Arsenal find a way as Chelsea bounce back to reach FA Cup final – Football Weekly podcast
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:12.7 | Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly drama all over the place. |
| 0:16.2 | Southampton thinking they're in the FA Cup final for three minutes. |
| 0:18.8 | Rochdale in the Football League for eight minutes, spurs out of the relegation zone for five minutes. Late winners in the Fitbar, lots to get through. We'll start with the FA Cup. Finaz, what a hit with the best goal of the game until Nicco Gonzalez won it for City. Meanwhile, Chelsea players turned up and edged past Leeds. In the Premier League, Arsenal just did enough. Eze's beautiful goal beating Newcastle. At the bottom, Spurs win their first game since the invention of the iPhone, but then Callum Wilson knocks the stuffing out of them, while Forrest absolutely wallop Sunderland and should be just about okay. In Scotland, a wild Edinburgh Derby sees hearts beat nine-man hibbs while Rangers mess up at home to Motherwell, and perhaps the biggest moment of the weekend. Rochdale secure promotion in the 95th minute. |
| 0:56.0 | Pitch invasion, the lot, only for York City to really secure promotion in the 103rd. |
| 1:00.8 | All that plus your questions. |
| 1:02.1 | And that's today's Guardian Football Weekly. |
| 1:08.8 | On the panel today, Barry Glendanning, welcome. |
| 1:44.4 | Hi, Max. Hello, Sam Dalling. Hello, Max. And good morning, Dan Bardell. Hello, Max. Let's start with the FA Cup semifinals then. The better of the two games was on the Saturday. Man City, two, Southampton One, and a brilliant last 20 minutes or so. Sam, you were at the game, also mowing the lawn at Wembley, but we'll get to that. But from your vantage point, which was pitch side, I guess, I mean, you got to see the Azaz goal close up. And you know what? That cheer was not just, I said this to Bass on the radio. It wasn't just, that's an amazing goal. That was, we're going to the cup final cheer, wasn't it? It was amazing. The Savanton fans were wonderfully loud all afternoon, |
| 1:50.8 | pregame and throughout. So I was sat on, well, four stalls behind the goal, right behind James |
| 1:56.9 | Trafford. And by pure coincidence, I happened to be in the corner of the goal where that |
| 2:02.4 | ball was curled into. I mean, it was one of those, from that angle, as soon as it leaves the foot, |
| 2:06.9 | you just know it's going in despite Trafford's best effort. And, you know, I was thinking about |
| 2:13.1 | this. Often, I've been in crowds myself as a supporter where I've completely lost it and seen |
| 2:18.3 | that emotion and often you get to see it on TV. But to be able to turn around and see the just |
| 2:26.8 | pure joy on those Southampton fans, there was the wall of noise and just the looks on people's |
| 2:32.7 | faces. You end up focusing in on a couple of people and there was this family right in the front |
| 2:39.0 | road. |
| 2:39.5 | Dad and daughter and mum and son and mum and son were going nuts. |
| 2:43.4 | Dad was just stood there in like a complete, you know, that look of shock, disbelief, tears |
| 2:48.5 | and the daughter's trying to get him going and he just can't. |
| 2:51.4 | Like he is just completely stunned and there was just so much joy and I think yes it was short-lived |
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