Palace win Conference League - can Arsenal beat PSG in the Champions League?
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Crystal Palace beat Rayo Vallecano to win the UEFA Conference League in Leipzig. It’s a third trophy in 12 months for the Eagles, who’d previously never won any major competition.
Special guest Reuben Pinder dials in from Germany to join Jimbo, Duncan Alexander, Jack Lang and Colin Millar.
Palace will be in the Europa League next season, the competition they were kicked out of last summer. Outgoing boss Oliver Glasner says the ultimate parting gift is getting to watch the club in the competition they deserved to be in this season. Does he deserve a statue outside Selhurst Park?
The Champions League Final is up next with Arsenal playing PSG in Budapest. Can the Gunners win the competition for the first time ever and make it a clean sweep for English sides in European cups? Or will the Parisians become only the second team in the Champions League era to retain their title?
All this plus Anthony Gordon is off to Barcelona and Nuno Espirito Santo is staying at West Ham.
Produced by Charlie Jones and Xavi Bird.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Palace celebrations (03:00)
• PART 2: Crystal Palace 1-0 Rayo Vallecano with Reuben Pinder (06:30)
• PART 3a: Gordon to Barcelona (21:00)
• PART 3b: Nuno staying at West Ham (26:00)
• PART 4: Who’s going to win the Champions League Final? (31:00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Totally football show. |
| 0:11.9 | Today, Crystal Palace win Europa Conference League final. |
| 0:15.7 | Critics hail greatest conference performance since Theresa May did Dancing Queen, |
| 0:20.2 | which should also have been a final |
| 0:21.4 | appearance. But we look back on the game as briefly as politeness allows and then get on to the |
| 0:25.7 | business of celebrating the Selhurst Park selection and the amazing six months they've been having. |
| 0:31.0 | Then we talk Gordon to Barcelona and other midweek news, and we look ahead. After Palace |
| 0:36.2 | win with Matetta, will England's week get even better in Budapest with Arteta? |
| 0:41.1 | All that and more in this totally football show. |
| 0:45.4 | The refs looked at his watch. |
| 0:47.7 | Is he going to blow the whistle? |
| 0:48.9 | He has! |
| 0:50.7 | But both flights, for both hotels. |
| 0:58.0 | Tell word to get lost because Palace are going to Leipzig. Metetta making his way into the box here. |
| 1:01.0 | Wharton's been able to bring this a long way, and it's to shoot by the crowd. |
| 1:05.0 | The Teta! |
| 1:10.0 | What's the Eagles song! |
| 1:11.6 | I can see the whistle in the referee's lips. |
| 1:15.6 | They have done it! |
| 1:16.6 | It's another trophy for Crystal Palace. |
| 1:20.6 | Glasmas struck gold again. |
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