{"id":20819,"date":"2025-10-08T17:57:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/football-daily-72-efl-pod-watford-luton-blackpool-wield-the-axe\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T17:57:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:57:23","slug":"football-daily-72-efl-pod-watford-luton-blackpool-wield-the-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/football-daily-72-efl-pod-watford-luton-blackpool-wield-the-axe\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Daily &#8211; 72+ EFL Pod: Watford, Luton &#038; Blackpool wield the axe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">Available for 29 days<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-whitespace-pre-line sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">Aaron Paul, Jobi McAnuff &amp; Lyle Taylor jump on the managerial merry-go-round. Watford sack Paolo Pezzolano and reappoint Javi Gracia, Luton say bye to Matt Bloomfield and Blackpool bid farewell to Steve Bruce. Also, what about Birmingham chairman Tom Wagner going in the away end at Wrexham? And will Richard Wood find his way into our Ultimate All-Time EFL XI? Suggestions welcome on WhatsApp to 08000 289 369.<\/p>\n<p>01:45 Birmingham chairman goes in the away end<br \/>\n06:30 Naming teams on the day of a game<br \/>\n12:50 Watford sack Pezzolano &amp; reappoint Gracia<br \/>\n20:25 Luton sack Matt Bloomfield<br \/>\n34:50 Blackpool sack Steve Bruce<br \/>\n36:20 Will Richard Wood make our All-Time EFL XI?<br \/>\n39:00 72PLUS 72MINUS<\/p>\n<p>5 Live \/ BBC Sounds commentaries:<br \/>\nThu 9 Oct 1945 England v Wales in friendly,<br \/>\nSun 12 Oct 1200 Chelsea v Tottenham in WSL,<br \/>\nSun 12 Oct 1430 Arsenal v Brighton &amp; Hove in WSL,<br \/>\nSun 12 Oct 1700 Scotland v Belarus in WCQ,<br \/>\nMon 13 Oct 1945 Wales v Belgium in WCQ,<br \/>\nTue 14 Oct 1945 Latvia v England in WCQ,<br \/>\nWed 15 Oct 2000 Chelsea v Paris in UWCL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0m7g7m6\" aria-label=\"Programme Website of 72+ EFL Pod: Watford, Luton &amp; Blackpool wield the axe\" data-testid=\"programme-website-link\" class=\"sw-group sw-inline-flex sw-items-center sw-pt-4\"><span class=\"sw-text-primary sw-font-bold sw-transition sw-ease sw-transition-colors sw-duration-350 motion-reduce:sw-transition-none group-active:sw-text-accent group-active:sw-underline group-focus-visible:sw-text-accent group-focus-visible:sw-underline group-hover:sw-text-accent group-hover:sw-underline sw-text-brevier\">Programme Website<\/span><default:svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"16px\" height=\"16px\" viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" class=\"sw-ease sw-transition motion-reduce:sw-transition-none sw-duration-350 sw-transition sw-ease sw-duration-350 motion-reduce:sw-transition-none sw-ml-2 sw-ml-1 sw-inline-block sw-fill-accent\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><default:path d=\"M21.9,16.9v11.5H3.7V10.2h11.1V7.6H1V31h23.6V16.9H21.9z M18,1v2.6h10.2l-0.5-1.1L11,19l1.9,1.9L29.6,4.3l-1.2-0.5V14H31V1 H18z\"\/><\/default:svg><\/a><button class=\"sw-group sw-text-pica sw-block sw-w-fit sw-pt-4\"><span class=\"sw-text-primary sw-font-bold sw-transition sw-ease sw-transition-colors sw-duration-350 motion-reduce:sw-transition-none group-active:sw-text-accent group-active:sw-underline group-focus-visible:sw-text-accent group-focus-visible:sw-underline group-hover:sw-text-accent group-hover:sw-underline sw-mr-0.5\">Show less<\/span><default:svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"0.75rem\" height=\"0.75rem\" viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" class=\"sw-ease sw-transition motion-reduce:sw-transition-none sw-duration-350 sw-ml-1 sw-mt-1 sw-inline-block sw-fill-accent\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><default:path d=\"M0 18L16 0l16 18z\"\/><\/default:svg><\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0m7g7m6?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Available for 29 days Aaron Paul, Jobi McAnuff &amp; Lyle Taylor jump on the managerial merry-go-round. Watford sack Paolo Pezzolano and reappoint Javi Gracia, Luton say bye to Matt Bloomfield and Blackpool bid farewell to Steve Bruce. Also, what about Birmingham chairman Tom Wagner going in the away end at Wrexham? And will Richard Wood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20821,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819\/revisions\/20821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}