The Game from The Times Podcast Review

Podcast Review: The Game from The Times

Doing battle with Football Weekly at the top of the podcast charts is The Game from The Times. Fronted by the pair of respected journalists Gabrielle Marcotti and Guillem Balague, it ditches the free-flowing style of the Guardian for more grown-up journalistic fare. At worst this can mean it sounds scripted and forced, but usually the combative Marcotti succeeds in sparking up debate with whichever special guest they have got in. The calibre of it’s guests is what sets it apart from other pods, with Steve McClaren, David Moyes, Luca Vialli and Frank Lampard all appearing recently. Marcotti and Balague even managed to get Lampard talking a great deal of sense, which coming from a fully-paid up member of the anti-Lampard club is hard to admit. By covering more than just the obvious issues, The Game will certainly give you food for thought on your daily commute (or hanging from monkey bars if that’s where you prefer to listen – ah, the beauty of the technology).

If it was a member of the England 1990 World Cup Squad it would be: Terry Butcher – authoritative and always up for a fight.