Mike and Tim have made their picks for the FA Cup Final: both are picking Crystal Palace.
On the flip side, Aston Villa - a team Mike follows - were the first Premier League side relegated (later joined by Norwich City and Newcastle United - "thanks" to Everton for choking at the opportunity to take down Sunderland instead of one of these two). How did the players react? Mike came across Stan Collymore's radio rant about what happened - and we've decided to share that rant in today's podcast (fair use).
In the lower leagues:
- FL Championship: Burnley and Middlesbrough promoted; Brighton, Derby, Hull and Sheffield Wednesday (another team Mike follows) in the playoff; MK Dons, Charlton and Bolton relegated
- League 1: Wigan and Burton promoted; Walsall, Millwall, Bradford City and Barnsley in the playoff; Doncaster, Blackpool, Crewe Alexandra and Colchester relegated
- League 2: Northampton, Oxford United, and Bristol Rovers promoted; Accrington, Plymouth, Portsmouth and AFC Wimbledon in the playoff; Dagenham & Redbridge and York City relegated
- National League (formerly the Football Conference): Cheltenham promoted; Forest Green Rovers and Grimsby Town in the playoff
We also talk about how certain teams are treating their fans, from Liverpool publicly apologizing for ticket prices to Arsenal blaming their fans for not supporting the club. Given that Arsenal are owned by the scumbag who ripped Mike's NFL team away from St. Louis (and, by extension, him), we've decided to introduce a new device to use when talking about him: a fair use remix of the Simpsons classic song "Senor Burns" with input from St. Louis' 101 ESPN (including some creatively edited comments from the SOB himself).
Last fair use notice: We open and close this episode with a comedy parody of Boyzone's "No Matter What" that rips on the "Great Red Satans of English Football." I apologize to the artist who did it for not mentioning his name, but it is not known to me.
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