Episode 2404: Superman Gets Off The Mark
City’s midfield made the passes, Erling Haaland scored the goals, and all is rosy in their garden, once Guardiola gets used to his new job as a guy who talks about the younger Haaland for a living.
Elsewhere it appears the Premier League has rolled out interesting new rules which mean lots of random fouls are no longer fouls. Will this encourage the fast-flowing furious football we all crave?
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Jonathan Wilson and Jack Pitt-Brooke join us to analyse the weekend’s football. Are there any obvious solutions to Man United’s problems in the short term? How did Gavin Bazunu get on at Spurs? And just what are PL defenders supposed to do about Haaland?
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