All change...again
5/4/20261 hr 5 min
Have Spurs turned a corner with De Zerbi? Two wins and a draw in his first three games, took them out of the relegation zone after West Ham lost heavily at Brentford.
Was Aston Villa's performance cause for concern ahead of their semi final second leg against Forest. Unai Emery's team have lost three on the spin and look out of form.
If the award doesn't go to Arteta or Pepe who else could be in line for manager of the season?
And for player of the season could the Man City and Arsenal votes being split lead to one clear candidate from the third placed team - Bruno Fernandez.
Arsenal have put the pressure back on Man City with two wins, and they have a striker with twenty goals for the first time in years. Does that make Gyokores a success?
Alyson Rudd, Gregor Robertson and Hamzah Khalique-Loonat join Tom Clarke.
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First 90 secondsTom Clarke· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to The Game Football Podcast from The Times and Sunday Times. Two weeks ago, Tottenham were doomed and Arsenal were about to be knocked off top spot. But after two wins in two, Spurs are out of the relegation zone and Arsenal are six points clear again. Make sense of that, eh? Well, we'll give it a go. On today's show, we'll discuss the top and bottom of the Premier League table, Manchester United's 3-2 win against Liverpool, ask whether Keith Andrews should be manager of the season, and we'll look ahead to another massive week of action in Europe. I'm Tom Clarke, and joining me today we have the senior sports writer and Sunday Times columnist Alison Rudd, the football reporter and tactical analyst Hamza Khalique-Luna, and the former footballer turned journalist Gregor Robertson is alongside me as usual. Team, hello. How are we doing?
Alison Rudd· Guest0:44
Hello, Tom.
Gregor Robertson· Host0:45
Good, Tom.
Tom Clarke· Host0:45
Thank you very much for coming into work on a bank holiday Monday.
Gregor Robertson· Host0:48
Pleasure.
Tom Clarke· Host0:49
Top professionals, as ever. But there is so much to discuss. I think we have to start with Tottenham, don't we, Alison? I know you're at Arsenal. I mentioned them both in my intro, but we have to start with Tottenham. Uh, I was on the editing desk last night at The Times and, quite frankly, could not believe what I was seeing. [laughs] It was like a different- Me neither ... team. It was like a different team. We'll get onto Aston Villa being completely toilet in a minute. But- [laughs] ... I mean, Tottenham, Gregor.
Gregor Robertson· Host1:12
Yeah, I mean- We, we talked last week with Tom Orler and we were all going, you know, Tom being the T- Spurs man for The Times was saying, "Listen, I, you know, let's not rule them out.
Tom Clarke· Host1:21
Let's not write them off." But you in particular and al- all of us I think were going, "God, they're just, just scraped past Wolves. They've got no players."