{"podcast":{"title":"The Game","slug":"the-game-1066443","podcast_index_feed_id":1066443,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/0fc6a233-bbae-4ba5-b882-c075544353a8","website_url":"https://www.thetimes.co.uk/podcasts/the-game","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/61ba0e501a8cbe71d83cf13e/1781622185758-e35264ad-4a4c-4124-b920-75949a523cf7.jpeg","author":"The Times","episode_count":1380,"summary":"The thinking fan's football podcast, providing previews and reviews of all the action - every Monday and Thursday. Listen to the best of The Times and The Sunday Times journalists as they cover the biggest sport on the planet; from winners to losers, who's in and out on the transfer roundabout, tactical developments, data analysis and the dreaded VAR. Hosted by Tom Clarke and Gregor Robertson alongside special guest appearances, the team bring you the latest on the Premier League and the EFL, as well as a front-row seat to international tournaments including the Champions League, European Championships and World Cups. We know football isn't life and death. It's much more serious than that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T06:20:51.825312+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-game-1066443"},"episode":{"title":"EFL Extra: Southampton on a surge","slug":"efl-extra-southampton-on-a-surge","published_at":"2026-03-20T15:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-game-1066443/efl-extra-southampton-on-a-surge","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-game-1066443","url":"https://shows.acast.com/timesthegame/episodes/efl-extra-southampton-on-a-surge","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/timesthegame/e/69bc5d3f007cdcf83f8244dd/media.mp3","summary":"With eight games to go time is running out for teams who want to climb out of relegation or into automatic or play off contention. So who is best placed? Southampton are on an incredible run and followed up wins over Fulham and Coventry by beating norwich to break into the play offs, Middlesbrough stalled again at home and West Brom turned a corner with an eye catching win over play off hopefuls Hull City.. In League One Lincoln and Cardiff are all but up, whereas the playoffs are wide open, as far down as Barnsley in 12th place. At the bottom a vital win for Blackpool and managerial changes elsewhere.  League Two sees Oldham on a charge a fifth manager for Barrow...but it's not Gregor Robertson.  Producer Neil Cartmell joins Gregor Robertson for all the latest from the football League.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"With eight games to go time is running out for teams who want to climb out of relegation or into automatic or play off contention. So who is best placed?…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2231,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-game-1066443/episodes/efl-extra-southampton-on-a-surge/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-game-1066443/efl-extra-southampton-on-a-surge.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}