Arsenal back in Champions League final during a week to savour: Football Weekly
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:15.1 | Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly Arsenal, |
| 0:17.4 | reached the Champions League final for the first time in 20 years. They did enough against Athlete for Kaiosaka with a decisive goal. They defended like we know they can defend, limiting Athlete to virtually nothing. Yokorez led the line brilliantly and it perhaps wasn't as nerve-wracking as it should have been. The second great result for the gunners after Manchester City dropped two points at Everton. and it could have been worse for City, Dock who, with a glorious curler to rescue a point and keep the title race alive, just our City, the bottlers, after all. Meanwhile, after we said Forrest needed to play their strongest side against Chelsea, they made eight changes in one, Chelsea's sixth league defeat in a row, and then to the Jazz Bar, it's been far too long for a proper fitbar corner. |
| 0:58.4 | You and Murray joins us as the title race goes from three to a two-horse race with hearts leading the way. There's big news from the Lichtenstein Cup. Your questions. And that's today's Guardian |
| 1:02.5 | Football Weekly. On the panel today, Barry Glenn Denning, welcome. |
| 1:10.4 | Hi, Max. |
| 1:11.2 | Hello, Nikki Bandini. |
| 1:12.5 | Morning. |
| 1:13.9 | Mention of the Liechtenstein Cup will mean some listeners will already know that from the |
| 1:17.8 | sweeper pod, Paul Watson, is on today. |
| 1:19.3 | Hey, Paul. |
| 1:20.1 | Hi, Max. |
| 1:21.4 | And joining us for Part 1, producer Tyre, anyone who listens to the end of these podcasts, |
| 1:26.8 | may occasionally hear today's Football Weekly was produced by Tyo Papula, but he's also a co-host of the Tuesday Club, the Alan Davis Arsenal podcast, if that's not fair on you, Tyo. And you were there last night. I was there last night, yeah. Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure. It's been a very good two days to be an Arsenal fan. |
| 1:45.1 | Nicky is smiling from ear to ear. |
| 1:47.2 | Tio, how was it at the Emirates last night? |
| 1:50.4 | From start to finish, it was brilliant. |
| 1:51.9 | From the atmosphere before the game outside the ground to the whole buildup, |
| 1:57.0 | it felt like a special night. |
| 1:59.5 | It felt like the biggest night at the stadium. |
| 2:02.1 | You have to worry about things like that |
| 2:03.4 | because I think a few Arsenal fans, |
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