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Arsenal’s statement win and Spurs climb out of the drop zone – Football Weekly podcast

Football Weekly

The Guardian

Sports, Soccer

4.59.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Jonathan Wilson and Barney Ronay to discuss all the weekend’s Premier League action. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/footballweeklypod. Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FootballWeeklyPodcast

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:13.3

Hello and welcome to The Guardian Football Weekly and who wasn't standing by their

0:16.9

transistor radio waiting for the Crawley-Sulford result?

0:20.0

Well, most of you, having been scandalously overruled from leading with Cambridge United's promotion, we'll begin with the leaders' Arsenal in the Premier League, in what some in the game are calling a statement victory over Fulham. No nerves here. They were excellent. Manchester United confirmed Champions League football with a 3-2 win over Liverpool. We'll ask Mr. Buzzkill, Jonathan Wilson, if this was a good game. What does that result do for the Carrick slot next season management seesaw? At the bottom, Spurs press, pass the ball to each other, score goals. Extraordinary. Villa were not good. Was it in their interest to keep Forrest looking over their shoulder ahead of the Europa second leg? West Hammer now in the drop zone after losing to Brentford. Newcastle needed a win and got it.

0:55.5

Bournemouth go into the

0:56.2

could be a Champions League play sixth spot and there's some hair pulling in Wolverhampton. We'll round up the EFL, Ipswich up, Hull, sneak into the playoffs. Wednesday reached the magical nought point mark. Stevenage just make the playoffs. or in stay up, extra go down, the user-promoted

1:08.7

Bauer and Harrogate into the conference.

1:10.7

All that plus your questions.

1:11.9

And that's today's Guardian Football Weekly. On the panel today, Jonathan Wilson, welcome. Morning, how you doing? And very well. Hello, Barney, Rone. Hi, Max. Hi, everyone. And good morning, Barry Glendening. Good morning. Yes, Jamie says, did you have a nice weekend, Max?

1:28.2

Yes, Cambridge promoted, spurs out of the bottom of three.

1:30.8

Melbourne, Bohemian, second win of the season. I love football, but let's start the Emirates. Arsenal 3, Fulham, Nill. And, Barney, this couldn't have gone any better for Arsenal, really, could it? This was a performance that they needed and now the Premier League title is sort of tantalizingly close.

1:47.2

Yeah, that's true. This was a performance that they needed and now the Premier League title is sort of tantalizingly close.

1:47.2

Yeah, that's true.

1:48.2

It is suddenly close, isn't it?

1:50.2

Something occurred to me watching this, that after all the kind of narrative of the season,

1:56.6

it has been a season of narrative.

1:58.0

It's been banter sphere.

2:00.4

We're all living in a banterosphere now, which has glitches.

2:05.7

But the Bansphere is plugged into the back of our heads while we exist in pods, obviously.

2:11.1

But you could end up with a situation where Arsenal win the league, because they've scored more goals,

2:19.8

win the league by chasing down the six-time champion manager from behind. They're now heroically chasing. Well, they were briefly

2:26.1

behind by not bottling it and by being the kind of goal-scoring force of the division, which is an

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