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Arsenal Crash Out, Slot Under Pressure, and FA Cup Chaos: Men in Blazers 04/06/26

Men In Blazers

Men In Blazers

Soccer, Mib, Football, Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Rog and Rory Smith break down another dramatic FA Cup weekend, starting with Arsenal’s elimination at the hands of Southampton, two games, two competition exits, and what it means for a season that once promised so much. Attention then turns to Liverpool, where elimination in the FA Cup raises further questions about Arne Slot’s project and how Mo Salah’s drop in form is compounding the uncertainty around the team. Plus, Chelsea’s rebound against Port Vale and a look at Tottenham under Roberto De Zerbi.

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Chapters:

00:00:00 - Southampton vs. Arsenal reactions

00:19:18 - Arsenal losing it?

00:28:27 - Manchester City vs. Liverpool reactions

00:38:55 - Mo Salah’s struggles

00:40:35 - Arne Slot’s future

00:53:10 - Chelsea vs. Port Vale reactions

01:00:42 - West Ham vs. Leeds reactions

01:05:55 - Toast to Roy Hodgson

01:07:36 - Letter from a GFOP: De Zerbi at Tottenham

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Meninblazers media network, Suboptimal Radio.

0:05.9

Setting them this bar of the quadruple was unfair. It was a way to be able to slag them off when they failed because everyone fails doing a quadruple.

0:13.3

That's not the problem, it's the nature of the defeat. This is a genuine challenge for them now.

0:20.8

Arsenal, do we say quadruple?

0:22.7

We meant double, yeah?

0:24.2

A generationally magical night of memory making for second tier, Southampton.

0:28.7

Earlier, Manchester City obliterated Liverpool.

0:32.2

Early Harlan activated like a sleeper cell.

0:35.1

Liverpool, a worse than Gino or Ema.

0:37.6

Chelsea treated third tier, Portvale, like Manchester City, treated Liverpool,

0:42.3

and a West Ham Leeds game.

0:43.9

The Leeds won, then lost, then won again on penalties.

0:47.8

Never in doubt, to make it all make sense.

0:50.4

It's amazing to welcome a partner in pod, the Crown Prince of Harragut,

0:53.8

the Cherokee of words. It's Mr Rory Smith. We've all got FACCup fever now, Roger. Roar? It was borderline tantric. So let's get right into the FA Cup quarterfinal, though, wonder. Starting with the Shokko Shocks. Did this happen? It did happen. Southampton, two. Arsenal won. Going into this

1:13.3

game, Roar, felt like at last, Arsenal back in action after that sting of the Carabow final

1:19.5

lost to Manchester City. Mikkel Artetta, I love his pathos poetry. He said it was like a ball of

1:25.1

poison in his tummy. Tum sponsorship, surely incoming, but it really captured or kind of hinted at the self-inflicted nature of it.

1:33.0

The problem with the timing of that Carabar Cup defeat was that Arsenal had this very tent season basically since the start, effectively.

1:41.6

But every wheat has been this sort of psychological torment for them.

1:44.8

Everything's felt like a referendum on Artetta, on their style, on whether they're good enough.

1:49.5

And then you face City in the Carabar Cup final, which you don't really care about.

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