Is this a great season or an awful season?
The Game Football Podcast
The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Is there something ‘off’ this season? Run away leaders Liverpool lost, but Arsenal had already dropped points, and relegation was sorted out weeks ago. Yet Villa could win the Champions League, Newcastle won a trophy for the first time in seventy years, and Forest could be back in Europe. So, a great season or just a poor one?
Gregor thinks the regular fate of promoted sides going straight back down is becoming a problem for English football.
The team discuss all that a woeful Manchester derby, Liverpool contract talks and a look ahead to a huge week for Arsenal and Villa in the Champions League.
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| 0:42.0 | an early relegation confirmed, and even the runaway leaders are stumbling to the finish line. |
| 0:47.1 | The sun might be shining, but are things getting a bit doom and gloom in the Premier League? |
| 0:51.7 | Are things more competitive? |
| 0:53.2 | Are we paying the price for the |
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| 1:00.0 | discuss the highs and lows of the weekend's action and try to bring the positive vibes as we |
| 1:04.7 | look to the midweek games to come. I'm Tom Clark, and joining me today. We have the senior sports |
| 1:09.5 | writer and Sunday Times columnist Alison Rudd, |
| 1:11.9 | the reporter and tactical analyst Hamza Khalik Luna, |
| 1:14.4 | and a former football attorney journalist Gregor Robertson is here as usual. |
| 1:17.8 | So team, how are we doing? |
| 1:19.0 | The sun is out. |
| 1:19.7 | The football's crap. |
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| 1:24.1 | But just, you know, am I wrong? |
| 1:26.1 | Alison, how are your vibes? |
| 1:27.4 | Just general vibes. |
| 1:28.7 | My vibes are good. |
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