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Hello and welcome to The Guardian Football Weekly. What a massive relief. Spurs just edge out

West Ham to survive in the Premier League. There wasn't quite the jeopardy neutrals might have wanted. Spurs scored and held on against a pretty amiable Everton, which means West Ham's win over Leeds didn't make any difference. We'll have the London Stadium inquest and work out how many of their players will go. Is the championship any sort of place for a sad Jedi? As for Spurs, 17th, two seasons running, could deserve be pull out all the stops and get them into the top 15 next year. There's the big goodbyes, pet, Bernardo, Stone, Sala and Robertson. There's the incendiary crime of in-game guards of honour. There's Sunderland qualifying for the Europa League with Bournemouth and Brighton in the Conference League. And then to the England squad, the fury begins about all the emissions, mainly coming from Harry McGuire's family. There's some interesting correspondence on the small chance of a listener

getting caught up in the ashes of a panelist's parent. Your questions, and that's today's Guardian

Football Weekly. On the panel today, Jonathan Wilson, welcome. Morning, how you doing?

I'm very well, thank you. Hello, Barney, Ronnie. Hi, everyone. Barry Glendanenning, good morning. Howdy. And joining us for the West Ham Inquest, Jacob, Hello, Jacob. Hello. So then let's do the relegation picture. West Ham go down on 39 points. Spurs getting 41 after beating Everton 1-0. Westtown beat Leeds 3-0. I didn't watch it live. I woke up. I was woken up at 4 a.m. by Willie Rushden to 67 WhatsApp messages, which made me think, oh no, Spurs are definitely relegated. I don't get that many WhatsApp messages, but fortunately, it's okay for me. West Ham relegated after 14 years in the Premier League. First time in 15 years, a team has gone down with 39 points. Barney, you were there at the London Stadium. Did you have a nice time? Yeah, I mean, I did actually. It was an occasion where there were lots of things going on at the same time. It was actually a good game, and West Ham played well against a team that had just stopped playing.

But it was, I thought that the reaction of the stadium was very interesting because the whole

story of West Ham's relegation is essentially the hollowing out of the club and the abysmal business

of moving to the, to the Olympic Stadium under a really strange deal that seems to have really

benefited no one at all. But there was still a kind of joy and defiance in the game and in the

fans and essentially 60,000 people chanting things that you can't repeat on this program

towards the owner of the club. But in the panorama of the entire occasion, it was very

interesting and I thought that West Ham's, I felt there was still some life in the club,

paradoxly, despite the fact that the entity kind of squatting on top of it has tried to ring

the life out of it, they're going to really struggle now with income, with what kind of team

it's going to look like in the championship

because players will have to leave, obviously.

But I expected to be more depressed by the occasion than I was,

and actually kind of quite enjoyed it and thought football is quite good,

and this club will survive despite whatever has been done to it.

Jacob, Barney mentioned the hollowing out of the club there, and I suppose this is where this, we don't need to spend too much talking about the match itself. They played OK, they won, but it feels like this has been coming. Yeah, I mean, in a contained sense, it's been coming for four years. There'll be a lot of people who'll say, be careful what you wish for, you shouldn't

have got rid of David Moyes, but despite the trophy win in 2023, if we're being honest,

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