Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times and Sunday Times.

Arsenal are into the Champions League final for only the second time in their history,

but they will have to beat Holders Paris, San Germain, if they are to win this prestigious competition.

On today's show, we'll discuss two intriguing semi-final second legs,

reflect on Manchester City's crazy three-three draw with Everton, discuss another dismal defeat

for Chelsea and much, much more as we gear up for another decisive weekend in the Premier League.

I'm Tom Clark and joining me today. We have the senior correspondent for the Times and the Sunday

Times, Martin Samuel, the former Gillingham, Aston Villa and Chelsea striker, Tony Cascarino, and the former footballer turned journalist. Gregor Robertson is alongside me as usual team. How are we? Good, good, really, yeah. Tone, how do you feel about that? I threw in some other teams into your drum show today. Went Gillingham rather than Millwall, just keep on your toes. Yeah, well, it all started for me at Gillian.

Exactly.

And it was the longest club I ever paid. Exactly. There you go. In terms of the numbers I ever scored. Most goals ever scored. And the most losses I had. Yeah, exactly. Covers all ground. So, yeah, that's a perfect way to start the show, I'd say. Let's start with Arsenal. What a week for Arsenal, Mikhail Artetta.

All Arsenal fans will be desperate to tune into this show, I'm sure. Martin, I'm going to start with you. You were at the game on Tuesday night. You wrote a brilliant match report, kind of summed up everyone's feelings, I think, and probably all Arsenal fans still feeling. It's on. Arsenal's most

successful season ever is still on. The double is still very much on. We're going to talk about what happened on Monday night, of course, and we're talking about the Premier League in the second half of the show. They're into a Champions League final for only the second time, and fully deserved, I thought. And fully deserved. Yeah, that were the best team over the two legs. I thought very good., they're very good. I think I've been very good since the Man City, including the Man City, a defeat, in fact,

which is strange to have a defeat as a turning point. But I think since then, I think their

performance, that game was better than the result would suggest. They got beat by Man City, their big rivals, everyone said,

oh, this is it, they've blown the title.

But actually, they played very well that day.

Since then, I've been impressed.

It was a solid result in Madrid for them.

And that was a great performance.

And the place was buzzing.

And there was, you know, usually you go to the Emirates and these sort of situations

and it's torturous.

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