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The Game

The Times

News, Football, World Cup, Premier League, Entertainment News, Champions League, European Championships, Sports, Sport, Soccer, Lionesses

3.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Joining Tom Clarke are Tony Cascarino, Gary Jacob and Peter Rutzler to wrap up an astonishing Premier League season. What went wrong at West Ham and what do they need to avoid further collapse? How did Sunderland’s fairytale campaign end in European qualification? Plus, the team hand out their much-coveted end-of-season awards.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times and Sunday Times.

0:09.7

West Ham relegated Tottenham survive Sunderland in Europe, Arsenal get their trophy

0:14.5

and there were plenty of farewells on the final day of this remarkable Premier League season.

0:19.6

On today's show, we'll discuss all of that,

0:21.7

rate the performance of all 20 teams and dish out some end-of-season awards. I'm Tom Clark,

0:27.3

and joining me today we have the football reporter who covers clubs in London with a focus on

0:31.3

Arsenal, it's Gary Jacob, the reporter who covers clubs in the south of England with a focus

0:35.8

on Chelsea, it's Peter Rutler, and the former Marseille Millwall and Island Striker. Tony Cascarino is here with me too. Chaps, welcome to the air condition splendour of News UK. Pete and Tony, you've both got shorts on. Yes. I've got the worst fitting Lincoln shirt of my collection so far, definitely too small. I'm looking smart.

0:54.9

You're looking very smart, Gary. I'm always smart. Always very smart. Can I just say, Tom? Yes. I've known you how many, how many years now? Ten years now. Is it 10? Yes. Since you've been married, you're putting a bit of timber, isn't? Oh. Oh. How low, that's straight in.

1:11.3

Wow.

1:11.9

Do you know what the...

1:12.3

Are you in the conference zone?

1:13.4

Do you know what the fun...

1:14.0

You told him there's no VAR today. Exactly. And there's been a VAR for that. The funny thing is listeners and viewers on YouTube, I said just before the producers said, right, off we go. I said, right, chaps, let's have some fun. It's the end of season. Let's just have a right

1:27.7

laugh. And in comes Tony Cascarino with a little elbow off the ball. Tough to take that tone, actually, but maybe I'll get into preseason shape. Get ready for next season. You've got a lot at the moment, a young one. Yeah, thanks very much. Yeah, a bit of leeway. Honestly, Unbelievable. Anyway, terrible, terrible start to the show, and it was a terrible end to the

1:46.1

Premier League season for West Ham United. of leeway. Honestly, unbelievable. Anyway, terrible, terrible start to the show, and it was a

1:45.1

terrible end to the Premier League season for West Ham United, despite a 3-0 win at home to Leeds

1:50.7

United. They are relegated from the Premier League because of Tottenham's victory against Everton.

1:55.4

Tony, I want to start with you, just some reaction. Gary, I'll come to you in a second because

1:59.2

we've got some news on the Times website as we hit record on this show that Nuno Espirito Santo is under increasing pressure,

2:05.8

is having talks with West Ham about his future. But Tony, for the club and for the fans,

2:10.6

a desperate day, it always is whenever a team gets relegated. But for West Ham, this has been

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