Arsenal tension at the top, Thomas Frank sacked, & FA Cup Fourth Round: Big Weekend Preview 02/13/26
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
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Big Weekend Preview returns as Rog and Rory Smith look ahead to a weekend shaped by chaos and FA Cup drama. They start at Tottenham, where Thomas Frank is out, Igor Tudor steps in, and Spurs hover uncomfortably close to danger. Then it’s Arsenal, whose title race tightens after a draw with Brentford and Manchester City still on the schedule. Finally, the FA Cup fourth round takes center stage, with Grimsby looking for another upset, Birmingham hosting Leeds in a throwback derby, and non-league Macclesfield daring to believe again. Plus, score predictions and one more big thing to watch.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Meninblazers media network, Suboptimal Radio. |
| 0:11.2 | We brace ourselves for a weekend in which football has become dominated by Franks. |
| 0:17.9 | There's the defenestrated by Spurs Thomas and the Manchester United non-aircut variety. |
| 0:23.3 | We'll touch upon both. |
| 0:24.5 | Talk about Arsenal fans, Sphinxas tightening. |
| 0:27.6 | That's a four-point gap. |
| 0:29.2 | And revel in an FAA Cup fourth round weekend, aka the 48 hours in which the world learns what a Macklesfield is. |
| 0:36.9 | This is big weekend preview where we make it all stop making sense and it's a joy to |
| 0:41.8 | welcome my friend in pod, the Crown Prince O'Harrigot. |
| 0:45.2 | But to head for hole for the Chelsea games, Mr Rory Smith. |
| 0:48.8 | How you doing, Roj? |
| 0:50.1 | Roar, I can almost hear the Smithmobile humming in the drive. |
| 0:54.4 | I want to get you on the road. |
| 0:55.6 | How am I doing? |
| 0:56.6 | Better than Thomas Frank, but not as good as Frank Islet, which is kind of where we all are somewhere in between, right? |
| 1:02.2 | That is the spectrum that we exist on now, just in the same way, as I can imagine, that in years to come, there might be a graphic to sort of stress how title race is that is based |
| 1:12.7 | entirely on the sort of aperture of a sphincter. I think the Frank spectrum now spans all |
| 1:18.7 | of humanity. We are all somewhere on the front spectrum. Human history between two curly |
| 1:24.1 | main blokes. That's the world. Want to give huge thanks to Bank of America, |
| 1:28.4 | official Bank of US Soccer and the FIFA World Cup, |
| 1:30.9 | 2026 for supporting the men in Blazers Media Network, |
| 1:34.8 | discover what's possible in sports and in life. |
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