Revisiting our 'perfect' Premier League season predictions

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Premier League has been won by its most unpredictable champion, so, naturally, it's a good time to look back on our oh-so-prescient season predictions from August. How badly did we misjudge Leicester City? How did we see Harry Kane following up his breakout season? Before that, though, we play a wide-ranging game of word association. So much is going on across the soccer landscape, whether it's the Champions League being whittled down to two Madrid sides or Copa America looming on the horizon. We talk some of the biggest names involved in those competitions and beyond to kick off our episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to SI's
0:03.0	SI's planet football podcast for each week we discuss the latest in the world of
0:14.5	soccer. I am SI.com soccer editor avi creditor joined today by SI senior
0:19.7	writer Grantwall and SI dot com's Brian Strauss we are coming to you in the first days of
0:25.6	the Lester Premier League Championship era. Still weird to say Grant. I love
0:31.2	saying it the Lester City Premier League Champions has a nice ring to it.
0:35.6	It's it's pretty wild. Brian on the topic of Lester and everything else that's
0:42.1	going on in the world of soccer right now.
0:44.3	I want to start with both of you guys actually and then play a little word
0:47.2	association. There's so much between the Champions League. Got our down to our two finalists.
0:51.3	It's an all Madrid final again.
0:53.8	Got a lot coming up on the horizon this summer
0:55.6	with the Euros, Cop America.
0:56.7	So let's just hit on a bunch of topics,
0:58.7	word association style.
0:59.8	And Brian, I want to start with you.
1:00.8	And let's start with Lester. The first thing that comes to your mind when I say a Lester city.
1:05.0	Inspiring. I know it's cheesy, but it's inspiring. I mean I was riveted by this run trying to get up early and watch every game. It's certainly going to make
1:17.2	clubs around the world who play in leagues that don't have the sort of enforced parity mechanisms that we used to in this country
1:25.2	start to believe that they're capable of things that they never imagined before.
1:28.9	And that's awesome.
1:29.9	Perhaps the only downside is, I mean I'm already reading that you know
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