabby Alonzo. i don't think i just don't think |
| 2:02.6 | i just don't think slot is going to be the man for the future okay we'll come to that you |
| 2:07.3 | asked me the question you know i know that was a very good answer but we'll come to that in the |
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