Hey there. Welcome to Football with Grant Wall. Thanks so much for joining me. Today's interview

guest is Miguel Delaney, the chief football writer for the Independent in London. We've

had some great guests lately, including Paul Tonorio, Daryl Dique, and Courtney Stith,

and Andre Carlyle. I also encourage you to check out my podcast series, American Prodigy,

the Freddie Adieu Story. You can binge all eight episodes to your heart's content. Now here's

my interview with Miguel Delaney.

Our guest now is Miguel Delaney, the chief football writer for the Independent in the UK.

You can find him on Twitter at Miguel Delaney easily enough. Miguel, thanks so much for joining

me. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Lots to talk about. It's a really busy time of the

year, a really fun time of the year. We're talking on Saturday morning and coming out Monday

morning. So we'll miss this weekend's FA Cup semis and some Premier League games. But

I want to look at sort of the big picture of the Premier League first. I mean, it certainly

appears that Man City will win the league and Man United will finish second, but there's

a wild race for the other two top four spots. I was kind of surprised last week when I went

through the rest of the games and ended up on my end with West Ham and Liverpool getting

those two spots just ahead of Chelsea. Obviously, a lot of surprises happen at the end of

the season. If you were handicapping the race in the Premier League, which two teams would

you have finishing in third and fourth? The fact you've come up West Ham is an interesting

one because literally every single weekend I look at West Ham. Yeah, this is going to be

the weekend that drops off. I don't think I'm going to win. I was left to be in such a

crunch game. I'm going to give a slightly dull answer and I still think it'll end up

being the four wealthier sides that finished out four. They'll be obviously Manchester City,

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