Coventry return to Premier League and relegation looms for Leicester – Football Weekly podcast
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:13.4 | Hello and welcome to The Guardian Football Weekly. |
| 0:15.4 | So many fans up and down the leagues just staring at remaining fixtures. |
| 0:18.5 | Podcasters saying permutations a lot and just general anxiety at the top and the bottom. |
| 0:22.6 | We'll begin at Selhurst Park. Palace nil, West Hamill, is that a good point for the hammers or an opportunity missed? Palace weren't as hung over as Spurs fans feared. Both had chances, but it means it's still very tight at the bottom. And then to the EFL cover up, Ipswich, Millwall and St. all with a chance to join them. |
| 0:36.9 | Playoffs for the other along with Middlesbrough and one of Derby, |
| 0:39.9 | Rexem or Hull. |
| 0:40.9 | League one pretty much sorted, barring a final playoff place and a big old bun fight to avoid the final relegation spot. Exeter's Keeper with a last minute equaliser to keep them in touch. In League two, I'm too nervous to talk about it. Bromley are up. M.K. Donch should join them. It's in Cambridge's hands too, while at the bottom, a 99th minute |
| 0:56.6 | winner for Harrogut means five teams fighting it out. There's the wild final winner-takes-all game between York and Rochdale in the National League, just the 212 points between them going into the final game. There's some exciting Timo Vernon news, a staggering Barney-Rona era to correct from yesterday, and some excited New Yorkers. All that, plus your questions, and that's today's Guardian Football Weekly. On the panel today, Barry Glendinning, welcome. What did you call me? I think I called you what your talk sport jingle is, Barry Glintinning. But I'll start again if you want. No, that's all right. I've been called a lot worse, Max. Whoever you are, whatever you, I don't know what you're doing here today, but welcome. I'm just hopeful that this Barry Glenn Dining you speak of knows more about the EFL than his new name's sake, Barry Glendanning. |
| 1:46.1 | From Not the Top 20, George Ehrlich, hello. |
| 1:47.6 | Hello, Max. |
| 1:49.5 | And welcome, Sani Rudra Vagila. |
| 1:50.4 | Hello, Max. |
| 1:53.8 | Let's begin then at the bottom of the Premier League. |
| 1:55.6 | Crystal Palace, Nill, West Ham, Nill. |
| 1:57.8 | That point means the wolves are relegated, |
| 2:04.3 | but in the final relegation spot, Tottenham have 31 from 33, West Ham 33 from 33, |
| 2:09.4 | Forest 36 from 33, and Leeds should be saved, 39 from 33. |
| 2:14.5 | It wasn't a classic, Barry. Do you think West Ham will be happy with a point or not? I think they'll be happier with a point than they would be without any points. |
| 2:20.8 | But players seem quite upset after the game that they hadn't taken all three. |
| 2:28.1 | I thought a draw was probably fair enough. |
| 2:31.4 | Agent Brennan Johnson did his bit for Nottingham Forest. He had a couple of good |
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