Can Arsenal do the Champions League + Premier League double?
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo is joined by Duncan Alexander, Jay Harris and Mark Carey to look back on two eventful Champions League semi-finals, and discuss what could be a pivotal weekend of Premier League action.
Arsenal will play PSG in the Champions League Final in Budapest at the end of May. The Gunners overcame Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid 1-0 in the second leg at the Emirates, winning the tie 2-1 on aggregate.
They’ll meet last year’s winners PSG who needed a different kind of performance from last week’s goal-glut to get past Bayern Munich. It finished 1-1 in Bavaria, with the Parisians winning 6-5 on aggregate. Luis Enrique is now looking to become only the second manager in the Champions League era to win the competition two years in a row.
Meanwhile, there are only three weekends left in the Premier League season. Manchester City need to beat Brentford to put the pressure on leaders Arsenal, who currently sit five points clear. The Gunners go away to West Ham, who start the weekend in the relegation zone, a point below Spurs who host Leeds on Monday.
Produced by Charlie Jones & Xavi Bird
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Arsenal v PSG (03:00)
• PART 2a: Bayern 1-1 PSG (8:00)
• PART 2b: Arsenal 1-0 Atletico (25:00)
• PART 3: Premier League title race + relegation battle (35:00)
• PART 4a: Hearts 2-1 Rangers (53:00)
• PART 4b: Rest of the Premier League (56:00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Totally football show. |
| 0:11.9 | Today, I can't believe it's Budapest. |
| 0:14.9 | Tuesday, Arsenal's bottled up emotions bursting out |
| 0:17.9 | as their side booked their place in the Champions League final. |
| 0:20.7 | Wednesday, PSG booked theirs after handling Bayern and the ball a fair bit in a brilliant |
| 0:25.7 | performance in Bavaria. |
| 0:27.1 | From Godfather to Weekend of Bernie's 2, how was Wednesday's sequel to last week's |
| 0:31.4 | giddy nine-gold classic and Ben Boy against Kfaira, etc. |
| 0:35.1 | What awaits in the final? |
| 0:36.5 | Plus, in a good week for the Gunners, after Monday's Man City Merseyside meltdown, |
| 0:40.9 | we look at that game and put out a missing person on that funny Man City fan with the bottle. |
| 0:45.6 | He was everywhere. Hope he's all right. |
| 0:47.5 | All that and much, much more in this totally football show. |
| 0:54.1 | Thursday the 7th of May and it's an all-athletic in every sense crew here in the totally |
| 0:59.9 | football show studio with Duncan Alexander. |
| 1:01.8 | Hello James. |
| 1:02.8 | Also with us Mark Carey. |
| 1:04.1 | Good morning James. |
| 1:04.7 | And Jay Harris also. |
| 1:05.9 | Good morning James. |
| 1:06.5 | Good morning to all of you. |
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