Spurs or West Ham's relegation fate + England squad reaction
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Who will beat the drop - Spurs or West Ham? Spurs need a draw against Everton to confirm safety, while West Ham must beat Leeds at the London Stadium.
And elsewhere, Thomas Tuchel's England squad for the World Cup has been announced. Who has been left off the plane?
Host: Matt Davies-Adams
Guests: Jay Harris & Carl Anka
Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead
Producers: Jay Beale & John Rogers
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | Welcome to the preview from the Athletic FC. |
| 0:08.4 | It's the show where we get you set for the weekend's action. |
| 0:11.2 | But this ain't no ordinary weekend. |
| 0:12.6 | It's the final weekend of the season. |
| 0:15.4 | We're kicking off with a fight for survival. |
| 0:17.0 | Will it be Tottenham or West Ham who go down? |
| 0:23.9 | On board today. We've got Carl Anka, how are you doing, Carl? |
| 0:26.8 | I'm doing very well, thank you. How are you? |
| 0:28.8 | Yeah, I'm all right, thank you. Jay Harris is back with us too. Jay, busy time of the year, |
| 0:34.0 | but at least the sun shining. Yeah, that's probably the only good thing about this |
| 0:37.8 | weekend. We shall see. We're going to get into the Premier League action elsewhere and talk a bit |
| 0:43.5 | about Thomas Tuchel's England squad, but first let's get to our feature presentation. |
| 0:50.3 | So they're both at home, Spurs host Everton, West Hampton welcome Leeds. After losing three on the bounce, |
| 0:56.0 | the Hammers' hopes of survival hang by a thread. They're two points behind Spurs. So they have to win |
| 1:01.1 | and hope their former boss, David Moyes, does them a favour by engineering an Everton victory |
| 1:05.8 | at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Carl Westham then relying on the man, they let go to save them. |
| 1:12.5 | You couldn't make it up were it not one of those stories that the Premier League turns out |
| 1:15.7 | on a fairly regular basis. Interesting nonetheless, though. Absolutely. Fascinating narrative here. |
| 1:21.4 | David Moyes could end up finishing the season, having decided a title race and the relegation |
| 1:25.2 | battle. Tremendous. So Spurs in action midweek, you were there, Jay, as they lost 2-1 to Chelsea. |
| 1:32.3 | On the night, Arsenal clinched the league title nonetheless, a particularly sore one. |
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