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Hello, welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast, I'm Mark Chapman.

Coming up a little later in the pod, Greg Evans will tell us how Aston Villa held

firm to sign Philip Catina and we'll talk to Adam Leventhal about

Watford's new boss Rob Edwards who is going to have a lot of work to do after their

relegation to the championship.

First up the focus after their relegation to the championship.

First up, the focus is Leeds United,

who are now outside of the Premier League drop zone,

but rivals Burmley and Everton

both have games in hand before they all play their last game this weekend.

Joined by the athletics Phil Hay. You're sort of mystic Phil Phil, aren't you really?

Your tweet from November of last year this season is going to kill everyone.

Yeah, so when I came out at the crown yesterday, somebody said to me, you know how they've started talking about the possibility that one day a person will live to a thousand years old?

Well, it's not going to be any of us. I mean, the weird thing about yesterday is that we've seen that several times this season. It felt just like the

the Joe Gilhart game against Norwich and it was as desperate as that moment. It felt as urgent as that moment. And I think the fact that we have been

here before tells you how hard it's been for Leeds to get themselves out of this, how deeply they've

sunk into it because they are still clinging to 92nd minute goals, they are still clinging to anything from anywhere,

to drag them out of it and I don't know, I mean that that point yesterday, it might just save them,

it might just be enough and I think that was the feeling coming out of the ground.

It's probable that they will need more and I don't think they can they can

rely on badly losing these these next two games. But even so it was a massive

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