The Wait Is Over

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Jerrell 0:05

​All right, guys, before we break into this pod, I wanna remind all the listeners that we are an unbiased Premier League podcast. We're going to review match day 37, and we're gonna treat all the teams the same. With that being said, Will, take it over. Let us know.

Christian 0:25

Love

Will 0:25

No, London

Christian 0:26

you forever. matter

Will 0:31

I won't do it out of

Christian 0:32

the weather

Will 0:36

Oh, man.

Jerrell 0:39

You heard it here last.

Will 0:41

some-- It was super chill, never worried, never concerned at all. But what a, what a glorious day for us to record. It's, uh, May 21st, 2026. Jerrel, Christian, how are we feeling this lovely Wednesday evening?

Jerrell 0:59

It's pretty great. I drove into work today. I listened to "The Angel"

Christian 1:04

You know what? I'm feeling like a champion. I don't know about you guys,

Will 1:08

Christian

Christian 1:08

I'm

Will 1:08

"I knew I

Christian 1:08

feeling like a champion.

Will 1:10

another."

Jerrell 1:10

three years for this.

Christian 1:12

Hell yeah. Trophyless season from all my sports teams, of sport? Absolutely not. Shout out

Jerrell 1:20

I wanna know what that feels like.

Christian 1:22

Oh yeah, it's glorious. It's, uh, Ah,

Will 1:28

but

Christian 1:28

it's been tough

Will 1:29

we jump, jump in a little bit further, a couple of dates coming up we'll touch on a little bit, but, uh, Women's Champions League final coming in Saturday, Barcelona versus Lyon. Euro- Europa Conference League, um, coming in the 23rd. Next Wednesday, we have Rio and Crystal Palace playing. final, of course, May 30th. Just wanted to throw those dates out there. Gerald, do you have new locations

Jerrell 1:50

I don't have new locations this week, but I'll have them next week.

Will 1:53

Then plug them. Plug the

Jerrell 1:55

Hop on the socials. We have Twitter, we have Blue Sky, we have Instagram. Also follow, follow H- H- House of Gunnersaurus. Pretty good content

Christian 2:02

funny

Will 2:03

shit's dope, yeah. Especially if you're not a Arsenal fan.

Jerrell 2:07

Uh, we have a website, footballfellows.com. All of our socials are @thefootballfellows. Give us a follow, give us a like, tweet at us. Let us know how obnoxious we are as Arsenal fans because...

Will 2:18

I feel like we're super chill.

Jerrell 2:20

Yeah, I know.

Will 2:21

be

Jerrell 2:21

We could be.

Christian 2:22

we can definitely be

Jerrell 2:23

Have

Christian 2:23

I've, I've seen

Jerrell 2:24

you seen the Reddit?

Christian 2:26

bro."

Jerrell 2:27

Have you seen the Reddit?

Will 2:29

fuck it. Fuck it, honestly. Just honestly just seeing like the s- seeing continually just like, "I hope Man City wins it from teams," I'm just like,

Jerrell 2:37

That's insane. 'Cause,

Will 2:38

not

Jerrell 2:38

'cause they don't have fans, right? 'Cause they'd rather go to a shell organization than an actual club

Will 2:44

It makes me feel better. A- a- and I get it, it's just like, "Hey, my team's not winning, but at least I have this other team that hasn't won the league in a while," right? But

Jerrell 2:51

Yeah.

Will 2:51

fuck 'em, unbiasedly.

Jerrell 2:53

Before we jump, before we jump into, um, the Premier League, we had a little bit of drama in the champions- championship playoff final. Um, Southampton, the Saints, who got relegated last year for being shit, got kicked out of the final.

Christian 3:11

Whoa,

Jerrell 3:11

were they not? They were literally on panda watch up until, like, the last three games of the season.

Will 3:16

Yeah

Jerrell 3:16

Um, but got caught cheating, Spygate. So yeah, they are shit.

Will 3:21

Yeah. Yeah.

Christian 3:22

Yeah, I did get caught

Will 3:23

of

Jerrell 3:23

Nah.

Will 3:24

So what's the new matchup?

Jerrell 3:25

So the new matchup is gonna be Middlesbrough versus Hull City, and that'll take place on May 23rd

Will 3:32

Not the I like how Chris was like, "Whoa, bro, you gonna call them shit? That's crazy." They're mid. unwarranted, just a little ad lib, mid,

Jerrell 3:41

Mid.

Christian 3:41

It's in their name,

Jerrell 3:42

I don't know the history of these teams and when last they were in the top flight, so

Will 3:49

I know them exclusively for me fucking around with Road to Glory saves in FIFA. Um, so you know, should be fun though. Should be fun.

Jerrell 3:56

All right. I

Christian 3:56

I would like to

Jerrell 3:57

think it's on ESPN

Christian 3:58

to you real quick. I just want to apologize to the viewers if you hear snacking. I've been, uh, long day at work, so hopefully this noise suppression headphone is doing the noise suppression things. But if

Will 4:13

uh, working on his streams of income, his mukbang, um, stre- uh, content that he's making for the, once again, his OnlyFans.

Jerrell 4:21

Yeah

Will 4:21

All proceeds go directly to the pod, so

Jerrell 4:25

month, you get to see the grapefruit episode.

Will 4:28

The grapefruit. crazy. That's actually crazy. Christian, have we shown you the grapefruit video?

Christian 4:35

I, I hope it's not that grapefruit video, 'cause I am enjoying my chips right now

Will 4:40

Grapefruit video.

Christian 4:42

I think I'm done snacking

Will 4:44

felt like I became a man when I saw that video. That shit was weird, bro.

Christian 4:48

Yeah, just thinking about that makes me not wanna eat anymore

Will 4:51

Well, as he

Jerrell 4:52

As he takes another bite.

Will 4:54

down,

Jerrell 4:54

while, while Christian snacks, Will, do you wanna give us the match day 37 review?

Will 5:00

Yeah, yeah, let's breeze through it 'cause I, I wanna, I wanna get to the thing I wanna talk about. Um, so we have Manchester United, Nottingham Forest. Another controversial, um, goal scored by Manchester United, but fuck it, they ball. Third place clinch, Manchester United win over Nottingham Forest. Nottingham Forest, um, not much to play for on their end. Uh, Brentford versus Crystal Palace ends in a 2-2 draw. A big mo- kind of big loss of points for Brentford, sorry Jerel. Everton versus Sunderland ends 1-3. Mexican Twitter went crazy. Leeds United versus Brighton ended up 1-0 after a late mistake from J- John Paul Van Hecke. I watched that live. I was like, "Ooh, brother, that's tough." Wolves, Fulham ended 1-1, hurting Fulham's, um, European ambition. Newcastle, West Ham ended up 3-1. West Ham not looking like the best Ham, Jerel refers to them as. Arsenal, Burnley, very scary, very anxious, very anxiety driven in the multiverse. There's another bit, way we're gonna cover this, but they got the job done in their Emirates, uh, stadium. Close out 1-0. Bournemouth, Man City 1-1. Um, uh, big draw for Bournemouth, bigger draw for Arsenal, bigger draw for Man City with, um, their ambitions. And then Chelsea, Spurs ends 2-1 as Chelsea wins the battle. You guys didn't see it on the doc,

Christian 6:17

They fucking choke

Will 6:18

last three.

Jerrell 6:18

Wait for spew

Will 6:19

it was Adelaide Poop versus Poop.

Jerrell 6:21

Yeah, I did see

Will 6:22

versus Poop.

Jerrell 6:24

"Okay."

Will 6:24

And that was your match day 30. I just had needed placeholders. That was your match day 37 review, guys. Where do you wanna start this week?

Jerrell 6:33

Yeah, the Bren- Brentford draw against Crystal Palace is really tough because, you know, uh, Crystal Palace lost 3-0 to Man City. I know Man City's obviously a better quality club, but I was hoping Brentford, th- defensively could've been a little bit stronger. They went 2-0 down and had to come back. Or I'm sorry, they went 2-1 down. Uh, Crystal Palace scored first, evened it up, went ahead. Brentford scored towards the end before the stoppage time.

Will 7:00

Yeah, well,

Jerrell 7:01

but Sutherland and Leeds helped Brentford out a little bit. It's... Brentford still has to go get the win this week, but they're still alive thanks to Sutherland and, uh, Leeds United

Will 7:16

Yeah. Just, uh, definitely tougher work for Brentford, uh, considering that you had their last home game against Crystal Palace. They're gonna need a result against Liverpool, it looks like, um,

Jerrell 7:25

Yeah.

Will 7:26

their bid. Yeah, so I mean, type shit, right? It's just straightforward Bees type shit,

Jerrell 7:31

Basically

Will 7:32

So

Christian 7:33

That's

Will 7:34

crazy, Christian. So

Christian 7:35

all I'm gonna be saying

Will 7:36

appreciate you leading off with Brentford, bro. That's very on brand, and I really... I, it, it really is a true commitment to the Bees. I respect, I respect that it wasn't just a bit. You know, I had to quit my catfish, but um, I think it's real. I don't think yours was a

Jerrell 7:50

My, my loser for the week though is the Brentford website. I mean, good for them in a sense. I went on, the jerseys were 60% off, and I was like, "You know what? I think I actually might pay the tariffs to get myself a jersey." Sold out. Sold out before the end of the season.

Will 8:05

brother.

Jerrell 8:06

So

Will 8:07

crazy

Christian 8:07

it

Jerrell 8:08

glad they sold out,

Christian 8:09

soccer shop

Jerrell 8:10

but I wish they had more. My local s- shop, soccer shop

Will 8:13

I wonder for when we do our international

Jerrell 8:15

I've looked

Will 8:16

if, like, we can have something sent over over there if that's cheaper

Christian 8:21

There's only one

Jerrell 8:21

I've thought about that, but I have to find a store that has it

Will 8:26

Hell,

Jerrell 8:27

Uh

Will 8:27

wait for us to go missing as we're just kinda like, "Hey, guys. We're gonna go on a scavenger hunt." Um, Christian wants to somehow for some reason find, uh... What was that team from Chile with the same Steelers

Jerrell 8:38

The Steelers. The, the Chilean Steelers

Will 8:42

That's amazing that you remember that. It's real to him. They're

Christian 8:45

bro, I want a jersey. I'm on eBay at least once a quarter looking for their jerseys, and all they have is just, like, extra small nines from, like, 2018. But I want a jersey

Will 8:57

Okay. I'll, I'll, I'm gonna mentally make that note. We'll get Drill a Brentford one, maybe a little bit easier than, was it Washibatha?

Christian 9:04

Huachipato

Will 9:06

some respect on their name. My, my apologies. And I'm still looking for that Ajax, uh, Bob Marley connect jersey

Christian 9:12

We had a very good dialogue on

Jerrell 9:13

Damn

Will 9:15

uh, um, outside of that, um, another tough result as well for Fulham. Fulham, um, they tie with Wolves. Wolves have obviously nothing to play for outside of maybe pride at home. Um, Fulham, they waste an opportunity as well, um, with some dropped points there, so a tough loss for them.

Jerrell 9:30

I was new

Will 9:31

draw for them. But it felt... If, if it was a draw, but it feels like a loss, I

Jerrell 9:35

That was the Wolves' last home game, huh? In the Premier League, at least for the next year

Will 9:40

Molly hardly knew you. That was bad.

Jerrell 9:41

Oh, Molly

Will 9:43

Man City just said, "Fuck it," on the way down. I was like, "Well, I'm not the only one falling into the fire." Bournemouth had a chance to cut Liverpool's lead in fifth place down to one point, um, if they were able to hold out, um, for, was it two?

Jerrell 9:58

Uh, I'm sorry. I thought you said Man City cut-- Man, Man City cut their lead down to two points

Christian 10:02

You did say yesterday

Will 10:03

Burn— Oh yeah, yeah. They, they had an opportunity to cut it down. No, with the win, they would've tied? Am I drunk?

Jerrell 10:09

Who would have tied?

Christian 10:11

What are we talking about?

Will 10:14

point. I, I'm gonna stick to what I was

Jerrell 10:15

Okay

Will 10:16

Um, if Burnmouth won, they would've been able to put a little bit more pressure on Liverpool going into the last day of the season, um, as they were looking for fifth place. Um, Erling Haaland, he scored a banger late, um, to

Jerrell 10:27

Of

Christian 10:28

Too late

Jerrell 10:28

course she does.

Will 10:29

fear into our hearts. And I don't know if you guys saw the video of, um, the Arsenal players watching the

Jerrell 10:35

I've seen this.

Will 10:36

of

Jerrell 10:37

Yeah

Will 10:38

Not again." Um, but um, really all that did was do Liverpool a favor, as Liverpool, um, with their goal differential, they lose badly and Burnmouth wins big, um, they should secure fifth. There also has permutations for all these teams getting in coming in a little bit later,

Jerrell 10:54

Yeah.

Will 10:54

I won't lead too far into

Jerrell 10:56

Just for the spots that aren't clinched

Will 10:58

and then Spurs just need a point. Spurs just need a point, and they probably would've been safe in their relegation battle, but they found a way to lose to Chelsea, m- Chelsea, who hadn't won a Premier League game since, like, March 4th, if I remember correctly. Um, so the last day, Arsenal's trouble is still alive. UCL, EPO, Tottenham relegation. So

Christian 11:24

Did he win a treble? No, but when we won the Premier League, uh, shit got relegated, so

Will 11:28

I mean, so that's like a double already, so we'll see.

Jerrell 11:33

Uh, we did have...

Christian 11:34

one North

Jerrell 11:35

Is there any other games we wanted to go over for match day 37?

Will 11:39

No, I think we touched on enough. Um, we can, we can, we can go, we can go further on. We'll, we'll have plenty to talk about after the last day, but, um, and once we get into your permutations a little bit later after we do our preview later

Jerrell 11:49

Gotcha. Okay.

Christian 11:50

And

Jerrell 11:51

have...

Christian 11:51

our

Jerrell 11:51

Go ahead

Christian 11:52

case you guys were not aware, didn't make it clear, Arsenal champions, Premier League.

Will 11:57

First time in 22 years. The

Christian 11:58

Hell yeah

Will 11:59

the way I teared up work.

Christian 12:03

Now we have Man U came 13 years without a Prem title. Discussing. Couldn't be us.

Jerrell 12:10

No, I decided to do 22

Will 12:13

EPL, uh, wins with fourteen. Um, trailing behind, yeah, what is it? It's Liverpool, Man Ute- United, if I remember correctly, at twenty

Jerrell 12:22

Maybe Man United. I don't think Liverpool has that money, right? Top flight

Will 12:29

And this is why you're here because we're, we're asking all the questions and confirming the half stats that we're sure of. We'll see P-O touch

Jerrell 12:38

There you go. Um, with that, while we'll let this set up, we have the Europa League final on May 20th. Aston Villa handily beat SC Freiburg 3-0. They went two goals up by halftime, and Villa wins their first trophy in 30 years.

Christian 12:57

Oh

Jerrell 12:57

And I don't think every time a Eur- uh, English club has made it to a final in a European competition, they have won for the past 19 years. Not to jinx anything coming up.

Christian 13:09

Oh, yeah

Will 13:10

UCO

Jerrell 13:12

'Cause we'll still have Crystal Palace and Arsenal still to play in their European finals

Will 13:18

Also, I nailed it. Liverpool, Manchester United 20- Oh, I'm sitting at 20, 20 each

Jerrell 13:23

Oh, okay. And Arsenal at 14?

Will 13:26

RSI of 14 is third most all time,

Jerrell 13:29

Okay. Cool, cool, cool

Christian 13:32

we catch up. Six, seven more years we catch up.

Jerrell 13:34

L-light work

Will 13:36

you did there. Grown ass man. Um, but yeah, congratulations, Villa. Villa, um, has been a team that's, like, obviously struggled over the last three years. I think once I started really getting into soccer, they were a team that kind of sh-

Jerrell 13:49

Have they st...

Will 13:49

kind of on the relegation line,

Jerrell 13:50

Yeah, I was gonna say, have they struggled? They've been, they've been up since you've started watching, right? Is that-

Will 13:56

No, yeah, not the, not the last few years. Um, they've definitely had a revival, but, um, seeing them come into power, they have, uh, obviously good solid bones and despite the struggles throughout, um, portions of the season, find themselves winning a trophy and also see themselves, um, qualifying for UCL next year. So, um, Shalville going, um, back to UCL two times in three years going into next season

Jerrell 14:18

Uh, do we wanna jump, do we wanna talk about any of these other European competitions or do we wanna do match day 38?

Will 14:25

I think should we touch on Arsenal a little bit more and what it means and, you know, um, always remember Christian saying, "Arteta's fucking up"?

Jerrell 14:33

Oh, yeah. Uh, I got all the clips.

Christian 14:36

Oh yeah, clip him.

Jerrell 14:37

It's gonna be a clips, clip show

Christian 14:38

Clip

Jerrell 14:38

for our final episode of the season.

Will 14:40

I, I can't hear you over all the fucking gold I'm wearing, brother." Never

Christian 14:46

scored

Jerrell 14:48

But yeah

Will 14:49

But yeah, guess not. Yeah, we can touch on 38 preview. Fuck it

Jerrell 14:51

3A preview. All right, Christian, are you done snacking? You ready to go

Christian 14:57

Match day 38 preview,

Jerrell 14:59

Gracias

Christian 15:00

Man U. We got Burnley versus Wolves. Battle of the bottom, that's gonna be the

Jerrell 15:04

Battle at the bottom

Will 15:06

in 19th is gonna mean something to me. Damn it

Christian 15:11

Wait, are they that close? Can they still finish in 19?

Will 15:15

sitting at 19 points, Burnley at 21. So if Wolves

Christian 15:18

Oh, that's hilarious

Will 15:19

a position they've held since the first day of the season

Jerrell 15:23

That 4-0 result against Man City

Will 15:27

It's

Christian 15:27

Oh, sure.

Will 15:27

one week when Man City jumped over us but at the bottom of the

Jerrell 15:31

Hey, it matters where you finish

Christian 15:34

watching. Crystal Palace versus Premier League champions Arsenal. If you guys forgot, Arsenal are Premier League champions.

Will 15:40

Hey, have you heard? Arsenal won the Premier League.

Christian 15:42

yeah, yeah. So what do you guys think? Should we just start a few folks or just put everybody that's on the bench? Just give our, all of our, all of our like, uh, second team an opportunity

Jerrell 15:54

disrespect Crystal Palace like that

Will 15:55

I think, I think, I mean, Crystal Palace is probably gonna be heavily rotated too. I imagine you'll see still cameos from guys who are playing the following week, um, at Champions League. Obviously, if anyone's carrying any knocks or niggles, they'll probably, like, get the rest. But I imagine you'll probably... It won't be like a full, full nothing. You- I think it will just be like a nice little, um, cameo test run leading into the game. But I, I don't expect, like, a crazy performance. If there's, if there's a 1-0 performance or a 0-0 performance I expect this weekend, it might be this one,

Jerrell 16:26

One nil to the Arsenal

Christian 16:28

Ah, on brand. Uh,

Will 16:31

Bye ODs, Nick.

Christian 16:32

got Fulham versus Newcastle, Liverpool versus the Bees, Man City losers, uh, versus Aston Villa. We got Forest against the

Jerrell 16:42

Yeah, right?

Christian 16:43

We got Sunderland versus Chelsea. We got Shit versus Everton, and we got West Ham versus Leeds.

Will 16:50

Best hand

Christian 16:51

So the bottom two games there, Tottenham versus Everton and West Ham versus Leeds is gonna be, um, most important games of the, of the final week

Jerrell 17:01

I think the most important game is Tottenham versus Everton.

Will 17:04

Depending who you ask, right? Yeah, Spurs just need a point

Jerrell 17:07

And,

Will 17:08

I can't stress

Jerrell 17:08

but they're at home, and that has not gone well for them

Will 17:12

Ever- Everton's been pretty solid throughout the season, yeah. And then West Ham versus Leeds. Leeds, I think, um, I think they're playing better than, um, their position on the table will lead you to believe. Uh, obvious- es- especially as an ascendancy team. Um, but both games are tough, but West Ham has a chance to do the funniest thing with a little bit of help from

Jerrell 17:34

More likely to happen, Brentford beating Liverpool at Anfield or Tottenham winning at home versus Everton?

Will 17:44

I have an answer that I wanna tell you as my friend,

Jerrell 17:47

No, you could give me an honest answer.

Will 17:49

I feel like, I feel like Spur-- I don't think Spurs have been as bad as, like, their record shows over the last two months. So I, them to get something from this.

Jerrell 18:00

Something, but

Will 18:01

but at the...

Jerrell 18:01

not three points.

Will 18:03

A point is a win in my eyes at this point, so, um, but at the same time, um, Liverpool, obviously, there's been a lot of, um, a lot going on over there, as always, obviously, after, uh, Mo Salah, he had comments once again on the way out, um, last weekend in regards to just the, standards of the team, how they need to play and whatnot. Um, a lot of calls for Arne Slot, pressure on the players heading into, um, Euros or whatnot, which also, did you guys see that Harry Maguire was left out of the England squad? I'm fucking around.

Christian 18:34

Yeah, we will call

Will 18:35

what really stuck out, apparently, um, Phil Foden might be out, and I also saw a rumor about Cole Palmer. We're still waiting for the official release, but I just thought that was

Jerrell 18:44

it hasn't come out yet?

Will 18:45

Yeah, I, I, I don't know if it's been formally, formally finalized. All teams are due by the 1st, but sorry, that was just my squirrel brain went somewhere. So

Jerrell 18:55

I think Brazil finalized theirs though. They have Neymar on and they left out João Pedro

Christian 19:00

Neymar made it. He just got a calf strain in practice, um, so he's not gonna be playing for Santos until the World Cup.

Will 19:06

I'm convinced.

Christian 19:07

Yeah

Will 19:08

think obviously he's probably not gonna be playing much, but just for what he means team, I suppose, and just as, like a nice, uh, like, I guess, gesture. But yeah, Joao Pedro not making it

Christian 19:19

Snubbed.

Will 19:20

Obviously, um, he plays more as a nine, but Joao Pedro, he's been pretty good throughout the year. But at the same time, I'm not the one who chooses lineups. I'm not fully locked in with all these national teams, so you like to think, you know, there's a reason somewhere, so.

Jerrell 19:37

For sure

Will 19:38

was just like, "Joao Pedro, you're rumored with Barcelona? Fuck out of here." Get the fuck out of

Christian 19:44

I like to think that's exactly what happened

Will 19:46

Right, probably brings Endrick in, fuck it.

Jerrell 19:49

We do have a couple clinching scenarios though for Europe

Will 19:51

sir.

Christian 19:52

good. Hendrick is doing really, really, really good

Will 19:57

Just like Ansu Fa... I like that. Double down. Just like Ansu Fati for Monaco. He got his option picked up, but I'm good to see him healthy, so

Christian 20:03

Nice

Jerrell 20:05

So still, still something to watch this last, uh, week in Premier League. Uh, if Brighton and Chelsea, simplest, simplest conditions, if Brighton and Chelsea win their games, they clinch the remaining two, uh, European spots. That's it.

Will 20:19

Connecting the string over

Jerrell 20:20

That's, all it takes. Brighton has to beat Manchester United. Tough ask. Chelsea has to beat Sutherland and just wait. Sutherland has something to play for as well. Uh,

Christian 20:32

Hell yeah

Jerrell 20:33

Brentford has a chance to make the European tour- tournament as well. The issue is, is that they lost eight or dropped points in eight straight games and could've been in a lot better spot. But if Brentford wins over Liverpool and Chelsea and/or Brighton draw or lose,

Will 20:49

Mm-hmm

Jerrell 20:50

Brentford gets one of the two spots. Sutherland can make it as well. They have to win. And by winning, Chelsea loses, and Brentford would have to draw or lose. Sutherland will be in Europe. Yeah. Sutherland would be in the Conference League.

Will 21:04

How high can they go?

Jerrell 21:06

they can go as high as the Europa League if they win and Brighton loses and Brentford draws or loses, and obviously Chelsea loses 'cause Sutherland wins. So what's that? Three games, four games maybe? Four games we're watching

Will 21:22

I think there's a way that Burn Myth can make it,

Jerrell 21:25

To Champions League, but it got really confusing. I didn't wanna write it out. It, it would involve Villa finishing fifth and

Will 21:32

Yeah, and

Jerrell 21:34

Europa

Will 21:34

for that to happen, Bournemouth has to lose or some shit. I read that, I was like, "Fascinating.

Jerrell 21:40

it was super weird and I was like, "I'm not even gonna include that." They're, they're clinched for Europe. They will be in Champions League or Europa League. Um, the only spots that I'm talking about are the ones that have not been locked up yet

Will 21:52

'Cause I think it was like since Villa won. Or is it Villa or is it based on... No, yeah. Or is it for the Europa League?

Jerrell 22:00

Uh, I remember the condition was Aston Villa had to win the Europa League

Will 22:05

Okay. Y'all yap for a second. I,

Jerrell 22:08

'Cause,

Will 22:08

I wanna read it out

Jerrell 22:09

'cause I'm trying to figure it out too, 'cause like Europa League technically winning it technically qualifies you for the Champions League 'cause that's what happened to Tottenham last year. So by that, the spots should drop, but I don't really know

Will 22:22

win and then the sixth place spot would get it if it's something... So once again, we're super prepared as a podcast.

Jerrell 22:28

It gets super confusing

Will 22:29

5:00 AM, um, at the Emirates as again taking photos with

Jerrell 22:32

Yeah, always hanging out with Gundarsaurus.

Will 22:35

yeah. I'm just saying I've never seen Jerrell and GunnaSaurus in the same room.

Jerrell 22:40

Yeah, that's

Will 22:40

that out

Jerrell 22:41

definitely

Christian 22:41

is true. That's a good shout

Jerrell 22:45

But I believe in Brentford. I believe Brentford can beat Liverpool. I have to believe this. Um, I have to.

Will 22:53

There's no other choice. This is the way

Jerrell 22:55

I mean, for me, it's been a good season for Brentford. Uh, Keith Andrews is nominated for Manager of the Year. Actually, that's something we didn't talk about, the nominees. I would actually... Do you guys know the nominees for Premier League?

Christian 23:07

mm-mm-mm.

Jerrell 23:08

Have you seen it? Keith Andrews is one, Arteta's another. Um, Harry, what's his name? What's the manager for Man United again? Sorry.

Will 23:18

Sorry, Michael Garrett

Jerrell 23:19

Michael Carrick. Um, a couple who have been nominated. I think Michael Carrick is more deserving of Manager of the Year this year. I mean, Arteta's done a lot. He's kept Arsenal in second place for the past four years, but it was, like, to be expected to either win, win the league or not. I don't wanna give it to Keith Andrews either, just because the relegation talk was just more so just pundits, and Brentford more or less finished where they finished last year. I think Michael Carrick deserves it 'cause he really turned around a Man United squad that under Amorin was going nowhere and put this team all the way up in third place

Christian 23:54

Um, clip the Will thinks Man U's gonna suck next year, um, clip here. after the faces he just made

Will 24:04

it was, it was, it was a fucking take, and that's crazy that we're gonna stay on it considering how many times this year I had to pull you back in from jumping out of your window while talking about Arsenal. And look at that, we're doing okay, bud. We're all okay here.

Jerrell 24:20

I'll give you the full list though

Will 24:21

it

Christian 24:22

I, I think, uh, Kerr would be a little bit more deserving if we're only keeping it in the optics of this season.

Jerrell 24:29

Sure. I'm

Christian 24:30

this

Jerrell 24:30

not-- I have no expectations of next season

Christian 24:32

seasons. Um, Premier League champions is definitely a great thing, to get under your belt. But as far as impactful for this one season, I feel like Kerr would be a little bit more impactful than Arteta

Will 24:44

coached the whole

Jerrell 24:45

Yeah. Yeah, give me a question

Will 24:46

be, that's gonna, that's gonna be my... I think it should be the Brentford, uh, Brentford coach, Keith Andrews. Uh, just the job he did. We were expecting them to be relegated, um, a lot of the

Jerrell 24:55

I never believed that.

Will 24:56

in

Jerrell 24:56

I never believed that.

Will 24:58

Your smile says otherwise, but I, I also believe you. It's

Christian 25:01

Yeah.

Jerrell 25:02

Um, the, the full list of nominees was Keith Andrews, Mikel Arteta, Michael Carrick, Pep Guardiola, Andoni Iraola from Bournemouth, which was actually a good nod, and then, uh,

Will 25:14

That is a good

Jerrell 25:14

Regis Le Bris from Sunderland, which is also a good nod as well. Uh, does that change you guys' opinions on who you pick?

Will 25:23

Andrews for just-- I, I, I thought we'd be talking about them as being relegated, but I also don't have a vote, so it doesn't really matter. I'm

Christian 25:31

What are--

Will 25:32

mics

Christian 25:33

speaking in, uh, yearly rewards, what is your take on David Raya winning the Golden Glove award this year?

Will 25:42

really good

Jerrell 25:42

Solid keeper

Will 25:43

he's kept like 20 clean sheets behind what's been the backbone of Arsenal over the last two, three years, um, their defense. So, um, I think it's a little calm, mate, but, um, I-- there's probably a version where he's not our and we drop a couple of key points with some saves he made. So, um,

Christian 25:59

Yeah. 'Cause I-

Will 26:00

he's not rated correctly, um, even like in Spain, um, his, his home country

Christian 26:06

Unai, yeah. Unai will always have that spot above Raya. Like they, they... Unai on the international stage is, is a little crazy, but that's a separate topic. I saw a stat earlier that, um, kind of puts it against Raya as far as in the Premier League. He's, uh, definitely an amazing goalkeeper. Um, now it's just, is the Golden Glove intended to celebrate the individual player or the team itself? 'Cause the clean sheet, like Raya is be- like the... Raya's being defended also by two of the best center backs in the world. our, our left and right backs are also pretty solid, but like the, the, the, the c- two center backs that we have guarding him are amazing. Even our, the, the bench space, um, the depth of our defense is pretty solid. Uh, Raya has had, I think it was 52 saves, it was all season, where you have other goalkeepers that have had over 130 individual saves for all of the season. is the... Is it an award more for the team or should have been an individual asset?

Jerrell 27:12

I guess my question is, um, how is the Golden Glove defined? 'Cause like the Golden Boot is most goals in the season, right?

Will 27:18

Golden Glove is based on clean sheets, so it's like has the most clean sheets. So yes, we're now getting into numerics of saves, but I'm just like pound for pound with the saves that I've seen David Raya make this season, you're not gonna convince me. Like obviously, yeah, he's seeing less volume, but he's had key saves and he's had difficult saves as well. So I mean, Simon, um, obviously he first says that, um, Joan Garcia, I'm interested to see where that's gonna look. Simon's rumored to be a potential market opportunity for Barcelona where he'd play backup, um, covering for Chesney. So I'm just like, is it Simon Raya Garcia? Is Joan Garcia-- He's been like the best keeper in La Liga for me the last two years. Um, obviously Courtois best goalkeeper in the world, but just based off performance year to year. Um, you know, I think it's a good problem to have end of the day. But yes, he does have a great defensive bone. But we've also seen like the wobbles with, um, Arsenal even against Burnley where a better team probably, um, capitalizes and makes the job tougher. So I think it is tough, but at the same time it's like we don't ever get into, oh, who wins Golden Boo-Boot based off, uh, you know, the service that they receive either. At the same time it's like, oh well they have a good setup for them to score all these goals. It's just like, well no, they score the goals. So way going in reverse. I'm not gonna penalize a guy for seeing less shots when-- if he's still making quality saves that you can kind of see week in, week out

Jerrell 28:44

Do you think he deserves it, Christian?

Christian 28:47

I think based on like what it is, yeah. I mean, he's had the most clean sheets. It goes to the keeper with the most clean sheets. it, it kind of may be a potential for a separate award for, for just like an individual ask there.

Jerrell 29:01

So would you modify it, I

Christian 29:02

Maybe like a percentage based, like shots on target versus block saves rather than just total amount of saves, because you can block 150, but if you're letting 1,000 in, it's a different thing. But if you're seeing 200 shots and you block the 150 of them, that's a pretty solid, um, percentage right there

Will 29:23

the same time, then we're gonna g- start getting into things like quality of shots faced and things like that, 'cause it's like, hey, you can make hella saves against someone who's uh, against a team that's pulling from out of the box, or you get more opportunities with that. So it's just like, we can get into the metrics of it, but I think at the same time, a lot of people understand just, like, there's context within it where it's just like, yes, it's not just him, you know, one-on-oneing against people or and things like that. So I, I, I, I get the conversation, but I'm just like, "Hey, if it's not broke..." I, I don't wanna get into the discussions

Christian 29:54

Will doesn't respect goalkeepers. You heard it here first

Will 29:58

I'm, I'm actually showing a lot of respect for goalkeepers. I just don't wanna create another point for us to be able to undermine the performance of a player based off the context of their team when we're not doing it, especially obviously, and, you know, the meta of the game is completely different. Christian, you said something o-over the week, you, um, or the season, but it's constantly changing. So I'm just like, Unai Simon, um, he's obviously been fantastic in Sociedad and for the Spain national team. But, um, David Raya, you know, the decision that had a couple years ago to replace Ramsdale, who was solid, um, for the team, I think that's a decision that's aged really well, obviously, with the context of not just this year, but the last two. So I don't know. I respect goalkeepers, I really do. I'm not, uh, you know... I, I rate Jordan Pickford, but, um, but, uh, I, I, I don't, I don't think we should necessarily change the context of, what, you know, the y- winning the award looks like, um, all of a sudden, um, when this is something that's just kinda done across the world. Or, yeah, across the world, um, to do it, that I'm aware of, unless they do it differently in other leagues

Jerrell 31:06

And where did David Raya come from? That's right. That's right. From Brentford.

Will 31:13

Jerrel just fucking, just threw, threw a pass off the backboard to himself and dunked his elbow into the rim.

Jerrell 31:21

Over here

Will 31:24

So I

Jerrell 31:25

That's it?

Will 31:25

So what do we do after matchday 38? Do we d- do we really actually finally revisit those power rankings, see how wrong we were?

Jerrell 31:32

Yeah, let's do

Will 31:33

want to

Jerrell 31:33

it

Will 31:33

that's a challenge? I wanna revis- revisit our pre-season 11s and make a post-- like, a end of season 11 as well. But that might be too

Christian 31:41

Oh, the preseason 11's gonna be tough

Will 31:44

I think you had David Onana on yours. I always remembered that 'cause I think he might leave, and he did. So that, that's not gonna age well.

Jerrell 31:52

Oops

Will 31:54

So

Christian 31:55

does it count if he did well where he left?

Will 31:58

I'll count it. I'll

Christian 31:59

Oh yeah

Will 32:00

be on your end of season team for the Premier League, but I'll count it for sure. So maybe, maybe we do, like, end of season 11s after UCL, right? 'Cause... Well, we'll figure it out, 'cause we'll... Then we're- we have World Cup coming, like, hot on its heels,

Jerrell 32:12

Yeah.

Will 32:14

We have sips, dips.

Jerrell 32:17

And adventures.

Christian 32:18

much coming up.

Will 32:20

Yeah.

Christian 32:21

Oh, and it's Memorial Day. There's no work on Fri- on Monday. Hell

Jerrell 32:24

No, there is not

Will 32:25

Oh, no, I'm off Monday. My shit's all fucked up actually. It's all

Jerrell 32:28

And as we close out this perfect p- pod, just in case you guys didn't know, Arsenal is the Premier League champions.

Will 32:36

Hmm. Never worried.

Jerrell 32:38

First time in 22 years, and high hopes for the Champions League. Hope they become the un- unforg- Unforgettables

Will 32:46

Yeah

Christian 32:46

been zero years since the last time we won the championship, the

Jerrell 32:50

You're right. You're right

Christian 32:52

league, sorry. So, you know, now, now it's Man U, 13 years. Couldn't be us

Will 33:00

no, yeah, despite the highs, the lows, and everything going on, uh, shout out, shout out Arsenal, um, kind of persevering throughout. I think we've heard, like, a lot of bullshit in regards to just, like, style of play and the classiness of playing and pieces, oh, God. Having heard so much talks and then now it's just kinda like, oh, well, now they're being-- You're seeing the things like, well, obviously it was gifted to them. Honestly, it's music to my

Jerrell 33:21

The silence is deafening.

Will 33:23

ears. Yeah, I'm just like, well, oh, people aren't silent, which is a weird thing, but also maybe you should just stay off the internet. It's a dangerous,

Jerrell 33:30

I actually,

Will 33:31

of our socials,

Jerrell 33:32

when Ar-- when it was,

Will 33:33

our

Jerrell 33:33

when Arsenal won, I was like, "I'm not going on Reddit." 'Cause like I know what it's gonna be. I know what the subreddit, the Arsenal subreddit is gonna be like, and like I love that. Yeah, fantastic. But I'm just like, I just wanna enjoy the moment, like me, myself, and I kind of thing. So

Will 33:49

it in,

Jerrell 33:50

yeah.

Will 33:50

That happening and then the Knicks, uh,

Jerrell 33:53

Knicks? Oh, God, yeah, I saw that. I was like, "That's crazy."

Will 33:57

I- when we, when we were down 22, I verbatim said, "Oh my God, we're dead." And Maria's like, "Oh, I'm so sorry, babe." And then literally we went on like a 9-0 run. I was just like, "They're just building me up. They're just building me up." And it kept happening. And I do this thing where I try not to yell during sports anymore because Maria just like gets really overwhelmed with the noise. But that Mount Drussel hmm that I sent her way, where she's like, "This might be worse. You're scaring me." I was just, "I don't know what to do with all this. I don't know what to huh." So Yeah. So

Jerrell 34:29

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Will 34:33

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Jerrell 34:34

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Will 34:35

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Jerrell 34:38

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Christian 34:42

yeah

Jerrell 34:42

footballfellas.com. Arsenal, league champs. Woo! Guard of,

Will 34:49

I'm gonna

Jerrell 34:49

what is it? Guard of honor. Guard of honor for Crystal Palace.

Will 34:53

Yeah,

Jerrell 34:53

hear the story that, like, if Arsenal wins the league, uh, uh, Crystal Palace gets another 10 million pounds for the Ezzé transfer?

Will 35:00

Good for

Jerrell 35:00

Yeah, so

Will 35:01

Money well

Jerrell 35:02

yep, there you go. Everybody wins. Crystal Palace knew exactly what they were doing. All right, guys, we'll have Champions League next week, and we'll see you then. Peace.