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14/09/24 Haaland on FIRE in the Manchester derby, Liverpool leave it late and pressure piles on Potter!!
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Nick Britten and Tom Elkins digest the weekend's fixtures as Wolves are left pointless, Villa still can't score and Bournemouth continue their great start to the season.
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Introduction
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Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm
Manchester Derby Aftermath
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going to
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the fourteenth of september and the weekends fixes have just finished when i say just finished i mean literally just finished the manchester city players and the manchester united players are still on the pitch ah one set of players is looking very please themselves the other set of plays is certainly not I am delighted today for this edition to be joined by Tom Elkins, GSBM podcaster and West Ham fan.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Tom, how are you feeling, my friend?
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Tom Elkins
I don't know if it's going to be much of a surprise, but not brilliant, to be honest with you. yeah I've been better.
00:00:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, we're
West Ham vs. Tottenham Defeat
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going to have a look at what's going on at West Ham, particularly in the wake of their 3-0 defeat against Tottenham yesterday. and We'll talk about that game. And we're going to run through all of the other games as well.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
It hasn't been the greatest weekend of Premier League football, I've got to say. Two 0-0 draws. Not that many goals, not that much excitement and not really much. not but We almost had a chance.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
We almost had a chance to talk about Liverpool dropping points at Burnley, didn't we? But of course, there's Mo Salah in the 94th minute.
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Tom Elkins
Yeah.
Analysis of Man City's Win and Man United's Performance
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Global Sports Podcast Network
ah But let's kick off with a game that's just finished then. Manchester City versus Manchester United. but What are your thoughts, Tom? How do you how do you feel it went?
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Tom Elkins
It was, i think, an interesting game from, I think, particularly a Man United point of view, because it didn't seem like they were completely outclassed, which I think in previous years, this fixture is always very much a one-sided, didn't even really seem like a derby, because Man United would usually get rolled over quite easily. So the fact that they actually did show a ah little bit of kind of, don't know if you'd call it fight, but The fact that they were able to match them in certain areas of pitch, I think the the new signs that they made of have performed really well. So, i think if you're a Man United fan, obviously frustrated with the result, but they're kind of trying to buck the trend of how those matches usually go. I don't think it's kind of the worst thing in the world, obviously forgetting the actual result of the game.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, there were periods in the game. now and They started off pretty well. They had a good little spell after halftime. Their best attacking spell probably came in the last 10 minutes. But at that stage, it's 3-0 and the game is over.
00:02:28
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
And Man City can afford just to kind of sit off a little bit.
Man United's Defensive and Formation Issues
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Global Sports Podcast Network
What worries me, I think, about Manchester United is the players don't seem still... to have worked out this 3-4-3 that the manager wants to play.
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Tom Elkins
Yeah.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
And defensively, if you look at the goals, I mean, they were, well, the first goal was beautifully made. It was a lovely, it was just a really well-worked goal. But then after that, the whole thing just started to unravel.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
And and yeah Harlan was just clean through from, yeah he started his run in his own half. So he's run the entire length of the half unchallenged. There were another there are another couple that came like that as well.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
um and And towards the end of the game, and and the defence just sort of collapsed. And then up front, you've got this sort of front three, whereby thought Mbueno played really well. I've got to say, I thought he had a good game and maybe you deserved a goal ah out of it.
Man United's Transfer Decisions
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Global Sports Podcast Network
But, you know, the other two...
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Global Sports Podcast Network
I they're missing Cunha, obviously. and Cesco just looks like he's out sorts.
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Tom Elkins
Yeah.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
He looks like a little lost kid. He looks like he's not really sure. You know, when you look at Nick Voltamato made his debut for Newcastle yesterday, he was dropping deep. he was He was linking up the play. he scored a goal. He looked sharp and all that. Cesco just looks, doesn't really know what he's meant to be doing there.
00:03:48
Tom Elkins
Yeah, I think United is the place where so many promising careers die. I think we've seen it with Rasmus Hoyland. You know, he goes out alone and scores basically instantly. i don't think it's necessarily the players that aren't up to scratch. I think it's the environment that Man United forces onto these young players. It makes it so difficult for them to succeed, even when they do have the talent. So, yeah, it's a difficult one. I don't think that it's necessarily Cesco's fault. But so far, it doesn't really look like the best transfer of of the window by by any stretch of imagination.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
it It doesn't. and He wasn't really helped because Diallo on the
West Ham's Tactical Challenges
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other side of that three wasn't really doing much either. But the you just you just wonder, is this as you say, is this another kind of Hoyland situation whereby they bring a player in, they pay a lot of money for him and he just doesn't do it and the pressure is perhaps just too much?
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Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:04:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Or maybe he just needs time to get up to speed. Maybe he needs time to work out the system. But the system is, again, not really working, is it?
00:04:43
Tom Elkins
Yeah. So what is it? what it's really difficult to even put your finger on what it is exactly they're trying to do. And I think that's a problem that as a West Ham fan, i know I'm sure we'll get onto it, that I've experienced the same thing where you look at the the build-up and when you have possession and in transition, you can't really understand what it is that each player individually is trying to do with regards to the wider system.
00:05:06
Tom Elkins
Players look like they're isolated and they're looking for support, but they're not getting it. And they're, they're looking around. And then before you know it, they're in behind and you're like, what the hell happened there? Who's taking responsibility for that situation? So yeah, I can relate to that one big time.
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Tom Elkins
Yeah.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, this is
Pressure on Ruben Amarin at Man United
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it. And I'm not sure. i'm not I don't know. look I don't think you can blame Altair Bound here for any of the goals today, particularly. But one of the things that absolutely staggered me about the end of the transfer market for Manchester United is when they had the chance to bring in Emiliano Martinez, who's one of the best goalkeepers in the world, and decided against that and brought in a young you know young kid ah from Royal Antwerp who's only had a season under his belt and isn't even going to be an automatic number one.
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Tom Elkins
yeah
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Where is the logic in that, given where Manchester United are at the moment?
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Tom Elkins
It seems to me more like a reaction to how they perceive the fans' opinions of Onana. I feel like there was so much negative publicity around him. All the media was basically slating him, saying that he wasn't good enough.
00:06:09
Tom Elkins
I think for them, they've gone, right, we need to get him out. We need to get someone in. And then I completely agree with you. I don't know why the decision would be not to get Martinez when he's available, you know, because it's someone that instantly elevates the goalkeeping level of club and gives you someone who's won a World Cup. Like that's infallible experience that you can put into the changing rooms. And he's a winner, which is,
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Tom Elkins
United don't really have many of those. They've got Casemiro, but how good is he these days? It's tough. is tough
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Global Sports Podcast Network
It's difficult. Now, we talked just before the international break on this podcast around managers that were going to have a very sticky international break and that were under a lot of pressure. A little bit of that pressure was lifted off Ruben Amarin after the very, very late winner against Burnley for Man United.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
does this Does this put the pressure back on him, do you think?
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Tom Elkins
I don't know if the pressure was ever really off, to be honest. If you you can kind of paper over some cracks with a ah decent result here or there, but... the general feeling is that he hasn't made enough positive change at the club.
00:07:13
Tom Elkins
There are so many questions asked.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
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Tom Elkins
There's still, it seems like every week there's some sort of controversy or there's one player that they think is rubbish and should be sent off in the next transfer window. They need someone to come and steady the ship and get rid of all of the noise and only focus on the on-pitch stuff, which no manager has been able to do so far. And I don't even know if it's possible at this point, to be honest. I can't imagine any manager in the world, maybe bar one or two, that he's going to be able to come in and completely take control of the whole situation to a point where they can get rid of all of the chatter that seems to kind of dilute Man United as a club.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
Man City's Squad Transition
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What do you think? I mean, obviously Man City haven't started the season that well today up until today. They've been a little bit hit and miss. Haaland was in full beast mode today.
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And when Haaland's in beast mode, there's not a lot you can do, can you? What do you think this means for Man City? It'll give them a bit of a kickstart that they need.
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Tom Elkins
Yeah, I think it's... They're in a a transition, aren't they? They've had massive squad overhaul, which I think is very easily overlooked when people come to talk about Man City. People go, oh, how is it they can go from winning all of these trophies to then falling off as dramatically as they did? But it has to be expected. You can't continue like that forever.
00:08:30
Tom Elkins
So now they have to try and do as much as they can this season, try and cultivate this group of players, which is, I think their age profile in their squad has gone down by quite a lot. They've been signing younger players.
00:08:41
Tom Elkins
They have to look at this season as don't be devastated if we don't win anything because next season we put ourselves in a position to be challenging again. So I think it's a really good result. It shows that they are able to compete with the best teams. i don't know if you call Man United one of the best teams, but they are able to compete with teams that have good players and,
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Tom Elkins
The stuff about Haaland as well, he he is a joke. On his day, he's so difficult to to play against. His power, his speed, the the way that he runs with the ball, his limbs are unbelievably long.
00:09:09
Tom Elkins
It seems like his he takes about two steps and he goes about 20 metres, which is but kind of unbelievable.
00:09:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:09:15
Tom Elkins
So, yeah, I think it's really positive. But again, how much can you kind of praise after beating Man United? It doesn't seem like it's that difficult feat these days.
00:09:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, i know I know what you mean. I mean, Haaland, not only did he score two, not only did he have most shots so on goal than any other player, but he also had the most clearances ah than any other player on the pitch. He cleared the ball six times from his own penalty area.
00:09:35
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
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And there was a moment, there was a little period of the game where he made about four clearances in a space of about 10, 15 seconds as the ball just kept on kind of being pinged into the Manchester City box. And every time he got his ah his head on it. So seven goals for Haaland against Manchester United.
00:09:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Phil Foden, it was his seventh Manchester derby goal. And it's great to see Foden back on the score sheet as well, I think.
00:09:55
Tom Elkins
Yeah, it looked like he was starting to become a little bit more of himself from that season when he was Player of the Year. It seemed like there was glimpses of that Phil Foden. I don't think that's something we have seen since that season.
00:10:07
Tom Elkins
So the fact that he is hopefully heading in that direction, especially leading up to the World Cup, it's a perfect time for him to start to kick on, hopefully lead City in a positive direction. And I think as ah an England fan...
00:10:19
Tom Elkins
You want the English players to be playing well and and challenging to make Thomas Ducal's job in the summer more difficult because we've got such a plethora of talent and we've just got another one knocking on the door. It can only be a good thing.
00:10:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think England will benefit from a fit and firing Phil Foden, without a shadow of a doubt. So opposite then emotions for the two Manchester clubs after today's game. City be looking up. Manchester United will be scratching their heads yet again.
Liverpool's Win over Burnley
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Global Sports Podcast Network
A quick word on the other game today. There's only one more game today. Burnley versus Liverpool. It was 0-0 until the 94th minute.
00:10:50
Tom Elkins
Thank you.
00:10:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
And hey, presto, what do you imagine? Liverpool come up with a winner courtesy of a Mo Salah penalty. They haven't been playing that well, Liverpool, and yet played 4-1-4. oneour They just seem to find a way of winning these games, don't they?
00:11:03
Tom Elkins
Yeah, isn't isn't that the sign of a champion? You win when you don't play well. I think that's kind of every good, repeated champion team has always had seasons where they haven't been the best team. They haven't played the best every game, but they just get the results.
00:11:17
Tom Elkins
And that's something that I think that in the last few years, Arsenal have never done. There's never been a full season where Arsenal have been consistently in games, haven't played well, but have managed to win. And I think that's the difference between champions and second place. So from a Liverpool perspective, obviously not brilliant with the way that they played. But if you get the points, then don't think you can really complain too much in the grand scheme of things. so
00:11:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was a difficult kind of game for them because Burnley, watching Burnley was like watching Burnley last year in the Championship. They just came for a nil-nil.
00:11:44
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:11:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's all they wanted to do, is to get a nil-nil. So they had, it was defence versus attack pretty much the entire game. And Liverpool just knocking on the door, knocking on the door, knocking on the door. And you get to that stage where you go, yeah, going to do it, going to do it, they're going to do And then you go, well, actually, are they? There's only about a minute and a half left And Cross came in from Frimbois.
00:12:03
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Hannibal sticks his arm out and he just everybody just goes, oh no. You know what's coming.
00:12:08
Tom Elkins
Yeah, it's so tough.
00:12:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it was a great penalty to from Salah.
00:12:11
Tom Elkins
Yeah. Who else would it be?
00:12:12
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So, yeah. Yeah. and And you can't say they didn't deserve the win because they just they were just so dominant all game.
00:12:17
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:12:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, you know, and and if I'm honest with you, you might say...
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Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:12:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
it was a bit unlucky on Burnley, but I don't know, you know, if you just go out to defend a nil-nil, I'm always conscious that there's, there's, there's risk in there. There's jeopardy. And do you deserve anything out of the game? Really?
00:12:35
Tom Elkins
Yeah, I'd say it's from a Burley perspective, it's definitely frustrating, but not not an unfair result, you wouldn't say, with the game the way the way that the game actually went.
00:12:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
But, uh,
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no, I think you're right. Right. in in ah In a couple of moments, we're going to move on to the probably the the the most but the most interesting game of yesterday, i think. The biggest win, certainly, of the weekend.
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and We'll be coming to that in just a
West Ham Fans' Reaction and Support
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00:14:07
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Well, Brentford 2, Chelsea 2 was quite interesting, but I think for various reasons, the most interesting game of the day yesterday, Tom, involved your team.
00:14:08
Tom Elkins
Thank you.
00:14:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
And sadly, you're on the losing end. West Ham 0, Tottenham 3. Yeah. West Ham were we' in the game for a bit, but to be honest, ah the last 20-25 minutes, they just sort of folded and that's becoming a bit of a recurrent theme.
00:14:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
So listen, what was your take on the game? And more importantly, what on earth is going on at West Ham?
00:14:36
Tom Elkins
I'd like to start with giving massive praise to the West Ham fans in the stadium because every single time Kudus touched the ball, there were roars of boos throughout the whole 90 minutes.
00:14:48
Tom Elkins
Maybe trailed off a little bit at the end when we were 3-0 down, but for most of the game, he was getting booed tremendously, which made me very happy because you don't just go from West Ham to Spurs and expect everyone to be happy about it. So well done to the West Ham fans for that.
00:15:01
Tom Elkins
Actually moving on to the football, I think you're you're very kind to say that we were even in it for any amount of the game. I think the first half, we kind of muddled our way through it.
00:15:14
Tom Elkins
Didn't look horrific, but never really had any sort of clinical chances that if we had had a striker on the pitch, which which we didn't for whatever reason, he they would have been able to put away. It's yeah yeah just the same thing that we've been saying this season, that we've been saying last season. It just isn't working. Something isn't right. The not playing with a striker, I think, is a really strange decision.
00:15:37
Tom Elkins
ah don't know why we wouldn't put some of the academy lads. We've got the young st striker, Callum Marshall, who was on loan last year, did really well. He's now in the squad. I don't know why he's not on the bench. I don't think he's unfit.
00:15:49
Tom Elkins
I would just throw him on. I'd rather play with someone who knows how to play striker than just put Paquetta up there because that's not what he does. It's really difficult to expect him to do that job when that's not what he does by trade.
West Ham's Defensive Collapse and Tactical Issues
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Tom Elkins
And then as soon as the red card happens, yeah, we just absolutely capitulate and it becomes embarrassing. I think there's there's no there's no embarrassment losing if you've had a player sent off. But at that point, you have to accept the loss and dig your heels in and be like, we're not going to concede anymore.
00:16:14
Tom Elkins
It's a London rival. We're at home. Let's just make this a really boring, really dull.
00:16:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah board
00:16:19
Tom Elkins
We're going to clear everything, be really solid. And then obviously frustrating, but not the end of the world. What actually happens is the defending just falls apart. we We look clueless most of the time. Like we've we've made really good signings. We've got decent players, but they just don't seem to know what system Potter wants them to play. So looking at the the wider system of Graham Potter and West Ham,
00:16:45
Tom Elkins
ah Something has to change because if nothing changes, it's going to be exactly the same as it was last year. It's going to be the same this year. And we're going to end up getting relegated at some point because you can't perform this poorly every single game and get away with it. And and the one game against Forest is brilliant, but it seems like a fluke more than anything that Graham Potter has done brilliantly. So I don't know. Something has to change.
00:17:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes, I think if I was a West Ham fan, that the the most worrying aspect of all of that was that after that 60 seconds or so that you saw Suchek sent off. And I don't think anybody could argue with that as a red card at all.
00:17:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then Saar scoring for Tottenham from a completely free header from a corner when he's sort of five yard four or five yards out.
00:17:24
Tom Elkins
Yeah, ridiculous.
00:17:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Nobody picked him up at all. And from then,
Graham Potter's Challenges at West Ham
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Global Sports Podcast Network
as you say, you dig in because only you're still in the game. but everybody just seemed to kind of down tools. And it was so easy for Tottenham to go on and score their second and third. And that would worry me.
00:17:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
So what is happening with Graham Potter then? Because it's easy to say, look, he replaced Julien Lapotego in January. he's had He's only had sort of the the back end of last season. And most of that was just about trying to stabilise the club and making sure there was no threat of relegation. He's only had four games this season.
00:17:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm trying to put a bit of positive spin on here, Tom. and Is it too early to just go...
00:17:58
Tom Elkins
like
00:18:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is it too early to go? No, this is not working. We need to make a change.
00:18:07
Tom Elkins
I don't know, to be honest with you. ah and That might seem like a bit of a cop-out, but I don't know if that actually changes anything because obviously everyone is is now...
00:18:18
Tom Elkins
goading the West Ham fans with, oh, be careful what you wish for. don't You shouldn't have sacked Moyes. He's now doing great things at Everton. I think it was the right decision to get rid of Moyes when we did. People don't actually remember how poor some of the performances were at the end of Moyes' tenure. like we looked We lost a lot of games very heavily.
00:18:34
Tom Elkins
So it was the right decision. i think it was the wrong decision point in Lopetegui. I think if we had gone with Potter straight away, I think he would have been doing better now because he would have started at the beginning of the season, which i think is always better for a manager.
00:18:47
Tom Elkins
You then look at where we are now. Can he kind of transform the vibe around West Ham? I'm not sure that he can. But then... Is there anyone that think would be able to?
00:18:58
Tom Elkins
not sure. At this point, I've even contemplated the Mourinho idea because it's you get to a point where you're like, let's just do it. Let's see what happens. It's either going be brilliant or going to be absolutely terrible.
00:19:11
Tom Elkins
But for me, I've i've got to a point where I've converted to one of the fans who's looking upwards at the board. I think the West Ham board has been something that... over the years as they've not been very good to the supporters.
00:19:26
Tom Elkins
You look at the whole move to the London Stadium, it was kind of against the wishes of the supporters, really. We wanted to go somewhere that was going to increase West Ham as a brand and...
00:19:39
Tom Elkins
basically emphasise and maximise everything that made us West Ham. But it seems like the the essence of the club has kind of disappeared and we've become more of this corporate, if you're in London, come and watch a game at the London Stadium, if you're on holiday or you're a tourist, which for the sort of history that we have, doesn't really suit what we want our football team to be. So then from there...
00:20:09
Tom Elkins
the relationship is kind of just deteriorating. It doesn't seem like they have the fans' best interests at heart, which is so frustrating.
00:20:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I'm very much looking forward to watching a game at the London Stadium ah next season in the Championship when Derby are playing. If
West Ham's Season Predictions and Strategic Needs
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Global Sports Podcast Network
I ask you finally to, to just before we move on, ah to gaze into your crystal ball then, what do you see, then sort of how do you see this season panning out?
00:20:35
Tom Elkins
I think we have enough quality in the squad to not be involved in any sort of relegation battle.
00:20:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
don't know.
00:20:39
Tom Elkins
I think we'll be fine. It's going to be kind of lower mid-table, probably a 13th, maybe 14th. Do okay. I think we we have the the quality. I think particularly Paqueta staying is huge for us.
00:20:53
Tom Elkins
If he had gone, we would have been in big trouble because a lot of the times he is the one creative spark that is able to... give us a little bit of life when we we're usually kind of floundering.
00:21:04
Tom Elkins
So, yeah, I think we have the quality to to not get involved in any sort of relegation battle. I think Potter stays till the end of the season. Then we we part ways. And hopefully at that point, we've got someone ready to come in and make make big changes, basically.
00:21:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, we'll see. We'll see. I think looking at 13th is pretty optimistic at this moment in time. When I'm looking at the table, well I'm looking at performances and when I see Graham Potter standing on the touchline as he did yesterday, looking, quite frankly, bemused by what he was watching.
00:21:26
Tom Elkins
Yeah, little bit.
00:21:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's a similar thing we've been talking about Ruben Ammer in terms of, look, other players just simply not getting his ideas and... Maybe it'll click. Maybe you just need one result. ah and and but we thought that might be in a Forest game.
00:21:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is that enough to kick you on?
00:21:50
Tom Elkins
Thank you.
00:21:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it'll be ah it'll be interesting times. Interestingly, last week, I had Kate Munro on the pod as co-host. And she's obviously a big Leeds fan. And we've been talking, we've talked to the international break, Ken and I, when we did it.
00:22:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
around the sack race around managers, which I know ludicrously early in the season. But my my big sort of outside tip, if you wanted to put your mortgage on anything, was Ruben Almer in out at some stage the season and Oliver Glasner in Manchester United.
00:22:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then but by the time um but time we were joined by Kate back in the last week, of course, Nuno had left Forest. And she kind of quite fancies Farker out and Nuno in, perhaps, at Leeds. But once these managers start becoming available, it really puts the pressure on, doesn't it? It really puts the pressure on managers who are already in a job, who are looking very nervously over their shoulders.
00:22:38
Tom Elkins
Yeah, definitely. And I think we would be stupid to not look at Nuno, to be honest. Like, you see the work that he's done at Forest. us I don't think he lost his job because of his on-pitch performance.
00:22:52
Tom Elkins
I think it was, majority you know, it's the majority of relationship that's deteriorated.
00:22:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, absolutely not. No, no, no, no.
00:22:56
Tom Elkins
So the fact that a manager has become available, that's done well, there wasn't a demise, seems like a relatively smart idea to suss them out and see if they would work. If he was available, I wouldn't be ah opposed to going for it, to be honest.
00:23:09
Tom Elkins
I wouldn't be opposed to pulling the trigger. But is it going to be a similar situation to when we got Posse? Is and anything going to be different?
00:23:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, that's the that's the question. you know And he he did he did a decent job at Wolves before it turned sour. He didn't do very well at Tottenham at all, but he did a great job at Forest. He did a great job at Forest. So ah we'll see how that pans out.
00:23:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
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00:23:30
Tom Elkins
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00:23:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
We like it here at the Global Sports Podcast Network. Right, let's have a quick run through then in the last few minutes of the podcast of the rest of the weekend's games.
00:24:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm going to start with Bournemouth. Bournemouth 2, Brighton and Hove Albion 1. Now, Bournemouth have won three in a row now, which is the first time they've done that, I think, i think in the Premier League. And they sit fourth on the table. they've had a cracking start, haven't they?
00:24:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Started really, really well.
00:24:20
Tom Elkins
Yeah, they really have. And I think that is a bit of a surprise to a lot of people because, you know, that they lost some considerable talent and they don't really seem to be any worse off for it, which is amazing. Semenyo looks to be at his best.
00:24:32
Tom Elkins
That goal from Alex Scott as well. Bloody hell. What an absolute rocket.
00:24:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
That was a great hit.
00:24:35
Tom Elkins
Brilliant.
00:24:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that was a great hit.
00:24:37
Tom Elkins
yeah So, yeah, it's just, I'm i'm jealous, to be honest. that as You see, it's really demoralizing when you see so many teams that seem to not have the the sort of financial backing that you have, but somehow they're able to build brilliant teams.
00:24:51
Tom Elkins
So, bloody well done.
00:24:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, Bournemouth have a lot of, i mean, they've got a lot of backing, but they can't really spend because they don't have any revenue.
00:24:57
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:24:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, a stadium what, 12,500 people in.
00:25:00
Tom Elkins
Mm-hmm.
00:25:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah But yes, some as you say, Semenya is brilliant. He's had such a good start to the season. He was excellent yesterday, one assist, one penalty. ah Great hit from Alex Scott. Yeah, Brighton haven't quite got going this season. You feel there's a lot more to come. I wonder if they're one of these teams that has overachieved in the last couple of years and and and this season perhaps will find the what you might describe as their natural pecking order a place a bit lower down from where they have been in recent times.
00:25:27
Tom Elkins
Yeah, I agree.
00:25:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:25:28
Tom Elkins
it's It's always tough but because whenever one of their players gets good, they get pinched. I feel like they're always in a ah state of apprehension that their players are going to do well and they leave. So it it's ah quite a unique model, really. they're They're very happy to let players go. So I think the fact that they have been as good as they have been over the past few seasons is is more of a a testament to how well they have been run. So the fact that they slip back a little bit isn't a massive surprise to me, really.
00:25:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I agree. i mean, we're only four games on, so so yeah plenty to happen, yeah. A couple of nil-nil draws and pretty much nil-nil ball draws.
00:25:57
Tom Elkins
yeah
00:26:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sometimes you see nil-nils which are tremendously exciting.
00:26:02
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:26:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Neither of these games were. Palace nil, Sunderland nil, Everton nil, Villa nil. and Palace have yet to win at home in the league this season. They don't lose. They never lose, Palace. and but They haven't won at home. This is, of course, the the start of the post-Eze era. And without Ismaili Saar as well, I just thought they lacked any kind of...
00:26:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
creative spark yesterday. Sunderland, they have started the season well as a promoted side. I fancied them, and I said this at the start of the season, I fancied them out of the three promoted sides to do the best. But they needed the he the keeper yesterday, Robin Roos, just the last 15 minutes. Mateta had a good chance.
00:26:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Kamado had a good chance. And the keeper kept them in it. But Sunderland, you know, Sunderland given it a good go at the start the season.
00:26:47
Tom Elkins
Yeah, they really are. And obviously, I know that all too well. The first game of the season was quite embarrassing. Again, they they absolutely destroyed us. They were so up for it. i think that's, as a promoted team, you have to be, you have to want it more than the other team. and I think that's something that you can see in the Sunderland players. They've been sold this idea that we are going to stay up this year. If you work your socks off, we're going to stay up.
00:27:10
Tom Elkins
So the fact that they are getting points pretty consistently isn't surprise me at all.
00:27:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, and getting a point at Sellers Park is never, i mean, any away point in the Premier League is a good point, but an away point at Sellers is certainly good. And Everton, nil, Villa, nil. A very drab game. um villas Villa, I mean, look, what on earth is going on at Villa?
00:27:26
Tom Elkins
Thank
00:27:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
No goals at all. Not a single goal ah this season. One shot on target yesterday. I mean, they're lucky they had Martinez back in goal because otherwise Everton would have won that game quite comfortably.
00:27:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
They dominated it and Martinez pulled off a couple of really, really good saves. ah Villa, villageilla just it's just not happening there, is it?
00:27:48
Tom Elkins
No, this is a conversation you would have thought we would have had if Olly Watkins had left, but he hasn't. So i don't really know. don't know what to say, really. are I don't know what's happening. They just don't seem to have anyone who's looking to kind of grab the game by the scruff of the neck.
00:28:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, yeah, if you look at i mean look if you look at the back the last season, i had Asensio on loan, they Rashford loan, they had Jacob Ramsey, all three of them have left. ah Morgan Rodgers hasn't really hit form yet. I thought he played well for England in the week, by the I thought he played really well. But if you take all of that kind of creative attacking talent out, it's difficult. You know, Emery's been playing McGinn on the right, which he's received...
00:28:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
a lot of criticism for. He cut a very frustrated figure on the touchline yesterday, but their XG from yesterday was 0.54 compared to Everton's 2.17. So i mean that tells you, that tells you, you know, how much of one-sided game it was. and And yeah, Grealish has really hit the form at Everton and they'll be disappointed that they didn't come away with three points there.
00:28:41
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:28:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
But they've started the season while Everton...
00:28:44
Tom Elkins
Yeah, definitely. I think Yeah, I think one of Everton's biggest issues is Beto. I really don't like him. I just don't think he's good enough. he's His finishing is not up to standard for someone who's going to be starting most games in the Premier League. You look at the the team that Everton have constructed with getting Jack Grealishing, with Dewsbury Hall in behind, who looks so good. I think he's played really well.
00:29:06
Tom Elkins
You want someone who's going to put away chances because they're going to get a lot. And it seems like Beto just isn't that. So, brilliant that Everton are doing well but that might be one thing that kind of holds them back from really pushing on this
00:29:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I did. i did very early on Saturday morning put Beto, I bought Beto into my fantasy league team. ah I know, not because I wanted to, but hes he was the only player who I could afford, who I knew was going to play. And I thought, well, against Villa, he's got a great chance.
00:29:28
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:29:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he had two great chances and he fluffed both of them. But he'll be out.
00:29:32
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:29:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
He'll be out next week. He's going you he's been he's been bought in.
00:29:34
Tom Elkins
I'm sure a lot of people know the same.
00:29:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
i'm going to sell him. Straight away. Yeah. and One of the more bizarre goals that we saw over the weekend was a rather spectacular own goal ah right at the end of the Fulham-Leeds game.
00:29:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was 0-0. And in what, about the 93rd, 94th minute, Fulham had a corner. And I don't know if you saw this.
00:29:57
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:29:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Gabriel Goodmundersen with an absolute brilliant bullet header right into the corner of his own goal. i mean, he's facing, if you haven't seen this, go and look on, on that well, wherever you see your goals.
00:30:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
But a corner comes across and and he's defending, but he's facing his own goal. But he doesn't seem to make any effort to actually kind of clear it. He just kind of heads it and it flies into the back of the net. ah What on earth is going through his mind?
00:30:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know. It was a very bizarre goal, wasn't it?
00:30:22
Tom Elkins
in Yeah, he seems to do the one, the only thing that he shouldn't have done is head in the direction of your own goal. There wasn't anyone directly next to him. It didn't look like his sight was massively obscured.
00:30:35
Tom Elkins
he It just comes to him and he's kind of sat on his haunches and he just heads it in the direction of his goal and it goes absolutely top corner and it's a brilliant finish.
00:30:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:30:43
Tom Elkins
But I just don't know.
00:30:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was a brilliant finish.
00:30:45
Tom Elkins
I think just a ah moment of madness, really. i don't I don't think there's much analysis that's going to work out what happened there other than just
00:30:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, ah think you're right.
00:30:52
Tom Elkins
yeah my
00:30:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think you're right. i mean it wasn't even like he was trying to, you know, i wonder i wondered if he was trying to flick it away, but his head didn't even make that move.
00:30:58
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:30:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
His head didn't move. The ball just hit it. And it flew into the net. It was a great header.
00:31:04
Tom Elkins
Not going to want to look at that one again, but I'm sure he he will get a sent it quite a few times.
00:31:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'd imagine so, yeah. I'd imagine he's not going to get a lot of choice. But yeah, not a great result. I mean, it was it was just justification Fulham. They were much much the better side. And I did like their ah their new Brazilian striker, Kevin, which is a bit of a ridiculous name for a Brazilian striker.
00:31:16
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:31:19
Tom Elkins
yeah
00:31:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
If you're going to sign a Brazilian striker, at least call him something proper. ah Not sure about Kevin, but he looked good. You he looked good when he came on. And Fulham, I think, you know hopefully will get going. always like watching Fulham play. i've i'm um um' not going lie.
00:31:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he he might give them that...
00:31:37
Tom Elkins
you
00:31:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
impetus up front that they need. ah Two more games then. Firstly, we'll go to the North East. Newcastle won Wolves nil. And whilst we're talking about Benjamin Sesko having a little bit of a nightmare at Manchester United, Nick Voldemada, well, did exactly what he needed to do.
00:31:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
On a debut, scores the winning goal. It was a great header as well. And Alexander-Izac Hu.
00:32:00
Tom Elkins
Yeah, exactly. I think that's exactly the sort of message he's going to want to send, isn't it? The fact that there was so much drama in the striker that he's replaced. the best way to kind of shut people up is by scoring. And and it it was a brilliant goal. And it it seems like that sort of finish, it seemed really natural. It didn't seem like he was, he didn't leap massively in the air and have to get loads on it. He was just in the right place at the right time. And the the finish was calm, but perfect.
00:32:26
Tom Elkins
Exact perfect spot. Keeper didn't have a chance. And yeah, I would imagine there's going to be a lot more crosses into that Newcastle penalty area.
00:32:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think so. Yeah, six foot six. He's some unit.
00:32:35
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:32:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
But what I liked about the goal particularly is that he kind of came forward as the ball was about to be crossed in by Jacob Murphy. was lovely little cross. And then just as he was about to head it, he peeled off the defender. He took a step back, which gave him that space.
00:32:48
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:32:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
The defender didn't get anywhere near it. gave him that space to connect properly with a ball. But overall, I thought his play was really good.
00:32:52
Tom Elkins
Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
he said As i said earlier on, he was dropping off. He was linking the play. he was you know he was linking, turning, getting into that nine position, ready to receive. I think, look, it's too early, isn't it? One game.
00:33:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
One solo does not a summer make, my friend. But he looked really good. And when Wisser comes back into the team after his knee injury, I think Izak will be forgotten pretty quickly.
00:33:11
Tom Elkins
yeah
00:33:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think when when you look at the whole transfer window, you lose Izak, you get money in, you get Volta Marder in, you get Wisser in.
00:33:16
Tom Elkins
yeah
00:33:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's pretty good business.
00:33:26
Tom Elkins
Yeah, I can play it right.
00:33:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's pretty good business. As for Wolves, you know, four games, no points. Not a single point on the table yet.
00:33:33
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:33:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
And they started well. They could have had a goal in the first 10 seconds or not even that, first five seconds of the game straight from kickoff. And after the first couple of minutes, they looked decent. But to be honest, once the goal went in, there was only ever one winner.
00:33:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
There really was only one winner in that game. And Newcastle just controlled and controlled and crawled. so So worries down at Molineux, you know, worries down there. And I'm not quite sure, quite I don't know what your thoughts are about Wolves and how they're going to go on this season.
00:33:53
Tom Elkins
Yeah, definitely.
00:33:58
Tom Elkins
think it's the one team that looked worse than us. The one team that looks worse than West Ham, which is a ray of sunshine in a very stormy sky of West Ham. So I don't know.
00:34:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
sorry.
00:34:08
Tom Elkins
it seems like Wolves are just destined to go down and they have been for a few years. The signings are good, but are they spectacular very rarely? Their signings seem very happy to leave.
00:34:21
Tom Elkins
You know, it it doesn't seem like they put put up too much of a fuss. feels like they've resigned themselves to ah relegation which is sad because you know they they are a really good club and I think you know when they when that team does click you've seen it in the past that they do have quality it just doesn't seem to be working
00:34:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, indeed. Yeah, you do you do worry for them. i think I think they've got a good manager. But as you say, they they just seem to hemorrhage players.
00:34:46
Tom Elkins
yeah
00:34:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
I was quite surprised when they didn't sell Strand-Larsen to Newcastle, arch I thought they were going to do that on deadline day. But that really would have been accepting relegation even this early in the season, I think. So, yeah, it's long... It's a long road back. I think it's going to be a long, old season for them. And then the last game yesterday was ah was a good game. It was a bit of thriller, in the last particularly sorry in the last couple of minutes of the game. Brentford 2, Chelsea 2.
00:35:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Chelsea will be kicking themselves. They took the lead, what, on the 88th minute. They must be absolutely kicking themselves because Brentford... Actually, i ti I'll hold my hands up to this.
00:35:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
I tip Brentford for relegation this season. I thought having lost some of their best players and their manager over the summer, they would really struggle. But actually, they don't they look all right. They look all right, I think, at at this stage. So, yeah, we'll see we'll see how they get on. But, yeah, what did you what did you make of that sort of that draw, particularly where Chelsea are concerned?
00:35:37
Tom Elkins
Yeah, I completely agree with everything you said, be honest. You look at the the amount of possession that Chelsea had, they dominated the game, basically. They've they've had 66% of possession. To then concede in the 90 plus three minutes is really disappointing. I think especially when you know they are world champions, I'll put that in air quotes.
00:35:57
Tom Elkins
I'm not sure how relevant that really is to anything, but you know that's what they're going to say that they are. These are the sort results where
00:36:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
so Says the West Ham fan, yeah.
00:36:07
Tom Elkins
We are European champions. We actually are, but but that's different. um Yeah, it's just really frustrating, isn't it? You think they want to be pushing in the right direction and it's really apparent how Liverpool get the win.
00:36:22
Tom Elkins
In this situation, Chelsea don't get the win.
00:36:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:36:24
Tom Elkins
And these are the the small margins where titles are won and lost. So, Not necessarily that Chelsea wanted to be in a title fight, but I'm sure that's the the direction that they're aiming.
00:36:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank
00:36:35
Tom Elkins
So result like this kind of puts a little bit of ah a dent in whatever it is that they're trying to achieve this season.
00:36:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
One of the weirdest transfer moves, in my opinion, during the window was ah Chelsea paying £40 million pounds for Alessandro Galaccio, who I don't think that's good ah is that good a player.
00:36:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think he he thinks he's much better than he actually is. And he needs an absolute boot up the backside for Brentford's goal because they yeah know Chelsea are winning 2-1.
00:37:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
in the last, you the dying seconds of the game. And Brentford get throw into the box. we've We've been talking a lot about the return of the long throw into into English football. ah Long overdue, we're going to be talking about more of that ah during the week on the Premier League podcast.
00:37:16
Tom Elkins
Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah There's a little, it gets sort of nodded on. And as the ball's, but as the as the throw's coming in, you see Garnaccio stood there with Carvalho behind him. And Garnaccio is ball watching. He's not watching his man.
00:37:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
His head's in the cloud somewhere. got a Carvalho simply peels off behind him and taps it in from a yard out. And Garnaccio's just looking looking around him, like wondering what's going on.
00:37:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's criminal. I'm sorry. If an under-15s team did that on a Sunday morning, the manager would have an absolute fit.
00:37:44
Tom Elkins
yeah
00:37:48
Tom Elkins
Yeah, it's basic, isn't it?
00:37:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, terrible to think.
00:37:51
Tom Elkins
You just track your man. yeah You have to track your man. And if you lose him and he scores, it's pretty much 100% your fault. I don't really think there's anyone else that you can blame in that situation.
00:38:01
Tom Elkins
you know And that feels testament to the way that Garnaccio is perceived by the public.
00:38:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:38:07
Tom Elkins
He very much seems like he's idolised Ronaldo's model of... footballing persona where I am the main man i think I'm brilliant and I want you to believe me which is brilliant when you're playing well but you can't make those stupid mistakes because that's just going to fuel the fire that people think you're you know a bit of an arse which I think he probably is to be honest and he needs a manager that's gonna I don't know if Mariska is this sort of manager but someone that needs to get him doing the football basics before anything else because there's obviously a good player in there but
00:38:42
Tom Elkins
is there any manager that's going to be ruthless enough to give him what he needs to get out of it? I'm not so sure.
00:38:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, and you can get away with it when you're Cristiano Ronaldo.
00:38:51
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:38:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
You get away it.
00:38:52
Tom Elkins
Yeah, exactly.
00:38:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
You can't. You can't when you're Alessandro Ganaccio because you just don't you've done nothing to absolutely nothing to justify that opinion yourself.
00:38:56
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:38:59
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:39:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
But no, yeah as you say, it's iss one thing losing a man and if he scores. But when he scores from a tap in from a yard out, it's not it's not like he's had to do anything. i bet you couldn't believe his luck.
00:39:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
of But there we are.
00:39:12
Tom Elkins
Yeah.
00:39:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
So two points dropped. So we finished the the weekend as such. A top of the table with Liverpool. 12 points from four, so they've won all their games. Then Arsenal and Tottenham and Bournemouth, all on nine from four.
00:39:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
They occupy the top four spots. Then Chelsea come next with eight. Everton, Sunderland and Man City complete the top eight.
00:39:29
Tom Elkins
Thank you.
00:39:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Down at bottom, Wolves played four, zero points. Played four, lost four. Villa played four, only two points. They haven't won a game either so far, but at least they've couple of draws. Then in 18th spot, Tom Westham played for three points.
00:39:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Also Burnley in 17th played for three points. Then you go up to whole host of teams on four points, taking you right up to Fulham in 11th with five. So that's been a good wrap up of the weekend's games. Thank you very much indeed for joining us. We're back tomorrow.
00:40:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ken and I will pick some pick the bones out of some of the key talking points. But until then, Tom, thank you very much indeed for joining us. It's a pleasure having you on.
00:40:10
Tom Elkins
Nice one, thanks very much for having mate.
00:40:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's right. We'll get you back. Don't worry about that. And thank you for listening wherever you are in the world. Look after yourselves. Look after each other. Take care. Bye-bye.