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Well, you know when they went unbeaten for the whole season under Venga? I suppose there was a point where you reached the end of that season and you almost wanted to see them do it because just for the sake of getting the record and they were such a brilliant attacking team. Even if you didn't like them, you could kind of begrudgingly respect it. But I feel like they're almost the most

the most underwhelming champions ever because of the

way that the Premier League's gone in terms of physicality and all that, you know, and how they play, how charmless the whole thing feels. It feels like as well, I kind of hope this is the case that they just changed the rules and set pieces a bit over summer, which means they're completely fuck next year. And all the... And all the Arsenal content farms will be saying it's a conspiracy to stop us retaining the title. People will catch up though. Like, the level of data in the Premier League is such that I feel next season, they might not have so much of an advantage. Although I'm slightly worried it's going the way that rugby union and rugby league go where they just get bigger and bigger people to play in those positions. The big boys. Yeah. Speaking of big things, the big one was, I suppose, from a bottom end of the table point of view, Chelsea beating Spurs through midweek, which, funny? Yeah, I guess so. I mean, it's not nice to see Chelsea winning, but on this occasion you've got to allow it, I suppose. Which has set things up a little bit for this final weekend, which I suppose we'll come on to that in a minute, but let's wrap up the champo drama because we're, well, we're days away now, a couple of days away from finding out who's going to be joining us in the Premier League next year. Ipswich and Coventry confirmed, and it's going to be one of Hull or Middlesbrough. When we spoke about this, when propaganda was out, the appeal to being kicked out hadn't yet been heard. So Southampton had been kicked out. The appeal hadn't been heard. It has now. It was unsuccessful. The original punishment stands. So they're booted out with the playoffs and a four-point deduction next season. I thought they might suspend the points or something like that, or reduce it to two, but they've absolutely stuck to their guns. Not the top 20. He did a very good podcast about all of this, actually, if you wanted to go and listen to him.

I know yesterday I said they're dead to us, but they do continue to do good work.

And they did a really good podcast listing kind of the details of it all.

If anyone wants to know any more on it.

But yeah, I suppose the thing is they made an argument to say that the playoffs is a separate competition.

And having said they've done it further two times

in the league they've almost got to do two separate punishments I guess so I suppose on that basis

it's it's understandable that it's it's going to remain the thing is though they admitted to it

so what what else is there to discuss yeah I was reading some that said, actually they would have factored in the admission into the punishment, the fact that they held their hands up because it seemed so clearly a watertight case because there was a whistleblower by the sounds of it at Southampton who sort of volunteered this information, and they've got actual, well, yeah, we've, in the face of these complaints from, it was like Ipswich and Oxford, wasn't it? Two games they didn't win, by the way, which is why I

maybe, I wonder if maybe they admitted to it on that basis, thinking, oh, well, clearly it didn't work, did it? But long story short, as yet it sounds like this would have been factored into the disciplinary panels thinking.

So it could have been worse

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