Jose Mourinho – a great or a clown? And VAR … again

The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

If ever a game highlighted the problems of VAR it was the Merseyside derby. There is universal agreement that James Tarkowski’s tackle on Alexis Mac Allister was a red card and Liverpool’s winning goal had what ‘appeared’ to be a clear offside. So, what went wrong? Gregor Robertson – fresh from a referee’s course – tries to shed some light.

Jose Mourinho is grabbing headlines again… but for all the wrong reasons.

On the pitch, Forest are not faltering, far from it, they have their eye on Arsenal in second. Ipswich get a rare win, and is Marcus Rashford back to his best?

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1:04.3	Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times.
1:10.3	19 goals in nine midweek Premier League matches so far and yet it's two challenges which are dominating the football agenda.
1:17.8	One, a horror tackle by James Tarkovsky on Alexis McAllister somehow only receives a yellow card as Liverpool beat Everton in the Merseyside Derby.
1:26.6	We'll ask, what is the point of VAR?
1:29.7	And two, well, Jose Marino, he's at it again.
1:33.3	The Fenabache manager pinching the nose of a Galatasarai coach after Marino's side were beaten to one.
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1:51.3	give themselves a little bit of hope. Marcus Rashford scores again, and Sandro Tanali, goal of the
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