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

Last minute drama, huge controversy and almost unbelievable moments, and that was all just York

v Rochdale. It was another thrilling weekend of football and on today's show we'll discuss

two FA Cup semi-finals as Manchester City and Chelsea Triumph.

Arsenal returned to the top of the Premier League table and there were big wins at the

bottom for Nottingham Forest, West Ham and Tottenham. If that wasn't enough, we'll also

discuss the latest in the Scottish Premiership and hear about an exclusive chat with Roy Hodgson.

I'm Tom Clark and joining me today we have the Senior Sports Writer and Sunday Times columnist Alison Rudd, the football reporter who covers clubs in the south of England with a focus on Spurs, it's Tom Allnut. And the former footballer turned journalist Gregor Robertson is with me as usual team. Hello and welcome to this lovely new studio. Look at this. It's gorgeous. Isn't it magnificent? The only downside, I've already made a complaint to Neil.

There's no pointless pastries in the middle. That's the only downside. I'll bring the next week. Yeah, you, that would be lovely, Greer. Thank you so much. Now, there's loads and loads to get stuck into. I was debating this when we were just talking about it before we hit record. do we start? I think it has to be relegation. Has to be relegation, not just because of the seismic

results this weekend, but because we had two about it before we hit record. Where do we start? I think it has to be relegation. Has to be relegation,

not just because of the seismic results this weekend, but because we had two men who were at the

big games. Tom, I have to start with you. We've mentioned it on the show so often. In your time

covering Totman, you've probably seen a lot more tougher times as well as a Europa League victory.

You've finally seen them win a game. Yeah. It was a weird feeling, Tom. Weird feeling at the end. You must have. How did you feel? I had to sort of really remember how to write a positive match before. There were no booze to kind of calibrate. Far from it, lots of cheers. They were on the pitch, quite literally on the pitch. Yeah. I mean, I'm good at that because at full-time whistleers, Spurs, you're always looking

at the players to see who has sort of got their hands behind their heads. Yeah, a bit of color. Who was arguing with the supporters. Um, whereas this time, you know, I was looking at them and there are certain players who are sort of clenching their fists and you know so beautiful scenes

yeah um first time since december the 28th in the league. Yep. First time in 118 days. We've literally sent people to the moon and back since Spurs' last one on Premier League match. So all these things. And I guess it was slightly bittersweet. I mean, is that a kind of very spursy thing to say that after such a long,

winless run, there was still, I think, a sense in the stadium because I wrote in the report,

it was almost kind of a final day feel, you know, because you could tell that because West Ham

are playing at the same time, the supporters in the stands were very aware of what was going on

in London at the London Stadium. So when Spurs scored and then Everton equalised, there was this real sense of, wow, this could be a game-changing afternoon. And of course, West Ham went and got a 95th minute winner and the Woolf fans were then kind of, you know, giving it back to the Spurs fans. So everyone at Molyneux was very aware of what was happening in the other

match. So I think coming away from it, you could feel Deserbie after was in his press

conference was slightly kind of like it could have been better and clearly two big injuries

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