Arsenal Pull Away, Tottenham Hotspur Relegation Fears, & FA Cup Fifth Round: Big Weekend Preview 03/06/26

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🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Big Weekend Preview returns as Rog and Rory Smith look ahead to an FA Cup fifth round packed with intrigue. They begin with Arsenal, who continue to pull clear at the top of the Premier League as debate grows around their pragmatic, set-piece fueled march toward the title. Then attention turns to Manchester City, who travel to Newcastle facing a tricky FA Cup test while juggling a brutal run of fixtures across multiple competitions. Finally, Wrexham take center stage as they host Chelsea in their biggest FA Cup moment in decades, while Liverpool look to fend off Wolves as they search for redemption after their midweek loss. Plus, score predictions and one more big thing to watch.

00:00:00 - Basque Country Rory

00:02:02 - Arsenal playing anti-football?

00:10:05 - Arsenal vs. Mansfield Town preview

00:12:50 - Quiz Time! Footballer or GBBO contestant?

00:16:33 - Newcastle vs. Manchester City preview

00:22:05 - Tottenham Hotspurs, relegated?

00:26:40 - Liverpool fans turning on Slot?

00:32:00 - Leeds vs. Norwich preview

00:33:48 - Wrexham vs. Chelsea preview

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Meninblazers media network, Suboptimal Radio.
0:11.5	What a difference five days, make.
0:15.0	When we last spoke, Arsenal were yet to convince us.
0:18.2	They had the nerve to win it all.
0:20.3	Manchester City were relentless hunters, Dream shatterers really. They were the ones who knocked. And Liverpool, yes, were back. And as we meet you here today for FA Cup fifth round, Willie Wonka, factory visit levels of fun. Arsenal suddenly seven points clear. City of the vulnerable bottlers and on the slots
0:39.6	Liverpool are the worst second season since Friday night lights. Walls! Walls! I mean, football is so
0:45.9	knee-jerk. There's no hot takes anymore. They're all just takes. And to make it make sense,
0:52.1	cap it all with some lovely Rexham Chelsea talk. So, joy to welcome back, fresh from the Basque Country, to Mr. Rory Smith. Ola, getal. I can't speak Bast, sorry, that's Spanish. Well, I just throw a lot of Xs into everything and lisp a little bit. I've got the key, the key part of vocabulary in Bast, Rog. Chistoro means sausage.
1:13.1	That's all you need to know.
1:14.7	By the way, it's the answer to nine out of ten questions in my life.
1:19.3	In good times and in bad.
1:21.5	Just give us a quick highlight.
1:23.7	My first basque derby, just an incredible atmosphere.
1:27.2	Fans singing and bouncing throughout a really good, old-fashioned, intense, physical, like muscular battle of a game in the Coppa del Rey semi-final. And do you know what the best thing about it, Roger was? Do you know what the best thing was? Pellegrano Matarazzi, the Pride of New Jersey? He said he's a close second, he's a close second, but the best thing was that Rael Socedad took every single one of their corners short. Did they really? No set pieces. There was no kind of bit... Admittedly, the game was decided by a VAR penalty, which was a bit of a drawback. But there were no kind of just lobbing the ball into the box and seeing what happened, people were trying to play football.
2:03.0	Want to give huge thanks to Bank of America,
2:05.7	official bank of US soccer and the FIFA World Cup,
2:09.3	2026 for supporting the men in Blazers Media Network,
2:12.0	discover what's possible in sports and in life.
2:13.9	What would you like the power today?
2:15.3	Well, let's dive in.
2:17.3	First up, Arsenal Football Club.
2:19.1	Just give them the quadruple now, yeah.
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