The Preview: West Ham vs Arsenal
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
A big game in the title and relegation fight as 1st faces 18th - could this game crown Arsenal and relegate West Ham?
And Spurs could take a big step towards safety if they can get a third win in a row, this time against Leeds.
Host: Matt Davies-Adams
Guests: Carl Anka & Jay Harris
Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead
Producers: Mike Stavrou & John Rogers
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | Welcome to the preview from the Athletic FC. |
| 0:08.3 | It's the show where we get you set for the weekends, |
| 0:10.4 | a Premier League action. |
| 0:11.8 | This week we're starting with Arsenal's trip across London to face West Ham. |
| 0:16.2 | Suffice to say, it's a big one at both ends of the table. |
| 0:23.5 | And on board today to give us the view from the lane and beyond. Jay Harris is with us. |
| 0:28.1 | How are you? I'm good. How are you? |
| 0:31.1 | Yeah, I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm a little bit sore after last night's your Europa League action, |
| 0:36.9 | but we'll sweep past that and move on with the Premier League. Because talk of the devils, Carl, Carl, Angkor's with us too, Hayd and Carl. I'm doing well, thanks. I know, I'm sorry. It was bad, but hey, look, it was a semi-final. This is true. I don't think you needed to add it was bad because I didn't know that, but I do appreciate the sympathies from you both nonetheless. Right, later we're going to get into the action elsewhere this |
| 0:58.9 | weekend, but first let's get to our feature presentation. And it's been some week for |
| 1:04.6 | Mikhail Artecettas Arsenal who punched their ticket to Budapest for their first Champions |
| 1:08.8 | League final in 20 years. It's just the second |
| 1:11.8 | in their history. Carl, they had a bumpy few weeks. That seems behind them now. Are they |
| 1:17.0 | peaking at the perfect time? Seems like they're getting two or three members of personnel, |
| 1:22.3 | better capable of playing 90 minutes at a top level. I watched the semi-final against |
| 1:27.2 | Atlantic of Madrid and that's probably the best I've seen Victor Yockerez at bullying centrebacks. He was enjoying throwing himself about in a way that I've not seen enough of in the Premier League. I think it's a fantastic story of Saka getting the goal to send them to the final. And the post-match celebrations, where people were saying it's been 20 years since |
| 1:44.8 | their last Champions League final and you're okay fine and then you start talking to younger |
| 1:50.2 | Arsenal fans and they perhaps don't really remember 2006 and you're going oh it is quite unusual |
| 1:56.0 | that a club of Arsenal size hasn't been to the pinnacle of European football for that long. So a great |
| 2:01.5 | story. Number of players coming back. Things seem to be getting there. The final third |
| 2:06.9 | rotations and movement seem to be a lot more fluid than where they were, say, start of February. |
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