Hi there, everyone, it's Adam Leventhal. Welcome to the Athletics Premier League preview show. Football is back and over the course of this episode will tell

you everything you need to know and what's left to play for as well as the Premier League

reaches its belated climax. I'm joined on the show by a panel of the Athletics Elite Football

Writers. Let's say hello first of all to our very own Zonal Marking podcast man,

aka Michael Cox. Michael, how are you? And just give us an insight into your latest workings

for people to tuck into alongside this podcast. Very well. Thank you, Adam, especially as

apparently part of the elite football writers. Or you're just saying that we're all elite football writers. Either you, Adam, especially as apparently part of the elite football writers.

Yeah. You're just saying that we're all elite football writers. Either way, very pleased about that.

I've been working on a thing about Manchester United and basically having a look at why they've got such a strange record this season,

so good against the big sides and often really, you know, quite limited against the bottom half teams.

And looking at their formation and they've played three at the back very well against Liverpool

and Chelsea and Manchester City. So maybe wondering if they could do that against,

you know, the sides they've struggled against the likes of Burnley and Crystal Palace. And

yeah, looking at Manchester United. So that's's been that's been fun I'm looking

forward to their game against Topham on what Friday night and on that note let's just

bring in our next panel member our next elite writer and that is Jack Pitt Brooke obviously

Manchester United are going to be up against Tottenham Hotspur on Friday night and we

touched upon that didn't we we, Jack, on the dedicated

preview podcast that we did. In hosting the view from the lane, just to give us an insight into

how Tottenham as a whole is feeling heading into restart. Well, I feel like the club and me included

are pivoting towards optimism at the moment. Things were pretty miserable

back in March when football came to a stop. Spurs were going nowhere in the league. They got

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