Havertz saves Arsenal, Roberto De Zerbi's first test at Spurs, Chelsea face Haaland's City: Big Weekend Preview 04/10/26
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🗓️ 10 April 2026
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Summary
Big Weekend Preview returns as Rog and Rory Smith look ahead to a pivotal weekend across the Premier League. They start with Arsenal, where a late Kai Havertz winner in Lisbon halts the slide ahead of a tricky test against Bournemouth. Then it’s Tottenham, with Roberto De Zerbi facing his first test as Spurs travel to Sunderland just above the relegation zone. Attention turns to Stamford Bridge, where Chelsea welcome a Manchester City side rounding into form, with Erling Haaland back scoring. Plus, a Tottenham manager blind ranking quiz, and score predictions for the entire weekend.
00:00:00 - Arsenal vs. Bournemouth
00:07:10 - De Zerbi ahead of Sunderland vs. Tottenham
00:16:00 - Tottenham Manager Blind Rankings
00:18:40 - Chelsea vs. Manchester City
00:21:55 - Liverpool vs. Fulham
00:25:48 - Brentford vs. Everton
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Meninblazers media network, Suboptimal Radio. |
| 0:11.6 | Arsenal, fresh off being saved at the death by Kai Havert, |
| 0:15.2 | a goal that felt life-saving, and approved that the training ground pen is mightier than the sword chaos kings |
| 0:21.9 | Chelsea welcome hunter mode Manchester City Liam Ressinia fresh off a seven-gold route |
| 0:27.5 | of port vale straight into the cold reality of Harlan scoring again for fun and Totnam sweet |
| 0:33.4 | Totham bless one point above relegation turning to Roberto Deserby and, and I'm bursting with ideas. He arrived at a club. There's not had many good ones recently. This is the big weekend preview. It's Roger in Augusta, Georgia. And to prepare for the weekend ahead, there's only one man fit for purpose. Oh, it's Harrogate. Mr. Rory Smith. Have you been out on the course, Roger? I've just got off the practice green. |
| 0:55.9 | I don't like to make any bold proclamations, but the green jacket is mine. |
| 1:00.4 | We've got a lot of football to get too raw, starting top of the table. |
| 1:04.2 | Is it a rabbit or a duck? |
| 1:05.7 | All or nothing, Mikhail Artetta would say both kids. |
| 1:08.7 | And when Kai Havitt's in the 91st minute, saved the day, in honestly a traditional conservative away day, a draw would have been fine for most teams, not for this Arsenal with all that noise around them. |
| 1:21.1 | Mikhail Artetta declared his players would rediscover their identity. |
| 1:24.1 | After back-to-back defeats against Manchester City and the Carabow and Championship Aspirant, Southampton did them in the FA Cup. Roar. For much of that game, midweek, |
| 1:34.0 | the identity seemed to be grinding, frustrated, impotent. I think the XG was 0.17 before the |
| 1:40.8 | 91st minute and then Kai Havitt stepped up, first touch divine, second touch lethal. |
| 1:46.3 | What is that goal to you? |
| 1:48.1 | I mean, how do we understand it? |
| 1:49.4 | Is it Bruce Springsteen saying can't start a fire without a spark or is it a dying ember? |
| 1:55.5 | It's kind of both and I think the key thing with Arsenal is that they don't need to be able to tell the difference at the moment. |
| 2:00.1 | It felt significant beyond that, that Champions League quarter final first lead. You know, as you say, a nil-0 draw is a good, solid, traditional European result. It would have been absolutely fine for us. Business done, right? Yeah, to go back to the Emirates, beat sporting there. You don't need to win those away games. A draw |
| 2:18.0 | would have been enough. But I think given the context, it just kind of gets Arsenal rolling |
| 2:24.4 | again. It wasn't a great performance. It wasn't a kind of thrilling return to form. Or, you know, |
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