Premier League Final Day - Reaction
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Adam Leventhal hosts a special live show, recorded shortly after the final whistle on Sunday, and is joined by various club writers to reflect on the big stories from the final day of the Premier League season...
James Pearce, Caoimhe O'Neill and Sam Lee discuss the conclusion of a dramatic title race. Amy Lawrence reflects on Arsenal's 'progress', while Andy Jones explains Burnley's financial fears following their relegation. Plus, Carl Anka on why the 'PL Young Player of the Year' award isn't fit for purpose and data analytics writer Mark Carey on some of the statistical over and under achievers.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:02.9 | Hi there, everyone, and welcome to the Athletics review of the dramatic final day of the |
| 0:20.5 | 2021-22 Premier League season. My name is Adam |
| 0:23.9 | Leventile. I do hope you're all well and you're just sort of coming back down after that high |
| 0:28.6 | drama. We are live on Twitter, on Facebook and on YouTube and over the next hour, we're going to |
| 0:35.2 | be joined by our dedicated team of reporters who watched the drama unfold, |
| 0:42.1 | the day of twists and turns in the race for the title, the European places, and also the battle to avoid the drop as well. |
| 0:49.0 | It ended with Manchester City crowned champions once again, Their eighth league title, their sixth in eight |
| 0:57.3 | Premier League seasons, their fourth in the last five, and all under Pep Guardiola, back-to-back |
| 1:03.1 | titles once again for Pep Guardiola. Liverpool runners up, and for such a long time on that final afternoon, the thought of the |
| 1:14.4 | quadruple was still there for them, especially when Aston Villa were 2-0 up at the Etihad, |
| 1:20.9 | and there was 76 minutes on the clock before that dramatic comeback for Manchester City. |
| 1:25.7 | Elsewhere, Tottenham confirmed their place in the Champions |
| 1:29.3 | League with that thumping victory at Carrow Road. They will be alongside Chelsea in the Champions |
| 1:36.6 | League. Arsenal and Manchester United are going to be in the Europa League and it's West Ham |
| 1:41.1 | in the Europa Conference League. They finished in seventh. Then at the |
| 1:46.1 | bottom, it was drama all the way until the end, wasn't it? With Burnley losing at home against |
| 1:51.3 | Newcastle and going down and Leeds winning at Brentford to stay up in dramatic fashion. We're going |
| 1:58.5 | to be reflecting on all of that. Plus, we're going to be looking |
| 2:01.5 | at some of the best individual performers, as well as the team performance, of course, of all those |
| 2:07.7 | clubs that we cover in detail on The Athletic. If you're not yet a subscriber, head on to |
| 2:13.1 | The Athletic.com, and you can join the athletic family. It is the end of the season. There is a buzz in |
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