The Athletic Hello and welcome to the weekend preview on the Athletic Football

podcast sponsored by Bet 365 Steve Freeth alongside me as ever to

preview the best of the weekend's Premier League action, we're going to reflect on a dramatic

North London Darby and of course the weekend's FA Cup final.

Steve, George, how are we both?

Good looking forward to a weekend of FA Cup finals, playoff semifinals, good host of games on Sunday as well.

So it should be a good weekend football as we kind of limped towards the summer and a bit of time off.

If I know you, you'll be more excited about the EFL games for sure.

Steve, I've got you down as an FA Cup final man getting up at 8 o'clock, things like that,

watching the holidays coverage. If you're're not in a box of course.

I used to be back in the day it was a ritual when we noticed a social media and things like that

it was just terrestrial channels probably about three of them

just about then and it was the whole day now I've been very fortunate to go to a number of

cup finals over over the 20 plus years that I've been at 3.65.

Won't be there this weekend,

but I'll certainly be watching along with all the playoff action.

And it's my best mate's 50th as well.

So, and you know him, Dan, he's a Villa fan.

So I'll be spending the weekend with

him which I'm sure he'll talk about the European Cup maybe a few times.

It sounds like it sounds like it's role reversal for me and Steve but I'm off to a game

I'm going to Kennelworth Road for Luton Hodersfield and you're the one seeing his mates having a few beers and not watching any football.

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