Don’t mention the VAR
5 Live's World Football Phone-in
BBC
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 161 minutes
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Summary
Dotun and Legendinho Tim are joined by Hallam Brazil Seth Bennett for lively conversation about the burning topics of the moment. Are Nottingham Forest really at the wrong end of VAR officiating more than other teams -- and is it unreasonable to expect elite players to play at the highest level three times a week? Plus - why it’s play-off pain for one aspiring EFL club due to uncertainty over the future of their stadium; and the remarkable story of the women footballers serving the war effort on the home front during the First World War
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:06.4 | The Voice of the UK. |
| 0:07.9 | This is five live. |
| 0:09.8 | Dotton and a bio. |
| 0:11.2 | Listen live on digital, online, smart speaker or the BBC Sounds App. |
| 0:16.4 | Good morning and welcome along to the nightclub here on BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm your Night Watchman Dawson. Don't worry I know it's Tuesday morning and we will kick off the World Football phone in in some minutes time. |
| 0:29.6 | That's coming up right after I bring you some breaking news tonight. |
| 0:35.2 | You will have heard on the news bulletins that the controversial plan to send some asylum |
| 0:40.4 | seekers to Rwanda has finally made its passage through Westminster after peers |
| 0:46.5 | ultimately back down around an hour ago over the government's safety of Rwanda bill. |
| 0:53.2 | The upper house decided not to table any further amendments after MPs rejected an earlier |
| 0:58.9 | final Lords amendment. |
| 1:01.4 | It effectively means that after a lot of towing and throwing between the upper |
| 1:06.4 | and lower chambers at Westminster, the bill has now been passed by Parliament and will now head for royal assent before it then becomes law. |
| 1:16.2 | Well our political correspondent Ben Wright is here to explain some more. |
| 1:19.9 | Ben I know you've been up nearly all night covering this story. |
| 1:25.0 | I've no idea what time it is. |
| 1:27.0 | You see, you should be a night watchman like myself, |
| 1:30.0 | but no, on a serious note, I know it's taken some time to get here. So is this the end of the at least the parliamentary process over this? |
| 1:40.3 | It is the parliamentary deadlock is broken. This now will become law it just needs to get royal assent the king's |
| 1:46.8 | signature and then it will become law and the process of identifying the first people who the government wants to put on flights to Rwanda, |
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