The Athletic. Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast, I'm Mark Chapman, Adam Crafton back with us this week.

Coming up later in the pod, we'll hear how Paris Saint-Chamon kept hold of Killian Mbape and how

Real Madrid can recover after missing out on their prime target and Phil Hay

will join us in a much better mood than last week after Leeds managed to avoid relegation from the Premier League.

Let's start the pod at the top, then Manchester City of one on the fourth Premier League title

in five years after Pep Guadalajoleo

I beat Aston Villa 3-2 on a dramatic final day. Sam Lee was there for the athletic and joins us now.

Guadalajolas summed it up afterwards by saying it's like the service game to win Wimbledon.

It's the most difficult, the tennis players say, and it was the same for us today.

Does that sum it up? Yeah yeah I think it does they obviously did

struggle a bit with the occasion doing their normal thing playing their normal game imposing themselves

scoring the early goals that scored 18 goals in the first 15 minutes this

season in 15 different games. It's been a feature of what they've done. It's helped establish

themselves in games. But yeah they couldn't do that as Squad the other says the occasion was was somewhat difficult for them but to come back in a way that they don't normally do you know the last time they came back from two goals down to win a Premier League game. 17 years ago that Norwich led to be having a new game.

That's how long ago it was.

Phil Foden was four years old.

Just coming up to his fifth birthday,

that was the last time they did it.

So yeah, that's exactly

how it was just maybe the expected result that he winning the match but a

completely unexpected circumstances is that the most emotional glideeol has been as a

title yes I mean the way that this one was done because obviously last season was done at

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