EFL Extra: Championship snakes and ladders and EFL fatigue
The Game Football Podcast
The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Join Tom Clarke and Gregor Robertson for all the latest news from the Championship, League One and League Two.
Is it time to give Frank Lampard credit? His Coventry side are one point off the play offs and he is winning over the sky blues fans. Meanwhile another former international midfielder Michael Carrick is struggling at Middlesborough, what’s gone wrong at the Riverside?
As Tom watches a bore fest at Sincil Bank is now the time in the season when fatigue – mental and physical – starts to kick in?
In League Two, AFC Wimbledon have the best defence in the league and are on a twelve game unbeaten run. And a few big teams are struggling.
Plus a late surprise appearance from the next generation of footballing/journalistic talent…
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| 0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. |
| 0:41.8 | This is our EFL extra show. |
| 0:45.2 | You know the drill by now, but just in case you've only just found us. |
| 0:47.9 | This is our show every two weeks with me, Tom Clark, |
| 0:52.3 | and the former defender Gregor Robertson discussing the highs and lows of the football league. |
| 0:54.5 | On today's show, we'll be looking at one team dropping down the championship table at an alarming rate, and one club who has benefited from |
| 0:59.8 | not sacking their manager. We'll also ask, were we wrong about Frank Lampard? We'll take a look |
| 1:05.3 | at some bonkers goings on in League 1 and find out who the form team is in League 2. |
| 1:10.7 | Greg, let's start as we often do with a |
| 1:12.6 | glance at the championship promotion race and with our usual caveats. There's loads of caveats on |
| 1:17.0 | this show, just a show filled with caveats. One of them is that there's normally a manager |
| 1:20.6 | about to get sacked and we'll talk about him, which is probably going to happen later on in the show. |
| 1:24.5 | But another one is that we always seem to record on the day of a huge, huge game. |
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