The Athletic Hello and welcome to the weekend preview on the Athletic Football podcast, sponsored by Bet365.

I'm Dan Bardell and each and every Friday, myself and George Ellick will preview the best of the weekend's Premier League action alongside Bet365, Steve Freeth.

On this week's show, a proper test of Arsenal's resurgence,

and what on earth was in those sources that Conte has banned from Spurses,

training ground as Harry Kane waxing four against San Marino,

and could be back on form now.

Before we do get to the weekend's action,

let's just pause to talk about last week's show,

because Steve, I believe there's been some movement since we tried to pick our England squad for the

World Cup next year. I don't think it's because of us, but there's been some moving.

Smith Row, of course, is the one that's moved a little bit, of course, into 65, a man in form.

His new diet is working wonders.

Maybe I should ditch the takeaways and chocolate like him as well to produce these type of performances.

But he's been the main mover in that market, Dan.

I mean, you know, you were talking last week.

You know, England could possibly drop points.

And I was kind of saying, don't be ridiculous.

There were 700 to 1 on, George. It just wasn't going to happen. Steve, you're crowing about backing a 750 to one on shot winner, aren't you now? That's what you're doing. Listen, pal, when you need such bad form as me, you'll take any single winner you can get. I mean, it was 22 to 1 guys for a 10-0 victory as well against San Marino. And England are into 7-1 now to win the World Cup. So let's hope they're joined by a few more home nations as well. So all good fun. Who's the favourites now? Because a few of the bigger nations are not guaranteed to be. They're now, I think of Italy and their struggles. It's a fascinating heat. I mean, France and Brazil are both six to one joint favourites with Spain at eight. Italy out to 10, the same price as Argentina and Germany, Belgium at 12, Netherlands at 16. Portugal, out to 20. So quite a competitive heat down, yeah. So long made that continue. Yeah. Did you manage to get any of the tips that I wanted putting in?

Omar Richards at Bymune did as he made it onto the website yet, Steve? Yeah, yeah, we'll move on, shall we? Okay, fine. Trader said no. Did they? Did they? Wow. Too shrewd, Dan. Too shrewd, that Bardell. He's absolutely everywhere. We can't get him off our screens.

Tell him to go and pest to somebody else.

I thought that was a decent suggestion. Oh, well. Just before we do go into the weekend previews, remember you can sign up to The Athletic and save 33% on access to the best newsroom in sports. So that's just £3.33 a month for an entire year. To do that just head

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